Paul Fairie

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A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude

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2022

SIRI STATE OF AFFAIRS Voice assistants Siri and Alexa are ma

2014

Compared with when they were students, Americans today belie

2001

Going to church these days is like going to a park or a picn

1997

About 70 percent of the country believes kids today are rude

1982

CHILDREN ARE 'RUDER AND NASTIER' SCHOOLCHILDREN are becoming

1978

"Kids are disrespectful. It's a sign of the times. We c

1964

"There was no problem maintaining law and order in the

1954

It is true that kids are less respectful than they used to ?

1946

Young Folks Often Rude By EMILY POST Behavior such as descri

1930

Those who remember the politeness of the late Victorian peri

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SAYS YOUTH TODAY IS RUDE CHARLES W. ELIOT HOPES TREND IS ONL

1911

Sequence of Bad Mannered Children, Ill-Mannered Youths (From

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OLD FASHIONED STYLE DROPPED "No sir", "Yes ma

1896

CHILDREN'S MANNERS In the English press a discussion has ari

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MORAL TEACHING TO THE EDITOR Sir--Having noticed of late sev

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Disrespectful Children. The question is often asked in these

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Alas! what do we see with a frequency painfully significant

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It seems to us -- perhaps we are mistaken -- that the spirit

1829

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Nov 8

A List of People and Things Blamed for Ruining America

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Absence of whiskey

Absence of Whiskey Is Ruining Nation, Says Aged Veteran By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Aug 10 - Declaring that the lack of whisky is breeding a “race of ping pong players,” Nathan Douchy, 91 year old champion of rum and tobacco, has spoken his mind about what this world’s coming to. –The San Angelo Daily Standard, 10 Aug 1925

Flirting

Flirting Evil Is Ruining the Nation By the Rev. PERCIVAL H. BARKER of the First Congregational Church of Maywood N.J. FLIRTING IS A POTENT CAUSE OF THAT COARSENESS AND BESTIAL VULGARITY WHICH ARE DOING SO MUCH AT PRESENT TO IMPACT THE BEAUTY AND DIMINISH THE POWER OF AMERICAN HOME LIFE, DEGRADING MARRAIGE TO THE LOW LEVEL OF A CONVENIENCE AND TO THE STILL LOWER LEVEL OF SENSUALITY. FLIRTATIONS FOSTER THE SOCIAL EVIL. –Bluefield Evening Leader, 22 Oct 1910

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Oct 9

A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College

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2024

High School Students Think They Are Ready for College. But They Aren’t --EducationWeek, 21 Feb 2024

2015

Too many students unprepared for college --Portage Daily Register, 17 Mar 2015

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Aug 27

A Brief History of Baseball is Dying

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2022

Opinion Guest Essay Baseball Is Dying. The Government Should Take It Over. April 6, 2022 --New York Times, 6 Apr 2022

2010

Baseball's dying. Who's got the will? Every summer, I celebrate the ultimate privilege tempered by infinite sadness. --Sun-Journal, 11 July 2010

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Aug 21

A List of Predictions of When America Will Have Its First Woman President

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2017: "someday"

Chelsea Clinton predicts woman president -- someday Chelsea Clinton mostly stuck to the subject of childhood obesity Friday at a Variety magazine event honoring prominent women and their charity work -- except for her last line. Responding to a pointed quip hours earlier from emcee Vanessa Bayer that none of the honorees' mothers was president, Clinton said that maybe not, "but someday, someone's (mother) will be." --Press Journal, 23 April 2017

2005: "2016"

Here are some predictions about the future of politics: 2012: Michigan extends term limits. 2016: U.S. elects its first female president. 2024: U.S. elects its first African-American president. --Lansing State Journal, 17 September 2005

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Aug 7

A Brief History of Nobody Dresses Well Anymore

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2022

"Attitudes have changed," she said, a bit wistfully. "People don't dress up much anymore. --Lincoln Journal Star, 12 September 2022

2015

"People don't dress well anymore. They don't even dress up to go to work. On the tube I see a lot of black clothes all the time," she explained. "I have black clothing too but I like to wear colours, particularly purples, mauves and pinks and other bright colours. "In my day when you went to London for the day you always wore gloves, a hat and smart shoes. It was unthinkable to wear trainers. I don't like it. Things like trips to the theatre are a chance to dress up." --The Argus, 19 November 2015

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Jan 1

A List of Predictions Made in 1924 About 2024

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Beds will automatically fling children out in the morning

A Century Hence SCHOOL LIFE IN 2024 A.D. CRASH! My bed turns over automatically and I am deposited on the floor. It is eight o'clock and the switch, operating the above fiendish substitute for an alarm clock, is operated from school so that, at the moment, I am in the same predicament as the rest of the 450 scholars. After donning my one piece asbestos suit (washing being unnecessary under new atmospheric conditions) I partake of breakfast in tabloid form & step outside in time to catch the 8.10 aerobus & arrive at school two minutes later. The first lesson is English, and... the English ...

Horses will no longer exist

Future of the Horse Another scientists says that the horse is to be extinct, and he sets the date a century hence. The extinction process may be at work, says the Washington Star, but whether the horse will go to the vanishing point in that time one does not know. If horses would decrease in the same ratio as in the last ten years, it might be easy to tell when the last horse would give up his stall to an automobile and pass on to that realm where good horses should go, and perhaps where old Pegasus still rears and canters through the clouds. But the decrease in horse population -- or in &...

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