# I despair of today's youth. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415 "2012-06-07T19:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/21 "2012-06-07T22:10:15Z")
What! This is an outrage! I must investigate this monstrosity at once! Soon as I save…my place in this book. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/22 "2012-06-07T22:53:18Z")
I must say I just don’t recall when I was a kid us spending as much time as kids these days do on people’s lawns. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/23 "2012-06-07T23:25:17Z")
It’s that dad-gum rock n roll the kids are playin’ these days. [makes dismissive wave of hand] mmm ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/24 "2012-06-07T23:30:28Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yep, every older generation thinks the younger generation is making society worse. Unfortunately, they’ve all been right. No kidding! Why in just this century past generations kept negroes in their place, kept women in their place, made sure savages where subjected to civilized rule, made sure premarital pregnancy was punished like it ought, children punished good and proper. That’s what this generation is really lacking, good proper beatings. ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/25 "2012-06-08T00:11:47Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > …That’s what this generation is really lacking, good proper beatings. Agreed. Precious little snowflakes need a good ass-whoopin’, now more than ever. Word of advice: when searching “juggernauts” without safe-search, do not forget the “a”… ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/26 "2012-06-08T00:43:58Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Probably of the (whatever) they hit and/or the pile of flowers/teddy bears/photos/other mourny crap piled in a heap at the site. Oh. Still seems creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Deser2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Deser2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deser2)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/27 "2012-06-08T18:57:51Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Matter of opinion. I think we live in the best of times, especially for women. I think it can only get better. Might want to rephrase that - if it can only get better, that means it’s already at the low point - aka the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/28 "2012-06-08T19:15:19Z")
> [@Deser2](#): > > Might want to rephrase that - if it can only get better, that means it’s already at the low point - aka the worst. Not necessarily, she means “we’ve made massive strides for women’s rights, but things are not perfect. However, given the current trends of conditions for women getting better and better, I do not find it likely that women’s right will get worse and regress to their previous state.” In this case “can only get better” is referring to the fact that society is in such a position that it will not LET it get worse – not that it’s at a nadir. Granted it’s a figurative rather than literal meaning of “can.” ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/29 "2012-06-08T19:49:55Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > It is as it ever was. And you may ask yourself, where is that large automobislfldk#&\*&#%!@dlksfx… … .. . … . . . .. .. . .. ---
**Author:** ![Lagavulin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@Lagavulin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lagavulin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/30 "2012-06-08T20:49:38Z")
For Anaamika - juggernaut = 18 wheeler dual carriageway = highway haar = like fog, but not ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/31 "2012-06-09T15:46:28Z")
> [@Lagavulin](#): > > For Anaamika - > dual carriageway = highway with two lanes in each direction. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/32 "2012-06-10T03:28:17Z")
Today’s technology has made ambulance chasers of us all. It’s too easy to record every single (important!) instance in our lives. And if we have to risk a little death to get it, it only lasts for an instant… ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/33 "2012-06-10T03:31:49Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Matter of opinion. I think we live in the best of times, especially for women. I think it can only get better. Globally, women raised enough “stank” to keep that woman in Saudi Arabia from being executed for _driving a car._ ^ (high five) ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415/34 "2012-06-10T03:51:31Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > haar Didn’t Davy Crockett kilt\* himself one of those when he was only 3? See what I did there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415.md?page=1)