Sadly this is probably true
I didn't realise we were at war with a fascist dictatorship hell bent on the annihilation of a whole race....
Give it a rest.
Poll: Old & bitter?
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I didn't realise we were at war with a fascist dictatorship hell bent on the annihilation of a whole race....
Give it a rest.
As I get older, on a personal level I'm a bit more cantankerous and less willing to put up with other people's crap.
As years go by you tend to have at least some experience of being screwed over by other people so it's no surprise if many lose empathy or compassion to a degree, even becoming bitter. I'm definitely a bit more hard-hearted but that doesn't mean I'm intolerant or devoid of compassion. I think it's called life experience and being ruled by your head instead of your heart.
As years go by you tend to have at least some experience of being screwed over by other people so it's no surprise if many lose empathy or compassion to a degree, even becoming bitter. I'm definitely a bit more hard-hearted but that doesn't mean I'm intolerant or devoid of compassion. I think it's called life experience and being ruled by your head instead of your heart.
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I think I've got a bit more chilled about things now I'm getting on a bit (52). I certainly don't get wound up by petty things like bad driving as much as I used to - you learn that you can't change other people, and it's not worth getting upset by idiots.
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The point is relevant here, imo. ********** say "We have it harder than any other generation." Hades thinks otherwise. It's a good point and it's well made, imo.
I actually don't support this. If the call came I am fairly sure the youth of today would step up. It would take time for them to acclimatise, but I think most of them would step up.
And I support this too. The youth of today don't have it harder, they have more opportunity than any generation before them. Now that may create different challenges, but it's not harder. I spend time working within my old school to help students prepare for working life so I have a very clear understanding of what the reality of being a child today is compared to what it was in my day and trust me, there is much more going for them today, but a different mindset that is frustrating. To my point up top, no child of today can possibly understand that however as they only have their experience.
Don't they call that emo?
Absolutely no chance. If the wars of the past were fought with the youth of today, we'd be on overclockers.de right now.
I have better music taste than that.
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When it's conscription nobody has a choice.
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I don't think age comes into it - People just care less about each other these days.
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Some might hack it, the majority would fall apart in the first week of basic training as the corporal in charge of their section will not offer a safe space as an alternative to an afternoon of running around the woods in full kit.
Remember that the young men that rushed to join up in 1939 had, on the whole, not led pampered lives and had grown up used to hardship thanks to the economic crisis of the early 1930s.
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Certainly more tolerant on other side of 30's.
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I think that's more to do with the global society we live in. Before you used to be born, grow up then have a family in all the same town as did everyone else. That's how you get to know everyone else there, these days you end up having new neighbours every couple of years so it's hard to get the same community spirit they used to have.
I think most of the bitterness towards young people is simply jealousy.
Young people have their whole lives ahead of them and still have dreams that could come true. A lot of old people have seen their dreams unfulfilled and want to find someone other than themselves to blame.
Young people have their whole lives ahead of them and still have dreams that could come true. A lot of old people have seen their dreams unfulfilled and want to find someone other than themselves to blame.
I'd love to be in my 20's again. But I wouldn't want to be the person I was in my 20's. I was far too naive and insecure.
The generation before me fall into #3, whereas I fall into #2 I'd say.
Ultimately the poll is useless, as these things all fall down to culture and tradition, although you will get the offshoots in all walks anyway who want to be different.
Ultimately the poll is useless, as these things all fall down to culture and tradition, although you will get the offshoots in all walks anyway who want to be different.
I was a bit of an ahole, towards family and society in general, now as an older, wiser nearly 65 year old I am more accepting. However as has been said I have more experience, I dislike stupid people and have no time for celebrity cult.
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