Is there hope for the younger generation?

[spudfan]

Makes you wonder if there is any hope for the younger generation..

[DeanoH]

Not just the younger generation :(

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"ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever"

[Homestar]

Makes you wonder when reading things like that but they aren't all the same. My Son dropped out of School in year 10 due to various reasons - told him he needed to find substantial employment before doing so and 2 days later had secured a full time job at the Supermarket he was working as a casual. He fronted the owner and asked him to put him on full time and that he wouldn't regret it. Within 12 months was filling in for Managers when they were on leave then started an Apprenticeship as a Butcher in the Meatroom there. Qualified and became the Meat Manager before he was 20. After a couple of years decided he didn't like retail and has gone to Uni and is training to be a Nurse - yes, he fits the stereotype for a Male nurse. [smilebigeye] He's just turned 24.

Not sure what it says about a Nurse being a qualified Butcher though - still trying to work that one out in my head. [biggrin]

[rick130]

Not sure what it says about a Nurse being a qualified Butcher though - still trying to work that one out in my head. [biggrin]

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I suggest becoming a theatre specialist nurse [emoji12][emoji23]

[Slunnie]

Makes you wonder if there is any hope for the younger generation..

Kidney for the phone was a good deal, they normally cost an arm and a leg!

[V8Ian]

Very droll, Simon. [bigrolf]

[Slunnie]

Very droll, Simon. [bigrolf]

Whipping out the dad jokes! :lol2:

[Roverlord off road spares]

I watched an international news program yesterday and the story was about Afghans selling their kidney to get money to buy food for the family.

[4bee]

I watched an international news program yesterday and the story was about Afghans selling their kidney to get money to buy food for the family.

My 'er indoors has managed without a 2nd Kidney all her life. It took her a Migration trip to Adelaide for us to find out the reason she was in pain for years. UK Doctors couldn't find the problem. Seems one of the buggers was restricted due to it not forming properly so out with the daggy one & she is quite happy (?) to live with just one. We have discussed the chances of that one failing so no option to do otherwise except to live with it & maybe donate one of mine if they will have it & that one isn't shot as well.

According to the Sturgeon the remaining one is extremely healthy.


Still, it may never happen & Covid or summat could bring her down instead. Or me.[bigrolf]

[AK83]

......
Not sure what it says about a Nurse being a qualified Butcher though - still trying to work that one out in my head. [biggrin]

No need too. I had one of those when I was laid up in hospital 20+ years ago after my major accident. So I can elaborate some details for 'ya ...
She did a absolute fantastic number on my arm just trying to get a IV drip going for me.
Ended up badly bruised for a few weeks(no pain, just hideous bruising), but more importantly my left arm was inoperable being broken, and she'd struggling to insert the tube to tether my useful right arm to the IV and painkiller drip .. so now both arms inoperable when trying to eat!

Great stuff.

Eventually another nurse came along and correctly used my broken left arm for the drip

[jonesfam]

I think we are basically all DOOMED!
SWMBO has 5 teenagers living with her, yet I have to mow the lawns when I go down there.
Apparently they are all to busy?
So I tell Ya We are all DOOMED.
Jonesfam

[windsock]

I think we are basically all DOOMED!
SWMBO has 5 teenagers living with her, yet I have to mow the lawns when I go down there.
Apparently they are all to busy?
So I tell Ya We are all DOOMED.
Jonesfam

isn't the term 'rooned' or something?

[jonesfam]

You are probably correct.
But, I went to a Grammar School & learnt English proper, hey!
Jonesfam

[4bee]

No need too. I had one of those when I was laid up in hospital 20+ years ago after my major accident. So I can elaborate some details for 'ya ...
She did a absolute fantastic number on my arm just trying to get a IV drip going for me.
Ended up badly bruised for a few weeks(no pain, just hideous bruising), but more importantly my left arm was inoperable being broken, and she'd struggling to insert the tube to tether my useful right arm to the IV and painkiller drip .. so now both arms inoperable when trying to eat!

Great stuff.

Eventually another nurse came along and correctly used my broken left arm for the drip


. so now both arms inoperable when trying to eat!


