They grow up so fast?

I blame the Media. It's all their fault.

Man, you've patronised me for the last time, I'm freakin' fed up with it. Fecking.

I am the Media.

i don't think we ever used to be like that. but then again, i grew up on a diet of twelve sided nerdery and an obsession with final fantasy so there you go..

Some of year had to have been like that at that age, but I reckon the majority of us were innocent little things. Nowadays though, non-school uniform days are like walking round a Red Light district. The last one we had it was absolutely freezing out, yet there were girls in tiny little skirts and tops that covered nothing. Obviously it's not all of them, but you only really notice the ones that are like that.

And Denesha- by third are you talk hand or mouth? Actually, it doesn't matter- both are WRONG when you are 12/13!

But it's not even just sexual development. People in the lower years behave so much worse than our year did. Obviously we had a few troublemakers, but it just seems like there's about 10 horrible kids for every half-decent one nowadays. We were petrified of the upper school when we started, yet now they don't seem to give a sh*t- bikes are stolen, abuse is yelled, they just don't seem to care. It's not even just older years. I've been in a couple of year 9 classes this year, and christ do the teachers have to put up with so much abuse.

Meh, I sound like an old woman, but it's true. So many kids really do suck these days. And from what Denesha's saying, it seems like it's in more ways than one...

Making a comparison with youth nowadays and youth "back in't day" is actually quite pointless as our perception is frigged man, frigged.

Good thread though, good for a moan.

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The rude words in dictionary thing is something you never grow out of though, it just progresses to looking up foreign rude words. The height of maturedom

I'm still on the English rude words, evidence If I ever needed it that I have a stunted, child-like brain.

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ahaha, last night i was going into tesco and two kids who cant have been older than ten or eleven asked me - not to buy them fags - but to buy them beer! I laughed lots. their faces were blank, almost as though they were thinking 'how dare you not buy me beer'. but really, its incredible, ten (ish) years old. at ten, i wasn't even drinking fizzy pop.

I know that experience well. Not exactly of course, that'd be a case for Mulder (although not Scully, she'd probably just try and find a Scientific explanation and that would be a boring episode).
I was asked to buy booze by a huuuge group of kids that can't of been too much older than the kids in your example and I have to say, because of the size of the group, I was a little intimidated, but I still said no. Well, I actually said: "Sorry, I've got no time" When I was going in the shop anyway. A good trick is to pretend to be French and say "Je ne comprehend".

every under 18 in the country should be made to do 6 months service to the army, or something. that'd straighten them out. actually, make it under-21, seeing as im 19.

they'd learn some respect and morales. and they'd have a proper diet and be active.

lol, well its ok, it won't happen.

Its a pretty stupid old-fashioned notion that discipline can only be excerted by a state-sponsored instructor, who teaches outdated values.

Incidentally, is it really so bad that kids act differently nowadays? Times change. You all sound so middle-aged. I bet some old people who stumble accross this website would be like "look at all these kids having viewpoints, kids should be seen and not heard, if I said that when I was a kid I'd get a belt round my head, yada yada yada..."

I know exactly what you mean.
Sheesh, kids nowadays!
I have noticed, they are alot more 'grown up' for their age.
Something that I have noticed is that kids aren't afraid to tell you where to go if they don't like you whereas when I was a year 7 everyone was terrified of the older kids! Nowadays I get abuse from little year 7 sh*ts who don't even know me and I can't believe it!

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britney spears

Maybe.

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Here's a little something for you. My thirteen year old cousin had a pair of earrings that she snapped. My Grandma went out and bought her a pair that were identical to the first, the only difference was that they were from a different shop and cost a bit less. As soon as my bratty cousin got them out of the bag and saw that they were cheaper she threw them on the floor and shouted that they were no good RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY GRANDMA!

i wouldn't DREAM of doing that!


earrings are just not my thing.