RS> True, but then they are only children, might
RS> realise they dont know everything eventually.

BG> Ain't that the truth?  Robert turned 16 last week, and if
BG> you believe him, Lyn and I are amongst the world's biggest
BG> morons. Suddenly, we know absolutely nothing any more (except
BG> how to pay all the bills and continually clean up after him etc).

RS> True, one of the neighbors kids is just doing that sort of thing
RS> now, in the most spectacular fashion, AVO, the full catastrophe.

BG> BTW, WTF is AVO (don't you just love acronyms) ?

Apprehended Violence Order. Not much better |-)

You trot along to the court and say that particular person
has been behaving violently etc and the court tells them to stop
doing that and that they will be in deep shit if they do it again.

In this particular case, he was an apprentice at the car dealership
is dad works at as a used car salesman. Ignored what he was told
about having all work he did inspected by the workshop foreman whatever,
4WD went out and failed very expensively. He got sacked. He has been
round there behaving like a hoon apparently, presumably drunk etc.

RS> I cant help feeling humans must have evolved like that, it basically
RS> provides the drive to get them moving away from the parents etc.

BG> Quite likely, although I'd be more than happy to provide that drive myself.

Yeah, many feel that way |-)

RS> Corse that doesnt work too well the way we have society structured.
RS> In earlier times the more affected ones would just run away to sea,
RS> go off and fight in some war or something to give their hormones
RS> something to work themselves out on.

BG> True, and you can actually see their tribal nature
BG> even now, with their gangs and select little cliques.

Yeah.

BG> It's rather interesting to see individual teenagers who are
BG> perfect little angels on their own, yet put them in a group and
BG> they'll happily kick a pensioner to death, just for the hell of it.

True. And thats precisely what effect the military
plays up to get them to die for their country too.

BG> Dunno why, but it certainly ain't boredom
BG> (uncontrolled primal instincts perhaps?).

Hormones raging. Some even turn into very decent people eventually.

BG> Indeed, if you believe him, we're now so stupid that
BG> I don't know how we even made it to middle age myself.  :)

RS> Yeah, amazing how very obvious stuff like that just gets ignored.

BG> Which only proves how thick the little shits really are, IMO.

Dunno that thick is really the word. Most of that stuff is
going straight over their heads. Quite a few can look back on
it later and realise what total pricks they were at that age.

Doesnt always allow them to handle it any better when
its their own kids repeating it a generation later tho.

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