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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:01:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bitch, whine, bitch, whine. If you would just sit back and be patient for just a few more years we boomers will all be dead and gone and then it will all be yours to do with whatever you want. Some of you have BDS so bad you will probably go to the cemetery and throw beer bottles at our tombstones. "Won't you just die you Republican cisgendered Corporatist?!!!" I can see the ARFcom poll now: "I'm sick of waiting for what's MINE! Who's with me?"  |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:06:38 PM EDT
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More whine and cheese
When I got out of HS in 1979 unemployment was 6% and the inflation rate was 13%. Jobs were hard to find so I ended up enlisting in the Navy. You were also pretty much expected to settle down and get married in your 20s. The economy really didn't improve until the mid 80s and then most of the high paying jobs went to yuppies with professional degrees. Kids today have a lot more options and can screw around for years without being considered a loser. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:08:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 80% of all dollars ever printed happened while: 1. Your generation was in charge. 2. You were at your generational peak in careers when the money printing happened. Just by that simple math, boomers had it significantly mathematically easier than any other generation. Just admit it that you looted the country for yourselves. Especially your generation politicians. Alright. You win. Now what?  |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:10:04 PM EDT
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 Attached File Attached Fileyup it was boomers - blame them. DON'T YOU DARE BLAME THE POLITICIANS. Democrat politicians = tax and spend. Always have and always will. The nation is a disaster. Economic disaster and President poops pants Biden is going bike riding today! That should make everyone feel better - everyone go bike riding. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:12:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 80% of all dollars ever printed happened while: 1. Your generation was in charge. 2. You were at your generational peak in careers when the money printing happened. Just by that simple math, boomers had it significantly mathematically easier than any other generation. Just admit it that you looted the country for yourselves. Especially your generation politicians. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Boomer here…say what you will but you he generation before us had it very easy. During my 20’s (house buying time) housing prices exploded. My dad bought and built his custom ranch house on 2 acres for under $5k. His land was $200.00 that was in 1958. My wife and I were looking at $40k houses and my dad said “wait” this crazy market will come down. 2 years later we had to spend $205k for our first house. We did not have I easier than any other generation. 80% of all dollars ever printed happened while: 1. Your generation was in charge. 2. You were at your generational peak in careers when the money printing happened. Just by that simple math, boomers had it significantly mathematically easier than any other generation. Just admit it that you looted the country for yourselves. Especially your generation politicians. Think an old boomer said it best.  George Carlin - It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It! |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:13:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: More whine and cheese When I got out of HS in 1979 unemployment was 6% and the inflation rate was 13%. Jobs were hard to find so I ended up enlisting in the Navy. You were also pretty much expected to settle down and get married in your 20s. The economy really didn't improve until the mid 80s and then most of the high paying jobs went to yuppies with professional degrees. Kids today have a lot more options and can screw around for years without being considered a loser. “Official” inflation is nearly 9%. Which we all know that’s bullshit. As you can just plug the numbers into 1979 metrics. And it would be around 21-22% depending on the numbers you use. Unemployment is “officially” 3.5%. With the highest percentage of people not in the work force ever. Which puts real unemployment around 9% of employable people. So again, math. Plus todays raw statistics into your 1979s calculations and find out your peers suck at their job of running a country. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:14:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:14:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Alright. You win. Now what? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 80% of all dollars ever printed happened while: 1. Your generation was in charge. 2. You were at your generational peak in careers when the money printing happened. Just by that simple math, boomers had it significantly mathematically easier than any other generation. Just admit it that you looted the country for yourselves. Especially your generation politicians. Alright. You win. Now what? Stop lying about official numbers and get your peers to retire. That’s a start. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:19:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: More whine and cheese When I got out of HS in 1979 unemployment was 6% and the inflation rate was 13%. Jobs were hard to find so I ended up enlisting in the Navy. You were also pretty much expected to settle down and get married in your 20s. The economy really didn't improve until the mid 80s and then most of the high paying jobs went to yuppies with professional degrees. Kids today have a lot more options and can screw around for years without being considered a loser. They just get longer to grow up, which isn’t doing anyone any favors. Least of all them. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:19:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Boomer here…say what you will but you he generation before us had it very easy. During my 20’s (house buying time) housing prices exploded. My dad bought and built his custom ranch house on 2 acres for under $5k. His land was $200.00 that was in 1958. My wife and I were looking at $40k houses and my dad said “wait” this crazy market will come down. 2 years later we had to spend $205k for our first house. We did not have I easier than any other generation. Yes the generation before you had it much easier when less than 30% of the homes in the nation had running water when the Great Depression hit. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:20:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Stop lying about official numbers and get your peers to retire. That’s a start. Sure. will get right on it.  |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:22:02 PM EDT
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Every boomer I know didn’t want a new car at 18, was perfectly fine with a 900sqft starter house and was more than willing to earn every penny by working hard. Not to mention no $1200 cell phones designer clothes and shoes. They worked like dogs. Squirreled away every penny and never wasted a thing.
