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MikeWaters 05-19-2010 08:55 PM

More commentary on the nation's Worst Generation
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/op...9pressler.html

SeattleUte 05-20-2010 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 311069)

You mean gen xers? Perpetually immature genexers, who cursed us with tattoos and hip hop (thankfully now going out of business), indifferent to the slaughter of their peers in foreign wars. Boomers brought us the Internet, PC's, miracle drugs for cholesterol and HIV treatment. Gen xers brought us the current economic catastrophe.

SeattleUte 05-20-2010 05:01 AM

"How can a generation whose cultural trademark is a refusal to grow up have a midlife crisis?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/we...x&st=cse&scp=1

tooblue 05-20-2010 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 311069)

The even bigger problem are their children ... a generation that only knows how to ask Y'. Y can't you do it for me; 'Y' is this so hard; 'Y' can't you wipe if for me; 'Y' can't daddy just buy it for me?

SeattleUte 05-20-2010 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by tooblue (Post 311078)
The even bigger problem are their children ... a generation that only knows how to ask Y'. Y can't you do it for me; 'Y' is this so hard; 'Y' can't you wipe if for me; 'Y' can't daddy just buy it for me?

Note that it's the gen xers themselves who started this boomer hate. Speaks volumes, though my only point is the folly of these kinds of generalzations anyway.

By the way, Robin has a big boomer hate thread on Cougaruteforum. You may want to check that out, Waters.

MikeWaters 05-20-2010 03:57 PM

Baby boomer presidents: Clinton, GWB, Obama.

Big thumbs down.

SeattleUte 05-20-2010 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 311088)
Baby boomer presidents: Clinton, GWB, Obama.

Big thumbs down.

Funny how boomers keep getting more numerous. I didn't used to be one. What is the begin and end dates?

MikeWaters 05-20-2010 07:18 PM

When the demographers realized your douchiness, they redefined the generation to include you.

Egomaniac.

MikeWaters 05-20-2010 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 311087)
By the way, Robin has a big boomer hate thread on Cougaruteforum. You may want to check that out, Waters.

It's kind of ironic that Robin ended up banned from Cougarguard, and that CUF formed with almost the exact same makeup of CG, with the notable exception of me.

So in some ways it is merely a trade of me for Robin.

Given that to some degree CP was a reaction to Robin (not entirely, but partly), and that CP is arguably what led to the downfall of CG, the whole thing has a kind of snake-swallowing-its-tail irony and harmony.

I could not have imagined it at the beginning, but now at the end, it makes me smile.

ute4ever 05-21-2010 02:41 AM

Oh Mike, don't be fooled by the exodus's guise of taking the high road; there were some who simply coveted your authority.


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