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

[Inconcheepable]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's. We had the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, race riots, women's rights, Watergate..... times were turbulent. The kids around me were no different than the kids around you, lazy and uncaring. Drug use was common place. I felt a lot like you do.

In 20 years you will be amazed at the kids you thought would end up in jail, go on to successful, meaningful lives. You maybe very thoughtful at 16, but most kids simply have not progressed that much at your age.Trust me, your outlook will change in a few years when you go on to college.

I hate to say it...But I've been through college, and I don't feel much better about my peer group than Araucana...Now what?

To be honest, I'm not sure how some of those people managed to function through college. Maybe in another 10 years I'll feel better about our chances...But holy cow, right now, not so much.

 

[Noobiechickluv]

I hate to say it...But I've been through college, and I don't feel much better about my peer group than Araucana...Now what?

To be honest, I'm not sure how some of those people managed to function through college. Maybe in another 10 years I'll feel better about our chances...But holy cow, right now, not so much.

I know it's hard to see it. I guess in my experience it seems like its always the worst of times, yet it's always the same.

My once hip, cool husband has lately become a grumpy old man, saying things like, "kids nowdays, always punching away at their devices.... " I have to remind him that we were pretty crazy at that age too. I guess my point is that, yes, it's bad but it always was. Nothing really new about it.

 

[ChickMan22]

"You wrote a circle on the egg OMG ITS INFECTED" -Neighbor

 

[sepaditty1]

"You let your chickens walk around the yard?"

 

[Weirdness555]

"You let your chickens walk around the yard?"

LOL no they live in the house with us, they love watching TV!

 

[Cluky]

this isn't too stupid I suppose but here goes " you have a beautiful flock, and I can't believer your rooster never crows" pointing to my sweet d'uccle hen. me " I don't have a rooster". lady, "are you sure?" if te egg every two days she lays isn't an indication I don't know what is. my d'uccle looked offended hee hee

 

[7 Biddies]

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. 

I hate to say this but, as a school psychologist, I'm seeing a new attitude among kids today. I'm pretty sure it's coming from their parents who don't want to discipline or make their kids take responsibility or be accountable. Help me out, if you can ... why is that? I'm just so baffled. If my kids had spoken to me the way kids today do, they'd be toothless. But, the younger parents today look at me as if I were an ogre; adults are supposed to put up with kids "being kids" nowadays instead of expecting them to behave properly. What went wrong?

BTW. If the food supplies dry up, you're more than welcome to join me up here in the mountains. I have plenty to take care of 2, and you sound like a lovely young person. I can teach you to grow while you're here, too.

 

[Shawneegyrl]

You got that right!!

About 5 years ago...when I was visiting my sister in a major metropolitan city..(where we both grew up in), we walked by a high end store. The young lady was pushing an "alleged" organic cosmetic product. She said...it comes from Japan. Uhmmmm.... I said to her...."Doesn't the mere fact of using fossil fuels to bring a product from across the ocean neutralize the point of said product being organic?????"

Organic to me is.....local, non-Monsanto, non-GMO, traveled as small of a carbon foot print as possible. JMHO

Absolutely!!

 

[Weirdness555]

I hate to say this but, as a school psychologist, I'm seeing a new attitude among kids today. I'm pretty sure it's coming from their parents who don't want to discipline or make their kids take responsibility or be accountable. Help me out, if you can ... why is that? I'm just so baffled. If my kids had spoken to me the way kids today do, they'd be toothless. But, the younger parents today look at me as if I were an ogre; adults are supposed to put up with kids "being kids" nowadays instead of expecting them to behave properly. What went wrong?

BTW. If the food supplies dry up, you're more than welcome to join me up here in the mountains. I have plenty to take care of 2, and you sound like a lovely young person. I can teach you to grow while you're here, too.

The thing is, what I and I expect you think of as "kids being kids" is different to these people. Kids being kids to me is not standing still when asked to, fidgeting, fighting with other kids maybe (I mean like 10 year olds), getting toys out and leaving them all over the room instead of putting them away when they're finished.

When these people talk about kids being kids, it seems to be, throwing tantrums until they get their own way, talking back to their parents/teachers, thinking they're entitled to get whatever they want, whenever they want it, with no consequences. These are the kids I went to school with.

 

[sepaditty1]

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.