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✶Jaysong✶
What do you mean it's *checks watch * July
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Post by ✶Jaysong✶ on Mar 19, 2017 11:58:29 GMT -5
@slothfood thank you I get the cynical part, I used to be quite cynical myself. I liked to be pessimistic and then be pleasantly surprised. But in recent years, politics and such, I just decided it might be better to give the world another hopeful person. It's no problem, I realize I probably wasn't very clear on the subject (I think like Yoda late at night, but worse) and I myself feel like perspective could solve a lot of problems. I have a standpoint in life that not everything is black and white or right and wrong, it just depends on how you look at it. Anyways, I enjoy swapping opinions, it helps me understand people better. Maybe we'll get to do it again xD
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Post by ƤαƖƖαѕ ✧ on Mar 19, 2017 12:19:44 GMT -5
ƤαƖƖαѕ ✧ not in a round about way. But I mean in the sense that I could have walked out of my house onto the street and walked to my friend's house down the road with fear of being shot, kidnapped, attacked, ect. I live in a small rural town and three people have been murdered alone in my lifetime. I know a friend whose little brother was killed in front of their home, and three of my cousins were pregnant at 16--they live in a very questionable neighborhood in the town. (I know what you mean, but still not really. Attacks, sexual attacks and murders happened ALL THE TIME in the 1920s. Sexual attacks just weren't reported as much because a) sex was taboo and the person who got sexually attacked was often blamed and sexual attack in marriage was not illegal. Many women were being sexually assaulted by their husbands and couldn't report it)
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Post by argyle lechuga on Mar 19, 2017 12:31:03 GMT -5
everyone hated cars in that time to period bc teens were using them to run away with friends and sleep together. this whole sex fascination isn't new. and honestly idk why ppl like the fashion of that time. the men's suits were ugly and untailored.
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Post by Card against Humanity on Mar 19, 2017 12:41:31 GMT -5
idk i honestly can't listen to anything that doesn't have a nice beat behind it. like most of lana del rey's stuff is a giant snorefest. k so I agree with what you said in this post but I wanted to specifically say that OMG, im so glad im not the only one who thinks this. I cant listen to Lana Del Ray's music because its so freaking boring and slow and I really hate her "ssuuuuuuuuupppppppuuhhhhhh sllllooooooooooooowwwwwww aaaaaaannnnnnn draaaaaaaaaagggeeeeedddddd ooouuuuutttt" singing style.
I've seen people bash laan del ray for being a "poser" or w/e but honestly I just hate her because her music is, like you said, a snorefest.
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Post by Card against Humanity on Mar 19, 2017 12:42:40 GMT -5
everyone hated cars in that time to period bc teens were using them to run away with friends and sleep together. this whole sex fascination isn't new. and honestly idk why ppl like the fashion of that time. the men's suits were ugly and untailored. yeah men's clothing back then was ugly but women's clothing was rlly nice imo.
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Post by Sanders on Mar 19, 2017 13:38:36 GMT -5
idk i honestly can't listen to anything that doesn't have a nice beat behind it. like most of lana del rey's stuff is a giant snorefest. k so I agree with what you said in this post but I wanted to specifically say that OMG, im so glad im not the only one who thinks this. I cant listen to Lana Del Ray's music because its so freaking boring and slow and I really hate her "ssuuuuuuuuupppppppuuhhhhhh sllllooooooooooooowwwwwww aaaaaaannnnnnn draaaaaaaaaagggeeeeedddddd ooouuuuutttt" singing style.
I've seen people bash laan del ray for being a "poser" or w/e but honestly I just hate her because her music is, like you said, a snorefest.
When I first heard summertime sadness on the radio I was like ooooo because it was a remixed sped up version. And then I heard the original and was like ooo in a more disgusted tone. And I listened to a couple other songs and it's all the same. I have nothing against Lana or her fans but like her music is just not that good of a listen imo. And like idk how anybody could really listen to a whole album on repeat like that. ): like I'm okay with 1 or 2 slow songs but it can't be the entire thing
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Post by GattoGelato on Mar 19, 2017 13:55:40 GMT -5
as we near entering the 20's again, i vote we bring back the fashion way ahead of ya'll. Been sewing vintage dresses to prepare myself
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Mar 19, 2017 18:12:18 GMT -5
So the one thing nobody has talked about yet that I want to get opinions on is the difference between discipline then and discipline now.
