WTF is wrong with kids these days???

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GTaudiophile

Lifer
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What's wrong?

Probably was spoiled by mommy and daddy and was never disciplined and just couldn't deal with her parents putting their foot down for the first time...especially since she could close her eyes and imagine herself already walking down the isle and living happily ever after with her first BF who has promised her everything...especially if she spreads her legs.

Sounds like typical suburban trash to me.
 

TehMac

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Originally posted by: GTaudiophileSounds like typical suburban trash to me.

Only problem with your analysis is that it was in a rural part of Texas. Suburbans tend to be developed areas. :roll:
 

Jeff7

Lifer
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Originally posted by: yovonbishop
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: yovonbishop
I'm not sure, but these days, kids sure tend to be a bit nuts.

Actually, I'm sure people have always been nuts, they're just coming up with more creative ways to express it.
These days we just tend to hear about it more. I'm sure that this sort of thing's been happening for thousands of years.

I bolded these days not because I'm saying it's a problem only currently. The poster originally posted "this day" instead of "these days". I was being a smart ass.
Ah, ok. The OP was edited by the time I posted.
 

imported_yovonbishop

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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: yovonbishop
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: yovonbishop
I'm not sure, but these days, kids sure tend to be a bit nuts.

Actually, I'm sure people have always been nuts, they're just coming up with more creative ways to express it.
These days we just tend to hear about it more. I'm sure that this sort of thing's been happening for thousands of years.

I bolded these days not because I'm saying it's a problem only currently. The poster originally posted "this day" instead of "these days". I was being a smart ass.
Ah, ok. The OP was edited by the time I posted.

Yeah I noticed. Damn editing of posts making me look like a crazy old timer :p
 

marvdmartian

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This is how messed up kids get, that were raised on Barney! ;)

Honestly, while I'm sure a part of it can be attributed to brain chemistry being out of whack, or an excess of violence, the bottom line is that bad parenting will likely take the majority of blame in a lot of these cases. Let's face it, this girl likely thinks she's done nothing wrong in killing her family members. That can be traced back to a lack of morals being taught, and oftentimes the child being raised with the idea that they can do no wrong, that someone else is always to blame for anything that happens to them. I see this a lot these days, in the group hug "let's all hold hands and sing kumbya" world that children are being raised in. Instead of teaching them that life somtimes sucks, that not everyone wins, and that we're not all the same, it's easier to just let them believe that the world is just like Barney told them it was, and that they'll always be a winner.

And then we wonder why they snap and lose their minds when they find out the opposite is true?

Sorry for the rant, it just kills me the way I see kids being raised, especially when I never heard of this sort of thing happening when I grew up.
 

Midnight Rambler

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Bottom-line, today's kids are spoiled and have it waaaaaaaaay too easy. They "want" for nothing.

Then there was the article the other day blaming corporal punishment, and esp. spanking, for much of their troubles, and specifically for how young males physically mistreat their female counterparts.

I wish my old Industrial Arts teacher was still alive ... he'd thrash the livin' heck outta these punks. :D
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: yovonbishop
I'm not sure, but these days, kids sure tend to be a bit nuts.

Actually, I'm sure people have always been nuts, they're just coming up with more creative ways to express it.

I think parents are making their kids nuts. They want them to grow up and look cool for them and at the same time be just kids.

Sorry, you get your daughter a tramp stamp and let her wear low rise jeans with a half top someone is going to tag her. Chances are she bedded them first.
 

Argo

Lifer
Apr 8, 2000
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Originally posted by: yovonbishop
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: yovonbishop
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: yovonbishop
I'm not sure, but these days, kids sure tend to be a bit nuts.

Actually, I'm sure people have always been nuts, they're just coming up with more creative ways to express it.
These days we just tend to hear about it more. I'm sure that this sort of thing's been happening for thousands of years.

I bolded these days not because I'm saying it's a problem only currently. The poster originally posted "this day" instead of "these days". I was being a smart ass.
Ah, ok. The OP was edited by the time I posted.

Yeah I noticed. Damn editing of posts making me look like a crazy old timer :p

What? I edited nothing. It's all lies!
 

PhlashFoto

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Jun 21, 2003
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I can't wait to hear Ol' Jack's "theory" behind this one.

In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....................
 

StinkyPinky

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I tell you lot another thing. I work in a university and if I actually drive without swerving, I would probably hit a dozen of these kids a day. They have zero road sense. Or maybe they do and it's just "cool" to work at a snails pace across a street and force cars to slow down or even stop.
 

Safeway

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Jun 22, 2004
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: yovonbishop
I'm not sure, but these days, kids sure tend to be a bit nuts.

Actually, I'm sure people have always been nuts, they're just coming up with more creative ways to express it.

I think parents are making their kids nuts. They want them to grow up and look cool for them and at the same time be just kids.

Sorry, you get your daughter a tramp stamp and let her wear low rise jeans with a half top someone is going to tag her. Chances are she bedded them first.

Yea, I hate seeing trashy old moms with trashier pre-teen girls. Wasted youth! Seriously, don't let her wear that! It is gross.
 

Calculator83

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Originally posted by: Wheezer
Does this REALLY surprise anyone? REALLY?

You would think by now peoples inhumanity to one another is simply par for the course....it is with the advent of the internet and the speed at which information is passed along it seems as if this sort of thing is an everyday occurrence.

This type of thing has played out so many times it's not even funny, not only here but abroad. you only need to search Google to find more stories about children who kill their parents.

Nothing really should surprise anyone anymore.

It is not about video games, it is not about violent movies or TV....I can show many cases of kids killing parents before any of this type of medium existed.

It is about humanity and the fact is there are some people just born fvcked up....you can't change it and as long as we continue to procreate as a species...this kind of thing will continue to happen.

Yup, that's right. This may be an awkward analogy, but they haven't done anything in modern day pornography that hasn't been known since written history.
 

Midnight Rambler

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Yup, that's right. This may be an awkward analogy, but they haven't done anything in modern day pornography that hasn't been known since written history.

Really ? I don't recall seeing any acts of spitting depicted in any of the porn in Pompeii.

I just read the whole story about these punk kids, and since it happened in Texas, one of the leading states when it comes to capital punishment, hopefully they will be executed quickly and in the most demeaning and excruciatingly painful way possible. Unfortunately, current "methods" don't really fit that requirement so perhaps they oughta borrow a "method" from the Shawnee Indians ... the ol' "sit 'em on a sharp stake" method !!!
 

Eeezee

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Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
its just surprising its a girl.
Not really. There was one in Alberta several months ago, very similar. Daughter is forced to break up with BF, comes home with him and murders whole family. She was a minor, but still convicted as an adult and looking at 25 years I think.

She only got 25 years? Is anyone else pissed off that a girl murdered her whole family and only got 25 years? That just seems insane to me...
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Eeezee
Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
its just surprising its a girl.
Not really. There was one in Alberta several months ago, very similar. Daughter is forced to break up with BF, comes home with him and murders whole family. She was a minor, but still convicted as an adult and looking at 25 years I think.

She only got 25 years? Is anyone else pissed off that a girl murdered her whole family and only got 25 years? That just seems insane to me...

If she serves the 25 years that's a hell of a sentence.