Hell, I'll take a well constructed argument nowadays.

Before cell phones, if someone didn't answer the phone we'd just say, "Oh, they're not home," and that was normal. Nowadays, I wish it was just as normal to say, "Oh, they're not answering their phone," and just leave it at that.

US: standardized test scores are tied to funding, so no time for skill development (either manual or critical thinking). Kids learn that life is only about obedience to ham-fisted metrics analysis.

Obviously not old enough to remember 'ghetto blasters' (yup, REALLY called that) These were extremely large radio cassettes with big speakers played at full volume everywhere from the 70s onwards until personal stereos became a thing. Before that it was 'portable wireless radios' These go back to the early 60s. Again, people have ALWAYS been a******s..

We NEED to bring back home economics and wood shop as required classes in high school or middle school for ALL students. This would help so many young adults get their first steps in basic life skills.

Same with concerts. I don't understand how people can't just watch a concert and enjoy it. Does anyone ever go back and watch their phone footage anyway?

Wall Street investors have been buying up housing all over the country just to make money on excessive rents and the tight housing market, which they contributed to making.

Being stood up or ditched on a date are as old as dating itself, but the RSVP was a contract that could only be violated at the peril of never receiving any future invitations

It's still very normal where I am.

Too damned many companies jumping on the product as a service bandwagon and it needs to stop. For instance, you pay (typically dearly) for a option on your new car, but you then need to pay a fee/subscription to use it? Not in this world, that's absurd.

I just respect people who don't have it. I wish I could quit it

And stop the piles of clothes going to landfill. Throwaway culture needs to cease.

I find the introvert memes tendency horrifying and relatable at the same time. Being an introvert myself I understand the struggle, but it seems to me it's getting worse and worse, triggering anxiety if you just let it be your lifestyle.

Agree knowing how to cook is a learnable skill you don’t need to be a chef.

Some people just don't want to be bothered when they're trying to go about their day.

A house used to be a home not an investment for profit. It annoys me when real estate agents talk about selling a home, it is the house not the home being sold.

All that has happened is the companies have shifted the risk from them to you. If you can get such good returns, they can too. Of course in most plans you do not contribute. Just more evidence of poor money management on their part, and how criminal underfunding is.

If anything this was worse years ago. Social media is doing us all a service by letting people know this is not acceptable. Imagine a world where no one told these a******s they were out of order. I grew up in it..

I only use loudspeaker at home when nobody is around

Do other people not do this?

Again, it's not an abnormal thing to go and not record. Going to the gym without recording is normalised.

Again depends on country and background. Low income areas in my country have good social networks and high income areas have neighbours who barely interact and mostly hate each other.

Outside of large cities where does one find a tailor?

This is only true of individualist (ie western) culture. In Africa our community is the most important thing.

Yet again - NO! This generation are far more accepting of people's struggles with mental health, sexuality, bullying and so on..

What kills me is "punctuation is aggressive" and "ok means you're mad." WTF kids?!?

Emails and texts are too easy to ignore. I feel it takes twice as long to communicate via email.

Uhh no. I would never walk up to strangers playing a game and join them.

When I was a teen(47m) I would ask folks playing soccer if they needed 1 more. If they did, I’d join. If not, wait for another so the teams could be even. On the basketball court, I’d call next and pick 2/3/4 from the team that just lost and play. If people were playing catch, I’d ask if i could join. Most would say yes. The only sport the older folks would be playing was soccer. Believe it or not, playing with them made me a much better athlete and ran circles around the kids my age with how I was learning to play. I don’t understand how today people are more enclosed to be a******s behind a computer and not have a positive interaction in the real world.

Why not? When I was in college I was camping on the Gudalupe River with a friend of mine and I took her out for a nice dinner and then she wanted to see what was going on in the area. We found a group of locals playing beach volleyball in the park by the river....and one happened to be the park Ranfer we had spoken too at the camp. I said let's go play and she said bit I'm in a slinky dress....I said take off the heals and let's play. A couple hours later having a drink by the campfire she told me that was the most fun she'd had in ages and that I was so fun and random beef anke to walk up to complete strangers and immediately becoming part of the grouo.....but this was 35 years ago when people were actually human and not robots dumbed down by the internet and electronics.

Parks still exist??? I thought they went extinct!

The 90's are gone, sadly, now it's all gone south

This happens a lot as a little kid, then becomes weird at around 9/10

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Yeh, you did this as a KID. Do it now and someone will call the cops. Kids are discouraged from doing so because this is where predators were hanging out and doing things to OUR generation. They're safer at home, believe me..

It was never there to begin with…

Couldn’t that ruin it?