JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for August 31, 2011
August 30, 2011
September 01, 2011
Transcript:
Another flash mob sparks outrage.... Kids today, Huh? They have contempt for authority. They disrespect their elders and are tyrants to their teachers. you said it, Dada. Actually socrates said it 2,500 years ago.
Phatts about 13 years ago
That’s the problem with kids. They always have to be worse than their parents were. Which means that each generation is worse than the previous one. Newsflash: there’s not much more worse you can get anymore!
StoicLion1973 about 13 years ago
Way to go, Robb making this swept-under-the-rug phenomena a topic of a strip.
pschearer Premium Member about 13 years ago
I thought it was said by Paul Lynde in “Bye-bye Birdie”.
Ray_C about 13 years ago
P.S. I LOVE the flash mobs that come together and sing excerpts from Handel’s “Messiah” or other beautiful songs.
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders, and love chatter in places of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food, and tyrannize their teachers.”
I think there was also one along the lines of “The boys are impious, and the girls have no modesty”, but it might have been someone other than Socrates.
tegm about 13 years ago
Give them some discipline!!
harebell about 13 years ago
Flash mobs allow making trouble on a considerably larger scale than before, not to mention more quickly. Efficiency experts at work?
Mark H. about 13 years ago
Love Jump Start, but chances are, Socrates never said that:http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104
JoePhan about 13 years ago
Most people don’t know it, but Larry Niven predicted flash mobs back in 1973 in the novella FlashCrowd.
tsandl about 13 years ago
Athenian society collapsed shortly thereafter.
Ed The Red Premium Member about 13 years ago
If you do a bit of research, you’ll discover that teenage use of drugs and casual sex is way down. In fact, the crime rate is close to the lowest it’s been in generations.
But most people don’t know that because most “news” channels are in the business of making you afraid. If you know how safe you actually are, you won’t feel the need to watch the news everyday.
I strongly suggest people start laying attention to what’s really happening in the world, not just some shocking story about what a person living thousands of miles away may or may not have done. You’ll discover that things aren’t as bad as cable news is trying to make you think.
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member about 13 years ago
[Year long tally: 28 Nonsensical : 215 Realistic] Thank you Robb for today’s realistic and funny comic!! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++