Talk about taking away a bloke's dignity?[bigrolf]

[4bee]

I think we are basically all DOOMED!
SWMBO has 5 teenagers living with her, yet I have to mow the lawns when I go down there.
Apparently they are all to busy?
So I tell Ya We are all DOOMED.
Jonesfam


Teenagers can be the laziest sods on god's earth.


How do I know this you may well ask?


Well, was a teen myself a thousand years ago & anything to get out of a bit of "Home Maintenance" when one has a nice looking sort lined up for the flicks that evening, & one has to start putting on the glad rags at about 3pm so you won't be late.



Oh yes, I've been there sonny Jim/Paul.:Rolling::BigCry:

[Tote]

Teenagers can be the laziest sods on god's earth.


How do I know this you may well ask?


Well, was a teen myself a thousand years ago & anything to get out of a bit of "Home Maintenance" when one has a nice looking sort lined up for the flicks that evening, & one has to start putting on the glad rags at about 3pm so you won't be late.



Oh yes, I've been there sonny Jim/Paul.:Rolling::BigCry:

Yep, every time one of the girls tells me that they hate going to the farm and doing work it reminds me of my teenage self.... but I still get grumpy anyway. Why else would I have had children if not for free labour.[biggrin]

Regards,
Tote

[4bee]

Yep, every time one of the girls tells me that they hate going to the farm and doing work it reminds me of my teenage self.... but I still get grumpy anyway. Why else would I have had children if not for free labour.[biggrin]

Regards,
Tote

Farm! Have you tried asking them to tidy their bedrooms? Like it was WW3 breaking out already. I'm over that these days & they have kids of their own to grapple with.
[bigrolf]

[Arapiles]

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I suggest becoming a theatre specialist nurse [emoji12][emoji23]


I suggest that he becomes a surgeon.

[austastar]

Kids tidy bedrooms?

Mum: Why are your clothes all on the floor?

Kid: Gee Mum....Gravity! Don't you know anything?


Grrr!

Cheers

[Gav 110]

Kids tidy bedrooms?

Mum: Why are your clothes all on the floor?

Kid: Gee Mum....Gravity! Don't you know anything?


Grrr!

Cheers

Alternative answer

Kid: Because you haven’t picked them up !!

[4bee]

Alternative answer

Kid: Because you haven’t picked them up !!



Pause 2. 3

Kid: Mum, why did you belt me over the ear & ban me from going out with my friends?
I'm going to tell Dad on you. ( snivel snivel snivel.):Rolling:

[Gav 110]

Pause 2. 3

Kid: Mum, why did you belt me over the ear & ban me from going out with my friends?
I'm going to tell Dad on you. ( snivel snivel snivel.):Rolling:

Dad gets home and heads for the fridge to get a refreshing beverage

Kid: Dad Dad, Mum hit me and won’t let me go out and play with little Jonny

Dad: You probably deserved it, now get out of my way before I kick you up the bum

Pssh

Dad: Guzzle Guzzle Buurp

Kid: snivel snivel

[4bee]

Dad gets home and heads for the fridge to get a refreshing beverage

Kid: Dad Dad, Mum hit me and won’t let me go out and play with little Jonny

Dad: You probably deserved it, now get out of my way before I kick you up the bum

Pssh

Dad: Guzzle Guzzle Buurp

Kid: snivel snivel



DAD: Look here son, I hope that isn't the little foul mouthed little Johnny of dirty stories fame.

You better stay away from him or he'll teach you some bad words & there will be no Sunday School for you for a few months"

Kid: YaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaY. Yahoo. Yippee! Winner.


Dad, you know that nice Sunday school teacher Mrs Brown that you see after work every day...........

Dad: What about it son?


Kid: Does Mum know about her?

Dad: Get to bed son or I really will give you a kick up the bum. (Dad in cold sweat & grabs another beer out of the fridge & goes back to watching TV & considers throttling the Kid & blaming it on Cot Death..)

[Gav 110]

You better stay away from him or he'll teach you some bad words & there will be no Sunday School for you for a few months"

Kid: YaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaY. Yahoo. Yippee! Winner.


Dad, you know that nice Sunday school teacher Mrs Brown that you see after work every day...........

Dad: What about it son?


Kid: Does Mum know about her?

Dad: Get to bed son or I really will give you a kick up the bum. (Dad in cold sweat & grabs another beer out of the fridge & goes back to watching TV & considers throttling the Kid & blaming it on Cot Death..)

