Is being 18 supposed to be hard?
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life is hard when you reach 30 and it hurts just getting outta bed :grumble:0
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I'm not sure if this was sarcastic ...I've given up on humanity thanks to gen Y and the millennials.
If it was a serious statement, please don't lump us all into one category and assume that none of us work hard to reach our goals. We already get enough people shaking their canes at us for being the generation that isn't able to get jobs, lives at home, etc...0 -
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YOU, OP, Sir. I think I love you.....
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of...
a love there is no cure for.
But Mr. 18 wouldn't know that song, would he?0 -
Ouch, everybody ripping on us Millenials? We aren't that bad. We were just raised differently. You need what Socrates said back in classical times?
"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."
All adults are the same. They are always blaming the generation after them. :laugh:0 -
I suppose 18 must be pretty hard. You have to get good grades - if you get good grades, the rest of your life will be all taken care of. Right? That's how it works? Work hard in school so you never have to work at anything ever again?0
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18 was super crazy hard, yo. I had to do homework. And like, exist and stuff.
XENA, WARRIOR PRINCESS!!! Lucy Lawless kicked *kitten*!
I just found Xena on Netflix and of course HAD to watch for pre-teen memories....I regret everything.
So. Bad.
I don't know if I started watching in later seasons, but S1E1 killed my need to delve further.0 -
I'm not sure if this was sarcastic ...I've given up on humanity thanks to gen Y and the millennials.
If it was a serious statement, please don't lump us all into one category and assume that none of us work hard to reach our goals. We already get enough people shaking their canes at us for being the generation that isn't able to get jobs, lives at home, etc...
Exactly. And which generation is responsible for the terrible job market and economy we're inheriting? Hmm.0 -
I opened this thinking it was a teenager's rant about parents buying the wrong food or something. I was pleasantly surprised.
I forgot to add: it IS hard. When I was 18, I had to buy my own gas for the car my parents gave me. ????
my thoughts Exactly!!
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I got my high school diploma on my 18th birthday AND IT WAS HARD to walk across the stage without shooting everyone the finger.
Then i went to college, dropped out, and started raising livestock.
And here i am today.0 -
I'm not sure if this was sarcastic ...I've given up on humanity thanks to gen Y and the millennials.
If it was a serious statement, please don't lump us all into one category and assume that none of us work hard to reach our goals. We already get enough people shaking their canes at us for being the generation that isn't able to get jobs, lives at home, etc...
Exactly. And which generation is responsible for the terrible job market and economy we're inheriting? Hmm.
Your government. The terrible job market and economy isn't everywhere in the world.0 -
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Your government. The terrible job market and economy isn't everywhere in the world.
lol. Really?0 -
Don't judge a whole generation just by some idiots.0
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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I'm not sure if this was sarcastic ...I've given up on humanity thanks to gen Y and the millennials.
If it was a serious statement, please don't lump us all into one category and assume that none of us work hard to reach our goals. We already get enough people shaking their canes at us for being the generation that isn't able to get jobs, lives at home, etc...
Exactly. And which generation is responsible for the terrible job market and economy we're inheriting? Hmm.
Your government. The terrible job market and economy isn't everywhere in the world.
Our job market and economy isn't even "terrible" right now. The unemployment rate is only 6.3%. A good unemployment rate is 4-6%. Our economy isn't bad. The thing that's different is the culture. Not every culture had the counterculture movement like the Baby Boomers did, or the rise of technology as quickly as the Gen Xers had. The United States has a consumerist culture thanks to the gung-ho capitalist movement during the Cold War. If you disagreed, you were a commie. If the problem IS the government, it's because the Baby Boomers and Gen Xers elected those guys. My generation couldn't even elect officials until about 2008.
I'm just going to give my thanks to the Baby Boomers:
http://youtu.be/M4IjTUxZORE 0 -
Our job market and economy isn't even "terrible" right now. The unemployment rate is only 6.3%. A good unemployment rate is 4-6%. Our economy isn't bad. The thing that's different is the culture. Not every culture had the counterculture movement like the Baby Boomers did, or the rise of technology as quickly as the Gen Xers had. The United States has a consumerist culture thanks to the gung-ho capitalist movement during the Cold War. If you disagreed, you were a commie. If the problem IS the government, it's because the Baby Boomers and Gen Xers elected those guys. My generation couldn't even elect officials until about 2008.
I'm just going to give my thanks to the Baby Boomers:http://youtu.be/M4IjTUxZORE
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Haha that guyGuys, you're all making excuses. Those aren't challenges, they're excuses.
EXCUSES.0 -
Before an all out cross generational flame war erupts, this was meant to be a parody thread to skewer an 18 y.o. who started a thread (now locked) to:
- Lecture everyone on how easy it is to lose weight
- Followed up by the statement that if *you* found losing weight difficult it was because you weren't committed enough and were simply making excuses
Needless to say, not too many people took kindly to the wisdom.
Can't we all just get along?
Didn't think so...0 -
In fairness, I guess it was hard back in the day or hard for what I knew anyway. Hormone's, boy trouble, studying, being kinda caught between being an adult and a kid, parents never understanding. I think at that point in your life it seems hard. At least for me it did. That being said, now as I look back I only WISH it were that hard again! I now know how easy that actually was. "Hindsight"0
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I opened this thinking it was a teenager's rant about parents buying the wrong food or something. I was pleasantly surprised.
I forgot to add: it IS hard. When I was 18, I had to buy my own gas for the car my parents gave me. ????
Seriously, I had to work a whole 20 hours a week to afford the gas to put in the car my parent's gave me. That was a true challenge...er, excuse.0 -
I heard that when it's that length, it never really gets fully hard.0
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idk but i still get confused every day :ohwell:0
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I used to looooooove My Cousin Vinny!0 -
I was living in the basement of my mother's rental house, NOT paying rent, going to bible school, and working at Build-A-Bear Workshop on the weekend. It was super hard, mm-kay? /sarcasm
No studying, no real work, and no bills to pay. Ah, to be three years younger. :laugh: Because now I'm suddenly 21 with a husband, a house, a real job, and a 5-year-old(HIS kid, granted, so it's not THAT much harder, but still).0 -
I heard that when it's that length, it never really gets fully hard.
You... I like you.0 -
I think Justin Bieber is supremely talented and very misunderstood. Most people who diss him have not bought his albums.0
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At 18 I had a part-time job at Shell. When I came home I pwned some n00bs on Starcraft: Broodwar and Diablo II0
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Alright, I'll give y'all that adulthood is obviously much harder than being a teenager. And that there are certain things most teenagers get way easier than needed.
However, being a teenager isn't all video games and parties. High school homework rates are currently higher than they have ever been, and the stress level of an average teenager has increased astronomically. It is EXTREMELY difficult to maintain adequate sleep as a teenager while still achieving decent grades/test scores and try adding in extracurricular activities like sports or writing for a school newspaper on top of that. Then there's the whole issue of colleges and careers, not to mention that you know you will soon have to find some way to support yourself or be homeless, hungry, etc. Kind of a frightening prospect for most teenagers.
That being said, there are some freaking stupid and entitled teenagers in the world. Justin (or as I like to call him, Justine) is one of them. People like him do my generation a lot of harm.0 -
I think Justin Bieber is supremely talented and very misunderstood. Most people who diss him have not bought his albums.
I disagree with you about his musical talent (or lack thereof, in my opinion), but there is VERY little room for you to argue his personality as "misunderstood". He is irresponsible, cocky, and entitled. And yes, I have heard all his albums numerous times. Such is the curse of having pop culture-crazed siblings.0
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