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When did American youth become such pansies?

JulesMaximus

JulesMaximus

No Lifer
Seriously, half of the younger generation I talk to are so scared of death that they feel the need to wrap themselves in the biggest vehicle they can just to cart their worthless asses to school/work each day. And if you live where it snows? Forget it...Kids these days think they have to have the latest 4x4 SUV just to get out of their paved driveway when there is 2" of snow on the ground and forget about getting on a bicycle or a motorcycle to ride on the roadways. Might as well be asking them to play russian roulette.

And whatever happened to young people trying new things? Throwing caution to the wind and saying fuck it? I used to go to an abandoned quary when I was in my teens, tresspassing no less, just to jump off a 40' cliff into the water below. You couldn't see the bottom, we had no idea how deep it was...just that someone else, a total stranger had just done it and survived and it looked like fun.

That wannabe thug getting his ass kicked by a 67 year old guy just proves my point. It takes more than a flannel shirt and some dark sunglasses to be tough dude.
 
Yes we know you hate SUV's. You've stated it many times.

Most people don't buy SUV's to be safe anyways. It's a status image.
 
zerocool84 said:
Yes we know you hate SUV's. You've stated it many times.

Most people don't buy SUV's to be safe anyways. It's a status image.
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FYI-An SUV or 4x4 truck doesn't make you any tougher than the sunglasses and flannel shirt did for that thug on the bus who got his ass kicked by a 67 year old guy. 😛
 
most of the youths i see these days have countless tatoos, wear dangerously tight pants, and ride bicycles with no brakes in congested traffic. i ride a motorcycle and enjoy boxing but i still wont do any of those three things.
 
her209 said:
Since helicopter parenting became the in-thing.
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Helicopter parenting is definitely not the in-thing. Parents care less and less about their kids and expect other people to share responsibility in keeping their kids safe. Hence why there's a caution warning on hot dogs.
 
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her209 said:
Since helicopter parenting became the in-thing.
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Random mom: "YOU DID WHAT? Walked to the park down the street by yourself?! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!!!"
Kid: "No, I was with another buddy."
mom: "So that makes you immune to danger, huh? You're grounded until you can learn the world is dangerous!"

😀
 
joesmoke said:
most of the youths i see these days have countless tatoos, wear dangerously tight pants, and ride bicycles with no brakes in congested traffic. i ride a motorcycle and enjoy boxing but i still wont do any of those three things.
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This HAS to be a quote from something I'm simply not cool enough to have yet seen or heard. Well played, sir.

Of course, if its not, then you're simply a garden variety idiot. :awe:
 
Kids really do spend too much time indoors, not necessarily being safe, just indoors. There are lots of kids in my neighborhood yet you'd never know it walking down the street (okay, maybe the ankle bracelet scares them off) as they are all inside playing video games and learning all sorts of total bullshit on internet forums. My wife and I are totally uncomprehending of these kids' basic physical laziness. There are freaking mountains to climb within walking/biking distance of the neighborhood. Thousands of acres in which to get in trouble yet we never see the kids out there. It's like they don't know that there is this huge world of opportunity right outside their front doors. They could be hiking, biking, shooting guns, blowing shit up, and no one would even notice yet they sit at home and play video games.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
Don't feed the troll.
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Are there many in NZ? From the sample size I'd say it's a large lot.

Any tips?
Someone always feeds these beasts, there must be some way to chop them down so they stop growing.

Of course, besides suffering the ban hammer. Then we lose the comedic nature of a troll flailing about.

😛

btw, OP is just trollin. We do have, or at least did have, some serious trolls that were starting to spawn me thinks. You missed some of the best entertainment having joined so recently. It'll be hard to top some of the master-breed trolls.
 
IronWing said:
Kids really do spend too much time indoors, not necessarily being safe, just indoors. There are lots of kids in my neighborhood yet you'd never know it walking down the street (okay, maybe the ankle bracelet scares them off) as they are all inside playing video games and learning all sorts of total bullshit on internet forums. My wife and I are totally uncomprehending of these kids' basic physical laziness. There are freaking mountains to climb within walking/biking distance of the neighborhood. Thousands of acres in which to get in trouble yet we never see the kids out there. It's like they don't know that there is this huge world of opportunity right outside their front doors. They could be hiking, biking, shooting guns, blowing shit up, and no one would even notice yet they sit at home and play video games.
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But they can do all this in the video games, while sitting on a couch with AC.
 
JulesMaximus said:
Seriously, half of the younger generation I talk to are so scared of death that they feel the need to wrap themselves in the biggest vehicle they can just to cart their worthless asses to school/work each day. And if you live where it snows? Forget it...Kids these days think they have to have the latest 4x4 SUV just to get out of their paved driveway when there is 2" of snow on the ground and forget about getting on a bicycle or a motorcycle to ride on the roadways. Might as well be asking them to play russian roulette.

And whatever happened to young people trying new things? Throwing caution to the wind and saying fuck it? I used to go to an abandoned quary when I was in my teens, tresspassing no less, just to jump off a 40' cliff into the water below. You couldn't see the bottom, we had no idea how deep it was...just that someone else, a total stranger had just done it and survived and it looked like fun.

That wannabe thug getting his ass kicked by a 67 year old guy just proves my point. It takes more than a flannel shirt and some dark sunglasses to be tough dude.
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Just the suburban pansies. My dad encouraged me to get a 300hp Z28 stick as my first car and take the speed limiter off. Although hes kinda the exeption to the rule. Most kids are scared of stupid shit.
 
IronWing said:
Kids really do spend too much time indoors, not necessarily being safe, just indoors. There are lots of kids in my neighborhood yet you'd never know it walking down the street (okay, maybe the ankle bracelet scares them off) as they are all inside playing video games and learning all sorts of total bullshit on internet forums. My wife and I are totally uncomprehending of these kids' basic physical laziness. There are freaking mountains to climb within walking/biking distance of the neighborhood. Thousands of acres in which to get in trouble yet we never see the kids out there. It's like they don't know that there is this huge world of opportunity right outside their front doors. They could be hiking, biking, shooting guns, blowing shit up, and no one would even notice yet they sit at home and play video games.
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Back in my home town we use to set up street hockey games almost every day.

I visited there during the summer a year ago and never saw a single kid outside for probably a week. Heck, I even visited the park and it was completely vacant.
 
coldmeat said:
But they can do all this in the video games, while sitting on a couch with AC.
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But that is not nearly as fun as hiking up to an area with a lot of ground quirrels, turning them into red mist with a .17 HMR.

Putting bottles of Tannerite out there by their holes, and waiting for them to come back out so you can shoot the bottles and have them explode is way better than the video game version as well.
 
JulesMaximus said:
FYI-An SUV or 4x4 truck doesn't make you any tougher than the sunglasses and flannel shirt did for that thug on the bus who got his ass kicked by a 67 year old guy. 😛
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Its a status thing, trust me, I live in the status capital of the world.

Its depressing when one of my students shows up for tutoring with a car that costs more than both my old GTI and new Jetta combined. I lived next to one of the best high schools in the state in college, you would normally expect a sea of Hondas and older cars but it was like a BMW/Merc/Audi/Lexus dealership in there
 
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