# Brats, fuck you. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504 "2003-10-04T05:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palewriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@Palewriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palewriter)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/1 "2003-10-04T05:08:28Z")
Background: I’m 54 and I work in a trendy business that’s dominated by 20-somethings. Do you realize how boring you are? Your silly-trendy clothes, your goofy stories that always begin “I remember, a few years ago when I was starting out, WE didn’t [insert silly thing here].” Fucking 20-somethings. At least I can beat you at ONE THING. I’m going to DIE FIRST. So there. 🙂 I should have called this thread “A Boomer’s Lament”, shouldn’t I. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/2 "2003-10-04T05:41:06Z")
Repeat after me > [@](#): > > Old age and treachery will overcome youth and zeal every time And if that doesn’t work, beat them with your cane. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/3 "2003-10-04T06:04:53Z")
**Rick** , I have a sweatshirt that says almost the same thing. “Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill” ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/4 "2003-10-04T11:03:30Z")
Why do you even listen to their goofy stories ? The best way to handle brats is to slap em in a bun, slather on some sauerkraut, onions, maybe a little mustard, and EAT THEM ! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/5 "2003-10-04T11:08:22Z")
Outperform them. That’s always the best way to get their attention. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/6 "2003-10-04T15:32:48Z")
Whiny old geezers… move on Granddad! ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/7 "2003-10-04T18:09:43Z")
Shoot. And here I thought this was going to be a rant about meat products. I’m turning 30 in less than two weeks. Does that mean I’m officially crossing the boundary from young fella to official geezerdom? ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/8 "2003-10-04T18:30:53Z")
All I ever say to those kinds of people is “when I was YOUR age we…” THAT shuts them up every time. ---
**Author:** ![fushj00mang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fushj00mang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fushj00mang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/9 "2003-10-05T02:45:07Z")
Atreyu, nope, but its a slippery slope and the first patch of ice is thirty :p. Anyway, hell, I hate twenty-somethings and I am one. The majority of those people I went to high school with, when I contact them even now, are still rehashing the same old same old, (clothes, cars, their new boy/girlfriend, and their personal dramas,) which makes me want to say grow the fuck up. Just because you’re still living at home with your parents and attending a school, doesn’t mean you’re a kid anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/10 "2003-10-05T03:13:31Z")
Well, maybe you won’t die first. They’re young and stupid. Those types have the amazing tendency to off themselves in bizarre and spectacular ways. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/11 "2003-10-05T04:45:15Z")
I have a solution: Napalm. Lots and Lots of Napalm. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/12 "2003-10-05T12:07:02Z")
I found out yesterday one of my co-workers was born four years before I graduated high school. I’m not the young’un anymore, but neither am I teetering on the edge of senility. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/13 "2003-10-05T19:17:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pencilpusher \* > \*\*All I ever say to those kinds of people is “when I was YOUR age we…” THAT shuts them up every time. \*\* Amusingly enough, this also works on people who are older than you. I’ve said it to people two or three times my age. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Forbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Forbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forbin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brats-fuck-you/205504/14 "2003-10-05T19:50:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fushj00mang \* > \< snip \> > \*\*Anyway, hell, I hate twenty-_somethings_ and \*\* > \ Correction: twenty-_nothings_