[0441] Children today
└ posted on Thursday, 27 December 2012, by Novil
- Sandra: Party at Larisa’s at six thirty.
- Cloud: ’kay.
- Bridget: The children now love parties; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatting in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, and it’s getting worse and worse. They don’t do anything but consume. They contradict their parents, don’t engage in sports, gobble up fast food, listen to rap music, and tyrannize their teachers.
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![[0441] Children today](/comics/2012-12-27-0441-children-today.png "[0441] Children today")
Question, who is this Bridget, and where can I throw eggs at her blog?
@ BarGamer:
it’s a updated version of this http://quotationsbook.com/quote/44998/@ BarGamer:
Oh, snap. July 22nd post on December 27th. Bridget is serious business.
Bloggers Today: They do not understand the fallacies of Biased Sample and Hasty Generalization. They condemn others based on prejudice and presupposition. They spend nearly all their time buried in their computer screens, hiding in the tiny little box they think is the universe. Their only outside form of social interaction is to glare at children in public.
That said, pass the eggs.
You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them brain damage.
Sigh. Let me guess, Bridget is not married. Love to check Jezebel and actively post there. She frequent Starbuck like clockwork. Always love to talk about hot men on the internet. Think that the past (but not distant past, more like 80s and/or 90s) are way better. The need to jump into every “feminist” issues no matter how small it is and blew it out of the water and the need to feel superior about his lifestyle at least once a day.
Yep, this comic describe Jezebel commenter alright.
Good thing I already left Gawker blogs. They love to fish on controversy and making people angry to gain easy page views.
Why is this Bridget woman wearing a half mask?
Ah, yes, the whole classic “kids these days” rant I always find annoying because 1) they often accentuate the negatives while downplaying the positives and 2) often involve a rose-tinted view of some sort of “ideal” past.
That’s why when I play the age card, I do it with EVERYBODY. There’s just something cathratic about saying “You know, your generation is just undisciplined and disrespectful. Back in my day . . .” to people much older than I am. The confusion is priceless.
@ somatorio:
Well, something never change huh.
Frozenwolf150 wrote:
Yeah, and since they aren’t considered news they are free to do what they please. Sure there are good bloggers out there. But there are bloggers who love to fish on controversy or leaning far to the right or left (according to their beliefs) and spark a huge debate or worse flame war. That’s why I leave blogs under Gawker.
@ Mark:
those are her glasses
I just love people who jump to conclusions based on one little bit of observation. the sample population is way too small, plus it was not observed throughout an entire day, wek, month or year. She makes me think of a female Rush L (shudder at that thought people)
i may not be a kid anymore…..but that doesn’t mean i can’t egg her house.
Let’s see… judging all kids off of just two and assuming their lives revolve around parties just because they were talking about it once that day… yeah, seems accurate to real people.
@somatorio: Exactly, and this is quite clever of Oliver to base the blog post on this quote by Socrates. It shows that people were contemplating how supposedly awful and the youth had become from back in antique times, so there is nothing really true about making a point of how bad youth is today and how worse than before it is.
July 23, 2012 – BusyLizzieB commented:
From my own experience, I have to agree with you on most of this. Fast food was never a problem, instead it was the constantly shifting regime of fad diets, which I still say added up to a borderline case of anorexia. Parties, too, weren’t a problem, as that would have required friends that would deign to socialise. But the reluctance to engage in sport, or anything that might get you sweaty, dirty or disheveled (such as heavy housework, or gardening), the constant, petty arguments, the glowering, stonewalling, and nagging… I think we were all pretty tyrannized to one extent or another. As for respect, my only wish was that you keep in touch… I suppose the blog lets me know you’re still alive, and the Tumblr pictures show me that you’re eating properly now. But a call would be nice. Your father and I still think of you often.
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@ Bargamer:
I recognised the quote too… from a Dave Berg cartoon in Mad Magazine, probably from the early 1970s, where a college student reads it to his mother, who then wants to send the author fan mail. There is indeed nothing new under the sun. >:=)>
Check it! My Sandra and Woo dream cast list (part 1) :
Sandra Tara Strong
Woo Vic Mignogna
Cloud Josh Grelle
Larisa Luci Christian
Richard Crispin Freeman
David Yuri Lowenthal
Ye Thuza Monica Rial
Yuna also Monica Rial
Ah, the views of Greek’s Golden Age.
For those of you who did not get that era in your history class, actually, that was the point just before Greece went into decline. It didn’t get conquered by both the Macedonians and then the Romans by accident.
I grew-up in the gutter of Reagan’s grand economy, and I hear that the ’50s was not the great paradise the malcontents on talk radio harp on about, so I have no laments nor longing for the past. Hell, I would love to have been born more recently! Yeah, the kids these days are distracted by all the high-tech toys, have to worst grammar and engage in really stupid activities, but if we had what they have, we would do and be the same. Plus, the kids nowadays are finding values for their own sake, instead of it being “instilled” into them. We really have to give a hats-off to them — for putting up with our old, cranky-ass shit!
I’m pretty sure that Bridget is one of those people that think that children who are “out of control” should be put on ridelen or wired with a GPS tracker, forgetting that during her childhood there were more then enough wild kids out there in the real world that makes what kids do today look like… well kid’s stuff.
Bridget’s just upset because she was never invited to any parties.
Now the best way to give her her just comeuppance is to put her in a room with Larisa and wait it out. Not longer than five minutes though, otherwise she’d end up needing a straitjacket. :
Now the best way to give her her just comeuppance is to put her in a room with Larisa and wait it out. Not longer than five minutes though, otherwise she’d end up needing a straitjacket.
