Teens today, fearless... or brainless??

[sammyg2]

Lol

[scottmandue]

Reminds me of the "NO FEAR" stickers you see... I always think, hmmmmm fear is natures way of keeping you alive... wouldn't "NO BRAINS" be more accurate?

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by azasadny

methamphetamines...

Exactly. What VINMAN describes was duplicated almost exactly with myself and some friends about five years ago. There had to be 40 of us or more, at a bike club meeting, when about half a dozen punk tweakers came up and started mouthing off. I think the biggest one went 150 pounds soaking wet; our biggest guy easily doubled that. I'm still not sure what these kids were after, or what we had done to piss them off.

Where our situation differed was that it did actually come to blows. Two of them, to be exact. Their chief spokesman took a cheap shot and connected to the nose of one of our unsuspecting members, bloodying it. So I stepped up from his blind side and returned the favor, landing a very clean, unfettered left hook right on the button. He collapsed like a rag doll and his buddies ran like only skinny little tweakers can. They just left him lying there in the parking lot; no honor amongst tweakers, I guess. He was still laying there when we fired up the bikes and left. We still meet in the same location on the same day every month and have never seen any of them since. Damn meth heads...

[serge944]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

It was pretty comical. Seeing this little guy being badass with a guy that had close to a foot and 200lbs on him. Robs hand is about the size of this guys head.

reminds me of this.

Chihuahuas are worthless dogs. A lot of bark, but when the bigger dog is off the leash, they are running away with their tail between their legs.

As far as the teens go, thats the product of the way kids are raised in this country. They have control over their parents because CPS is just a phone call away.

They aren't fearless - they just know nothing is going to happen to them. And if it does, they will get compensated for it.

Then again, you can't sue when you're dead.

[Mo_Gearhead]

Be very cautious about the assumed relationship of physical size = domination.

We were at an outdoor concert some years back. Three, (obviously drunken)
twenty somethings, all BIG (IE football player types) were sitting ahead of us and just behind two guys and their dates. The two guys were what I would describe as thin/lean ... but had that country, working boys (tanned/fit ) look.

Not close enough to hear the words exchanged, but something was said and both of the thin guys stood up, turned, looked at the three bruisers slouched in their chairs, glanced at each other as if in agreement and ATTACKED!

None of the three big men moved fast enough to get completely up out of their seats and to their feet. Rapid, fists of fury from the thin men! Crowd falling back, security on them almost immediately...but in that time frame (not more than perhaps 60-90 seconds) they pummeled those three big boys into the ground! I do not think I saw one direct swing land from the big boys, who were either on their backs or knees after it started but those two (who never left their feet) pounded the crap out of them.

Security, after chatting with bystanders, shows the three battered boys the exit. The two boys, re-join their dates.

I loved it!

[robs944]

^^
Agreed, I've seen plenty of "large" guys get their asses handed to them by someone 1/2 their size.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by legion

Same as always--a little of both brainlessness and fearlessness.

I could see myself doing something like this when I was younger. I know better now.

I was never that stupid, and I was pretty stupid

My brother in law is like that, 5'7", 150-160 lbs. He never lost boxing, golden gloves, think he won Texas Toughman one year. He always tried to get out of fighting. "Dude, please don't make me embarass you in front of your friends" Saw him beat down three guys at the same time. Two jumped him after he knocked their friend down. Crazy to watch someone fight who is really good at it against a couple that are not. Over before I could even step in, really.

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead

Be very cautious about the assumed relationship of physical size = domination.

Absolutely. It's never the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

That said, it's pretty easy to discern the difference between a wiry young farm kid and a city boy tweaker, both physically and socially. One is likely to give a guy ***** and deserve a good thumping; the other is likely to keep his place until some one needs a good thumping.

[VINMAN]

Very true. I know alot of little guys that are tough ba$tards. But these two kids were not, you can tell. They were punks. If they were that tough their buddies wouldnt have ran and left them, or been trying to drag them away like they where. They would have stood back and watched them get the better of the big guys.
Rob is a tough mother. Hes does rodeo, calf roping, stuff like that. He would have put that bat up the kids a$$.

