Just a bit of a whinge about kids.

shaihulud · 2012-10-02T06:22:48+00:00

Is it today's kids or am I just being a grumpy old man? I think that there is a distinct lack of curiousity among many of today's kids. I volunteer in the workshops of a Perth high school. A while ago I was measuring the bores and pistons of a Beetle engine, while all around me the kids were doing their project work. I was using micrometers and recording what I was finding. Not one of them was curious enough to ask me what I was doing. I refuse to believe that they had all seen a pile of aircooled barrels and pistons and that they had all seen their fathers doing the same thing to other engines at home. A few maybe but only a few. Also the Ackerman Angle on the steering arms of a buggy. The senior students are allowed to build a small buggy of the kind driven by a single cylinder industrial engine. For the past few years I have told every one of the groups about the Ackerman angle on the steering arms and why they should do it that way. NOT ONE of them has done it. I now tell them, and expect them to not do it. Is it because I'm just a silly old fart and what would I know? Is it because the teacher has not told them to do it that way, so I have no credibility? Oh! While I'm on this whinge. They don't like good music. They are allowed to listen to the radio and they always listen to the latest hits. YUK!!! Occasionally the stations play a "Golden Oldie". Over the past few years they have turned off, Led Zeplin's, Stairway to Heaven and Jennifer Rush's, The Power of Love to name a couple. When asked why, they said that they didn't like it. I don't expect them to listen to the radio stations that play 50s to 70s music, like I do, but I do expect them to appreciate the occasional masterpiece from earlier times. Whinge over.

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100 posts · joined Apr 2009 · 11 Oct 2012, 9:07 pm

#926362

my 16 yr old is in love......with a Austin Cambridge station wagon 1962 we found on pops farm. Owns more 70/80/90 music than me, loves his sport and school. I let him chill on his computer whenever he wants. Im blessed (so far😂)

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1,986 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 13 Oct 2012, 1:36 pm

#926579

I reckon some people need to remember when we were young(er) our parents were saying exactly the same thing

RestoKäfer Commited Dubber

63 posts · joined Mar 2012 · 14 Oct 2012, 12:02 pm

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you are an old fart with the music,my kids listen to their music with their head phones on and watch the video clips.They dont like talking in the morning either.If someone was playing with an Mg enine i probably wouldnt give a shit either.But you playing with the vw would interest me heaps.Just you try an listen to modern hits(old fart)