HarveyBoulevard Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 I was at the store this morning with my four-year-old as she had wrangled me into getting her a toy. We were in the game aisle when I came across Monopoly...using a credit card?! I can't believe they're teaching kids to play Monopoly with a credit card instead of cash. That just seems nuts to me. However, it appears it is actually worse for our youth. When I looked up this is what I saw. In hindsight, the back pages of MAD Magazine probably were not a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PapaDisco Posted January 23, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2018 I know every generation bemoans the declining standards of those that follow ("Kids these days!" ) but we really do seem to have taken a big acceleration downward in all things social. Maybe it doesn't matter, but I do pine for the days when we all dressed up to go out, coarse behavior was frowned upon and civility was prized. Now it seems like we're raising our kids in some sort of Animal House fraternity from kindergarten on. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigaar Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Speaking of credit cards, recently a large hospital and affiliated group practices stopped accepting cash for co-pays, etc. I was like WTF!?! I can't pay a $15 co-pay with cash!? I'm old school and like to use cash, especially when you're talking about paying for things that cost less that $50. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarveyBoulevard Posted January 23, 2018 Author Share Posted January 23, 2018 I do have to laugh at myself because I'm 42 and I'm that old bastard on the Block who's always screaming at the kids to stay off of his grass. I was born a member of AARP. I don't know if that's an international organization but for all you folks not in the US that is the American Association of Retired People. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 51 minutes ago, HarveyBoulevard said: I was at the store this morning with my four-year-old as she had wrangled me into getting her a toy. We were in the game aisle when I came across Monopoly...using a credit card?! I can't believe they're teaching kids to play Monopoly with a credit card instead of cash. That just seems nuts to me. However, it appears it is actually worse for our youth. Could be worse... could be teaching them to use Bitcoin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stump89 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Dad can we get toilet trouble? It looks really fun! No thanks, we already had that when your sister accidentally flushed a roll of paper towels down. Everyone was a loser that night. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvickery Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Next thing you know ... the kids are going to be listening to rock & roll . derrek 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigaar Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, dvickery said: Next thing you know ... the kids are going to be listening to rock & roll . derrek It's worse, my 20 year old has been listening to rap! I just can't listen to it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigcars Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 1 hour ago, HarveyBoulevard said: I do have to laugh at myself because I'm 42 and I'm that old bastard on the Block who's always screaming at the kids to stay off of his grass. I was born a member of AARP. I don't know if that's an international organization but for all you folks not in the US that is the American Association of Retired People. ** Card carrying member of it for 5 years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Sigaar said: Speaking of credit cards, recently a large hospital and affiliated group practices stopped accepting cash for co-pays, etc. I was like WTF!?! I can't pay a $15 co-pay with cash!? I'm old school and like to use cash, especially when you're talking about paying for things that cost less that $50. be very interesting to know if that was legal where you are. they might find that they are obliged to accept cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 18 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said: be very interesting to know if that was legal where you are. they might find that they are obliged to accept cash. According to the RBA, businesses do not necessarily have to accept bank notes. " However although transactions are to be in Australian currency unless otherwise agreed or specified, and Australian currency has legal tender status, Australian banknotes and coins do not necessarily have to be used in transactions and refusal to accept payment in legal tender banknotes and coins is not unlawful." https://banknotes.rba.gov.au/legal/legal-tender/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 18 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said: be very interesting to know if that was legal where you are. they might find that they are obliged to accept cash. Meriton apartments in Oz haven't taken cash payments for two years. Then they charge you 1.25% for use of a credit card. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Just now, El Presidente said: Meriton apartments in Oz haven't taken cash payments for two years. Then they charge you 1.25% for use of a credit card. hey, i used to act for harry. you should be grateful he lets you even buy an apartment. fuzz, interesting. and shows how long since i have looked at all that. i did have a client - an aussie who every local would have heard of, much beloved around the nation but an absolute utter grub, the only client i have ever sacked - was buying a million dollar house. we arranged for him to turn up with the dosh, assuming bank cheque. nope. a bag of used notes for a mill. you can bet none of it was not dodgy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akela3rd Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Oh please let this turn into a moaning old git thread! But please write your complaints in with a letter rather than using these new-fangled keyedboards and the interweb.Thunder & Lightening '75 - '15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ha_banos Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 ... my wife would find most of those games absolutely hilarious ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitzy Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Sigaar that drives me nuts. We have a bunch of places here in NYC that do not take cash so I refuse to do business with them. Also I saw a post on Reddit the other day where these millennials had the balls to say the 1% have enough cash for everyone and that they shouldn't have to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartolomeo Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Could be worse, some kids are eating Tide Pods ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iznogood Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Is there some way around becoming old and grumpy? Is that what inevitably awaits me? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbandz Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Kids today, what is not hilarious is troubling. Yesterday I had to keep a kid from dropping a car on himself while trying to change a tire. Also ,he had bought a Honda wheel and tried to put it on a Nissan. BECAUSE the car had NO SPARE. "well ,the tire is the same size, isn't that how you do it? " scary............ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitzy Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 46 minutes ago, Bartolomeo said: Could be worse, some kids are eating Tide Pods ? Holy crap why would people want to eat Tide pods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugu Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 14 hours ago, PapaDisco said: I know every generation bemoans the declining standards of those that follow ("Kids these days!" ) ...am way more worried about "parents these days" 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nino Posted January 23, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2018 58 minutes ago, Iznogood said: Is there some way around becoming old and grumpy? Is that what inevitably awaits me? No worries, it's not a bad phase if you know how to manage it - I am old, grumpy and retired and it gets me to Havana a few times a year ... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99call Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 For every kid wanting to buy a retarded game, there is a rich baby boomer at a desk heading the company that churns this shit out. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarveyBoulevard Posted January 23, 2018 Author Share Posted January 23, 2018 1 hour ago, 99call said: For every kid wanting to buy a retarded game, there is a rich baby boomer at a desk heading the company that churns this shit out. So very true and so very crazy. I don't know what meeting went as follows... I want a bunch of games about toilets, s***, puke, farting, smashing rotten eggs on your head and oh by the way get rid of all of that silly cash in Monopoly and replace it with a credit card. Obviously I don't know what sells and have no business in the marketing department :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 99call Posted January 23, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2018 20 minutes ago, HarveyBoulevard said: Obviously I don't know what sells and have no business in the marketing department :-) I cant wait for the "I'm Offended" game. Two teams, you can either be the Alt Left or the Alt Right. There is no dialogue in this game. Points are awarded or deducted based on how cutting either team can be with their hand drawn illustrations, depicted members of the opposite team as a frog of some form or another. It's like Pictionary for people with no sense of humour. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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