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Why do so many adults act like kids?

It seems that these days kids are the mature ones and adults just fight each other. i know we can't have complete peace, but it's really stupid how adults act and it's really that they don't have any common sense.

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Mr_FadedGlory

Just because they're adults doesn't mean they're mature. Being over 21 sometimes compounds the problem. Once they're adults they believe they know it all and won't listen reason.
Adam Carolla said (jokingly) that the name of his next book would be,"I never knew adults would be this stupid". As kids we think adults know more than us and we could count on them to be smart and not lazy. That's not always the case.
It's pretty disappointing when we get to an age and realize this fact.

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I know they aren't all mature but I know that certain ones need to be mature and just think they are superior to the other adults and thast results in fighting. And yeah I like the Carolla thing. I agree.
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green..hi glory
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Mr_FadedGlory
Hi Toni! Green 4 u 2!
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That's right!
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Oh, Robert, I'm sorry, I hope you feel better soon!!!
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Mr_FadedGlory
Me too Robert. Hope you feel better tomorrow.
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my middle name is mature lol
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Mines Jesus
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ohh how cute lol
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Thanks! Lol!
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Some adults,when they were children, were hard to deal with, and not having good values instilled in them only serves to find they have never been taught how to mature and learn respect for others .Hence..kids wearing adult clothing.....are only adults on the outside..

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Thanks toni! Some people here are like that but I am just wondering! You are the best! Idol tomorrow?
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YW....Idol tomorrow!! Going to work outside for a few..LOVE THIS WEATHER..:) Later tater??
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Love it! enjoy! I was just outside...we also have wildfires...later!
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ty robert..awwwwww....FEEL BETTER!!!
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I think my friend has vertigo ..I have been dizzy but I think it is from an inner ear..What an awful feeling!!! Just talking about it turns my stomach..Take those meds!!! Sleep..better than watching everything spin around ewww myy..
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That explains why my mom is a bitch
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Adults are just kids with money...

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Pretty much..
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So true, we can't help it.
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so true
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Well adults are sometimes stressed and have 2 much on their mind, but kids only have to think about if the wanna play minecraft

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Well maybe you shouldn't keep playing minecraft?
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i meant stuff like that, maybe video games
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I know.
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ok then
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jasonrng

Most people over the hill acting like children are doing it for a sad reason. They are re-living the youth they never had. It's a feeling of inferiority, they want to experience things they never could as teens or kids. This is why you see older males dating atrociously younger women, or driving a sports car meant for the younger crowd. Some of it is harmless some of it isn't.

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I'm talking about when adults need to shove there way of life in another adult's face.
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jasonrng
I suppose the older generation in general is just grouchy.
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Yeah I guess.
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To relate to a life experience I am 22 and when I drink I'm not the most obnoxious one half of the time. The more obnoxious ones are 30+. Yet they're the first to call my generation the "bad ones".
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That's right Robert, not all of us are idiots. Let's just say we are strong opinionated. And no, we are not trying to relive our youth, we've already been there, done that, and don't want to go back. It's called experience, because we have seen lots of situations. Not all of us act silly, well, maybe every now and then. Just depends on how important it is.
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My example was not generalized it was from rare experience. My father is 50 years old and acts like he's 50. Never seen him drink, go to a party. He works out and listens in his spare time. So I'm not saying ALL adults are bad, but some are stuck acting like idiots.
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Who are you calling kids? Ok, seriously, because they're spoiled rotten. They think they should just have things handed to them.

Sometimes I act like a kid because it makes me feel young again. But I only do it in certain situations to have fun. I don't do it to cause problems.

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I'm talking about when I see adults fight. I 've seen them fight at baseball games and not about baseball and I mean about lifestyles. I mean, it's tupid. Their kids are setting the example.
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I know, alcohol plays a part in a lot of those incidents. I'm just glad you weren't talking about me...now, can MrStarry play? ;)
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I wasn't talking about you! MrStarry can play. Warm evening in NY. 75 right now. 80 today!
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Yippee, Kuu, you grab the Glitter, I'll get the beer. It's party time!!!
And King, don't try to run off with the beer this time!!!
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Liar Liar, pants on Fire! My behaviour is very good, King.

