This is sooooo true...

[Shoyru_Lover]

Check this out guys... this is sooo true... http://brownyy.dyndns.org/genw/

Praise the heavens for a real childhood.

[Mongrel]

I find that awfully irritating. It's just another "back in my day..." and I'm tired of hearing it. The way people talk, every generation before this one was "the best generation ever." The site makes no mention of those little teensy things like playing with the mercury from broken thermometers, or people who DID get killed from Tylenol tampering, or kids getting killed because they weren't wearing seatbelts.
And you know what? I think my generation will be one of the most degraded in history as well--the fatsos, the cynics, the disenfranchised jaded generation that was expected to save the world after previous generations had pretty well ravaged it and decided to give up because all their lives, they never had any good role models and all they heard was "Back in my day, WE didn't have SUVs and a Starbucks on every street! We were better than you! And we expect you to fix what past generations have done wrong (even though they were all bigger and stronger and smarter than you), but even if you do, you still won't be good enough!"

[Shoyru_Lover]

I find that awfully irritating. It's just another "back in my day..." and I'm tired of hearing it. The way people talk, every generation before this one was "the best generation ever." The site makes no mention of those little teensy things like playing with the mercury from broken thermometers, or people who DID get killed from Tylenol tampering, or kids getting killed because they weren't wearing seatbelts.
And you know what? I think my generation will be one of the most degraded in history as well--the fatsos, the cynics, the disenfranchised jaded generation that was expected to save the world after previous generations had pretty well ravaged it and decided to give up because all their lives, they never had any good role models and all they heard was "Back in my day, WE didn't have SUVs and a Starbucks on every street! We were better than you! And we expect you to fix what past generations have done wrong (even though they were all bigger and stronger and smarter than you), but even if you do, you still won't be good enough!"

Wow... tiradeous much? Aww what happened Moongewl? Tell us a story. *sits down*

[hpfanfiction]

Just showed that to my parents, and they definitely appreciated it . I loved this part at the end:

PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age

[Asthaloth]

I wrote a long letter about this to some newspaper or another (Didn't get printed, big shocker)

But you know what?
As bad as my generation "is", we aren't renowned for being hedonistic drug abusers, we haven't started any wars (Not that we've really had a chance I'll grant you) we didn't test Nuclear weapons on Heavily populated cities, and we are patiently waiting for our elders to die off so we can sort their mess out.

[MarchingDuck]

I'm inclined to agree with Moongewl.

They're the generation that survived wars, protests...violence at everyturn. And now there's the generation that is starting to apply for social security and driving up the demand for nursing homes (good for the food industry though!).

I dont think people really see that generation for all they went through. Sure they gave us woody woodpecker and Elvis...but we also have to respect them for everything they saw and endured.

[Asthaloth]

I'm inclined to agree with Moongewl.

They're the generation that survived wars, protests...violence at everyturn. And now there's the generation that is starting to apply for social security and driving up the demand for nursing homes (good for the food industry though!).

I dont think people really see that generation for all they went through. Sure they gave us woody woodpecker and Elvis...but we also have to respect them for everything they saw and endured.

they are the generation that Caused wars, protest and violence at every turn.

[Ski]

and all they heard was "Back in my day, WE didn't have SUVs and a Starbucks on every street! We were better than you! And we expect you to fix what past generations have done wrong (even though they were all bigger and stronger and smarter than you), but even if you do, you still won't be good enough!"

Funny how they're the ones that have all the SUVs and decided to put the Starbucks franchises everywhere, too.

However, my feeling is that while most of this generation will be screwed, there will be enough people who realize that to make a significant change. (or maybe it's only that bad here in the US. but that's for another topic.)

[Twizzler0171]

Yukio, you only like that because it said something about running with scissors. =/

[Paul]

Ugh. Silly elitists.

