“Being Able To Fix Things Yourself”: 30 Things Young People Find Odd That Used To Be Normal

As opposed to universities cancelling guest speakers because students don't agree with the speaker's point of view, even if said speaker did not insult any groups, or give dangerous advice, and stated that their opinion was an opinion.

That's the real issue. People don't bother with intelligent counter opinions. I don't mean that my opinion is the most intelligent one, but if your feeling/opinion = fact or your depth of knowledge is having watched an internet video... maybe build a better foundation for the argument.

One without insults and assumption's of one's life.. Those were the days.

The purpose of argument is not victory but progress.

If we're being honest, you'll take what you get and won't pitch a fit.

Love a rottie

An additional condition I have is that if you argue about the small stuff in an obnoxious way, I’m checking out.

I believe pedophiles and rapists don't deserve the same rights as everyone else.

been there

I like to learn, especially from a well reasoned debate. Anyone can be wrong, and I have been, and will be; but, I want to learn what is correct.

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If i dont answer the phone, its because im not mentally home. Im in my happy place, relaxing

I cannot upvote this enough..... though this applies to today with mobile phones (I've had it with people knocking on my door too,if I don't answer my door please don't keep knocking on it I obviously want to be left alone now f**k off)

This is possible. You need to earn the reputation first though. Then, if you don't answer they'll leave it as that

I sometimes use the excuse I wasn't near my phone as a reason for missing calls. It's sometimes true. Especially if I'm.. well, in the bathroom. (Shower, etc.) Or asleep. You can't answer if you're not there.

if it goes to voicemail then consider it sent to purgatory.....I simply don't respond, reply or indeed listen to it , 🤔 perhaps I should do a voicemail message " welcome to voicemail, your message will now be lost to purgatory" 🤔.... then again I'll probably not bother anyway 🤔

I purposely never activated voicemail.

We can thank George Bush for that and his No Child Left Behind program he signed into law during his first presidency. 😒😒 And that's why I quit teaching. I taught reading and math to the lowest 20%, 3-5th grade at a low income school. My kids weren't learning shìt using the core curriculum so I taught them vedic math strategies and they picked it up IMMEDIATELY! They were suddenly having success in their home room class!!! One of their teachers asked what I did that these kids have done a 180° and I told her "vedic math". I was asked to please stop teaching that cuz it's not on the standardized test. So I let them know that would be my last year teaching; I can't actively stiffle my kids' learning, fùck that! They've created a system to keep the populace stupid and inept cuz stupid people = a cheap labor force.

And how to game the system to get the metric you want rather than doing good work you’re proud of or learning.

I got lucky bc I go to a magnet school and the programs they offer are biomed, vet science, mech tech, engineering, construction, culinary, teachers ed, and hospitality (I'm in culinary bc I've always wanted to be a chef) and I'm nut sure about others, but the culinary program is entirely taught by former professionals

Actually that's all education and all societies across the world. Eg the university sector in Australia is now so far left wing its beyond belief and lecturers must never be questioned

That's not a bug, it's an intentional feature. It softens us up for the fact we use productivity as the ONLY metric to judge someone worthwhile or not. Horrid person but productive? "Oh they're just eccentric". Good person but low productivity? Should've stayed in the s****e! Then they wonder why we feel so empty, or like we're just going through the motions of living: bc we f*****g are. Too much being treated like robots who have no exhaustion limit except death.

And that is why I love being homeschooled

Same in The UK...

Metrics or imperials?

I have lived in AL, GA, and FL... nearly all tge schools down here have career tech/early trade schools to help transition into adulthood. People who say otherwise are out of touch.

Let's not forget the ubiquitous car stereo blasting bass at every intersection in metropolitan cities. The Murhy's Law corollary that says " The louder the car stereo, the worst the taste in music."

Never heard them called that. We called them boomboxes

I remember them, but then I remember also the wonders of the intermediate period know a as Walkman (both cassette and CD) enabling people not to ‘blast their s**t’ as OP says

I was thinking the same. Those M**O blasters consumed batteries like there is not tomorrow, but gave attitude.

I definitely remember them but we all called them boom boxes! The boom box went everywhere i did as an annoying tween back in the 80's 😂

The amount of people carrying around ghetto blasters was much lower than people with a smart phone though.

Upvoted for the last line. We all need that reminder sometimes. :p The only thing to change is the technology/how someone behaves like one. People have always been jerks just like there's always good people out there somewhere.

We have a gentleman in our little city of Kingston, New York who rides around on his bike all day with his "ghetto blaster". I nicknamed him Radio Raheem. He's really quite a cool dude

At least the music was good back then

Sams club is selling something like that with a tape deck even again

Not alot of people were taking their ghetto blasters into the library.

I remember them. Like others have said, they were generally called boom boxes where I lived… but that said, I never saw anyone ballsy enough to take one inside a library while using it.

They were called transistor radios

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Only morons called them that. Everyone alive in the ‘80s knows they’re boom boxes

For old people sometimes they have to do it and Bluetooth headphones can be kinda janky to set up