Lasting legacy of Gen Y

[werepossum]

1/10
Post shows lack of effort. I gave it the 1 only because the OP managed to count to seven.

LMAO +1

Wrong thread? If so, I don't even want to know what the intended thread is about. It's the sort of statement we all fear will inadvertently come out of our speakerphones during a job interview.

Nope, wrong reality. Abbie Normal there.

I have to disagree with this one. Typewriters and typing classes existed long, long before the computer, and the skill of touch typing transferred right over.

Of course, some people were too lazy to take typing class. In retrospect, the one semester of typing I took in jr high was the single most useful class I have ever taken.

I wish I could have taken typing, but with drafting, math and science the only free period I had my whole high school was my senior year, when that would have meant an hour less work a day. Still not a touch typist, although I can do around 40-45 wpm as long as I can look at the keyboard. Certainly a damned useful subject even before computers.

 

[Texashiker]

I feel like reading through this thread has made me stupider.

How do you get dumber when you already have a negative IQ?

 

[yllus]

Is anyone else not seeing how people generally under the age of thirty are responsible for anything on that list (other than selfies, which have actually been a thing forever)?

I mean, did we start electing twenty-year-olds to Congress and the White House while I wasn't watching? If not I'm not sure how Gen Y is responsible for this lot.

 

[werepossum]

Is anyone else not seeing how people generally under the age of thirty are responsible for anything on that list other than selfies, which have actually been a thing forever?

I mean, did we start election twenty-year-olds to Congress and the White House while I wasn't watching? If not I'm not sure how Gen Y is responsible for this lot.

Aren't all these threads pretty much just another way of saying "Gawd I hate people who aren't like me"?

 

[CLite]

Yep, that latte is going to magically appear at the internet cafe.
....
The crap is not going to pump itself out of your house and the latte is not going to magically appear.

Do you feel superior because you don't drink coffee and steamed milk?

On a sidenote I hope eternal life is never discovered, it is the continual turnover of our civilization that leads to our greatest advancements. Get off my lawners would have us still painting on cave walls with berries and going out clubing to find wives (think caveman clubing not Jersey shore clubing).

 

[brianmanahan]

I feel like reading through this forum has made me stupider.

ftfy

 

[norseamd]

(until Holder fixes it) as they should be

contradictory?

what is with the swarming of ignorant wasps some of the last several days

 

[norseamd]

This, plus selfies, gay marriage and weed.

sarcastic or not?

 

[norseamd]

pogs

what the fuck ever happened to pogs

 

[norseamd]

Its about 20 years pasts its design life. Infrastructure is rated at a D+ overall.

this is the rating that i gave the us as a whole for infrastructure

 

[HOSED]

~~~ IronWing you have underestimated me
8. Butt implants - (thanks to kardashians and B. Knowles
9. and 10. First person Shooter games to prep the gutless US drone pilots
No sarcasm here

~~~ Norseamd - Our extended unemployment benefits are running out so we need to vent!

 

[Thebobo]

In 30 years what do you see as the legacy of this generation?
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Selfies
4. the delusion of global warming
5. Expansion of Nuclear power
6. Gay marriage
7. Marijuana - Cocaine - Heroin - PCP legalization

You all have much to be proud of! :thumbsdown:

P&N, not OT
-ViRGE

I don't expect to see this.

4. the delusion of global warming

 

[Texashiker]

Do you feel superior because you don't drink coffee and steamed milk?

The baby boomers and Gen X are superior because we know what work is. We know what it is like to build something, we know what it is like to get our hands bloody and dirty everyday.

Chances are the gas you use in your car was refined at a refinery built by the baby boomers and Gen X. Tell me something, who is going to keep those refineries going in 20 years?

What about the power grid, hydro-electric dams, sewage lines, water lines, roads, highways,,,, who is going to be doing the dirty work in Gen Y?

While a good portion of Gen Y is still living with mom and dad in their late 20s, at their age Gen X was busting their ass working 50 - 80 hours a week, married and had a family.

Generation Y has no future. There are only so many people with junk degrees the economy can support.

The difference between Gen X and Gen Y, Gen X did what we had to do. Gen Y is doing what they want to do.

What you need to do and what you want to do are two different things.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Weren't Baby boomers the dirty hippies that spent like 6 years rolling in mud like pigs In a haze of LSD and other drugs?

They they graduated to cocaine and disco/rock in the 1970s

Then they went on a crazy rampage setting up America for epic fail in the 21st century?

 

[Texashiker]

Weren't Baby boomers the dirty hippies that spent like 6 years rolling in mud like pigs In haze of LSD and other drugs?

They they graduated to cocaine and disco/rock in the 1970s

Then they went on a crazy rampage setting up America for epic fail in the 21st century?

Yep, pretty much.

Their greed drove the United States to financial ruin.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

Weren't Baby boomers the dirty hippies that spent like 6 years rolling in mud like pigs In a haze of LSD and other drugs?

They they graduated to cocaine and disco/rock in the 1970s

Then they went on a crazy rampage setting up America for epic fail in the 21st century?

Part of that generation fits the description absolutely. Another part of that generation went to Vietnam (some never came home). Most of that generation just went to work and raised their families.

 

[brianmanahan]

Part of that generation fits the description absolutely. Another part of that generation went to Vietnam (some never came home). Most of that generation just went to work and raised their families.

this is a good explanation as to why judging a whole group of people is dumb

 

[norseamd]

The baby boomers and Gen X are superior because we know what work is. We know what it is like to build something

you and "THE greatest generation" know what it is to destroy something too

 

[norseamd]

I wish I could have taken typing, but with drafting, math and science the only free period I had my whole high school was my senior year, when that would have meant an hour less work a day. Still not a touch typist, although I can do around 40-45 wpm as long as I can look at the keyboard. Certainly a damned useful subject even before computers.

the elementary typing classes still work for me

 

[norseamd]

Part of that generation fits the description absolutely. Another part of that generation went to Vietnam (some never came home). Most of that generation just went to work and raised their families.

claiming that most of that generation were "good old americans" is bullshit

my uncle was in vietnam

 

[Texashiker]

you and "THE greatest generation" know what it is to destroy something too

That is what happens when you have mentally ill people who are full of greed running the nation.

The government can not give millions of jobs to China without long term economic effects.

The baby boomers helped built a great nation. Then they gave it away to china.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

claiming that most of that generation were "good old americans" is bullshit

my uncle was in vietnam

I disagree. The majority of that generation were not hippies & yuppies. My father was in Korea and Vietnam.

 

[norseamd]

I disagree. The majority of that generation were not hippies & yuppies. My father was in Korea and Vietnam.

you claimed that most of the baby boomers were neither hippies nor did they go to vietnam

the vietnam veterans have already suffered enough as it is

they were discriminated against by hippies and the world war 2 veterans have discriminated against them the whole time

and if most of that generation was not hippies then does that make them 1950s wasps?

much of what was acceptable in the 1970s points to the fact that hippies did have some impact and that not most of the baby boomers were against them

 

[JManInPhoenix]

you claimed that most of the baby boomers were neither hippies nor did they go to vietnam

That is a fact.

the vietnam veterans have already suffered enough as it is

Agreed

they were discriminated against by hippies and the world war 2 veterans have discriminated against them the whole time

They were treated badly by a large section of the counterculture and some of the WWII vets.

and if most of that generation was not hippies then does that make them 1950s wasps?

It makes most of that generation middle & working class people. My father in law neither went to Vietnam nor was a hippie as an example.

much of what was acceptable in the 1970s points to the fact that hippies did have some impact and that not most of the baby boomers were against them

In the long run, the hippies impact was negligible.