"THESE DAYS... !!!"

Llamazon

So I have this pet peeve.

It's whenever adults see a murder on the news or something and they're all like "BACK IN MY DAY, YOU NEVER HEARD OF THIS TYPE OF THING!" Or, as my mom constantly says, "YOU NEVER KNOW IN THIS DAY AND TIME!"

However, there are two reasons that this is a stupid thing to say:
a) These types of things did happen in "your day", just not as frequently. and:
b) Who causes these things to happen? People from older generations. No child pops out of the womb and says "I'm going to shoot up a school!" Adult "role models" influence said child to do thing like that. Who provides the child with a gun? Somebody from an older generation. But what if a fellow child gave them the gun? Well, who gave that child the gun? Eventually, we realize that the crimes of the world lead up to older generations.

Although it is true that crime rates increase over the years, crime has always been there. The acts of the younger generation are influenced by adults, yet the same adults claim that "back in their day" this didn't happen and that the world is a terrible place.

_MacintoshWave_

"Back in my day we didn't have air, we couldn't breathe"

Muunkee

One of my favorite things is
Older people say that we spend too much time in our room and sucked onto our computers
Well before we had computers we listened to the radio
Before that we embroidered or something
We have been sitting in our rooms and ignoring other people for a long long time

Toostenheimer

"Back in my day we didn't have air, we couldn't breathe"
~ @_MacintoshWave_

"Back in my day, we didn't have protein."

Bloopers

another thing:

"in the old days XXX"

WELL ITS NOT THE OLD DAYS ANYMORE RIGHT!!!!

Llamazon

U SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR BEING ABLE TO RIDE A BUS BACK IN MY DAY I HAD TO WALK TO SCHOOL IN 2-FOOT DEEP SNOW

Why do they think this will make us feel better?
I guess our problems aren't ~real~ just because they aren't as bad as others

Enron

Back in my day, people didn't complain about how old people overexaggerate how the world used to be.

WeAreNumberUno

Back in my day, we didn't have legs, we were all stumps that rolled around to get to places!
Back in my day, we didn't have excellent ™ cleaning project, we had okay. it would leave a long white-ish stain across the ground, but hell, at least people knew you tried.

-george carlin.

Miro995

Back in my day, dank meant damp and cold!

Peero

Back in my day, hitting that whip meant slavery.

Metzy

"When I was your age, I sucked it up and went to school. You didn't get excused from school for feeling depressed!! I didn't make up stupid excuses about not being able to present a project because I was scared!! I never complained about being sTRESSED FROM SCHOOL AND HOMEWORK!!!! You need to grow up and stop being a wimp"
-any 40-50 yearold parent I know of

^^^^ this is the worst
Things. Are. Different.

CluelessKlutz

Fact: every generation thinks the time they grew up in was the best, and every other one is doing it wrong.

benster82

So I have this pet peeve.
It's whenever adults see a murder on the news or something and they're all like "BACK IN MY DAY, YOU NEVER HEARD OF THIS TYPE OF THING!" Or, as my mom constantly says, "YOU NEVER KNOW IN THIS DAY AND TIME!"
However, there are two reasons that this is a stupid thing to say:
a) These types of things did happen in "your day", just not as frequently. and:
b) Who causes these things to happen? People from older generations. No child pops out of the womb and says "I'm going to shoot up a school!" Adult "role models" influence said child to do thing like that. Who provides the child with a gun? Somebody from an older generation. But what if a fellow child gave them the gun? Well, who gave that child the gun? Eventually, we realize that the crimes of the world lead up to older generations.
Although it is true that crime rates increase over the years, crime has always been there. The acts of the younger generation are influenced by adults, yet the same adults claim that "back in their day" this didn't happen and that the world is a terrible place.
~ @Llamazon

Things like that happened just as often in the "old days". It just wasn't covered in the media as often as they cover it now.

Epicdude141

Back in my day, walking to school was very different. Assuming we survived when the Somalian Pirates raided our village, we had to walk ten miles in both extreme heat and a blizzard at the same time everyday.

Llamazon

Back in my day, people didn't complain about how old people overexaggerate how the world used to be.
~ @Enron

Back in my day, people didn't try to make quirky thread responses like this one.

Deinen

Actually most crime, especially violent, has gone down over the years. The reason why it appears so prevalent is that they did not have a 24 hour saturated news cycle, so they simply heard about them less, compared to today.

It's simply because as a generality, the older are more ignorant than the younger on this topic.

benster82

Actually, most crime, especially violent has gone down over the years. The reason why it appears to prevalent is that they did not have a 24 hour saturated news cycle, so they simply heard about them less, compared to today.
It's simply because as a generality, the older are more ignorant than the younger on this topic.
~ @Deinen

Said it better than I did :D

Llamazon

Actually most crime, especially violenthas gone down over the years. The reason why it appears to prevalent is that they did not have a 24 hour saturated news cycle, so they simply heard about them less, compared to today.
It's simply because as a generality, the older are more ignorant than the younger on this topic.
~ @Deinen

You always know what to say ;)

_MacintoshWave_

"Back in my day, we didn't have protein."
~ @Toostenheimer

"Back in my day, we didn't have Life-Alert. We couldn't get up when we fell"