cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Generation Snowflake
- Thread starter simon.r
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Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
Eskimos have 7,852 words for Boris..
The best one is daffodil.
The best one is daffodil.
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subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
Mmmmmm Tunnocks .
And a very benevolent family http://www.stabbslifeboat.org.uk/press-release-thomas-tunnock-sons-ltd/
Even more reason to buy Tunnocks. Not that I ever need an excuse of course
Tin Pot
Guru
Yeah, things were much better when kids were taught that they were stupid and worthless and would never amount to anything.
The "real world" you refer to is in fact just millions of people like you, who do all you can to stop the younger generation from dreaming and succeeding. You should congratulate yourself, it works most of the time.
HTH
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
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- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
I'm always telling my kids they are stupid and useless, a waste of my time and resources and have ruined my life. They will be ready for the real world when I kick them out on their 16th birthdays........
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simon.r
Person
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- Nottingham
Yeah, things were much better when kids were taught that they were stupid and worthless and would never amount to anything.
The "real world" you refer to is in fact just millions of people like you, who do all you can to stop the younger generation from dreaming and succeeding. You should congratulate yourself, it works most of the time.
HTH
Not at all true. It's simple enough to encourage the younger generation to dream and succeed, but with an element of realism.
A personal example - my son played football for the youth side of a professional team for 7 years. At Academy level for those with knowledge of how the FA youth system works. He was close to realising his dream of becoming a professional footballer. I encouraged and supported him in his aim both practically and emotionally. I also encouraged and supported him in his academic studies - the realistic part.
When he was released at 17 he was in a position to do reasonably well academically and now has a well paid and fulfilling career. Oh, and plays football for fun!
Dreaming and succeeding and realism aren't mutually exclusive.
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I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
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- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
But then they keep frustrating my expectations by being quite brilliant!
now you are taking the piss
Are you certain they're yours, Skolly?But then they keep frustrating my expectations by being quite brilliant!
Dave 123
Legendary Member
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- Cambridgeshire alps
I see the moderators have been busy.
They substituted my perfectly good word with DAFFODIL
Bunch of narcissists.
They substituted my perfectly good word with DAFFODIL
Bunch of narcissists.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Tempting...
KnackeredBike
I do my own stunts
Ah, so your child was academically a high achiever and talented at football as well. So by tempering his ambitions he now just has a good job rather than being some useless reject like Paul Pogba.
Not all children have the same upbringing.
When I was the same age as your son I had several suicide attempts under my belt with undiagnosed bipolar. I had been sectioned and arrested. I went to a school seventeen miles away and although I actually did quite well I never really fitted in because I had to catch the bus at 06.45 to get there and rush out afterwards to catch it back.
My Dad was a severe alcoholic which caused him at times to be physically abusive and the rest of the time highly destabilising. I remember getting multiple phone calls from the police or other people reporting that he had got drunk and ended up in trouble. In an attempt to find some sort of validation I ended up drinking and sleeping with kids with the same sort of issues. I was desperately unhappy almost all the time.
I have ended up in a well paid, responsible job with my own home a strong family. But I have never forgotten where I have come from. Presumably in your world I should have been tossed on the scrapheap, told I wouldn't amount to anything, crushed the modicum of self worth that I still had.
People who advocate that children should be pitted against each other, the victor taking everything and the loser humiliated, are inevitably those who, by luck or inheritance, are doing well and are set to gain the most by clambering over people to get more. Sometimes, through mistakes or just bad luck people end up in a bad place and in my opinion it is the mark of a civilised and compassionate society that they should be given a hand back up, not have the dirt kicked in their faces.
People who think the term "Generation Snowflake" is somehow clever and big are those wanting to put down young people who face more challenges then any generation in history. Quite simply they sicken me and I think they should be ashamed of themselves.
FishFright
More wheels than sense
There's one thing that's certain it's that the older generations are always terrified of the kids two generations below then and will make up any crap that makes them seem so much worse than themselves. Except their own grand children ofc.
