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What's your generation?

What's your generation?

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Thus far Gen X clearly has the best members. It's not even close.







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Waddy said:
Just sayin' there doesn't seem to be a lot of diversity here. Personally, I don't see how people of working age have the time for this stuff. When I was working, before retirement, I didn't know what an "internet forum" was. If DP were more diverse I think the discussions would be much more informative and enlightening.

As far as baby boomers and the bad stuff; it's a mixed bag. In some ways my generation is a big disappointment, but in other ways we've done some very good things.
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That's probably because we have too many baby boomers who grew up dependent on the government for their daily needs. If you've been on some form of disability - whether real or encouraged by a lawyer - or received one or several welfare programs for the last 40 years vs someone who has been actually working for the same duration, of course you will have a mixed bag.
 
Barnacle said:
That's probably because we have too many baby boomers who grew up dependent on the government for their daily needs. If you've been on some form of disability - whether real or encouraged by a lawyer - or received one or several welfare programs for the last 40 years vs someone who has been actually working for the same duration, of course you will have a mixed bag.
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Yeah, people with disabilities suck! And don't even get me started on the poor!



Haha. What the hell?
 
Greenbeard said:
I'm a Millennial, although in one of the more seasoned bands of the distribution. To oversimply and overgeneralize (applying to the group, not particular individuals who can, of course, be better or worse than their cohort):

I don't particularly care for the Boomers as a group, they seem rather dangerous, unreliable, and self-absorbed politically. I tend to like Gen X'ers for no particular reason, although ecofarm provided some backup for why I like the cut of their jib. I respect older millennials--they were dealt a bad hand and are making the best of it. Younger millennials confuse me and seem to have no perspective on what things were like pre-Obama (Trump seems to be quite a wake up call for them); college campuses seem rather different than they were even a decade go, and not in a good way. And the generation after that, whatever they end up calling it, is going to be all screwed up from the present experience.

So I guess in short I'm a curmudgeon.
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I'm a Boomer, and don't particularly like boomers as a group. I was a rather reluctant radical back in the day, but then saw idealism fall away to the practicalities of capitalism. So lots of boomers were lots of talk, little walk. The fact that my generation is supportive of the current administration makes me want to vomit...to put it plainly.

I think the Millenials got the rawest deal since the Greatest Generation. Maybe they will live up to that standard. I think college campuses today are experiencing so many different calls to action on so many different fronts, that there is almost a competition to be the most outrageous in support of some ultimately meaningless cause. Shadow boxing.

I'm actually old enough to be a curmudgeon. lol
 
Barnacle said:
That's probably because we have too many baby boomers who grew up dependent on the government for their daily needs. If you've been on some form of disability - whether real or encouraged by a lawyer - or received one or several welfare programs for the last 40 years vs someone who has been actually working for the same duration, of course you will have a mixed bag.
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What I had in mind was more along the lines of we passed a lot of consumer protection laws which have been very good, but we also got into several wars we probably should have avoided. And I think the baby boomer politicians have been a mixed bag, on both sides. I do agree that government welfare programs tend to keep people on the plantation instead of getting out there and doing something for themselves. But I'm also against corporate welfare. So, yeah, a mixed bag.
 
ecofarm said:
Thus far Gen X clearly has the best members. It's not even close.







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I just made the cut so would hate to disagree, but would it not be fair to say our parenting skills (as a group) fall far short of the previous generation? It seems there are some serious issues when it comes to mental health that wasn't as widespread with previous generations with today's youth.
 
Barnacle said:
That's probably because we have too many baby boomers who grew up dependent on the government for their daily needs. If you've been on some form of disability - whether real or encouraged by a lawyer - or received one or several welfare programs for the last 40 years vs someone who has been actually working for the same duration, of course you will have a mixed bag.
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I don't know who these boomers are that are dependent on the government. Are you speaking of Vietnam Vets? I've worked continuously since I was 17. Same with all my friends. Don't know anyone on government program, unless you are speaking of Social Security?
 
Barnacle said:
That's probably because we have too many baby boomers who grew up dependent on the government for their daily needs. If you've been on some form of disability - whether real or encouraged by a lawyer - or received one or several welfare programs for the last 40 years vs someone who has been actually working for the same duration, of course you will have a mixed bag.
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Well isn't that just a really dumb post. Baby boomers being in their 50's to 70's, you think they grew up dependant?
Go ahead, show me how people who grew up 50, 60, 70 years ago were more dependant.
 
Grand Mal said:
Well isn't that just a really dumb post. Baby boomers being in their 50's to 70's, you think they grew up dependant?
Go ahead, show me how people who grew up 50, 60, 70 years ago were more dependant.
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Lol, being dependent on government during those times was viewed with shame. Many of that generation flat refused anything that remotely looked like a handout to them due to pride. I grew up dirt poor and my dad was the type of guy that would do without rather than be a burden on someone else. The idea that the baby boomers as a group were more dependent on government than recent generations is rather ridiculous.
 
