I’m old. Sometimes I’m an asshole, but I really don’t care if young people think so.
Well, I’ve gotten to that age where I no longer drink beer (except after doing yard work or whatnot), I have a couple of glasses of whiskey twice a week.
I also can no longer stand movies with young women in leather firing two guns, and I can’t watch stuff like “Family Guy”
Also,I can’t really tolerate the college kids that are vocal and angry about things. Thing is I never liked them even when I was their age.
Last year I wore a Hooters shirt to work (it had a Shark on it and some crap about Hooters’ Surf Club or something) I got it because it was a quality shirt in my size which is sort of hard to come by in Taiwan, and a coworker (22 year-old female) asked me if I was seriuosly wearing it to school. I told her we’re not in college anymore so just forget about it.
Another time I mentioned how another teacher from Buffalo turned her "O"s when speaking into "A"s ( like: “It’s so hat out today!”) and she said she was offended that I said it may be easier for me to hear that slight accent because I’m Canadian (she’s from Wisconsin) so I just laughed at her for that one.
Hey!
Kids use swearwords, stuff costs more than it used to, music is weird now!
GET OFF MY LAWN!
I don’t know. It seems that being young immediately gets you tagged as a douchebag, even on articles featured on this site. Young and not hanging his head down = douchebag.
Being old definately gives some people a very strong sense of entitlement. Being old dosen’t mean you’re special it means you’re a fortunate surviror.
I’m linked to this guy on twitter and facebook and it is definately appropriate for here.
[quote]JRT6 wrote:
I go to the YMCA to swim and the old people there are fucking miserable and they live to screw with people. They give my two young daughters a hard time, they get confrontational with my wife and they intimidate the hell out of the YMCA staff to the point that these people are refered to as the “geriatric mafia”.
There’s a sign in the locker room that prohibits nude loitering but right under it is a bench where a bunch of naked old men sit and compare whose balls hang over the end of the bench the farthest. Don’t even get me started on the old fuckers who try to run people down in church parking lots and school zones.
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Well thats just fucking gross. If theyre going to be douches about it,then you should file a complaint at the YMCA and if you dont see any results,you go over their heads and tell the main office about it. Theres no reason for people to act that way. I dont care if your an arrogant 20 yr old or a senile 60 year old. A spade is a spade.
Anyway,to the OP question I can only say this;people are different. The way people age can go either two ways. They can either grow old with integrity,look back on their lives and just generally be happy and nice or they can grow up to be hardened bastards with alot of doubt and shame and therefore be pissed off all the time.
I have only had one run-in with an older guy. I merged in front of him in bumper to bumper traffic (I had my blinker on, he left a space, then sped up as I was changing lanes, I continued to change lanes forcing him to slam on his breaks), then he came up to my window with a can of mace. He was about 50, probably 150 lbs, wearing a suit and tie, driving a Lexus. I got out of the car because I thought we was going to smash my window to get to me.
He called me an asshole and an assortment of other equally uncreative names and threatened to kill me on the side of the road. I stood there and stared at him, perplexed. He continued for about 20 seconds, then went back to his car, yelling at me the whole way.
I have seen road rage before, but I’ve never seen somebody willing to risk everything over something as innocuous as getting merged in front of in traffic. I maybe slowed his commute by 5 seconds, yet he put his life, his wealth, and his freedom on the line because of it. Amazing.
Old people are assholes, but then again so are young people. Interestingly enough, old people (like 60+) seem to share the same qualities as teenagers:
*** Both groups have a severe entitlement complex.
*** Both groups get mad at you if you try to help them with certain things, but then complain when they have to do something by themselves.
*** Both groups want credit for some “shit you just supposed to do.” (You held down a job for 30 years? Great, so did most people. You graduated from college? Great, so did everybody else in your class.)
*** Both groups shoplift like crazy. Weird but true.
*** Neither group can drive worth a damn.
People in their 20s are basically teenagers with less angst and more debt. On the plus side, we also happen to be the best-looking section of the populace and thus, obviously the most valuable.
People in their 50s haven’t slipped into full-scale oldness yet, but they’re getting there. Fortunately, they have a nice stretch where they can ride the coattails of their past accomplishments before anybody notices their declining eyesight and mental dexterity. With the advent of ED pills, this really ain’t a bad place to be.
People in their 30s and 40s are generally the most competent section of the populace. But they are also really boring.
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
Old people are assholes, but then again so are young people. Interestingly enough, old people (like 60+) seem to share the same qualities as teenagers:
*** Both groups have a severe entitlement complex.
*** Both groups get mad at you if you try to help them with certain things, but then complain when they have to do something by themselves.
*** Both groups want credit for some “shit you just supposed to do.” (You held down a job for 30 years? Great, so did most people. You graduated from college? Great, so did everybody else in your class.)
*** Both groups shoplift like crazy. Weird but true.
*** Neither group can drive worth a damn.
People in their 20s are basically teenagers with less angst and more debt. On the plus side, we also happen to be the best-looking section of the populace and thus, obviously the most valuable.
People in their 50s haven’t slipped into full-scale oldness yet, but they’re getting there. Fortunately, they have a nice stretch where they can ride the coattails of their past accomplishments before anybody notices their declining eyesight and mental dexterity. With the advent of ED pills, this really ain’t a bad place to be.
