| Glad I’m an old git 16:34 - Sep 21 with 5568 views | stowmarketrange |
My 6 year old grandson has just come home from school and put YouTube on our telly,and he sat there watching some bloke open packets of panini stickers.That’s 30 minutes of my life I won’t ever get back.Now we’re watching some other bloke playing fifa on the PS5.
Whatever happened to children’s imaginations if they prefer to watch this sh@t rather than actually doing it? |  | | |  |
| Glad I’m an old git on 10:26 - Sep 22 with 1136 views | slmrstid |
Unboxing has been a thing for years on YouTube, never understood it myself in the slightest.
Funnily enough I've always been quite good at mental arithmetic in calculating in multiples of 3 (no need to guess where that comes from...) |  | | |
| Glad I’m an old git on 10:32 - Sep 22 with 1134 views | Esox_Lucius |
| Glad I’m an old git on 10:26 - Sep 22 by slmrstid |
Unboxing has been a thing for years on YouTube, never understood it myself in the slightest.
Funnily enough I've always been quite good at mental arithmetic in calculating in multiples of 3 (no need to guess where that comes from...) |
Nice to see you at the Swansea game, always good to put a face to a name. |  |
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| Glad I’m an old git on 11:14 - Sep 22 with 1111 views | Lblock |
| Glad I’m an old git on 10:26 - Sep 22 by slmrstid |
Unboxing has been a thing for years on YouTube, never understood it myself in the slightest.
Funnily enough I've always been quite good at mental arithmetic in calculating in multiples of 3 (no need to guess where that comes from...) |
You picked that up from our last few games against Foolham? |  |
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| Glad I’m an old git on 11:29 - Sep 22 with 1089 views | Mick_S |
I can’t believe how lucky us old codgers are; somebody has just invented “hands free” shoes. Shoes you don’t need your hands for!
Watch it, sonny. |  |
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| Glad I’m an old git on 12:02 - Sep 22 with 1044 views | Bluce_Ree |
The issue is with tech companies literally designing their apps using the same principles and technology as fruit machines. There's a massive dopamine inducing element which keeps you hooked on your phone.
Now if you had 20+ years of living without smartphones and the internet, you might be alright. But if your parents were like 'here's an iPad, darling, now f*ck off Oliver/Jack/Freddy/Jamie/Olivia/Calum' then you've got no chance. You're addicted to that shit and your childhood is fked.
Even if you aren't, all 'fun' for kids now is parent-sanctioned. Every parent I work with is like 'I took [kid] to football practice/ice skating/dance recital/whatever' every weekend.
When I was a kid it was more a case of you went outside with your mates and had a laugh. Boredom was also a thing but it led to a bit of creativity.
So between tech stealing hours/days/weeks/months and parents who basically keep you as a prisoner, it must be lame as shit being a bairn now.
I was in a restaurant and a kid was there during the meal watching footage of people playing the game Rocket League on his iPad. Teach your kid to socialise or be bored, don't put that shit in their face and expect them to not grow up as some proper fking chief. |  |
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| Glad I’m an old git on 13:41 - Sep 22 with 955 views | Match82 |
| Glad I’m an old git on 12:02 - Sep 22 by Bluce_Ree |
The issue is with tech companies literally designing their apps using the same principles and technology as fruit machines. There's a massive dopamine inducing element which keeps you hooked on your phone.
Now if you had 20+ years of living without smartphones and the internet, you might be alright. But if your parents were like 'here's an iPad, darling, now f*ck off Oliver/Jack/Freddy/Jamie/Olivia/Calum' then you've got no chance. You're addicted to that shit and your childhood is fked.
Even if you aren't, all 'fun' for kids now is parent-sanctioned. Every parent I work with is like 'I took [kid] to football practice/ice skating/dance recital/whatever' every weekend.
When I was a kid it was more a case of you went outside with your mates and had a laugh. Boredom was also a thing but it led to a bit of creativity.
So between tech stealing hours/days/weeks/months and parents who basically keep you as a prisoner, it must be lame as shit being a bairn now.
I was in a restaurant and a kid was there during the meal watching footage of people playing the game Rocket League on his iPad. Teach your kid to socialise or be bored, don't put that shit in their face and expect them to not grow up as some proper fking chief. |
It's an incredibly tough balance as a parent, added to which we're coming out of a period during the initial COVID lockdown where parents used some of those things out of need/desperation. That's hard to snap out of.
Our kids are safer physically today, but it's coming at the cost of less opportunity for mental development. Tough balance to strike. Only way I've found is to set a couple of rules I won't break regardless of how tough that makes it - no screens before lunchtime at the weekend being one of them, that way the kids are forced to engage in at least SOME entertainment which is creative and not device based. |  | | |
| Glad I’m an old git on 14:36 - Sep 22 with 901 views | R_from_afar |
| Glad I’m an old git on 11:29 - Sep 22 by Mick_S |
I can’t believe how lucky us old codgers are; somebody has just invented “hands free” shoes. Shoes you don’t need your hands for!
Watch it, sonny. |
Do any of you remember when slip-on shoes were introduced? My mum got me some when I was at middle school. They seemed like a great innovation, until I ended up hopping round to the house next door to our school to ask them for the shoe I had launched over their fence while playing footer at lunchtime  |  |
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| Glad I’m an old git on 14:37 - Sep 22 with 899 views | Mick_S |
| Glad I’m an old git on 14:36 - Sep 22 by R_from_afar |
Do any of you remember when slip-on shoes were introduced? My mum got me some when I was at middle school. They seemed like a great innovation, until I ended up hopping round to the house next door to our school to ask them for the shoe I had launched over their fence while playing footer at lunchtime |
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| Glad I’m an old git on 19:30 - Sep 22 with 815 views | slmrstid |
| Glad I’m an old git on 10:32 - Sep 22 by Esox_Lucius |
Nice to see you at the Swansea game, always good to put a face to a name. |
Cheers Esox, you too! See you soon no doubt :) | | | |
| Glad I’m an old git on 22:28 - Sep 22 with 763 views | qprxtc |
| Glad I’m an old git on 09:18 - Sep 22 by dmm |
Our youth love luxury. They have bad manners and despise authority. They show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter instead of exercise. Young people are now tyrants, not the servants of their household. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up food and terrorize their teachers.
Socrates 5th century bce |
F uck me . Socrates took a whole f ucking paragraph to say what I said, succinctly, in two sentences.
Socrates is a tosser*
*(C) qprxtc (idiot savant). |  | | |
| Glad I’m an old git on 16:41 - Sep 25 with 590 views | nightwish |
Glad Im an old git because i saw QPR in the 1975/1976 season |  | | |
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