Greenbeard said:
I'm sure we've done this one before but there seems to be some generational tension in some threads at the moment. Where do you fall? And what do you think of the other ones?

I'm not including the years for each generation in the poll because even though we generally know what they are, they sometimes seem to vary by source and if you're on the cusp it's more of a self-identification thing anyway.
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I am on the younger end of the Boomers.

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I still have a very vague and fuzzy memory of a stern looking bald guy who came before Kennedy but it's just a frozen image on a TV screen, and my parents huddled around it, shushing me. Eisenhower, probably the farewell speech.
I was something of a sponge even as a three year old and I'd taught myself to read by age four, so my early years were filled with wondering what
"Cuber" was and who this guy "Cruise-Jeff" was.
My first name is Jeff so as a three or four year old hearing "Kruschev" I thought that they were saying "Cruise-Jeff" and it always caught my attention.

My father and oldest brother starting trying to explain stuff to my toddler mind...my oldest brother especially. He really loved the fact that I was a sponge.
I'm sure I only glommed onto maybe 15 percent of it but as I grew older it began to fall into place.
By 1962 or 1963 I was so fascinated with rockets that I definitely understood President Kennedy wanting to take us to the Moon.

I wasn't old enough to go to Woodstock by myself but I was old enough to lose my virginity during the last of the Free Love era.
And I was old enough to tag along with my oldest brother to the 1971 WAPAC March on Washington.
At that time my oldest brother was a card carrying member of Students for a Democratic Society and the Socialist Worker's Party.
We witnessed the effects of COINTELPRO in real time, and paid agitators.
We were the bookends of the Boomer generation, he being born in 1946, me being born in 1957.
Despite our eleven year gap in age, we were "somewhat" sympatico all the way up till the time he suddenly got brainwashed and sucked into the Right. Then came the scary years. He was listening to Alex Jones, Jerome Corsi, and he never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like.

At seventy-two years of age he has finally begun to thaw and mellow a bit. He's not a foaming at the mouth Rightie anymore, he's an independent with a modest conservative lean.
What a relief...I can finally talk to him again without him interrupting me and screaming that I am a Marxist.
I love my Boomer brother, always did, even during the difficult period.

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The generation shifts tend to vary based on source, but I was born in 1976, which makes me late-Gen X. I really like Nirvana.
 
Barnacle said:
That's probably because we have too many baby boomers who grew up dependent on the government for their daily needs. If you've been on some form of disability - whether real or encouraged by a lawyer - or received one or several welfare programs for the last 40 years vs someone who has been actually working for the same duration, of course you will have a mixed bag.
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Now I'm becoming convinced that you're not even American born at all, and you definitely weren't in this country during the Boomer heyday.
I'm dead serious.

In 1972 I got my very first REAL job, you know, the kind where you fill out a W-2 form.
I worked at a company that made the very first computer modems, Penril Data Communications in Rockville, MD.
I started part time while I finished up high school early, my one dumb mistake forcing me to go back for TWO CREDITS, about 90 minutes a day, but Penril was willing to give me the hours I needed to go full time that last year I was with them.
I started as a parts stuffer working alongside the Mexican and Vietnamese ladies who didn't even know what capacitors, IC's and transistors were.
They might as well have been doing bead work. But they worked hard and did their job well.
I moved quickly to the wave solder machine and then to testing/QC.

I have worked steadily ever since then, but even so, I DID experience homelessness, food stamps and assistance payments because I was a starving student in Minneapolis in 1978 with winter approaching, a jar of instant coffee and a rotting head of lettuce to last me a month thanks to a screwup by the college I was supposed to start in September. I was living in my pickup truck and wondering if I would actually freeze to death, which in Minnesota is a very real possibility.
That was my only period where I was dependent at all.
I wound up starting school in January instead.

I found DAY LABOR and suddenly I had a place to live again. Then I actually found a steady job again.
My rent was $110 a month for a 275 sq.ft. bachelor pad and I was finally making about $425 a month as a dishwasher, and then I started bringing home almost $650 a month playing in a band at night, so I actually felt like I had it going on.

What I'm getting at is, there WAS poverty, there WERE destitute people who couldn't work, but if you COULD manage forty hours a week, the cost of living was stupidly easy even at minimum wage. Even at minimum wage, you might be in a cramped little joint, your car might be a jalopy, you might not be eating steak and lobster every night but you could manage.
And even as late as 1982, my in state college tuition at UCLA was COUCH CHANGE, so I finished up my senior year in L.A.
Easy peasey.
If that was still the case today, a lot of our problems would seem insignificant.

And your comment about people on disability...you know what, pal?
You should probably keep your yapper shut, because you don't know the first damn thing about disabled people, and I will tell you that as a man married to a 100% service connected disabled Navy veteran and as a father to a disabled son.
My wife is a bigger badass than you will ever dream of being and she has ten times the courage, and my son was born to be a fighter and has defied all the odds.

