More devasting news for Millenials: their handshakes suck

tGreenWay wrote:

Senior Dickfist wrote:

Listen, Mr. tGreenWay, I do not take kindly to your abuse!  You have become a bully and it will not be tolerated any longer.  In light of this, I challenge you to a duel.  Pistols at dawn.  Please meet me on Munn Field.  And just for the record, I'm not a millenial and have a mighty fine handshake.

Thank you and have a beautiful day.   Dickfist out!

I reeled one in, guys. (Sorry, Dickfist, but it seemed like the perfect time to drop in that trick.)

Senior Dickfist wrote:Regardless, you still have neither accepted nor denied my challenge.

tGreenWay wrote:

Senior Dickfist wrote:#duel

Senior Dickfist wrote:Like a truce between Spur Theorists and Downriggers?

Turtleneck wrote:

Senior Dickfist wrote:Like a truce between Spur Theorists and Downriggers?

BOOM! GreenWay #eviscerated.

tGreenWay wrote:

Senior Dickfist wrote:

He's too scared to come back...and too busy talking about tattoos.

I see you're engaging Turtleneck to do your heavy lifting. I'm not saying you're chicken, but I did see a bunch of little old lady Asian women eyeing your feet.

One day last year, a citizen on a prairie path in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst came upon a teen boy chopping wood. Not a body. Just some already-fallen branches. Nonetheless, the onlooker called the cops.

Officers interrogated the boy, who said he was trying to build a fort for himself and his friends. A local news site reports the police then "took the tools for safekeeping to be returned to the boy's parents."

Elsewhere in America, preschoolers at the Learning Collaborative in Charlotte, North Carolina, were thrilled to receive a set of gently used playground equipment. But the kids soon found out they would not be allowed to use it, because it was resting on grass, not wood chips. "It's a safety issue," explained a day care spokeswoman. Playing on grass is against local regulations.

And then there was the query that ran in Parents magazine a few years back: "Your child's old enough to stay home briefly, and often does. But is it okay to leave her and her playmate home while you dash to the dry cleaner?" Absolutely not, the magazine averred: "Take the kids with you, or save your errand for another time." After all, "you want to make sure that no one's feelings get too hurt if there's a squabble."

The principle here is simple: This generation of kids must be protected like none other. They can't use tools, they can't play on grass, and they certainly can't be expected to work through a spat with a friend.

And this, it could be argued, is why we have "safe spaces" on college campuses and millennials missing adult milestones today. We told a generation of kids that they can never be too safe—and they believed us.

LooseGoose wrote:I think there's a lot of truth in this article.

The Fragile Generation - - Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.

One day last year, a citizen on a prairie path in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst came upon a teen boy chopping wood. Not a body. Just some already-fallen branches. Nonetheless, the onlooker called the cops.

Officers interrogated the boy, who said he was trying to build a fort for himself and his friends. A local news site reports the police then "took the tools for safekeeping to be returned to the boy's parents."

Elsewhere in America, preschoolers at the Learning Collaborative in Charlotte, North Carolina, were thrilled to receive a set of gently used playground equipment. But the kids soon found out they would not be allowed to use it, because it was resting on grass, not wood chips. "It's a safety issue," explained a day care spokeswoman. Playing on grass is against local regulations.

And then there was the query that ran in Parents magazine a few years back: "Your child's old enough to stay home briefly, and often does. But is it okay to leave her and her playmate home while you dash to the dry cleaner?" Absolutely not, the magazine averred: "Take the kids with you, or save your errand for another time." After all, "you want to make sure that no one's feelings get too hurt if there's a squabble."

The principle here is simple: This generation of kids must be protected like none other. They can't use tools, they can't play on grass, and they certainly can't be expected to work through a spat with a friend.

And this, it could be argued, is why we have "safe spaces" on college campuses and millennials missing adult milestones today. We told a generation of kids that they can never be too safe—and they believed us.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Not diving too much into the clickbait, but helicopter parents are the worst. My parents were the complete opposite and look how I turned out!

LooseGoose wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Not diving too much into the clickbait, but helicopter parents are the worst. My parents were the complete opposite and look how I turned out!

OTPT? Reason magazine isn't clickbait man.....it's the voice for Libertarians.

Minimum wage reached its peak in 1968 at $10.88, and has been trending downwards since then, and now it's $7.25/hr. That doesn't sound like a huge difference, until you consider the difference in college costs as well. In 1968 the average tuition, fees, room, and board for an entire year was $1,117, assuming in-state tuition at a public college. In the 2015-2016 school year, a similar college would cost $19,548 on average.
So in 1968 you could pay for a year of college with 103 hours at minimum wage, which you didn't even need to do to do well in life. And 103 hours isn't all that much, you could easily get that in over a summer.
In 2016 to pay for college you had to work 2,697 hours at minimum wage. That's 52 hours of work each week, every single week of the year, with absolutely no weeks off. That's on top of classes, and that's just to pay for college, not anything else. You need gas money? Too bad.
So in the span of about 50 years, we went from college being cheap and unnecessary, to prohibitively expensive and almost a necessity to not live your life working two jobs and having at least 3 roommates.

AnomanderRake wrote:Millennials aren't missing "adult milestones" because of safe spaces or any other excuse clickbait writers are spewing. All the safe space, awards for every kid bullshit has been for the insecure parents, not the kids.

It's very simple. Millennials are missing "adult milestones" because the economy/wages, housing markets, cost of education, and general cost of living are completely fucked thanks to the reckless and stupid actions of past generations.

AnomanderRake wrote:^ I vote but only to slow our regression and eventual demise. I believe that our current system of government is completely broken and that voting is not a feasible solution to the problem. A broken system must be recreated from ground up.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:Dwags I understand that you’re sundowning at this point so perhaps you don’t remember but do you ever get sick of going round and round on the same topic?

DWags wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:Dwags I understand that you’re sundowning at this point so perhaps you don’t remember but do you ever get sick of going round and round on the same topic?

Hey, I remember you saying this over and over. Does that count?

Give me a couple chapters on it you message board trend setter.

TIA

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

DWags wrote:


I look forward to the millenial-lution

will I need a gun?

you always need a gun.

and a bible.

Those two mystical entities are what allows me to sleep at night.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

DWags wrote:

Hey, I remember you saying this over and over.  Does that count?

Give me a couple chapters on it you message board trend setter.

TIA

That doesn’t make any sense dwags. I realize that struggling to find words is also an early sign of Alzheimer’s. Look, I’m not and expert on this stuff but maybe just casually mention it to your doctor or whatever.