I’m 36. My dad 67 my grandparents would have been 90 or so. Growing up I never understood why my grandma only bought a new tv when the old one broke . And only after she saved enough to pay for it. She worked in a factory and also had a side buisness. Never understood why my dad would take leftovers no matter what they were for lunch every day. Never bought a new car and every tv we had was 20years older than myself. Worked hard and only bought what was needed. Both did very well for themselves Now I understand. While I don’t follow what they did to a T. I do work hard and earn every penny in my pocket. I definitely watch spending when I can. And don’t go crazy thinking I needed a 2000sqft starter home in the city and a new car every 3 years Right now if you are can’t afford to live in an area. Move and commute.I could have spend 3x more for my house to be close to work. Instead I moved to a small town. Paid pocket change for my house and I make $8/hr more than I could locally because I commute 30min to work. No one wants to give up even alittle. And everyone wants a big house in a big city without the effort… Sorry you work at McDonald’s or you serve coffee and that’s all you ever were willing to do, And now can’t afford a $250k house. Not my problem you made bad choices. Right now if you want $25-38/hr. It’s very easy to obtain. But you have to be willing to work hard for it |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:23:00 PM EDT
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Another boomer bashing thread. How creative.
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:26:13 PM EDT
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Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you in the back, fuck you over on the right, fuck you you stupid purple haired twat.on the left, and fuck you to the guy sitting in the front row playing with his dick (Yeah we know it's you JB).
FUCK EVERY ONE OF YOU!!!!!!!!!! Signed, Generation X |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:27:46 PM EDT
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I'm a 'boomer' and I don't disagree.
Gen Z wants what the Boomer had, but they don't want to work for it. That coupled with the fact that the 'millennials' are trying to create an economic and social situation that is making it impossible for almost anyone to succeed, just seals the deal. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:29:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Another boomer bashing thread. How creative. And full of wrong information and deliberate apples to bananas comparisons. Please just stop it, people. Blaming one generation for all or even most of today's problems only shows you don't have a clue. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:31:48 PM EDT
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I do not think it was boomers that elected socialist politicians like O'Vomit.
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:35:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I do not think it was boomers that elected socialist politicians like O'Vomit. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:35:28 PM EDT
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Boomer here and I'm the 1st to admit that we had it "easy".
Not so much easy but rather plenty of opportunity. If you were reasonably smart, somewhat educated and motivated it was impossible not to be successful at life. Nowadays I see guys that are switched on struggling to make $20/hr. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:36:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Alright. You win. Now what? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 80% of all dollars ever printed happened while: 1. Your generation was in charge. 2. You were at your generational peak in careers when the money printing happened. Just by that simple math, boomers had it significantly mathematically easier than any other generation. Just admit it that you looted the country for yourselves. Especially your generation politicians. Alright. You win. Now what? You keep that attitude up and we’re going to raise the prices on warfarin and dick pills, make y’all fund your own SS and Medicare. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:36:46 PM EDT
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I'm gen x. My grandfather survived the Bataan Death March and was a POW for 3 years. My boomer dad was ready to run to Canada to get out of having to fight for his country. These are the boomers that are destroying our country and have been for a long time. Not all boomers, but a shit ton of them. Gen Z is screwed because of them.
