No offense to you, Njord, but I think this article is a total failure. This isn't directed at you, so don't feel as if I'm attacking you.
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No. When I use the word "tough," I mean tough enough to get the crap kicked out of you and still be able to go to work the next day. Tough enough to go without food for three days and still be able to wrestle a freaking alligator if you had to. Tough enough to walk 10 miles in the freezing Illinois outback to bury a guy with your bare hands.
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Except not really. By tough, he means being a solid statue, afraid to show any form of emotion and getting through life by putting bricks together. Had he or any of his buddies from "the good ole days" come across an alligator, I can assure you that there would be no wrestling of it. There'd either be screaming in terror or a man being eaten.
This is a typical "old man" attitude. Every generation thinks the next is wimpy, girly, effeminate, etc. What good is being "tough" anyway? All you should strive toward is a thick skin and the ability to defend yourself if need be. This man is, actually, complaining about the world having luxuries.
Sure, big guy. Go wrestle alligators. I'm perfectly comfortable delving into the vast depths of knowledge at my finger tips and actually enjoying myself.
Why men have this insatiable desire to prove themselves by appearing "tough" is beyond me. While they're sitting like a statue, they can excuse me while I actually enjoy myself and do something so at the end of my life, I can actually say I made the best of it. And
still, the majority of them won't have the capability of handling me in a battle.
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Now? Now young people think being tough is going a couple of hours without cable.
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No. I just don't give a shit about being "tough".
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A lot went wrong. Somewhere, somehow, parents in the last two decades have bred weaklings, wimps and complainers. What future do we have when the "youts" of today have all the ambition of a sewer worker and the mental toughness of a finocchio interior designer?
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Hold it, hold it, hold it. Since when did toughness have a direct correlation to ambition? If anything, I think there is more ambition in the youth of society than there ever was in the United States. Ambition to live life and actually make it mean something. You can argue that the children before child labor laws had more ambition, but that kind of nulls itself out when you think about it. Did they have a choice in the matter? No, they did not. That's not ambition; that's a chore. The two are entirely different.
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Think I'm exaggerating? Think again, you stronzo .
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Sure, buddy. Keep trying to build that image of being an Italian tough guy with words like "stronzo". And the name "Mr. Mafioso" doesn't make you look like a tool. Totally.
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we've got the biggest bunch of spoiled brats that the human civilization has ever produced in North America.
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This, I'd agree with.
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I already talked about today's youth being weak and lacking physical toughness.
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Except for the fact that you didn't. You whined about how we don't put on a facade at every waking moment.
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When I was young (along with many from my generation), I didn't need crutches, a hug from my father, or to have every goddamn, meaningless accomplishment praised by someone in order to feel good about myself.
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I'm inclined to agree with this, though where having crutches for an injury has to do with feeling good about yourself comes from eludes me.
Today's youth will not hesitate to bitch and complain about how tough they have it. They lose a girlfriend; they turn into wet mops suited to clean prison toilets. They lose a job; they look for the nearest bridge. Someone insults them; they need counseling to get over the "emotional baggage."
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If any cafone ever says any crap like this in front of me, I will not hesitate for one second to break his legs. Not one.
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And Big Bubba in prison won't hesitate to break yours. Think.
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Another dumb trait of today's young punks is their inability to take any responsibility for anything. They are never responsible for any of their mistakes, and the "older generation" is to blame for every crack whore, lost suit button, and hurricane in the world.
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While true, there is a level of balance. Parents do breed champs or chimps. With good parenting, it is statistically proven that they will excel better.
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"Get the hell out of this country before I really render you useless."
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Ou, big tough guy. We've got an internet tough guy, ladies and gentlemen! A pseudo-mafioso one at that!
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ineptitude (big word of the day)
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Ineptitude is not that difficult of a word in the art of diction.
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Today's youth don't want to change the world. They don't want to start a revolution or make the world a better place.
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So, let me get this straight. Changing the world is better than making it a better place? Well, that clears everything up, doesn't it!? Changing the world can be good or bad. Making it a better place -- keyword, "better" -- means it is improving. Imbecile.
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They just want to listen to music only jackhammers would enjoy,
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Nice move, jackass. Do you know what the funny part is? It seems every generation has an issue with their children's choice of music. And yet, as those children grow up, they still make imbecilic statements like "Mr. Mafioso" here regarding their children.
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break things and see how long they can ride on their parents' backs (or more appropriately wallets).
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Eh?
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With the exception of a select few, today's generation is content to just have a job, a place to live, a Honda Accord, and plenty of money to buy macaroni and cheese. They have no drive. Unless you force them to do something, they don't do anything. And the worst part? They don't seem to care -- they have the motivation of a donkey.
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Whoa! Talk about a mirror argument! Today's generation is content doing that? You've opened up my eyes, Mr. Mafioso! First thing tomorrow, I'm going to go throw newspapers at houses before coming home and playing tag with my buddies! Because that's the most fulfilling activity ever!
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Nobody wants to get their fingernails dirty. No one wants the unglamorous job. Even in Italy, they have unemployment lines from Miami to San Francisco yet job openings in restaurants, farms, factories, and fishing boats go unfilled because no one wants to break a sweat on the job. The youth in Italy just want to prance around in their Dolce & Gabbana outfits and smoke cigarettes with Monica Bellucci look-alikes.
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See above. Laboring is perfectly fine if that's all you can do. By why should I pour concrete when I can be curing cancer? Try again, "guido".
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Today's youth is all about me, me, and me. How does this and that affect me and me alone?
They say to themselves, "I don't give a damn about what you think or how what I want affects you, I care only about myself."
"I'm a selfish prick and I don't care."
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Yes, because teenagers walk down the streets saying that. But he proved my point, entirely. Mr. Mafioso, here, is all about the image. If he appears to be a tough guy to others, that is his fulfillment in life. Whereas Ripplemagne does not care what people think of him and works toward accomplishing actual goals and bettering his surroundings.
As I said, today's generation is spoiled, but he is certainly overstating it. Spoiled doesn't necessarily mean selfish.
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What's next? Are kids going to tell their parents not to take vacations when they retire because they're wasting away their future inheritance?
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Lul. Because it's totally cool to make a worst case scenario out of the issue when it's hardly even near that level, right?
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Another problem? They're all about right here, right now. They have no patience. It's instant this and instant that. They don't have any discipline; they can't even stick to a diet for more than two days. After all, that's too much work and time, why not just pop some pills or have daddy pay for some surgery to remove the fat and lard?
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I would agree with this. And while patience is a desired trait in some circumstances, it is not always so. Good things come to those who wait, but only if they get the scraps of what's left from the person who was there first.