Rant Kids these days...

One of my favourite past times is watching the young kids on the bus in the morning....(not in that way you sick people )
Their manners and upbringing will lead them to be the kind of people discussed in this thread, and they will get a major shock when they grow up and leave school/start working.
Everything may be given to you on a plate now, but when you enter the real world, nobody gives a crap about you or your problems. Enjoy your youth while it lasts, and hope that somebody gives you the guidance you need to survive in the adult world.

/end old man speak.

 

I take pride in being able to take care of myself, but it takes effort. I can see how this could make it unpopular these days. Who wants to polish or iron (do work for free) when you can spend that time playing your xbox or facebook stalking?

 

haha, the boots must be shiny... for fear of death.

I like to look smart, and have to for work, unfortunatly... Granted I've got tattoo's and long hair now mate, but I didn't even serve as long as you bro.

True mate, it winds me up to see so many people devoid of anything a life should be, just for some internet time.

 

I don't agree. If you are 25 you can't say "kids nowadays are X" because not too long ago you were too young and your perception of things was different and therefore you can't really know how things were in the past.

Old people do this all the time. They bitch and moan about younger people than themselves because they are different. The only reason they are different is because things change.

A few generations ago, all you had to do was go to school until you were 16 (I'm actually exaggerating. Most people were lucky to go to school past 12 years old) and then you either worked on your family's land or at some factory.

Nowadays, you need to keep going to school forever and choose what you want to do for the rest of your life. The problem is, choosing is difficult. It is very difficult actually. There are so many career options, it's intimidating. If I offered you cheesecake, you'd be thankful and start eating right away. If I offered you 19 different choices of cakes and told you to pick only one, you would definitely be hesitant and take more time to choose. It's pretty much the same for most young adults.

I believe it's a society thing. It's quite recent to have so many options and the process could definitely be optimized. In a few generations I think people will understand better why it takes so long for teenagers and young adults to be fully grown, responsible persons.

 

Haha dam busted....... can't be having wet feet though.......

 

What scares me the most is that these kids are going to be reproducing soon enough themselves and are going to be laid (there's an lol in that somewhere) with the responsibility of parenting.

Slight thread hijack, on a similar subject, last week I had a child that could not have been any older than 9 or 10 playing in a street near me, I was walking by and took no notice of the group of kids as they looked innocent enough and it was obvious they were having much delight with their xmas presents. Anywhoo this kid walks along side me for a second and I thought maybe he was in some sort of bother, idk locked out of his house or lost a ball or something like that, so I slowed down and just glanced at him, what I got from him was 'Here mister, what the **** are you looking at.' Needless to say I ignored him totally but walked away disgusted not only with his language but attitude towards a total stranger. I don't have kids myself but have been around my nephews and nieces almost everyday since birth and with that experienced many of the things I suspect that come with parenthood. If I ever caught any of them so much as uttering a rude word to a passing stranger I would have them stand there and make a full apology, they havn't had special treatment, they havn't had a perfect upbringing either so it begs the question, why the hell are some kids being such little ****s?

 

shitty parenting. kids often learn by example. crapsack parents=crapsack kids. either that, or the parents provide no discipline when necessary, and the kids learn to be little ****ers from the tv.

 

Power

They think when there in the little gangs with all there mates riding there bmx that they are tough...

Its happened to me alot of times you'll be walking minding your own business and a bunch of 14 year olds will be walking up and block the entire pavement while walking deliberately trying to make you walk in the street

9 times out of 10 I GUARANTEE YOU if you carry on walking they jump out the way..... that other 1 is the one who cannot weigh up the difference in bodyweight and power especially based on someone walking down hill

They are the same ones that end up on the ground when you don;t move and the same one who crys and gets there brother who happens to be just as ignorant

Its sad to see whats happening with kids really so much ignorance so little creativity all the same little shits the same little shits thats going to be living of the goverment when they find the wonders of drug addiction.. the same ones that in 35 years time might suddenly realize they have wasted there life

 

Thats the problem, why work when you don't have to?
Council house, bills paid for you, money each week, wheres the motivation to get people off to work?

Saying that i don't know how people do it, after i left my first job i was on job seekers for a while and its hell, never enough money, stuck in the house, never really doing anything with your life.
Employed>Unemployed any day of the week.

 

Kids are **** nowadays.

I'm 19, I'm self dependant, yeah sure I live at home, but I cook for myself, pay rent inc. bills, I work 5 days a week, managing + building website/company IT.

Now if you're bundling everybody under the age of 25 into the category of Cun't, please give me a valid reason as to why people should have to be stereotyped?

 

Why is everyone shying away from "living at home with the parents". I'm 24, and i live with my mother, sister and her husband, and their 2 kids. Its not living WITH mummy. Its financially beneficial for us at the moment to share the rent and bills. Works out cheaper than all of us getting our own places....for now. I would be in my own flat/flatshare in a heartbeat, but i'm 1/3 of the rent/bills, so i stay.

Living with the parents isn't always scrounging. Sometimes its a financial thing such as a low paying apprenticeship etc.

 

Sounds about right, what really pisses me off is that their ignorant parents wouldn't dare do the same knowing full well that were they to I could put them on the floor and not feel a shed of guilt. Regardless of how discipline is implemented in any home, it's certainly lacking in most these days.

