# What Happened to being a Man **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 16, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787 "2012-05-16T07:28:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wayne64SS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/wayne64ss/32/6365_2.png) [@Wayne64SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wayne64SS)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/41 "2012-05-16T10:52:17Z")
> [@Father Baker's](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/father-bakers/49611/7): > > I remember growing up and my dad said you will never have long hair. He didn’t understand I wanted to be like guns and roses and kiss. He said your not going to have faggot hair. Then I saw a picture of him with the Beatles bowl cut. See every generation complains about the next. But sooner or later we all fall into line. It’s human nature to piss off your elders. ALL generations draw the line at womens fucking clothing. FUCK. ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/42 "2012-05-16T11:01:52Z")
heres a good eye opener for ya. I just got off the phone with the guy. Brought one of my cars to a local body guy, ma and pop place in town to pull the frame a hair so I can rebuild it. Shot the shit with the guy for a while, turns out he knew people I knew, and everything is great. Said take your time, do what you can, let me know if there is anything I need to do for you. Just called to see whats up. Spoke to his wife who is also super nice and she yells into the shop “what does mike owe ya?” and I hear “Ahhh, Mike doesnt owe me anything, those guys are good in my book tell him dont worry about it.” They have been there for 25 years, so they must be doing something right. Talking to the guy the few times he or I stopped by eachothers shops, he is oldschool and a solid worker, and solid person. On the flip side. Recently a customer brought some bike parts to us to paint, because the kid he brought them to had them for months, screwed them up, didnt have a clue what he was doing to do it right, and they came out horible. Wasted well over $100 in materials the customer brought him. 2 weeks later when i got the parts i had to strip them because the paint was too thick, not even cured yet so he didnt even mix it right, looked like it was rattled caned and was just garbage. To the point that I really should have started looking for a new tank and plastics. Turns out the kid that tried the first time had the balls to say to the pissed off guy as he came to take his parts and paint back “Dude, give me $100 for trying.” LOL, So even when young kids fuck up that bad, they think they still deserve payment! Attitude like the first example, are why they are still here 25 years later doing what they do. Attitude like the second example almost got the kid laid out. ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/43 "2012-05-16T11:11:03Z")
tl;dr ---
**Author:** ![capitalcrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/44 "2012-05-16T11:14:18Z")
Takes you two hours to do 300 bales? Man… sissies these days… ---
**Author:** ![Murrdog9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/murrdog9000/32/6391_2.png) [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/45 "2012-05-16T11:30:31Z")
Chads a pussy ---
**Author:** ![MGs4me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@MGs4me](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MGs4me)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/46 "2012-05-16T11:34:00Z")
Wow! What a thread! Every generation seems to complain about the previous one. I know my father complained about mine! And I am 55, my Dad grew up during the Depression, no electricity for most of his childhood, hardly any paved roads, walked to school and then was drafted in to the Army Air Corps (now the Air Force) for WW2. His generation set the bar pretty damn high for everyone else. There is no doubt that each progressive generation has it a little easier than the last. As a parent, that is something that we strive for. Unfortunately, by wanting things better and easier for our children, it ends up being way too easy to give them everything, not making them work, not disciplining when needed, and not giving them direction (parents being “friends” instead of parents). Add to this government entitlements, Pansy ass school districts (too worried about “self esteem” than to teach a kid the right way), and you end up with what we have. On the plus side, no matter how bad each generation that I have seen has looked…They always end up turning out a little bit better than you thought possible. ---
