Rod, at 14:23 on Aug 15 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

True, and you can actually see their tribal nature even now, with their
gangs and select little cliques.  It's rather interesting to see individual
teenagers who are perfect little angels on their own, yet put them in a
group and they'll happily kick a pensioner to death, just for the hell of
it.  Dunno why, but it certainly ain't boredom (uncontrolled primal
instincts perhaps?).

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.

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

RS> Its a bit like how they think they are immortal at that age, not
RS> that different to the stuff about knowing it all. Thats why society
RS> has always used people of that age in wars, they really do think
RS> they are immortal. They usually do eventually notice that they aint.

True, I must admit that they do make excellent cannon fodder.

BG> Got him yesterday though - he wanted a lift to a friend's place,
BG> so I told him that as he's so clever, he could figure out how
BG> to get there himself.  Went down a real treat, I can tell you.  :)

RS> Charming |-)

So was his reaction, which is precisely why he walked around to his
friend's place again yesterday.  Funny thing is, as intelligent as they
think they are, they still never seem to learn...  :)

Regards, Bill
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