Name ONE thing that irritates you about modern culture

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I hate how prices have gone up. I miss the days where things cost less back then. Money inflation goes up and so doe the prices but minimum wage is low. Luckily my husband and I make $10-12 an hour.

I also can't stand the thing with high definition TVs. I see nothing great about it because I don't care how better the picture quality is, why the fuss about it? Ugh.

I also hate the way kids are these days and parents. So many of them are lazy but maybe if more places start banning screaming children and kids, maybe parents will start doing to fricken jobs again and quit the "They're just kids BS" and start doing discipline again, even if it means the good parents will have to suffer the consequence from bad parents. Honestly I don't care if this happens because it won't effect me, that would mean less money will be spent on fun stuff because I will have the "Kids are not allowed" excuse and refuse to go there because one of us has to stay home with the kid. So less money spent on fun stuff since husband wants to spend money on entertainment because he doesn't know how to have fun without spending money. Thank goodness he knows how to budget.


I hate how luxuries are becoming a need now like internet and cell phones. Without them, good luck with trying to get a job. Yeah see what I mean? Same as for with education and when having to look up important things and they require you to have the internet. Even bus stops require you to have your cell phone or internet so you can figure out the bus routes and how to get to places by calling or looking it up online. Just the other night, I was going home from work, this man wanted to know the direction how to get somewhere by bus and the bus driver tells him he needs a cell phone to call the transportation company to figure out the next arrival and how to get somewhere by bus. Yeah see what I mean by how cell phones have become a necessity now or things will be harder for you to get by in life? Just like you can't use wagons anymore to get around. Amish use cars for in case of emergencies so even they can't be all wagon. Yeah they do use cars to get to places that are far by horse and buggy. So cars have become a necessity too in lot of places. Besides pretty much everyone has a cell phone so it be harder to get by in life without one because all your friends will have cell phones and it be hard to reach them and what if they don't have a land line? Good luck with that. It still amazes me when people still think these are luxuries. No they have became a need now, they may still be luxuries for some people. To an extent they can be luxuries like how many cell phones does your family need or how many cars or what type of internet?


I also hate how there are lot of single moms these days. Whatever happened to being with a guy first for a while before having kids? Now these days people are sleeping around with someone they hardly know or only been dating a few times. I also hate that. I hate how sex has gone over rated. Back then sex was between two married couple. Now these days anyone does it with people they have been with for short amount of time or for a few months and it's acceptable now. Then the girl ends up pregnant. Good thing I decided to hold off TTC when we were planning our wedding because I sure didn't want a big belly on my wedding day since it would make it hard to find a dress to wear to the wedding. Plus I wanted my grandmother's wedding dress to fit so I held off trying to have kids. But yet I don't have a problem with two couples with children who have been together for a while but never got married.

I hate how things have changed in the schools. The discipline, how schools now handle things now. I used to be for schools calling cops now on students because I thought it get parents to do their jobs now but nooo they whine and complain and have it go in the media and plus schools use their poor common sense when they call the cops. Calling cops on small children, come on, how hard is it to restrain them or will parents get upset because the teacher had to sit on their child to keep her from hurting other kids and the staff they sue the school? Yeah blame the lazy parents. Now the good ones have to suffer when cops get called on their kids because the school has to treat them like they are one of those bad parents too, er breeders. Derogatory word for bad parents.

Cyber bullying. A coward way to bully a victim online. Now the bullies can bully the victim from home now by texting them or IMing them or talking badly about them on Facebook for the whole school to see and sending them messages on there.

I also hate the music today, too much profanity and it's all rap and I just don't like the music these days. I stopped listening to top 40 when I was about 22 because I just wasn't enjoying it. I prefer to stick with 90's music or 80's and under.

I hate how ret*d has become an insult now. Now I have to be careful when I use that word to mean mental retardation because people might take it as an insult. I also hate the fact they have changed that word into something else in other countries and now it will change here too. I think ret*d has become the new stupid, dumb, imbecile, moron, idiot, lame, but yet people don't take insult to those words but they will throw a fit if someone says ret*d to mean stupid or something they don't like. But those other words I just mentioned also used to mean the mentally handicapped and dumb meant someone who cannot speak. Lame means someone who cannot walk so yeah saying all these words here also insult a group of people because of the original meaning of them just like why people get insulted with ret*d because of the original meaning. Maybe someday in the future ret*d will be acceptable to use again just like all those words are acceptable to say.

Uh what word is that? I thought it was ret*d at first but since you mention scientific, I realize you mean another word. What is that word then?