**Author:** ![SRS\_BZNS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/srs_bzns/32/6375_2.png) [@SRS\_BZNS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRS_BZNS)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/47 "2012-05-16T11:34:58Z")
> [@88slowmarro"](#): > > Hipsters happened , whiny give there kid everything and tell em there the best fucking faggots . It all started when ya couldn’t beat your kids !!! IF i ever have kids I will more than likely be going to jail cause, the hand , the belt and the wooden paddle with the “speed holes” will be used at all times ---
**Author:** ![McBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@McBitchin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/McBitchin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/48 "2012-05-16T11:52:45Z")
> [@\*\*\*\*Official: Southgate Meet Thread\*\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-southgate-meet-thread/29171/2495): > > I love this thread. > It’s the lack of work ethic and false sense of entitlement BS that I can’t stand. I guess if you grow up as a spoiled brat that’s what happens. this, all I do is work and go to school. and every person posting bitching about the clothes other people wear as if it actually affects you, you are fags. congratulations fags for opening up to a car forum full of dudes. ---
**Author:** ![1SLOWCAM](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1slowcam/32/6734_2.png) [@1SLOWCAM](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1SLOWCAM)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/49 "2012-05-16T12:05:06Z")
I agree with both sides of things being said ITT!! but If you look at every generation it is getting progressivly worse lol… ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/50 "2012-05-16T12:12:32Z")
![http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4os2JDVPlveNvfkSdH-mZ8o0G4Cqy_bMZme8RDEeuekYW4r-ussWh_Es0iA](http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4os2JDVPlveNvfkSdH-mZ8o0G4Cqy_bMZme8RDEeuekYW4r-ussWh_Es0iA) ---
**Author:** ![1SLOWCAM](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1slowcam/32/6734_2.png) [@1SLOWCAM](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1SLOWCAM)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/51 "2012-05-16T12:13:10Z")
And yea the work ethic pisses me off since I was 14 I have not been more that a week without a job in bettween jobs and I mean legit pay taxes jobs, ALMOST nobody thats 21 like me has the work ethic I have, and they thing they need to work for a million dollars in fast food, WTF maybe I am dumb but I have a thing called pride in what I do that causes me to bust my ass just as hard for minimum wage as I would for say 25$ an hr. And lol at all the bums saying nobody Is hiring… ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/52 "2012-05-16T12:14:13Z")
![http://hypenc.com/2010/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/camacho-for-president-idiocracy-t-shirt-vintage-t-shirt-review-vintage-cotton-vintage-cotton-3.jpg.gif](http://hypenc.com/2010/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/camacho-for-president-idiocracy-t-shirt-vintage-t-shirt-review-vintage-cotton-vintage-cotton-3.jpg.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/53 "2012-05-16T12:21:38Z")
> [@\*\*\*\*Official: Southgate Meet Thread\*\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-southgate-meet-thread/29171/2485): > > I need to rant about something. > > Idk if its because I’m 30 and it is true that you do become your parents but I look at all the kids these days and shake my head. I look at half the dudes in the car culture these days and really really shake my head. Wtf is up with wearing your girlfriends jeans, having legs smaller and skinnier then my for arm and having long hair. > > The US is breeding sissies. If I was any foreign country I would wait 10 years and invade this place since its going to be full of fat invalids and men who look like Nicole Richie who can barely lift a lap top. > > What happened to the days where playing sport was cool, where jeans didn’t look like they were spray painted on, where if you had long hair someone told you mother to get that cut before you wound up with a cock in your mouth. > > Do dude not go out with their dad’s and chop wood anymore? When I was 16 I had a carpentry job and before that my parents put my ass to work in the fields and the barn stacking hay bails that were bigger than I was and close to 100lbs each. Then after that there was wood to chop stack and move. When winter was here you got a shovel stuck in your hand. On top of that if you didn’t play a sport you didn’t leave the house. > > I look at all these hipsters and skater kids and i don’t even know what to say. I don’t even know what to say about their girlfriends. The girls these days are all wearing my grandfathers clothing with Peg Bundy’s pants. > > Where is this country going, seems kids are either to fat to do anything or to skinny, lazy and Frail to do anything. I by no means am a juice head or even muscle bound but I can turn a wrench and put up 300 100lbs bails of hay in a bar by myself