People in their 30s and 40s are generally the most competent section of the populace. But they are also really boring.[/quote]
LOL, did you come up with that on your own? I’m sending it out as an email forward. Good stuff.
Actually, I did. 1 internets to me!
[quote]JEATON wrote:
[quote]SeanParent wrote:
So I just read over my post, and I don’t want to come off as an immature asshole, like the last part reads… Does anyone understand what I’m getting at though. There are those guys out there that will like drive up next to you in your car and swear and tell you to pull over, and get all road raged out. But like you know that if shit went down that it just wouldn’t end good for them or you.[/quote]
No problems. Actually, I thought you were coming off as an ignorant, immature, douche bag of an asshole, like your whole post reads. Instead, I guess you were just trying to tell everyone how tough you are and how you could whip the shit out of your average elderly war veteran.
Honestly, if you are having enough of these encounters that you can think of them as anything other than a chance oddity, you are an asshole. People are not just singling you out as a victim of their “road rage.”
Again, you’ve had “a lot of situations.” Believe me, at 24 you are the “wannabe” in these situations. They are the ones that have had a career, raised families and put kids through college. They have fought wars and but their lives on the line so that true wannabes like you can enjoy growing up in a “technology age.”
A little advice…
Shut up, man up and grow up.
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Well I get what you’re saying for the most part. I do agree with you that most older people have lived more of a life than myself. Actually it would be impossible for me to argue that. And I have a GREAT respect for war veterans considering I have 3 friends who are over seas right now(1 Irag 2 in Afghanistan), and a grandfather and greatgrandfather who have served. I also never said I could kick the shit out of old war veterans. Actually that part about the guys with road rage, weren’t veterans at all. Infact they weren’t that old in retrospect…Id say late 30’s to early 50’s. And I might of exagerated a bit by saying it happens all of the time, It’s happend about 5-8 since Ive been driving(16). Some of the situations were my fault, but that doesn’t give someone to act the way they did… And at no point did I act as immature or as douche as those “men” did. If I had, than each and everytime would of ended with us pulling over and fighting, and yes most likely me winning. But it didn’t, because I “manned up” and thought about my careers, family, and future first. I’m also not sure how the first part of my thread made me seem ignorant and immature, or a douche bag. If you would of handled the situation with the old man any differently then by all means tell me.
People USUALLY arent assholes to you as long as you show them some respect and maturity. I’m 17, and definately not as mature as people older than me, but I would like to think Im at least a little more mature than my peers, and alot more respectful, reepect gives you everything.
If people are assholes to everyone, they are just assholes, get used to it, itll be around till you die. If theyre nice to everyone else, but an asshole to you, you must have rubbed them wrong, and its all on you
Thats all I got.
Sean, while you were backing up onto the road or whatever and doing all your fancy stuff, this guy sees someone backing into the main road and concludes you are an idiot. When you acknowledge nothing but your cell phone, he continues with his assessment. I could go on, but you were probably pleased with your maneuver and self-absorbed and looked at him like he was an ass, instead of understanding that time moves differently when you are older - I know, I’m older - and you do the usual young assessment of an old codger.
Best advice here is grow up. Have a little more understanding of the world around you. It’s not about you, it’s about those around you. Get over yourself. Some day you will be older and have a different “insight.” Except you’ll be different, I’m sure. For now, understand other perspectives. A little empathy goes a lo-o-ong way.
I know, I empathize in both directions on the age spectrum. My adolescent students love me and I’m nice to older people.
Old people can be very self righteous and patronizing too.
[quote]JRT6 wrote:
Old people can be very self righteous and patronizing too.[/quote]
Oh, sure we can. You are so right. Did you come up with that yourself? How original! You should write a book!
Now be a good little whippersnapper and run along into traffic!
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]JRT6 wrote:
Old people can be very self righteous and patronizing too.[/quote]
Oh, sure we can. You are so right. Did you come up with that yourself? How original! You should write a book!
Now be a good little whippersnapper and run along into traffic!
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Don’t strain a rotator cuff patting yourself on the back thinking you had a witty reposte because dude… I’m older than you are.
[quote]JRT6 wrote:
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]JRT6 wrote:
Old people can be very self righteous and patronizing too.[/quote]
Oh, sure we can. You are so right. Did you come up with that yourself? How original! You should write a book!
Now be a good little whippersnapper and run along into traffic!
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Don’t strain a rotator cuff patting yourself on the back thinking you had a witty reposte because dude… I’m older than you are.[/quote]
Well then I hope your hip goes out on you and your bowel movements turn to cement, you old fart!
[quote]DickBag wrote:
The older i get the less i feel able to call anyone an asshole.
Everyone has a reason for whatever they do. And when you split people’s actions into a collection of motives for want of a better word, then its very VERY difficult IN MY OPINION, to pin point which motive is what makes them an asshole.
You could say I’m just trying to be a clever 20 year old, but I’m just stating something that sort of makes me miserable.
I think that people who excessivly call others names are refusing to think deeper, or should I say, in a way, being superficial.
There are many times I wanted to call someone a fuckin asshole lately, but then I realise that whatever motviates them to do what they were doing, I too have had such motives, maybe on a smaller scale but I had them, and what makes me different? That I had less? if so whats the threshold.
I hope I’m just talking alot of 20 year old shit, I would love to call out a few cuntes more often.
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Dickbag
I’ve read your posts for a long time now, and for your age, you seem to have a pretty good take on things.