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Timmy

Timmy

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The kids of today ... complain, bitch, whinge, moan, blah, blah, blah.

The younger generation ... complain, bitch, whinge, moan, blah, blah, blah.

I know its not just me, so many get soooo tired of this generational stereotyping.

To those bitchin' about the kids of today, have a look at your own parenting style, and your own kids. Take a good, long, hard look in the mirror - go on ... like what you see?

Fark it, I have two kids and they are both great kids, as are their friends. FFS, teenagers will be teenagers. Young people will be young. Some are good, some bad, most are just normal people, doing normal things. Give 'em a break and don't lump all of them in together in one giant generational generalisation.

S'pose its easier to generalise than to do a bit of introspection and a bit of thinking.

Flame away.
 
Re: The kids of today ...

One of the best posts ever Timmy.

I hate generational stereotypes also. How can you class millions of people into one set of characteristics? Its a load of bollocks.

Unfortunately it seems that through the media people belive 'us' Gen X'ers to be lazy and good for nothing, while the baby boomers are obviously the best generation ever. I'll show you plenty of boomers who still take drugs and contribute nothing to society.

Rant over
 
I believe Socrates complained about the youth of his day, so this rubbish has been going on for at least two and a half millennia ;).
 
Geez you young blokes whinge a lot, back in my day yes we used to drive unlicensed, get pissed underage, have the bong here or there, have the occasional fight, get lucky with loose wimmin, swear with/at my mates and a few other things I now forget about cause I'm old.

BUT, we did respect our parents, we didn't swear walking down the street in front of kids and women, after you won the fight when the other guy fell down and you probably ended up shouting the loser a beer (not kick them to death when their unconscious), we started full time work at 15 or 16 and probably did a paper round before that or pumped petrol at the local servo.

If you guys think things are better now, please elaborate.
 
The violence really concerns me too. Maybe I have selective memory but I don't recall this level of aggression and violence while growing up.

Fashion and appearence doesn't bother me too much. I have pictures of me in flares and tie dyed t-shirts so who am I to judge.:)
 
Yep this BB agrees. By the bye, extensive long-term studies of twins brought up in the same household, twins separated at birth and brought up in different households, adopted children, siblings brought up in same household, siblings separated and brought up in different households have shown that parenting has absolutely minimal to zero effect on the outcome of these children as adults.

So when someone compliments you on how well behaved your children are, don't get a swelled head. You have nothing to do with it except passing on your genes or possibly setting an example. Obviously it also means that you should not berate yourself should your children turn out to be total brats. It ain't your fault.
 
glenn_r said:
If you guys think things are better now, please elaborate.
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Its not the fact that these things dont happen, its the fact that whole generations are classed into stereotypes.

Im sure in your days there was violence, and those who took a fight too far, but there just wasnt constant media coverage. But i also see plenty of 40 yo bogans walking around pissed trying to fight people when im out at nights, so its still not just the young ones....
 
Hi,

First post :D

Yeah, I think you are all right. Past wasn't as violent, or was it? The kids of today are lazy, but who says the kids of past werent?

Realistically the only thing that has changed, is the media, the ability to access news and the media's need to fill gaps when there are no other gaps to fill. They start this Gen X Gen Y thing, and all this hype about generations because its a politcal view and so many people have opinions and will continue to buy newspapers and magazines that talk about the subject, as we wan't to know what others are thinking.

Nothing wrong with anyone, just the media.
 
glenn_r said:
BUT, we did respect our parents, we didn't swear walking down the street in front of kids and women, after you won the fight when the other guy fell down and you probably ended up shouting the loser a beer (not kick them to death when their unconscious), we started full time work at 15 or 16 and probably did a paper round before that or pumped petrol at the local servo.
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Not sensible to judge a generation by a bunch of bad apples. You have your idiots, as do we.
 
the baby boomers are one of the most selfish generations ever... pay for your own god damn retirement....
 
Spot on jaymz_trading.

The media has a lot to answer for IMO. It would be nice to see them actually report some GOOD news once in a while, and perhaps they could try to put hmmm...lets say, a POSITIVE outlook on everything, rather than injecting as much fear as possible into people, so that when people do go out, they are packing death about whats around the next corner.

Like that Corey dropkick who got job offers and huge publicity from being a knob, why bother even reporting that? Give him a slapping and send him home. Report on things that make people feel good and happy about things, rather than scared and worried.

:2twocents
 
Timmy said:
I know its not just me, so many get soooo tired of this generational stereotyping.
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Timmy said:
Catch cry of the BBs?
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Timmy, don't you see a bit of hypocrisy in your two statements above?

You deride the generational stereotyping (and I absolutely agree), then proceed to suggest BB's as a group have a particular trait.

I just don't know why this determination to categorise people into groups has happened - it makes no sense.
 
As a borderline BB/GenX, i find this interesting. Rather than tip to one group or the other:
- people appear to be more fearful of violence now than a couple of decades ago. But I remember being chased by skinheads in perth! Then it tended to be punchups or beatings rather than killings. My old school is having a reunion at a pub where there was a big brawl in 79 betweens bogans and surfs.
- from the bit i've read (exclude newspapers) females tend be involved in the violence more.
- i can't help but suspect "newer" drugs are adding to the severity of the violence inflicted - helped along by the old drug, alcohol.
- Cops I know who work with youth reckon more knives are being carried than a decade ago. So they'll probably get used more.

It's too complicated to make simple generalisations. But as each generation comes along they are used to growing up with more and more, and the concept of doing without becomes more and more foreign. So every generation is selfish.
 
Julia said:
Timmy, don't you see a bit of hypocrisy in your two statements above?
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Yes, I do Julia; I must admit I did it on purpose as a bit of a stir ... (but only a bit :)).
 
bowman said:
The violence really concerns me too. Maybe I have selective memory but I don't recall this level of aggression and violence while growing up.
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Bowman, don't know when you grew up, but if it was the 1980s you should have been afraid....

From the end of the war onwards, Australia's homicide rate climbed steadily - from an annual rate of around 1 per 100,00 in the 1940s to a peak of 2.4 per 100,000 in 1988.
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Source (page 29).

I don't think we can blame Gen. Y for this one... Maybe it was all that 'celebration of a nation' stuff ... just got too grating for some ...
 
ThingyMajiggy said:
Like that Corey dropkick who got job offers and huge publicity from being a knob, why bother even reporting that? Give him a slapping and send him home. Report on things that make people feel good and happy about things, rather than scared and worried.
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And what knobs offered Corey jobs and publicity? TV and radio stations ran by Gen X's and Baby Boomers...
 
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