Poll of the Day > You vowed to be open-minded and respect the tastes of people younger than you...

(+) Yeah! (+)

You said you wouldn't become your parents and turn your nose up to the trends "the youth" are into.

And yet you failed.

How did this happen?

---

I turned my nose up at the trends the youth were into when I was a youth. I never made any such vow. Kids are, have always been, and will always be stupid.

---

adjl posted...

I turned my nose up at the trends the youth were into when I was a youth. I never made any such vow. Kids are, have always been, and will always be stupid.

I vowed no such thing, and my music tastes have been into 50/60s music since I was a kid...

also never used social media
---

As far as trends go I'm with adjl, but I did tell myself I would keep up with technology and not be one of those old people who has to call someone over to their house to start a DVD player or turn on a computer. So far even if I haven't been adopting newer tech that quickly I still know how most of it works.

Reigning_King posted...

As far as trends go I'm with adjl, but I did tell myself I would keep up with technology and not be one of those old people who has to call someone over to their house to start a DVD player or turn on a computer. So far even if I haven't been adopting newer tech that quickly I still know how most of it works.

I remain the person that even my contemporaries ask for help whenever they run into computer problems, so I think I'm doing okay in that regard. Really, provided you approach computer systems with the right mindset to figure out what the problem is, you can pretty quickly learn any new system and solve basic problems within it, even if you don't have direct experience with that particular one. They all follow the same design principles.

---

I don't have a problem with Fortnite dancing

The people who were into that are adults now tho, I legitimately don't know what modern kids are into.

---

People were dumb when I was young and I was never into what everyone else was.

I keep up with technology, but I find myself siding more with the boomers on some issues lately; especially the fact that pencil/paper/phone calls should still be an option for everything government related.

(see rant below)

Tried opting out of the child tax credit (super dumb that I have to opt out - I was enrolled automatically). I could not do so without having a cell phone with an internet connection and a camera. I know most of you think everyone has these in this day and age - but the smart phone is something I never saw a need for. Everything I could do on a smart phone I can do 100 times better on a desktop/laptop. A smartphone is just an underpowered computer with a poor operating system and worse interface (touch screens - yuck!). I only have phone service on my cell phones and I'm still grandfathered into a plan with no internet access - phone - which is all I need. The lowest phone plan would raise my phone bill by $20/month. Why would I ever use internet on a phone?

TLDR: Tech is awesome, but I don't need new devices every other year. It has leveled off greatly. I have a laptop that is almost 10 years old that will still outperform most computers I could buy today.

am I out of touch? no, its the children who are wrong

---

Blightzkrieg posted...

I don't have a problem with Fortnite dancing

The people who were into that are adults now tho, I legitimately don't know what modern kids are into.

??? The only people into Fortnite Dancing are middle schoolers and they are most certainly not adults now.

Cruddy_horse posted...

??? The only people into Fortnite Dancing are middle schoolers and they are most certainly not adults now.

Yes, this was definitely true like five years ago lol

---

Blightzkrieg posted...

Yes, this was definitely true like five years ago lol

Fortnite didn't come out until late 2017 and didn't get super mega popular until early 2018. They didn't have all the dances and shit untill way later that year too.

Solid Sonic posted...

You vowed to be open-minded

I certainly did not.

and respect the tastes of people younger than you...

Nope again, I've never cared about that.

You said you wouldn't become your parents

Not divorced, alcoholic, been to prison, or mentally ill. I think I'm doing okay with this one.

and turn your nose up to the trends "the youth" are into.

I can't be bothered to know what other people are into to be aware of trends. I have my own interests.

---

Krazy_Kirby posted...

I vowed no such thing

---

Solid Sonic posted...

You vowed to be open-minded and respect the tastes of people younger than you

I never said or thought anything even remotely like that.



Solid Sonic posted...

You said you wouldn't become your parents and turn your nose up to the trends "the youth" are into.

I never said this either. I was always pretty cool with my parents, they were generally fairly tolerant of stuff they didn't personally like, and I was never really a rebellious asshole teenager.

If anything, I'm way more judgmental about "stupid kids" than my parents ever were.



adjl posted...

I turned my nose up at the trends the youth were into when I was a youth.

This.

I was in high school when grunge was starting to be a thing, and I thought grunge was stupid. Later on, when people started getting into skater chic and shading into relatively sanitized 90s punk (and ska), I thought it was stupid. I was a geek before being a geek was cool because I didn't really care what other people thought of my interests, and felt very little need to conform beyond the most superficial.

I've basically been a curmudgeon since I was 12 years old, a lot of my taste skewing about a half-decade (or slightly more) behind most of my peers, and spending most of my time complaining about how they all had terrible taste.

Shitting on "90s kids" or "millennials" on the Internet (or crapping on the opinions and behaviors of people even younger than that) is pretty much just an extension of the sort of mindset I've always had. I never "became everything I hated", because I never hated it in the first place, and I just stayed more or less the same as I've always been.
---