Well OT, I know, but I couldn't help sharing this as a cracking example of
what the world is degenerating into. It's gotta be the best example of
'negative' news that I have ever seen !

Headline on tonight's local newspaper

"Huge Drop in Arson Attacks !"

Boy oh boy. What ever have we got for the current generation ... ? :-)

Arfa

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:05:52 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Well OT, I know, but I couldn't help sharing this as a cracking example of
what the world is degenerating into. It's gotta be the best example of
'negative' news that I have ever seen !

Headline on tonight's local newspaper

"Huge Drop in Arson Attacks !"

Boy oh boy. What ever have we got for the current generation ... ? :-)

Arfa

I don't give a damn about today's generation. They have no respect for
anything and they're all obsessed with themselves. After I'm gone, I
hope they get the kind of world they deserve. Climate change is the
least of their problems.

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:05:52 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

I don't give a damn about today's generation. They have no respect for
anything and they're all obsessed with themselves. After I'm gone, I
hope they get the kind of world they deserve. Climate change is the
least of their problems.

Today’s generation does suck, but it is the previous one that screwed everything
up—although technically you could extend that all the way back since the
previous generation’s parents are responsible for raising them to be people who
screw everything up, and so on back.


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"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...

I don't give a damn about today's generation. They have no respect for
anything and they're all obsessed with themselves. After I'm gone, I
hope they get the kind of world they deserve. Climate change is the
least of their problems.


Oh, they'll come around. Or not.

I've got two kids one of whom just entered the teenage years. I feel the
same disconnect between generations that I think my parents felt, at least I
work in the technology sector so I've more common ground than most parents.
Many times I've felt like asking my daughter "don't you ever get tired of
wearing that goddamn ipod?" She listens to the same type of mass-marketed,
poorly mastered, ultra-compressed drivel that I'm sure I must have listened
to in my day.

I've got to say, I think there are problems, from child obesity to the
lessening of human contact due to email, text messaging, "social networking"
(ha! don't get me started on that one!) etc. I think video games are the
penultimate expression of the term "misuse of technology".

But. They're people, some good, some bad. Not all of them deserve to be
painted your brush as self-centered assholes.

Just my 2 cents.

Dave

Dave wrote:

"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...

I don't give a damn about today's generation. They have no respect for
anything and they're all obsessed with themselves. After I'm gone, I
hope they get the kind of world they deserve. Climate change is the
least of their problems.


Oh, they'll come around. Or not.

I've got two kids one of whom just entered the teenage years. I feel
the same disconnect between generations that I think my parents felt, at
least I work in the technology sector so I've more common ground than
most parents. Many times I've felt like asking my daughter "don't you
ever get tired of wearing that goddamn ipod?" She listens to the same
type of mass-marketed, poorly mastered, ultra-compressed drivel that I'm
sure I must have listened to in my day.

I've got to say, I think there are problems, from child obesity to the
lessening of human contact due to email, text messaging, "social
networking" (ha! don't get me started on that one!) etc. I think video
games are the penultimate expression of the term "misuse of technology".

But. They're people, some good, some bad. Not all of them deserve to
be painted your brush as self-centered assholes.

Just my 2 cents.

Dave

Even better, they often listen to the same music that I did at their
age; are often committed to social causes. My 18 yo daughter's bf just
returned from a missionary trip to Central America (his third in the
last year). She's a foreign language major--brand-new college freshman
with 12 hours of AP credit. My son's ex-gf is in Guatemala with the
Peace Corps. He used to work in my business with me, before he got his
Masters in physics. My youngest is an accomplished competition swimmer
at 11, with almost perfect grades and sunny--almost radiant--disposition
to boot...plays guitar in a rock band. My oldest daughter is going back
to school at 22, with a child and a husband.

I can slip lots of things into the CD player that we all can rock out
to. We're all voting for the same presidential candidate, along with
their mom. I can't imagine ever doing that with my own parents....

With your $0.02, that makes $0.04.

jak

jakdedert wrote:

Even better, they often listen to the same music that I did at their
age; are often committed to social causes. My 18 yo daughter's bf just
returned from a missionary trip to Central America (his third in the
last year). She's a foreign language major--brand-new college freshman
with 12 hours of AP credit. My son's ex-gf is in Guatemala with the
Peace Corps. He used to work in my business with me, before he got his
Masters in physics. My youngest is an accomplished competition swimmer
at 11, with almost perfect grades and sunny--almost radiant--disposition
to boot...plays guitar in a rock band. My oldest daughter is going back
to school at 22, with a child and a husband.

I can slip lots of things into the CD player that we all can rock out
to. We're all voting for the same presidential candidate, along with
their mom. I can't imagine ever doing that with my own parents....

With your $0.02, that makes $0.04.

jak


I had a high school senior who lives nearby doing volunteer work for
my 'Computers for Disabled Veterans' project. When he first started, he
was listening to rap. Within a few days he was listening to my
collection of classic country, bluegrass, western swing and big band
music.


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jakdedert wrote:
Even better, they often listen to the same music that I did at their
age; are often committed to social causes. My 18 yo daughter's bf just
returned from a missionary trip to Central America (his third in the
last year). She's a foreign language major--brand-new college freshman
with 12 hours of AP credit. My son's ex-gf is in Guatemala with the
Peace Corps. He used to work in my business with me, before he got his
Masters in physics. My youngest is an accomplished competition swimmer
at 11, with almost perfect grades and sunny--almost radiant--disposition
to boot...plays guitar in a rock band. My oldest daughter is going back
to school at 22, with a child and a husband.

I can slip lots of things into the CD player that we all can rock out
to. We're all voting for the same presidential candidate, along with
their mom. I can't imagine ever doing that with my own parents....

With your $0.02, that makes $0.04.

jak


I had a high school senior who lives nearby doing volunteer work for
my 'Computers for Disabled Veterans' project. When he first started, he
was listening to rap. Within a few days he was listening to my
collection of classic country, bluegrass, western swing and big band
music.


Okay, Michael. You can unlock the door and let him out now....G

jak

jakdedert wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I had a high school senior who lives nearby doing volunteer work for
my 'Computers for Disabled Veterans' project. When he first started, he
was listening to rap. Within a few days he was listening to my
collection of classic country, bluegrass, western swing and big band
music.

Okay, Michael. You can unlock the door and let him out now....G


There are no locks other than the usual door knobs. He came back
quite often to learn more about computer repair, and sometimes he dug
through the CDs near the bench to hear more of my collection. The only
music he knew before that was the crap the kids at his school listened
to.


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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...

I had a high school senior who lives nearby doing volunteer work for
my 'Computers for Disabled Veterans' project. When he first started, he
was listening to rap. Within a few days he was listening to my
collection of classic country, bluegrass, western swing and big band
music.



And now all of his homeys think he's a fag but you probably like it that
way, fag.