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I feel that we are less social, more judgemental and moody than 10 years ago.

I want to be a policeman so I can tell idiots how they are doing it wrong.

A lot of youths are wannabe gangsters with a fluffy lady beard.

I’m an old fart who doesn’t understand the absolute need for instant gratification.

As soon as I decide that a pair of Chinos looks cool I shall ask my kids to shoot me for my own good.

Dave!

Rename the thread "Getting Older" and stop whinging.

Playing with Lego and model trains keeps me young, it’s like the elixir of youth.

Dave!

Very interesting Dave - but all your initial complaints are a symptom of you getting older, rather than things being "worse" than they were.

I think we have a similar thread pretty much weekly on this subject. It's us - we're old and cranky and we're good at shit now, whereas kids aren't, like we weren't.

We thought we were at the time, because we were kids, but I can guarantee our parents' age group and generation found us just as annoying we find kids now.

So basically - suck it up, buttercup.

Bloody modern clouds, don't know they're born! Clouds were PROPER back in my day

V8Granite wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 8:17 am Playing with Lego and model trains keeps me young, it’s like the elixir of youth.

Dave!

Do you go to clubs of like-minded people to play with Lego and trains?

No, I once went to a Warhammer shop when I was young with some Space Crusader models I’d painted. Even though I went there on rollerblades and was wearing knee pads I was the coolest person in the store. I learned quickly that they should be avoided.

Dave!

V8Granite wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 8:15 amModern life

Is rubbish?

Jobbo wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 9:16 am

V8Granite wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 8:17 am Playing with Lego and model trains keeps me young, it’s like the elixir of youth.

Dave!

Do you go to clubs of like-minded people to play with Lego and trains?

i bet they all chat about the Lego sets they’ve bought on forums...

Come on - no self-respecting adult would be that tragic

JLIC a couple of my mates have started this patter, so I take pleasure in reminding them how shite we were as youths .

Kids annoy adults, adults annoy kids. It’s the natural balance of like.

And life.

I moan about the kids of today being too conformist and how their music isn’t loud enough

Our dads probably thought we were pussies as well

A bit o' therapy for y'all (caution, swearing);

NotoriousREV wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 11:21 am I moan about the kids of today being too conformist and how their music isn’t loud enough

Totally this. Kids of today are fannies. I worry for them.

To get vaguely serious for a sec though, the theme of a global-wide general depression amongst the general populous is a thing at the moment. See SikTh's The Future in Whose Eyes? and A Perfect Circle's Eat The Elephant.

V8Granite wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 9:26 am No, I once went to a Warhammer shop when I was young with some Space Crusader models I’d painted. Even though I went there on rollerblades and was wearing knee pads I was the coolest person in the store. I learned quickly that they should be avoided.

Dave!

So you're not actually being sociable yourself, despite moaning that others aren't social these days?

Jobbo wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 9:23 am

V8Granite wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 9:26 am No, I once went to a Warhammer shop when I was young with some Space Crusader models I’d painted. Even though I went there on rollerblades and was wearing knee pads I was the coolest person in the store. I learned quickly that they should be avoided.

Dave!

So you're not actually being sociable yourself, despite moaning that others aren't social these days?

Truly the epitome of modern life: everyone else is doing it wrong.

Again - twas ever thus.

The real epitome of modern life is thinking it's all new and that we invented it. Nonsense.