Teenagers today

Mr Viking

Are teenagers today an ill mannered, disrespectful bunch or were we all just the same at their age?

MadsL

Mr Viking wrote: »

Are teenagers today an ill mannered, disrespectful bunch or were we all just the same at their age?

Get off my lawn!!!

caustic 1

Yeah, yeah they are, bunch of glue sniffing, drug taking, thieving, ill mannered gits.










Jeez.

_Redzer_

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Congrats, OP. You're officially an old person now. Time to join the ranks of your parents.

Mr Viking

Mr Viking wrote: »

Are teenagers today an ill mannered, disrespectful bunch or were we all just the same at their age?

The infinite wisdom known as the Sunscreen song suggests that as we grow older we fantasise that in our day politicians were honest and children respected their elders etc etc.

Mr Viking

_Redzer_ wrote: »

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Congrats, OP. You're officially an old person now. Time to join the ranks of your parents.

You're right there! I'm beginning to sound like my ole fella. It's been one of those mornings!

MadsL

Teenagers are grand.

It's those fucking tweens who have that poxy "can't do nothing to me" attitude and if you dare say a word to them will follow you down the street chanting "paedo!, paedo!".

Little bastards. Should lock em up til they hit 15.

Sinfonia

As with any discernible group of people, the obnoxious pricks are the most noticeable.

Teenagers are generally the same as they were about 40 years ago,

between 13 and 19 years old!

looking_around

i was never ill-mannered or disrespectful.

Don't let a few acts of the minority, cloud your judgement f the majority. No one ever talks about that polite group of teens over there, because they aren't "in your face", are causing trouble, you hardly notice them.

lkionm

In fairness I'm still Ill mannered to certain people if they piss me off, or a member of a certain cohort of society.


I'm only 24, I'm becoming a grumpy bitter old man who can still ****.


The key is to use lemon juice as lube.

anncoates

T t t t turn and face the strange , pops.

lau1247

In general teenagers are ok, you don't hassle them, they don't hassle you. I would think it was the same during my time. None of the people i hang out with ever show disrespect towards adult back then.

There will aways be some teens that want to act hard yet only face you when they are in a group (group mentality). It just a matter of when you meet them.

Just last week saw a group of 7-8 teens (kids??, ranging from about 10-14 years old) confronting an elderly gentleman (didn't see what happen beforehand). Anyway he walked away eventually and the teens were throwing crackers at him.

As i approach to pass by with my missus, they threw one at me, i turn around and give chase, they ran faster than the winds we're having at the moment (can't resist making a wind joke ). Had i not controlled myself thinking from the law's point of view, one of them was bound to get a smack down just to teach them a lesson.

I'm curious, is there law to protect the people being hassled by these type of teens if they attack back from being provoked?


TLDR: teens are ok in general, scumbag teens on the other hand are not.

Antar Bolaeisk

MadsL wrote: »

Teenagers are grand.

It's those fucking tweens who have that poxy "can't do nothing to me" attitude and if you dare say a word to them will follow you down the street chanting "paedo!, paedo!".

Little bastards. Should lock em up til they hit 15.

In your basement?

MadsL

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

In your basement?

Shhhh!

conorhal

Teenagers.... sheesh, in my day they had jobs down't mine and their Nintendo playconsoles were a pick axe and a canary! Still, they got half day Sundays off to worship and get up to those idiot highjinks that teenagers are want to get up to. Aye, in my day all we had to put up with was a half day of bolixology a week and even that ended by the time they married and and had their firstborns at about 17.

Super-Rush

lau1247 wrote: »

In general teenagers are ok, you don't hassle them, they don't hassle you. I would think it was the same during my time. None of the people i hang out with ever show disrespect towards adult back then.

There will aways be some teens that want to act hard yet only face you when they are in a group (group mentality). It just a matter of when you meet them.

Just last week saw a group of 7-8 teens (kids??, ranging from about 10-14 years old) confronting an elderly gentleman (didn't see what happen beforehand). Anyway he walked away eventually and the teens were throwing crackers at him.

As i approach to pass by with my missus, they threw one at me, i turn around and give chase, they ran faster than the winds we're having at the moment (can't resist making a wind joke ). Had i not controlled myself thinking from the law's point of view, one of them was bound to get a smack down just to teach them a lesson.

I'm curious, is there law to protect the people being hassled by these type of teens if they attack back from being provoked?


TLDR: teens are ok in general, scumbag teens on the other hand are not.

Cream crackers? Christmas crackers?

mrcheez

Mr Viking wrote: »

Are teenagers today an ill mannered, disrespectful bunch or were we all just the same at their age?

