If there were no more teenagers, what would change?

[undeterred]

:shrug:

[rcrush]

1. Most cars wouldnt get broken into

Movie Theatres would be quiet

The Mall would be quiet

Less idiots on the roads

Generally it would be a much better world.

[Mollis]

2. Not all teenagers are idiots.

There are many, but not all are.
And don't forget the adults that act that way.
lol

[rcrush]

4. I used to work where teenagers liked to gather on friday nights

Every teenager I've ever met has been a moron. Especially when they gather in large groups.

[Mollis]

11. Well I am not a moron.

I promise.

[Orrex]

31. Neither are you a large group

Just sayin.

[Mollis]

32. Well the person said that all teenagers are morons

especially when they are in large groups. I just hate when people classify teenagers like that because of the stupid ones they see. They don't seem to realize that we are all not idiots.

[Orrex]

34. Not quite. In his defense...

He wrote "every teenager I've ever met has been an idiot." Presumably he hasn't met you, in a large group or otherwise, so you're off the hook.


It was intended fairly obviously as comical hyperbole.

[rcrush]

39. I dont doubt there are some good kids out there.

But I myself have never personally met one. The reason is that I used to run a movie theatre that was close to a high school. So the only teenagers I would encounter are the ones that like to fuck in the bathrooms, trash our parking lot, start fights in the parking lot, key cars, run all over the theatre etc etc etc.


And usually their PARENTS were the worst of them. We would kick these kids out of the theatre and make them leave the property because we actually have paying customers. Their fucking idiot parents come up to me and yell at me and actually tell me to my face that its MY responsibility to watch their kids when they dump them here for 4 hours a night. They would say "YOU MADE MY KID LEAVE!?! JUST BECAUSE HE WAS BEING DISRUPTIVE?! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO WATCH HIM!!!! I"M GONNA SUE U!!!111 ONE" I would have to say "THIS ISNT A FUCKING DAY CARE CENTER WATCH YOUR OWN DAMN KID!"


We had to hire 4 off duty SAPD Officers just to make sure they didnt burn the place down.


There was a time for like a year straight on Friday nights that one of our officers had to arrest some dumb shit for either fighting or trying or fucking with the cars in the parking lot.

[LuckyTheDog]

3. Baggy pants would be in less demand.

MySpace would go out of business.

[rcrush]

5. No one left to buy crappy music!

[KittyWampus]

probably fewer computer viruses.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. I wouldn't have anyone to laugh with and be amazed by anymore.

:hi:

[Symarip]

7. Sadly

Twilight would still have an audience.

[rcrush]

8. But I bet it would have made like 5 million instead of 80 million

Opening weekend.

[Symarip]

9. That, we'll never know

I have a feeling that a lot of mom's hide their adoration for this two hour shitfest behind their teenaged girls.

[Marrah_G]

10. My life would be mostly stressfree!!!!!!

I have a 18 year old (who has completely fucked her future up over an abusive, usually unemployed male) and two boys, both in high school, 15 and 16.

Life without teens would be stress free... I can't even imagine the extra money and time I would have.

( I suppose I would miss the little buggers ......maybe....... )

[QueenOfCalifornia]

12. Less traffic

I mean.. look at ll those whipper-snappers out there on the highway!

[FloridaJudy]

13. No one

Could figure out how to program the VCR.

[rcrush]

14. The what?

Is that some new blu ray player or something?

[FloridaJudy]

16. Tivo, whatever.

No grownup I know understands that shit.

[DerekG]

15. American film would improve substantially

Popcorn movies would have more semblance to The Dark Knight than Spider-Man 8.

Romances would actually center around adults. (Although Sex and the City would still be around, unfortunately.)

Comedies wouldn't have so many poo-poo jokes.

Oh, the possibilities...

[sinkingfeeling]

17. 'You know' would die out of the language?

[Bake]

18. Hmmm. My grass would still get cut. The dishes would still get washed.

The laundry would still get done.

Wow. I can't think of a thing.

Bake

[DarkTirade]

19. People would find a new group to complain about?

:shrug:

[antigone382]

20. Parents would never go out because there would be no one to watch the kids...

Unable to safely release their sadistic urges, assistant high school principals would devolve into full blown serial-killer masterminds...

We'd get to torture ten-year-olds with the idea that every time they made a C or showed up late to class they were forever ruining their opportunities to get into a decent college and make a living.

We'd all have tons of fun ringing up and bagging our own groceries, waiting our own tables, and landscaping our own lawns.

Predators wouldn't have anymore innocent teenage victims to seduce/rape/kidnap/murder or whatever their particular fancy was.

There would be no big brothers and sisters protecting their younger siblings from unstable, abusive, addictive, and negligent parents.

[Ptah]

21. Fewer gray hairs.

[RetroLounge]

22. Woody Allen couldn't get a date?

:hide:

RL

[rucky]

23. The number of people who do volunteer work...

would be cut by more than a third.

[Ikonoklast]

24. Unemployment for actors that portray serial killers.

No more Jason, Freddie, Leatherface, Michael Meyers, etc.

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. Farting dog movies smartened up for the adult demographic?

[ismnotwasm]

26. The world would stagnate

Change is often youth driven. Passion, ideas, courage, wonder, anger, joy. The stuff that Gets shit done, or at least talked about.

[Skittles]

27. they'd sell fewer self-test pregnancy kits

yes INDEED

[BlueJazz]

28. "Taste" would come back into being Popular.

[Mollis]

29. Obama might not have been elected.

[kwassa]

36. Teenagers can vote?

I suppose the last couple of years.

[Mollis]

40. Well, 18 and 19, ya

Those are the end of the teen years.

[Writer]

30. There was a time when there was no concept of "teenagehood."

That appeared after WW2, especially when the automobile became popular.

[quakerboy]

33. Depends

Is it no more teens ever? Are we changing things so you go from twelve to 20? Cause, in reality thats just semantics, and really nothing changes.

Unless we have a way to age them accordingly. In which case not all that much changes, other than a drop in mall and movie going, underage drinking, stupid driving, arrogance, youthful energy, Barely 18 websites, teen angst, growing experiences, general hormonal atmosphere, and fast food employees(the school system might have to work a little different as well.

If on the other hand, they were to just vanish as they would in natural course turn teen, then all of the above, plus eventually the entire human species would die off, with all the issues inherent in that.

[dipsydoodle]

35. Wardrobes would go back into use again

instead of just the bedroom floor.

[skooooo]

37. fewer smiling faces in the world

:-)

[Kingofalldems]

38. Profits would be way down for cell phone companies

[old mark]

41. Lots more old farts working at McDonalds...nt