Somebody ought to tell our teenagers this:

[Phu Cat]

Just how daring and hip do today's kids think they are???

PC

 

[rhino 2]

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Just how daring and hip do today's kids think they are???

PC

Just by an Adult telling them that they look like a barn animal Will encourage them to get eye lid rings..After a few rounds of hepatitis shots most will remove them..

 

[Jake70]

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Just how daring and hip do today's kids think they are???

PC

And here all along I thought the much feminized domesticated American soy boy male was the cause of this phenomena.

 

[Burnerboy]

O M G! I just laughed my Azz off...

This is funny.......

Good one!

Ronnie

11/15/21

 

[Mavigogun]

You forgot to complain about their music, new math, and that damn ball in your yard. There’s a bad look here that has very little to do with jewelry placement.

 

[Bubba49]

You forgot to complain about their music, new math, and that damn ball in your yard. There’s a bad look here that has very little to do with jewelry placement.

A little self-righteous don’t you think?

Bubba

 

[Mavigogun]

A little self-righteous don’t you think?

You’ve paraphrased my reflection nicely, Bubba. Those poking fun at other folks better have thick skin themselves, don’t ya think?

(There’s another generational joke about kids-these-days needing safe spaces- but it’s a bit too early to read the room’s appetite for self deprecating humor; maybe I will trot it out for the later part of my set)

It struck me as hell-a funny that a culture originating with bikers sporting tattoos and piercings is populated now, in part, by an aging cohort imitating MC style while simultaneously mocking those young folks. If that ain’t worthy of ribbing, I don’t know what is!

 

[Sidecarbill]

Better than tattoos. At least you can remove them when you no longer want to be rebellious.

 

[rhino 2]

What comes around gos around......The generation before mine didn't like the way we dressed 'our hair cuts and our music........So they drafted most of us...And those are the people that created the new generation..:xzqxz:...

 

[ol' school]

Or this fad...

 

[Mavigogun]

My face as I struggle to decide between making a bald joke or an old joke-

 

[Bubba49]

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Go for broke. Unless you die young, you’re gonna experience one or both of those before your time is up.

Bubba

 

[Jack Klarich]

Tattoos have been around for years. Our Military came back from the wars with Tats, That also is when they got deeply involved with buying Harley's

Moving on in history the Tats stayed and became even more popular with the public

All of my family including my children have Tattoos and some kind of piercing be it ears or like my daughter had a belly button piercing, I in fact took her on her 16th birthday ( she is a Valentines day ) birthday girl for a Tattoo she picked out, it was a bonding day for us

This new generation IMO has taken the tats and piercings too far JMO

IE neck, face and hands tattoos and facial piercings

 

[Mavigogun]

I don’t see a clear generational line so much as the wheel of culture turning, with the typical adoption across the age spectrum. By my reckoning, body modification peeked back in the first decade of the 2000s, with an uptick in sub-dermal object insertion, scarification, and stretching of skin to accept larger piercings.

 

[Max Tune]

You can tell them till you're blue in the face, but they will only listen as much as we did at their age. If Ida listened to the advice given me, I'd be worth a whole lot more than I am, but I wouldn't change a thing even if I could.

 

[Phu Cat]

I still think tats are a fad. And as with most every other fad, they eventually die out. Never have cared for tats on women, but that's the woman's choice. Altho tats seem to be everywhere now, there once was a time when very few got them. Time will tell where they go from here.

PC

 

[Burnerboy]

In 1969 ,I went to the famous Woodstock music festival...............I had very long hair down past my shoulders and now I'm 99% bald..........WOW! have times changed

Ronnie
7/14/24

 

[Old Road Dog]

None of my business what adults do to themselves. The teenagers I hire to work on my hilltop fire support base don't need an old guy telling them how to live. Their goofy parents do that- plenty which is why they hang out with me. But if they ask I'll simply tell them: "everything you put in your body when your in your teens and twenty's will come back to haunt you in your 50's and 60's. " That goes double for the shots the Army gives you.

 

[Rogue1]

You can tell them till you're blue in the face, but they will only listen as much as we did at their age. If Ida listened to the advice given me, I'd be worth a whole lot more than I am, but I wouldn't change a thing even if I could.

It never ceases to amaze me. The older I got the smarter my old man got.

 

[Jack Klarich]

It never ceases to amaze me. The older I got the smarter my old man got.

Amen to that brother

 

[BikerG]

I laugh when I see older folks criticizing today's youth. I used to coach youth hockey. Once you spend time with younger folks, you'll begin to understand that they're just doing their thing in their time. They could care less about your generation. They'll stop listening when you talk about "Back when I was your age..."

 

[Old Road Dog]

The only problem with a nose ring on a female is that my eye is constantly drawn to it. Like a bugger hang out her nose.

 

[Max Tune]

Its more or less tradition to break bad on a new generation. Its a right of passage to pick up the grumpy old man baton....

 

[FRR]

The same people crying about kids hair styles and body paint should remember that 50 yrs ago they were the ones getting static in school for long hair and short skirts. Man, how soon we forget.

 

[ISP-FL]

Since this thread was started under "General..." and since the forum's definition of this sub-forum is "off topic", then I assume many discussions brought up here don't have a lot to do with Trikes.

With that word salad being said, the days of having a discussion about political views are long gone in this country. Both sides have gone too far in both directions. When I was a young man, I could kid around with a friend or cousin about his/her political affiliation, and it was no big deal. No one would take it personal, and no one would actually get mad at each other.

As evidenced by a couple of the previous posts here, it is obvious that folks on here would get mad very easily when an opposite political view is expressed. Therefore, TrikeTalk should probably not allow anything political on any of the subforums.