Youngsters These Days......I Don't Understand!

[BoRED S2upid]

PistonBroker said:

My 10yo does all this, except for the 'spoons bit of course.

Now I'm saddened that I still have another 10 years of it, at least, ahead of me.

Why? They can join the Army aged 16!

[Triumph Man]

Cotty said:

Triumph Man said:

Those ones with a support bar across the top, at a guess.

I think I would prefer better clarification.

There you go, nonce specs. Extra points if they have a subtle orange tint.

[Frank7]

Triumph Man said:

There you go, nonce specs. Extra points if they have a subtle orange tint.

Top ones bad, lower ones good, am I right??

[Cotty]

Castrol for a knave said:

My wife watches me with a pitying look when I dash to turn on the smart TV when I discover a new episode of Project Binky is ready....

I don't really see the problem, is it because its on YouTube and not normal TV she doesn't get? Or does she just dislike the content?

[Pothole]

Kermit power said:

If you listen in when they're playing a multi-player game together, some of the strategy can actually be quite impressive!

You mean there's an option not to listen?

[Cantaloupe]

" Sex Nonce Spectacles " ?

A French brand I've not heard of.
I'll check them out.

[Pothole]

Cantaloupe said:

" Sex Nonce Spectacles " ?

A French brand I've not heard of.
I'll check them out.

Less sophisticated pince-nez?

[xjay1337]

Most of this thread I can sum up with "ok Boomer".

Different generations, and as usual the older looking down on the young, and the young resenting the older.

[fatandwheezing]

Sheets Tabuer said:

I have a five year old, I picked her up the other day, she looked at my ipad and said Daddy can I watch Youtube.

Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.

This is the absolute bane of our lives. The rabbit hole that leads to Combo Panda, Ryan's irritating pushy parents, and idiotic hangers on doing hilarious fake pranks on each other makes me want to turn Amish.

[hyphen]

xjay1337 said:

Most of this thread I can sum up with "ok Boomer".

Different generations, and as usual the older looking down on the young, and the young resenting the older.

Do you have the wetherspoons app? Will you buy us all drinks?

[Frank7]

hotchy said:

I still pay everything in cash. That is all.

I used to do that, when I was in a cash oriented business, where 90% of my customers paid in cash.
At the end of every day I would have £90 - £150 cash in the breast pocket of my shirt, plus £40 or £50 in credit card receipts.
On occasion, I’d call my wife and suggest going out to dinner.
I’d either meet her in The City, or drive home, pick her up, and out we’d go.
At the end of the dinner, I’d ask for the bill which was usually between £70 and £85, then dip into my shirt pocket and as discreetly as possible, count out enough to cover it, and the tip, and put it on the small plate.
I wouldn’t make a song and dance of it, or count in a raised voice, ten, twenty, thirty, forty etc. but I’d sometimes notice other diners, nudging one another, nodding in my direction, I’m sure that they thought that I was a crook, or money launderer.
It annoyed my wife, and sometimes she’d say, “For Chrissakes pay with a card, those rubberneckers are looking at us as if we’re Bonnie and Clyde.”
I’d say, “Screw them, I earn my money honestly, what do I care about what they think?”

[Mort7]

[Bill]

fatandwheezing said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

I have a five year old, I picked her up the other day, she looked at my ipad and said Daddy can I watch Youtube.

Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.

This is the absolute bane of our lives. The rabbit hole that leads to Combo Panda, Ryan's irritating pushy parents, and idiotic hangers on doing hilarious fake pranks on each other makes me want to turn Amish.

Don't worry, it won't last forever... I caught my 12-y-o having snuck his phone up stairs yesterday to Google pornhub! Thankfully I have it locked down so after a couple of fruitless searches for porn and "naked woman" he'd gone back to YouTube.

[Kermit power]

Bill said:

fatandwheezing said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

I have a five year old, I picked her up the other day, she looked at my ipad and said Daddy can I watch Youtube.

Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.

This is the absolute bane of our lives. The rabbit hole that leads to Combo Panda, Ryan's irritating pushy parents, and idiotic hangers on doing hilarious fake pranks on each other makes me want to turn Amish.

Don't worry, it won't last forever... I caught my 12-y-o having snuck his phone up stairs yesterday to Google pornhub! Thankfully I have it locked down so after a couple of fruitless searches for porn and "naked woman" he'd gone back to YouTube.

I thought I'd caught my 11yr old doing something similar, but it turned out he was actually watching a Youtube video about the differences between inside and outside centre in rugby. Proud father/coach moment!

[Bill]

I can only dream of him using for something useful!

[Alex_225]

I'm 37 so I don't consider myself old but clearly can't be considered young either. That said I grew up with video games and the internet from my early teens so the technology has been there but has evolved hugely in my life time.

So I've grown up with the internet and computer games in some shape or form. I enjoyed gaming and still do to a point but it was always something to do if you have spare time, not THE thing to do all the time. Luckily the majority of my friends were/are the same.

There's clearly some fantastic tech at our finger tips now, we can book things, look things up, find directions etc. so easily and it does enhance our lives.

I think social media the one thing I think is a bad thing because it's not real, it's mostly fictitious and yet it is utterly critical to their existence. I find it staggering that creating a completely virtual persona is just so important. In fact falseness as a whole seems to impress people and I see people of older generations doing it, all this soppy nonsense to show what a great human being you are, cringeworthy!

[Cotty]

Alex_225 said:

I think social media the one thing I think is a bad thing because it's not real,

How can it not be real. I am part of a car group on Facebook, they run a meet at a local pub. They post the date and people turn up, how is that not real

[bobtail4x4]

but are they holograms?

[AJB88]

Going to try out the Wetherspoons trick in a few weeks for my Birthday, call out all those "i'd buy you a drink if I was out kind".

Got to admit the Wetherspoons app is brilliant, especially on a busy day in a city.. Remember a mate queuing up in Manchester, said to him I'll order through the app but he insisted of doing it the old way, me and my other mate were on our 2nd pint by time he came back.

Partners got a 7 year old who sits watching Minecraft videos all day, not sure who the guy is but hes got an annoying voice and shouts "OMG" at everything. 7 year old started doing it one day, soon got told to stop it.

I'm 30 now, pretty sure my parents would of been saying the same about stuff from 1999-2007, music, myspace, facebook etc etc.

[Kermit power]

Cotty said:

Alex_225 said:

I think social media the one thing I think is a bad thing because it's not real,

How can it not be real. I am part of a car group on Facebook, they run a meet at a local pub. They post the date and people turn up, how is that not real

Not real in terms of the life they present isn't real, I would say.

Nobody ever posts on Facebook to say they're sat on the sofa watching TV and browsing through Facebook looking at all their friends out having lots of fun, do they?

People only generally post up the stuff where they are having fun, and it's certainly not all the time, but if you look at your Facebook feed, all you get is a relentless stream of people having fun, which makes you wonder what's wrong with you that you're not having fun all the time as well. That's the sort of thing that leads easily to depression, or money issues when people do try to go out all the time because they think everyone else is.