And yet they get all quiet and upset if you ask how many of their childhood friends are still alive
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"I was beaten as a kid and I 'turned out fine'" vibes
Back in my grandma's day her sister drank a bottle of something in the barn and died. Back in my grandpas day he lost all the fingers on one hand in shop class.
And I can confirm "kids these days" is the general mentality of them now, and yet the shit my grandpa did as a kid/teen would of landed him in jail or on a list today.
Back in my day kids played outside! Go to the park! Get some sun!
Good thing they turned the park into a parking lot for the newest CostCo/WalMart/Whatever. But why are all these kids playing on the road! I Can't even see the younger ones, why are they so short they can hide behind my oversized SUV!
The rich love it when you pit young against old, black vs white, Muslim vs Christian, urban vs country and academics against labor.
It's kinda like people are hypocrites. Wouldn't pin it on a generation. "Do as I say, not as I do" I wear a helmet whenever I'm going over 15 on a scooter. Will never buy another bike.
From 1975 to 2015 "deaths are down 92 percent among children ages 15 and under, and down 44 percent annually across all cyclists." -- https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20043115/kids-bike-fatalities-down-92-percent-but-theres-a-catch/
"You" personally might have survived, but about 12-13 times as many kids died from "No helmet, no fear". (At least very least, 2x as many did.)
“Thus, the decline in bicyclist mortality among children might be attributable to fewer child bicycle trips rather than a result of safer road conditions,” the report reads.
I believe the comparison was between to "good old days" and "now", so the 92% number remains valid, even if there are multiple contributing changes.
But, sure, maybe the 44% number is closer to correct.
Ignore deaths and just do brain damage statistics. It will all start to make sense.
Haha we got fucking head injuries and it was fine because we could afford to raise an entire family on one salary from the spatula factory and that only requires 67 IQ points.
A few head injuries wouldn’t separate you from the leaded gasoline poisoned brains of the masses.
Coming of age in the 1970s was peak Selection Bias.
Either Vietnam got you or the poisoned air and water got you or AIDS got you or traffic fatalities got you or poverty got you or you lived just long enough to tell your kids and grandkids that things were better when you were young.
It’s why a good chunk of older folks tend to be on the wealthier side. The poors get forgotten and don’t get to live as long to tell stories about how it really was.
Wait! Are you telling me The Simpsons is satire?
See also: the far too common news report of parents being charged with crimes for letting their children play in the yard or walk to stores.
Judging by the car in the background, these are not boomers, but gen-xers.
Shhhhh! We don't exist. Remember?!
Yeah, if we're going to assume that an entire age cohort is some sort of philosophical and political monoblock, we should at least get the cohort right.
Boomer is a state of mind.
Might as well be at this point.
I mean it has been since "OK Boomer" became a thing.
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As I grew older, I started complaining about "the youth," as in all the ridiculous stuff I would see online. And then it hit me as the conversation began about how we all did stuff like this as kids. We just weren't publishing it online for all to see and become permanent. So I've learned even more that if someone or something isn't hurting me or anyone else, I need to shut the fuck up and mind my own god damned business.
Moral of the story: I don't care how much you don't like it. If you or anyone else is not being harmed, then shut the fuck up and mind your own god damned business.
Thank you
I’ve been practically melting my brain trying to reconcile the thoughts “we said dumb shit as kids” and “holy fuck if I hear the world ‘skibidi’ one more time I’m going to lose my mind”
I’ve just taken to explaining in detail why I think skibidi is so cool and why they’re right to use it. “Wow, you adopted a word from the internet? When I was a kid, no one had the internet besides the government. You know, the spread of information and global homogenization of vernacular is such a fascinating thing that your generation is part of…” and so on. If they can cause me agony with their verbal garbage after I ask them to chill, I can reply in kind.
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Skibidi is hilarious in a sad kafka-esque way. I'm a millennial, and remember enjoying Scatman John as a kid, and the adults complained about it being gibberish.
Now I'm an adult and watching adults complain that Scatman John is gibberish. It's a little surreal.
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I for one am really glad none of the stupid shit I said as a kid is still around. I was a complete dumbass, to the bone. If I saw a post from past me, I would be so triggered.
I'm in the second half of my fourth decade of breathing, and I'm rather proud i made it this far before something "the kids do" being completely incomprehensible to me.
I do not understand brainrot videos. I can't wrap my head around why anyone would watch it. I am officially old now.
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Whoa Max Dubler mentioned! I used to ride longboards and this guy was one of the only openly gay people in the major leagues, as it were. Although I think a lot of us turned out not to be so straight or cis after all 😅
A lot of them didn’t. They were also murdered, raped, and kidnapped at a tragic rate.
"No fear" and then being afraid of the slightest change like just not being aggressive towards LGBT...
there's a lady around the corner who complains about hoodlums playing their music too loud out of their cars and blah blah blah. that's all me on my bicycle, i started when i heard her complain about children playing.
The other day I was riding home from work on my bicycle. This being the Netherlands, lots of idiots are on bikes as well.
A bike passes me on the left, with one guy pedalling at a good clip. And a second dude casually standing on the rear of the bike, with his arms crossed. As if he was standing at a bus stop.
Weirdest, most dangerous shit I’ve ever seen on a bicycle. This was a busy street at rush hour no less. I was sure I’d see the guy end up on the pavement, but had to turn off before I could witness the dismount.
Weirdest, most dangerous shit I’ve ever seen on a bicycle.
Where I live (Philadelphia suburb) it's become common to see people (adults who should know better as well as children) riding on the wrong side of the road, against traffic. On narrow streets with high curbs and no shoulders. Around completely blind turns. Wearing noise-cancelling headphones.
They don't seem like people who want to commit suicide, and yet there they are.
The only thing about me like this is that, in the last couple of years, people driving around with loud obnoxious cars pisses me off. I'd swear it didn't used to. Now, though, when the night outside my house sounds like a motherfucking speedway because some asshole a half-mile or further away is speeding in his shitbox at midnight or later, it does make me wish the cops would get him.
Then there's the assholes (there are at least two, one is a shitbox pickup the other a motorcycle) whose exhausts are so loud that when they drive past my house they set off a neighbor's car alarm. Mind you, the car alarm NEVER goes off otherwise. Until this bullshit started, I didn't even know they had a car alarm at all. The shit is just that fucking loud.
Back in my day (lol, it's true though) we had overpowered subwoofers and skinny kids were actually damaging their lungs with them. I'd still take that over this stupid "My car is loud as fuck but will never be as powerful or as fast as a fucking nazi tesla. Look at me! Look at meeeeee!" bullshit.
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Cycling market nearly collapsed entirely in peak boomer years. Coincidence?
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