Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[Araucana16]

Today's young people don't know that there is an authority to respect and if they knew, they would expect IT to respect THEM.

Completely correct. Everything they say makes me think that they have no idea how to follow the rules. They are either rich or they have grown up really poor and think they have nothing to lose (at my school) and therefore they don't go by the rules... they leave them in the dust.

 

[Weirdness555]

I also agree completely. I have been brought up in a religion, and while I am not particularly religious (I believe in god but I don't do much about it, I don't go to church regularly) and I think that that does have an effect on how people grow up. Even when people themselves are atheists, if they have been influenced by religious parents/grandparents it makes a difference to how they perceive others.

 

[Araucana16]

People constantly call me an atheist... even though I'm not. Really pisses me off.
I do believe that religion is beneficial. I'm under the impression that you don't have to care about God, but you have to understand that he lays down some practical and wonderful ground rules.

 

[maransfan16]

This has nothing to do with chickens, but I too am really worried about what'll happen to society when I'm grown up.

Currently, I'm a high school student, and I am at a loss for what's happening around me. In my Early Civ. class (which is required for everyone my grade and doesn't come in honors so I'm stuck with the "lets do nothings"

), we are doing group projects. They are due in two days, I've been done for a week and my partners haven't even viewed the document

In my Spanish HONORS class, the person beside me doesn't know how to conjugate in the present tense. Doesn't really get easier than that, and really only 1/3 of the class does our homework - which is one workbook page that is literally 5 minutes to do (that is, if you pay attention, which, albeit, they don't - they being the general population of the school). In general, everyone seems to just not care about the future... I ran into a freshman the other day with a water bottle full of vodka. Needless to say, he was reported. I'm in marching band and we lost this year because our whole drum line shot themselves up with crack.

And thats just what's happening with kids these days! As my best friend (probably one of the only sane people I'm aware of) put it today after one of my other friends set up a group work time for her project and no one else showed up - "The next generation, this world's future. Yeah, that's gonna go well." No one seems to understand that if, say, our government crumbles (fairly likely) or there is some sort of other disaster (again, fairly likely) and supermarkets close, they won't be magically okay. It's people like you guys (and sadly not me since chickens are probably as far as my homesteading will go for the next decade while school is my whole life) that will actually survive something like that. In short, I'm just waiting for it all to fall down...

As a species we rely upon what we have grown up knowing - that technology and society will be a cushion for you - but if we don't learn enough about what we don't want to learn that won't be true anymore. Unfortunately I fear I've been born at exactly the wrong time.

finally someone with the same mind set as me that is in highschool. There are none in my school either no one cares about their education in my classes i've seen them have what looks like competitions for who can score the lowest grade. There was one kid who was bragging and strutting around about having a final grade of an eight out of one hundred in his english class it's sickening! All but a handful of them (my only friends) care what they get for grades. given i don't have straight A's i do have a couple B's but that is better than what most of my classmates get. in my earth space science class we have been what i call reveiwing ( the rock cycle, water cycle, environment) because it is stuff we have been learning about since fifth grade but my classmates have trouble understanding it and half of them are failing *sigh* oh well at least i care about my grade it's not my problem to care about theirs if they don't

 

[member 142084]

well anyone looking for a laugh...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/828055/make-you-laugh/330#post_12288052

 

[MEMama3]

well anyone looking for a laugh...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/828055/make-you-laugh/330#post_12288052

That's funny!

 

[lazy gardener]

I think the difference between today's attitude and in the 60s is how they deal with respect and "the authority." Then, it was a big issue to buck authority but you still respected that the authority was "in control." You just didn't want it to control you.

Today's young people don't know that there is an authority to respect and if they knew, the would expect IT to respect THEM.

Somehow there's a sense of entitlment that didn't exist before. And a complete lack of respect for other people. I don't know what's causing it but I have an idea. You'll have to hear me out, though.