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:37:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Boomer here and I'm the 1st to admit that we had it "easy". Not so much easy but rather plenty of opportunity. If you were reasonably smart, somewhat educated and motivated it was impossible not to be successful at life. Nowadays I see guys that are switched on struggling to make $20/hr. Can you explain why all the other boomers don't realize this? |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:42:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Can you explain why all the other boomers don't realize this? The Me generation, be understanding of others? Especially the kids? |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:43:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:44:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If we could just get the millennials to stop voting for liberals, everyone would be better off. Another huge effort of the Boomers was convincing everyone that voting was the most important thing that a citizen would ever take part in, fostering the quasi-patriotic "do your civic duty" attitude and the divisive "if you didn't vote, you can't complain" attitude into both sides, a huge accomplishment. That was because they were silently manipulating the outcomes of elections and offering the backhanded insult of manufactured sympathy known as "get 'em next time" to each side and largely succeeding. They cultivated that ignorance in people and then used it to their advantage in the same breath. A more exploitative, self-centered and arrogant generation of people has never existed in this country before or since, and I'm sure the comments will prove that this attitude continues to this day. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:46:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I do not think it was boomers that elected socialist politicians like O'Vomit. No, just politicians that have given us countless laws destroying our rights. Which generations were voting age electing those politicians that brought us 1968, WoD, 1986, 1994 AWB/GFSA and the Patriot Act just to name a few? |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:46:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Another huge effort of the Boomers was convincing everyone that voting was the most important thing that a citizen would ever take part in, fostering the quasi-patriotic "do your civic duty" attitude and the divisive "if you didn't vote, you can't complain" attitude into both sides, a huge accomplishment. That was because they were silently manipulating the outcomes of elections and offering the backhanded insult of manufactured sympathy known as "get 'em next time" to each side and largely succeeding. They cultivated that ignorance in people and then used it to their advantage in the same breath. A more exploitative, self-centered and arrogant generation of people has never existed in this country before or since, and I'm sure the comments will prove that this attitude continues to this day. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If we could just get the millennials to stop voting for liberals, everyone would be better off. Another huge effort of the Boomers was convincing everyone that voting was the most important thing that a citizen would ever take part in, fostering the quasi-patriotic "do your civic duty" attitude and the divisive "if you didn't vote, you can't complain" attitude into both sides, a huge accomplishment. That was because they were silently manipulating the outcomes of elections and offering the backhanded insult of manufactured sympathy known as "get 'em next time" to each side and largely succeeding. They cultivated that ignorance in people and then used it to their advantage in the same breath. A more exploitative, self-centered and arrogant generation of people has never existed in this country before or since, and I'm sure the comments will prove that this attitude continues to this day. More unsupported gibberish. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:46:23 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: From my observations… The boomers are holding on to everything as hard as they can and for as long as they can. They are also operating under the supposition that the younger people have the same uninformed biases that they do. Rather than getting out of the way they plan on riding it into the dirt. And that’s why my wife’s company has forced retirement at 65. Should be a law across all industries. At 65 you retire and make room for the next group trying to succeed. Go work at target or Joann fabrics and enjoy your pension and (my) social security money. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:46:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Once again, we will witness the fight between those who point out economic realities, versus the bootstrappers who insist that reality has no impact on your earnings potential. Macro economic reality has a ton of impact on your earning potential but at the end of the day you are still the common denominator in your success or failure. You can be in the Top 50% of income earners in this country simply by showing up on time to a full time job these days. The lowest paid unskilled job at my work pays just over the mark for what it takes to be in the Top 50%. Of course, you have to show up and work a full time job for 5 days per week. It's mathematical fact that Boomers as a class had it better but the thing is that you don't need to sort out a career for everyone in your generation. You just need to worry about sorting it out for yourself and if you look around, the competition just isn't that stiff. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:47:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Macro economic reality has a ton of impact on your earning potential but at the end of the day you are still the common denominator in your success or failure. You can be in the Top 50% of income earners in this country simply by showing up on time to a full time job these days. The lowest paid unskilled job at my work pays just over the mark for what it takes to be in the Top 50%. Of course, you have to show up and work a full time job for 5 days per week. It's mathematical fact that Boomers as a class had it better but the thing is that you don't need to sort out a career for everyone in your generation. You just need to worry about sorting it out for yourself and if you look around, the competition just isn't that stiff. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Once again, we will witness the fight between those who point out economic realities, versus the bootstrappers who insist that reality has no impact on your earnings potential. Macro economic reality has a ton of impact on your earning potential but at the end of the day you are still the common denominator in your success or failure. You can be in the Top 50% of income earners in this country simply by showing up on time to a full time job these days. The lowest paid unskilled job at my work pays just over the mark for what it takes to be in the Top 50%. Of course, you have to show up and work a full time job for 5 days per week. It's mathematical fact that Boomers as a class had it better but the thing is that you don't need to sort out a career for everyone in your generation. You just need to worry about sorting it out for yourself and if you look around, the competition just isn't that stiff. Your first clause is more than I have ever gotten most elders to admit. Thank you. And I don’t disagree with you at all. The only one ultimately responsible for your success or failure is yourself. Now, if only the majority could stop pretending that a part time job will still get you through a college, or that sub-1000 sf homes are being built in areas with work, I’d be out of things to complain about. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:50:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Every boomer I know didn’t want a new car at 18, was perfectly fine with a 900sqft starter house and was more than willing to earn every penny by working hard. Not to mention no $1200 cell phones designer clothes and shoes. They worked like dogs. Squirreled away every penny and never wasted a thing. I’m 36. My dad 67 my grandparents would have been 90 or so. Growing up I never understood why my grandma only bought a new tv when the old one broke . And only after she saved enough to pay for it. She worked in a factory and also had a side buisness. Never understood why my dad would take leftovers no matter what they were for lunch every day. Never bought a new car and every tv we had was 20years older than myself. Worked hard and only bought what was needed. Both did very well for themselves Now I understand. While I don’t follow what they did to a T. I do work hard and earn every penny in my pocket. I definitely watch spending when I can. And don’t go crazy thinking I needed a 2000sqft starter home in the city and a new car every 3 years Right now if you are can’t afford to live in an area. Move and commute.I could have spend 3x more for my house to be close to work. Instead I moved to a small town. Paid pocket change for my house and I make $8/hr more than I could locally because I commute 30min to work. No one wants to give up even alittle. And everyone wants a big house in a big city without the effort… Sorry you work at McDonald’s or you serve coffee and that’s all you ever were willing to do, And now can’t afford a $250k house. Not my problem you made bad choices. Right now if you want $25-38/hr. It’s very easy to obtain. But you have to be willing to work hard for it Boomers have been in executive positions (C suite, President/Vice President executive levels) since the late 90s. Everything you’re saying was created and marked to millennials and Gen Z, by boomers. Today the average age of the C suite is 59. In 2005 it was 44. So literally every major marketing push has been lead by boomers. Why do people “need” $1200 cellphones? Ask the boomers. They push it all. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:54:18 PM EDT
[#32]
It's not who had a higher hurdle, but who is in better shape to handle that hurdle. If i was going to choose between team boomer and team zoomer to handle todays changeless I would pick team boomer. Zoomers would still be asleep till noon while boomers moved on.