In post after post after post, your snarling vitriol paints a picture of intolerance that advances well past the feral stage, and borders on outright vigilantism. You can barely contain your fear and hatred for anyone who does not hew to your narrow definition of patriotism and your paranoia breeds a dripping contempt that clouds your judgment and even your ability to comprehend basic reason itself.
All you have is an ignorant mouth.
 
Kobie said:
Apropos of nothing, I'd like to take this moment to mention that you are one of my favorite people here. You've got stories, man. They're always good.
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That's humbling, thank you, feeling's mutual but don't go stomping off in a huff again, we need you here :)
I need you here, or else I'll go insane :lamo
 
I am a Boomer.

This does not make me proud.
 
Waddy said:
Just sayin' there doesn't seem to be a lot of diversity here. Personally, I don't see how people of working age have the time for this stuff.
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Now you know why my JOIN DATE here on DP is 2005 but I didn't really start posting regularly until about maybe two years ago at the most.
I think I posted seven times back in 2005.
Reason? I was working, and working A LOT.
Now I am sorta semi-retired against my will. There isn't much market for film editors with failing eyesight and hearing loss, and my knees and ankles are as badly shot as Joe Namath's so camera work isn't a hot prospect anymore either.
I still make a living doing small projects and I sell my rock and roll show on DVD over the internet.
 
I'm Gen Z. Or the generation after millennials.
 
Greenbeard said:
I'm sure we've done this one before but there seems to be some generational tension in some threads at the moment. Where do you fall? And what do you think of the other ones?

I'm not including the years for each generation in the poll because even though we generally know what they are, they sometimes seem to vary by source and if you're on the cusp it's more of a self-identification thing anyway.
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Looks like I'm a millennial

Silent Generation
Born 1925-1942 (Age 72-89)

Baby Boomers
Born 1943-1964 (Age 50-71)

Generation X (MTV Generation)
Born 1965-1979 (Age 35-49)

Millennials (Generation Y)
Born 1980-2000 (Age 14-34)

Generation Z (IGeneration)
Born 2001-2013 (Age 1-13)
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Now I'm becoming convinced that you're not even American born at all, and you definitely weren't in this country during the Boomer heyday.
I'm dead serious.

In 1972 I got my very first REAL job, you know, the kind where you fill out a W-2 form.
I worked at a company that made the very first computer modems, Penril Data Communications in Rockville, MD.
I started part time while I finished up high school early, my one dumb mistake forcing me to go back for TWO CREDITS, about 90 minutes a day, but Penril was willing to give me the hours I needed to go full time that last year I was with them.
I started as a parts stuffer working alongside the Mexican and Vietnamese ladies who didn't even know what capacitors, IC's and transistors were.
They might as well have been doing bead work. But they worked hard and did their job well.
I moved quickly to the wave solder machine and then to testing/QC.

I have worked steadily ever since then, but even so, I DID experience homelessness, food stamps and assistance payments because I was a starving student in Minneapolis in 1978 with winter approaching, a jar of instant coffee and a rotting head of lettuce to last me a month thanks to a screwup by the college I was supposed to start in September. I was living in my pickup truck and wondering if I would actually freeze to death, which in Minnesota is a very real possibility.
That was my only period where I was dependent at all.
I wound up starting school in January instead.

I found DAY LABOR and suddenly I had a place to live again. Then I actually found a steady job again.
My rent was $110 a month for a 275 sq.ft. bachelor pad and I was finally making about $425 a month as a dishwasher, and then I started bringing home almost $650 a month playing in a band at night, so I actually felt like I had it going on.

What I'm getting at is, there WAS poverty, there WERE destitute people who couldn't work, but if you COULD manage forty hours a week, the cost of living was stupidly easy even at minimum wage. Even at minimum wage, you might be in a cramped little joint, your car might be a jalopy, you might not be eating steak and lobster every night but you could manage.
And even as late as 1982, my in state college tuition at UCLA was COUCH CHANGE, so I finished up my senior year in L.A.
Easy peasey.
If that was still the case today, a lot of our problems would seem insignificant.

And your comment about people on disability...you know what, pal?
You should probably keep your yapper shut, because you don't know the first damn thing about disabled people, and I will tell you that as a man married to a 100% service connected disabled Navy veteran and as a father to a disabled son.
My wife is a bigger badass than you will ever dream of being and she has ten times the courage, and my son was born to be a fighter and has defied all the odds.

In post after post after post, your snarling vitriol paints a picture of intolerance that advances well past the feral stage, and borders on outright vigilantism. You can barely contain your fear and hatred for anyone who does not hew to your narrow definition of patriotism and your paranoia breeds a dripping contempt that clouds your judgment and even your ability to comprehend basic reason itself.
All you have is an ignorant mouth.
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I'm glad I could help you letting it all out ... whatever you imagined I said or whatever you read into about what I said.
 
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