why are people today weaker than they used to be?

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: markgm

Originally posted by: Vic
Lack of necessity. Quite frankly, I weep for the future and today's youth for the same reasons I pity the children of the rich. They're weak because they've never had to be strong.

I weep over spilled beer.

Thats understandable, especially if its good beer. Then I feel all better when i go to the fridge and open another bottle. Problem solved.

I drank my last beer last night!

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: markgm

Originally posted by: Vic
Lack of necessity. Quite frankly, I weep for the future and today's youth for the same reasons I pity the children of the rich. They're weak because they've never had to be strong.

I weep over spilled beer.

Beer is rotten grain. If it were invented today, no one would drink it and the FDA would never approve it.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: markgm

Originally posted by: Vic
Lack of necessity. Quite frankly, I weep for the future and today's youth for the same reasons I pity the children of the rich. They're weak because they've never had to be strong.

I weep over spilled beer.

Beer is rotten grain. If it were invented today, no one would drink it and the FDA would never approve it.

Coffee would not pass current FDA standards, but try taking that away!

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: markgm

Originally posted by: Vic
Lack of necessity. Quite frankly, I weep for the future and today's youth for the same reasons I pity the children of the rich. They're weak because they've never had to be strong.

I weep over spilled beer.

Thats understandable, especially if its good beer. Then I feel all better when i go to the fridge and open another bottle. Problem solved.

I drank my last beer last night!

OH NOESSSSSS......

You should grow grain and ferment it OOOOOOOOOR you can continue to be weak and go to the store and pick some up.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: paulxcook
I'm only 23, so I'm deep into the "weak generation" if you want to call it that. It seems to me (and I think lost of others on here will agree with this as it's been talked about before) that people, perhaps mainly men, born in the 60s or maybe 70s on up lack a lot of the toughness that the generation prior to them had. This trend is either staying the same or getting worse.

Examples:

"mental health" sick days
metrosexuality
increased lawsuits
outlawing dodgeball, hide-and-seek, tag
etc...

It seems like people are whinier, give more excuses, don't hold to commitments, and are generally wussier than they used to be.

Why is this?

Discuss...

To quote someone else on these forums, its all the Pussification of America, and apparently the Dems and Liberals deserve the blame for it.

 

[Whisper]

I honestly don't see the current generations as being any "weaker" than previous ones. Different, yes. Weaker, no. Priorities have changed, as has our awareness of different conditions and situations (mental health being one of them), but that's bound to happen with the passage of time.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

lobbyists and lawyers have brought the government into every aspect of our lives

 

[FoBoT]

city life
standard of living is too high

 

[meltdown75]

I don't know, but I know why you're weaker today, OP.

Because you touched yourself last night.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
I don't know, but I know why you're weaker today, OP.

Because you touched yourself last night.

What a strange thing to say.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

When talking about pysical strength, I blame the availability of "instant entertainment".
I was born in the 50's and during my childhood years we didn't have video games, internet, cable TV, and even the programming on broadcast TV was very limited. Because of this, virtually all of our entertainment was derived from outdoor activities from sandlot football and baseball games to pickup basketball games in someones driveway, to walking the local creeks and streams, to building forts and tree houses and climbing trees, to riding bicycles for hours on end.

Compare that to the normal activities of children today and you will see that in my generation we spent much more energy entertaining ourselves daily than current children do today.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
I don't know, but I know why you're weaker today, OP.

Because you touched yourself last night.

LOL! :laugh:

did anyone mention the P word yet?

 

[purbeast0]

I would beg to differ.

look at pics of football players from 50 years ago and compare em to the football players today.

the ones today are much bigger/stronger than they were back then.

that can pretty much be said for any sport.

EDIT:

but I guess as a whole the general population is full of a buncha pussies heh. professional athletes are a huge subset of everyone.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
I would beg to differ.

look at pics of football players from 50 years ago and compare em to the football players today.

the ones today are much bigger/stronger than they were back then.

that can pretty much be said for any sport.

roids

 

[Number1]

Today's generation knows a lot more then we ever did and uses that knowledge to their advantage. They are not weaker, they are smarter.

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: Number1
Today's generation knows a lot more then we ever did and uses that knowledge to their advantage. They are not weaker, they are smarter.

