# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/21 "2003-08-06T21:12:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. \*\* When asked why I watched daytime TV I replied, “IT HELPS ME ESCAPE MY LIFE AND I FORGET ABOUT IT ALL” Why for the motherfucking love of OG, WHY? WHAT ARE YOU 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 DAYTIME TV JUNKIE AND LIFE RULED. Am I being close-minded hear, or do these kids need a sharp kick up the arse to get off the couch and the batteries removed from the remote? Get away from the telly and get a life **Flowerchild**. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/22 "2003-08-06T21:13:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Venus Isle \* > \*\*People need to get a grip on this shit, because it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. \*\* From a recent [survey](http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/08/05/student.views.ap/index.html) : > [@](#): > > Almost 75 percent of high school students say they get along very well or even extremely well with their parents or guardians, a new survey finds. Most of the rest call the relationship “just OK,” and only 3 percent say they and their parents don’t get along well. > > Overall, teenagers have a lot more admiration than animosity for family members, despite popular notions to the contrary Gee, you’re right. These kids are little devils. Just because there was no Maury Povich or Jerry Springer to exploit bad kids a generation ago, doesn’t meant they didn’t exist then, nor does it mean there are fewer good kids now. Is anyone else reminded of the _Simpsons_ episode where Homer and Marge tell Grandpa Simpson that they don’t spank their kids? Grandpa responds with, “And that’s why your no-good kids are running wild!” Cut to Lisa sitting quietly on a chair reading a book… ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/23 "2003-08-06T21:28:50Z")
Now wait just a minute. Hold the phone. You’re telling me that teenagers are drinking before reaching the Magical Age of Perfect Judgment? Smoking the Wicked Weed from Satan? Even engaging in the foul act of _coitus_? :eek: Color me shocked, madam! **Shocked!** ---
**Author:** ![LauraLittlePony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LauraLittlePony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LauraLittlePony)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/24 "2003-08-06T21:52:59Z")
> [@](#): > > mostly I watch Dr. Phil. That was your mistake. Don’t watch Dr. Phil. PLEASE don’t watch Dr. Phil. Especially if it’s just going to piss you off like this, which is what it does to me, which is why I don’t watch it. **Gary Kumquat** , what’s mushy tea? Am I missing something? Where do I get some? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Publius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Publius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Publius)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/25 "2003-08-06T22:07:26Z")
You know, when a teenager shoots up his school, it’s a sign of widespread moral depravity amongst our youth. When an adult shoots up a post office, it’s a sign that he’s a nut. On the rare occasions when I have been subjected to daytime “talk” television, I have witnessed adults considerably more twisted than the girl **Flowerchild** describes. Fucking adults these days! ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/26 "2003-08-06T22:08:06Z")
What?! No Michael Jackson? No Catholic Priests? This thread SUCKS. False Advertising!!! ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/27 "2003-08-06T23:21:03Z")
This thread is not about what I thought it was about… I guess it was too close to the “clergy” thread… but I was ready to say something about who was fucking these kids… and why… maybe I’m sharing too much… ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/28 "2003-08-06T23:26:17Z")
I hate when I don’t read all the posts… and somebody already beat me to my snide comment. I suck ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/29 "2003-08-06T23:32:58Z")
Smoking pot, fucking boys… yeah, I can get behind that! Man, I was gonna say, outside of the whole being 13 years old part, girl sounds like she’s having fun! Honestly, Dr. Phil is a total wack job. I can’t even watch “talk” tv anymore because it just depresses me. They exploit the hell out these kids and 90% of the time you can tell it’s fake as hell. Go out and smell the **flowers**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/30 "2003-08-06T23:35:55Z")
Actually, maybe she’s just upset that _Do not read if you missed the last episode of Dawson’s Creek!_ Joey dumped Dawson on _Dawson’s_ _Creek_ Were I thirteen, I woulda been upset, too. Or maybe she’s trying to escape a rich, surburbanite, rich, well-treated, spoiled rich bitch _mother_ who drags her onto a TV show to be chided in front of the entire nation. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/31 "2003-08-06T23:47:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LauraLittlePony \* > \*\ ***Gary Kumquat** , what’s mushy tea? Am I missing something? Where do I get some? 🙂 \*\* I think it involves magic mushrooms. Lemme tell you, back when _I_ was a young, suburbanite, rich, well treated, spoiled rich bastard trying to escape from the latest tragedies on _90210_, we didn’t have any “mushy tea”. We had to eat mushrooms whole. They tasted like styrofoam wood chips, but we were grateful just to have five or six hours’ freedom from the stress of homework, pogs, and afternoon television! ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/32 "2003-08-07T00:00:42Z")
Me too, **Mr2001** Although I stuck to alcohol when I was in high school, thinking that pot was _bad_. I really _was_ misguided in my youth… In all seriousness though, when you’re a teenager everything is magnified. Maybe it’s the hormones. Your world though, small as it is, is your _entire world_. Friends not speaking to you? Catastrophy. Get dumped? Find the nearest bridge. Basically, you don’t really have any experiences to put your problems into perspective with. Therefore, they seem _huge_. I was definately more heart broken when I was dumped in high school than I was later in life because later in life, I had more perspective and could realize that being dumped isn’t the worse thing in the world and I’d live. In high school, I didn’t have that. My point is, for a teenager, there probably _is_ a great need to “escape” every once in awhile, as silly as it may seem to us adults. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/33 "2003-08-07T01:28:35Z")
Okay intial firsat veiwing anger over, and reading this I realize that I’m the one who sounds bitchy. Dear dopers, I apologise for realeasing this thread upon the world ---
**Author:** ![kputt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@kputt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kputt)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/34 "2003-08-07T01:33:50Z")
Kids today have a lot of stress. Much more than you might think. ---
**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 7, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/35 "2003-08-07T01:41:17Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Mr2001_ > We had to eat mushrooms whole. They tasted like styrofoam wood chips, but we were grateful just to have five or six hours’ freedom from the stress of homework, pogs, and afternoon television! Wish I could find 'shrooms that tasted like styrofoam wood chips. That’d be a goddamned blessing compared to the sweaty jock-strap flavor of most 'shrooms I’ve ever eaten. Mmmm… styrofoam… \ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/36 "2003-08-07T02:13:33Z")
I remember when I was thirteen, it was just one big tearfest right on up until I reached fifteen. Thirteen is one of the worst ages. I had just gotten my period, it was my last year at a Catholic parochial school and thus, one year away from the Big Scary High School. I was starting to DEVELOP, and I all of a sudden had hips and boobs and a butt. I had zits and I cried all the time. Thirteen fucking SUCKED! I didn’t have pot, either. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271/37 "2003-08-07T02:34:28Z")
1. Pot is fun. I admit this. I choose not to partake in usage of it, but I have, and it’s fun. 2. Yes, ‘kids these days’ may seem spoiled or what have you. We also do deal with more than you did when you were young. 3. Yes, 13 sucks. I was very very depressed when I was 13 (which happened to coincide with the only time I’ve drank and used pot.) 4. No, it wasn’t ‘depressed’ because ‘Joey dumped Pacey.’ It was more depressed because of a chemical imbalance in my brain. 5. Smoking pot is a release. That’s good. It’s a better release than harder drugs (I knew someone who was a PCP addict.) It’s better than cutting yourself. It’s (usually) better than running away and living on the streets. It’s better than killing yourself. 6. She was probably making things up. Talk shows disgust me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-kids-these-days/193271.md?page=1)