Perhaps it's just me but teenagers today seem a little "softer" than the tracksuit-wearing yobs we used to get in the late 90s/noughties. They seem more concerned about maintaining their coiffured 80s hairstyles than smashing traffic lights

McChubbin

Teenagers scare the living **** out of me. They could care less as long as someone else bleeds....

MadsL

Super-Rush wrote: »

Cream crackers? Christmas crackers?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/2/22/1329952262694/Frank-Carson-007.jpg

Gordon

conorhal wrote: »

Teenagers.... sheesh, in my day they had jobs down't mine and their Nintendo playconsoles were a pick axe and a canary! Still, they got half day Sundays off to worship and get up to those idiot highjinks that teenagers are want to get up to. Aye, in my day all we had to put up with was a half day of bolixology a week and even that ended by the time they married and and had their firstborns at about 17.

Half a day? You had it lucky. Why back in my day it was not only a full day of bollixology every day, but we were thrashed every hour, with a stick and had to work in the mine at the same time, while working a second job. You have it easy these days.

Seaneh

Mr Viking wrote: »

Are teenagers today an ill mannered, disrespectful bunch or were we all just the same at their age?

I work with teenagers.

No, no they aren't, in general.

Napper Hawkins

Teenagers are the same as they've always been. Just an awful lot gayer looking with that hilarious hairstyle a lot of them have. Y'all know the one.

MadsL

Seaneh wrote: »

I work with teenagers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGq51YQcIDo

Duggy747

The future is now, old man.

holystungun9

Thanks OP, just reminded me of an old website I used to...er, frequent.

gugleguy

OP So far, you've asked the wrong question. Next, to get a serious, credible answer, you' d need to post somewhere on boards other than after hours. Here's the question OP needs to ask:
"Why are you, as teenagers, leaving Facebook in droves?" Yep, i stole that from another thread in After Hours. In any case OP you'd only receive snarky and cynical answers.

mad turnip

The only thing that has changed is that you can't give them a smack if there giving you all sorts of hassle. That and the guards have to actually listen to them more.

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Socrates
It's hardly new.

FizzleSticks

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Mammanabammana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inS5YKSYOtc

Pumpkinseeds

Nah, there are still lots of nice teenagers around, it's just that there are so so so many over-indulged spoilt little princes/princesses with really fcuking annoying, arrogant and precocious attitudes that it seems like they're all a bunch of cnuts.

Birneybau

lkionm wrote: »

In fairness I'm still Ill mannered to certain people if they piss me off, or a member of a certain cohort of society.


I'm only 24, I'm becoming a grumpy bitter old man who can still ****.


The key is to use lemon juice as lube.

What does that mean?

Duggy747

Punk teenagers with their Coke Zero and playing The Grand Theft of Auto on their Nintendo Mega Drives..........whenever they manage to pry themselves away from their smart phones playing Twatter or whatever it's called.

Back in my day, you got a kick up the arse for no good reason and you had to walk 3km to borrow 2 years length of rope to fix the fridge when you couldn't receive Midwest radio on it.

They've too much music on their computers and not enough death notices.

Meangadh

Most teenagers are grand. There's just a few that are douchebags.

You can pretty much switch the word "teenager" with people/women/men/bouncers/flight attendants/posters on boards etc etc etc...

I work with teenagers and how they're not more messed up than they are I'll never know- between money issues, pressure from media, massive emphasis on physical appearance, family issues, drug abuse, thoughts of emigration- all things that I think are more prevalent now than they were when I was a teenager- they're absolute stars to be as normal as they are.

thecatspjs

Meangadh wrote: »

Most teenagers are grand. There's just a few that are douchebags.

You can pretty much switch the word "teenager" with people/women/men/bouncers/flight attendants/posters on boards etc etc etc...

I work with teenagers and how they're not more messed up than they are I'll never know- between money issues, pressure from media, massive emphasis on physical appearance, family issues, drug abuse, thoughts of emigration- all things that I think are more prevalent now than they were when I was a teenager- they're absolute stars to be as normal as they are.

People adapt, it's how it has been and how it always will be. I would struggle to be a teenager now, but I'd say other people in their twenties were thinking the same thing when I was 14.

Hellrazer

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

it's just that there are so so so many over-indulged spoilt little princes/princesses with really fcuking annoying, arrogant and precocious attitudes that it seems like they're all a bunch of cnuts.

That's exactly it^^^^.Teens these days haven't a clue how to do anything for themselves.

Ive had to train teenagers on work experience how to
Use a sweeping brush , open boxes without destroying the contents, make a sandwich and pack shelves so that you could actually see the name of the thing on the shelf. When I was 15 I was working most weekends and on summer holidays full time.