[RANDY P]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Things were different back then. If your mouth got you in trouble you got the asswhipping you had coming. your parents would say "well you asked for it, you got it. next time keep your mouth shut" or something like that.

Nowadays, the parents would realize their little mouthy punk POS was in the wrong but they would pretend he wasn't and defend him and and sue everyone within 100 miles.
The punks realize they won't get the asswhipping they are asking for and they know they can get away with it.

I am one of the dinosaurs. I will still asswhip a mouthy punk if he deserves it, damn the consequences. I figure I'm doing him a favor by knocking him senseless. He needs to learn life's lessons and if his parents won't teach him I will.
If you have mouthy, arrogant punk kids and you won't step up to the plate and be parents, keep your kids away from me

Like Todd said, passivity rules the roost.

Everyone wants to be smart and right on the line -

I recently went to a concert, where this tie dyed guy and girl refused to sit down the entire show- right in front of me and the GF.

Now, I was ready to leave after patiently watching his backside for an hour or so, I even politely asked him to "sit down so my GF can see" his response was

"well you guys can stand up then"

He was a twentysomething liberal with a beard, sense of superiority, even after I politely asked him to sit - he was the only one in the section.

I lost it when the GF (we decided to leave early) told him about his obnoxious BO and it flippantly turned to his GF and referred to us as " a couple of idiots"

I gave that kid a Left hook to the back of his rib cage he'll never, ever forget - I'm over 230 LBS and it was a clean connection. Last I remember his GF was screaming and pointing at me.

I figured I did the kid a favor, one of these days he'll try that routine on someone and they'll bring a garbage can down on his head. No regrets.

rjp

[Victor]

My grandfather (if he would'nt have died fighting on the eastern front in '45) would have said:

"They need another war".

That would soon give them an avenue to have the childish instinct to puppy fight knocked out of them.

[masraum]

Teens today are idiots. Just go to youtube and watch the videos or go to any tv station that caters to teens and watch some tv. idiots. I'm only 36 and don't feel my age. There's a difference between a little crazy/reckless and stupid.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I wonder how much of this is legitimately attributable to today's kids being idiots and how much of it is the same thing EVERY generation says about its kids (namely that they're idiots). I'm sure our parents said the same thing about us. Their parents said the same thing about them, etc., etc., etc. . .

I do get really irritated at the behavior of the idiot "wanna-be-tough-guy", sideways-hat, baggy-pants retards that are today's youth - but I don't delude myself that our parents may well have thought the same of my generation and our propensity to "test the boundaries" by defying the social conventions that they identified with.

That said, I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. I think some of it is what every generation gets and some of it really IS today's kids being the worst ever. It literally scares me to think that when I'm old and feeble, this generation coming up will be the one to run the show. That's a scary, scary thought. They're woefully incompetent, misdirected, disrespectful, inarticulate and have precious little ability to critically think. Scary times ahead.

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

It literally scares me to think that when I'm old and feeble, this generation coming up will be the one to run the show. That's a scary, scary thought. They're woefully incompetent, misdirected, disrespectful, inarticulate and have precious little ability to critically think. Scary times ahead.

Amen brother!!

[Mo_Gearhead]

QUOTE: "It literally scares me to think that when I'm old and feeble, this generation coming up will be the one to run the show."

I think EVERY generation has had this thought and still the world moves forward and progresses. I think EVERY generation to some extent fears their own demise (aging does bring ones own mortality into focus) and cannot imagine the world going on without THEM! GASP...How could it?
How? Because the graveyards are full of indispensable men.

The slackers, losers, thieves, idiots, etc., make the news headlines, but behind the scenes they are outnumbered by good, solid citizens quietly; getting an education, going to jobs every day, raising their families, volunteering for the armed forces, contributing to charities, etc. ...and that does not make good fodder for the media.