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General discussionWhy are members of such an advanced generation so dumb? (Selfies taken in dangerous locales/other dumb stuff thread)(75 posts)(75 posts)
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Posted May 25, 2019
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tinyE: Just out of curiosity, am I the only one here with guts enough to admit he's an idiot?
We're all idiots in different ways. Fortunately, none of us here are idiots near cliffs.

Isn't that right Cliffselfie99?
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Cliffselfie99?? Huh, probably at work or something.
Posted May 25, 2019
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firstpastthepost: It's not a generational problem. It seems giving cell phones to people of any age make them do stupid things... case in point, Anthony Wiener.
Well, coming from an Emergency Management family, it is certainly worse this generation. My thinking is we're seeing a generation that doesn't have or use common sense while they also harbor an innate feeling that someone or something will take care of them -- keep them safe.
Post edited May 25, 2019 by kai2
Posted May 25, 2019
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firstpastthepost: It's not a generational problem. It seems giving cell phones to people of any age make them do stupid things... case in point, Anthony Wiener.
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kai2: Well, coming from an Emergency Management family, it is certainly worse this generation. My thinking is we're seeing a generation that doesn't have or use common sense while they also harbor an innate feeling that someone or something will take care of them -- keep them safe.
That's it,no common sense or parent supervision.
Posted May 25, 2019
Wasnt there a guy who was kinda famous for taking selfies up in dangerous places? (and subsequently died when he fell one time....)
I seen the woman one falling off the cliff. Sad but stupid...
Posted May 25, 2019
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firstpastthepost: It's not a generational problem. It seems giving cell phones to people of any age make them do stupid things... case in point, Anthony Wiener.
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kai2: Well, coming from an Emergency Management family, it is certainly worse this generation. My thinking is we're seeing a generation that doesn't have or use common sense while they also harbor an innate feeling that someone or something will take care of them -- keep them safe.
I agree that common sense seems to be getting less common. But I think that’s being driven by technology, at least partially. People don’t need to think when they constantly carry around a tiny computer that has answers to any question they may have. And the internet is full of incorrect or deliberately misleading information. So it’s a double whammy. People think they’re smarter cause they can look up answers instantly but the answers are often wrong.
Posted May 25, 2019
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GameRager: 1. If it was genuine I apologize. The wording and it's relation to the title threw me off a bit.

2. I got a bit upset because you/amok are rambling back and forth offtopic instead of adding to the thread topic in a constructive fashion while using crude wordplay. I understandably got a bit hot under the collar as a result, as one might expect.

Question: If you made a thread and people came in & began to reply in such a fashion would you be happy with it?

(Also offtopic: I have a terrible history? How so? Because I say some opinions some dislike to hear?

Also there are many others here who are much more "terrible" than I am considered to be(like others here who post borderline porn in people's threads including those of a religious nature.....just to upset those they dislike...including those who adhere to a particular religion))

3. The nutella "joke" is uncalled for and if someone else did it(or I did it) in another thread you can bet i'd be called on it or worse & you know it.
They won't hire you as a forum mod unless you move to Warsaw. Just an FYI, no matter how much you try to police the forum for them.

And pretty sure Sachys wouldn't give a shit if people started derailing his threads... He generally derails his own threads a few posts in.
Posted May 25, 2019
These people ALWAYS existed. It's just that today technolgy allowes them to stand out.
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Posted May 25, 2019
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Niggles: Wasnt there a guy who was kinda famous for taking selfies up in dangerous places? (and subsequently died when he fell one time....)
I seen the woman one falling off the cliff. Sad but stupid...
There was a youtuber who thought to up the ante by having his GF shoot him with a Desert Eagle 0.50 caliber pistol hoping a thick book would save his life. It didn't.
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Yeshu: These people ALWAYS existed. It's just that today technoly allowes them to stand out.
I think there's more of them today due to emboldening messages of empowerment and a real rage boner against authority. Combine that with schools having their teeth taken away because we can't properly punish misbehaving children or fail stupid ones to make sure they learn what they're supposed to (self confidence is, after all, more important than an actual education) and we have dumb kids with smart phones. There are less inhibitions and more emphasis on "look at me" with platforms like Twitter and Youtube and people are more willing to take bigger risks to get recognized, because if the right person notices them they could make it big! Technology makes it more noticeable, but it also breeds the environment wherein people are desperate or stupid enough to get in these positions.
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Posted May 25, 2019
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GameRager: Question: If you made a thread and people came in & began to reply in such a fashion would you be happy with it?
Finally someone pointed this out ;)

But I'm glad to see the discussion is going well now.
Posted May 25, 2019
It's not exactly a new thing:

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.18935/

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Photographing_New_York_City_-_on_a_slender_support_18_stories_above_pavement_of_Fifth_Avenue.jpg
Post edited May 25, 2019 by KasperHviid
Posted May 25, 2019
I keep hearing ''people have complained about younger generations since ancient times, it's always been this way'', but the fact is we only very recently got the internet and that is having a huge, unprecedented impact on how we interact.
Posted May 25, 2019
@TentacleMayor: Despite my post, I agree. On that topic, I can recommend The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Posted May 25, 2019
The young have always had attention-seeking and risk-taking behavioural tendencies. But it's recent technology that has amplified it by giving people access to an audience anywhere and anytime, and a lack of guidance by responsible adults has failed to teach good sense to counter this. Remember when to do something stupid in front of your friends they had to be there irl to watch you?
Posted May 25, 2019
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Braggadar: The young have always had attention-seeking
I'm 43. :P
Posted May 25, 2019
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firstpastthepost: You say that in jest but there are a fair number of flat earthers out there.
And I found out recently that there are enough of those, that they even have their own conventions! I swear, if there is one in my area, I am sooo going.
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