We know of British yobs, but British girl thugs as well around!!!!

Pete OHanlon

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

It's not so different from how every developer of Indian origin is assumed to be a doofus who uses rude ungrammatical text-speak.

Well they are aren't they? Only kidding - I know several talented Indian programmers, as well as several not so talented ones. Equally, for every talented English programmer I know, I know 5 or 6 morons of the highest order. All generalisations are counter productive.

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

who wants to read that in the subway?

I wouldn't know - I read the Telegraph myself.

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Nish Nishant

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

All generalisations are counter productive.

5. :thumbsup:

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Christian Graus

Sounds like we looked the same :-) Yeah, I agree, I feel sorry for people who are that divorced from what it's like to be a kid or a teenager, that they act as if it never happened to them. The whole mall thing locally had me really frustrated, what do they expect kids to do after school ? Why can't they hang with their mates ? Are they part of society too, or not ?

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Christian Graus

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

It's not so different from how every developer of Indian origin is assumed to be a doofus who uses rude ungrammatical text-speak. Smile

Well, to be fair, they are usually using it to say 'gimme codez - hw do u snd SMS from ASP.NET ?' But yeah, you're right, there is an assumption that Indian devs are inherently clueless, when it's the flow of western money that has created a huge pool of clueless devs in India.

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Yeah but who wants to read that in the subway? (I assume that's the only place anyone would want to read a newspaper)

Well, exactly, people forget that newspapers are created to sell advertising, not to educate or inform.

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Pete OHanlon

Well said, and it will be interesting for you to reread this thread when you're no longer a teenager just to remind yourself how lucky you were to be a rational thinking teen. Moved to where it was meant to be.

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Nish Nishant

Christian Graus wrote:

Well, to be fair, they are usually using it to say 'gimme codez - hw do u snd SMS from ASP.NET ?'

:laugh: I can't argue with that.

Regards, Nish

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Christian Graus

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

Only kidding - I know several talented Indian programmers, as well as several not so talented ones. Equally, for every talented English programmer I know, I know 5 or 6 morons of the highest order. All generalisations are counter productive.

Yeah, it's self evident that people like Nish and Rama are as good as any Western dev, and probably better than most. It's also clear that the ones using the Quick Questions are, by definition, the subset that can't figure out how to do their own work. Starting in the CP forums, is not the same as running a job ad in Bangalore and seeing who shows up.

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AspDotNetDev · modified on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 5:14 PM

With how the threads are lined up, it looks like you are talking to yourself. Not only that, but you are giving yourself a compliment and are claiming you are a teen. Or, am I going bonkers? Perhaps it's my old age (25).

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Pete OHanlon

A mantra that I hear from several people of my own age, "why don't they do something productive? When I was their age, I didn't hang around on street corners. Why, I was actively involved in sports and the local church and rescuing kittens from trees and helping little old ladies to cross the street whether they wanted to or not." What you never hear is "why, when I was a teenager I spent most of my time trying to chat up girls and being too scared to speak to them if they looked at me, and hanging around at the park until late because we were bored and had nothing to do."

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Pete OHanlon

How bizarre. I was replying to this[^] post.

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Pete OHanlon

Well said, and it will be interesting for you to reread this thread when you're no longer a teenager just to remind yourself how lucky you were to be a rational thinking teen.

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AspDotNetDev

Even teens like yourself make mistakes every once in a while.

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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

I read the Telegraph myself.

You know Morse code? ;) ;P

WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.

0x3c0

Thanks. Topics like these tend to really annoy me, to the extent I sometimes have to calm down and think about what I'm writing. The problem I have with viewpoints like the original poster's is that a lot of teenagers who I've met think that most adults hold them. At best, that's breeding resentment between generations; at worst, it's reader-sanctioned ageism. If any newspaper published a steady stream of articles about how the elderly were acting as parasites on the NHS, there'd be an uproar - and rightly so. It would appear though, that it's quite all right for similarly derogatory articles to be published regarding teenagers.

OSDev :)

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Pete OHanlon

0x3c0 wrote:

If any newspaper published a steady stream of articles about how the elderly were acting as parasites on the NHS

That's because most of the readership aim to achieve this target.

0x3c0 wrote:

It would appear though, that it's quite all right for similarly derogatory articles to be published regarding teenagers.

That's because most of the readership are already past this target.

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Pete OHanlon

The odd thing. When I modified the post, it linked back to the post I thought I'd replied against. I suspect forum links shenanigans.

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Tom Delany

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AspDotNetDev

Interesting. Sounds like bug report time!

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