Stateside at least, kids have the wry humor and prankishness programmed out of them by elders who fear those behaviors might be "offfennnsive". Saccharine is a fake sweetener, so it's an approved role model these days. This is truly a sad development for us Boomers and Gen Jonesers, who grew up healthy and strong and confident on a diet of Monty Python and Gilbert Gottfried and Private Eye magazine.
There's no personality in anything anymore, is there, Roger? 'cept us, of course! How can you understand good and proper if you don't know a bit of jiggery-pokery, eh? Let me tell you, there's a whole new level of psycho being raised here - you can't keep cleaning the windows to the cage!
Indeed ... I'm too old to have much skin in the game, but I do fear for the emotional and intellectual fortitude of my generation's children and grandkids. They will be no match for the offspring of Tiger Moms from the other side of the oceans.
Stateside at least, kids have the wry humor and prankishness programmed out of them by elders who fear those behaviors might be "offfennnsive". Saccharine is a fake sweetener, so it's an approved role model these days. This is truly a sad development for us Boomers and Gen Jonesers, who grew up healthy and strong and confident on a diet of Monty Python and Gilbert Gottfried and Private Eye magazine.
There's no personality in anything anymore, is there, Roger? 'cept us, of course! How can you understand good and proper if you don't know a bit of jiggery-pokery, eh? Let me tell you, there's a whole new level of psycho being raised here - you can't keep cleaning the windows to the cage!
Indeed ... I'm too old to have much skin in the game, but I do fear for the emotional and intellectual fortitude of my generation's children and grandkids. They will be no match for the offspring of Tiger Moms from the other side of the oceans.