Posted on 09/13/2015 9:16:11 AM PDT by mylife
The problem with young people today is that they think they know everything.
When I was a lad, young people were ignorant – and we were smart enough to know it.
We understood that wisdom came with experience, maturity and age. Knowledge was the purview of the educated, the wealthy and the gainfully employed, not feckless pinheads with an over-inflated sense of self-worth and Wikipedia book marked on their laptops.
In my day young people didn’t presume to understand important issues let alone have an opinion on them. If my old dad told me the piano teacher from down the road was a communist sympathiser, I didn’t offer up some lukewarm retread of the First Amendment in response – I shunned the man in public, pelted his house with crab apples and joined with a mob to run him out of town.
And even if we did think we knew better than our parents we kept our mouths shut. Contradict my father? I may have been ignorant but I sure as Hell wasn’t stupid.
But nowadays, every blowhole of a 15-year old thinks they have the answer to everything from healthcare reform to global warming to the pitching needs of the New York Yankees. And all based on their extensive experience sitting in their parent’s basement watching Scooby Doo Cartons, Ashton Kutcher movies and stuffing their mouths with Ding-Dongs, Skittles and Baby Ruth candy bars.
I blame television for the whole damned mess.
At first, children’s programs were meant to do little more than stop an unattended sprog from sticking his tongue in an electrical outlet but somewhere along the line they started slipping in nasty messages telling these damned kids they were unique, smart and had opinions worth sharing.
Well let me tell you, that damned Elmo may think you’re special but as far as I’m concerned until you’ve hung up your hoodie, held down a job and paid into the tax system, you’re just some know-nothing teenager who’d be wise to keep your damned mouth shut, your opinions to yourself and let the adults do your thinking for you.
That’s just my opinion. But unless you’re over 40, I don’t want to hear any argument.
They think they know everything. That’s the problem with young people today.
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Yeah, right.
“The problem with young people today is that they think they know everything.”
Most young people don’t even know who the VP is. Or what part of the world Iran is.
LOL
These kids today all want to fist bump me and stuff and I’ supposed to know the lingo and the jive.
I as them if the got any fighting or ****ing this weekend and they look at me like i’m from mars like I offended their sensibilities or somethin.
*fist bump*
” feckless pinheads with an over-inflated sense of self-worth”
That’s as good a definition of hippy as any. Likely numerous other generations can lay claim to it as well.
My grandfather, viewing earth’s worn cogs,
Said, “Things are going to the dogs.”
His grandfather, in his house of logs,
Said, “Things are going to the dogs.”
His grandfather, in the Flemish bogs,
Said, “Things are going to the dogs.”
His grandfather, in his old skin togs,
Said, “Things are going to the dogs.”
There’s only one thing I have to state,
“The dogs have had a good long wait.”
Welp I have had my fun here LOL.
Time to do the Sunday afternoon thing.
Yall keep them dang kids in line
Welp I have had my fun here LOL.
Time to do the Sunday afternoon thing.
Yall keep them dang kids in line
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Caitlin Upton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
As part of a question and answer portion of the 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant, Upton was asked by the questioner, Friday Night Lights actress Aimee Teegarden: “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?” Upton responded:[1]
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future [for our children].[8][9]”
It’s really that simple
It’s “Generation Kardashian.”
I thought it was the Cait Jenner-ation.
Teaching Math In 1950:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1960:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1970:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
Teaching Math In 1980:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20 Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math In 1990:
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living?
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In my day young people didn’t presume to understand important issues let alone have an opinion on them.
Young people have ALWAYS thought they knew everything.
Yes. Rehboam’s advisers when he Solomon died were cut from the same cloth. Experience has a way of teaching at least some people humility.
Vintage Donald Mills.
Wow. Does she play an excavator operator in TV commercials in her spare time?
You guys referring to that dopey Progressive Insurance commercial?
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