[Mongrel]

Wow... tiradeous much? Aww what happened Moongewl? Tell us a story. *sits down*

This is 99% related to those in the US, but it just seems like my generation is the one that is expected to be as enthusiastic and idealistic as the people who thought they could change the world by fighting "the establishment," but whatever we do in the current war, it'll probably be a bad move because half the country will refuse to get on board no matter what the move is. Then, even if we COULD get that sorted out, we'd have to move on to saving the planet from global warming(which most people agree exists, even if the severity of the problem is still in dispute). And even if we got THAT solved, what would be next? Fixing health care? Making our public schools something other than a joke--or even just finding a happy medium between protecting children and putting bars on every window? And even imaging we managed to take care of THOSE situations, there are always a million other things that this generation is supposed to fix, but even if we do fix it, we're still a cruddy generation of fat, MacDonald's-loving, lazy, worthless kids who will never do anything useful, or even get good enough grades on our national testing.
We are the generation of a million experiments where schooling was concerned. Every different system was rejected, so we had a ragged patchwork of different ideas and methods, many of which were contradictory and none of which emphasized mastery of a subject--instead, it was "Don't worry about the material. Just do your homework and get an A." I still resent the poor education I got at school, because every year the teachers would have to try to adjust to whichever system had supplanted the old one. Students slip through the cracks everywhere. Maybe they always did, but now it's the average students who are being lost. Because "no child should be left behind," EVERY child is left behind, dragged down to the level of the lowest student in the class.
And this generation, which was so poorly prepared by the generation before, struggles to cope with a media that feeds us fear, and schools that feed us ignorance, and study after study telling us that we are the dumbest, laziest generation in a hundred years, is also expected to solve the problems caused by "the best generation ever."

[Asthaloth]

I just like how history is repeating itself.
How every generation is perverting the ideals of what it is to be human, and will end up ruining the world with our ways.

So far my generation is doing pretty well, compared to Nuclear holocaust, at any rate.

[Hunter Lupe]

The linked page is actually satire, and, as such, shouldn't be taken all that seriously.

So far my generation is doing pretty well, compared to Nuclear holocaust, at any rate.

Not being given adequate free reign to mess up doesn't qualify you for the lifetime achievement award.

We are the generation of a million experiments where schooling was concerned.

And the generation before that clearly had better schooling. Yeah. Okay.

And even imaging we managed to take care of THOSE situations, there are always a million other things that this generation is supposed to fix, ...

There's a million things any generation is supposed to fix. It's called progress, and it wants its glory back!

... but even if we do fix it, we're still a cruddy generation of fat, MacDonald's-loving, lazy, worthless kids who will never do anything useful, ...

You are, first and foremost, what you believe yourself to be; that whole fragment is rhetoric.

... or even get good enough grades on our national testing.

Oh. Okay, faith in humanity restored.

[Mongrel]

We are the generation of a million experiments where schooling was concerned.

And the generation before that clearly had better schooling. Yeah. Okay.

I noticed a severe decline in the quality of my OWN education, from first grade to twelfth. Maybe it's different where you live, but here that's the consistent trend: schools getting worse, and people complaining about them, and any funding that might actually help us getting horribly mismanaged before it even reached the schools.

... but even if we do fix it, we're still a cruddy generation of fat, MacDonald's-loving, lazy, worthless kids who will never do anything useful, ...

You are, first and foremost, what you believe yourself to be; that whole fragment is rhetoric.

That's what I keep hearing from the generation before me. The whole thing is a complaint about the fact that every generation before us complains about us and says their generation was better and I'm tired of it. I don't care if that's how every generation views itself; I'm tired of my generation being blamed every time we get another report on childhood obesity or falling test scores. It's never anyone's fault but ours, because we played video games instead of going outside and getting skinned knees and enjoying apple pie or whatever the epitome of childhood was "back in the day."

[Asthaloth]

The linked page is actually satire, and, as such, shouldn't be taken all that seriously.

So far my generation is doing pretty well, compared to Nuclear holocaust, at any rate.

Not being given adequate free reign to mess up doesn't qualify you for the lifetime achievement award.

I would like to point out that I did mention that.
But continue to ignore the pertinent points of my argument.
It just strengthens it for those paying attention.