@ AckAckAck:
Oh, you’re playing the “straw feminist” card, right? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawFeminist
I agree with you that Jezebel is a little sensationalistic, but that doesn’t mean you should belittle feminist issues.
*Clicks on blog link*
“…chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs…”
*Looks down at legs*
Uh, I guess I’m one of the many juvenile detriments to society, lol.
This Bridget person has a great future working in Current Affairs on Television.
@ Pillamelai:
I can’t see ANYTHING in AckAckAck’s post that could be construed as “belittling feminist issues.”
In fact, upon rereading it several times, possibly the opposite is true; he seems to be belittling people who make feminists look bad through their poor behavior.
Yahtzee? Really? Couldn’t they be playing Smallworld, or Ticket to Ride or Carcassone? Ya know, a good game where wits is important?
Well, that’s a creative interperetation of two sentences.
@ Sere:
Behold, the modern feminist. This is the same gal that automatically assumed that nude photos of a female mentioned in a previous strip must have been unwilling. She is so dead set on finding instances of misogeny to fuel her misandry she sees them in completely unrelated events and statements no sane person could ever interpret in such a manner. At the very least, we don’t have to listen to her lying with statistics, or going on long tirades of what, if addressed at any party other than men, would be instantly recognized and condemned as hate speech.
FOR ANYONE WHO IS CURIOUS: The quote is from a 1950s book of etiquette, though it has been (wrongly) attributed to Socrates.
@ Petah-Petah:
In my day it was Rock N Roll that would rot your brain. Ahhh, good times.
Mike wrote:
Isn’t that exactly what we’re doing here? 😉
Hooray for generalisation >_>
I think Bridget needs new glasses. After having read the comic again and thinking about it… I realized something very odd with her blog. She talks about them not exercising and gobbling junk food. Something is very off if she is seeing a pair of fat children there… especially considering the way Cloud has been raised. Sandra doesn’t strike me as high chubby either.
Furthermore: Careful with what you say there, miss fancy looking coffee? (Most of those things have a ton of calories, but I will give her the possibility that she was in a hurry and ordered something less overdone because she didn’t have time to make it herself. Impressions, though…)
@ GameCobra: Sandra is even more! Helping in the garden when it should be covered in snow!
*Has giant cart with eggs*
Gather around! Now……FIRE!
“What are doing?”Some kid said “Throwing Eggs at an Idiot” We all Say
And of course she had to walk 6 miles to school in 4 feet of snow uphill BOTH ways!
Thumbs up if you’ve known a psychopath like this. And have wanted to kick the in the teeth.
You know Bridget, that famous guy would agree with you. Oh what was his name??
That’s right! Socrates!
Kids have been kids and enjoyed parties as long as we’ve recorded their behavior. As a whole, things probably aren’t any worse than they were in 450BC.
Hey, it’s the circle of life. We all do it. 🙂
What’s that one comment her blog got? 🙂
Shoraine wrote:
That would be the “Hello world” comment all new blogs get.
@ Frozenwolf150:
Hey! I resemble that remark!
;-}
And what the heck made her say all that? XD Just watch as we find out it’s part of some kind of conspiracy. Or more likely, she’s just one of those people who hates kids and is going to get beat up for it.
@ AckAckAck:
Yes, she jumps to conclusions, much like you read a whole bunch of things into her identity based on the fact that she made an angry blog post, or in other words, a blog post. She could just as easily be far right as far left. Rather than looking up hot guys, she could be lesbian, asexual, or into sheep in a big way.
I think you might want to remove that plank of wood from your cornea.
I think the point here is that the party is AT Larisa’s house, and thus the horrible things that apply to Larisa can be similarly applied to these two. You are judged by the company you keep, not just your own behaviour.
@ Greenwood Goat:
I remember Mad Magazine when Gaines still had a tight rein around it. Quite a critical and rationale magazine for a humor oriented magazine.
Mary wrote:
Actually the Greece are conquered because it’s difficult to unite Greek as they’re City states with their own ego and attitudes. Rome are much more united under Senate and Caesar so it’s easier to reach decisions and building an army.
@ Pillamelai:
Oh boy I know someone will interpret my post wrong. Nope Pillamelai. I don’t use the straw feminist card. In fact I support the equality of male and female and I know that there are real equality problems out there we need to address. But unfortunately several loud “feminists” will bring up the smallest and most asinine topics on the table and exaggerate them. Jezebel (and the Gawker team) knew this and use them for their own gain.
@ Sere:
Thank you Sere.
Traken wrote:
And disco and comic book and “dirty” novels and provocative literatures and….. yeah the list goes on and on.
@ Neospector:
Or the typical “FIRST!” comment. But on her it’s alright because it will annoy her more :p
@ spencer:
I just recanting my old experience posting on Gawker’s blogs. Also I think Bridget’s the one with planks in her eyes. Also it still an angry blog post, or to be exact, a rant blog post after a brief observation.
People on the far right and far left? Sorry but I don’t use political “logic” here.
Also for her possibly into men, women, both, or baa-a-a-a well that’s my bad. But I think people can easily change it in their mind easily to “hot women” or “hot people” or “hot ewes” or something.
Also you nitpick a little bit too much Bridget…. I mean Spencer.
@ Avian Mosquito:
Why do you assume I’m a woman? -__-
Also, thanks for the personal attacks. Classy.
The truth is overall kids tend to be a wee bit smarter than the last generation otherwise there would no progress. Shaking off all the old myths and miss-truths is part of their rebelling against the established order. Obama’s first win was largely youth driven.
Bugger Larissa, I want Ye Thuza to respond to This one after finding out who she was looking at when writing.