The next morning, because the boy wasn’t allowed to go and play with Jonny, he was getting on mums nerves
He could sense this and tried to find something to do, looking out the front window he sees a new house being built

Kid: Mum can I go and play at the building site across the road??

Mum: YES, just stay out of trouble

Well if we’ve listed to the song “The builder” by KBW, we know how the story ends[emoji12]

[4bee]

The next morning, because the boy wasn’t allowed to go and play with Jonny, he was getting on mums nerves
He could sense this and tried to find something to do, looking out the front window he sees a new house being built

Kid: Mum can I go and play at the building site across the road??

Mum: YES, just stay out of trouble

Well if we’ve listed to the song “The builder” by KBW, we know how the story ends[emoji12]



Kid: Mum can I go and play at the building site across the road?? & don't forget your dear Daddy is looking for a nice straight grained piece of Jarrah for our back door step. Don't get caught now ya hear.


Kid: No Mum I never have in the past around here.


Muuuuuuuuum, do you remember Mrs Brown from my Sunday School?

Mum: I do yes, the one that Daddy says has nice legs, that one?


Why son?



Kid" Ah nuffink. (Kid is sensing mayhem at this point so shuts up)

Bye Mum, back for tea.

[ramblingboy42]

didn't take long for this thread to get out of control......

[Saitch]

didn't take long for this thread to get out of control......

Not much hope for any generation on AULRO![biggrin]

[4bee]

didn't take long for this thread to get out of control......


This section is not all about Land Rovers you know. ( ie. General Chat)

You could always add something.

****ing Sauce![biggrin]

[jonesfam]

The kids have excelled themselves.
SWMBO had a hissy over them not cleaning their rooms.
Made all sorts of threats up to & including no Netflix or Wi-Fi for a week.
She now has several days of washing to do & the bin is overflowing with extra rubbish bags around it.
Maybe we should just let them have their own way?
Then again SWMBO see's it as a win even if a negative one!
Jonesfam

[3toes]

A friend found a solution to the kids not observing her rules around time on electronic games. Used to go to the switch board an trip the circuit they were on. Once this was done games were off until she managed to sort the house electrics which could take a while. Fridge and freezer were on a different circuit

[RANDLOVER]

I do worry about the youngsters some days, I often go to a takeaway place and get two of the same item at $14 each, and I've had a few of them use a calculator to add the amounts, so they can ring up $28 on the till.

[Tins]

Get them to watch Wolf Creek. Then stand outside doing that maniacal giggle. Who knows, maybe it'll work better than your current strategy. Or not.

Never did for me.

[BradC]

A friend found a solution to the kids not observing her rules around time on electronic games. Used to go to the switch board an trip the circuit they were on.

That might have worked when I was younger, but everything has a battery these days. My niece (10) was giving my brother a hard time, and he threatened to switch off the wifi. She replied "that's fine, I have data!". They learn so fast these days. Turns out it doesn't take them long to find out what "SIM not installed" means.

[JDNSW]

I am quite surprised at the technical competence of my 11y0 gd in using my "smart TV" (actually an unsmart TV plus an old laptop with a dead screen running Linux) with her phone supplying data.

And I was also rather surprised by her ability to use (and insistence on doing it) the block splitter a couple of days ago when I decided to light the kitchen fire to cook dinner (and ensure hot water).

[PhilipA]

Quote from Goodreads attributed to Socrates.

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Hasn't changed much in 2000 years has it?
Regards PhilipA

[ramblingboy42]

...there is definitely hope for the younger generation , unless us righteous boomers continue to **** things up so badly that they can't rectify the damage we have done to the planet.

As we pass on , it is going to be their inheritance and from what I see , with their technological capabilities , they may just succeed.

[V8Ian]

Quote from Goodreads attributed to Socrates.

Hasn't changed much in 2000 years has it?
Regards PhilipA
Is that hearsay, or did you witness it, Philip? [wink11]

[PhilipA]

Is that hearsay, or did you witness it, Philip?