Now, I don't know about you, but I see a LOT of kids and teens who are ridiculously disrespectful. Now I'm sure that it happened back then, but back then people actually did something about it. All the time these days I hear about kids I know telling their parents to "shut up" and cursing teachers out. I've talked to quite a few people who grew up during the 20s - 50s era, and every single one said that if they did something like that, they'd have a sore butt for weeks. I can even recall a time when I was at a classmate's house and her mom told her to do something. In response, she said "shut up I'm busy", and the mom did nothing.
I don't approve of hitting children as punishment, but I also don't believe in letting your child get away with straight-up telling you "no" when you ask them to do something, being a smartass to their teachers, and overall just being extremely rude. I can't even begin to count the number of times that random little kids have screamed, hit/touched strangers for no reason, and have otherwise been disruptive, and the parents/guardians do nothing.
I'd like to see this culture return to the early 20th-century mentality of "children should respect adults". I don't see what's so hard about being polite, even if you don't like the teacher or the other kind of adult you're dealing with. I also don't see why parents think it's okay to allow their children the freedom to swear at them (in a non-joking matter) and tell them to shut up. Now, obviously there are exceptions, but to me it seems like those of us who are actually respectful and polite have become a minority.
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Heterosexual
✶Jaysong✶
What do you mean it's *checks watch * July
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Post by ✶Jaysong✶ on Mar 19, 2017 18:24:36 GMT -5
So the one thing nobody has talked about yet that I want to get opinions on is the difference between discipline then and discipline now. Now, I don't know about you, but I see a LOT of kids and teens who are ridiculously disrespectful. Now I'm sure that it happened back then, but back then people actually did something about it. All the time these days I hear about kids I know telling their parents to "shut up" and cursing teachers out. I've talked to quite a few people who grew up during the 20s - 50s era, and every single one said that if they did something like that, they'd have a sore butt for weeks. I can even recall a time when I was at a classmate's house and her mom told her to do something. In response, she said "shut up I'm busy", and the mom did nothing. I don't approve of hitting children as punishment, but I also don't believe in letting your child get away with straight-up telling you "no" when you ask them to do something, being a smartass to their teachers, and overall just being extremely rude. I can't even begin to count the number of times that random little kids have screamed, hit/touched strangers for no reason, and have otherwise been disruptive, and the parents/guardians do nothing. I'd like to see this culture return to the early 20th-century mentality of "children should respect adults". I don't see what's so hard about being polite, even if you don't like the teacher or the other kind of adult you're dealing with. I also don't see why parents think it's okay to allow their children the freedom to swear at them (in a non-joking matter) and tell them to shut up. Now, obviously there are exceptions, but to me it seems like those of us who are actually respectful and polite have become a minority. ^^^^ THIS. Thank you, I can't emphasis strongly enough how I believe this. All of my friends' younger siblings are, loosely termed, spoiled brats. I've heard them say things that, if I had said growing up, would have had a fat lip and grounding for a week. If more people understood this, the future leaders of the country wouldn't be so unreasonable. To the last generation with common sense, y'all
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Post by Card against Humanity on Mar 19, 2017 18:25:50 GMT -5
So the one thing nobody has talked about yet that I want to get opinions on is the difference between discipline then and discipline now. Now, I don't know about you, but I see a LOT of kids and teens who are ridiculously disrespectful. Now I'm sure that it happened back then, but back then people actually did something about it. All the time these days I hear about kids I know telling their parents to "shut up" and cursing teachers out. I've talked to quite a few people who grew up during the 20s - 50s era, and every single one said that if they did something like that, they'd have a sore butt for weeks. I can even recall a time when I was at a classmate's house and her mom told her to do something. In response, she said "shut up I'm busy", and the mom did nothing. I don't approve of hitting children as punishment, but I also don't believe in letting your child get away with straight-up telling you "no" when you ask them to do something, being a smartass to their teachers, and overall just being extremely rude. I can't even begin to count the number of times that random little kids have screamed, hit/touched strangers for no reason, and have otherwise been disruptive, and the parents/guardians do nothing. I'd like to see this culture return to the early 20th-century mentality of "children should respect adults". I don't see what's so hard about being polite, even if you don't like the teacher or the other kind of adult you're dealing with. I also don't see why parents think it's okay to allow their children the freedom to swear at them (in a non-joking matter) and tell them to shut up. Now, obviously there are exceptions, but to me it seems like those of us who are actually respectful and polite have become a minority. while this is true at the same time I think the "children cant EVER tell adults that they're wrong" mentality can go away. if a child doesn't like what a parent is doing they should be allowed to say their opinion [in a respectful way] without getting yelled at
THAT BEING SAID, I completely agree that parents need to discipline their kids better. and I don't mean through physical punishment, bc that's abuse, but through just telling them not to do things and through non-abusive punishments. I cant tell you how many time i've seen kids in this day and age screaming and just generally being completely disruptive and the parents doing nOTHING to stop it, even when they can plainly see their child doing it.
