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    code_wiz wrote:

    our British teenagers are all hopeless - they seem to be more happy to be thugs and criminals

    I'm a male, British teenager. According to the Daily Mail, I should have fifty children, all by different girlfriends. I should apparently have every STD known to the human race, and be actively spreading it around. I should be out drinking every night, dealing drugs to my parents and friends, and swearing at every other person as I break into their houses and take their heirlooms back to my council house which I got from my unemployment benefits. I'm not, none of my friends are, and I hope that tells you everything you need to know about the Daily Mail's view of teenagers.

    code_wiz wrote:

    not education or civilisation! Pathetic!

    And yet for all the faults of a minority of my age group, you're the one tarring nearly a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom with the same brush. Perhaps it's time for you to re-evalute your perspective on who the pathetic ones are here.

    OSDev :)

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    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.

    "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

    As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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      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.

      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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      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


      Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application

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        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.

        "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

        As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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        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.

        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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          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.

          "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

          As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

          My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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

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          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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            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 ?

            Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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            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."

            "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

            As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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

              "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

              As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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                code_wiz wrote:

                our British teenagers are all hopeless - they seem to be more happy to be thugs and criminals

                I'm a male, British teenager. According to the Daily Mail, I should have fifty children, all by different girlfriends. I should apparently have every STD known to the human race, and be actively spreading it around. I should be out drinking every night, dealing drugs to my parents and friends, and swearing at every other person as I break into their houses and take their heirlooms back to my council house which I got from my unemployment benefits. I'm not, none of my friends are, and I hope that tells you everything you need to know about the Daily Mail's view of teenagers.

                code_wiz wrote:

                not education or civilisation! Pathetic!

                And yet for all the faults of a minority of my age group, you're the one tarring nearly a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom with the same brush. Perhaps it's time for you to re-evalute your perspective on who the pathetic ones are here.

                OSDev :)

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                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.

                "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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

                  "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                  As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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

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                    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.

                    "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                    As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                    My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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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.

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                      Awesome post - well worth my five.

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                      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 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.

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                        -.-- . ... .. -.. ---

                        "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                        As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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                          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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                          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.

                          "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                          As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                          My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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

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                            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.

                            "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                            As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                            My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                              -.-- . ... .. -.. ---

                              "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                              As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                              My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                              ...- . .-. -.-- .-- . .-.. .-.. ... .. .-. .-.-.- -.-- --- ..- -- .- -.. . -.-- --- ..- .-.
                              .--. --- .. -. - .-.-.- --... ...-- -.. . .-- -.. ---.. -... . --.. -.-

                              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.

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                                ...- . .-. -.-- .-- . .-.. .-.. ... .. .-. .-.-.- -.-- --- ..- -- .- -.. . -.-- --- ..- .-.
                                .--. --- .. -. - .-.-.- --... ...-- -.. . .-- -.. ---.. -... . --.. -.-

                                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.

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                                .. -.. .. -.. .. -. -.. . . -.. .-- . .-.. .-.. .--. .-.. .- -.-- . -..

                                "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                                As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                                  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.

                                  "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                                  As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                                  My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                                  Interesting. Sounds like bug report time!

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                                    Interesting. Sounds like bug report time!

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                                    Reported.

                                    "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

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                                      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."

                                      "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                                      As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                                      My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                                      Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                      hanging around at the park until late because we were bored and had nothing to do

                                      I would never have done such a thing as a teenager! I went to the pub to be bored ...

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                                        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.

                                        "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                                        As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                                        My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                                        Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                        All generalisations are counter productive.

                                        Really? Are you sure? I thought that one... Oh, never mind. :laugh: :laugh:

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                                          code_wiz wrote:

                                          our British teenagers are all hopeless - they seem to be more happy to be thugs and criminals

                                          I'm a male, British teenager. According to the Daily Mail, I should have fifty children, all by different girlfriends. I should apparently have every STD known to the human race, and be actively spreading it around. I should be out drinking every night, dealing drugs to my parents and friends, and swearing at every other person as I break into their houses and take their heirlooms back to my council house which I got from my unemployment benefits. I'm not, none of my friends are, and I hope that tells you everything you need to know about the Daily Mail's view of teenagers.

                                          code_wiz wrote:

                                          not education or civilisation! Pathetic!

                                          And yet for all the faults of a minority of my age group, you're the one tarring nearly a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom with the same brush. Perhaps it's time for you to re-evalute your perspective on who the pathetic ones are here.

                                          OSDev :)

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                                          Well said, and better written than the Mail article.

                                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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