Well Socrates was there!
The point is that parents have been complaining about children's behaviour and attitudes since recognised civilisation began, yet here we are still going and still complaining, and My kids are complaining about their kids and the Grandkids will probably complain about their kids.
C'est la vie..
Regards Philip A

[3toes]

The ‘Socrates’ quote is one of those which is popular but cannot be found in his writings. My understanding is that it first appeared in the nineteen sixties

[V8Ian]

The ‘Socrates’ quote is one of those which is popular but cannot be found in his writings. My understanding is that it first appeared in the nineteen sixties
A voice from the grave? [biggrin]

[Saitch]

The ‘Socrates’ quote is one of those which is popular but cannot be found in his writings. My understanding is that it first appeared in the nineteen sixties

I am under the impression that Socrates never recorded any of his teachings, sayings or philosophy. Anything attributed to him, is based on the accounts of acquaintances. As far as I'm aware, he put nothing in writing.

Back on topic, most of the younger folk I come in contact with, I find easy going and pleasant to chat with. In saying that, most have been raised in a bucolic environment..

[V8Ian]

I am under the impression that Socrates never recorded any of his teachings, sayings or philosophy. Anything attributed to him, is based on the accounts of acquaintances. As far as I'm aware, he put nothing in writing.
Of which you are one? [bigwhistle][tonguewink]

[Saitch]

Of which you are one? [bigwhistle][tonguewink]

I'm not sure. He never replied to my correspondences!

[V8Ian]

I'm not sure. He never replied to my correspondences!
Probably couldn't read English.

[Saitch]

....or Latin, apparently!

[V8Ian]

....or Latin, apparently!
Are you fluent in olde Italian? [biggrin]

[JDNSW]

Socrates, being Greek, and living in Athens, probably had never even heard of Latin, let alone spoke it. It is unclear whether he actually wrote down anything, but what he spent his career doing was teaching students - and most of what we know about him comes from the writings of two of his students, especially Plato, although it is unclear how much of Socrates' philosophy is actually Plato's.

[Saitch]

Socrates, being Greek, and living in Athens, probably had never even heard of Latin, let alone spoke it. It is unclear whether he actually wrote down anything, but what he spent his career doing was teaching students - and most of what we know about him comes from the writings of two of his students, especially Plato, although it is unclear how much of Socrates' philosophy is actually Plato's.

Correct, JD. My "Latin" comment was obscurely tongue in cheek, related to the "English" reference. Xenophon, another of Socrates disciples, was a very erudite man and military strategist, in his own right.

[JDNSW]

Correct, JD. My "Latin" comment was obscurely tongue in cheek, related to the "English" reference. Xenephon, another of Socrates disciples, was a very erudite man and military strategist, in his own right.

And Xenephon was also an experienced and competent soldier - as was almost every male citizen of every Greek city state of the day. The incompetent ones did not stay around too long - when the city states were not fighting each other or the Persians, they usually managed a civil conflict by themselves. And worth noting that Xenephon's main claim to fame in his lifetime was as the leader of a troop of mercenaries fighting on the losing side of a minor civil war in the Persian Empire (having apparently been on the wrong side in a political and possibly physical conflict in Athens). He spent most of his life living outside of Athens, dying in Corinth.

[Saitch]

My humble apologies. I just realised that I misspelt 'Xenophon'.[bigsad] Perhaps because I'm from another country? [biggrin]

[V8Ian]

My humble apologies. I just realised that I misspelt 'Xenophon'.[bigsad] Perhaps because I'm from another country? [biggrin]
Or was it the Latin spelling? [wink11]

[SwedishBloke]

Fellas, there is still hope.

My 11 year old is the only one in the 5th grade who does not have a smartphone. She is utterly bored of her peers who just look at Tiktok during the breaks. Both she and her younger brother are devovering books, actual books! We have to keep telling them to stop reading at nights since it is time to turn of the lights. We also read for them and their younger sister frequently.

[4bee]

Fellas, there is still hope.

My 11 year old is the only one in the 5th grade who does not have a smartphone. She is utterly bored of her peers who just look at Tiktok during the breaks. Both she and her younger brother are devovering books, actual books! We have to keep telling them to stop reading at nights since it is time to turn of the lights. We also read for them and their younger sister frequently.



Even as Adults we all know what it is like to get your nose into a good book which you just cannot put down.[biggrin]

[gofish]

Found this worth while. Even got my daughter & her friend to watch it.

Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace - YouTube (https://youtu.be/hER0Qp6QJNU)