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You're bored aren't you?

Edit: TIME WARP FTW!

*giggles*

Uh, yeah! I totally agree!

me and my mate were on our bike and there were some old people in the way.
They moved to the side for us so we said thank you but we didn't even get a reply.

the govermrnt says that youths have no manners but i say that old people are the ones who don't gave manners

what do you think

Most old people are cyborgs nowadays. They have neither the time or patience for your petty social standards.

what do you think

I try not to. I start having ideas if I think...

They were old. And likely deaf.

old people make me sad. i don't want to become old, i like the way i am now.

Yeah, those bastards destroyed the world and left it for us to fix.

If ever your parents have a go at you for not being grateful, ask them who used up all the oil. That should remind them how little help they've been.

Yeah, those bastards destroyed the world and left it for us to fix.

If ever your parents have a go at you for not being grateful, ask them who used up all the oil. That should remind them how little help they've been.

Us "old people" thought we could save the world. We found out it wasn't that easy. Good luck to you in your attempt. I sincerely hope that you are more successful than we were.

And in 20 years or so, I hope you all have one of those incredibly lucid moments wherein you say something to your own children and suddenly realize you've become your parents. Cheers! :D

Us "old people" thought we could save the world. We found out it wasn't that easy. Good luck to you in your attempt. I sincerely hope that you are more successful than we were.

Using drugs and having sex in the seventies never helped anyone.

Using drugs and having sex in the seventies never helped anyone.

Were you even born in the Seventies? I don't know if it helped but it sure was fun.

I didn't even realise that counted as rudeness. There've probably been dozens of people thinking I was rude for not saying anyting in similar circumstances. i always assumed it was a sort of quid pro quo sort of thing: you move out of the way, they say thankyou and vice versa. Saying anything else seems unnecessary.

I think this isnt that big of a deal buddy.

me and my mate were on our bike and there were some old people in the way.
They moved to the side for us so we said thank you but we didn't even get a reply.

the govermrnt says that youths have no manners but i say that old people are the ones who don't gave manners

what do you think

Were you riding on a sidewalk or in the road?

Using drugs and having sex in the seventies never helped anyone.

Exactly.

The thing about the older generation is that they are so used to being the plurality age group that they think everything should go their way. So when they are young they say, 'oh yeah, let's create a liberal society where you can do whatever you want and get high and free love and all that jazz!'

Then when they grow up they destroy those bridges behind them, 'not for you!' they call back to us, 'you should be responsible like us!'...

A similar thing is in Britain today, where an entire cabinet of politicians educated through a free university system suddenly decide that their children do not deserve it.

Modern liberal democracy has been nothing but the tyranny of the Baby Boomers. What they want goes. But as they become elderly and unproductive, their interests run directly contradictory to the interests of society.

My generation are an oppressed minority in this world. But when our jailers finally kick the bucket, we will still be stuck in our cells with no-one to let us out...

Old people make me sad. They're incapable of functioning properly...a lady on the bus yesterday took three minutes to get off at the bus stop.

Using drugs and having sex in the seventies never helped anyone.

It was the sixties. And many of us didn't use drugs in spite of the popular fictions to the contrary. Nor did we indulge in promiscuity. We were politically active. We lobbied for and supported ZPG (Zero Population Growth), we took an active role in many things, not just protests and noise. We thought, as the young people today think, that solutions to the problems were simple. We found out differently. We found that those "solutions" almost always created more problems. We found that acting in ignorance and being abusive towards our elders (who, strangely, had found out exactly the same things we found out and that you will find out) was counter-productive and harmful.

I'm not saying don't do anything, but learning to do your research and think before you act, is essential. Just because some "authority figure," conservative or liberal says something is true does not absolve you of the responsibility of finding out if it really is before you act on it.

Old people make me sad. They're incapable of functioning properly...a lady on the bus yesterday took three minutes to get off at the bus stop.

What is your definition of old? Am I old at 60?

Remember, though the definition of age changes from year to year, someday, you, too, will be old. Wouldn't it please you if young people were patient and kind and not patronizing?

i don't know about rude, but they're certainly pushy and viscious in the queue for the bus. i can't count how many times i had my shins bashed by some pensioner who thought they had a right to be allowed to get on first even if they got there last. i mean if i saw them i would let them in in front of me, but there's little you can do if they come shuffling up behind you and you don't know they're there.

I think this isnt that big of a deal buddy.

This is coming from you? Really?

me and my mate were on our bike and there were some old people in the way.
They moved to the side for us so we said thank you but we didn't even get a reply.

the govermrnt says that youths have no manners but i say that old people are the ones who don't gave manners

what do you think

They did something for you. You didn't do anything for them. You were obligated to acknowledge their gesture. They had no obligation since you did nothing.

We'll all be old someday...although by the time I'm 60 or 70, "old" will be a meaningless term because aging will be more or less a thing of the past.

The point is, of course, that it's important to respect those who have lived before us because they have accumulated a life's worth of experience and wisdom that we all benefit from. Whether they're 60, 600, or immortals, the older members of our society will always be important to us...and we need to respect them just like we would any other person.

old people make me sad. i don't want to become old, i like the way i am now.

QFT.

They did something for you. You didn't do anything for them. You were obligated to acknowledge their gesture. They had no obligation since you did nothing.

I think it would have been courteous of them if they said "No worries" or something similar. I would have.

We'll all be old someday...although by the time I'm 60 or 70, "old" will be a meaningless term because aging will be more or less a thing of the past.

That's what people have been saying since the dawn of modern medicine. It's a lovely and seductive idea. However, aging and death will most likely always be with us. The great advances in lifespan over the last century have been due primarily to lowered infant and childhood mortality rates and not to any actual extension of adult lifespan. And the latest research seems to indicate that the same mechanisms that cause aging are the same ones that keep a lid on cancers. So our choices seem to be to remain youthful and riddled with cancer or to age. Either way we still die. I for one choose aging over cancer.

That's what people have been saying since the dawn of modern medicine. It's a lovely and seductive idea. However, aging and death will most likely always be with us. The great advances in lifespan over the last century have been due primarily to lowered infant and childhood mortality rates and not to any actual extension of adult lifespan. And the latest research seems to indicate that the same mechanisms that cause aging are the same ones that keep a lid on cancers. So our choices seem to be to remain youthful and riddled with cancer or to age. Either way we still die. I for one choose aging over cancer.

It makes more sense to just replace the stuff that ages than try and necessarily rejuvenate what's already there.

I mean, who needs to reverse aging? It would be cheaper and easier to simply replace aging parts when needed and avoid the problem altogether. We're more likely to just get rid of the stuff that ages than try and rejuvenate it. Scientists are already unlocking how to manipulate stem cells, and from there the sky is the limit.

Prosthetics are getting pretty damn close to biological organs in terms of functionality, organ cloning is in the works, basic neural interfaces are a reality, brain scanning is doubling in resolution each year, and computers are already capable of simulating biological processes at almost molecular levels. It's just a matter of time before full-body emulation is possible on an accurate, human, scale, and from there it would only have to be scaled up in order to provide it to the mass market.

Were you riding on a sidewalk or in the road?

Absolutely pertinent. The discussion of manners and age may be entertaining, but the thread has no basis without knowing at least that fact.

me and my mate were on our bike and there were some old people in the way.
They moved to the side for us so we said thank you but we didn't even get a reply.

the govermrnt says that youths have no manners but i say that old people are the ones who don't gave manners

what do you think
I don't think they had their hearing aids switched on.-_-