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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 15, 2017 • 4:41:54pm

Socrates told Chaucer to get off his lawn.

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.

(attributed to Socrates by Plato)

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Birth Control Works  Jul 16, 2017 • 9:46:08am

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹

Socrates told Chaucer to get off his lawn.

(attributed to Socrates by Plato)

excellent!

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 16, 2017 • 6:55:32pm

You see, they can’t do anything original either, like be annoying pissants.

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Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines  Jul 16, 2017 • 6:58:55pm

I seem to have read somewhere that some of the oldest cuneiform tablets include complaints about the decadence and general slothfullness of the young.


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