Those Born 1930-1979

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
would be nice if dave would start giving the real authors credit......

Instead of makung it appear as if out of the blue he composed and wrote this...hehee...busted!!

Oh come on it has the carats from a forwarded E-mail intact.

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If you have any idea who composed it originally please share.

 

[Rainsford]

Wow, people complaining that every generation but theirs sucks. :roll: I got to tell you, this is probably the FIRST TIME EVER this has been discussed. The WWII generation thinks the baby boomers are lazy and the baby boomers think the current generation is composed mostly of slackers. But guess what? The WWII folks were a bunch of racists and bigots who managed to inflict two of the biggest black marks on American society...the internment of Japanese in WWII and the mind-bogglingly idiotic backlash against people like Martin Luther King Jr. Boy, pointing fire hoses and attack dogs at black people sure was a proud day for "The Greatest Generation". And the baby boomers, man, if there is any group of teenagers who manage to make current teenagers look like rocket scientists, it's baby boomer teenagers. But lucky for all of us they managed to go from being free-loving druggies to people without the smallest grasp of how to balance spending and income and with an overwhelming desire to turn the world into one big Nerf product. And don't even get me started on MY generation, man we're all idiots...when we're not too busy playing video games and listening to rap in preparation for shooting up a few dozen of our fellow students.

But you know what, somehow we all manage to move forward. Contrary to the apparently popular belief, society did NOT reach it's peak in 1957..."kids today" should be a complementary phrase, not the derogatory one old people always manage to make it into. For all their problems, each generation has managed to take huge steps forward...why would you think it's going to stop just because "kids today" aren't just like you when you were growing up? If we tried to run society the way the author of this piece would like, we'd all still be living in caves bashing women over the head when we wanted a mate.

Man, those kids today with their pointy rocks and "fire"...in MY day we had to strangle deer with our bare hands and WE turned out just fine.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wow, people complaining that every generation but theirs sucks. :roll: I got to tell you, this is probably the FIRST TIME EVER this has been discussed. The WWII generation thinks the baby boomers are lazy and the baby boomers think the current generation is composed mostly of slackers. But guess what? The WWII folks were a bunch of racists and bigots who managed to inflict two of the biggest black marks on American society...the internment of Japanese in WWII and the mind-bogglingly idiotic backlash against people like Martin Luther King Jr. Boy, pointing fire hoses and attack dogs at black people sure was a proud day for "The Greatest Generation". And the baby boomers, man, if there is any group of teenagers who manage to make current teenagers look like rocket scientists, it's baby boomer teenagers. But lucky for all of us they managed to go from being free-loving druggies to people without the smallest grasp of how to balance spending and income and with an overwhelming desire to turn the world into one big Nerf product. And don't even get me started on MY generation, man we're all idiots...when we're not too busy playing video games and listening to rap in preparation for shooting up a few dozen of our fellow students.

But you know what, somehow we all manage to move forward. Contrary to the apparently popular belief, society did NOT reach it's peak in 1957..."kids today" should be a complementary phrase, not the derogatory one old people always manage to make it into. For all their problems, each generation has managed to take huge steps forward...why would you think it's going to stop just because "kids today" aren't just like you when you were growing up? If we tried to run society the way the author of this piece would like, we'd all still be living in caves bashing women over the head when we wanted a mate.

Man, those kids today with their pointy rocks and "fire"...in MY day we had to strangle deer with our bare hands and WE turned out just fine.

Great post.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wow, people complaining that every generation but theirs sucks. :roll: I got to tell you, this is probably the FIRST TIME EVER this has been discussed.

The WWII generation thinks the baby boomers are lazy and the baby boomers think the current generation is composed mostly of slackers.

But guess what? The WWII folks were a bunch of racists and bigots who managed to inflict two of the biggest black marks on American society...the internment of Japanese in WWII and the mind-bogglingly idiotic backlash against people like Martin Luther King Jr.

Boy, pointing fire hoses and attack dogs at black people sure was a proud day for "The Greatest Generation".

For all their problems, each generation has managed to take huge steps forward...why would you think it's going to stop just because "kids today" aren't just like you when you were growing up?

If we tried to run society the way the author of this piece would like, we'd all still be living in caves bashing women over the head when we wanted a mate.

Man, those kids today with their pointy rocks and "fire"...in MY day we had to strangle deer with our bare hands and WE turned out just fine.

Great post.

Wow, Mill doesn't venture in here very often and I rarely agree but great post Rain.

