Mick Lovin wrote:
Ears2Yoo wrote:I would agree...Great National Anthem by him. Why were the fans cheering incessantly throughout the entire song? Call me old-fashioned, but isn't there an unspoken rule to hold all applause and cheers until the near end?
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I do not watch hockey. I also am not a student of the traditions of the Chicago area.
However, cheering during the entire national anthem is just another sign of the times.
Things have gone from trying to be respectful to it is actually acceptable to be disrespectful. Or, trying to look nice, to trying to look 'gansta'. Or, males pursuing females, to females stalking males, and female teachers sleeping with boy students. Or, students talking back to teachers, and parents threatening to get the teacher fired rather than applying discipline to their kid.
Road rage, texting while driving, and new citizens of our country telling people ' no habla englese', and expecting people to speak their language rather than learn the language of the country they desire to be a part of.
The list goes on and on.
I am just glad I'm over 40, and grew up when I did. We played OUTSIDE. Obesity was very rare, and never even heard of other than some animal jokes. I never heard the f word until I was a teenager. My parents didn't have a cleaning company clean our house, they had us kids! My mom raised us, not some hired nanny! Our friends came to the screen door and asked if we could come OUTSIDE to play football, basketball, street hockey, kill-the-man-with the ball, it-tag, etc.
Chauffer the lazy bastards to the end of your driveway, and let them play video games all day. Go on.
See where this country is in 40 years.
No one will have to invade. They will just walk in, and your lazy-ass, disrespectful brats won't be able to get out of their extra wide chair.