For generations and generations God was seen as our creator and our authority. Even within different religions, there was some god that had authority over the people. Think of a young Indian boy being sent to the forest to find his God and come home a man. Imagine a jewish man recognizing his son as a man at his barmitzvah. Entire communities coming together to build a church on the frontier. In the last couple of generations, by taking God out of everything (as well as being so PC that no one can say anything) we have taken away a powerful teaching tool. Teaching our children that we should love one another, that our actions have consequences, that we have to answer to a higher authority. Those life lessons affect our entire personality.

Ok, I'm done.

Well said.... You go Girl!!! Our great country is getting exactly what it (collectively) has asked for by removing God from our (collective) lives.

 

[Darkangael]

While I agree about the lack of respect, I think its because kids are getting mixed messages and its confusing them. Take as an example dinner time, when I was younger you always saw the head of family served first or at the very least offered first. If times were hard the head of family might refuse to eat to feed the younger family members, however it was expected that they were offered first. Now kids are fed first, and catered to first which makes them feel that they are entitled to everything they want but we expect them to respect authority. Why? When if I throw a fit or insist that you see it my way, authority will do what I want. Authority does what they want until its too late for them to have a good chance to learn the things they need to know to survive in society as a whole. See what I mean about mixed messages?

 

[Darkangael]

well anyone looking for a laugh...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/828055/make-you-laugh/330#post_12288052

Great I needed that ...... heehee just one question ..... snicker

 

[7 Biddies]

I think the difference between today's attitude and in the 60s is how they deal with respect and "the authority." Then, it was a big issue to buck authority but you still respected that the authority was "in control." You just didn't want it to control you.

Today's young people don't know that there is an authority to respect and if they knew, the would expect IT to respect THEM.

Somehow there's a sense of entitlment that didn't exist before. And a complete lack of respect for other people. I don't know what's causing it but I have an idea. You'll have to hear me out, though.

For generations and generations God was seen as our creator and our authority. Even within different religions, there was some god that had authority over the people. Think of a young Indian boy being sent to the forest to find his God and come home a man. Imagine a jewish man recognizing his son as a man at his barmitzvah. Entire communities coming together to build a church on the frontier. In the last couple of generations, by taking God out of everything (as well as being so PC that no one can say anything) we have taken away a powerful teaching tool. Teaching our children that we should love one another, that our actions have consequences, that we have to answer to a higher authority. Those life lessons affect our entire personality.

Ok, I'm done.

I wish I could agree, but one of the worst offenders that I know personally, is a woman whose boys speak to her like she's some unworthy subordinate, and she's been big on their religious upbringing. Not only are they very involved in their church, but she insisted they go to a religious school. Although she's no longer Catholic, she, too, was raised in a very religious home and went to Catholic school. On the other hand, while I did not raise my children in a religious environment, I was much stricter than she ever thought of being, and my kids (who are by no means perfect angels) are VERY respectful to me and others. They are also considerate of others, and can't believe the behavior of kids today. So, my personal observations don't seem to support your theory. However, I do agree that parents, religious or not, don't demand respect for authority from their kids anymore and everyone has a huge *sense of entitlement*.

My dad used to tell me "you'll have rights when you're 21 and earning your own living". Now, it's my kid has a *right* to do whatever he wants because he's MY kid! This is where I become totally baffled. How did we get here?

To illustrate what I mean, my daughter lives in the suburbs, and sent me this email on Halloween:

Just got done handing out candy. Some bullet points:
• More than one parent drove their kids around in a golf cart, even up and down the driveways, and these weren't toddlers - we're talking kids between 7 and 10. Walk, you lazy people!
• A LOT of parents came to the door with their kids, holding beer bottles in beer cozies. What The ...?
• Some of these beer-drinking parents were driving the golf carts.
• At least 6 kids tried to grab more candy out of the bowl after I put candy in their bags. I grabbed their hands and said, "No touching the bowl!" One mother yelled at me, while holding her beer bottle, "Don't touch my son!" Really?
• Very weird to realize these parents are my age.
• More than one kid looked in their bag after I dropped a piece of candy in, looked at me, and said, "Is that all?"