I've said for a long time , the current generation discriminating and hating Gays pretty much reminds me of the last generation with their hating and discrimination of blacks.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

>Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

<----, why, yes! yes it does. Sorry about the disco, don't know what got into us;(was it the red one, or the white one), oh well, scuz me while I :music:do a little dance, make a little love, and get down tonight :music:

 

[Aisengard]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wow, people complaining that every generation but theirs sucks. :roll: I got to tell you, this is probably the FIRST TIME EVER this has been discussed.

The WWII generation thinks the baby boomers are lazy and the baby boomers think the current generation is composed mostly of slackers.

But guess what? The WWII folks were a bunch of racists and bigots who managed to inflict two of the biggest black marks on American society...the internment of Japanese in WWII and the mind-bogglingly idiotic backlash against people like Martin Luther King Jr.

Boy, pointing fire hoses and attack dogs at black people sure was a proud day for "The Greatest Generation".

For all their problems, each generation has managed to take huge steps forward...why would you think it's going to stop just because "kids today" aren't just like you when you were growing up?

If we tried to run society the way the author of this piece would like, we'd all still be living in caves bashing women over the head when we wanted a mate.

Man, those kids today with their pointy rocks and "fire"...in MY day we had to strangle deer with our bare hands and WE turned out just fine.

Great post.

Wow, Mill doesn't venture in here very often and I rarely agree but great post Rain.

I've said for a long time , the current generation discriminating and hating Gays pretty much reminds me of the last generation with their hating and discrimination of blacks.

Wait, weren't you the OP? First you agree with the author of the piece now you agree with Rainsford who disagrees?

 

[jrenz]

Originally posted by: Aisengard

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wow, people complaining that every generation but theirs sucks. :roll: I got to tell you, this is probably the FIRST TIME EVER this has been discussed.

The WWII generation thinks the baby boomers are lazy and the baby boomers think the current generation is composed mostly of slackers.

But guess what? The WWII folks were a bunch of racists and bigots who managed to inflict two of the biggest black marks on American society...the internment of Japanese in WWII and the mind-bogglingly idiotic backlash against people like Martin Luther King Jr.

Boy, pointing fire hoses and attack dogs at black people sure was a proud day for "The Greatest Generation".

For all their problems, each generation has managed to take huge steps forward...why would you think it's going to stop just because "kids today" aren't just like you when you were growing up?

If we tried to run society the way the author of this piece would like, we'd all still be living in caves bashing women over the head when we wanted a mate.

Man, those kids today with their pointy rocks and "fire"...in MY day we had to strangle deer with our bare hands and WE turned out just fine.

Great post.

Wow, Mill doesn't venture in here very often and I rarely agree but great post Rain.

I've said for a long time , the current generation discriminating and hating Gays pretty much reminds me of the last generation with their hating and discrimination of blacks.

Wait, weren't you the OP? First you agree with the author of the piece now you agree with Rainsford who disagrees?

Dave contradicting himself? Well there's a first......

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: Aisengard

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wow, people complaining that every generation but theirs sucks. :roll: I got to tell you, this is probably the FIRST TIME EVER this has been discussed.

The WWII generation thinks the baby boomers are lazy and the baby boomers think the current generation is composed mostly of slackers.

But guess what? The WWII folks were a bunch of racists and bigots who managed to inflict two of the biggest black marks on American society...the internment of Japanese in WWII and the mind-bogglingly idiotic backlash against people like Martin Luther King Jr.

Boy, pointing fire hoses and attack dogs at black people sure was a proud day for "The Greatest Generation".

For all their problems, each generation has managed to take huge steps forward...why would you think it's going to stop just because "kids today" aren't just like you when you were growing up?

If we tried to run society the way the author of this piece would like, we'd all still be living in caves bashing women over the head when we wanted a mate.

Man, those kids today with their pointy rocks and "fire"...in MY day we had to strangle deer with our bare hands and WE turned out just fine.

Great post.

Wow, Mill doesn't venture in here very often and I rarely agree but great post Rain.

I've said for a long time , the current generation discriminating and hating Gays pretty much reminds me of the last generation with their hating and discrimination of blacks.

Wait, weren't you the OP? First you agree with the author of the piece now you agree with Rainsford who disagrees?

Uh, yeah. Not that I dislike people agreeing with me...but I didn't think I was THAT persuasive.