Mammy and Daddy did everything for them growing up where as when I was a teenager we had to actually do things for ourselves like make breakfast or lunch for school and generally look after ourselves.

And Im not just saying that in general-my nieces and nephews are the same.Spoilt little brats that if you let them out into the big bad world to fend for themselves they wouldn't last a day.

Theres one niece of mine whos now a nurse and if she came in to me in a hospital bed Id run a mile knowing some of the stuff that she hasn't a clue how to do like basic maths--Wouldn't trust getting the correct dose of any medicine from her!!!

Yep teenagers--they just get thicker and thicker from generation to generation!!!

Gentleman Octopus

YOLO 4 lyf lol. You just don't have enough SWAG OP.

mfceiling

I had 2 teenagers stay with me last year. 2 of the nicest, most polite girls you could meet. They came over from Cornwall to check out UCD - reckon they maybe checked out Temple Bar more though!!

Mint Aero

Hellrazer wrote: »

That's exactly it^^^^.Teens these days haven't a clue how to do anything for themselves.

When I was 15 I was working most weekends and on summer holidays full time.

Mammy and Daddy did everything for them growing up where as when I was a teenager we had to actually do things for ourselves like make breakfast or lunch for school and generally look after ourselves.

And Im not just saying that in general-my nieces and nephews are the same.Spoilt little brats that if you let them out into the big bad world to fend for themselves they wouldn't last a day.

Yep teenagers--they just get thicker and thicker from generation to generation!!!

Ah that takes me back to my teenage years and then I moved out and managed grand. The old man was upset, angry and confused that I wasn't dead within a week.

thecatspjs

Hellrazer wrote: »

That's exactly it^^^^.Teens these days haven't a clue how to do anything for themselves.

Ive had to train teenagers on work experience how to
Use a sweeping brush , open boxes without destroying the contents, make a sandwich and pack shelves so that you could actually see the name of the thing on the shelf. When I was 15 I was working most weekends and on summer holidays full time.

Mammy and Daddy did everything for them growing up where as when I was a teenager we had to actually do things for ourselves like make breakfast or lunch for school and generally look after ourselves.

And Im not just saying that in general-my nieces and nephews are the same.Spoilt little brats that if you let them out into the big bad world to fend for themselves they wouldn't last a day.

Theres one niece of mine whos now a nurse and if she came in to me in a hospital bed Id run a mile knowing some of the stuff that she hasn't a clue how to do like basic maths--Wouldn't trust getting the correct dose of any medicine from her!!!

Yep teenagers--they just get thicker and thicker from generation to generation!!!

Well it's not the kids' fault if they're not shown the basics at home. I hate that condescending attitude - ''I've been working since I was about 8 seconds old and I figured everything out on my own. Kids these days are too mammied blah blah blah''. It gets very tiresome.

In my experience I have found that there are plenty of useless idiots in every generation. Just have a look in the 'Helpless Adults' thread in R&R, some desperate stuff.

looking_around

Hellrazer wrote: »

That's exactly it^^^^.Teens these days haven't a clue how to do anything for themselves.

Ive had to train teenagers on work experience how to
Use a sweeping brush , .

That's just sad, but I believe it.

I never had a part time job.(and it's getting harder for teens to get jobs..which sucks) but my mom did give me chores.

I know a parent who won't let their 15year old cook. I don't think he can cook an egg .

I remember having to cook for the family once a week. and twice during school holidays. And cook for myself if I didn't want what was for dinner.

That parent above, STILL makes them their school lunch O_O'

Daqster

Your old road is rapidly aging, please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand.

Well my 14 year old does a very convincing Kevin impression, and he's not even trying!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfHM568oBWg

Mr Viking

I get it that there's different pressures that teenagers face today that were never that relevant years ago and I accept that not all can be tarred with the one brush but it's amazing how many teenagers need a parent to literally wipe their own arse and how many are precocious image obsessed little idiots. (Jesus I really am starting to sound like my ole lad)!

Meangadh

thecatspjs wrote: »

People adapt, it's how it has been and how it always will be. I would struggle to be a teenager now, but I'd say other people in their twenties were thinking the same thing when I was 14.

I'd agree with that alright, but I think social media and media in general has made it all the worse for them. There's no doubt that childhood has definitely been eroded- I'm not saying we should go back to the days when children were seen and not heard but it's often like they go from acting 12 to acting 22 now with no "growing up" time in between which I do think is sad.

lau1247

Super-Rush wrote: »

Cream crackers? Christmas crackers?

Cracker as in the biscuit type