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Title: My generation is f**ked
Post by: They put it to a vote and they just kept lying on February 27, 2012, 09:05:46 AM
So I'm currently sitting in my High School Journalism class, and we began the class by watching CNN Student News. Naturally, there was coverage of the crisis in Syria. This, of course, drew little discussion other than scattered kids saying "who cares, it's not America, so who cares?" to which I scoffed. Then, when we began to discuss the presidential elections, a girl said "I am so sick of hearing about politics, who cares? I do not care who the President of the country is." But then, when we began to discuss Chris Brown and Rihanna collaborating, an uproar arose, with plenty of screaming and yelling and fighting over whether or not this was justified.

I am seriously concerned for the future of this country. This is a normal thing.

Your thoughts?


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Tender Branson on February 27, 2012, 09:32:28 AM
Chris Brown and Rihanna are collaborating ?

Didn't he punch her in her face once ? That's probably not a good thing if they are together again. Personalities usually don't change in a few years, so what happens if they are together again and times are not as good as they are now, they are having fights again and he punches her again ? I'd say Rihanna should think twice about that ...


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Middle-aged Europe on February 27, 2012, 09:44:24 AM
So I'm currently sitting in my High School Journalism class, and we began the class by watching CNN Student News. Naturally, there was coverage of the crisis in Syria. This, of course, drew little discussion other than scattered kids saying "who cares, it's not America, so who cares?" to which I scoffed. Then, when we began to discuss the presidential elections, a girl said "I am so sick of hearing about politics, who cares? I do not care who the President of the country is." But then, when we began to discuss Chris Brown and Rihanna collaborating, an uproar arose, with plenty of screaming and yelling and fighting over whether or not this was justified.

I am seriously concerned for the future of this country. This is a normal thing.

Your thoughts?

Well, sounds almost like the (majority of the) youth in my country. :P

As far as the question of generations is concerned, maybe young people have been significantly more political between 1965 and 1975. But earlier/later generations probably didn't give a sh!t either.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: memphis on February 27, 2012, 09:46:42 AM
Not everybody is into politics. This is particularly true among young people. Same as it ever was.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Gustaf on February 27, 2012, 09:55:54 AM
Chris Brown and Rihanna are collaborating ?

Didn't he punch her in her face once ? That's probably not a good thing if they are together again. Personalities usually don't change in a few years, so what happens if they are together again and times are not as good as they are now, they are having fights again and he punches her again ? I'd say Rihanna should think twice about that ...

I hope this is an ironic reply. :P

It's sad but hardly new. Young people have always tended to be a bit daft.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Beet on February 27, 2012, 11:18:54 AM

An entire class of young people who think they can become journalists? Yes, they truly are f**ked.

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, and we began the class by watching CNN Student News. Naturally, there was coverage of the crisis in Syria. This, of course, drew little discussion other than scattered kids saying "who cares, it's not America, so who cares?"

The appropriate, non-interventionist response. "Beware of foreign entanglements", et cetera. Glad to see they know their George Washington. :)

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Then, when we began to discuss the presidential elections, a girl said "I am so sick of hearing about politics, who cares? I do not care who the President of the country is."

Appropriate world-weariness and cynicism. Politicians do not care about you or your classmates, so there is no reason why any of you should give a whit about the old, rich and corrupt bastards. :)

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But then, when we began to discuss Chris Brown and Rihanna collaborating, an uproar arose, with plenty of screaming and yelling and fighting over whether or not this was justified.

Glad to see your classmates are passionate about domestic violence issues! This is something that will be very relevant to their lives, either currently or in the near future. Chances are, someone in your class is or will be in an abusive relationship. Probably more than one. Yet others will know someone who is in an abusive relationship. The stakes of this discussion are very high. It's important that abuse is ostracized as much as possible, and not become something that is seen as 'normal'. Due to this, the idea of Rihanna and Chris Brown collaborating disturbs me greatly. :P

Overall, I would agree with you that I am seriously concerned about your classmates... poor things, most of them will never make it as journalists, and the few that do will be getting paid dirt. :P


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: John Dibble on February 27, 2012, 12:05:51 PM
I wouldn't be too concerned - the young in general are not all that interested in political affairs. Most don't work or pay taxes, so policy doesn't really affect them much, at least not in ways they notice anyways.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: AndrewTX on February 27, 2012, 02:47:28 PM
I agree. My generation wasn't able to post sh**t on a forum while in school. We had to wait till we got home, and go on our dial up internet to post it while on AOL.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on February 27, 2012, 03:15:40 PM
People have always been shallow and stupid and always will be. Deal with them, since in 20 years they'll be unhappy middle-class divorcees.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on February 27, 2012, 04:15:58 PM
No doubt, youngs today are stupider than ever before.

