Forums → The Tavern → Top 5 things young teens have completely wrong, (A Rant)

Good metal over there.

Exactly. Once again, take Tom Araya. He was a respiratory therapist. That probably helped him a great deal.

I pretty much watch the news and Netflix.

Trekkie and grade A student right here.

We can form our own isolated community!

I pretty much watch the news and Netflix.

The fact that I agree with this makes me feel old. Better yell at some kids on my lawn.

#5: I never had the time to get into the real vampire, Transylvania thing and the ting that sucks is that twilight totally doesn't make me interested in vampires at all anymore.

#4: I watched a lot of cartoons as a child and now I'm like, wow that stuff was soooo bad, the only good thing from my era is spongebob.

#3: The only times I get cash is my birthday, Christmas and sometimes Easter. I got paid like 25 bucks to watervac all the water out of my mom-moms basement and 50 to baby sit the neighbor's kids for 5 hours but that is pretty much all the income I have made this year.

#2 I was raised on the whole, Beatles and David Bowie so nowadays I came out liking stuff like Modern Rock, Grunge, Pop-Punk, Punk and other modern and 90s rock genres, so I'm pretty good on this.

#1 Your right, I don't like school, but I enjoy some classes, like science, social studies LA and band, also I'm not one of those popular kids, well at least not the ones that have 500 GFs, get with everyone, plays every sport(I make my &quotopularity" in the music world) and treats people that are not in their inner friend circle like crap. But your right no one except the "nerds" care and popularity is a bunch of BS.

I just want to say....... well, your rant kind of said everything that I wanted to say. It seems the only good American culture we have left comes from Japan.......

#5 I never saw that movie and I never intend to

#4 I loved lonny tunes and tom & Jerry but I mainly watch spongebob and The Simpsons ( only seasons 6-9 though)

#3 I understand the value of money but I never spend any. Right now in my wallet Theres 145$ in there that I havent spent in 2 years. I save it until theres something worth it.

#2 This one I agree mostly. I'll only listen to music that was before 1980 with the exception of Weird Al.

#1 School was perfect until the 6th grade that's where it hit rock bottom. 98% of all kids change from loving school to what your description says. It's those kids that suck the fun out of school.

I am so agreeing with you. I know it sounds stupid but if I could have been sent back 60 years ago and live my life then I would be a way more happier kid. Not that I'm not happy now but more happy, you know.

I totally agree that the pop music people listen to know is stupid. I need oldies from the 50s-80s.

Also a little thing added. Cars looked way cooler back then. Now every car looks the same in my eyes.

Thanks for giving me the knowing that there are other people out there who think the same way as I do.

#5: Keep in mind that not all teens like Twilight. At all.
#4: Did you just say that Tom and Jerry was a good series with an actual plot? Can anyone say "hypocrisy"? It's a show about a cat chasing down a mouse and trying to murder him, plus lots of violence. And it's a cartoon, it's meant to entertain children, it doesn't have to be Inception to do that. For the record, I watched Scooby Doo growing up. That was a pretty good show.
#3: To be fair, money was worth a lot more back in the day, and it makes sense that you'd have to work hard for $1.75 because the American dollar was worth much, much more back then. $1.75 would buy you a whole lot. And don't say that, because a lot of kids do work for their money. Some get allowances, sure, but I know plenty who babysit or have a paper route or something like that.
#2: My two favorite bands are Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold. Nuff said.
#1: Yep. I know that, lots of other kids do too. The ones who don't care about school wouldn't care even if they knew what it was about.

I know this is a rant, but I wanted to correct you because I hate it when people generalize and stereotype like this.

Other thing I think is totally stupid. I don't know if this happens in other places as well.

I know some people who have a paper route but get brought by their parents across the houses or the parents deliver them alone.

Then why have a paper route at all?!?
Just give your children the money right away.

