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?Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.?

(Socrates, attr by Plato, though provenance somewhat in doubt the era is not)

Posted By: Old Man on August 15th 2013 at 15:01:49

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"Older people play an incredibly important role in society..." (General Chat) - CB41, Aug 15, 12:46:44
- without them (General Chat) - sotoncanary, Aug 15, 14:45:05
- No they don't. They're fucking useless (General Chat) - South stand corner, Aug 15, 13:31:01
- that's only according to old people though (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Aug 15, 12:56:07
  - ... "A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said"... (General Chat) - CB41, Aug 15, 13:15:06
    - oh i see, so you believe what this government tells you then then do you? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Aug 15, 13:22:32
      - yep (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Aug 15, 17:25:54
      - only when we agree with it. That's old(er)(ish) people for you. (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Aug 15, 13:23:34
    - We're all older than we were yesterday. In fact I'm older now than I've ever been. (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Aug 15, 13:17:41
- All I can say is that I am utterly fucking fed up with wet nursing the totally useless (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, Aug 15, 12:52:54
  - No future, no future, no future for us (General Chat) - Old Man, Aug 15, 15:00:43
    - and (General Chat) - Old Man, Aug 15, 15:01:49
  - Very well said, old chap (n/m) (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 15, 14:53:59
  - seconded (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Aug 15, 14:42:29
  - haha (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Aug 15, 12:55:33

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