 

Thing is chap, I'm 22 and think this. I'm appalled most days by how my generation acts. Things change, but as bad as they can be now? jesus I worry in two generations.

haha, please tell me you use talc?

Yup, had that myself. Walking to work in my suit and had some little shob-gite (Gobshite) decided to insult me because I'm wearing a suit and earning my way into life.

Isn't it great when you see them slightly older, in the pub... and you knock their heads off though? I've done it enough.

Indeed chap, doing my line of work you wonder what people do 9 - 2 while their kids are at school and the such, how the hell do people stay afloat mentally.

I think Matt you've totally missed my point, alot of people between 18 - 25 honestly won't work an honest day in their lives these days. There's to much "Oh, you've got generic unknown disease that makes no sense for you to not be working" or slack idleness being thrown around for people to put the damn effort in.

I've worked since I was 16, only time I haven't worked was 3 weeks between jobs from college.

Supermarket for 2 years
Army for 6 months (Medically discharged before my unit went to training)
Supermarket for 2 years
Benefit Overload since I was 20 (now 22).

There are few people out there who bother to put the effort in and understand that "a job is a job" and they'd rather slack off doing nothing mate.

 

Exactly that, too many people think, well if I don't have to work and can still eat and have a roof over my head, why should I?

A very good friend of mine is working every hour he can get, still not getting by and has to scrape the money from wherever he can, has his wedding in October, has a tumour attached to a nerve that is in danger of turning cancerous and if operated on could lose a leg. I have never heard him complain once, about his life or the systems in place to support people unable to work. Yet I've heard kids at the age of 16 bitch and moan that they can't get a job for love nor money to feed their ****ing drug habits.

 

I still think you're all over reacting. Most of the kids you hate will turn out to be good, responsible people. They just need time to get there.

Of course some trash will always be trash. However, I don't think there is more trash today than there were yesterday. You just never had to deal with the older generation of trash

 

My 22 year old brother is the most selfish, lazy, no ambition slob I have ever met.

I had written a long explanation why but managed to hit the back page button on my mouse. :/
He lives at home with my elderly Mum and Step dad, he pays no rent, spends 100% of his wages on himself and if that wasn't enough manages to con my Mum into buying, guitars, amps, PC's, console and to my amazement special food, because he doesn't like the rubbish they have.
He has no morals or any shame and no idea what an utter cock he is being toward his parents.
I have read him the riot act which worked for about 2 weeks then he slipped back into his old ways.

An example.
This Sunday my Mum invited my wife, baby and I round for roast lamb.
My brother descends from his pit, sits down at the table, eats his food, then gets up and leaves without even taking his plate into the kitchen. When I remind him to, he scowls at me and begrudgingly does so.

I am quite honestly ashamed to be related to him.

 

I know quite a lot of people who work, you seem to be relating a few you meet to a whole generation. I worked since I was 15 (Illegal boi), and stopped working just before I started Uni, at 19. Guess why? Not because I rely on my student loan by the way.

You see, it's this little thing called the Recession. I lost my job in August because the place I worked first got rid of us part-timers, and now the place I used to work at is shutting down in March. This is happening up and down the country.

Yeah, we had the scum in our school, quite a few are now parents! Those who dossed off, but they weren't the majority like you like to portray. As has been said, society changes. Look at 30/40 years ago. No-one would blink an eye to someone marrying at 19/20. Now it's seen as way to young in society.

I do understand your view might be distorted though, due to the reason you work for the people who have no aspirations in life, and it seems that is what makes you lose hope in humanity.

 

This is how it's got to the point it is right now. The useless few who had no prospects and had nothing better to do than drink and shag, multiplied. This became a few more. now its becoming more than most. It does also appear to be hugely varying in the areas which suffer the most.

Same. Get it all the time (probably more so because of long hair). The usual trick is to just blockade the entire pavement. That was a bad idea. Ever since a massive blow up with an ex (she bottled me across the forehead)) i now have the opinion that if someone is prepared to dish it out then they'd better be damn well ready to get it back regardless of age, race, gender or whatever (within reason of course. i'm not gonna punch a baby or small child or elderly lady who hits me am i). They stood there across the pavement 'givin' it all that' as they say an then started mouthing off in anger as they received shoulders in faces. I didn't aim specifically for them, i simply continued at my standard walking pace (which is quick i'll grant you) without deviation of direction. It's what they would have intended to do if i had tried to go round so why bother. They haven't done it since though.

Petty? Yes. Pointless? Probably. But it gave them the message that if one person wont put up with their ********, maybe others wont.

But again it does come down to the parenting of the bad kids in my opinion. When i was that age, if i had been dragged home by a copper i'd have had a smack round the head from him and another one when i got home. These days the cops get tirades of abuse from the parents for 'picking on my lad' etc.

Ok, cant type straight anymore. If nothing else this thread has given people great ranting material lol

 

You've obviously never watched 'The Jeremy Kyle Show'

 

Whilst i find the JK show to be hilarious sometimes i find that he will never accept that the female involved might also be at fault. I'm not being sexist here but i honestly think Jeremy kyle is.