You youngsters listen up now

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Reb Cpl wrote: PLEASE. I'm in my mid twenties, I went to college right out of high school and have had a job for 4 whole years now. There is NOTHING I don't know, and not only that, I'll call you stupid for telling me otherwise. Damn old people don't understand this isn't the roaring twenties anymore.

Exactly

And really this article makes me just think that old people are less socially retarded than younger people, not that they're right more often. I have NO doubt whatsoever that older people are generally better socially, as I'm frequently just ashamed of my generation and its culture.

If you've been doing something longer, I hope you're better at it than a newcomer...

Reb Cpl wrote: choopie911 wrote:   I have NO doubt whatsoever that older people are generally better socially, as I'm frequently just ashamed of my generation and its culture. I'm glad you said that. I thought it was just me.

Even just having to listen to top 40 radio at work makes me shake my head and wonder whats wrong with some people

Reb Cpl wrote: PLEASE. I'm in my mid twenties, I went to college right out of high school and have had a job for 4 whole years now. There is NOTHING I don't know, and not only that, I'll call you stupid for telling me otherwise. Damn old people don't understand this isn't the roaring twenties anymore.

Pffft.  I'm better than all of you . . . the article says so.  (We really need an arrogant smiley.)

choopie911 wrote: Even just having to listen to top 40 radio at work makes me shake my head and wonder whats wrong with some people

I'm glad I'm not the only one that reacts that way.


Edited by Mack - 05 April 2010 at 8:49pm

Oh please, that was written by old people, there's no way they have any clue what they're talking about.

Just keep listening to what I'm saying over here.

__sneaky__ wrote: Gatyr wrote: choopie911 wrote: Reb Cpl wrote: choopie911 wrote:   I have NO doubt whatsoever that older people are generally better socially, as I'm frequently just ashamed of my generation and its culture. I'm glad you said that. I thought it was just me. Even just having to listen to top 40 radio at work makes me shake my head and wonder whats wrong with some people Woooooooord. Truth.   I'm reading a book called The Dumbest Generation, which is about us youngins - and yeah, we suck.

brihard wrote: __sneaky__ wrote: Gatyr wrote: choopie911 wrote: Reb Cpl wrote: choopie911 wrote:   I have NO doubt whatsoever that older people are generally better socially, as I'm frequently just ashamed of my generation and its culture. I'm glad you said that. I thought it was just me. Even just having to listen to top 40 radio at work makes me shake my head and wonder whats wrong with some people Woooooooord. Truth.   I'm reading a book called The Dumbest Generation, which is about us youngins - and yeah, we suck. Yeah, but every generation goes through that. Our parents sucked. Our kids will suck. Their kids will suck.Ninety years from now we'll be telling them damn kids to get off our genetically modified lawn at the pointy end of a phased plasma rifle. Some things will never change. Every generation has its own way of doing things, and it always ends up working out in ways the previous generation would not have seen coming.

This conversation reminds me of the movie Idiocracy. Basically, our species devolves into a bunch of retards.

I was talking to this girl the other day and she was telling me about her grandfather(maybe uncle?) and then said that

"he was in World War 3 he has so many guns. It could have been Vietnam, but I am pretty sure it was World War 3"

the article wrote: older people were more likely than younger or middle-aged ones to recognize that values differ, to acknowledge uncertainties, to accept that things change over time and to acknowledge others' points of view.

While I agree that the older a person is, the more patient they generally are in a conflict resolution. I don't know if I agree with that ^