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WTF is up with the lack of respect in today's punks??

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It is one of my goals in life never to be The Guy in someone's story.

what about The Guy who beat the sh!t out of one of them for being noisy in the theatre? 😀
 
Well, I'm not the kind of guy who goes out picking fights, but that just really pissed me off. With my luck the little snott-balls would have had an Uzi or something.
 


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<< Sorry. We thought you were hungry. >>



<---Picturing Tex and Amused in The General Lee Eatin' non-KFC chicken and breakin the bones to "suck the marrow"::

I'll never be able to get that out of my head...... 😀 >>



Yeah, my VW Passat would look cool painted like the General Lee. But do you think my Ralph Lauren jeans would be OK?
 


<< I'm only 18, but I notice when I was in middle school and high school, people tend to do what they feel would be "cool" and have a messed up sense of humor. Well, a small group of them do. But in college, almost everybody is nice. If I bump into someone or if someone bumps into me, we apologize to each other. If that happened in high school, the other person would say to me "GET OUT OF MY WAY A--HOLE!" >>



hehe happened in my High school too ... some very big and tall girl bumped into me and just said "watch it"
 
Pshaw. I completely agree. Todays teens are nothing but punks. Punks I say !!!

ps. Im older then you sonny, so dont give me no lip you whippersnapper.
 


<< Ah, but the problem with picking up the bucket of chicken, and then walking at them with it in hand, and presumably with some facial expression of displeasure, and then THEM pealing out and leaving you standing there with the bucket chocking on their dust, shaking your fist in the air with an even ANGRIER face... >>



Well actually I was just moseying toward them when they left... no chirping of tires, no angry look on my face (wearing sunglasses)... but I do get your point.

I disagree in ignoring them though... the surest path to conformity in our society is a sound beating! 😉
 
Ha! A good friend of mine has that same complaint. He's 35 and I'm 21. He always tells me how "people my age" have no respect. At clubs they just bump into you, etc.

On behalf of "people my age," SORRY! 🙂

--Sarah
 
At clubs they just bump into you, etc.

i thought this was the whole point of clubs... dry hump... oh i mean freak dancing....
 
I'll be 36 in June so don't make me chase you down with my walker. On second thought, I might break a hip just in time to fall on you and really do some damage.😀 I gotta agree, there is no respect from todays generation. Sure when we were younger we would go around doing silly pranks, but nearly everyone showed at least a little respect to the older generations. What causes this, who knows, all I know is ..... damn senior moment, can't remember a thing.😉
 
We (all of you) are making quite a generalization here, you are talking about a small percentage of an otherwise good group. Im trying to think of a good analogy to back this up, but I cant come up with one that isnt going to be offensive to someone.

adults arent all model citizens either... if I had a nickel for every a$$hole adult waiter or salesperson I met, well, I wouldnt still be using a 4x burner, thats for sure

NOT saying all kids are perfect, just saying not all are nightmares
 
noone of any group is perfect... but that doesn't mean that my own observations equate to stereotyping today's youth. Guess that the thread title doesn't help much.
 
It's really strange, though. I am a senior in HS but I also take some classes out at the college. All through Middle school and HS people really do act solely on what they think is cool and will help their image. I see it everyday. Most people will be complete a$$holes up there, even if I know them to be a good person. When I started taking the classes up at the college I was shocked. Everone acted much more mature and polite. These are freshman I'm talking about, most graduated HS last year. The change in people was mind boggling. Maybe college just filtered out most of the jerks. In any case, my college classes are much more pleasant.
 
Well, I'll put it this way... the punks that I did go to high school with are still punks. The difference is that now they are punks with loser jobs, too many bills and too many kids to support who are getting ready to turn 30.

The kind of thing that was considered "punk like" to do when I was 16 was things like doing doughnuts in an abandoned parking lot in the middle of the night... or getting a whino to buy a case of beer for a party... that sort of thing.

Someone creeping around in a (somewhat) expensive car and dumping their trash out in the middle of a parking lot is just plain assanine... not too long before this I saw a kid in a brand new truck throw his Wendy's bags out at a stoplight, followed by a couple of cartons of empty cigarettes. I was so pissed... who the hell do these punks think they are to trash my neighborhood? I never did sh!t like that when I was their age.
 


dood, you are just getting old.....kids are always going to be kids.....do yourself a favor and laugh it off because they aren't going to change.
 


<< dood, you are just getting old.....kids are always going to be kids.....do yourself a favor and laugh it off because they aren't going to change. >>



For reals man... why even stress about it. Makes you look like the idiot.
 