in 2 hours without dropping dead. > > Has manliness been bred out of the US. Is the next underground band, the next cell phone and tucking your dick between your legs to fit your jeans on now more important than a good sweat on a hot day accomplishing something? > > Am I a dying or dead breed? Couldnt’ agree more man. I’m about to turn 25 in 2 weeks and I look at these shmucks born in the 90’s and it’s just sad. And like others here, I have had a tax paying job since I was 16. Every day since. And I did basically me entire college degree at night while working full time. Kids truly do want everything handed to them these days…jobs (they won’t really search for them), toys/items, etc. And don’t get me started on the ‘discipline’. If the government knew how my parents raised me when I was a pre-teen, they’d be in jail. But you know what? Being older now, I absolutely appreciate that they didn’t let up and let me do whatever the hell I wanted, when I wanted. > [@Don't like the lines of your car? Do what this guy did...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dont-like-the-lines-of-your-car-do-what-this-guy-did/49603/22): > > this, all I do is work and go to school. and every person posting bitching about the clothes other people wear as if it actually affects you, you are fags. congratulations fags for opening up to a car forum full of dudes. It affects SOCIETY, not ME. When society goes down the drain, so does my life (eventually). Men de-masculine’ing (new word?) themselves is nothing to be proud of or be in support of. Those ‘skinny jeans’ are not manly in any way, shape, or form. It’s for homosexual men. Yet hipsters rock em like it ain’t nobodies bidness. Same with the long hair. WTF would you even want long hair? As far as I know/can tell, it’s a f’in PITA. Leave it to the women. ---
**Author:** ![88slowmarro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/88slowmarro/32/6339_2.png) [@88slowmarro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/88slowmarro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/54 "2012-05-16T13:07:52Z")
Both my kids have chores if they want suttin , I worked for what I wanted so do my kids . I don’t beat my kids but they know when they fucked up . The school won’t call me anymore cause I yell at principal for not letting my 7 yr old do what he needs to when a kid was pushing him around lol yet the other kid got shit . Schools is the blame ---
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/55 "2012-05-16T13:20:14Z")
> [@88slowmarro"](#): > > Hipsters happened , whiny give there kid everything and tell em there the best fucking faggots . **It all started when ya couldn’t beat your kids !!!** I can’t wait until I can beat my kids, and I’ll beat anyone that tells me I can’t haha ---
**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/56 "2012-05-16T13:30:08Z")
> [@need someone to clean up my laptop please](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-someone-to-clean-up-my-laptop-please/49610/8): > > Both my kids have chores if they want suttin , I worked for what I wanted so do my kids . I don’t beat my kids but they know when they fucked up . The school won’t call me anymore cause I yell at principal for not letting my 7 yr old do what he needs to when a kid was pushing him around lol yet the other kid got shit . Schools is the blame :tbu ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jammer/32/6349_2.png) [@Jammer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/57 "2012-05-16T15:38:22Z")
Now see, your all growing up and starting to sound like republicans. ---
**Author:** ![GATVILLE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gatville/32/6362_2.png) [@GATVILLE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GATVILLE)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/58 "2012-05-16T16:10:53Z")
> [@\*\*\*\*\*Official: Mighty Meet Thread\*\*\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-mighty-meet-thread/10918/3917): > > Takes you two hours to do 300 bales? Man… sissies these days… big talker over here…cmon like youve stacked hay before ---
**Author:** ![Murrdog9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/murrdog9000/32/6391_2.png) [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/59 "2012-05-16T16:11:18Z")
Political party has nothing to do with this… I know die hard conservative/republicans that would make you sick. ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jammer/32/6349_2.png) [@Jammer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787/60 "2012-05-16T16:21:55Z")
> [@Murrdog9000"](#): > > Political party has nothing to do with this… I know die hard conservative/republicans that would make you sick. I knew you leftists would chime in. You dont get it, never will. I’ll leave before I argue. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-happened-to-being-a-man/263787.md?page=4)