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When did Knoyleo get so sexy?

Moggy wrote:How many kids are regularly bought a smartphone? Most surely get given hand me down phones?

Not from what I’ve seen.

And the computer comparison - you wouldn’t get something like that every Christmas. My Spectrum was a combined Christmas and birthday present, and plenty of my mates had to share theirs with siblings.

Someone I work with bought their 14-year-old a strawberry floating MacBook.

rinks wrote:

DML wrote:This really, really isnt a new thing. Theres always been spoilt kids.

Yes, but it’s far worse now. How many kids when you were at school would have regularly been bought something of equivalent value to a smartphone?

I'm not sure that's a good example. A Game Boy Color with a game is roughly equivalent to a mediocre smartphone (£100 then, £180 today). That's in "Christmas present" range for a lot of ordinary families -- not every family of course, but I think a great deal of families, both then and now.

rinks wrote:

Moggy wrote:How many kids are regularly bought a smartphone? Most surely get given hand me down phones?

Not from what I’ve seen.

And the computer comparison - you wouldn’t get something like that every Christmas. My Spectrum was a combined Christmas and birthday present, and plenty of my mates had to share theirs with siblings.

Someone I work with bought their 14-year-old a strawberry floating MacBook.

I think you are vastly overestimating how many kids get a brand new smartphone (or MacBook) every year.

But there were kids in the 80s and 90s who got lavish gifts every birthday and Christmas. As with todays kids, those few spoilt kids are not representative of an entire generation.

rinks wrote:

DML wrote:

rinks wrote:Kids are stupid and always have been. The problem is that they now have far more purchasing power because certain types of parent pander to their every whim. Child wants, child gets. EVERYTHING.

This really, really isnt a new thing. Theres always been spoilt kids.

Yes, but it’s far worse now. How many kids when you were at school would have regularly been bought something of equivalent value to a smartphone? Spoilt is the norm now. If you don’t buy your child everything they demand, you’re a bad parent.

I really think this is bollocks.

I dont know a single kid who has been boughtba new snartphone, its always an old hand me down, in which case its already paid for.

I’m only saying what I’ve seen, and we are talking far from wealthy people. In one instance, it was the mother who got the hand-me-down phone, as the child got a new one.

Upvoting Knoyleo

I'm going to preach from the Bible of Knoyleo.

I do sympathise with parents of teenagers, it can't be fun - do you spoil your kid by giving them a smartphone because all of their friends have them, or do you deny them that and risk them getting bullied or left out? School must be brutal these days, it was bad enough in my day if you didn't have decent football boots or a branded pencil case or whatever. I fear for my children reaching secondary-school age

Preezy wrote:I do sympathise with parents of teenagers, it can't be fun - do you spoil your kid by giving them a smartphone because all of their friends have them, or do you deny them that and risk them getting bullied or left out? School must be brutal these days, it was bad enough in my day if you didn't have decent football boots or a branded pencil case or whatever. I fear for my children reaching secondary-school age

There's that material issue but then also if you do give them a smartphone do you trust them with unfettered internet access and at what age? I won't go into details but we swapped our 14 year olds iPhone for a £20 tesco keypad phone for being inappropriate on the internet.

Kids have to grow up so fast now, when I used the internet at 14 I never had to worry about doxxing or snapchat or any of that shite. Plus when I got bullied at school at least when school was over I could go home and get peace, teens get tormented CONSTANTLY on their phones now by their peergroup. Like I had a phone at that age but I would only give my number to my pals, nowadays you can look up anyone by their name on snapchat or instagram or whatever and DM them abuse and this does happen I've seen it, it's wild.

Tsunade wrote:

Tomous wrote:American chocolate

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My dad sent me some chocolate over from the US when I was a kid. I've never tasted chocolate so foul!

I would agree with that but I've also tried Mexican chocolate, I can't begin to describe how bad it was.

Johnny Ryall wrote:Kids have to grow up so fast now, when I used the internet at 14 I never had to worry about doxxing or snapchat or any of that shite. Plus when I got bullied at school at least when school was over I could go home and get peace, teens get tormented CONSTANTLY on their phones now by their peergroup. Like I had a phone at that age but I would only give my number to my pals, nowadays you can look up anyone by their name on snapchat or instagram or whatever and DM them abuse and this does happen I've seen it, it's wild.

I can't imagine how bad I would have been bullied online at that age, as you said, it was only at school but these days there's almost no escape from it.

