Darth_Lukecash: I like some of cracked stuff- but this author, John Cheese is really a downer.  He's obsessed with " gritty suck age" that was his earlier life.  At first it was inspiring, just showing how he turned his life around....but then it became all he could write about.

Yeah this.  On it's own, I think it's a pretty good article.  It's saying essentially that you aren't entitled to shiat, if you want something go out and work to make it happen.  But in context it just reads like someone who is your age acting like your step-father.

If the author has learned from his excuses and grew to be a better person, then he shouldn't whine and try to stop others from making such excuses. Life is a learning process.

However, if he's warning us about making such excuses because look how crappy his life turned out ("I'm writing for Cracked, for God's sake!"), then why would any of us waste our time reading such a wordy article written by a total loser?

Ranting, as a form of comedy, is rarely fulfilling.

Well, in their defense, 99% of teenagers are lazy and immature.  Of course, so are a lot of adults.  They rag on the grown-ups as much as they do teenagers.

tallguywithglasseson: Probably the same cranky nimrods who keep posting that fake Bill Gates / high school garbage all over Facebook.

I've corrected a couple people on that.  That not only is it completely opposite to his stated philosophy on life and charity, but he is wearing a badly Photoshopped Apple shirt, and holding a badly Photoshopped handgun to a badly Photoshopped iPod.

That said, Cheese is one of my favorite writers on the site.  I don't get all the hate for Cracked, personally. I find them funny more often than not, their videos are a hell of fun, and I find the lists fairly light, digestible daily reading as I'm getting ready for bed.

cman: I would rather know when Fark changed from a website of funny news to becoming a place where the left and right needlessly cry about being victims.

Me too.

Has to be John Cheese

*clicks*

Yep.

The guy acts like he's the one-stop encyclopedia for all of life's valuable information. You write on a comedy website for Christ's sake.

Hey, I resent that.

Some of us lazy, immature people are in our forties. Most of us are here on FARK.

I think it's sad so many of you know individual writers on Cracked

All these people condemning Cracked, get a life.

First of all, their articles are like Howard Stern. It masquerades as low-brow, when in fact it's very well-researched and well-done. There's a lot that goes into those articles. They also make me laugh on a regular basis, for free.

Also, the writers are making more money than I'd bet everyone in this thread, so enough with the "durr working for cracked must suck".

He acts like this is something new.

anyone who isn't lazy and immature is an idiot.

Shadowknight: tallguywithglasseson: Probably the same cranky nimrods who keep posting that fake Bill Gates / high school garbage all over Facebook.

I've corrected a couple people on that.  That not only is it completely opposite to his stated philosophy on life and charity, but he is wearing a badly Photoshopped Apple shirt, and holding a badly Photoshopped handgun to a badly Photoshopped iPod.

Actually, the cranky nimrods might be people like you and I who spend several hours an evening correcting the lesser cranky nimrods who consistently share stupid shiat like that on Facebook.

theurge14:

Actually, the cranky nimrods might be people like you and I who spend several hours an evening correcting the lesser cranky nimrods who consistently share stupid shiat like that on Facebook.

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...we're through the looking glass here, people.

Ooh, I know this one: September 3, 2007

GarbageDay: Has to be John Cheese

*clicks*

Yep.

The guy acts like he's the one-stop encyclopedia for all of life's valuable information. You write on a comedy website for Christ's sake.

Most former addicts are like that. They're so shocked that they cleaned up their act that they figure they're enlightened, sort of like born-again Christians. Of course, the clarity that comes from no longer drowning in booze or drugs might make every insignificant detail of life seem profound. I dunno, I've never stopped boozin'.

Started off with a decent point about how dudes who do ridiculous things like green half-shaved heads need to be prepared to deal the the inevitable consequences.

Lost me though when he equated "grown up" with "owns a house".

Ha! I knew it was Cheese.

Cracked became this way when the Mayan apocalypse failed to happen.

it reads like it was written by someone is just now reaching the age of 45 or so.

So its Fark now?

I don't use any of those excuses, and none of the "lazy youth" scenarios apply to me. I own a home, am married, and have a kid on the way. I have a good job and a good group of reasonably responsible friends.

WHY DO I STILL FEEL LIKE A FAILURE, CHEESE? TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

Wonder how much of the butthurt here is from people for whom this hits a little too close to home.

Also, yeah he writes for Cracked. He gets paid for that. You're trying to be witty and funny on Fark for free. Get over yourself.

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js34603: Wonder how much of the butthurt here is from people for whom this hits a little too close to home.

Also, yeah he writes for Cracked. He gets paid for that. You're trying to be witty and funny on Fark for free. Get over yourself.

Quit being so pooper peeved over people being butthurt.

That was a completely dumb argument, but the cops tazing the redneck wedding fighters video was well worth the time invested.

They should never have hired Charles Krauthammer to be their editor in chief.

Should have been titled "I Was A Teenage Skrillex"

DeltaPunch: If the author has learned from his excuses and grew to be a better person, then he shouldn't whine and try to stop others from making such excuses. Life is a learning process.

However, if he's warning us about making such excuses because look how crappy his life turned out ("I'm writing for Cracked, for God's sake!"), then why would any of us waste our time reading such a wordy article written by a total loser?

I believe there is a "demotivational" poster that addresses that very issue.

Interesting the amount of people biatching about Fark.

Funny, you complain about the site in the site's own comment section.

If Fark sucks so much WHY are you still here?

As for the article: the writer is right on the money and the people here who are upset about must feel it applies to them on a personal level.

douchebag/hater: Interesting the amount of people biatching about Fark.

Funny, you complain about the site in the site's own comment section.

If Fark sucks so much WHY are you still here?

As for the article: the writer is right on the money and the people here who are upset about must feel it applies to them on a personal level.

Even if it's not all that interesting, I think it's good to read things like this now and then - makes you think about how you make some of the same mistakes. And believe me, even very successful, motivated people make some of these mistakes - just fewer of them.
On the other hand, one or two reads like this a year is plenty for me.

I guess I'm just weird for enjoying Cracked lists, including John Cheese's articles.

And for what it's worth, subby, this particular article isn't about how teenagers are lazy and immature. It's about how some adults still are for having the same habits they had 15 years ago when they were a teenager.