Aine
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And here I thought that that particular distinction might be rather easy considering the time spent on finding it. Not always, but in general. At least that I've managed to find in my short years. I don't argue against that some youngin's are know-it-all asshats. I come across plenty. But I come across a very nearly equal amount during my days that are of an older generation...and unfortunately, depending on the forum...more so in the older generations. And this tends to be due to the ages of people I deal with on a daily basis as a pharmaceutical tech compared to my personal time, which I spend these days in the company of a small group of friends and mostly my boyfriend. As for before I moved down here to be with him...I dealt a lot more with people closer to my age. And yeah, in a lot of ways most of them were pretty much your average asshats. Some of them pretty know-it-all-ish depending on the subject. But honestly (and this goes for just those people that I've encountered in my life, keep in mind and has no bearing on those that you have known) the people older than me by at least 10 years or so tended to be way more "wordly" acting and pretty much shunned the rest of us as completely ignorant even in the face of someone who is right when they are wrong. So again, I say, that we have our things to learn in life, and I don't care how old a person is....but everyone should be open to continuing to learn on any level in the course of their lives and be open to changing views as time goes by, because life around us changes for a reason and those that refuse to change are the ones that have the most difficulty. Yes, we may not "listen to our elders" as much as some of you might like, but sometimes we don't listen for a -very- good reason. And there's nothing wrong with an elder listening to us younger people once in a while.
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Honey, you obviously missed the "want to be used as a toilet fetish" thread or "where do I get instructions on setting my sub on fire" thread. LOL Thank you, DelRay for that one.
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