gftChris Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35603975 Bit of waffle, but the main points: "If you throw a glance at the boys of any public or secondary school you find them up to the age of 13 full of curiosity, courteous, animated by high and good spirits," he said. "Then they reach the awkward age. They often lose their freshness and their charm, sometimes forever.Six main problems with youth today:lack of physical fitness decline of initiative and enterprise decline of imagination decline of craftsmanship decline of self-discipline decline of compassion Thoughts? I would be hard pressed to disagree, in a broad sense. Of course there are exceptions, but plenty of young people today exhibit many or all of these traits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Six main problems with youth today: lack of physical fitness decline of initiative and enterprise decline of imagination decline of craftsmanship decline of self-discipline decline of compassion ****************************************************************** Seems like good parenting would cure a lot of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 An article painting this generation in a negative light? That's new... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted February 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Six main problems with youth today: lack of physical fitness decline of initiative and enterprise decline of imagination decline of craftsmanship decline of self-discipline decline of compassion ****************************************************************** Seems like good parenting would cure a lot of these. Perhaps, but there are also cultural and societal reasons for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted February 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 An article painting this generation in a negative light? That's new... From me it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted February 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Oh btw, forgot to mention, the guy who wrote this died about 40 years ago. Not sure when he wrote it, but he certainly wasn't talking about millennials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Perhaps, but there are also cultural and societal reasons for it. I was talking with a juvenile court judge once who told me he he was always going to seminars on issues of the day but he never had been to one that addressed the issues caused by the breakdown of the family and children being brought up in broken homes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Oh btw, forgot to mention, the guy who wrote this died about 40 years ago. Not sure when he wrote it, but he certainly wasn't talking about millennials. Oooooohhhhh. Yep, ok. It will be lost on some here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Oooooohhhhh. Yep, ok. It will be lost on some here As it apparently has been on you. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cysko Kid Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Every new time waster from the radio to television to the internet to video games has the potential to damage all those things. Of course we're all guilty of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 As it apparently has been on you. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Every new time waster from the radio to television to the internet to video games has the potential to damage all those things. Of course we're all guilty of it. Next: VR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 As it apparently has been on you. WSS no he got it, it's you that didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 and yeah VR is the next nail in the coffin. I'm a big gamer still but not till after I hit the gym. And all these companies are trying to gear gamers up for the next big thing which is VR. No thanks. I'll stop playing video games before I put one of those brain scanners on my head. I know full well what they're doing with those things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 no he got it, it's you that didn't. Yeah? Then read the first response unless it's been deleted. Then, blow me! By the way that's not the first time a very similar piece has been posted. One was from Shakespeare's time one from the Civil War blah blah blah. Does it mean any of them are untrue just that kids suck worse every generation! WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I don't see it, think you might blowing me there steve-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I don't see it, think you might blowing me there steve-o Back to one of my favorite places, the seventh grade. "Okay I'll blow the sweat off your back while you suck my dick." Your move WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 "Okay I'll blow the sweat off your back while you suck my dick." how would you blow the sweat off someones back while they're sucking your dick? we're not playing twister steve, this is serious business now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 how would you blow the sweat off someones back while they're sucking your dick? we're not playing twister steve, this is serious business now. Well you do have to blow extra hard. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Post Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 ^^^^^^^ Er Ma Gerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Post Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 When my kids done something they know was wrong I beat their ass. You don't see that now a days. They grew up with great smiles and good attitudes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 I grew up in a large family and we use to hear about how if we all didn't straighten up the whole lot of us would be dropped off at the Children's Home the local orphanage house. I thought we were the only kids in town who heard that speech until I read on face book comments from people who grew up here that this was a common threat from many parents. BTW - it usually worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 If that kind of parenting worked this world would have been a different place long ago. Think about that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 If that kind of parenting worked this world would have been a different place long ago. Think about that one. How many generations has it been since parenting became lax? I remember when it became against standards for Popeye to hit Bluto. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 If that kind of parenting worked this world would have been a different place long ago. Think about that one. Cleve that is nothing I would have ever done with my children but child rearing in the 50's and 60's was much different than today. I'm just glad I made it into adult hood with how things were back then. For example we used to have a fogging machine go around in the neighborhoods spraying out the DDT and every kid in the neighborhood (including OBF) would follow the fogging truck in our bikes trying to get lost in the fog. I think back on it now and wonder where was the adult supervision? As a young kid we used to float down the river on our styro foam rafts with no clue how deadly those small dams were that went up and down the river. We used to climb out on some very high railroad bridges and hang out clearly visible to everyone but not once did anything happen. Today I have no doubt if any kids ever climbed those bridges there would be firetrucks and police called asap. Just was a different time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jun/23/barack-obama/statistics-dont-lie-in-this-case/ It's an Obama quote, so you leftiese will believe it. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 what I do lament about the good ole day is how you can't let your kids roam and explore anymore cause of the kind of pieces of shit out there. I mean you had that in the cities back in the 30's and 40's too, there were gangs back then too trying to recruit your kids but they weren't darkies so it's almost romanticized in our culture.....but these people were trying to get your kids to become gangsters and carry out hits on people just like today. But in the country or far suburbia things were probably pretty cool I will admit. My old man grew up in Germany in the 30's and 40's and of course shit was hard during the war but he has stories about climbing up into broken down Tigers and getting the turret operational. I'm sorry, I know that if an allied tank had seen a german tanks turret swiveling there would have been some incoming stuff quick like...but still, firing up a king tiger with your buddies when you're 9-10 years old and trying to get it to roll out? That's a lifetime memory. He said they absolutely would have tried to load a shell if there was one still in there. They actually went to a couple other tanks to try and find one. Yeah that shell likely would have gone off in the breech so it was lucky they didn't find one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jun/23/barack-obama/statistics-dont-lie-in-this-case/ It's an Obama quote, so you leftiese will believe it. WSS Yeah he's not wrong on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 but frankly black children these days are better off with their mothers. Not much cause she usually has to work 7 jobs, but black men in general these days shouldn't be procreating cause they have zero intention of raising children to be proper humans. That's an age old story though. Which is why it's probably been best that women were granted to be the birthers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 26, 2016 Report Share Posted February 26, 2016 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jun/23/barack-obama/statistics-dont-lie-in-this-case/ It's an Obama quote, so you leftiese will believe it. WSS By the way that's just a link I found, I'm sure it's nothe much different with poor hillbillies. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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