Quade telling it how it is

[AngrySeahorse]

What i'm hearing here is this:

"When i was 20, i was awesome. I clearly remember it, walking around all awesome all the time. Now i'm 40, and i see all these 20 year olds, walking around thinking they're awesome! How can they be awesome? Ive spent 20 years working on my awesome! They are douchebags. All people who are 20 are douchebags".

I feel all psychic all of a sudden, and what i see is this: In 20 years, gen y will be all grown up and walking around going "back in my day", "kids these days" etc etc.

I'm in my late 20's & I'm already complaining about the up & coming kiddies. Nice to see I'm getting in early .

 

[dogblower]

Plato or Socrates said something along these lines as well. The argument is old as time.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104

A question which arises periodically is for the full
text and the source of the 'ancient' writing complaining about the bad
manners of youth nowadays. It is frequently suggested that Socrates
coined the material (almost certainly not true) although it is
occasionally attributed to Roman, Babylonian or other ancient sources.

(From Jerry Melin) The book Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases,
Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations by Ralph Keyes (p. 20)
states:

...the mayor of Amsterdam attributed this observation to Socrates:
'The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of
exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.' This
wisdom from the grave was subsequently reported in the New York Times
and reprinted widely. After Malcolm Forbes included Socrates's [sic]
words in a Forbes magazine editorial entitled 'Youth,' his research
staff went crazy trying to prove their authenticity. They contacted a
wide range of librarians, classicists, and other experts on Socrates.
None knew of any source for the passage. The researchers finally
called Amsterdam's mayor, Gijsbert van Hall. Van Hall said he'd seen
the lines by Socrates in a Dutch book whose title he could not recall.
There the search ended. 'We suspect,' Forbes's [sic] researchers
concluded, '. . . that Socrates never did make those cracks about
Athenian youth.'

 

[Blue]

What i'm hearing here is this:

"When i was 20, i was awesome. I clearly remember it, walking around all awesome all the time. Now i'm 40, and i see all these 20 year olds, walking around thinking they're awesome! How can they be awesome? Ive spent 20 years working on my awesome! They are douchebags. All people who are 20 are douchebags".

I feel all psychic all of a sudden, and what i see is this: In 20 years, gen y will be all grown up and walking around going "back in my day", "kids these days" etc etc.

Touch a nerve?

 

[gel]

I think Gen Old Fart should stop passing the buck and have a look at their own parenting skills which created the Gen Y monster! Take some ownership and responsibility for once in your lives!

I am not sure what generation I am, early 30s.

X

 

[Dan54]

Hey KS, I 58 and so I been working on my awsesomness even longer than you, so as I awesomer than you you want any advice how to get better??


By the way I not sure all this awesomness is working

 

[Penguin]

I was going to post a picture of Grandpa Simpson saying that he used to be "with it" but then they changed what "it" was , now what I'm with isn't "it" and what's "it" seems weird & scary to me. It'll Happen To You!

But being an early 40's generation X I don't know how to post a pic to posts on this forum!

 

[Kangaroo Sausage]

I think a couple of you may be missing my point somewhat. Im not arguing that "gen Y" (or z or whatever) arent a bunch of lazy cheeky shites. They mostly are. Teenagers and young people are and always have been. I was. The point is this generation isnt any worse than any other. Older people have always thought young people are douchebags. I guarantee the last generation thought the same about your generation and so on. The idea is not new or original or more true now than it ever was.

 

[slydare]

Surely there must be some variation on Godwin's Law for threads that descend into the generational blame game? I mostly lurk around here and from what I've seen, this sort of intellectual laziness could be a sign that a thread has reached the end of its useful life.

 

[Dam0]

Surely there must be some variation on Godwin's Law for threads that descend into the generational blame game? I mostly lurk around here and from what I've seen, this sort of intellectual laziness could be a sign that a thread has reached the end of its useful life.

I'm pretty sure this thread jumped the shark about 40 pages ago.

 

[redstragic]

We are at 1230 posts and we are into the differences between generations. If we kept it going for another 1000 or so we may move beyond academics into true art. That for me the true value of a thread, when it gets elevated into art.

 

[Jiggles]

Nazis. Hitler.

There I said it. This thread is now complete.

 

[Gagger]

Jiggles, that's poor.

Shoulda been something like "If the Nazis had been around now Gen Y would've relied on social media to stop them"

Anyway, this Gen Y bashing is crap - it's the Baby Boomers that give me the shits. You can't move in Europe now for a couple of grey Aussies wanging on about how far their super is going.

 

[redstragic]

Jiggles, that's poor.

Shoulda been something like "If the Nazis had been around now Gen Y would've relied on social media to stop them"

Anyway, this Gen Y bashing is crap - it's the Baby Boomers that give me the shits. You can't move in Europe now for a couple of grey Aussies wanging on about how far their super is going.

And listening to their self indulgent stories about tackling the corporate world when they were young and realising there must more to life and setting out to find themselves.

 

[kiap]

C'mon, it's only 62 pages so far.

Have these stats been raised yet?

Wallabies since Cooper made his debut (Nov 08)
Cooper playing: P38, W26 (68%)
Not Playing: P17, W6 (35%)

vs All Blacks
Cooper playing: P6, W2 (33%)
Not Playing: P7, W0 (0%)

vs Boks
Cooper playing: P9, W7 (78%)
Not Playing: P2, W0 (0%)

Queensland Reds: 2012
Cooper Playing: P5, W5 (100%)
Not playing: P12, W6 (50%)

Winning record of Wallaby 10's (min 20 games played at 10 only)
MP (Moana Pasifika) Lynagh 70.76%
SJ Larkham 70.34%
QS Cooper 68.42%
EJ (Eddie Jones) Flatley 66.07%
MG Ella 54.00%
MJ Giteau 48.91%
PF Hawthorne 40.47%

 

[Jiggles]

Jiggles, that's poor.

Shoulda been something like "If the Nazis had been around now Gen Y would've relied on social media to stop them"

Anyway, this Gen Y bashing is crap - it's the Baby Boomers that give me the shits. You can't move in Europe now for a couple of grey Aussies wanging on about how far their super is going.

Since when did the the relationship between the Nazis and the subject of a thread be logical, Gagger?

 

[Scarfman]

Don't get me started on baby boomers. The bludgers have taken all the good jobs and aren't going anywhere. I reckon I'll get 5 promotions in my last 5 years of work when the bastards finally retire.

Kiap, those are impressive figures. 500 pages before we got to some facts, but we got there in the end.

 

[Jiggles]

Klap - Don't get stats and logical argument get in the way of a good old fashioned lynching!

 

[waratahjesus]

How does Quade have a 100% win record for the reds in 2012, wouldn't they be champs?

Contrary to Quades claims, the wallaby attack has been placed around him, when he is out we have struggled due to not having his long pass.with a long term option placed there that will change.

 

[redstragic]

How does Quade have a 100% win record for the reds in 2012, wouldn't they be champs?

He got banned from playing in the finals cause of his tackle on Barnes. The 5 from 5 is right.

 

[waratahjesus]

He got banned from playing in the finals cause of his tackle on Barnes. The 5 from 5 is right.

Oh, that's right, forgot that, thanks.