[swirldog]

So I'm at a fast-food joint and 2 kids are in line ahead of me. They're dressed like jocks (long shorts, oversized T-shirts with sports league sponsors on the back) and the one in particular looks pretty big for his age.

The smaller kid tells the bigger kid about some mutual buddy who got beat up in the locker room. Apparently, someone just started whaling on him while he was bent over and minding his own business.

The larger kid is incredulous.

The smaller kid says something like "Yeah. I so wanted to jump in and help him out."

The larger kid than says "I would have jumped in. If I had seen [name of perpetrator which meant nothing to me] throw the first punch and if I was certain it was a sucker punch and [friend] hadn't said anything first."

At this point, I became incredulous. WTF is up with these kids? Do they spend too much time playing video games or "talking" to friends on myspace? At least one of them was 16 since they most likely drove to the restaurant in a not very residential area. When do kids' balls drop these days?

Have kids always been such pussies or I am romanticizing back on my high school days and imagining I was tougher than me and my friends were?

[Jackson81]

No you're about right. This generation coming up is very pussified.

[Matt]

There are so many things wrong with your post...

First, you're saying kids today are going in the wrong direction because they are less violent. (WTF?)

Second, you're making a blanket assessment of a generation based on one conversation between two kids about a second-hand incident, when there are millions of different kids with different kinds of backgrounds and behaviors all over the country.

Third, you must be living on an island somewhere if you think kids today are less violent. Just watch the news or browse youtube if you need thousands of examples.

[smasheroffaces]

all my kids are full of bravery. i dont agree all kids are like that today

[brackis1]

Originally Posted by Matt

There are so many things wrong with your post...

First, you're saying kids today are going in the wrong direction because they are less violent. (WTF?)

Second, you're making a blanket assessment of a generation based on one conversation between two kids about a second-hand incident, when there are millions of different kids with different kinds of backgrounds and behaviors all over the country.

Third, you must be living on an island somewhere if you think kids today are less violent. Just watch the news or browse youtube if you need thousands of examples.

Fourth, every generation is worried the next sucks, except somehow the world improves its technologies and standards of living with each successive one...

[Brampton_Boy]

While I don't entirely understand your post (or more specifically, your grievances with the kids ahead of you), I agree that something is terribly wrong with this generation.

Both young and old alike seem to lack conviction (more so the former), and don't stand for anything anymore. There passions seem rooted in whatever "flavor of the month" is being portrayed in the media.

[smasheroffaces]

yah all the kids in iraq the teenagers are real punks huh? listen the kids today are badasses. they are just differant. i trust them with my future. when they grow up they will be fine.

[IrishBeatDown]

[swirldog]

Fair enough.

You guys are right. I simply overheard 2 kids in my town talking. Perhaps their principle will expel anyone for flinging a spitball less alone fighting.

And, yeap, thanks for the reminding nudge that each generation thinks the one after it is soft and yet we survived 2 world wars, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Still seems pussified to me though.

[Sinatra]

Why didn't you fight them for being pussies?

Pussy.