#5: Vampires don't sparkle: I'm sure you all have heard of

#4: The idiocy of cartoons is astounding: Cartoons these days have to be done by people who get paid in meth, because there's no other explanation for the absolute crap they put on TV these days. Growing up, I watched Tom and Jerry, the Looney Toons,

#3: The true value of a dollar: Kids these days don't understand what it is to have money, the green blood that makes the world spin. When I was a kid, I had to scrub the house SPOTLESS so I could make $1.75 so I then could sprint to the already passing ice- cream truck, in my bleach- stained shirt to get a ninja turtles ice cream bar. Now, kids just DEMAND it! They do absolutely NOTHING!

#2 Just because you have an autotune doesn't mean you have talent: The music teens listen to is TERRIBLE! The first band I listened to was the Beatles,

not all kids listen to shi**y music just most. not the terrible new music that has no meaning

I'll only reply to the ones I don't agree with.

#2 yeah, these new singers don't have any talent. Does that mean that people shouldn't listen to it? I suppose people listen to music because it sounds good, not because it was made by a genius. So, if someone likes autotuned music, should he not listen to the music he likes just because the singer is dumb?
Another thing, auto tunes and voice effects are made by people. Talented people. So when you are listening to an auto tuned song you are still listening to the product of someone's talent, just not of the person singing.

#5

horrible waste of money

Teens these days now don't understand what a true vampire is.

I agree with everything in the original post, except number 5 I have problems with. Not because I like Twilight, I actually really hate what the series has done to vampire novels. But just as much, I hate people getting mad about it without getting their facts straight. While it's unfair to complain about "real vampires" when in fact every story is adding to the mythology, and Twilight added a stupid mythology to it, but that's a different complaint. Here's a little timeline for you, consisting only of "accepted" vampires.

-1819: Short story The Vampyre is published.
-1845: Varney the Vampire, penny-novel series.
-1897: Bram Stoker publishes Dracula.
-1922: Nosferatu film.
-1976: Anne Rice publishes Interview with the Vampire.

Research these as you will, but here are key facts:
-Dracula is not the original vampire
-Dracula was weakened by sunlight
-Dracula and previous vampires were charming and seductive
-The first vampire to burn in the sun was Count Orlok
-Count Orlok was not charming
-Lestat was charming, proud, and attracted to both genders
-Lestat did not burn in the sun
-Twilight still sucks, but it's not "wrong" so much as "amazingly stupid"

#5: Vampires don't sparkle:

#4: The idiocy of cartoons is astounding:

#3: The true value of a dollar:

#2 Just because you have an autotune doesn't mean you have talent: The music teens listen to is TERRIBLE!

#1 thing kids have completely wrong is the meaning behind school: Seriously. Is is so imposed on kids that the meaning of school is to be the most popular person ever and have the most boyfriends/girlfriends they can. IT'S NOT! The purpose of school is to educate you so you don't suck at life!

I think we could add the Violence. They are totally disconnected of the reality (not all kids fortunately).
I'm only 19 and i'm afraid by the behavior of the younger generations. There's a lot of things that go wrong...

So to give my opinion about the five things that you have pointed:

#5 I agree, for me a vampire is a terrifying undead. This is not a lamp who bright during the day -_-

#4 Hum I love some new cartoons like Spongebob. Yes it's totally stupid, stupidity can be fun SOMETIMES.
Te best cartoon, for me, remains Tom & Jerry

#3 For me it's the euro 8) I think you right. Personnaly, I'm sure that I don't get what it's work hard to get money. I'm from a mid-upper class and I always got what I wished when I was a little child. (I never asked awsome toys too^^).

#2 I'm a Musician and for me, this is a BIG problem. Nowaday music just sux. People love to listen ****. Yes we are all differents and we can't all like the same thing. But I don't understand how is it possible to like Bieber and Co. In my opinion, that shows the stupidity who has grown since the 2000 year (and if it's not the music, watch objectively TV Programs -_-)...

#1 I was always a good pupil, I'm on the end of my studies and yes, Children don't understand nothing about school. I'm only 19 and I have seen lot of people who have already failed their studies cuz they are too lazy. Their life is not finished, but they have to seriously change.