Johnny Ryall wrote:[
Kids have to grow up so fast now, when I used the internet at 14 I never had to worry about doxxing or snapchat or any of that shite. Plus when I got bullied at school at least when school was over I could go home and get peace, teens get tormented CONSTANTLY on their phones now by their peergroup. Like I had a phone at that age but I would only give my number to my pals, nowadays you can look up anyone by their name on snapchat or instagram or whatever and DM them abuse and this does happen I've seen it, it's wild.

1998: https://manhattan.institute/article/kid ... y-too-fast

1988: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

1980: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/foxes-1980

Moggy wrote:

Johnny Ryall wrote:[
Kids have to grow up so fast now, when I used the internet at 14 I never had to worry about doxxing or snapchat or any of that shite. Plus when I got bullied at school at least when school was over I could go home and get peace, teens get tormented CONSTANTLY on their phones now by their peergroup. Like I had a phone at that age but I would only give my number to my pals, nowadays you can look up anyone by their name on snapchat or instagram or whatever and DM them abuse and this does happen I've seen it, it's wild.

1998: https://manhattan.institute/article/kid ... y-too-fast

1988: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

1980: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/foxes-1980

I meant to add the disclaimer of "that's what every generation says!" but I forgot

My point still stands.

Johnny Ryall wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Johnny Ryall wrote:[
Kids have to grow up so fast now, when I used the internet at 14 I never had to worry about doxxing or snapchat or any of that shite. Plus when I got bullied at school at least when school was over I could go home and get peace, teens get tormented CONSTANTLY on their phones now by their peergroup. Like I had a phone at that age but I would only give my number to my pals, nowadays you can look up anyone by their name on snapchat or instagram or whatever and DM them abuse and this does happen I've seen it, it's wild.

1998: https://manhattan.institute/article/kid ... y-too-fast

1988: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

1980: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/foxes-1980

I meant to add the disclaimer of "that's what every generation says!" but I forgot

My point still stands.

I doubt I'll live that long, but I can't wait to see what the kids of today are saying in 40 years time.

Moggy wrote:

Johnny Ryall wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Johnny Ryall wrote:[
Kids have to grow up so fast now, when I used the internet at 14 I never had to worry about doxxing or snapchat or any of that shite. Plus when I got bullied at school at least when school was over I could go home and get peace, teens get tormented CONSTANTLY on their phones now by their peergroup. Like I had a phone at that age but I would only give my number to my pals, nowadays you can look up anyone by their name on snapchat or instagram or whatever and DM them abuse and this does happen I've seen it, it's wild.

1998: https://manhattan.institute/article/kid ... y-too-fast

1988: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

1980: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/foxes-1980

I meant to add the disclaimer of "that's what every generation says!" but I forgot

My point still stands.

I doubt I'll live that long, but I can't wait to see what the kids of today are saying in 40 years time.

14 year olds simulating sex with each other on their neural implants no doubt.

Johnny Ryall wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Johnny Ryall wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Johnny Ryall wrote:[
Kids have to grow up so fast now, when I used the internet at 14 I never had to worry about doxxing or snapchat or any of that shite. Plus when I got bullied at school at least when school was over I could go home and get peace, teens get tormented CONSTANTLY on their phones now by their peergroup. Like I had a phone at that age but I would only give my number to my pals, nowadays you can look up anyone by their name on snapchat or instagram or whatever and DM them abuse and this does happen I've seen it, it's wild.

1998: https://manhattan.institute/article/kid ... y-too-fast

1988: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

1980: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/foxes-1980

I meant to add the disclaimer of "that's what every generation says!" but I forgot

My point still stands.

I doubt I'll live that long, but I can't wait to see what the kids of today are saying in 40 years time.

14 year olds simulating sex with each other on their neural implants no doubt.

Staydead has been doing that for years. Not with 14 year olds though (I hope).

I saw this in the supermarket on the way home tonight and bought the entire supply! It may have cost thousands, but at least I know it's going to a good cause. I've helped literally millions of blind people to see again, just by buying chocolate!

I will catch up with the thread after I've finished solving the worlds problems by eating chocolate!

Edit: why does it smell funny?

Sprouty wrote:I saw this in the supermarket on the way home tonight and bought the entire supply! It may have cost thousands, but at least I know it's going to a good cause. I've helped literally millions of blind people to see again, just buy buying chocolate!

I will catch up with the thread after I've finished solving the worlds problems by eating chocolate!

Edit: why does it smell funny?

I hope you're washing it down with some of these tasty beverages.

Dont be silly Moggy, I don't drink Prime!

I bathe in it!