Exactly. Soon, we won't even need drive-throughs. We can just think of what we want and it'll appear in our car/home's mcteleporter and the amount will be automatically deducted from our virtual account.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: paulxcook
I'm only 23, so I'm deep into the "weak generation" if you want to call it that. It seems to me (and I think lost of others on here will agree with this as it's been talked about before) that people, perhaps mainly men, born in the 60s or maybe 70s on up lack a lot of the toughness that the generation prior to them had. This trend is either staying the same or getting worse.

Examples:

"mental health" sick days
metrosexuality
increased lawsuits
outlawing dodgeball, hide-and-seek, tag
etc...

It seems like people are whinier, give more excuses, don't hold to commitments, and are generally wussier than they used to be.

Why is this?

Discuss...

The same reason there are more diseases and deformed babies and garbage health-wise these days: it's more than just the strong surviving because of medical advances.

"Weak" people are survivng because of social advances.

I prefer people who wouldn't think twice about punching you in the face if you are rude to their wife/girlfriend at the bar or bump in to them and spill their beer without offering to buy them another beer or even apologize. If someone cuts you off in traffic, give them the finger! If someone opens the door for you, don't just say thank you and keep walking, walk in and do something kind for them as well like hold another door for them or let them go before you or something. I miss folks like my granddad and others in his generation. He was so awesome.

 

[mayonnaise]

Because no one has to "survive" anymore, they can just "get by" on some welfare like program.

 

[Modelworks]

I'll quote my dad "when I was your age I had to walk 5 miles in the snow, kill a bear so I could have the fur for my feet, didn't have shoes. Had to melt the ice by rubbing the fur of two squirrels together, that I had to catch with my teeth because my hands were so numb. Then I had to shave the bark off a tree to use it for wiping my butt because we didn't have that fancy toilet paper. And I had to do all this just to get to the outhouse !"

 

[nageov3t]

they're not.

you just think they are because you're weak and trying to justify it in order to feel better about yourself.

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: markgm

Originally posted by: Vic
Lack of necessity. Quite frankly, I weep for the future and today's youth for the same reasons I pity the children of the rich. They're weak because they've never had to be strong.

I weep over spilled beer.

Beer is rotten grain. If it were invented today, no one would drink it and the FDA would never approve it.

That's Grand :laugh:

Parents today I feel , over protect their kids. I call them the Weenie generation. Nothing but wussies! Hell, girls today kick ass and boys run away

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
When talking about pysical strength, I blame the availability of "instant entertainment".
I was born in the 50's and during my childhood years we didn't have video games, internet, cable TV, and even the programming on broadcast TV was very limited. Because of this, virtually all of our entertainment was derived from outdoor activities from sandlot football and baseball games to pickup basketball games in someones driveway, to walking the local creeks and streams, to building forts and tree houses and climbing trees, to riding bicycles for hours on end.

Compare that to the normal activities of children today and you will see that in my generation we spent much more energy entertaining ourselves daily than current children do today.

This is very true. We took along a co-op on a camping/fishing trip recently and it was amazing how lazy he was, even after we ribbed him constantly. If he didn't have some kind of gadget in his hands he was eating. Eating his microwave food. He was first to bed, last to rise. That's all the guy did - eat, sleep and play with his toys. I felt like we had brought along a 12 year old. Never helping or realizing others are working.

It's downright sad really.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Number1
Today's generation knows a lot more then we ever did and uses that knowledge to their advantage. They are not weaker, they are smarter.

They sure don't seem smarter to me. They seem pretty damn stupid. They're end users that use the things that the previous generation invented.

 

[nonameo]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
I'll quote my dad "when I was your age I had to walk 5 miles in the snow, kill a bear so I could have the fur for my feet, didn't have shoes. Had to melt the ice by rubbing the fur of two squirrels together, that I had to catch with my teeth because my hands were so numb. Then I had to shave the bark off a tree to use it for wiping my butt because we didn't have that fancy toilet paper. And I had to do all this just to get to the outhouse !"

I would have just dug a hole in the ground and crapped in that. Or just crap on the ground. It'll rinse away when it rains.

Also, why would I use bark when leaves are easier to get and much, much softer? Bark has just as much of a chance of damaging your poo hole as a leaf does . Not to mention that it SHOULD be pretty easy to pick out the safe ones... you know... not poison ivy? I mean heck, they aren't even shaped right for the job anyways. What you really want are pear tree leaves or something like that. Maybe fig leaves? they're kinda fuzzy. It'd do a good job of catching the poo all in one swoop. Some of the other leaves are too "slick" to really pick any of it up off of your butt.

 

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