How the hell did you survive?

Ain't that the truth.

Ohh, gotta love whiny old guys. I am sure his parents complained about how coddled & sheltered his generation was compared to those who grew up in the 20s, 30s, 40s. And their parents complained about how much better it was in the 1800s. And you go back to ancient Greece and Plato and Aristotle are complaining about the same old shit from the younger generations. This song is old as humanity.

And that generation raised the current generation of narcissistic lazy ass self entitled punks.

and that generation's parents thought the same of kids back then too. nothing is new under the sun.

Everything is pussyfied nowadays...

Very pussyfied.

I have a secret pussification theory that it was actually "Friends" - the breaking point that brought pussification into pop culture, showing that it's ok to be a self-centered, too much talking, always-freaking-out, non-sense solving twit.

Fantastic

I just read a quote by Kerry to Putin, more or less apologizing, and making clear that there were no real threats being made and the whole situation "wasn't personal." So, yeah...

Never heard any of that, but way to twist it around to an out of context non-reality

Agreed...

BUT

'Friends' made it more socially acceptable to openly admit to watching and loving porn.

era of real movies none of that talkfest shit

There can be an argument made that the generation portrayed in the video destroyed the greatest country on earth as they took over so maybe that stuff wasn't so great.

I know you love old shit! Just look at the smut you push!!!!!

Yup

My father worked in the Thetford Mines. When I was 13 he told me to shut up, learn english and get a job.

lol at this thread.

I never understood guys who thought that show was funny. Only female humor and situations.

OK where to start?
Sure we cured a few diseases but we have added new ones to the list including obesity (according to the CDC)

Every single social problem we had in the 60s still exists today.
The biggest differences are the food, enviroment and today's youth.

I remember the past, most notably the Monterey Pop Festival, trying to get my 20$ back from Emmett Grogan, throwing bricks at the police in Paris in 1968 and spitting on a cop during the October Crisis in 1970. You are correct, it was NOT all Ozzie and Harriet... But at least we were truely alive which is something I can not say about a lot of people today.

i survived by eating poo

Ohh, I miss those days sometimes.

how was the education system so great back then when it was so common for students to drop out of school and almost unheard of to get secondary education?
well back then they used DDT as a pesticide. there were no regulations on nutritional information being given to consumers nor were companies forced to even print the ingredients. lets not forget the 50's gave birth to the abortion known as the tv dinnner
i can agree with this to some degree but there was no recycling. people threw garbage out the car window without a second though, threw car oil on sewer drains and there were nowhere near the environmental oversight there is today.
isn't that what your parents called your generation as well? its all what you want to see i guess. sure there is the general 'dumbing down' of society but its nothing new.
it certainly seemed to be an exciting time to be alive but keep in mind while you were doing all these things the vast majority of your generation just lived average lives and were born, got married, had kids and died in the same place.

I am not going to do the indivdual quoting of each point.
But I will answer you just the same

The generations that raised mine.

First both my parent's generation and my grand-parent's generation the vast majority of them were functional alcholics and domestic abuse was a way of life. The man of the house would get up.. throw up and go to work. Then come home, start drinking, tell the kids to shut up for making noise and smack his wife in the face for asking him for money to buy food or pay the bills.

I am old enough to remember those people born in the 1800s and after world war 1. They almost never called "us" weak... They thought we were too "big for our britches" with all our talk doing something more with our lives. I can remember when I was 11 my grand-père sat me down with a bottle of swish and told me to drink it all because it would fix the stupid ideas I had in my head. I told him to eat shit and you can figure out what he did with that bottle to me. So yes.... Today's generation is very very weak compared to mine.

As for the pesticides, DDT, etc...

Yes it did exist but never on the mass industrial scale it does today. Most of our food came from local farmers that came every week to town. Whereas today the food comes from some nation on the other side of the planet. How much of our grocery store food has been treated, handled by hundreds of people, stuck in giant unwashed containers, etc. Just one look at the large number of fat asses on the street or the cancer statistics of today and it is obvious our food is poison.

Finally the education system,

I came from the generation that had the best public school education that ever existed. If you can get your hands on some of the high school text books from my era, you will find that most would qualify as university text today. Today's youth have enough technology in their pockets to put a man on the moon but how many still talk like an illiterate crack addict. "U no wot m sayn ?"

Granted I am old and I make mistakes when I express myself in english. But I will bet that I do better than most of today's young anglophones.

Exactly

It's not like kids form themselves. If they get coddled, they will be narcissistic, self-absorbed, entitled brats, from crib to coffin.