Now this I agree with- I actually had some people who I let stay with me be rude to me and keep nagging at me to get a flat-screen TV.- when at the same time they told me I couldn't possibly have depression because they have cable. Sorry that I don't spend all my money on drugs and refuse to pay my bills.

Aside from them obviously being the WRONG people to talk to me about finance, I just don't need an HDTV. I mean, I grew up out in the middle of nowhere with a roof antenna so the normal cable picture is fine- plus I don't want to have to pay so much extra for the HD channels. Why spend a bunch of money on a TV when if you don't get HD channels it will still look crappy?

My own annoyance- people who act like completely disrespectful idiots, and then accuse you of "Trying to make them look bad" or "being negative" or "being abnormal" just because you don't want to put up with it. Or they accuse you of "Trying to ruin their image" if you tell people about something they constantly do to you. If something is so contradictory to your "public image" and you are ashamed to have anybody else know, then stop doing it. You know it's not ok to treat somebody like that so why can't I say something?

I hate how complicated everything is, and having to make lots of choices about everything.

I like having some choices and freedom, but don't like how much time I have to spend comparing products to make sure I don't get ripped off - and once you have made a choice, companies keep changing their products and labels so you keep having to make new choices.

Phones and Fashion...

I have a mobile (cell) phone but I normally have it redirected to voice mail and then I listen to that each morning.
I hate a ringing phone, My anxiety levels go though the roof. Its like someone standing there shouting NOW, NOW, Come and talk to me NOW, and I feel like I have to agree to enter into a conversation without knowing who it is or what they want or how long it will take. But then even once I have listened to my voice mail I don't want to phone them back anyway in case they feel the same way about getting phone calls, just because now happens to suit me, its so presumptuous that it will suit them and they still want to talk to me about what ever it was anyway... And I then get moaned at for never keeping in touch.

And fashion (to be fair it is not very modern) it goes straight to the very essence of needing to fit in to the mainstream cool people crowd. But then I am lumbered with the prospect of looking like I am trying to rebel against it and I don't want that either, I also don't like needing to decide what to ware, luckily for work I can get away with black trousers and a white shirt every day (a different set obviously). But on Fridays we have a dress down day, And I tend to ware the same jeans and checked shirt each time (Of which I have 3 sets), and that has already attracted a number of comments now, But If I change what I ware now, that would just create its own set of issues, like I am changing just to meet with peer pressure... I have explained that I have 3 sets and I just like them, I tried this particular combination, found I liked it and so bought more and stuck with it.

I live with my parents and they only recently bought an HDTV. I've watched DVDs on it and they look no worse than the movies shown on the HD cable channels. (In case anyone is wondering, the answer is yes, we upgraded to HD programming.) I would have to closely inspect the screen with a magnifying glass in order to tell a difference. The only reason we watch the HD channels is that the SD channels aren't in widescreen. I'm always baffled by videophiles who cry about movies not being available on Blu-ray, as if the DVDs look like crap in comparison.

I think older societies were actually more accepting to people considered Aspies today. This is obviously evidenced by the fact that Aspergers has only been identified as a disorder since like 1940something. I think in the "good old days" society was more performance based. My friend with NVLD like me often says he feels like he should have been born in a different time, like the 1800s. He's probably right. If you, let's say, knew how to read, knew really, anything, could speak properly, etc, people would basically regard you as a human god, and you could then get into politics, write stuff, start revolutions, invent things, the possibilities were endless. That, and college wasn't "required" and was actually useful back then, too. Only actual smart people went to college back then. So, if you knew like 10x more than the average person, it was actually useful back then.

Now, as society's gotten easier, knowledge and actual ability are at less of a premium. People have it easy now. Because you can literally survive without learning, or even doing anything beyond feeding yourself (with food that can even be provided for free theoretically) sociality has gotten more important. Most of our jobs even that seem important, aren't really anymore important than plowing fields on a serf's farm or whatever in the middle ages. So now, "Neurotypicals" have it best, they're going to be picked for a job because they have better ability to make eye contact or give a nice handshake or something dumb like that, not because they're actually better at anything useful for the actual job besides social aspects.

So in conclusion, my hypothesis is that in the old days, your ability to do useful work or create things mattered much more than your social ability, and your social ability was much more influenced by your ability to do useful things than by just charisma alone. Also, note, too, one of the things we have problems with, as a society, dating, etc, wasn't even an issue in the old old days, for better or worse. Marriages were just arranged. You could be the most awkward person in the world, but if you could hunt things awesome, you're getting a good wife. Now, getting a good wife is much more related to your charisma than your ability to hunt or really do anything useful.

Oh well.

I'll end this with Ecclesiastes...