Originally posted by Red NightDo you get sky in the old people's home?
I'm flipping through the channels LAST NIGHT and I pause for a few minutes on an MTV show called Viva La Bam. I didn't really understand what was going on but these young kids spent the entire 5 minutes that I could stomach wrecking stuff and beating on each other. They smashed the windows on some homeless guy's trailer spewing glass all over him in his b ...[text shortened]... The Juxtaposition of these two events really caused me to think that maybe I am out of touch.
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Originally posted by VargMaybe I am. That's the point of the thread. I'm alright with being out of touch. Particularly if being in touch means liking the destruction of people, property, and the environment.
32.
I think you're just out of touch.
You look younger than 32 on your profile.
Are you familiar with this Viva La Bam?
Originally posted by Red NightSo MTV is a TV station addressing mostly young people, and Today is a show which is mostly directed to older people?
Another feeble attempt to draw me into an argument.
Not what I'm saying at all NorlysK. I'm saying I didn't understand this show, which obviously must have some appeal to young people if it's on MTV in Prime Time.
I did understand and was somewhat moved by the Today show snippet, which made me feel old.
I am not attempting to draw you into an argument, but your posts sounded very much like you are stereotyping different generations. The young people I know are not into destroying things. Many young people do things like that old person you saw on TV.
Originally posted by Freddie2006I remember Jackass (Mostly aptly named show ever.). Guys nailing their testicles to boards and hitting each other with ball peen hammers. Kind of like the Three Stooges in real life.
Bam just to be a part of the popular programme Jackass as far as I know, and now he has his own spinoff show.
I didn't understand that one either and I was somewhat younger then.
Originally posted by NordlysI would say so.
So MTV is a TV station addressing mostly young people, and Today is a show which is mostly directed to older people?
The young people I know are not into destroying things. Many young people do things like that old person you saw on TV.
That's good to hear. And I certainly didn't mean to imply otherwise. I'm sure there is lots of good and bad in all generations.
It's hard to clarify what I'm saying with limited space and time.
Let me try this way: I saw something on TV that I didn't understand how anyone could ever watch. I remember doing things and enjoying things as a young man that older people didn't understand.
Then, this morning i saw something on a TV program that I despised as a youngster that really touched me.
The juxtaposition of those two events made me feel old. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Originally posted by Red Night(Tell me if I start crossing the line, I don't intend to)
11 and new born
Are you very conservative with 11 year old? I mean, do you have old fashioned parental values? For example, would you let your child walk down to the local shop on their own? I only ask because the image that you put across in the forums is one that makes me imagine you would be a very strict parent. There's nothing wrong with that, I jsut wonder how your values and ideas are put across in your parenting, if you see what I mean.
I mean, I live in South London, in not the greatest neighbourhood, and have done all my life, yet my parents let me go out to the shops and cycle around when I was 9 and the first time I got left at home all night by myself was 11, and I was fine with it and so were they, even though they are quite strict when it comes to parenting. The neighbours were apparently appauled that my mum let me out on my own at that age, but she was adament, and I feel it's served me well, in that I feel a lot more streetwise than the kid down the road who is thirteen and still not allowed to cross the (very quiet) street by himself. He now appears to have a very restricted lifestyle and doesn't seem to have many friends. Do you feel that there is an element of Catch22 here, because if you give kids too much freedom they may become unruly, but if you keep them on too tight a leash then they will become subdued and have few social skills.