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:54:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: the boomer hate warms me used to feel halfway sympathetic towards the loudest criers in here now? fuck’em you get what you get, not everyone wins better off figuring out what will make you win rather than cry about it here if you can’t win, give up please, please just stop whining for the love of god 
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:55:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, seeing as how the Boomer generation in the US literally had it better than anyone before or since, that’s not much of a stretch. The only generation to have it better than their parents, and their kids. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:58:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Another boomer bashing thread. How creative. I feel like hallmark cards is waiting for you to apply. You don’t need a portfolio just this post and you are hired. It resonates more deeply in my soul than any music I’ve ever heard Damn it wrong quote. I meant it for the ducky fuck fuck quote |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:58:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Nonsense, according to GD boomers the USA is still the best country in the world and things will get better. You need to quite blaming other people and get out and make your own way. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 8:59:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bitch, whine, bitch, whine. If you would just sit back and be patient for just a few more years we boomers will all be dead and gone and then it will all be yours to do with whatever you want. Some of you have BDS so bad you will probably go to the cemetery and throw beer bottles at our tombstones. You guys got scared of the flu and demanded the government shut down the economy, literally making it illegal for many of us to go to work and you just say "sit back and be patient" for a few years? We can't just sit around on government welfare and pumped-up with government drugs like some people. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:03:58 PM EDT
[#38]
The boomer bashers think time and humans didn't exist before boomers.
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:07:23 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The boomer bashers think time and humans didn't exist before boomers. Many think the Boomers thought that. 
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:08:41 PM EDT
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My older Gen-Z son is entering Texas A&M College of Engineering (EE) this month. Lifetime honor student, varsity athlete and all around great kid that I don't even deserve.
He currently has a paid internship 7a-4p with major Houston energy corporation and makes almost $30 an hour doing energy surveys. He has his commercial drone operator's license. My boomer parents and her boomer parents are paying for the full ride. He'll be alright.  Attached FileMy younger Gen-Z son will be a millionaire, guaranteed. Honor student, first chair orchestra nerd. He wants to go to UT for business. He'll be fine, too. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:19:07 PM EDT
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In on generational hate thread.
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:19:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The boomer bashers think time and humans didn't exist before boomers. EVERY generation is the "me" generation. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:20:04 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Another boomer bashing thread. How creative. Yeah, I'm getting tired of this generational hate stuff |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:21:17 PM EDT
[#44]
Bro, the party is over. Obama got what we wanted. The destruction of America. It’s over for everyone.
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:21:54 PM EDT
[#45]
EVERY generation has had it harder than the boomers:
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:22:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Best part is, they think they'd do it differently if they were born 50 years earlier. EVERY generation is the "me" generation. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The boomer bashers think time and humans didn't exist before boomers. EVERY generation is the "me" generation. This is true. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:38:25 PM EDT
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Starting with millennials the trend has been that the top10% is separating more and more from the average.
They are more disciplined, more educated, more artistic, have excellent elocution and are more athletic. The average is below the average of previous generations but the top is getting sharper You guys who are soft are getting so far left behind that you are almost a different species. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:39:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: EVERY generation has had it harder than the boomers: But GenX likes the pressure |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:45:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes the generation before you had it much easier when less than 30% of the homes in the nation had running water when the Great Depression hit. His summer break was priming tobacco I didn't have a TV in my room, my basic training graduation present was my own TV. Fucker even had a remote, year later I saved up and got a VCR. Poor poor gen Z I remember ice cream and a movie being a big thing when I was a kid. we ate a lot of pinto beans and corn bread when I was a kid. Got one glass of milk, after that you got water or kool aid. All the kids got one 2 litre of soda a week, after it was gone you got koolaid aid or water. |
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Posted: 8/15/2022 9:47:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Stop lying about official numbers and get your peers to retire. That's a start. You can have my old job, they are still hiring. www.goarmy.com |
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