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Not just parents, although I will accept my share of the blame.bilgriss wrote: I realized this when I was teaching high school in the mid 90's, and my wife sees it more now with the kids she's teaching. There is indeed a sense of entitlement. I blame parents. The rest is all decoration.
When it gets really weird is when people have the Bluetooth earbuds especially when their hair is covering them and they're walking around talking to themselves apparentlyThe Baker wrote:My dad (born 1903) would have been astounded to see so many people walking along with a vacant expression, a hand over their ear and muttering, apparently, to themselves.
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... narcissist" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollowaircarbonarc wrote:I had a basement tenant who was a guy in his mid 20s, seemed like a decent kid just a bit stupid. After a few months something's started to raise red flags. He worked as a landscaper, had his own buisiness until he lost his license for impaired driving, he jumped in his work truck to drive 2min to the McDonald's drive thru because he was too lazy to walk, then road raged on an unmarked police car for driving too slow and got pulled over, he now couldn't work so he had his girlfriend and dad drive him all over. He claimed he wasn't at fault and didn't act in the wrong. Used to flick his cigarette butts all over the back yard and even used to find them on my car, had a butt tin and after I kept asking him not to do that he just kept it up till I banned him from smoking on the property, he then flicked his butts in the neighbors veggie garden and called the old guy a crybaby when he was asked to stop. Borrowed my tools and refused to return them, also had borrowed my garage to do the brakes on his girlriends car and left the garage door open while going for an hour test drive. I came home from Mexico once to find a blue short bus parked in my backyard and my car was boxed in which he said he was renting the space to a neighbor. Electrocuted himself and started a fire trying to install new lighting fixtures. At this point I evicted him and his dad called me up telling me I have to right and his son is an angel, after I listed the reasons he just told me that I should let him do what he wants because he's a smart boy and that's how he was raised. So I told off his dad and his mother then she phoned me, i told both of them off for being shitty parents and raising such a shitty son who at his age should've learned respect, responsibility and not to get his parents to fight his battles. I had to repaint the basement suit, he was tagging the walls, clean up 100s of cigarette butts and explain to his parents why he didnt get his damage deposit back. They actually threatened me with legal action and claimed that the angel son they raised would never tag up his walls or act so irresponsibly. I dont blame millenials at all, I blame the parents who raise such people. One of my favorite coworkers is 25, I enjoy talking to him, I have shared accommodation with him when away working and I've even introduced him to distilling and homebrewing. It's all about parenting.
johnsparrow wrote:This guy is a good watch
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I don't know how to change the hyperlink to a fancy title, but, he is a comedian that always gives a good laugh.
der wo wrote:Perhaps you all shouldn't take comedy videos too serious?
TDick wrote:johnsparrow wrote:This guy is a good watch
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I don't know how to change the hyperlink to a fancy title, but, he is a comedian that always gives a good laugh.
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My Grandad died in 1964. The day he took his 9 year old grandson fishing.shadylane wrote:My Grand Pa would have been amazed with modern technology
He never would have thought about ridiculing the young folks using it
On a side note
He would have loved the internet
There's information available he never could have imagined
My dad was born in 1903 and left the tiny country school at maybe 11 or 12. He was a good scholar, said he got more elephant stamps in his work book than anyone else.shadylane wrote:My Grand Pa would have been amazed with modern technology
He never would have thought about ridiculing the young folks using it
On a side note
He would have loved the internet
There's information available he never could have imagined
Booner's woulda blown his damn mind, and made half the county a lot happier at Christmas time when he would drive around and hand out jars. Every christmas eve after the kids (and the sheriff!) were asleep he'd load the pickup with a few cases. Pull up into one yard, wait for the menfolk to come out. He'd pass a jar and chat, when it came back around he'd tell 'em to keep it and have a merry christmas. Then drive on to the next house. very cool storyzapata wrote:My grandpa died in 1986. He made corn and sugar shine. I doubt he woulda owned a computer or paid for internet access, but he sure coulda benefitted from HD! Not that he made rotgut, he was not commercial by local standards, though by stories he was the grey market sugar hookup for half the state. But all he knew was what he saw from the commercial moonshiners, and what little whiskey culture had survived prohibition word of mouth. Which wasn't much.
Sad thing was he grew corn, yet used mostly sugar
Granny would yell at him when he finally came home, but he'd shush her so as to not wake the grandkids and tell her she could yell at him all she wanted outside. Where of course he'd saved the last jar for her and they'd sit on the tail gate or in the wash house if it was cold till she'd had her fill ("for her arthritis"). Wont no drinkin in grannies house, but the wash house didnt count
Good stories. Can't help imagining it woulda been even better if he knew how to make "real" whiskey! My cousin learned from grandpa, and still makes mediocre whiskey, though his welches brandy is pretty good. But thank god one of grandpa's heirs found computers, smart phones, the internet, and good whiskey; I like to think he'd be proud
