Is it me - or are the newer collectors spoiled brats!

[Mr. Green]

GIVE ME GIVE ME GIVE ME GIVE ME!!!!!!!

I don't have enough GIVE ME as it is. Oh crap I am too old to get anything anymore. Even when I was young, I didn't get much. Crap and its too late to make up. So GIVE ME some??!!!

 

[Boba Ben]

That's so nuts. I can't believe the lack of appreciation. I had to work hard to earn the money for my first car and it definitely wasn't a Mercedes or BMW. It was an old Honda and I loved it.

 

[Garemlin]

Oh for f's sake. You all sound like a bunch of grandpas.

There were spoiled rich kids in the eighties, too. We're just exposed to everything more these days because of the internet.



Exactly what the previous generation though of us. And no doubt, the WWII vet generation thought of them, too.

Yeah there were spoiled rich kids in the 80's. There has been and always will be spoiled rich kids. There is a difference. Now there are lazy, self-centered, want everything/do nothing kids across all economic classes. And they get away with being like this because we as parents are limited to what we can do about it. Past generations didn't get away with it because we were afraid we would get our ***** whipped. Kids these days have no fear of any sort of punishment. It is the parents who have that fear.

 

[tinister]

Oh for f's sake. You all sound like a bunch of grandpas.

There were spoiled rich kids in the eighties, too. We're just exposed to everything more these days because of the internet.



Exactly what the previous generation though of us. And no doubt, the WWII vet generation thought of them, too.

I honestly think the spoiled kids of today are a different breed. Spoiled rich kids I knew in HS were fewer and weren't so blatantly bad about it.

But you're right - the technology now puts them right in our faces.

 

[tinister]

Yeah there were spoiled rich kids in the 80's. There has been and always will be spoiled rich kids. There is a difference. Now there are lazy, self-centered, want everything/do nothing kids across all economic classes. And they get away with being like this because we as parents are limited to what we can do about it. Past generations didn't get away with it because we were afraid we would get our ***** whipped. Kids these days have no fear of any sort of punishment. It is the parents who have that fear.

 

[IronFingaz]

i see a lot of kids with $300 Beats headphones to.

Pfft Beats. Chambers By RZA is much better, and cheaper

All this talk reminds me of a thread some ******* made a while back about expecting free items from Sideshow. What an ass.

Wish I could remember who did that.

It was Voorhees

 

[tinister]

That's so nuts. I can't believe the lack of appreciation. I had to work hard to earn the money for my first car and it definitely wasn't a Mercedes or BMW. It was an old Honda and I loved it.

My first car was a hand-me-down from my older sister. And she got it used. And I only got it after it was totaled in a wreck

 

[Garemlin]

My first car was a hand-me-down from my older sister. And she got it used. And I only got it after it was totaled in a wreck

My first car was a $3000 1979 Z-28. My parents did finance it for me but I had to work to make the payments, insurance and gas. No job, no car.

 

[willocrew]

Yeah there were spoiled rich kids in the 80's. There has been and always will be spoiled rich kids. There is a difference. Now there are lazy, self-centered, want everything/do nothing kids across all economic classes. And they get away with being like this because we as parents are limited to what we can do about it. Past generations didn't get away with it because we were afraid we would get our ***** whipped. Kids these days have no fear of any sort of punishment. It is the parents who have that fear.

This is how ur parents and grandparents would respond if u told them, what u just told us.

 

[devilof76]

And can you imagine what their grandparents would have thought watching them beg FDR for handouts? It has worsened exponentially since the days when the contry first turned on itself. Progressively, as it were...

 

[RIDDICK]

1/6 = toys = more young collector..
just another reason i prefer statues..

F.A.C.E.P.A.L.M.

 

[uscmhicks]

I think there are just as many polite kids , they just don't get as much light because they're not always craving attention. You can't forget them because giving the brats this attention is exactly what they want and enjoy. When I used to be on youtube I'd get a lot of messages from kids because I was only young myself , some of them would be spoiled brats saying this and that sucked and telling me what I should and shouldn't do but then a lot of them were really polite and just interested in this hobby.

I also don't think it's fair to compare kids of the 80's to kids nowadays just because they have mobile phones and whatever else. That isn't the kids fault , if they go to school and everyone there has a mobile phone ( which honestly I think is a good idea nowadays ) they probably think of that as something normal. I'm not sure what I could compare it to back then but if we go 20 years ahead from now there will be other things that will make mobile phones look crappy and make the new kids look spoiled. I was laughing a couple of weeks ago with friends remembering having to rewind VHS tapes when I saw my little cousin getting annoyed flicking through the menus a blu ray of toy story 2 to get to the last chapter.
How would he know what that was like though ?.

