Coach John Smith Oklahoma State

[98lberEating2Lunches]

In the spirit of the season and thread

 

[lookleft goright]

Just imagine how good Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling could be if if wasn't loaded with weak youth? What a bunch of wusses and softies. Must be an Iowa thing cause kids in my area here in Central PA work hard as hell.

Working hard is different than being tough or mean. Kids are not mean or tough now. They do not fight. They settle their arguments with words. I am not saying it is bad to be that way, but when the coach complains about the kids not having any fight in them, well - there are reasons for that.
For crying out loud - the Spanish Flu killed millions and they did not stop work and the president at the time barely mentioned. Life was hard and people expected it to be hard and they dealt with it the best they could.
We have a cold virus pass thru the world and the world practically shuts down and people are hiding in basements and all the other stuff that went with it. That is a totally different mentality.

 

[dhm47]

the irony of this is that you geezers were the ones who raised us. so if we are soft (we aren't), that's on you bud. nice going.

dick

 

[slushhead]

John Smith watching this pillow fight of a thread . . .

 

[rossel 33]

everyone knows that in 1956, American kids turned to the dark side

 

[Trapper85]

1) IMO, today's world/labor (staring at computers or phones, sitting at desks, working on assembly lines, sitting in traffic, etc) is WAY harder than walking beans, baling hay, etc).

2) Thank goodness for the 'softer' techy younger generations, without which we wouldn't have the Cesspool.

3) Thank goodness for the younger generations that invented Viagra, so we don't have to get softer when we get older.

4) Thank goodness for the older generations or....I wouldn't have parents.....and might be named Adolf or something.

4) I'm 55, which team am I supposed to be on anyway? Get off my damn lawn, mow my lawn for me, or get off my lawn after you mow it for $7/hour?

5) I wish we got to pick our team (birth date). I'd pick 200 years ago when life was easier, wait, harder. I'm confused again.

This ain't a zero sum game folks. You can find strengths....and weaknesses....in every generation, and none of us picked ours (and came from the last and produced the next).

 

[McIlraveysMullet]

Message board warriors whining online about whose generation is softer has to be one of the funnier threads I've come across.

 

[PD4thespawn]

If parents had complete control over their kids you could blame all the parents and for sure some of it is on the parents but the world in general is a much different place providing much different influence now than say 1978. Influence from schools and from technology changes which includes social media are very impactful. Societal norms are also impactful. If a kid got out of line in public in 1978 he was likely to get his ass beat on the spot. The other people present would question why the parents let a kid act up before they question spanking the kids ass. Now days someone calls the cops on the old man. Put it this way. If I did the exact same parenting philosophy on the same kid, one scenario born in 1970 and the other born in 2010. The 2010 version will be a lot "softer" than the 1970 version. I wasn't even a ruffian growing up and was in more than 10 fist fights during my childhood years. My own 2 boys maybe had 1 total between them. The teachers would tell you to go hit people back when I was a kid, fighting was common. For people over 45 the parental advice to getting picked on when they were a kid was likely punch him in nose. Now it's more likely tell the teacher because if your kid punches him he might end up expelled and at the police station.

We were sent to the junior high school next door and put on gloves. The PE coach referreed. Didn't have to wait all day to settle it. Parents were called and dad asked if we won.

 

[bnicolls]

We were sent to the junior high school next door and put on gloves. The PE coach referreed. Didn't have to wait all day to settle it. Parents were called and dad asked if we won.

Same here but no PE ref. Solve it and lmk