If you don't want to do any thinking at all, why even post here? I get that lamenting the inevitable moral decay of society from some invented past is your thing, but that statement was unusually vapid and sophomoric even by those standards.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Napoleon on February 27, 2012, 04:18:38 PM
People have always been shallow and stupid and always will be. Deal with them, since in 20 years they'll be unhappy middle-class divorcees.

Yes.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: I'm JewCon in name only. on February 27, 2012, 04:26:24 PM
Dude, we are in high school, it's natural that most of teens don't care about politics. Yea, people are getting dumber, but since when did teenagers, as a whole, really care about politics?


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Atlas Has Shrugged on February 27, 2012, 04:56:22 PM
Dude, we are in high school, it's natural that most of teens don't care about politics. Yea, people are getting dumber, but since when did teenagers, as a whole, really care about politics?
I agree for the most part; I get annoyed how much people talk about Chris Brown and what not, but I never expect politics to come up. I hate when people spend hours talking about sports. If the class will waste its time talking about sports, then they should accept politics as well.


What REALLY pisses me off? The kids who wear rasta colors and smoke pot only because Bob Marley did it. Especially since I go to a private school, and most of these kids are rich and white.

People have always been shallow and stupid and always will be. Deal with them, since in 20 years they'll be unhappy middle-class divorcees.
Exactly.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: k-onmmunist on February 27, 2012, 04:59:20 PM
Meh, let them live in ignorance. They're inconsequential.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: opebo on February 27, 2012, 05:10:08 PM
Meh, let them live in ignorance. They're inconsequential.

That's the whole point - it doesn't matter whether the common folk know anything - it doesn't matter what they do.  They're powerless serfs.  In fact the embracement of ignorance and disinterest by your classmates is in fact very reasonable and sensible.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: They put it to a vote and they just kept lying on February 27, 2012, 06:06:21 PM
I mean, I knew that my generation doesn't care about politics, but really? Like, Syria's a different story. People are actually getting killed for Christ's sake. Good people, people who want freedom. But Chris Brown smacks Rihanna and that's worth discussing?


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: I'm JewCon in name only. on February 27, 2012, 06:08:27 PM
I don't think talking about sports is a "waste." I prefer to talk sports over politics, I piss less people off :p


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on February 27, 2012, 06:09:12 PM
No doubt, youngs today are stupider than ever before. Thus is the work of the unstoppable march of "progress" and "technology".

No doubt, youngs today are stupider than ever before - a typical statement during the Victorian era.

No doubt, youngs today are stupider than ever before  - a typical statement in the year of 3000.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: k-onmmunist on February 27, 2012, 06:34:20 PM
No doubt, youngs today are stupider than ever before. Thus is the work of the unstoppable march of "progress" and "technology".

No doubt, youngs today are stupider than ever before - a typical statement during the Victorian era.

No doubt, youngs today are stupider than ever before  - a typical statement in the year of 3000.

QFT


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Oakvale on February 27, 2012, 06:44:00 PM
No doubt, youngs today are stupider than ever before.

If you don't want to do any thinking at all, why even post here? I get that lamenting the inevitable moral decay of society from some invented past is your thing, but that statement was unusually vapid and sophomoric even by those standards.

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Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: dead0man on February 27, 2012, 06:58:30 PM
What REALLY pisses me off? The kids who wear rasta colors and smoke pot only because Bob Marley did it. Especially since I go to a private school, and most of these kids are rich and white.
I think you have that backwards.  People listen to Bob Marley and wear the rasta stuff because Bob Marley and rastas smoke(d) pot, not the other way around.  Pot is what brings them together.  Rarely will you find someone that got into pot because they started listening to Marley.

Or maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.  All the stoners I've ever know were stoners first, then moved onto the stoner sub-community of choice...whether that be neo-hippie, rasta, 420er, punker, rapper, whateverer.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Beet on February 27, 2012, 08:12:24 PM
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“You think about this. When you get old, these kids — when I get old — they’re gonna be running the country. Now this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night: that when I get older, these kids are gonna take care of me.”

“I wouldn’t count on it.”