for example, when i take my dog out for a walk, i will sometimes have children just running up to him and grabbing him/trying to pet him, while the parent just lets them. it happens MUCH more then i would like it to. my dog isn't aggressive or anything, but still, what if he was having a really bad day and a kid just ran up to him and grabbed him hard? if he snapped at them, the kid would probably start crying, and the parent would probably think it was the dogs fault when its really not. i just generally hate the "animals should be punished for defending themselves from bratty little kids" culture we currently live in?? i remember seeing a gif on tumblr of a baby slapping a cat for no reason [and a really hard slap too, not a light slap] and the baby slapped the kid and hissed at it in response, and there were a bunch of comments along the lines of "THIS IS WHY A HATE CATS " like??? the cat??? was defending itself?? this is why i hate babies
but tbh i think this idea isn't really new to modern culture, because here's an awful story: my grandparents had a Siberian Husky dog sometime in the 80s, and when she was a puppy there were some kids who tossed BIG stones at her from far away. later on, when one of the kids went into the yard, she bit him because he was tossing rocks at her, the kids parents took my grandparents to court...because their dog defended itself. she didn't get put down then, but she really hated small boys for the rest of her life and had to get put down later on when she bit a 3 year old boy.
k so that was a rlly long rant about how much i hate the way society treats animals defending itself, but anyway, back on topic: i agree that kids nowadays really need to disciplined more. I think its especially bad with boys though, because I've seen more little girls being told off by their parents then little boys. No wonder "boys will be boys" is still an excuse that people actually use.
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Mar 19, 2017 18:36:38 GMT -5
So the one thing nobody has talked about yet that I want to get opinions on is the difference between discipline then and discipline now. Now, I don't know about you, but I see a LOT of kids and teens who are ridiculously disrespectful. Now I'm sure that it happened back then, but back then people actually did something about it. All the time these days I hear about kids I know telling their parents to "shut up" and cursing teachers out. I've talked to quite a few people who grew up during the 20s - 50s era, and every single one said that if they did something like that, they'd have a sore butt for weeks. I can even recall a time when I was at a classmate's house and her mom told her to do something. In response, she said "shut up I'm busy", and the mom did nothing. I don't approve of hitting children as punishment, but I also don't believe in letting your child get away with straight-up telling you "no" when you ask them to do something, being a smartass to their teachers, and overall just being extremely rude. I can't even begin to count the number of times that random little kids have screamed, hit/touched strangers for no reason, and have otherwise been disruptive, and the parents/guardians do nothing. I'd like to see this culture return to the early 20th-century mentality of "children should respect adults". I don't see what's so hard about being polite, even if you don't like the teacher or the other kind of adult you're dealing with. I also don't see why parents think it's okay to allow their children the freedom to swear at them (in a non-joking matter) and tell them to shut up. Now, obviously there are exceptions, but to me it seems like those of us who are actually respectful and polite have become a minority. while this is true at the same time I think the "children cant EVER tell adults that they're wrong" mentality can go away. if a child doesn't like what a parent is doing they should be allowed to say their opinion [in a respectful way] without getting yelled at
THAT BEING SAID, I completely agree that parents need to discipline their kids better. and I don't mean through physical punishment, bc that's abuse, but through just telling them not to do things and through non-abusive punishments. I cant tell you how many time i've seen kids in this day and age screaming and just generally being completely disruptive and the parents doing nOTHING to stop it, even when they can plainly see their child doing it.
