• PhilipTheBucketA
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    You cannot out-clever teenagers. Just accept your defeat, and be proud of them for their verve in tackling the mission.

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        Yeah. Just turn it into a positive.

        In all corners of the world, in all the years of history, there has been human life and energy. Modern Western culture has somehow reached itself to a point where you have erase it all, because it’s not “professional,” and present a strange view of history and the current world where all the greed, humor, meanness, and fun has been removed. Teenagers hate that, because they are not broken yet, and they innately connect back to and get excited by any little spark that accidentally shows through the dust-covers by mistake. Just let 'em do it. The instinct will go away anyway when they get jobs, you don’t have to make any specific effort to stamp it out.

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          I’ll never forget when one of my coworkers early on laughed his ass off as I started explaining the concept of weird al parody music, then flipped the radio to oldies dirty joke parody music

          Ain’t nothin change, humans been humans since forever young buck

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          I think you nailed the generational divide:

          Modern Western culture has somehow reached itself to a point where you have erase it all, because it’s not “professional,” …, and fun has been removed. Teenagers hate that, because they are not broken yet, and they innately connect back to and get excited by any little spark that accidentally shows through the dust-covers by mistake.

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      Or out dumb.

      I can’t remember Sister Grendel’s real name anymore. She was a sub for the length of covering Beowulf. Kind of a mean nickname but so was she.