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ahcw said:
Not going to lie, if I was part of the generation that dealt with WWII, the Korean War, and even the Vietnam war (though from the sidelines at that point, not in the battle) and I had to deal with all the selfish, egotistical, cocky, lazy, worthless excuse for human beings that now dominate our 10-30 age group I probably wouldn't have a whole lot of respect for them either.

Just saying.
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It's probably different in the USA because we were at peace here from the end of WWII to the beginning of 1990s when Yugoslavia fell apart and war began. But I can tell you I see no such behavior from the generation who fought in that last war like the type of attitude I see amongst the seniors.

So I guess it has nothing to do with the wars, it's just the natural human reaction of expressing the aggravation you feel because you're getting older. And as you get older the aggravation gets bigger.

Of course, there are old people who enjoy their life and have pleasure in knowing that they've lived through all those years so it's not like they are all that bad :P



 
old people are just bitter because they are old.
 
no. i'm hoping to wind up one of those delightfully eccentric old fellas who don't realise they are old.
 
Well, I'm not old (yet), so I can't really comment yet. But, having said that, I have an interesting experience from interaction with younger people.

I'm 28 now, and have 2 cousins who are 18 and 20. I'm fairly close to the both of them and I think there's a trick here. They are making similar mistakes/etc that I have made in the past. As have their parents. It's part of growing up. They are a different generation, actually. I grew up without cell phones in school, without wireless internet, etc. Without networking sites. They are on the other side of the technological leap, and it's just one of the differences.

The trick is to be curious of their world. I mean, they both really want to share their world with people close to them (e.g. their family), but the family isn't really willing to listen and discover their world. When they make stupid life choices and mistakes, I try to listen and comfort them. I went through similar things when I was their age, and sometimes I tell them what stupid sh*t I got into then. But I never tell them that it's a stupid idea, etc. I mean, part of growing up is doing stupid things and the part for older people to play is to help them through it, not prevent them from making mistakes.

Much tougher for parents than for a cousin, of course.

Not my main point though: older people have more experience, and should be wiser about this. It's their responsibility to try to get the new world and want to discover it. I hope I'll remember it when I'm older. It's about retaining some curiosity of the world. I guess accepting that rules of society change, too. I live in a different world than 40 years ago, and if I live to be 68 I fully expect rules of society to be different too. I probably won't like them, but I hope I will have the openness to understand why "future" young people's beliefs then.
 
i did know fe = iron. i to am dissapointed with myself

also i didn't know PCM had a beard. let me be the first to welcome you to the ABES (Abraham Beard Enjoyment Society). thats right abes. like lincoln. aww yea
 
My wife thought I used to look like Abe, and I really did back then. I used to have a large unkempt beard, and I have a very similar physique to Abe. The picture still haunts me on my drivers licence, even though I shaved it off about 2 days after I took that picture. That was 7 years ago! Only 3 more years left! Its always funny to see the look on people's faces when I show them my licence. They don't always say anything, but I can usually tell if they actually looked at it or not.
 
mine gets fairly large and unkept at times. i tried shaving it off once and never again.

not to mention the extra few years of age it adds to me at work. handy.
 
All this talk about beards... So unfair! No matter how hard I try, I can't get one. Not that I really want one, cause a bearded lady is NOT CHARMING at all... Maybe I just feel a little bit left out, I'll just go sit over there in the corner and sulk a little.

:wink:
 
Don't get me started. My beard grows like crazy. 8h after I shave I already have significant hair growth. How do you call this in English? There was a word/idiom about it...

Couple that with a sensitive skin, makes me unable to shave everyday. So I'm forced to be bearded.

Let me sink my beard into a provided beverage. Durf's paying, I assume?
 
durf's always paying. good old durf

5 o'clock shadow that's normally referred to greebs.

don't worry sid you can play with my beard. that way you don't need one of your own.
 
corax said:
5 o'clock shadow
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That's it! Thank you.

It kept bugging me for the past few hours, I even googled it but apparently "fast growing beard" will net you thousand of tutorials on how to grow a beard, and a funny video (no surprise there, at least). Tried some other word combos, and gave up after finding a few websites offering products which supposedly help grow a beard.

Ah, if only beard size was like feet size.

To Durf!


 
I can get away shaving every second day (for work), or every day if I shave at night (when I cycle to work). Although my fiance complains if I don't shave every day.

I can't really grow a good beard though, most of the time it just looks really patchy ...
 
i look like a mountain man atm. although normally i keep it trimmed around my jawline and mo less(mostly cos my mo is still not a real mo, he's getting there though)


i've also stopped going to hairdressers as it freaks me out that they spend longer shaving the back of my neck than the rest of my head/beard
 
My facial hair tends to be red, but fades into brown as it gets farther from the chin. That means that when I let it grow for a few weeks, it looks really scroungy and dirty, because it is several different colors all beside each other. Plus, there is one little patch of blond right beneath my lower lip, and that makes it even worse.

So I just read the first actual informative article about college cycling I have yet seen. It turns out I have been doing this all wrong. I was trying to find a good school with a listed cycling "team", rather than a cycling "club". I am not that well informed, and though club implied a group that enjoys a ride on the weekends. It turns out that USA Cycling runs the show independent of the NCAA, which means that you don't need to be a "team" to be a team. So a "club" is just as official as a "team". You can see my confusion.
That means I have let the deadlines for several schools come and go, thinking I wouldn't have a chance to race for them. But, seeing as how most of those didn't even list cycling as a sport, I don't think they would have had the most supportive attitude. So now, I have refined my search to schools that list cycling as a club sport, without having to dig through Google a few pages to find said listing.

And who goes to barbers nowadays? Just let the hair grow!
 
i used to go to an old indian barber who cut everything with a straight razor. scary as hell but epicly awesome.

good luck to your applications PCM, aerodome or street racing? or even better yet super awesome mountain bikeering
 
+1 for patchy beards and +1 for partners that complain.
 
Well, I think that complaining partners can be taken care of with the right grooming. Just think of you face as if it were a poodle.
 
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