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Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:20 pm to scrooster
Funny, my grandparents thought the same thing about my parent's generation, and now my parents generation feels the same way about us.
The fact of the matter is that there will always be creative and/or driven people. It's been that way since the beginning of organized society. The only reason to believe it has really gotten worse is a lack of historical perspective.
The fact of the matter is that there will always be creative and/or driven people. It's been that way since the beginning of organized society. The only reason to believe it has really gotten worse is a lack of historical perspective.
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Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:21 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Your face lacks creativity
Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:36 pm to 15sammy34
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The fact of the matter is that there will always be creative and/or driven people. It's been that way since the beginning of organized society. The only reason to believe it has really gotten worse is a lack of historical perspective.
I mean the amount of vacation Americans have is incredibly minimal compared to the rest of the world. That trend has not been bucked by all these lazy people entering the work force, we take even less.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:37 pm to TeLeFaWx
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TeLeFaWx
There is no need for logic in this discussion.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:38 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Tell us how you really feel next time, scrooster. Quit holding back
The man speaks the cold hard TRUTH
Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:40 pm to 228Tiger
If you old people don't Workaholics is funny and creative, you're too old. #getweird
Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:40 pm to TeLeFaWx
This happens in any group. The older people will always look down on the younger largely due to the fact that long term memories lean towards the positive. People will always think the old days were better or the people of that time were better, excepting extreme cases of course. It's just how our minds work. I can't say I don't do that about younger people already. It's simply human nature.
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Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:41 pm to TeLeFaWx
or a woman.
Workaholics is guy humor all over.
Workaholics is guy humor all over.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:42 pm to 228Tiger
Funny thing is the old people are talking about how young people really suck today, but it's the old people in charge in Washington that are allowing a huge debt to build up that the younger generations will have to pay down. We may be lazy, but we aren't actively screwing up the nation's environment and finances so that our grandchildren will be living an economic nightmare on a hotter planet.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 5:30 pm to boogiewoogie1978
In 1900, you were either creative with a vivid imagination or you died or boredom as a kid. Children have so much pre-packaged stimulation these days that it is no longer necessary to develop certain skills to entertain yourself and others.
The populice as a whole is smarter due to education and technology, but less creative for the same reasons.
The populice as a whole is smarter due to education and technology, but less creative for the same reasons.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 5:45 pm to Roger Klarvin
I agree with this. ^^^
Posted on 2/28/13 at 5:56 pm to Arkla Missy
been to the egg store, today?
eta: guess not?
eta: guess not?
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Posted on 2/28/13 at 7:21 pm to OMLandshark
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....In the meantime, I'll get off your lawn, old timer.
No, don't do that. Come on inside and you can watch Archer with me over a couple of my home brews and my wife will grill us a nice steak while I'm showing you around - pictures of me at Carolina back in the day, me in the 82nd Airborne jumping, me in a lot of different countries with a lot of different women and other friends. Me with all my kids when they were growing up. Me with my different businesses, my different dogs, my horses. Me we Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, Floyd Spence. Me in Sun Valley with Scott Glenn. Me in New York with Glenn Beck. A picture of Steve Spurrier, Georgia Rogers and me on the tee about to tee off. I've got some good stuff to show you about my life and how hard work pays off and allows me now to sit around a frick off all day.
I'm no old prude. I'm still 21 years old in my head and I'm still waking up with frickin' oak every morning ... just ask my young wife. But I also know the differences between generations and I can tell you that yes, older generations usually see things screwed-up about younger generations because it is true ... but it has not been going-on forever. It started in the 20s, with the Suffrage Movement, and as soon as women got the right to vote many of them immediately started voting progressive ... and I get that. But what it has evolved into, every single generation since, is a social entitlement thing ... Teddy Roosevelt started it, Woodrow Wilson perpetuated the shite out of it, FDR turned it into an art form and honestly, we've been screwed every since then ... you can barely tell one lying politician giving it away from the other, they are all the same with the possible exception of Reagan and even he ticked me off at times.
We've ruined each successive generation by trying to give them too much ... by wanting to make things better for them than we had it rather than allowing them to make their own mistakes and make things better for themselves.
I could go on and on. Call me an old timer if you want, I guess I deserve it, but understand this, we all think alike, most of us men I should type - it's just that us older ones have more experience when it comes to thinking than you younger guys do. We all still love the pretty ladies, the money, the guns the cars the football ... it's just us older guys know the proper priority for each item on the list.
And that is where things got screwy in this country. The youngsters these days think they are supposed to immediately have everything the rest of us have worked for our entire lives to have. I see it all the time in my company when interviewing new people. That is the big difference between the way it was then and the way it was now. Everyone feels entitled to something in one way or the other, just on different levels.
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Posted on 2/28/13 at 7:47 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Too many techno gadgets and too much Interwebz.... 
Posted on 3/1/13 at 1:12 am to Ole Geauxt
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been to the egg store, today?
eta: guess not?
Yes, I have, but very, very late.
Posted on 3/1/13 at 1:18 am to scrooster
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scrooster
You must be a old fart. I ain't reading all that.
:Inb4mypostisexactlywhatiswrongwithmygeneration:
Posted on 3/1/13 at 7:25 am to boogiewoogie1978
There are lots of great new movies and lots if great new music.
The difference is that the major entertainment companies are no longer putting them out, you have to go find them on your own.
Also you're just getting older.
The difference is that the major entertainment companies are no longer putting them out, you have to go find them on your own.
Also you're just getting older.
Posted on 3/1/13 at 7:52 am to scrooster
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We've ruined each successive generation by trying to give them too much ... by wanting to make things better for them than we had it rather than allowing them to make their own mistakes and make things better for themselves.
Still stupid. Driven people will be driven. People still make mistakes and learn from them. You can't tell me people living at home now after graduating is worse than hippie communes and shite. It is just a different form. The economy is different. I mean I got an engineering degree. I do not vote democrat, nor will I ever. There are still young, driven, entrepreneurs all around us. One of my best friends never went to college, joined the Air Force as a fire fighter, came down to college station and partied like a maniac, and didn't go to school, and now owns and operates a multi-million dollar SEO company. He is 24. I do know some people that fricked up, did too many drugs, were lazy and entitled, and have a terrible attitude and mindset towards life. Those people have always been around. Their parents are the same way. Let me ask you this, are your kids going to be entitled? I doubt it.
Posted on 3/1/13 at 7:54 am to scrooster
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Me in New York with Glenn Beck
Stopped reading here.
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