 

[JD50]

Dave, you have really outdone yourself on this one. :laugh:

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Aisengard

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wow, people complaining that every generation but theirs sucks. :roll: I got to tell you, this is probably the FIRST TIME EVER this has been discussed.

The WWII generation thinks the baby boomers are lazy and the baby boomers think the current generation is composed mostly of slackers.

But guess what? The WWII folks were a bunch of racists and bigots who managed to inflict two of the biggest black marks on American society...the internment of Japanese in WWII and the mind-bogglingly idiotic backlash against people like Martin Luther King Jr.

Boy, pointing fire hoses and attack dogs at black people sure was a proud day for "The Greatest Generation".

For all their problems, each generation has managed to take huge steps forward...why would you think it's going to stop just because "kids today" aren't just like you when you were growing up?

If we tried to run society the way the author of this piece would like, we'd all still be living in caves bashing women over the head when we wanted a mate.

Man, those kids today with their pointy rocks and "fire"...in MY day we had to strangle deer with our bare hands and WE turned out just fine.

Great post.

Wow, Mill doesn't venture in here very often and I rarely agree but great post Rain.

I've said for a long time , the current generation discriminating and hating Gays pretty much reminds me of the last generation with their hating and discrimination of blacks.

Wait, weren't you the OP? First you agree with the author of the piece now you agree with Rainsford who disagrees?

I did not create the E-mail.

Just because I was the OP does not mean I agree with what I posted.

I am an equal opportunity basher.

 

[jrenz]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674


Just because I was the OP does not mean I agree with what I posted.

First line of your post:

All of this is so true.

 

[JD50]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674


Just because I was the OP does not mean I agree with what I posted.

I am an equal opportunity basher.

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

All of this is so true.

What?

 

[JD50]

This deserves thread of the year.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: JD50
This deserves thread of the year.

I obviously hit a few nerves 😀

 

[JD50]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: JD50
This deserves thread of the year.

I obviously hit a few nerves 😀

Naw, its just a nice break for us. We didn't have to search back 10 pages to quote you contradicting yourself, we just had to go back one page. Thanks for saving us from all the hard work. :laugh:

 

[slash196]

...and in the 1800s lead paint was perfectly safe, industrial waste could be dumped in rivers, and all those emissions from the newly-created combustion engine just disappeared into the air, never to be heard from again. Have dementia? Take a spoonful of mercury, it'll clear it up in no time.

Part of progress is learning what is harmful. We've been scarfing trans fats for almost a century and seen heart-disease and obesity skyrocket. How many lives would've been saved if not for the devil-may-care attitude of early industrial expansion? This piece is nothing more than the same crotchety "These kids today..." crap that the younger generations have had to endure all throughout history.

 

[boredhokie]

I don't see the part "they sold out the country through globalization, sloth and easy profits for the past 30 years" in that list; seems a bit biased. The generation that didn't have all this PC posturing growing up is the same generation that enacted every stupid law.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Aisengard
The Baby Boomer generation is The Worst Generation of Americans. I believe this has been discussed before. The explosion of technology can be attributed to the continuing exponential explosion of technology that's been going on since the stone age.

Why do you think that the Baby Boomers are the worst generation?

 

[ScottMac]

One of the more entertaining aspects of being all-grown-up is watching reality smack the new college grads up side the head when they get into the "real" world.

One of my favorite Dilbert strips was when they all went over to the new-hire's desk to watch her open her first paycheck.

It's better than watching the new recruits in boot camp ("?!?!? But my recruiter told me ...").

Life is good....

 

[fskimospy]

Yay! Worthless nostalgia producing chain emails! This list of things is really dumb.

Mom was drunk while you were in the womb? Ah well, if YOU had fetal alcohol syndrome.. you probably wouldn't have the mental capabilitity to read this list! Har har!

Oh, you were riding around in a car without putting a seatbelt on your kid? Bouncing around the interior of a car in an accident...those were the good old days! My friends and I called it "Pinto Pinball".

Lead based paint on the crib? Ohhhhh man. That stuff was delicious. God, If the government would just get back to letting kids eat lead, they would probably stop acting up so much in school. Think of it as affordable Ritalin! If they lose the ability to speak, well... kids are best seen and not heard!

Things like this is why I wish there was no such thing as a "forward" button on any email client. It is even dumber then that Oliver North piece of crap that was floating around.

 

[athithi]

Originally posted by: jrenz

Originally posted by: Aisengard

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wow, people complaining that every generation but theirs sucks. :roll: I got to tell you, this is probably the FIRST TIME EVER this has been discussed.

