# Fucking Kids these days! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271 "2003-08-06T04:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/1 "2003-08-06T04:29:51Z")
Okay, I’m an avid watcher of every talk,daytime, show I love them all, but mostly I watch Dr. Phil. Anyway, they were talking about a young, suburbanite,rich,well treated, spoiled rich bitch. and her problem was being a spoiled rich bitch, she was smokin pot,fucking boys,drinking stealoing and being an all around child, all at the age of 13. Her mom decided she was addicted to pot\*and sent her to rehab, yadda yadda yadda. When asked why she smoked pot she replied, “IT HELPS ME ESCAPE MY LIFE\< AND I FORGET ABOUT IT ALL” WHY FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING LOVE OF CHRIST WHY??? WHAT OIS SHE TRYING TO ESCAPE??? ALGEBRA? THE FACT THAT JOEY DUMPED PACEY ON DAWSONS FUCKING CREEK??? THE BRITNEY SPEAR JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SCANDAL??? I WAS THE SAME PERSON AT HER AGE MINUS ONE BIG POINT, I WASNT A WHORE\ **Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/2 "2003-08-06T04:47:52Z") That thirteen year old should clean up. And you should chill out. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/3 "2003-08-06T04:51:22Z")
So, anyone read the thread title and not immediately come up with some sort of double entendre? If it makes you feel any better, that “troubled teen” was probably a hired actress. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/4 "2003-08-06T04:54:26Z")
Riiiiiight. And all the people on Jerry Springer are really that trailer-trashy. Those shows are set up. I seriously don’t believe that after the Jenny Jones incident that any of them are real. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/5 "2003-08-06T04:55:50Z")
Oh, and one more thing. You may scoff at a 13-year-old’s perception of problems, but when you’re 13 those minor things are your whole world. Keep that in mind. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/6 "2003-08-06T05:01:39Z")
What’s wrong with smoking pot? Aside from the munchies, that is… ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/7 "2003-08-06T05:03:53Z")
… And the whole “legality” thing… ---
**Author:** ![drgnlvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@drgnlvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drgnlvr)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/8 "2003-08-06T05:21:53Z")
might just be me, but I’d be more apt to bitch about the intelligence level of the people who believe the garbage on those shows. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/9 "2003-08-06T05:26:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\* > WHY FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING LOVE OF CHRIST WHY??? > WHAT OIS SHE TRYING TO ESCAPE??? ALGEBRA? THE FACT THAT JOEY DUMPED PACEY ON DAWSONS FUCKING CREEK??? THE BRITNEY SPEAR JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SCANDAL??? > \*\* Gee. Well. Maybe they’re trying to escape the fact that thier life is dominated by meaningless pop cuture crap? Maybe because if you’re right and the stuff above is what they know of life (becasue it was what they were given)…well if i didn’rt know there was more to life than what a lot of 13 year old are pesented with, i wouldn’t be smoking pot I’d be look to kill myself. (Now, be honest. Read that above quote and tell me you wouldn’t want to escape from it?) > [@](#): > > \*\* > > Am I being close-minded hear, or do these kids need a sharp swat on the ass and some soap in there mouth? \*\* No, they need a life. ---
**Author:** ![LudditeAndroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8baadc/32.png) [@LudditeAndroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LudditeAndroid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/10 "2003-08-06T05:41:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\*Fucking Kids these days! \*\* The church just can’t get away with it like they used to. HEYYY-O! ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/11 "2003-08-06T06:31:07Z")
I think P.J. O’Rourke had a pretty good take on the whole idea. Drugs are fun for kids. Kids are healthy enough that they can abuse the hell out of their bodies and not really have to pay much in the way of dues. Furthermore, drugs are wonderful for escaping from teenage weltschmerz. Grownups can’t do drugs as recklessly as kids do. For one thing, we’re over eighteen, and therefore liable for a hell of a lot more than a few months in some boot camp somewhere. And our problems are LOTS more complex. Drugs can make you feel better, sure, but is there one that will get me out of debt? ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/12 "2003-08-06T06:32:52Z")