for example, when i take my dog out for a walk, i will sometimes have children just running up to him and grabbing him/trying to pet him, while the parent just lets them. it happens MUCH more then i would like it to. my dog isn't aggressive or anything, but still, what if he was having a really bad day and a kid just ran up to him and grabbed him hard? if he snapped at them, the kid would probably start crying, and the parent would probably think it was the dogs fault when its really not. i just generally hate the "animals should be punished for defending themselves from bratty little kids" culture we currently live in?? i remember seeing a gif on tumblr of a baby slapping a cat for no reason [and a really hard slap too, not a light slap] and the baby slapped the kid and hissed at it in response, and there were a bunch of comments along the lines of "THIS IS WHY A HATE CATS " like??? the cat??? was defending itself?? this is why i hate babies
but tbh i think this idea isn't really new to modern culture, because here's an awful story: my grandparents had a Siberian Husky dog sometime in the 80s, and when she was a puppy there were some kids who tossed BIG stones at her from far away. later on, when one of the kids went into the yard, she bit him because he was tossing rocks at her, the kids parents took my grandparents to court...because their dog defended itself. she didn't get put down then, but she really hated small boys for the rest of her life and had to get put down later on when she bit a 3 year old boy.
k so that was a rlly long rant about how much i hate the way society treats animals defending itself, but anyway, back on topic: i agree that kids nowadays really need to disciplined more. I think its especially bad with boys though, because I've seen more little girls being told off by their parents then little boys. No wonder "boys will be boys" is still an excuse that people actually use.
Yeah, I agree with all of this. People need to realize the difference between an animal defending itself and a straight up violent animal. In addition, I do agree that the whole "adults are always right" mentality should go away. However, there are ways for kids to correct their parents without sounding like complete jerks. Unfortunately, not that many people seem to realize that. And I hate when little kids just run up to me and touch me or my dog without permission. Like, what happened to stranger danger and ask before you pet? My parents would have flipped on six year old me if I went up to some random teenager and started touching them. One time I even remember that I was wearing this sparkly shirt (I was about eleven at the time) and this kid bolted up to me and scratched at my shirt for at least ten seconds before running away, and the parents just stood there.
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Post by Card against Humanity on Mar 19, 2017 18:49:21 GMT -5
while this is true at the same time I think the "children cant EVER tell adults that they're wrong" mentality can go away. if a child doesn't like what a parent is doing they should be allowed to say their opinion [in a respectful way] without getting yelled at
THAT BEING SAID, I completely agree that parents need to discipline their kids better. and I don't mean through physical punishment, bc that's abuse, but through just telling them not to do things and through non-abusive punishments. I cant tell you how many time i've seen kids in this day and age screaming and just generally being completely disruptive and the parents doing nOTHING to stop it, even when they can plainly see their child doing it.
for example, when i take my dog out for a walk, i will sometimes have children just running up to him and grabbing him/trying to pet him, while the parent just lets them. it happens MUCH more then i would like it to. my dog isn't aggressive or anything, but still, what if he was having a really bad day and a kid just ran up to him and grabbed him hard? if he snapped at them, the kid would probably start crying, and the parent would probably think it was the dogs fault when its really not. i just generally hate the "animals should be punished for defending themselves from bratty little kids" culture we currently live in?? i remember seeing a gif on tumblr of a baby slapping a cat for no reason [and a really hard slap too, not a light slap] and the baby slapped the kid and hissed at it in response, and there were a bunch of comments along the lines of "THIS IS WHY A HATE CATS " like??? the cat??? was defending itself?? this is why i hate babies
but tbh i think this idea isn't really new to modern culture, because here's an awful story: my grandparents had a Siberian Husky dog sometime in the 80s, and when she was a puppy there were some kids who tossed BIG stones at her from far away. later on, when one of the kids went into the yard, she bit him because he was tossing rocks at her, the kids parents took my grandparents to court...because their dog defended itself. she didn't get put down then, but she really hated small boys for the rest of her life and had to get put down later on when she bit a 3 year old boy.
k so that was a rlly long rant about how much i hate the way society treats animals defending itself, but anyway, back on topic: i agree that kids nowadays really need to disciplined more. I think its especially bad with boys though, because I've seen more little girls being told off by their parents then little boys. No wonder "boys will be boys" is still an excuse that people actually use.
