Why must every generation think their folks are square?

[ET Awful]

And no matter where their heads are they know mom´s ain´t there
Cause I swore when I was small that I´d remember when
I knew what´s wrong with them that I was smaller then

Determined to remember all the cardinal rules
Like sun showers are legal grounds for cutting school
I know I have forgotten maybe one or two
And I hope that I recall them all before the baby´s due
And I know he´ll have a question or two

Like "hey Pop, can I go ride my zoom
It goes two hundred miles an hour suspended by balloons
And can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my tongue
And imagine frothing dragons while you sit and wreck your lungs"

And I must be permissive, understanding of the younger generation.

Then I´ll know that all I´ve learned my kid assumes
And all my deepest worries must be his cartoons
And still I´ll try to tell him all the things I´ve done
Related to what he can do when he becomes a man
And still he´ll stick his fingers in the fan

And "Hey, Pop, my girlfriend´s only three
She´s got her own videophone and she´s taking L.S.D.
And now that we´re best friends she wants to give a bit to me
But what´s the matter Daddy, how come you´re turning green?
Can it be that you can´t live up to your dream?"

[McKenzie]

1. yup, my nieces and nephews think I'm a BOF

but they fail to realise that I grew up in the seventies, toked my head off, hung around with a load of biker reprobates and did exactly the sort of stuff they do now. They're just a younger version of my generation doing much the same as we did but to a different soundtrack.

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. The only people I find "square" are people who use the word "square"

:silly:

[Scrooge]

3. Its the rules

Its just a rule. Dont question it, just accept it. Thems the rules. :)
The older I get, the less square my parents are though.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Because getting old makes you square

And you don't want your kids finding out how round you used to be.

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. Because their parents aren't me

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[Bouncy Ball]

6. Actually I think my parents' generation

kicked major ass and lived during some VERY interesting and wonderful times. I'm quite jealous, to tell you the truth.

(My parents were born in the mid to late 40s and did their growing up in the 60s.)

[1monster]

7. Well, as Mike and the Mechanics said, er... sang

IN THE LIVING YEARS
Mike & The Mechanics

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

ohh, ohh, crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got

You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defense

Say it loud, say it loud, say it clear
Ohh say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late it's too late when we die
Ohhh when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts

So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different date
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be okay

Say it, say it, say it loud, say it clear
Ohh say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Because it's too late it's too late when we die, it's too late
Oh when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning
When my father passed away
Didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

So say it, say it, say it loud, say it clear
so say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late , it's too late,
when we die it's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye
Say it loud, say it say it loud say it clear
Come on say it clear don't give up, don't give in

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. As someone

once said, "Young people seem to think they invented sex".

[VTdem]

9. I think my parents

are cool. :headbang:

[tuvor]

10. Up here the trend seems to be conforming to what parents liked.

My 11-year-old nephew likes Deep Purple and Aerosmith, and I'm working in a retail-oriented job where I see parents looking for Kiss or AC/DC for their kids all the time!

They'll never know the sweet feeling of having their parents hate their choices in music.