Craigslist ad sums up America !?

Lol, Pepsi didn't create these fat people.

I've been hooked on Pepsi since about 1980, I'm 6'1" & weigh 180 pounds (never drink that diet crap).

Don't get me wrong I love the internet, I do however think that the internet & cell phones are the root of all evil in todays kids.

To much information is not a good thing, one kid picks up a bad habit & it goes viral via text + internet.

When I was a kid in the 70's & 80's we didn't know what was going on outside of our own towns, & didn't care. Hell, we were kids!

Todays kids are being pumped full of hate, from information overload.

Those 50,000 friends on Facebook, will never show up at your birthday party, lol. Hows that for being social?

When I was a kid, being social was all the kids in the neighborhood going down to the school & playing hoops or baseball almost every single day during the summer, or anytime we had a chance.

When a major hurricane came through our neighborhood a few years ago, power was knocked out for almost 10 days.

It was weird. Normally, you can drive through the subdivision and MAYBE see one person out getting a newspaper or walking the dog.

But about three days into the power outtage, I had a knock at the door. It was an invitation from a couple that lived two houses down that I hadn't met in the 9 months I had been there.

They asked if I'd like to join them in their front yard with a few other neighbors for a picnic. I agreed, and could not believe the number of kids that were out on bicycles and skateboards... some were actually playing with a frisbee on the street. I can't remember a time that I saw so much neighborly activity.

That went on almost daily until the power was restored several days later.

I can't say when it was that I ever saw any of those people again, other than the occasional drive by and wave.

It's usually too damned hot to go out. Or too cold. Or there's a good movie on. Or I'm on Warriorforum. Or I'd rather be napping.

What have we become?

sandman123,

I THINK, and I HOPE that that was a MOSAIC! A collection of VARIOUS experiences put together to APPEAR to be much worse. The TRUTH as I see it? And this is a limited view of some parts of America. Some people DO text, and call. Happily, it isn't THAT bad. Most states now have LAWS against it in cars, etc... People in general are RUDE! YEAH, they will block you, take FOREVER, and walk right towards you. I walk down an aisle and, almost without thinking, anticipate obstacles and avoid them. The RESULT? There may be a wide empty aisle with NOBODY in it. I might be walking down the MIDDLE, and NEVER walk a straight line! WHY? Because people, even one, may come into the lane and act like a steve seeking missile! There ARE people that go around blocks, into dumpsters, etc... and take cans. NOT to recycle, but to get money for it. EVEN adults are unsanitary. Even in RESTAURANTS! And they make alot of noise about brats today. BULL!!!!!! The only ones that REALLY care are those that wouldn't do it, and nobody ever listened to THEM! I know, because I am one. I was bullied by kids DECADES ago. And bullies never disappear, they just change their methods.

Frankly, if I were as stubborn as when I was a kid, I might have died LONG ago from starvation.

I was in Massachusetts, heard that it was easy to become a health inspector, and toyed with the idea of being one just so I could shut every place down.

Ragz, the same thing happened with me a few times.

Steve

The sick part, is that its all done FOR THE PURPOSE of putting us into a zombie state - hear me out:

Bisphenol A in all the soda and soup cans, genetically modified GMO corn based high fructose corn syrup in all candies, breads, juices, etc, which is manufactured to be laced with mercury. Aspartame, outlawed in many countries, yet Donald Rumsfield's drug company fluffed the FDA.. the same Donald Rumsfield who gave the north koreans nuclear power.. Fluoride in the water, continuous war, greater good, etc etc...



Alot of people don't like Alex Jones, but remember, hes just the messenger...
http://www.infowars.com/food-the-ult...ecret-exposed/

M_Jones,

The sad part is that that is only SOME of the stuff. 8-(

Steve

Sounds like everyday life where I just moved from. What is a real indication for me that people are just zoned is the amount of them that just walk out into streets with moving traffic without watching where they are going. They remind me of the cow herds I run across on the 4 wheel paths. They get into the road and just stare at you like they don't know what you are (both, cows and people). Now that people are walking and talking on cell phones and texting they just keep walking without even noticing that traffic had to stop for them because they are in the road. In my view, there should be absolutely no prosecution of anyone who hits someone who walks out into a road with moving traffic. When people become that stupid and subconscious that they will walk in front of a moving vehicle, they no longer deserve protection.

That sounds like going into Wal Mart when it's busy here in the U.S. Bad kids, stuck up adults, and adults just wanting to get away from it all. . . I think the problem all stems from bad parenting rather than more internet and texting and videos on the net. Those are partially to blame, but letting your kids do nothing but that is going to happen unless a parent controls it. Kids will continue to do whatever they want unless disciplined. Now everyone wants to be the perfect parent and friend their kids from the start. Let's give them a trophy just for showing up, let's make sure they look they're a padded knight ready for battle before they go skate or bike, let's make sure that we childproof everything and not let them eat dirt and disinfect everything. Parents now need to take a lesson from my parents from the 80's; probably the last time there was letting kids be free but also making sure that discipline was doled out. Now no one wants to spank their kids on the butt when younger, especially in public out of fear, nor do they want to scold their kids for unacceptable behavior. If the kid is tearing stuff up, give them a reason not to on their behind. That, I'm sorry to say to some people, is not abuse. You're not beating their face or breaking bones or being overly harsh. I got worse than just a hand spanking. I used to get the belt and I turned out fine. I'm not condoning belt, but at least a hand spanking when they're a child to keep them in line. Timeouts and negative reinforcement don't always work. We've become too progressive I fear, intentionally vilifying and forgetting what has worked in the past. I'm 32 and I completely agree with just about everything you stated in your rhetoric. Let's hope we return to some of the better values before society implodes on itself.