Debate Thread

[DavidS]

Yeah, I hate myself for having not paied more attention when it came up. Although I do remember what a bunch of wackos and wannabe rockstars my friends and I used to be as teens. Maybe this would be worth a topic of its own? "How were you as a teen?" ^^

GoT is perhaps easier to swallow and doesn`t force you so much to look at yourself and the world we live in while Breaking Bad partially works through being "unpleasant" in that regard. So I personally believe that GoT wins in terms of popularity. I prefer Breaking Bad though.

[Wooderson]

OK guys/gals, thank you for the discussion (especially Kiandra for those links )

As for the new debate...

GoT is officially the most pirated TV series at the moment (probably of all time too)

I think GoT had a head start maybe because of the books too.

From talking to people here (in the UK), way more people have seen GoT too. Majority of people I speak to have never heard of Breaking Bad. I think this is because Breaking Bad isn't on any channel on Sky (OUR MAIN NETWORK FOR TV), whereas GoT is on Sky Atlantic.
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"How were you as a teen?"



13 = Nothing
14 = Mostly nothing till near 15
15 = Was genuinely depressed, slowly developed into something which would probably be classed a cliche'd emo (You never see it at the time)
16 = Continuing the phase :L
17 = Ditched the mentality, look back on myself in cringe, stopped caring about my hair, started wearing more colourful clothes.

[DavidS]

Hmmm, this needs a bump. Under 20 people are more than welcome to share their thoughts. I`d be interested to. Some vice versa could be interesting to. How do todays teenagers see adults?

Also to give this more content:
I was a real careless douche when I was a teen. heavy metal, party, girls and gaming was everything to me and I always blamed others for everything and still would if it wasn`t for an old friend and now wife that looked past my insecurity born douchebaggery and believed in me. Todays teenagers can hardly be worse. Failures are important for growth.

[CarnivorousJelly]

Teenager (me, techincally) on Adults

Spoiler below!

Because I have a couple part-time jobs where I teach adults, I've started seeing them as equals. That might be because I have that "I'm 18 and thus an adult" mentality, but I don't know. Other than that, I feel like a lot of people who are older than me just expect to be respected even if they don't respect anyone. It's honestly one of the worst things I have ever had to deal with. Not saying I (or anyone) has a right to be disrespectful, just that they have to earn my respect now more frequently. I used to just automatically respect adults but... meh. I guess adults appear more as individuals now as opposed to the cookie-cutter ideal I used to have :)

Me as a Teen

Spoiler below!

Probably more than any of you need to know:

13 - I had a reputation of being an "angel", never got mad at anyone outside my immediate family, I was essentially a human stepping stone, I was also really obnoxious and thought I wasn't as irritating as other teens from about 13-15, then got smacked by one of my friends for being an idiot

14 - Snapped at the beginning of the school year... By snapped, I mean I yelled "stop it" and started crying because some kid took my essay and started reading it out infront of the class (I had gotten 80% which was a horrible mark in my mind), still lost that reputation because of it :c spent the rest of the year trying to regain the reputation (hahaha not a chance)

15 - two words: externally emo

16 - "Girly", shy, anxiety got worse in general, internally "emo", externally "normal"

17 - socially reserved, resorted to online games, stopped doing things I liked

18 - Yoga, reconnecting with friends, standing up for myself (finally), working my butt off, trying to be less socially awkward, getting 90s marks again (hallelujah)

[7heDubz]

Spoiler below!

Hmmm, this needs a bump. Under 20 people are more than welcome to share their thoughts. I`d be interested to. Some vice versa could be interesting to. How do todays teenagers see adults?

Also to give this more content:
I was a real careless douche when I was a teen. heavy metal, party, girls and gaming was everything to me and I always blamed others for everything and still would if it wasn`t for an old friend and now wife that looked past my insecurity born douchebaggery and believed in me. Todays teenagers can hardly be worse. Failures are important for growth.

I agree that failures are a part of growing up, especially big ones (well not crashing a car but you get my point) my mom argues that mistakes that don't need to be made should be avoided but I don't see how Somone can learn to ride a bike through simple instruction (that was a metaphor :P)

[Statyk]

Much like Kiandra said, most of my life growing up, I was taught to respect adults. And I did, but as I grew older and wiser, I began to understand that it's not right that if I show an adult respect, and they disrespect me, that I should continue to respect them because they're older. No. If you disrespect me, you have no care for me, why should I continue to show respect towards someone who doesn't return the favor? I dare not to be pushed around. I don't care if they're 80 years old.

As of now, everyone starts with my full respect. I give kindness and respect to anyone of any age. But if they don't give it back, they lost it all from me. Sorry :I

[7heDubz]

Spoiler below!

"How were you as a teen?"

Well, i still am a teen ^^ but as for how i was when i was 13-15?

13 - a brat (removed extra text. Feel like it was me just ranting on because i needed to vent ^^)

14 - "emo" phase

15 - due to a VERY good friend i came out of my little dark corner and began to see the world in a renewed light.

16 - Im 16 now cant tell you how i was when i am.