Young People
Aug 6th 2016, 9:20 am
#31
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Joined: Mar 2004
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Re: Young People
Personal experience and that of friends from an employment perspective has not been that good, a lot of entitled pot heads.
Aug 7th 2016, 8:25 pm
#33
Joined on April fools day
Joined: Mar 2012
Location: 30 miles from a decent grocery store.
Posts: 10,642
Re: Young People
Young people...over paid, over coddled and over angst.
Aug 13th 2016, 12:46 am
#34
Joined: Dec 2001
Location: Dixie, ex UK
Posts: 52,622
Re: Young People
Our neighbours have four children, I think the oldest, a boy, is now 18, and the youngest, a girl, is about 5 or 6. They pretty much keep themselves to themselves, and homeschool their children - the mother is a community college lecturer by training, so she likely knows what she is doing on the homeschooling front. The fact they keep themselves to themselves means that they don't impact us much. Most of the visitors seem to be his parents, who live nearby. Oh, and of course they attend church on Sundays, some slightly off-beat protestant sect, but I don't recall which one.
A couple of years ago, the eldest son took up drumming!
How the rest of the family out up with it, I have no idea. It is pretty loud even several hundred feet away through the trees, and how his younger siblings sleep when he is banging away at nine and ten o'clock at night, I can't imagine! All we ever here is the drum part, so presumably he is wearing headphones, but it has sounded like hard rock drumming to me, though I could never put my finger on a specific song, and aside from something that once sounded like Eliminator-era ZZ Top, I couldn't even be sure of a specific band.
Last weekend there was some sort of party (parents present), and more than a dozen cars were parked in the driveway, more cars came and dropped off an older teeenager. ..... And someone had brought an electric guitar and amp, as through the trees wafted a variety of well-executed riffs, from the likes of AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
My faith in the youth of today is somewhat restored.
A couple of years ago, the eldest son took up drumming!
How the rest of the family out up with it, I have no idea. It is pretty loud even several hundred feet away through the trees, and how his younger siblings sleep when he is banging away at nine and ten o'clock at night, I can't imagine! All we ever here is the drum part, so presumably he is wearing headphones, but it has sounded like hard rock drumming to me, though I could never put my finger on a specific song, and aside from something that once sounded like Eliminator-era ZZ Top, I couldn't even be sure of a specific band.Last weekend there was some sort of party (parents present), and more than a dozen cars were parked in the driveway, more cars came and dropped off an older teeenager. ..... And someone had brought an electric guitar and amp, as through the trees wafted a variety of well-executed riffs, from the likes of AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
My faith in the youth of today is somewhat restored.
Aug 13th 2016, 6:03 am
#35
me/moi
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: UK
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Re: Young People
(my K button ain't working or you'd get some...occasionally I probably am that guy) 
Aug 13th 2016, 11:32 am
#36
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Re: Young People
Our neighbours have four children, I think the oldest, a boy, is now 18, and the youngest, a girl, is about 5 or 6. They pretty much keep themselves to themselves, and homeschool their children - the mother is a community college lecturer by training, so she likely knows what she is doing on the homeschooling front. The fact they keep themselves to themselves means that they don't impact us much. Most of the visitors seem to be his parents, who live nearby. Oh, and of course they attend church on Sundays, some slightly off-beat protestant sect, but I don't recall which one.
A couple of years ago, the eldest son took up drumming! How the rest of the family out up with it, I have no idea. It is pretty loud even several hundred feet away through the trees, and how his younger siblings sleep when he is banging away at nine and ten o'clock at night, I can't imagine! All we ever here is the drum part, so presumably he is wearing headphones, but it has sounded like hard rock drumming to me, though I could never put my finger on a specific song,
A couple of years ago, the eldest son took up drumming!
How the rest of the family out up with it, I have no idea. It is pretty loud even several hundred feet away through the trees, and how his younger siblings sleep when he is banging away at nine and ten o'clock at night, I can't imagine! All we ever here is the drum part, so presumably he is wearing headphones, but it has sounded like hard rock drumming to me, though I could never put my finger on a specific song, Solved the problem for you
Aug 13th 2016, 5:18 pm
#37
I have a comma problem
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
Posts: 49,598
Re: Young People
Last weekend there was some sort of party (parents present), and more than a dozen cars were parked in the driveway, more cars came and dropped off an older teeenager. ..... And someone had brought an electric guitar and amp, as through the trees wafted a variety of well-executed riffs, from the likes of AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
My faith in the youth of today is somewhat restored.
My faith in the youth of today is somewhat restored.
Aug 13th 2016, 10:16 pm
#38
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: bute
Posts: 9,740
Re: Young People
Never trust anyone under the age of 50 ! I am thinking of rewriting that rule to read "Never trust anyone until you know they are in receipt of the State Pension !"
(You may recollect that in our youth the slogan was, "Never trust anyone over 30.")
(You may recollect that in our youth the slogan was, "Never trust anyone over 30.")
Last edited by scot47; Aug 13th 2016 at 10:19 pm.
Aug 14th 2016, 12:29 am
#40
Joined on April fools day
Joined: Mar 2012
Location: 30 miles from a decent grocery store.
Posts: 10,642
Re: Young People
And Washington and soon to be California and likely every 7/11 in the neighborhood.. Here in Oregon they are popping up every mile or so, all with thoughts of getting rich quick. The shake out should not take long, I suspect that at lest half will be broke in a year or two.
Aug 14th 2016, 12:42 am
#42
Joined on April fools day
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Location: 30 miles from a decent grocery store.
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Aug 14th 2016, 1:53 am
#43
Still alive
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 28,995
Re: Young People
My faith in young people was restored recently. Many who would be seen as the dregs of society have been the kindest, most generous people I could have imagined these past 2 weeks.