The WWII generation thinks the baby boomers are lazy and the baby boomers think the current generation is composed mostly of slackers.

But guess what? The WWII folks were a bunch of racists and bigots who managed to inflict two of the biggest black marks on American society...the internment of Japanese in WWII and the mind-bogglingly idiotic backlash against people like Martin Luther King Jr.

Boy, pointing fire hoses and attack dogs at black people sure was a proud day for "The Greatest Generation".

For all their problems, each generation has managed to take huge steps forward...why would you think it's going to stop just because "kids today" aren't just like you when you were growing up?

If we tried to run society the way the author of this piece would like, we'd all still be living in caves bashing women over the head when we wanted a mate.

Man, those kids today with their pointy rocks and "fire"...in MY day we had to strangle deer with our bare hands and WE turned out just fine.

Great post.

Wow, Mill doesn't venture in here very often and I rarely agree but great post Rain.

I've said for a long time , the current generation discriminating and hating Gays pretty much reminds me of the last generation with their hating and discrimination of blacks.

Wait, weren't you the OP? First you agree with the author of the piece now you agree with Rainsford who disagrees?

Dave contradicting himself? Well there's a first......

You would think that's actually a bad thing...but I agree with you - it takes an enormous amount of effort to make Dave change his stance on anything whether right or wrong (kinda like a current President of a first world country) - and I've never seen it happen before in AT. Rainsford's post was great in its own right, but just for the fact that it actually managed to change Dave's opinion on something, I nominate Rainsford for post of the year!

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
All of this is so true.

I don't just blame this on Republicans or even Democrats, I blame this on all of us American Sheeple that have allowed it to happen.

What is the solution?

In some ways it is clear it would be better to what would seem like going backwards (in the eyes of Law nuts, Politicians etc) but for quality of life's sake would be moves back in the right direction.

Many of the Industries born from the Nanny State rule such as the Insurance, Medical and Judicial would have to suffer but that's too bad.

"They would have to learn how to just deal with it".

TO ALL THE KIDS
>WHO SURVIVED the
>1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

>First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

>They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

>Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

>We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
>rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

>As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

>Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
>
>We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

>We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

>We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !

>We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
>back when the streetlights came on.

>No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

>We would spend hours building o ur go-carts out of scraps and then ride >down
>the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

>We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
>no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or
>CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......
>WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
>
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

>We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

>We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
>
>We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
>the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

>Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

>The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
>They actually sided with the law!

>These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

>The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

>We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
>HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

>If YOU are one of them . . . CONGRATULATIONS!

>You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good

>And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

>Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

So you think exposing kids to needless risks, for example not using a car seat or a bike helmet, is a good thing?

 

[OS]

i was born late 70s, not particularly young or old, but seen both sides. I grew up with things like riding in the back of a pickup, fist fights, lap only seat belts, shooting each other with bb guns, etc. but if i had kids i would not let them do those things.

 

[Cogman]

Sadly, this post makes the assumption that everything is the same from 1956 to 2006. Well, its not. While some restrictions are crazy and a waist of money (like a peanut container with a label that says "this contains nuts".) There are a lot of dangers out there that this generation has said "If you don't have to take the risk, why do it?"

For example, letting kids run around in the streets all day long. Well, My dad did that. And I can tell you he wasn't just pretending to be a pirate. He was going out and terrorizing the town with his brothers. Sure he had a good amount of fun doing it. But there where just to many things that now he would get locked up for if he tried it (Probably should have been locked up then for some of the crazy things that he did). And I would say the reason he would be locked up today is because of the kids like him then that caused troubles. So the law had to change to accommodate.

My point is, I don't think kids today COULD be like the kids in the past because it is a completely different world. To many things have changed, some are good, and some are bad. You have to take the good with the bad. (And you cant tell me that a kid of former years would not have LOVED to have an Xbox + color tv)

 

[nageov3t]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/opinion/03males.html

Among Americans in their 40s and 50s, deaths from illicit-drug overdoses have risen by 800 percent since 1980, including 300 percent in the last decade...

Equally surprising, graying baby boomers have become America?s fastest-growing crime scourge. The F.B.I. reports that last year the number of Americans over the age of 40 arrested for violent and property felonies rose to 420,000, up from 170,000 in 1980. Arrests for drug offenses among those over 40 rose to 360,000 last year, up from 22,000 in 1980. The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 440,000 Americans ages 40 and older were incarcerated in 2005, triple the number in 1990.

GG boomers 😛