Kids are so stupid nowadays, including my own.
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I was talking to my 18 year old daughter today who is probably better classed as a young adult, as Ben Elton would say, and we had this pithy conversation:-
Her " I don't want to go to the BBQ because I will have to wear a mask"
Me " If you wore a black mask you can put a Z on the front and look like Zorro"
Her "Who's Zorro ? "
I could have expected that if I had said Jimmy Tarbuck, Lennie Godber or Lee out of Peters and Lee, but Zorro? Does she not know her Saturday morning TV Mexican history for godsake? Obviously not.
It seems to me that the generation classes now have to be re-done as -->
BABY BOOMERS
GENERATION X
MILLENIALS / SNOWFLAKES
GENERATION DUMBNUTZ
They know feck all apart from social media.
Hopefully we can put them all on a Hitchhikers style ark and send them off to another planet before it is too late.
I'll be waving at the quay with my hankie, filmed in black and whit,e and shouting "Watch out for interplanetary methane icebergs "
Bon Voyage.
Her " I don't want to go to the BBQ because I will have to wear a mask"
Me " If you wore a black mask you can put a Z on the front and look like Zorro"
Her "Who's Zorro ? "
I could have expected that if I had said Jimmy Tarbuck, Lennie Godber or Lee out of Peters and Lee, but Zorro? Does she not know her Saturday morning TV Mexican history for godsake? Obviously not.
It seems to me that the generation classes now have to be re-done as -->
BABY BOOMERS
GENERATION X
MILLENIALS / SNOWFLAKES
GENERATION DUMBNUTZ
They know feck all apart from social media.
Hopefully we can put them all on a Hitchhikers style ark and send them off to another planet before it is too late.
I'll be waving at the quay with my hankie, filmed in black and whit,e and shouting "Watch out for interplanetary methane icebergs "
Bon Voyage.
Ignorance rather than stupidity, but perfectly reflects the apparent willingness of many young people to miss out on having a good experience because they either can't be bothered or they may have to do or wear something which won't present the right image (to whom, I have no idea, they're not ALL instagram "influencers" surely, just wannabes...) Why will she have to wear a mask?
Some friends paid for their daughter to have driving lessons, after seven lessons the instructor told the parents that she was one of the very few drivers that were not ready for driving a car. The mother, a doctor, thought she knew better and ushered her daughter into the car amd said, let us see how bad a driver you are, take me down the hill into the village.
They crashed into a wall at the bottom of the hill.
'Why didn't you brake'?
'I did but the pedal was too stiff'
'Wasn't the engine working'
'You didn't tell me to start it, the instructor always tells me to start the engine, I thought that you must know some special way'
She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.
They crashed into a wall at the bottom of the hill.
'Why didn't you brake'?
'I did but the pedal was too stiff'
'Wasn't the engine working'
'You didn't tell me to start it, the instructor always tells me to start the engine, I thought that you must know some special way'
She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.
Robbo 27 said:
She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.
Last place I worked had under essential requirements a full UK driving licence even though it was an office based job, I'm sure it was simply used as a filter.There's been far too much hand holding/guidance in children's education/life of over the past couple of decades and the reliance on group work for teaching to such an extent that many young adults can't use independent thought/logic to solve an issue.
designforlife said:
Zorro is a pretty old school reference and I'm 35... I don't think lack of intelligence should be confused with an inability to get a reference due to your age.
There was the quite good Antonio Banderas film in 1998 and a sequel in 2005. They've both been on TV many times since. 
Robbo 27 said:
Some friends paid for their daughter to have driving lessons, after seven lessons the instructor told the parents that she was one of the very few drivers that were not ready for driving a car. The mother, a doctor, thought she knew better and ushered her daughter into the car amd said, let us see how bad a driver you are, take me down the hill into the village.
They crashed into a wall at the bottom of the hill.
'Why didn't you brake'?
'I did but the pedal was too stiff'
'Wasn't the engine working'
'You didn't tell me to start it, the instructor always tells me to start the engine, I thought that you must know some special way'
She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.
Scary that the parent did t notice the engine not starting!They crashed into a wall at the bottom of the hill.
'Why didn't you brake'?
'I did but the pedal was too stiff'
'Wasn't the engine working'
'You didn't tell me to start it, the instructor always tells me to start the engine, I thought that you must know some special way'
She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: It's like asking a 90 year old who Stormzy is and acting surprised when they don't have a clue.
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You might be doing the elderly a disservice..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_UyyWqp6Wc
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