Yeah, I agree with all of this. People need to realize the difference between an animal defending itself and a straight up violent animal. In addition, I do agree that the whole "adults are always right" mentality should go away. However, there are ways for kids to correct their parents without sounding like complete jerks. Unfortunately, not that many people seem to realize that. And I hate when little kids just run up to me and touch me or my dog without permission. Like, what happened to stranger danger and ask before you pet? My parents would have flipped on six year old me if I went up to some random teenager and started touching them. One time I even remember that I was wearing this sparkly shirt (I was about eleven at the time) and this kid bolted up to me and scratched at my shirt for at least ten seconds before running away, and the parents just stood there. yea it seems like everyone either thinks "children can say whatever they want to their parents" or "if a child says anything negative to their parents they deserve a smack on the mouth" like why cant it just be a middle ground?"
after a while i got so sick of it that i started telling the rlly little kids [as a joke] that my dogs actually an evil werewolf who will eat them if they touch him. it actually does occasionally work.
and yeah, if i just ran up to a strange dog and tried to pet it without asking the owner or showing the dog my hand first, my parents would have locked me in the house for the whole day. I think the pinnacle of this tho is when little kids are visiting your house and they bother your animals and when you tell the parents to make them stop they either reply with "thEIr kIds thEy dOn't knOw bEttEr!!111" or, even worse "so what, its just a dog/cat/whatever?"
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Post by Dᴀɴɴʏ Pʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ on Mar 19, 2017 18:54:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I agree with all of this. People need to realize the difference between an animal defending itself and a straight up violent animal. In addition, I do agree that the whole "adults are always right" mentality should go away. However, there are ways for kids to correct their parents without sounding like complete jerks. Unfortunately, not that many people seem to realize that. And I hate when little kids just run up to me and touch me or my dog without permission. Like, what happened to stranger danger and ask before you pet? My parents would have flipped on six year old me if I went up to some random teenager and started touching them. One time I even remember that I was wearing this sparkly shirt (I was about eleven at the time) and this kid bolted up to me and scratched at my shirt for at least ten seconds before running away, and the parents just stood there. yea it seems like everyone either thinks "children can say whatever they want to their parents" or "if a child says anything negative to their parents they deserve a smack on the mouth" like why cant it just be a middle ground?"
after a while i got so sick of it that i started telling the rlly little kids [as a joke] that my dogs actually an evil werewolf who will eat them if they touch him. it actually does occasionally work.
and yeah, if i just ran up to a strange dog and tried to pet it without asking the owner or showing the dog my hand first, my parents would have locked me in the house for the whole day. I think the pinnacle of this tho is when little kids are visiting your house and they bother your animals and when you tell the parents to make them stop they either reply with "thEIr kIds thEy dOn't knOw bEttEr!!111" or, even worse "so what, its just a dog/cat/whatever?"
Also when a little kid randomly grabs something of mine without permission and starts playing with it. Like no, get your hands off my stuff you random stranger.
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Post by Card against Humanity on Mar 19, 2017 18:57:24 GMT -5
yea it seems like everyone either thinks "children can say whatever they want to their parents" or "if a child says anything negative to their parents they deserve a smack on the mouth" like why cant it just be a middle ground?"
after a while i got so sick of it that i started telling the rlly little kids [as a joke] that my dogs actually an evil werewolf who will eat them if they touch him. it actually does occasionally work.
and yeah, if i just ran up to a strange dog and tried to pet it without asking the owner or showing the dog my hand first, my parents would have locked me in the house for the whole day. I think the pinnacle of this tho is when little kids are visiting your house and they bother your animals and when you tell the parents to make them stop they either reply with "thEIr kIds thEy dOn't knOw bEttEr!!111" or, even worse "so what, its just a dog/cat/whatever?"
Also when a little kid randomly grabs something of mine without permission and starts playing with it. Like no, get your hands off my stuff you random stranger. or when your 4-year-old cousin visits the house and breaks the on switch on your computer by switching it on and off to much and YOU get in trouble for not turning the computer off even though that literally wouldn't stop him from finding the switch???
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