Comments | borg_princess: 'I poisoned my life force, you may experience a little indigestion...'

borg_princess

'I poisoned my life force, you may experience a little indigestion...'

Dec 20, 2008 10:49

So, sapphs andjusthere1971 ...I FINALLY sent out your cards today. As the lady in the post office said, don't think of it as being late, 'It'll be early for next Christmas!'

And if by some colossal misfortune, I managed to mix up your two cards, I will...do nothing useful, just collapse and die of mortification and impotent rage.

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real life, christmas

Comments 6

alyssa22 December 20 2008, 10:46:33 UTC

Kids these days are little arseholes with no sense of respect. They drive me nuts. And they move in packs... which can be scary.

borg_princess December 20 2008, 23:02:08 UTC

The pack mentality is the problem. One kid being a dumbass is irritating, but manageable. If they have no audience, then there's nothing to prove. But put them in front of their friends, and provide an authority figure to disrespect and gain points for being rude to? They turn into monsters. And there's no appealing to their logic or reason, they'll say the stupidest, horrible, most irrational things just to get a laugh and support from their friends.

I think the parents have a lot to answer for. It's not ENTIRELY their fault, but a lot of the blame is theirs. They think school is where their children learn about values and morals and respect, that the teachers are the ones who should teach them how to behave with class and dignity and maturity. I can't believe some of the parents protesting about making the school year longer so that their kids can be looked after and won't be out on the streets getting into trouble. It's not the school's responsibility to make sure their offspring aren't running wild, FFS.

alyssa22 December 21 2008, 04:58:49 UTC

Yep. They're so much worse than my generation was as kids -- you wouldn't believe how much worse. We were so tame. We used to always stand up for older people or pregnant women, etc, on buses. We weren't forced to do it -- we just did out of decency. These days they're all about their rights and nobody else's. It's sickening.

And yes, parents need to answer for things. A lot of people say it's the baby boomer parents who are to blame, but then my mum was one of those, too.

Apparently people of my age are bringing their kids up to be a lot more socially, financially and environmentally aware. Hopefully things will look up when it comes to teenager in a few years because of that.

borg_princess December 22 2008, 01:13:27 UTC

These days they're all about their rights and nobody else's.

I know, right? Yes, you can be technically entitled to something but is it so goddamned hard to be a good human being once in a while?

It's not just manners and common decency, though. When I was in Year 7, a lot of the kids were brats but just normal irritating little kids. Nothing you can't deal with. These days, Year 7 kids are running around stabbing or bashing people and filming it for youtube, and just being way more violent and scary than I'd've imagined at that age. [am I confusing the details or did a bunch of kids recently break into someone's house and set their birds on fire?]

Ok, maybe I'm remembering the past through rose-colored glasses, but I'm sure there weren't as many young offenders then.

Hopefully things will look up when it comes to teenager in a few years because of that.I hope so. Things happen in cycles, right? It's gone about as low and depraved and crazy as it can *fingers crossed* we should be seeing them go the other way and become better, ( ... )

dragonladyk December 24 2008, 04:32:01 UTC

Re: Kids These Days.

First of all, I completely agree. The bulk of children I meet behave in ways my mother (and I'm only 23!) would never have tolerated on the longest day of her life and neither would've my dad. The only proper response for those kids to make to the bus driver/disabled folks was "oh my God, I'm so sorry, I didn't notice you!" followed by moving pronto ( ... )

borg_princess December 27 2008, 00:54:58 UTC

Ack! Icon love! *stares* I must go and check out all your userpics...

The bulk of children I meet behave in ways my mother (and I'm only 23!) would never have tolerated on the longest day of her life and neither would've my dad.

Lol, I love that we're both 20-ish and bemoaning the state of our youth these days, a conversation that traditionally takes place amongst the older generations. But the main thing I think when I see these kids acting up- other than 'omfg, GO DIE'- is that my parents would kill me before allowing me to get away with that kind of behavior. That's something we both have in common, strict parents who drummed good manners and common courtesy into us. It's instinctual now, I can't help it- not that I'd want to make myself behave otherwise.

I intend to be strict parent to my own kids if/when I have themGood for you! I think I'll just not have kids at all, though. My parents were really good at maintaining their authority and totally unconcerned about being my best friend. Tough love is their thing. I think I'm ( ... )