These will hit home... For you 40+ year olds here on Sherdog.

TS is just listing a bunch of reasons why us millenials are statistically better in every possible category.
 
40 years ago there were guys like this running around.

 
wonderbread said:
How on earth did we survive growing up? :) ! America has become so pussified!!

1. Our sandwiches contained leftover roast chicken; we didn’t have fridges in classrooms or ice bricks in our lunch boxes, but we didn’t get food poisoning.

2. We rode bikes without helmets or adult supervision or bike paths but we mostly just ended up with scarred knees.

3. Our mothers wiped our faces with spit on a hanky not an antibacterial wipe.

4. Tuckshop was sausage rolls and cream donuts but kids were wiry and fast.

5. Our parents rarely knew our teachers’ names, let alone their NAPLAN prep strategy.

6. When our teachers would whack us, we wouldn’t tell our parents for fear of getting punished again, so we avoided trouble in the first place.

7. Our trampolines were netless and sometimes hosed with water and a squirt of Palmolive for extra slipperiness.

8. What was said on the playground stayed on the playground.
9. We went on camps and excursions without 18 forms to be signed and witnessed.

10. As toddlers, we rode in supermarket trolleys without padded trolley liner thingys.

11. Angry teachers were treated with caution. We just prayed for a nice one next year.

12. Weekends were about our parents’ social lives. As kids, we played murder in the dark while parents talked with their friends and forgot we existed.

13. Generally, we went to the closest school, not the best one.

14. Kids got scared before parent-teacher interviews, not teachers.

15. We got ourselves to Saturday sport and told tall tales about how the win was won.

16. Helping with the washing up was as important as homework.

17. Birthday parties were fairy bread and Fanta, not fruit kebabs and face painting.

18. When a kid was injured, people felt sorry for her parents. They didn’t ask what the hell were they thinking letting her climb that tree anyway.

19. Cubby houses were built by kids not bought from Toys R Us.

20. If you did badly in a test, you got a talking to, not a cuddle.

21. A pocket-knife was a perfectly acceptable gift for a 10-year-old.

22. If anyone got air conditioning in their bedroom, it was mum and dad.

23. Family holidays came before kids’ sporting schedules.

24. Your dad’s desire to watch Four Corners trumped your need to watch Battlestar Galactica.

25. A teacher could put mercurochrome on a scraped knee without obtaining our parents’ permission and completing an ‘incident report’.

26. A playdate was walking to a friend’s house, ringing the doorbell and saying, ‘Can Cathy come and play?’

27. School excursions happened without a ‘risk assessment’ and a two to one kid / parent volunteer ratio.

28. There was no padding on netball hoop posts.

29. No one wrote names on cups at parties.

30. You could offer your friend a bite of your hot dog.

31. If the bus driver yelled at you, the bus driver didn’t get in trouble, you did.

32. If you didn’t make a team, you tried harder or tried something else.

33. Pass the parcel had one winner.

34. There was one kind of milk. It was full cream and it was delicious.

35. Meat was bought at the butcher, and was packed without a use-by date. Our parents used their noses to tell if the mince was off.

36. Getting one present on your Christmas wish list was good result.

37. Drives of longer than an hour happened without supplies of rice crackers and juice.

38. Going to the shops/church/the nursing home to visit Nan was boring as hell but could be endured without an iPad.

39. School holidays were about not being at school, not soccer workshops, art classes and pony camp.

40. Being tired was no excuse for being rude.

41. You had to do something great to get a ‘student of the week’ award. Not just show up at school
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im 34 and American and have no idea what half of this stuff is.. mum ? netball? sausage rolls? pass the parcal? trolley? Four Corners? this list has nothing to do with America.. whats a tuckshop?
 
kevy2pale said:
im 34 and American and have no idea what half of this stuff is.. mum ? netball? sausage rolls? pass the parcal? trolley? Four Corners? this list has nothing to do with America.. whats a tuckshop?
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You're too young.
 
wonderbread said:
When I was in 6-7th grade we had a Art teacher that was a serious bad ass..He would beat your ass! And us kids didn't fuck around. Nor did I tell my father, due to I would get another ass beating (He was a Marine Sargent). I remember one time he made me stand in the corner for fucking around..At one point I looked away from the corner at someone..he came over grabbed me by the back of my head and slammed it into the wall where I should be looking. Crazy stuff, but it made us respectful of our elders...something a lot of kids these days lack.
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wonderbread said:
When I was in 6-7th grade we had a Art teacher that was a serious bad ass..He would beat your ass! And us kids didn't fuck around. Nor did I tell my father, due to I would get another ass beating (He was a Marine Sargent). I remember one time he made me stand in the corner for fucking around..At one point I looked away from the corner at someone..he came over grabbed me by the back of my head and slammed it into the wall where I should be looking. Crazy stuff, but it made us respectful of our elders...something a lot of kids these days lack.
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would you and your friends talk about this at the tuckershop after school? or were you so tired from netball you just went home to your sausage rolls?
 
kevy2pale said:
would you and your friends talk about this at the tuckershop after school? or were you so tired from netball you just went home to your sausage rolls?
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My sister had sausage roll hair
 
Problem is it's the people that grew up like that that are now the cause of the current society/parenting. Maybe it wasn't all gravy after all.
 
I would say this applies to anyone 32 or older. I'm 36 and my teens were in the 90's and similar to your upbringing.
 
I am tiny bit older. Many of the people I knew had outhouses. My dad used to tell me about horse drawn plows and I finally learned they didn't fall completely out of use until 10 years before I was born. My bathwater was heated on a stove.
 
Ippy said:
TS is just listing a bunch of reasons why us millenials are statistically better in every possible category.
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If by every category you mean

- Being Offended
- Spoiled
- Apathetic
- Lazy
- Fat
- Being a Pussy
- Disrespectful
- Irresponsible
- Worthless
- Spineless

Then I 100% agree.

Also, Get off my lawn...

:mad: <- This is me being a millennial who's outraged that all our icons are male.
 
Soda Popinsky said:
This, and I am 34. Also, who knows? Maybe more of us did die of food poisoning and falling off their bikes. I doubt the author did any research into either of those. I fucking hate these things. It's basically a passive aggressive way of saying our generation is better than this one. And it's fucking stupid because every generation has thought that since the first humans. How about we actually be the better generation and not play into this bullshit way of thinking. Also, I just hate that by sharing this, we're giving more readership to someone who just fucking blogs for a living. If that is what you do, you contribute almost nothing of value to society and are not really in a position to say shit about any generation. Because right now, some 60 + year old is talking to his friends saying, "remember when you actually had to go to work for it to be considered a job?" And who the fuck does the author think is raising this generation of defective kids? It's us, motherfucker.
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I used to like your posts but now I wonder.
 
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