Lovey boy! ⚡️⚡️

PErhaps the lad will pioneer a new form of music genre in his teens -- RETRO METAL-- and Ac/DC, KISS, Megadeath and Metallica will live on through his efforts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROCK ON LITTLE DEVIL ROCK ON!
 
gasket said:
Well Gahr most of the retired school teachers I know think like me. Possibly you left teaching and started brewing before you became jaded, good for you.
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Haha, maybe. But remember that I also have history on my side. Mankind has been around for a couple of hundred thousand years. In every single generation old people have been moaning about the younger ones. And we're still here. And in every single generation the old ones, when confronted with views like mine, have been going: "But THIS time it is different". A prime example of the saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same" if there ever was one.

I think like this: In many ways I still feel the same as when I was 16 years old. I like a lot of the same things (music, for instance) I did as a kid. But in some ways I have changed. I have a different view of what's really important in life. When young, fitting in is important, and among young people fitting in is very often mistaken for individuality. And individuality is by kids often unknowingly defined as doing things differently from your parents. These days I don't really care what other people think about me. Sure, I like being nice and I want to have friends, but what do I care if I look different? Hey, I wear my bell bottom jeans with pride! I also don't care what other people do or look like. As a kid you tend to get caught up in details like that. As you get older your "edges wear down" so to speak. Some call it wisdom, I don't know. But a lot of the time we forget that we behaved differently when we were kids. We thought differently. And I think we often forget these things because we in many ways still feel the same inside as we did when we were kids. We forget we have changed. And thus we forget the fact that kids will change. And they will. Of all the kids I've seen through school (a good few!), I can only think of a small handful that haven't turned out to be good people as they got older. And the ones who didn't were screwed up by their parents to begin with through neglect.

Kids today sure do a lot of stuff I never did as a kid. They have mobile phones, they play at their computers a lot, they communicate a lot through digital devices, they listen to shitty music etc. But hey, my parents never liked my music either. Social interaction is different in certain contexts today. I think this scares a lot of grown-ups. Mostly because it is something we don't have as much control over. But the mobile phones also mean we have A LOT more control over kids today. We can reach them whenever we want. If they stay at home playing their computers we can check in on them and we sure know more about who they are talking to than my parents did when I was hanging out with my friends.

There are good things and bad things in every generation. And the world is different from what it was only a few years back. But it will be alright. If we all go to hell it will be because of what the grown-ups are doing, not the kids.

Sorry for the long post, but I feel rather strongly about the subject.
 
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I don't disagree with any of the above.
Give this cranky old xenophobe a little room to complain, it's one of the only pleasures left.
Now if you are under 25 and not white Australian I say this ...


I'm known to exaggerate in this area, don't take too much notice of my input.
Haaa haaa.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
Lovey boy!



& proof that there isn't:

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Although I’m not very familiar with their work, I have to say I honestly don’t find much interesting in die Antwoord’s music or videos. What are they about, really? I’m not taking the piss or putting them down, I just don’t understand them. They certainly haven’t given me much of an answer yet...
 
Gahr said:
Although I’m not very familiar with their work, I have to say I honestly don’t find much interesting in die Antwoord’s music or videos. What are they about, really? I’m not taking the piss or putting them down, I just don’t understand them. They certainly haven’t given me much of an answer yet...
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I see them as a punk group, social activists from a lower income community in a changing, poverty stricken society; they are clearly reactionary to modern music culture too.
 
Gahr said:
Haha, maybe. But remember that I also have history on my side. Mankind has been around for a couple of hundred thousand years. In every single generation old people have been moaning about the younger ones. And we're still here. And in every single generation the old ones, when confronted with views like mine, have been going: "But THIS time it is different". A prime example of the saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same" if there ever was one.

I think like this: In many ways I still feel the same as when I was 16 years old. I like a lot of the same things (music, for instance) I did as a kid. But in some ways I have changed. I have a different view of what's really important in life. When young, fitting in is important, and among young people fitting in is very often mistaken for individuality. And individuality is by kids often unknowingly defined as doing things differently from your parents. These days I don't really care what other people think about me. Sure, I like being nice and I want to have friends, but what do I care if I look different? Hey, I wear my bell bottom jeans with pride! I also don't care what other people do or look like. As a kid you tend to get caught up in details like that. As you get older your "edges wear down" so to speak. Some call it wisdom, I don't know. But a lot of the time we forget that we behaved differently when we were kids. We thought differently. And I think we often forget these things because we in many ways still feel the same inside as we did when we were kids. We forget we have changed. And thus we forget the fact that kids will change. And they will. Of all the kids I've seen through school (a good few!), I can only think of a small handful that haven't turned out to be good people as they got older. And the ones who didn't were screwed up by their parents to begin with through neglect.

Kids today sure do a lot of stuff I never did as a kid. They have mobile phones, they play at their computers a lot, they communicate a lot through digital devices, they listen to shitty music etc. But hey, my parents never liked my music either. Social interaction is different in certain contexts today. I think this scares a lot of grown-ups. Mostly because it is something we don't have as much control over. But the mobile phones also mean we have A LOT more control over kids today. We can reach them whenever we want. If they stay at home playing their computers we can check in on them and we sure know more about who they are talking to than my parents did when I was hanging out with my friends.

There are good things and bad things in every generation. And the world is different from what it was only a few years back. But it will be alright. If we all go to hell it will be because of what the grown-ups are doing, not the kids.

Sorry for the long post, but I feel rather strongly about the subject.
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Wow, Gahr!!!! I dig it!!! I'm 52 and feel as good as I did at 16 - and i still like the same music!!!!!!
 
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