Too old to understand the young uns..

[Mudball]

This weekend, I was watching a movie called 'A Minecraft Christmas movie' with nipper on Amazon Prime. For the life of me, i was completely clueless what the movie was all about while Jr was laughing his head off. According to IMDB the plot is 'When The Christmas Presents For Villagers Have Been Stolen. Its Up To Steve To Save it.' .... yup thats it. The movie is shown in first person pov and all Steve (who is the only actor) does is go round and round and you can hear him speak to himself in the background. This goes on for about 90 mins. I gave up after 10 and went to have a lie down.
Even though i dont play minecraft, but i did a fair bit of gaming in my past life as a techie... but I met my match with a clueless movie that told me that I am over the hill..

My son was still raving about it on the school run today... kids these days..

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[Hobbit]

In recently years I've employed people who are younger than my children... great at their jobs, and in some things outside of work we can have a conversation. Other areas we have a massive disconnect. We just look at each other baffled. More recently, some of them have become managers. Focussed, driven and super intelligent... but still those baffling conversations.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

My daughter, 15, went to see a Youtuber in concert last year. "What do they do" I asked. "Stuff dad, just stuff". I decided not to ask further. It's like the 50's and rock and roll. Older generations are not supposed to know what it is about.

 

[Mudball]

My daughter, 15, went to see a <bold> Youtuber in concert </bold> last year. "What do they do" I asked. "Stuff dad, just stuff". I decided not to ask further. It's like the 50's and rock and roll. Older generations are not supposed to know what it is about.

Was watching a standup where he described taking his daughter to a Justin Beiber concert. He talked about the lyrics of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ had words like ‘There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold, And she's buying a stairway to heaven’
Whereas Beibers hit single was something to the effect of singing ‘Baby oh Baby’ in a loop..

 

[Hacker Khan]

Was watching a standup where he described taking his daughter to a Justin Beiber concert. He talked about the lyrics of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ had words like ‘There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold, And she's buying a stairway to heaven’
Whereas Beibers hit single was something to the effect of singing ‘Baby oh Baby’ in a loop..

Trouble is that just harping on about music being better in the olden days is just silly. There were plenty of rubbish lyrics in every generations music. I am not a Beiber fan by any stretch but I can see he is good at what he does. I've seen one Direction with my daughter and again whilst I would not listen to an album of their for pleasure, I saw they are extremely good at what they do and work bloody hard at it. Same with Ed Sheeran, I think he is quite bland musically but after reading about his story and listening to his desert island discs I can respect what he's done.

There is much more diversity in the type of music and easy access to all sorts of music nowadays than there ever was and at the end of the day it matters not one jot if someone slaved away for 6 months and played every instrument on the record, or just turned up and sang a song someone else has written, if it's good it's good and if it ain't it ain't. It's the song, not the process that went into creating it. I'd of loved to be getting into music nowadays.

 

[Sweep]

I find that the young uns are too young to understand the old uns.

 

[SocketRocket]

Wasted, absolutely wasted on them.

 

[Mudball]

We have a lot of young ones who are either Oxbridge or other red brick alumni. Everyone has a brain the size of a planet and I would not trade them for anyone. One of the things that I have learnt working with them is that the traditional way to motivate them dont really apply. They are more driven by experiences rather than 'work hard and you will be able to afford a house & family one day' .. This is not to kick them but it is more about us adopting their ways - but there is a limit..
I refuse to sit thru another Minecraft movie.