i'm so glad there were no cell phones when i was in high school and university
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Before he moved to Maryland, my brother saw my parents (socially, I see my dad daily since we work together) way more than I do. I have nothing against them, but I don't feel a need to share my private life or go out of my way to eat dinner at 5:15, etc.. (brother born in '75, me '81)
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
which could well be because I have to see at least one of them on the daily
I live about three miles from my parents. We speak about twice a week and it's been a habit since my niece was born (Mom babysits her) to stop by after work for at least an hour to hang out with Mom and her before sis picks her up. I'll usually stay long enough for a drink.
My parents aren't my bros but we enjoy each other's company -- more so the older I've gotten and our time together turns into the center of an hourglass. It isn't at all unusual for my friends' parents to know each other either.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
stuffing the ballot box for millenials tnite
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
voted boomers, but then i went thrift store record shopping and felt the overwhelming urge to stick it to the greatest generation for filling the bins with terrible MOR soundtrack and ''sing along with mitch/guy/erma/andy/jim'' LPs, this is a staggering burden and we will never be truly rid of it all. on the other hand i also flipped through the trivial pursuit ''boomer edition'' and felt better. silent generation looking pretty good in all this, i think.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
silent generation have been yelling at the kids to get off the lawn for like 40 years
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
not so silent now, huh?
dad is a war baby and mom was one of the good boomers, fuck everybody before and after them basically although i am all right by my fellow explorers and the earlier explorers part two have rarely let me down
also DJP,
^^^ pretty sure this was one of the first comics available on the futuristic millenial INTERNET, as enormous high-res GIFs of the first few pages, at least i remember my dad being really pleased that he'd downloaded it for me, although it even further muddied the waters of who or what could be considered "generation x"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I forgot that it had an online preview thingy! Think that the X actually means something there, though
― mh, Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
We are sad, and we are hurt.
― clemenza, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
they've won again!
― DG, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow, commanding victory there boomers
― Mordy, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I thought that entire issue of GenX was available online. I remember trying to access it thru my new university ftp account, as I got my student access the same august/sept it went live.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
when they came for the boomers, etc.
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2012 01:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hah Greatest Generation still the greatest! I did my part to do them in. Thanks for the 50 years of nuclear terror & anti-socialist propoganda, guys.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp - there were lots of horror movies on the subject
― sarahell, Friday, 18 May 2012 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:18 PM Bookmark
To be fair, wasn't most of this the work of Lost Generation or older? eg:
MacArthur born 1880J. Edgar Hoover born 1895Dulles brothers born 1888, 1893Dean Rusk born 1909Ronald Reagan born 1911McNamara born 1916JFK born 1917Alexander Haig born 1924etc., etc.
Not sure about Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, or Joe DiMaggio.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 May 2012 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
eh, it's not so much the people in power as much as the giant group that kept them in place
― mh, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
ehh, i dunno - - "It's not so much the people who systematically misled the population, as it was the population that was systematically misled"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh, sure, if you want to act like trusting authority is a good norm
― mh, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
There are always assholes in power and they are probably from a generation. Everybody will get their chance!
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
My theory of boomer resentment is that the children of boomers hate the boomers because the boomers raised them with expectations of a boomer life -- just do what you love and somehow magically make a great living doing it. It's the crushing disappointment that led to the bitterness.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
my dad somehow has the anxious "most work hard at your job, must always have a job, must keep shit together" mentality despite being a boomer. I don't know that this necessarily served me well, since... well, that mentality works well in 2012 but I think I actually was taught an even more paranoid mentality than our time requires?
― mh, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.aarp.org/work/retirement-planning/info-02-2011/many_boomers_report_no_savings_at_all.html
well, enjoy paying for their retirement:
"A poll released Wednesday found that a whopping 25 percent of people ages 46 to 64 say they have no retirement savings — and 26 percent have no personal savings."
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
and being continually underemployed b/c the boomers are too broke to retire.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 04:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
wtff
― mh, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
The time is ripe for Generation Banaka
― Banaka™ (banaka), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 3:40 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
so u say u want banakalution / well, you know, we all want to be uploaded into the singularity
― Mordy, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
fulled formed adult banaka units
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
AV CLUB: FX may split itself into two networks—one for the millennials, one for the olds
― Mordy, Friday, 18 January 2013 00:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
boomers.
― coffin on the dancefloor (boy_slayer), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:30 (4 months ago) Permalink
FXX is just asking for lols
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:39 (4 months ago) Permalink
i guess my children will be watching FXXX some day
― Mordy, Friday, 18 January 2013 00:45 (4 months ago) Permalink
and their web channel FXXX YOU
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:55 (4 months ago) Permalink
the relatable, eternally depressing existence of the aged
― j., Friday, 18 January 2013 01:21 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/16/millennials_will_save_us/
― Mordy, Saturday, 16 February 2013 22:55 (3 months ago) Permalink