How true take away there allowance
How would you know you were just a wet spot in your daddy’s drawers.
Fuckin’ A. My dad, a WWII vet, self-medicated for decades before a Vietnam-Era doc at the VA said, “I know what you have. You guys thought you were too cool for it.” Dad’s last five years were happier than the previous 40.
That may all be true. On the other hand, at least I’m not functionally illiterate, which, it appears, is more than you can say. Or, rather, write.
Do you mind if they waited until next week? Because my parents (born '48 and '49) are taking my wife and me to see Paul Simon this Thursday, and we’re all really looking forward to it.
I’ve been racking my brain for a term to describe that generation!
Guys, come on. Obama is not a boomer. Census figures are a separate issue from generational cohesion. Bear with me…
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are indisputably Boomers, both born 1946. John Kerry was born in 1943, so according to those oft-quoted statistics, not part of the statistical post-war boom. Culturally, though, I’d say he is a Boomer, and a contemporary of Clinton and Bush, not least because all three of them, during their campaigns, got their feet held to the fire about Vietnam. (And it’s the two who didn’t go who got elected. :dubious:) John McCain was in 'Nam, but he was born in 1936, and that has to be a different generation.
However, there’s no way Obama is a contemporary of any of those guys. When the cease-fire was called, he was twelve. He wasn’t even old enough to protest the war. Not a Boomer, regardless of census figures. He didn’t experience the 1960s the same way those guys did; he came of age at a later time. So if Generation Jones is the people between Boomers and Xers, that’s what he is.
I truly, deeply hate that, as I heard about it on phony “Underground Radio” and I had class the next day.
Woodstock is one of the things you heard about from those who weren’t there.
What do you hate? What does having class the next day have to do with it?
Today’s young have about the same genes as of earlier generations. Any differences are due to the environment, which in turn results from previous generations. For this reason, I do not understand the animosity, or pointing fingers of blame.
Sorry. I didn’t say I was mad, I said I was sad. Am I wrong, BTW? Is today’s youth trying to lead political change, as some of us did in the 60’s?
Der Trihs implies that there is a despair that political change is difficult, and the young have given up. This is sad; I’ve no optimistic words to offer except that giving up is the path to certain failure.
Since the relative wisdoms of age and youth is a separate topic, I’ll just reiterate the point I made that you ignored:
Change must come from the young. The young have more energy, more adventure, more reason to care about the future. I think that political change tends to come from the young, though I don’t have a cite handy.
Well, obviously. Sooner or later they’re the only ones left.
You’ve had, at the minimum, 47 years to learn how to read and write. Yet this is what you produce?
Talk about lazy. If this is what I am to measure you by I don’t believe you capable of holding down a job at McDonald’s.
You sound just like my 7th grade homeroom teacher, Mrs. Coles.
Well O.K., she was right too.
Of course you’re wrong. Who do you think is leading the fight for gay marriage rights? Who do you think swept Obama into office on the back of unprecedented new voter registration?
Well, if it makes you feel better, Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart, Matt Drudge, Michelle Malkin, Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg and the founders of Red State and NewsMax are all Xers, and they’re definitely trying to bring about political change.
Many Generation Xers are too old even to enlist in the US military, much less be drafted. You’re talking about people in their 30s and 40s.
- Benny Mussolini
He must’ve been from northern Italy to have said that.
Exactly. Several boomers have made snippy comments directed towards me and others in the GenX generation. Those comments have wondered if I will ever have kids or if we as group stop mooching off of our parents and get a real job. Listen up delusional ones, most GenXers are very much fully grown. I have been constitutionally qualified to run for president for several years but I am mainly thinking smaller like raising my two kids the best way I can. Some of us have enough time in our careers to qualify for certain types of pensions. Realistically speaking, many of us are middle-aged but you don’t like to acknowledge that because what does that make you? You don’t hear much about us though because we just go out there and give it the best we can even though your generation never let go of the death grip on power to set up a workable legacy for us. It was all just self-serving tripe and will continue as the goalposts move wherever the Boomers want them to.
Bet your ass! We are going to carpe the snot out of every diem we can find. You youngsters don’t matter, except to stay employed to pay our Social Security and as a source of transplants. It’s all about us, and it always will be. Never give up! Never surrender!
Kids were polite back in the day, you walk up to a circle passing a joint, you were automatically included, none of this “Dude, is that cold sore?” shit. Energy drinks, my ass, we just gobbled a handful of No-Doz or Jet-Awake, get your caffeine for a nickel! Taurine, bullshit! Extract of bull, is it? Well, then, we sure don’t want any guanine, now do we!
Go amongst a bunch of these punks, you’ll never see a good old American onion on those belts! No, hell, no, they gotta have a bunch of Belgian scallions, bought at Whole Foods for $3.95 each…