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[Noah]

I think this really applies to a select few of teens, those who think everything should just come to them, and dont bother to so anything and have been on job seekers since they were 16, unlike us mini folk, as we need to fund our minis. me like others, actually do something, i have 3 jobs, work 60 hours a week , and now run 2 cars, including the mini while trying to sort that and the main thing that takes all my money is the girlfriend ;P don't take offence, if you feel your doing enough.

Simple fix for you.

Bin the girlfriend. Buy another mini.

(Don't actually put her in a Bin) Some people might miss understand...

[hobnob888]

I think this really applies to a select few of teens, those who think everything should just come to them, and dont bother to so anything and have been on job seekers since they were 16, unlike us mini folk, as we need to fund our minis. me like others, actually do something, i have 3 jobs, work 60 hours a week , and now run 2 cars, including the mini while trying to sort that and the main thing that takes all my money is the girlfriend ;P don't take offence, if you feel your doing enough.

Simple fix for you.

Bin the girlfriend. Buy another mini.

(Don't actually put her in a Bin) Some people might miss understand...

can you imagine how that would go

"im leaving you"
"why!"
"i want another mini"

I would leave the conversation missing at least one testicle

in her defence she does try to pay me fuel money...

[Cooperman]

The original quotation was aimed at those young people who say "I'm bored, there is nothing to do".
Whilst there are thousands and thousands of young people who are passionate about their sport, their hobbies and their lives, there are also many who have no interests and simply 'vegitate' or get involved in anti-social activities.
On here, our young members are highly motivated and that motivation is to be respected. They even ask for and accept advice from others. In fact they are developing their lives and personally I always find it a pleasure to help or advise guys like that.
This afternoon I have to go to a large local school where I'm involved in setting up a scheme which will see several students each year learn to fly a glider up to and including flying solo at no cost to themselves or their parents. It's something I'm passionate about and which will be very good for the successful youngsters. So we 'oldies' don't all just sit about and criticise the young generation.
The old adage of 'Bored? Then get a book and read' is not that silly really as there is a lot to be gained from reading, especially if it's a book with an interesting and useful theme, (like the Haynes Manual ).
Good luck to all you young folk. I truly admire your enthusiasm, vigour and ambition.

[Shifty]

Along similar lines..


Rules for Students

These rules were put forth by Charles Sykes in his book "Dumbing Down America". They have floated through the Internet being attributed to Bill Gates. Most often they appear with 11 rules leaving off three that the original author had written.

Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.

Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)

Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.

Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.

Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.

Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.

Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.

Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)

Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)

Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston
.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

[scotty_1987]

the most random thing is 'build a raft?' what for the great flood?

I'm all set for that.









Lets see how many people pick up on that.

Aha how is the ark coming along?!

Edited by scotty_1987, 09 January 2013 - 01:31 PM.

[Black.Ghost]

I hate this view. I myself am no longer of the younger generation and I hate the fact that these views are out there. Like has been said. half of the older generation got up to all kinds of stuff, where if the police caught you they would give you a clip round the ear and send you home. Now they have to do it differently, and it makes it look like the modern youngster is worse than ever. Don't get me wrong, they are not perfect, but nor is anyone. Stop whinging about everything the youth are doing wrong.

There probably are more reported crimes these days, but is that because there is actually more crime, or is it that it is now dealt with differently and recorded differently? And if the youth are so bad, why are they? I would suggest bad parenting, which is in fact the collective fault of the older generation. So stop ******* moaning about it, and either do something constructive or shut the hell up. Half of it is just old people jealous that they no longer have fun because their lives are boring and ****.

At the same time, people of all ages should realise you can't get something for nothing and you should work for the things that you want. But there are scum in every generation - the young, the twenty and thirty somethings, all the way through those in their 50s 60s and 70s.

Teenagers always think they know best, and that is a fact. But so did those who are now forty when they were a teenager. And those before them. Nothing is new. People will always be essentially the same with the same variations at each end of the scale. The only difference is the time in which they are teenagers and therefore what is available to them.

My final point relates to Michael Caine. I read his book. the Elephant to Castle. A good read, and he mentions about his film, Mr Brown. For that, he went back to the E&C and there were a lot of youths that were hanging around getting up to no good. He got them all involved in the film and they loved. So actually, yes community related projects do work. Everyone is happy enough to provide everything for old people - bus passes, cheap this and that, etc etc, but nothing for the younger generations. The fact is, everyone should contribute to and everyone should benefit from something in their society. Its not a fair world and older generations always complain about the youth. Take a look at yourselves first you hypocritical people.

[Black.Ghost]

Along similar lines..


Rules for Students

These rules were put forth by Charles Sykes in his book "Dumbing Down America". They have floated through the Internet being attributed to Bill Gates. Most often they appear with 11 rules leaving off three that the original author had written.

Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.

Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)

Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.

Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.

Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.

Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.

Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.

Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)

Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)

Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston
.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

Those rules are amusing and do have an element of truth. However, everyone should be free to live their life as they see fit, to the point of criminal activity that harms others. If that involves sitting around every weekend doing nothing, thats up to them. However, like I said, there is a fair bit of truth in the statements.

[Wakey-Dan]

The guy in the original article is spot on, if you know who the comments are aimed at. As people have said, its not aimed at the majority of decent folk who just find life hard. Its aimed at the absolute degregate social underclass who scourge our society. And Im not old!