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Fmr President & Senator Polnut on February 27, 2012, 08:21:46 PM
Teenagers have always been gormless idiots.

To actually give a crap about the rest of the world, let alone the world around you makes you a considerable minority.

The funny thing is, my generation and the *gulp* one after mine ie, yours, are noted for actually being more supportive of 'causes' but less interested in politics.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: FEMA Camp Administrator on February 27, 2012, 08:25:36 PM
I as well often lament about the future. However, I console myself with the fact that the stupidity of the general public will make it easier for the eventual restoration of power into the hands of the elites, of which I, God-willingly, will be a member of. Manipulation of the stupid will become more popular than ever among the rich & intelligent.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: They put it to a vote and they just kept lying on February 28, 2012, 06:21:56 AM
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“You think about this. When you get old, these kids — when I get old — they’re gonna be running the country. Now this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night: that when I get older, these kids are gonna take care of me.”

“I wouldn’t count on it.”

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Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Rooney on February 28, 2012, 07:10:56 PM
Fear not, young man. This is how it has always been. I attended an educational forum last Summer where the lecturer (who was really good at his job) laid out a history of American education going back to the days of Increase Mather. He showed my fellow educators how in every generation someone writes a book or something that is pretty much called, "The next generation is a bunch of idiots and we are all screwed." Well, we are all probably screwed but I do not blame the kids I teach. I simply say that every generation complains about the youth and says that they are "idiots." The kids in you class will eventually go to college, get a job and the whole rotten show will start all over again.

Also do not take journalism classes. The boys in those classes are assholes and the girls are all whores. That is why American journalism is what it is today.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: They put it to a vote and they just kept lying on February 28, 2012, 07:21:51 PM
Also do not take journalism classes. The boys in those classes are assholes and the girls are all whores. That is why American journalism is what it is today.

The accuracy of this statement as pertaining to my class is uncanny.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: TheDeadFlagBlues on February 29, 2012, 02:30:20 AM
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"The vanity of the past is superior to the vanity of the present!" plus the verbose ramblings of an eighty year old is all I got out of that post. 

I agree that there's an annoying quality to our present, except my idealized past is that of the turbulent and egalitarian late 60s however I recognize the flaws of this (sexism was rampant, individual views were still extremely racist/backwards among the elderly, multiculturalism still wasn't the norm etc). I suggest that you watch Midnight In Paris for some perspective. Most people who have an intense nostalgia for a past time period are simply avoiding the problems of the troubled present but these problems plague every generation. Objectively, this is certainly the best period to be alive as a human being.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Person Man on February 29, 2012, 11:38:29 AM
This really isn't news. What do you think the average 17 year old was thinking in 1938 or 1940, for that matter?


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: k-onmmunist on February 29, 2012, 02:12:08 PM
Simfan, seriously, just stop.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on February 29, 2012, 10:52:46 PM
I've put this off long enough; let's take a stab at this post.

You want me to explain this to you? Fine. Let's take a base year, say 1920. If you were to ask a classroom full of average high schoolers on the Cox-Harding race, you'd probably get a few (admittedly poorly informed) comments, but mainly silence. If they wouldn't know, they wouldn't talk.

Do you have any basis for this assertion? I certainly can't say whether that's true or false, since I know very little about the history of American education. That's something about which I've meant to learn more for quite some time, but I haven't gotten around to it. I'm guessing that you're making the assumption that you make because you see that as a virtue, and thus something that must have been practiced in the virtuous past. Correct me if I'm wrong, because that logic is obviously circular.

Meanwhile, today we have students essentially boasting about their ignorance, that "politics", something that most people older than they would probably and clearly consider important, is "stupid".

I find it very odd that you think that this is something new. What makes you think that people didn't say the same thing in the past?

This comment, and others like it, was meant to be incendiary, provocative, a stab in the heart of the teacher, you, and anyone else who might bother to care about "gay" things like that.

I have a number of observations about what I've read of this post so far. If you're arguing that young people now are less intelligent than in the past, you're going to need more than your anecdotal evidence about why the present is awful. Ideally there would be actual facts and data rather than anecdotal evidence, but there certainly needs to be some sort of evidence that the past was unlike today. I see none.

Another thing that merits mention is your identification of intelligence with political knowledge. Even if we were to assume that the youth of the past were more politically informed than today, why would that make them more intelligent? I have many friends who have skills in math and the sciences that were once the province of upper-level undergraduate students. More than a few of them lack interest in politics, and many of them see it as boring or a waste of time. Does that make them unintelligent? Am I superior to them because politics does interest me?

