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I have seen a lot of "the youth of today" talk lately....
I just want to know what the age cut off is for the youth of today? When are you not considered a youth of today anymore? When are you considered a youth of yesterday? when are you considered just plain old?
what are the age requirements on this?
Your considered just plain "old" when you start saying phrases like "the youth of today" :D
I would say it is when you star saying "I remember when......"
in my eyes you stop being a youth when you live on your own.. so I became an adult when I was 18yrs old.
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Originally Posted by caseysmom
LOL dually noted.....
now what if you are "young at heart"... are you a youth of today then? lol in that case my father is most DEFINITELY a youth of today :D
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Originally Posted by Laura's Babies
I would definitely agree with you if that "I remember when" is followed by "we had to walk 10 miles to school up hill both ways" lol
I remember when I was the "youth of today" and it seems like that was a long time ago so I must be just plain old, although I never denegrate the "youth of today" so maybe I am just plain old but young at heart?
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Originally Posted by caseysmom
or maybe you are just plain young at heart.... no need to include the old part is there :D
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(*'s have been added over a word that starts with D and rhymes with Ham incase anyone is offended by a cuss on a cat picture)
That's a great picture.... it could only be better if the cat were waving it's cane in a threatening manner and wearing a nightgown and hot rollers :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Blue_Frog
I think it is starts when people say things such as ....As soon as that nowadays creeps into your vocabulary...you're it!Quote:
Now a days I see kids sitting on their butts watching tv or playing video games on bright sunny days when they should be outside playing.
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Originally Posted by sparks19
Great picture.
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Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Tom use to always say this to me "back in the day".. then I would day dude your only a couple months older then I am!! LOL
My dad cannot use that line on me anylonger, cause I've been through that 4' of snow, going up hill thing lol ok the hills were GIANT snow hills.. I had to climb 3 of these massive snow hills to cross the street at my dads place in PEI!!! it was insane.. + I was wearing Jeans, a sweater, a ball cap & gloves. As it was warm weather to me, cause Ottawa has much colder weather
I think you are old when you start thinking, or worse, saying out loud something to the effect of: "I don't know what the heck is wrong with these kids today. This generation is headed to hell in a handbasket. Now, when WE were kids, OTOH ..."
Speaking for myself only, I use the phrase "youth of today" purely as a euphemism.
When one recognizes that, one is past the age limit.
Interesting. In the past few years, since I had grandchildren - I often catch myself referring to "youth" and talking about the way my life was "when I was your age", speaking about people in their twenties and early thirties. My husband is a school teacher and so he often talks about the "kids" of highschool age. So it seems that to me, "kids" are still in school and then become "young people" until about late thirties and then they are "adults" for the next 25 years or so. Then comes "older person" and then "elderly" at about 80 or so....:p
I guess the posters who said that when we start using phrases like the title of this thread - then we are probably past that age limit whatever it is - like I said for me, it happened only a few years ago when I hit my fifties. I guess I felt quite young myself until little people started calling me "meemaw & mamma". I have to chuckle when my 28 year old son talks about "kids these days!!" even though I think he is joking.
It still startles me a bit when I hear myself referring to a younger age group :D
Ive considered myself an adult since I've left school at 16. I went on straight into work and worked my way up to starting my own buisness and Im 19 now!
I think you should be considered an adult when you can provide for youself off your own back and not sit about waiting for things to happen instead get up and make things happen! :p