As a single individual no. But as a group? Yes. What affects one apple affect the barrel.

Make a stupid response? Modus Operandi may not look dumb, but you are part of the group you're making dumb, ergo a broader scope of people will label you and those you are a part of as slower or ignorant.

When it leaves the majority of the next generation, of an area which still has some industry, are under-qualified, bone-idle and don't give a [censored] about anything except the evening then yeah I think it does; most of them say they'd love to be able to work for below the minimum wage just so they can scrounge up some money to buy the next Fifa title or waste doing what-ever they do on a nightly basis. I really can't understand such a short-term perspective, they have no ambition, no care for anything and think that supporting England means that they qualify as patriots able to have an opinion.

I will say this though, my best friend in the class (who spends most of his money on cigs and M-cat and sometimes comes-in in the stained clothes from night previous) is actually surprisingly bright and knowledgable; an odd exception.

The people who take an online survey seriously are the real dumb ones.

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You're assuming a lot about my behaviours.

But no, I really don't give an airborne act of copulation what older generations think of mine. If someone is to judge the entirety of my character based on my age, chances are they're [censored] morons and I'm better off isolated from them.

I'm not going to be an 'uncle tom' for my generation.

True, but if it's an official one used for public census type stuff, the last thing, say....a school system needs, is to be dumbed down any further.

I'm assuming nothing. What I'm saying is it's better to know when and when not to be serious. I'd rather be serious than attribute to a stereotype. What you said has nothing to do with, well, anything. What I'm saying is, if a hundred people put a stupid answer down, they should expect to be treated stupidly.

I agree, but I think people would take an official/professional survey a lot more seriously.

I'm not sure what kind of survey the OP was like to be honest, I thought they meant it was an official survey sort.

It's an online survey where you get paid to answer questions, if the source on that picture is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePoll

I think you've got it backwards. Young people are always patronised, to the point where subversive behaviour is the natural response. It's incredibly insulting to be told the definition of basic words during interviews, as I have. Give a dog a bad name, etc.
I just take the piss out of patronising, dullard interviewers all the time. Chances are they're slightly subnormal arseholes anyway. If they view me as stupid, demonstrating intelligence or knowledge often has no effect on how they perceive me.

It's very fun taking the mick out of some [censored] who doesn't know you're doing it, even more so when they're a patronising authority figure.

I'm with Modus, it makes perfect sense that they'd give sarcastic answers. I know I would.

People are equally patronising of the older figures and authority figures, that's what 'Teenage Rebellion' stems from, every generation does it more or less. Objectively, no party is innocent, even the youth. This doesn't offer universal amnesty for anything, but you're not excusing anything, just patronising others in your own way, you are creating the very system you ironically claim to hate. It's a paradox.

That would be true, only if I defaulted to such behaviour. I give everyone a chance, but when they start acting like pompous, patronising arseholes I feel I'm well within my rights to give them abuse they're incapable of understanding (or often receive as compliments) for my personal amusemant.

I don't wish to be grandiose, but I feel that relative to my age group (I'm 17) I'm eloquent and my command of English is decent. If someone tries to explain what 'surprise' means to me, (at a college interview) then they're just asking for it, in my opinion.

Given that I'm in a class of 18 year-olds who don't know what words like "consistant" and other such basic phrases - I agree that "surprise" may be a little extereme - youths typical command of the English language is really appalling,

Of course it's extreme. I feel more demeaned when I express myself fluently and concisely and I'm patronised all the same, than when someone racially abuses me on the street. In fact, I often outclass the [censored] interviewer in terms of articulacy. Yet they have the nerve to talk to me like a sodding five year old. Yes, I'm mad.

Why are you mad? I just asked you a question and you outsmarted me, therefore you are the ignorant one. *closes eyes like a smug bastard and ignorantly walks away*

Yea, I know what that's like, it's degrading.

I've never really cared, I just think "Damn, there must be some really useless people going to get weeded out for this job" .

Bacon comes from chickens.

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Imagine some guy at your job and you're sitting there next to him. The boss walks in and says "Billy, you do know where bacon comes from right?". Billy: *scratches head* "uhhhh, it grows on trees right?". Boss: "You've got to be kidding me Billy, you're fired."

And here I thought the Brits were smarter than us yanks. Yikes.

my whole life was a lie

Some people don't know what sausage or pepperoni comes from either. (hint: what does bacon come from?)

And steak.

Sausage and peperoni are a combo of pork and beef.

I DON'T KNOW!

Grew up on a farm, cows, pigs, horses, all the animals. Parents own around 800 acres now after selling more. Now I do not any longer since I moved out but I sitll live in the country. Funny how people don't know where it comes from.

Makes me wonder if I went up to somone in a city with some meat from a moose I hunted And told them it's steak from a cow. I bet they would beleive me.