The fact is that the technology of today has allowed people to essentially filter out what they don't want to hear. This applies to children of today; they have received access to new technologies at a level equal or greater to adults (a trend that started at most 25 years ago), which I personally believe may too great a level of access. Thus, the effect is only amplified in the young, who receive no kind of information on such things we deem important. Our "young" of 1920 would have had to sit through a newsreel before watching his movie. The "young" of 2012 need not do so for his pornographic flick. Not everyone need to gain enough information pick a side in the Senegalese election (Macky Sall FTW), but there should be a certain level of knowledge of the world around you.

From this, I gather that you're defining "smarter" as "better-informed". I wouldn't necessarily agree with that, but I'll allow it. Holding up 1920 as some golden age of well-informed youth is thoroughly laughable, given that only 29 percent of children even attended high school in 1920.* Again, you're passing off unfounded assumptions as fact; based on the evidence, I'm willing to conclude that children in 1920 had far less access to information than children today.

I find it interesting that your hypothetical youth of 1920 sees a normal movie, while that of 2012 sees a pornographic one. Are young people now depraved sex maniacs, unlike the chaste children of yesteryear?

*Source (page 23) (http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED119389.pdf)


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on February 29, 2012, 10:53:28 PM
Who are our role models today? Think of them. Steven Hawking? Barack Obama? Mark Zuckerberg? We could only wish.

I don't see Mark Zuckerberg as particularly admirable or worthy of our respect, but I'm not sure exactly how you can argue that society doesn't celebrate him, unless you missed the promotion for the movie about him. Stephen Hawking is a household name; unless you're arguing that physicists were venerated by society more in the past than they are today, I don't understand why you would bring him up.

We live in a society where vapidity and shallowness are celebrated.

I don't have any reason to accept that, but I'll allow it for the sake of argument.

"But that's always been the case," you all say.

"Absolutely not," I reply.

In the 16th Century, the original guide to etiquette, The Courtier was read voraciously by those in what we could today call the "aristocracy" and "merchant classes." In the 1920s, Emily Post tried to do the same with her famed guide but found that her largest market was in fact the middle classes, who wanted to mimic the in-bred social graces of the upper classes. Today, what does Middle America have to look up to in the 1%? Paris Hilton. Poor Lauren Lauren doesn't stand a chance. Look at the darned Bratz dolls. I mean, you don't have to go past the dolls' name? What is that teaching children?

Leaving aside your odd comparison of high society of the past to popular entertainment of today, how exactly is any of that any less "shallow" than rote memorization of arbitrary rules of social etiquette? Why is a person who doesn't know that bread is placed to the left of the meal dumber than someone who does?

Now, what does this have to do with intelligence? Everything. The children of today are the products of the society they live in- now that's always been the case. What our society celebrates today is shallowness, and the mere pastiche of ideas.

Presumably, only original ideas were tolerated in the past for which you are filled with so much nostalgia.

They're so many people I've seen who have actually shown support for a candidate, only to have no real reason to support them. Just today I grilled someone who claimed to support Ron Paul, but when questioned on Paul's views on education aid, Civil Rights, and the Civil War, simply replied "Ron Paul!"

Are you suggesting that people in the past always knew about the positions of all the candidates to whom they gave support? I don't think you are, because that would be asinine. If you're not making that argument, this is yet another pointless piece of anecdotal evidence.

Now, I know many all of you here could give me a proficient argument explaining why my view is wrong and Paul's is right. But if you can't give us a reason... it's groupthink. That's why the Democrats do well among young voters. Not their liberalism... but groupthink: Republicans... ew.

Once again, we have unfounded assertions and anecdotal evidence, as well as what appears to be willful ignorance of the massive importance of voting blocs throughout American history. I'll point out again here that this argument seems to focus entirely on politics, as though there is no other measure of intelligence but political knowledge.

Back to your examples. We see a celebration of ignorance, the elevation of the mediocre and inconsequential over the important. But we also see a lack of empathy- here for those fighting for liberation in Syria (is it still "in" to support the opposition, or are we praising Assad's "anti-imperialist" cred now? But that's on a more... advanced... level).

