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Friday, June 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Rabbit Bites: What's wrong with Gen Y?

The rabbits -- and a very special guest -- try to get inside the troubled minds of today's pampered youth.

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Friday, June 29, 2007 10:02 AM

I WANT A TROPHY!!

For having to sit through that!

Friday, June 29, 2007 10:47 AM

You wanna trophy!

Hey this was a great video. that nalts guy is pretty funny. crazy, but funny. does one really need a trophy for having to sit through those 3 minutes full of funny moments? i guess some people just don't have a sense of humor. i also think its funny how the whole "gold stars for kids, trophys for doing nothing (participating)" thing has gone from soccer practice and math quizzes to the work place.

Friday, June 29, 2007 12:21 PM

Sorry State...

Don't we educate our kids these days? Where do all those tax payers dollars go?

Zskirt

Friday, June 29, 2007 02:22 PM

Fucking stupid rabbit videos

"that Naltz guy is pretty funny. crazy, but funny". Yuck yuck.

The posters who praise the dumb videos on this site either are plants or have the intellectual capacity of a third grader. I stayed away for awhile, but something in me kept thinking that VD might somehow get a clue and fire whoever is posting these crappy ass videos. Alas, I'm disappointed once again.

Friday, June 29, 2007 05:01 PM

Wonderful.

Kind of wish they'd sent Buns out to interview the kids, though he obviously wouldn't have been so hilariously antagonistic. Nice to see a "young kids these days" skit in which the older guy is more despicable than the young ones. Good ole Gen X irony!

Friday, June 29, 2007 06:06 PM

I Wonder What Remy Could Do With Buns and ChouChou??

A nice, rich hossenfeffer stew perhaps? Not to spicy, but hearty and filling??

Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:28 AM

Please

please please please find better videos.

Saturday, June 30, 2007 03:42 AM

who is that interviewer - what book did he ever write - is he sensitive too -

this interviewer is totally off the planet - if i was gen y i wouldn't talk to him too -

anyway, as there seems to be only one generation left to go, i suppose 'that's all folks . . .'

- or do we all start at a again on this mad merry-go-round . . .

Saturday, June 30, 2007 09:24 AM

Jeebus H. Christ !

Drink some fracking coffee, wake up, and watch it again. It’s about loser parents, not kids. You don’t find it at all amusing because it hits too close to home – to the coercive, controlling, punitive parenting you used on your kids. Remember? The ones who don’t want to have anything to do with you, or are 30 and still acting like a six-year-old afraid to displease mommy or daddy, the ones who shame and over-control their own kids now?

Thanks H.

Sunday, July 1, 2007 06:24 AM

Ouch. Socrates wrote Plato's Republic. Has anyone told him that yet???

It was funny though.

Sunday, July 1, 2007 06:38 AM

Gah. No he's right. Socrates is the fictional one.

Ahh, enjoying the anonymity. No, I'm not Gen. Y.

Sunday, July 1, 2007 02:46 PM

So true, J.C. Miller,

How are people missing the humor of this, not simply not enjoying it but not getting it. The interviewer is a jerk, and not half as smart as he thinks. ("What books did T.S. Eliot write?" Of course the correct answer would be "None." Because Eliot was a poet and sometimes an essayist. He wasn't a novelist. He didn't write books. But the full-of-himself interviewer doesn't even know he's asking the wrong question.) Even casting kids more moronic than any real life kid from any generation might be, the reporter is still worse.

It's also a commentary on the crap we Gen Xers went through with Boomers (who now coddle their own kids and never criticize and a trophy for everyone...why couldn't they have given us some of that treatment?), and the uncomfortable fact that just as WWII era adults brayed about what idiots boomers where and boomers resented it...then boomers started braying at what idiots Gen Xers were and we resented it...and now some Gen Xers are actually repeating the pattern.

It's irony!

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