<< OK, maybe I'm old (29) but the teenagers that go to the nearby high school just don't seem to give a F*CK. Today I was getting into my car at the super market and some kids are creeping behind me (they looked to be about 16 and were driving a fairly new prelude missing a wheel cover) and I hear this *thunk* noise, so I get out of my car to investigate and see that they dropped a big bucket of chicken right behind my car.

It really, really bothered me... not because they dropped it behind my car, but because they dropped it at all. It was just totally a rude and dis-respectful thing to do. And this is in a very nice suburban neighborhood with stay at home moms running their little kids around... this is only about the 3rd time in the last month I have seen crap like this happen. It always seems to involve someone who just barely got their license, driving a newer model car, and treating the world like their personal trash can.

I picked up the chicken bucket and started walking toward their car, with the intention of throwing it into the passenger seat with it's pimple faced occupant... at that point they sped off. >>



You have a rather extreme example there. Some teenagers, just as adult, maybe in greater per capita population do this kind of stuff no matter what. I have seen many teenagers just as I have seen many adults that lacks respect. An example of teenagers I have seen is a bunch of punks riding bicycles in the middle of wrong side of the road. They yelled at every motorosit coming by and forced them to go around them.

An exmple of adults I have is about a senior citizen who boards on a city bus. The payment acceptor has a placard "This machine does not issue change". The boarding fee is 60 cents or so for a senior citizen. He drops in a quarter expecting 15 cents in change. This guy had a major altercation with the driver for five min or so. The bus was held up as the guy continued to scream at the driver. He doesn't give a damn about delaying over 30 people. I think that is so disrespectful.

Finally a female passenger snapped it. She shoved 15 cents at him and told him to shut up.

PS: Was it a good bucket of chicken? Wasting food is baaaaaad :|
 


<< For reals man... why even stress about it. Makes you look like the idiot. >>



Sorry, I don't agree... letting standards slide (like thinking it's no big deal for people to trash places because it's more conveniant for them then getting their lazy asses out of a vehicle) and "looking the other way" doesn't accomplish anything other than get us into even deeper sh!t as a nation.

As to the senior citizen freaking out, you have to cut those folks a few more breaks... they are sometimes senile and often have reasons to be very upset (seen people close to them die or ignore them because they are old).

Young punks should know better.
 


<< WTF is up with the lack of respect in today's punks?? >>



relax man you are just 29...quite young but u sound like you are 45 or 50. If you are pissed off with the chicken bucket incident, imagine what conservative america thought abt those hippies who promoted free love, sex and drugs along with the idealistic leftist philosophies. you dont realize it when you do it, but when it is done to you, senses wakeup.If you are 29 now, then you were 15-19 in the late eighties...im sure there were quite a few punks who were dis-respectful then....just a case of teenage stupidity...man how fast time passes away....it was just like yesterday that i was saying " when the hell am i gonna turn 13 and be the cool highschooler dating chiks"....tis been a year since i finished college.....
 


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As to the senior citizen freaking out, you have to cut those folks a few more breaks... they are sometimes senile and often have reasons to be very upset (seen people close to them die or ignore them because they are old).

Young punks should know better. >>



I disagree. Senior citizens have grown up and should have known better, but are having aggrevated situation such as those you mentioned. Well and young punks, even though they don't exactly have the same problem, they are still growing and immaturity gets better with age(hopefully). Therefore, I think they even out.

Like it or not, adults who despite teenagers was one of them once. It is probably people their age at the time they were teenagers, they probably looked down at them the same way. :\


This is wandering off from topic of my post, but I think I can sort of relate to lack of respect. I've pissed off teachers a little too often due to my lack of respect toward them. They consider it disrespectful when I talk to my neighbors too much in class. I know I know... It's hard to break that habit.
 
KFC or Popeyes?

LoL, young punks shouldn't know better, thats the beauty of being young. You never littered as a kid? What they did was wrong and very disrespectfull, but thats what teenagers do, you do gotta chill, bro. I saw this young kid and his g/f fling out a huge cup of soda and some hamburger wrappers from their riced out civic on an on ramp to a highway near me. I caught up to them just to see that they were young idiots and they he blew my doors off. I was pissed too but chaulked it up to their youth and what comes around goes around. Just b/c you were raised w/some manners and couth doesn't mean the next person was either. Its a crazy world we live in and they are other things that are more important to sweat over and stress.
 
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