Oh ! the Horror

[shimniok]

Originally Posted by leadlike

I don't know if it's a generational thing so much as something for young people to do-my dad used to smash tvs in the junkyard and he wasn't supposed to go near the back alley by the tv shop because it was full of crt glass from kids smashing them as well-and all this almost fifty years ago.

Darn young whippersnappers.

I wonder how many more sweeping generalizations about "these darned kids these days" will be posted today.

I agree it is a generational thing. Humankind has at least a slight tendency for destroying stuff. Kids are often stupid. Add the two and you get SOME kids destroying stuff. But not ALL kids destroy ALL our precious vintage gear.

I'd rather go listen to my vintage gear and relax than comb youtube and worry about some piece of equipment I'm way too late to save.

Plus you're getting a skewed sample/perspective. YouTube doesn't represent what the majority of people do!!

Do you see any you tube videos of kids sitting around being respectful of antiques?? Picture in your mind's eye --- a group of teens videotaping each other sitting on the sofa, staring at grandad's old console... "Yeah guys, that's grandad's console" "oh." ... protracted silence ... "It's old." "Huh. Probably worth something" "Yup." .... more silence, slightly awkward this time .... "Huh." .... "does it work?" ... "yah..."

You don't see these videos.

Because it would be stupid and boring.

But I am sure the vast majority of kids are *reasonably* well behaved, respectful, etc. The ones I have met are. They are still kids and act more like kids than adults sometimes. And some are bad apples--just like some people are bad apples.

I got enuf to get spun up about without adding this...

Michael

[Carmine]

Well, that might be what you say, but I know these kids today with their long shaggy hair and rock and roll music!

Those kids sneak off into the woods to look at dirty magazines, smoke marawanna cigarettes and smash wonderful old television sets with rocks.

If you are defending them, it can only be because you are doing the same things! I can gaurantee you there were no kids smashing tv sets back in the 30s when people had respect for things.

[Aussie Bloke]

Originally Posted by Carmine

Well, that might be what you say, but I know these kids today with their long shaggy hair and rock and roll music!

Those kids sneak off into the woods to look at dirty magazines, smoke marawanna cigarettes and smash wonderful old television sets with rocks.

If you are defending them, it can only be because you are doing the same things! I can gaurantee you there were no kids smashing tv sets back in the 30s when people had respect for things.

I have to say for the first sentence, I personally have long hair and I love my heavy metal from Black Sabbath to Judas Priest to Metallica and I admit I look at porn and have had smoked the odd cone at a couple of parties, but I ain't no TV smasher lol.

It's true that there is lesser respect amongst a lot of the youth of today compared to the youth back in the days of the conservatism and morals, probably because of the trends in pop culture to "be wild" with the help of drugs and alcohol and a lot of teens follow what's consider as "cool" and smashing things and animal cruelty and getting smashed/high seems to be the popular trends amongst wild out of control teenagers unfortunately. It's like there's a lot of Beavis and Butthead personality types out there in amongst the youth.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by shimniok

Do you see any you tube videos of kids sitting around being respectful of antiques?? Picture in your mind's eye --- a group of teens videotaping each other sitting on the sofa, staring at grandad's old console... "Yeah guys, that's grandad's console" "oh." ... protracted silence ... "It's old." "Huh. Probably worth something" "Yup." .... more silence, slightly awkward this time .... "Huh." .... "does it work?" ... "yah..."

You don't see these videos.

Because it would be stupid and boring.



Michael

A more interesting version would be a couple of kids showing the camera what a record looks like, and then the kid shows the placement of that record on the turntable or record changer. Maybe it's an old Lawrence Welk album or similar "square" music. then the record starts playing, the kids laugh for a while, and one, who plays electric guitar, decides the music would actually sound good done heavy metal style (if such is in fact possible) and goes to his guitars and amps and starts playing it...

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by shimniok

YouTube doesn't represent what the majority of people do

I have to agree. I have two college-age sons, and they don't do things like that. Their classmates don't do things like that.

Ranting about "the younger generation" just tags you as an old geezer, probably out of touch with today's young people.

If you're curious, volunteer at your local YMCA, Boy Scouts, Future Farmers of America, soccer team, high school science club, whatever, and see whether those kids are doing anything that would attract a lot of attention on YouTube. Probably not.

That said, I confess that when growing up in the 1960s, my friends and I used to bring our .22 rifles to the dump and shoot rats -- along with anything breakable, such as dishes, vinegar bottles, and probably even a few old radios. We may have tried to shoot a few TVs, but a .22 would just ricochet off the typical CRT face. I'm sure I would remember if any had imploded.

Today's electronics are cheap, disposable commodities, for the most part. It is often cheaper to get a new one at Fry's than to have the old one repaired. The last time we had a TV repairman come to our house, he basically laughed at me while writing out the bill. If you have to throw the piece of junk away, why not have a little fun and smash it first?

Phil