Are you really arguing that people in the past were filled with empathy compared to today? I could point out literally hundreds of examples to the contrary. For instance, I wonder where that empathy was when Americans massacred the Muslim population of Mindanao in the first decade of the twentieth century. Could it be that public opinion back then wasn't based in empathy more than it is today?

Technology today allows for the elevation of the self above all, the idea of personal celebrities. Now we can all be vapid and famous. The focus on promoting ourselves, which becomes more of a necessity with every passing day, reduces our capacity for promoting and caring for others. Again, the product of our society amplified in the children.

I'd like to reply to this, but I can't because it's essentially meaningless. It doesn't actually pertain to the argument that young people are dumber now than before, so I feel safe in ignoring it.

But I'm being grandiloquent here. The crux of the matter is that the conditions of society have led our youth to not regard critical thought and self-education, among many other beneficial ideas, as any particular things to value. When they do "think", it is merely pastiche. The society we live in, and technology to a wide extent, has enabled this. To fix this, we need to change the values of society, what we today hold in high regard. If we can do that, then maybe the "youngs" of 2050 won't be dumber than those today. But I consider that unlikely.[/quote]

As I understand it, your argument rests on three contentions:

1. Modern society is "shallow".
2. This "shallowness" is directly correlated with the intelligence of young people.
3. The past was less "shallow", and thus young people in the past were more intelligent than young people today.

Unfortunately, you haven't managed to prove any of those points.

So, finally, Xahar, I hope this shows you I'm damn well thinking.

Yes, I suppose that fallacious thought is still thought in much the same way that a flat tire is still a tire. I retract my earlier statement; you have given this thought. It's a shame that that thought finds its basis in nostalgia rather than reality.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: opebo on March 01, 2012, 06:17:42 AM

I somehow doubt you mean that literally, as there is nothing negative about this honorable profession.  Perhaps you mean something else.. some other related malign of the gender.  In any case your crude statement tells us much more about you than about the ladies in question.  And it is not to your credit, I might add.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on March 01, 2012, 07:10:26 AM
So, finally, Xahar, I hope this shows you I'm damn well thinking.

And you failed to convince us again.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: King on March 01, 2012, 12:41:52 PM
Simfan, you should read Huckleberry Finn.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Oakvale on March 01, 2012, 12:52:38 PM
I'm seeing the failure of the Jon Huntsman for President campaign in a whole new light.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on March 01, 2012, 02:23:22 PM
May God have mercy on your soul, Simfan. You'll really need this.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Politico on March 01, 2012, 02:39:38 PM
Objectively, this is certainly the best period to be alive as a human being.

No, that would be roughly the period of post-Cold War/pre-9/11 (i.e., after the early '90s recession but before the dot-com crash, so probably early 1993 to early 2000).


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: I'm JewCon in name only. on March 01, 2012, 02:58:23 PM
Also do not take journalism classes. The boys in those classes are assholes and the girls are all whores. That is why American journalism is what it is today.

You have won this thread :D


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on March 01, 2012, 04:12:32 PM
Simfan, you're bordering on Naso territory here.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Oakvale on March 01, 2012, 04:17:32 PM
Simfan, you're bordering on Naso territory here.

Is Simfan Naso's ghostwriter?


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on March 01, 2012, 05:13:35 PM

Are you questioning Naso's talents? That's nasty.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: TheDeadFlagBlues on March 01, 2012, 06:11:53 PM
Objectively, this is certainly the best period to be alive as a human being.

No, that would be roughly the period of post-Cold War/pre-9/11 (i.e., after the early '90s recession but before the dot-com crash, so probably early 1993 to early 2000).

In Europe and the US? Sure but I'm taking into account the rest of the world.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Beet on March 01, 2012, 07:08:15 PM

I somehow doubt you mean that literally, as there is nothing negative about this honorable profession.  Perhaps you mean something else.. some other related malign of the gender.  In any case your crude statement tells us much more about you than about the ladies in question.  And it is not to your credit, I might add.

^^^ You are right.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: World politics is up Schmitt creek on March 01, 2012, 07:30:05 PM
Oh, for...you're better than this, Simfan.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Gustaf on March 01, 2012, 07:41:30 PM

I somehow doubt you mean that literally, as there is nothing negative about this honorable profession.  Perhaps you mean something else.. some other related malign of the gender.  In any case your crude statement tells us much more about you than about the ladies in question.  And it is not to your credit, I might add.

^^^ You are right.

I think the Merriam-Webster definition of "whore" is simply "girl who has sex with someone who is not me."