Every 20 years the newer generation is likely to look more spoiled that the last because life in general for the younger generation is starting to look a lot easier . To me it sounds like a lot of you guys have done better for your kids than you're parents did for yourself which is a good thing but you could be judging your kids to hard based on that imo.

Some of you are saying " I didn't get half of the stuff my kid did " but to me that sounds like you weren't really appreciating what you were getting at that age. It isn't your kids fault mobile phones weren't invented that didn't need storing in a suit case.

I honestly think if you're kid is under appreciative and doesn't respect you then you're doing it wrong. You definitely don't have to hit them for them to learn that, when parents hit their kids for being lazy or swearing they've learnt it from somewhere. I'm 20 now and I'm paying for everything on my own and already have savings of my own , I didn't have it hard and had a pretty good life. I just learnt you have to work for it.

 

[Mr. Green]

Grab everything while you're young. Cause when you get old, you have to pay em for yourself. These grandpa/grandma are just jealous. They'll just leave a big mess for u youngster to clean up.

And if you're born rich and will stay that way, congrats! Can you spare me some spoilage?

 

[uscmhicks]

You know , this isn't always the case but I kind of feel I have to add this. The spoiled brat kids I know and have met in the past , some of which have grown into idiots all had idiots for parents.
I'm no parenting expert but to me that seems pretty self explanatory.

 

[tinister]

Grab everything while you're young. Cause when you get old, you have to pay em for yourself. These grandpa/grandma are just jealous. They'll just leave a big mess for u youngster to clean up.

And if you're born rich and will stay that way, congrats! Can you spare me some spoilage?

Your statement is pretty telling. That perspective only works if you happen to be rich though?

 

[tinister]

You know , this isn't always the case but I kind of feel I have to add this. The spoiled brat kids I know and have met in the past , some of which have grown into idiots all had idiots for parents.
I'm no parenting expert but to me that seems pretty self explanatory.

I agree. I have a couple friends who come from wealthy families - and you would never guess it. Completely down to Earth - humble people. And guess what - their parents are the same way.

But as you say - it's not always the case.

 

[nash]

Ive always said that the majority of people in this hobby are self entitled crybabies. everyone is looking for a good deal and wants people to sell to them for cheap. hence the, "help out a fellow freak..." bull____.

Why the ____ should I help you out? Other than the fact that we are members on the same forum aside from the thousands of other people here, i dont know you one bit.

They probably have never helped out a single person before yet they EXPECT others to do them favors because they are a 'fellow freak'. then when you dont want to sell them for a loss, they call you out on it and all of a sudden youre the bad guy. give me a ____in break you damn crybaby _____es.

 

[Voorhees27]

Ive always said that the majority of people in this hobby are self entitled crybabies. everyone is looking for a good deal and wants people to sell to them for cheap. hence the, "help out a fellow freak..." bull____.

Why the ____ should I help you out? Other than the fact that we are members on the same forum aside from the thousands of other people here, i dont know you one bit.

They probably have never helped out a single person before yet they EXPECT others to do them favors because they are a 'fellow freak'. then when you dont want to sell them for a loss, they call you out on it and all of a sudden youre the bad guy. give me a ____in break you damn crybaby _____es.

Seriously bro, help a bro out, bro. Sell me one of your OC Batmans for $59.

 

[Garemlin]

You can definitely tell the generations of people replying to this thread by the tone of their replies.

 

[Mr. Green]

Your statement is pretty telling. That perspective only works if you happen to be rich though?

There's an opposite to this issue. There's always spoiler brat and poor ghetto kiddies; wheather the IT thing is a simple toy(stupid stringy manaquen or yoyo) or a advanced modern toy/statue/etc. If I am a kid, again, and I am somehow blessed with parents who can pay, why not. Better this than a malnurious kid who have to eat or be eaten. To some extent, these items can be a confidence booster or status symbol among other kids. Or a development tools.

Only different now a days is there's more toys/gadget/etc. Rich or not, these youngster will inherite a more populated, poluted, bad economy, and expensive education. Grab whatever and enjoy while you still can. The grown up world is so full of bull too.