I was a severly depressed little kid. I’d look forward to recess so I could find someplace to cry where I wouldn’t be seen (breaking into tears during class sucks). I am now an equally depressed adult. Whatever is out of whack with my brain chemistry was equally out of whack when I was thirteen. Added to that is that kids have very little control over their own lives. They cannot choose to change schools, move away, avoid their family or whatever you’d do to cope with a bad situation as an adult. They don’t even get to choose what they wear for the day. And people in situations where they have no efficacy and no power to change their circumstances have it pretty hard, and may indeed seek other ways to escape. Plus, as you’ve illustrated, nobody takes you or your problems seriously. And this is assumeing there isn’t abuse or sex abuse involved. Imagine being hurt by the people who are supposed to care of you, and not having the resources and knowledge to get out of the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/13 "2003-08-06T07:43:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Airman Doors, USAF \* > \*\*Riiiiiight. And all the people on Jerry Springer are really that trailer-trashy. > > Those shows are set up. I seriously don’t believe that after the Jenny Jones incident that any of them are real. \*\* They really are that trashy. I knew some folks that went on the show. It was an episode about kids that wanted their parents to get a divorce, and let me assure you that it was very real. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/14 "2003-08-06T09:50:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\* > WHY FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING LOVE OF CHRIST WHY??? > WHAT OIS SHE TRYING TO ESCAPE??? ALGEBRA? THE FACT THAT JOEY DUMPED PACEY ON DAWSONS FUCKING CREEK??? THE BRITNEY SPEAR JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SCANDAL??? > > \*\* Are you saying that because one is 13, one cannot have any real problems? I was 13 once, too. And if it weren’t for dope I would have blown my brains out. The kid could have real problems. What might they be, you ask? Maybe Mommy and Daddy are cold and vapid and soulless and don’t really love her. Maybe Daddy beats Mommy on a regular basis. Maybe Daddy visits the kid late at night and Mommy knows about it but doesn’t do anything to stop it. Or maybe the kid just doesn’t have any hope for the future, feels completely diconnected from friends, family, community, God, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Venus\_Isle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/47e85d/32.png) [@Venus\_Isle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venus_Isle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/15 "2003-08-06T09:56:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\*Okay, I’m an avid watcher of every talk,daytime, show I love them all, but mostly I watch Dr. Phil. > > Anyway, they were talking about a young, suburbanite,rich,well treated, spoiled rich bitch. > > and her problem was being a spoiled rich bitch, she was smokin pot,fucking boys,drinking stealoing and being an all around child, all at the age of 13. > Her mom decided she was addicted to pot\*and sent her to rehab, yadda yadda yadda. > > When asked why she smoked pot she replied, “IT HELPS ME ESCAPE MY LIFE\< AND I FORGET ABOUT IT ALL” > > WHY FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING LOVE OF CHRIST WHY??? > WHAT OIS SHE TRYING TO ESCAPE??? ALGEBRA? THE FACT THAT JOEY DUMPED PACEY ON DAWSONS FUCKING CREEK??? THE BRITNEY SPEAR JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SCANDAL??? > > I WAS THE SAME PERSON AT HER AGE MINUS ONE BIG POINT, > I WASNT A WHORE\ > Am I being close-minded hear, or do these kids need a sharp swat on the ass and some soap in there mouth? \*\* You are spot on here, kids today DO need a boot in the ass, most of them. Todays “It’s all about me” society and the cancerous PC BULLSHIT forced on parenting has done a fine job of creating arrested development adolescent jerks like the one you saw on TV, even when the parents have all the tools and the good intentions to do otherwise, they fail. People need to get a grip on this shit, because it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/16 "2003-08-06T10:34:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Venus Isle \* > \*\*People need to get a grip on this shit, because it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. \*\* Or any worse, on the basis that when I was 13 there were still kids smoking dope, brewing mushy tea, or trying their hardest to get high/drunk/whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/17 "2003-08-06T10:38:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Venus Isle \* > \*\*You are spot on here, kids today DO need a boot in the ass, most of them. Todays “It’s all about me” society and the cancerous PC BULLSHIT forced on parenting has done a fine job of creating arrested development adolescent jerks like the one you saw on TV, even when the parents have all the tools and the good intentions to do otherwise, they fail. > > People need to get a grip on this shit, because it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. \*\* Are you under the impression that juvenile delinquency is a relatively new problem? Caused by PC BULLSHIT? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/18 "2003-08-06T10:47:47Z")
'Ello 'ello 'ello, PC Bullshit reporting for duty, sah! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/19 "2003-08-06T10:53:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*'Ello 'ello 'ello, PC Bullshit reporting for duty, sah! \*\* You see, that’s what we need. More bobbies on the beat, teaching young’uns how to be well behaved by giving a quick clout round the ear for any tomfoolery. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/20 "2003-08-06T21:03:08Z")
You’re absolutely correct. People should only be upset for reasons YOU approve of. Where can I submit my forms? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271.md?page=2)