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: opebo on March 01, 2012, 08:13:37 PM

I somehow doubt you mean that literally, as there is nothing negative about this honorable profession.  Perhaps you mean something else.. some other related malign of the gender.  In any case your crude statement tells us much more about you than about the ladies in question.  And it is not to your credit, I might add.

^^^ You are right.

I think the Merriam-Webster definition of "whore" is simply "girl who has sex with someone who is not me."

Oddly enough, my definition is 'someone who will have sex with me', though I have to say I don't think I've ever used that word in my life.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: CLARENCE 2015! on March 01, 2012, 08:43:10 PM
I agree- and it doesn't help that you folks are getting rogered by people a little younger then me... you have been for a generation now


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: opebo on March 01, 2012, 08:47:13 PM
I agree- and it doesn't help that you folks are getting rogered by people a little younger then me... you have been for a generation now

That's capitalism, clarence.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Mechaman on March 01, 2012, 10:08:35 PM
Think your generation is f**ked?
Think again. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfrXGDmjWM)


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Gustaf on March 02, 2012, 01:41:36 AM

I somehow doubt you mean that literally, as there is nothing negative about this honorable profession.  Perhaps you mean something else.. some other related malign of the gender.  In any case your crude statement tells us much more about you than about the ladies in question.  And it is not to your credit, I might add.

^^^ You are right.

I think the Merriam-Webster definition of "whore" is simply "girl who has sex with someone who is not me."

Oddly enough, my definition is 'someone who will have sex with me', though I have to say I don't think I've ever used that word in my life.

I think the last part of the sentence proves my point...


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: anvi on March 02, 2012, 02:56:52 AM
Every generation is f**cked...they all pass away.  Plus, every generation starts off idealistic, distracted and flesh-driven, grows up cynical and suspicious, lives an adult life trying to survive and provide for a few other people around them, ages cynical and suspicious, and passes on trying to appreciate every last drop they have left.  When any generation comes along that isn't like this, wake me--I'll be sure to watch.



Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Person Man on March 02, 2012, 03:26:16 PM
Yeah. I would go with that. 1999 was probably the best year for the United States, on the whole.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Beet on March 02, 2012, 04:10:27 PM
Every generation is f**cked...they all pass away.  Plus, every generation starts off idealistic, distracted and flesh-driven, grows up cynical and suspicious, lives an adult life trying to survive and provide for a few other people around them, ages cynical and suspicious, and passes on trying to appreciate every last drop they have left.  When any generation comes along that isn't like this, wake me--I'll be sure to watch.

So very true.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Rooney on March 02, 2012, 08:57:41 PM
I somehow doubt you mean that literally, as there is nothing negative about this honorable profession.  Perhaps you mean something else.. some other related malign of the gender.  In any case your crude statement tells us much more about you than about the ladies in question.  And it is not to your credit, I might add.

You sell me short and cut me the core, friend. Prostititution is not just the oldest profession but one of the most honest!

First, I do mean literally that many journalism students I knew in college indeed sold themselves for cash. Do you think I would have used that term in jest? I found their industrious use of their skills to be a credit to themselves.

Additionally, I would have no problem with the fact that they acted in such a way if that was their chosen field. If they majored in the prostitution arts I would applaud their prowess. However, rather than follow what they were good at and could profit from they entered the career path of journalism. My issue is not with their gender, narrow minded man, but instead with the fact that they did not follow the path that would have allowed them to make the most money and to help the most people. 


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: opebo on March 02, 2012, 09:09:24 PM
You sell me short and cut me the core, friend. Prostititution is not just the oldest profession but one of the most honest!

Sorry about that!  In future to avoid confusion be careful of that world (the W word).  It cannot be helped that it insults some of my favorite people.  Nonetheless, even if you were merely referring to feminine promiscuity, I would object.  But I shall jump to no more conclusions..


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: Middle-aged Europe on March 03, 2012, 12:24:44 PM
Think your generation is f**ked?
Think again. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfrXGDmjWM)

LOL, "Pope Benedict Arnold XVI"...

Is marijuana already decriminalized in Topeka or something?


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: They put it to a vote and they just kept lying on March 03, 2012, 03:10:29 PM
Think your generation is f**ked?
Think again. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfrXGDmjWM)

Oh good God.


Title: Re: My generation is f**ked
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on March 03, 2012, 05:11:47 PM
Think your generation is f**ked?
Think again. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfrXGDmjWM)

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