There is the Bible, I'm sure there is something in there about parenting. Like there was that one part where Lot's daughters got Lot drunk so they could "lay" with him.. or um... wait, is that appropriate father-daughter activity?

I just find it quite strange that from the first sentence sharinganerror wrote, he was already wrong.

If the teenagers of today were so "stupid (academically)", why on earth are college and university attendance rates at an all time high? Sure, there's a recession on so jobs are hard to come by, but the fact remains that to gain entry to a university or college institution, a students grades need to be of a certain level.
Also, labelling "teenagers" is targetting everybody from the age of 13 - 19. Yes, many 14, 15 year olds may act in a selfish or "flash" way, but its because they are making the transition from childhood into adulthood, are trying to work out the boundaries and discover who they are. Everybody goes through a patch where they're less than perfect. It's growing up. You certainly can't lump most 18 and 19 year olds in with these kids. Note, I said "many" 14/15 year olds, not ALL. Most go through this transition without being a complete nightmare.

I think the entire post was pointless, ridiculously inaccurate and small minded. I know a lot of people in their 20s and 30s which can be/are just as immature and self centred as these "teens" you talk about, just like I know a lot of 17 year olds who are so mature and intelligent that they hang about with groups of older people and don't seem out of place.

So, again, what is the point of your post? Apart from mindless, ageist waffle?



PS. Sorry if I missed any points, but I stopped reading halfway through, due to fear that my braincells were actually melting.

The American education system is so far behind other countries' educational expectations that students really only start to learn in high school, who by then, aren't really considered teenagers anymore. Pssh, like one year in college you're a teen, that's not much.

I didn't mean it seriously, by the way.

But anyway, aside from Sharinganerrors lack of understanding of human beings, you do have a point that children are to greedy nowadays, but so is everyone. Adults are even more greedy, to be fair, and it IS all the parents' fault unless you really do get a little shit, but anyway the point remains the parents give the children the money, they give them the designer shirts, they give them the three holidays a year - its just like with fat kids.

If you don't give it to them, they wont use it. Unless they end up stealing from you, but if you raise them properly that wouldn't happen. And very rarely you do just get little shits in which case tough luck, some kids are just like that and they always will be like it.

Plus Raphaela why should we have something to fight for? Hell there are plenty of things to fight for - climate change, greedy bankers, stupid politicions, outrageous treatment of soldiers - the list goes on. The problem isn't that we don't have something to fight for it's that no one can be bothered.

It's not that I don't have a lack of human undestanding, I just don't present it. You assume just because I post a few sentences, those few sentences are all I know. What right do you have to estimate my knowledge? I admit when I post I fail to get my point across because I'm tactless and immature, so I end up replying to post and forget to complete my thoughts.

It's not that I don't have a lack of human undestanding, I just don't present it. You assume just because I post a few sentences, those few sentences are all I know. What right do you have to estimate my knowledge? I admit when I post I fail to get my point across because I'm tactless and immature, so I end up replying to post and forget to complete my thoughts.

WILL YOU STOP BEING SO PEDANTIC.

You did this in the god thread to, because your bollocks shitty arguments don't stand up to questioning you just end up calling twats. I do that do, but at least I actually defend my argument.

The god thread was arguing, it was just pathetic on both ends, stop acting like you actually defend your arguments. You just copy what gilder or forkboy says down the line, throw out some words, and pass it off as your own.
EDIT: I actually mean alot of people can actually argue, but alot of you guys just go with the flow and really don't contribute to the thread, you just lengthen it.

I was a teen through all my years of high school, in fact everyone I know was a teen throughout all of their years of high school.

I meant to write college.