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Lol
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I'm not talking about you! I've seen adults fight in my life...not pretty....you are a liar!
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NO -- YOU are the BIG liar.
I am a skilled fighter. Once I took knives away from two boys in the same period in the same class without either of them getting mad. I always get my way, but it just doesn't look like fighting. I wanted those knives. They didn't want to give them up. They gave them up. I WON!
King, we are trying to be funny here. Isn't this cheering you up at all?
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Ha Ha, Robert, thank you so much. Aren't I just a bit scary?
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Lifes too short?

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If life's too short, why do they fight and act like kids?
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Maybe it's not a kid thing and its just human then.
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Mr_FadedGlory
Hi Nevermind!
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Hi!
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Really? Huh, it seems I've been following a few people I don't remember 0.e.
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Yeah, Nevermind took a little hiatus, but thank goodness she's back now. I really missed her a lot.
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some adults are like kids because they have a playful personality type. but some just have no common sense whatsoever.

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I think we all have it in us to be ugly, it has nothing to do with common sense, well maybe a little.
It's more about learning to just not say anything when we know it's not going to make a difference. Some things are more important than others, some things just don't matter enough to battle over. We all need to learn to let it go, adults and youths.
I've had my butt burned many times, things I know for a fact are correct, things I see at work on a daily basis. I've been called an idiot and a dumb*** many times, so what, I'm still alive, and my skin is pretty tough, when the point just doesn't seem to get through, I move on. No, I don't know everything, no one does, everybody thinks differently about things, different beliefs, different ways of processing information.
But, one thing I'm certain of, one thing I was tested on in college, and after running a laboratory in the hospital for 9 years, the blood inside our veins is red, always red, never changes colors as it hits oxygen, never ever is blue, it aways red!! Nanny nanny boo boo!
Oh, sorry, I had one of those adult moments!

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Yeah I know you Kookie!
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Hey, King, I hope that's a good thing!
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No, that's just mine!
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Hey, Robert, what can I say, I kinda like green dots, really bright sparkling green, ha!
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Oh no, Mikale, yours is green, for all your plants, gotta be green somewhere!!!
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Well as you know not everyone use their brains that's why some adults act like kids,and also some kids act like adults in the bad way so it's like the circle of stupidity lol :)
Have a nice day :)

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Yeah you got that right ;)
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welll adults just wanna have fun lol like i do. its boring being an adult for example my mother. omg i'm bored just sitting there looking over papers do you know how many paper cuts i've had? i just have to move i can't stay still the only time i stay still is for... hmm nothing really lol i would ave died if my life depended on me staying still lolly omg lol thats like forking long lol lol

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it seems you dont want to grow up me neither
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Stop saying "lol lollly lol." You are an annoying ex!
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Yes...you beat me at losing...
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I like ur ex
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What is wrong with the world?!?!?!?! despite all the abuse to animals and kids etc, kids are trying to act and look like they are so much older than they really are, and some adults just can't grow up!

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Well King is a good question,maybe because there is no Doctrine degree's for being mature and not proving a point or always thinking your right.My family ,,we call ourselves "The Right Family" even tho we are wrong more than we are right:),so we do not fight because we are always right.:)

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They are going thought their never ending mid life crisises (:

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So true Surfergirl
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short intension span ugh....

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You mean, attention?
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Because getting old sucks

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Because they are immature...I am an adult and I act like my age not a kid except when I have been drinking then the wild side comes out LMAO :)

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Because being an adult doesn't mean you have to be boring.

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vshenko8

They don't.

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seagirl1998

Because they're going through their mid life crisis.

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one_life

why do so many kids act like adults?

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Because their parents coddled them for too long, and now they don't known any other way to behave.

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its cause they are afraid to grow up

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This question was asked a while ago...you're a little late...
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may be because they have late childhood

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Its ok, we solved this question. Its old anyways, no need to answer it if it's old
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Acting like an adult is boring so adults act like kids.Plus everyone knows that adults are kids with money.

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It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

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KatyPinhead

Because they think its funny. They're WS

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I think it's lame almost at 40 and trying to act like your in your 20's? Need to act your age... everyone has fun when everybody acts silly but come on you need to act more responsible then a 20 sum year old just my opinion. Agh

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