U.S. Navy Bewildered By My Generation And Its LOLCAT-Centered Rituals

[LightFang]

Yeah...when I hear of some person dying because they played video games for 3 days straight its always an asian.

We're the only people who would ever even play a video game for three days straight. I didn't say being Asian was filled with all positive things!

 

[Perfection]

Yeah...when I hear of some person dying because they played video games for 3 days straight its always an asian.

Now that's motherfrickin' dedication!

 

[mangxema]

Makes me think of an old story from FoxNews: Apparently, some school stopped using red ink because it was too demoralizing. Purple was seen as more gentle, or something.... it was many months ago, if not years.

 

[Shylock]

They forgot to mention lulz is a corruption of lol, which translated means laugh out loud.

 

[Stylesjl]

Internet words like lol will part of the English language and in the major dictionaries in the next few decades. English is always evolving. Soon we will all speak those words as we speak normal English because such words will become normal English.

And the previous generation always lament the current generation, turns out the next generation is always better then the last. The next generation will be nicer, more socially advanced, smarter and all round better then the last generation

 

[Stewbert 08]

There is, perhaps, nothing more annoying than an old fart trying to use "modern lingo" and hopelessly failing. I can just imagine some 50 year old recruiter saying "suuuuppppp bro! Wanna w4tch Napoleon Dynamite vids on Youspace an talk about our sweet new killer app recruitment? Gosh!"

Maybe they should hire former Rep. Foley (R-FL) as a consultant.

The last thing my sanity needs is a bunch of soliders going around like a bunch of online Halo players.

I'm pretty sure repeatedly squatting on the slain corpses of hostiles is already part of the ROE. For Blackwater, anyway.

Its just unimaginable that if you join the military you might have to risk your life.

Lots of people view the military as a peacetime career or as a way to get training in other careers or pay for education. The military even advertises based on this - and I keep seeing ads like that, even now. So yeah, I bet a lot of people joined before 2001 expecting they wouldn't actually have to fight.

Also there are, yknow, REMFs.

If anything the younger generation is going to be even more conservative.

ROFL. Yes, the Republican Party will remain steadfast to the principles of your generation, flourishing as the 10% of my generation that believes in Creationism, hates abortion and gays, and doesn't want stem cell research matures into their thirties.

I agree that the younger generations are coddled a lot. They've grown up in a social environment where kids can sue their parents for spanking them, and the teaching of personal responsibility is at an all time low.

OH YAH? I DO WHAT I WAUNT!

Seriously, where do ya read this ******** crap? Is there like a website where people who are feeling the clammy hand of early-onset senility on their shoulder can complain about how youngins are all Eric Cartmans?

Oh, Free Republic, right.

And the previous generation always lament the current generation, turns out the next generation is always better then the last. The next generation will be nicer, more socially advanced, smarter and all round better then the last generation

Fuggin' A.

By the time my generation has kids, they'll probably be taught to be ashamed of what MobBoss's generation believes (hem hem, gays are going to hell, we just won't SAY that out loud anymore). Enjoy your afterlife!

the decadence our generation extolls

This thread is attracting too many boomers. GUYS THE COUNTRY KITCHEN BUFFET IS NEXT DOOR K?

 

[Verbose]

Is this the cue for the creation of "The US Foreign Legion"?

 

[FriendlyFire]

Yeah...when I hear of some person dying because they played video games for 3 days straight its always an asian.

LMAO
Only in the navy. can they build a swastika building .... by mistake

Los Angeles: Painting a swastika on a public building is a hate crime. But what happens when the building is the swastika?

From the ground, a construction in San Diego, United States, appears innocuous. But viewed from the air, on the internet via Google Earth, the shape is unmistakeable - it resembles the Nazi symbol.

Construction began for the six-building complex at the US naval base at Coronado in southern California in 1967.

The plans called for two central buildings and a single L-shaped barracks, but the Naval Amphibious Base Complex 320-325 evolved in design. By the time it was finished in 1970 it had four L-shaped buildings set at right angles. That was when the problem was spotted.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/complexs-swastika-symbol-mistake/2007/09/27/1190486557461.html

 

[angrybellsprout]

LMAO, I almost pissed myself when I saw that.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25945103&tag=newlyadded;title;5

 

[angrybellsprout]

We're the only people who would ever even play a video game for three days straight. I didn't say being Asian was filled with all positive things!

Sounds like spring break or christmas holiday to me.

 

[nivi]

Theres a really simple solution to communication problems, how about making the 18-21 year old recruitment officers?

 

[nc-1701]

I don't believe my generation is any lazier than earlier ones... When it comes down to it kids need to really get motivated by something they think is important, to act responsibly en masse as you would like them too.
In the '60s kids had civl rights and hippiness to get worked up about. What do they get worked up about now? I certainly don't see masses of kids cheering on Iraq, I have seen kids actualy dedicating time and work to protesting Iraq and Bush though. This appears to still be a majoity, in the end get might be a litte lazy, I certainly am, but when the poop hits the fan they'll fight just as well as any previous generation.

Oh, and the no winners crap is just that crap. Participant awards for the loss.

 

[Mise]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." -- Socrates


"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise
[disrespectful] and impatient of restraint." -- Hesiod, 8th Century BC


"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of
today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for
parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as
if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is
foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest
and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress." -- Peter the Hermit, 1274 AD

 

[El_Machinae]

Thanks Mise.

I think the interneting around the world is only going to help things. The newer recruits won't think so much in 'us v. them' as realise that the countries we 'hate' are full of people too - some of them are people that they know.

 

[amadeus]

Yes, that's right. The transformation of the U.S. Navy from "Cruise around world on patrols designed interdict hypothetical East Asian aggression, all while earning money for college" to "Actually risk your life in the Persian Gulf for a reason only George Bush can explain" has nothing to do with lower recruitment, it's that we're a "coddled" and "narcissistic" generation.

The message for this shouldn't be either, it should be "Serve Your Country, Defend America!"

 

[Stewbert 08]

The message for this shouldn't be either, it should be "Serve Your Country, Defend America!"

This is Xenu Charlie Niner Niner to Camp Yellow Elephant, angels 12, VFR on top, we have radar lock on bandit, he's giving off flares, permission to go say hello? Repeat, are we cleared hot?

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[amadeus]

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[Stewbert 08]

All clear, bogey has bugged out, we're coming home.


*whistles the theme from Top Gun*

 

[Atlas14]

Perhaps if the U.S. leadership did not treat war as a solution to every dipolomatic failure on the global level, the "LOLCAT" generation might actually take a greater interest in serving the country to preserve their freedom. Killing those ragheaded Arabs is like Christmas every day for adrennaline junkies, and in the ones in charge only want their share of fame and glory that their fathers earned during WWII and WWI.

 

[Japanrocks12]

Even the kids don't like the fact that they're being coddled.

Oh I love being the progeny of Asian parents. We still believe in that work ethic. In fact, we probably take it to new extremes!

Two varieties: absolute workaholic and absolute play-a-holic