I discovered recently that the easiest way to sound old and/or out of the loop is to put "the" in front of anything that usually doesn't. The interesting part being, of course, that this works for pretty much anything. "Hey, are you kids on the Facebook?" "You young people embarrassing each other with the Formspring and the MySpace." It doesn't even have to have something to do with electronics. Drugs, for instance, works astoundingly well with this template. "All you kids better not be doing the heroin."
It makes me wonder what actually causes this phenomenon. Is it the way old people view society, or is it the way society views old people? I'm leaning towards the latter. All of us seem to think that all old people are sheltered and just can't keep up with modern times. Which is a great reflection of how the kids of this generation seem to think that the 30s, 40s, 50s, etc. were times of idyllic wholesomeness. They most certainly were not.
People were just as raunchy and disturbing as they are today, they just kept it to themselves. Nowadays, we have songs about shooting hookers in the face getting regular airplay. So remember, Grandma Pearl was probably a freak back in the day, but she'll be damned if she's gonna let you hear about it now.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that all old people are hypocrites.
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