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Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

My nomination of “Generation Fucked” was not approved sadly.

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

It was me.

Sorry for forgetting to consult you.

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:39 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

It was me.

Sorry for forgetting to consult you.

Fucking runners.

Remember this guy?



Died while running.

I’m generation X…. If I live or die during my marathon… will anyone even notice?

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:52 am I’m generation X…. If I live or die during my marathon… will anyone even notice?

Only if they trip over you...

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There are now Gen Xers who are 60 years old.

I'm a 60 year old boomer.

I'm 66 and on the tail end of baby boomers, or so I was told.

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:52 am I’m generation X…. If I live or die during my marathon… will anyone even notice?

At a marathon .... not likely. The Silent generation wouldn't say anything; Boomers are only aware of themselves; Millennials are too awesome to care; Zoomers will be too busy posting selfies with their participation trophies. So basically, Slackers are invisible.

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:44 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

My nomination of “Generation Fucked” was not approved sadly.

Gen Fucked is every generation too stoopid to come after Boomers. Don't sweat it though. We didn't give you a choice.

Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 3:05 pm I'm 66 and on the tail end of baby boomers, or so I was told.

1946-1964

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:39 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

It was me.

Sorry for forgetting to consult you.

No worries, memory is one of the first things to go at your age.

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

An entire generation that orbits the planet Chad?

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:39 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:39 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

It was me.

Sorry for forgetting to consult you.

No worries, memory is one of the first things to go at your age.

It's the second thing that goes. I don't remember what the first is.

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:54 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:39 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:39 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

It was me.

Sorry for forgetting to consult you.

No worries, memory is one of the first things to go at your age.

It's the second thing that goes. I don't remember what the first is.

Have we met?

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:00 pm

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:54 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:39 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:39 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:35 am Apparently we kicked off a new generation yesterday, Generation Beta.

Who's naming these things?

It was me.

Sorry for forgetting to consult you.

No worries, memory is one of the first things to go at your age.

It's the second thing that goes. I don't remember what the first is.

Have we met?

I don't remember.

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:02 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:00 pm

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:54 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:39 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:39 am

It was me.

Sorry for forgetting to consult you.

No worries, memory is one of the first things to go at your age.

It's the second thing that goes. I don't remember what the first is.

Have we met?

I don't remember.

I only ask because you're wrong, but I don't want to be rude to strangers. It must be your first time around here.

Were you both classmates with Abbott and Costello?

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:11 pm Were you both classmates with Abbott and Costello?

I think Dumb and Dumber are our age.

Apparently Gen Z can't write.

I just found this thread. I don't see many threads and read threads that peak my interest at the time. I am considered a boomer but don't fit all the traits that boomers are expected to exhibit. Since I am a free spirit I do things my own way, tradition be damned. I do work hard and am loyal to who I work for to a degree, but won't let that stop me when I want to change.

I love to learn and don't like to be set in my ways. Yet, that is inevitable to a degree. I tend to fight it, but it is winning over time. Still, I absolutely love to learn, and that won't ever change. And I am a technology geek when it comes to devices. I own an xBox Series X, Quest 3, I usually build my own PC's, have an echo plus (maybe a waste of money because I use it mostly for NPR One when I am working in the kitchen). I have had an iPad for years that I use in bed. That may be the worst buy because it is addicting. I use it in bed way too much, for hourse, when I should be sleeping.

I remember when no one owned a computer or cell phone. As a child we went out to play in the neighborhood. We played with neighborhood children, visited their houses, and went on adventures together. I would not trade my childhood for recent generations where i see children anchored to their cellphones. It may draw interest, but what a waste. It comes at a cost of adventuring and learning about nature. Balsa wood airplanes were really fun. I doubt few people born in the last 40 years would even know what I am talking about. Taking a bicycle trip with friends to the mall was special.

We may be more advanced in technology now. But it comes at a price.

When I was 7 or 8 my buddy and I did long creekwalks. His Mom had a friend whose house was on the creek and she'd drop us off way upstream and drive to her friend's house and visit for 3 or 4 hours. By the time we got there we had searched for arrowheads and geodes and salamanders and crawfish and lost treasure for an entire lifetime. We basically looked under rocks all day. We rode home dead tired smelling like mud, algae, Huck Finn, and bug bites.

Now get off my lawn.

Just get home in time for supper, and we were good. Head out again and be home before dark. Not sure if mom ever knew where we were all summer. She certainly could not have gotten hold of us if she needed to.

FreeSpiritCat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:46 pm I would not trade my childhood for recent generations where i see children anchored to their cellphones.

I see toddlers now with watching cell phone videos sitting in grocery carts, and I mean see it a lot.

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 4:08 pm When I was 7 or 8 my buddy and I did long creekwalks. His Mom had a friend whose house was on the creek and she'd drop us off way upstream and drive to her friend's house and visit for 3 or 4 hours. By the time we got there we had searched for arrowheads and geodes and salamanders and crawfish and lost treasure for an entire lifetime. We basically looked under rocks all day. We rode home dead tired smelling like mud, algae, Huck Finn, and bug bites.

Now get off my lawn.

You had loads of fun doing it. That is the key. Kickball in the street. Find an empty lot and play baseball with all the neighborhood kids. Go swimming in a neighbors pool with the kids in the neighborhood. A neighborhood mother would supply ice cream to all the kids. Catching lightning bugs. I miss those days, and I don't see it today. Maybe in very remote places. I cold leave my bicycle unlocked on the front porch and not be worried it would be stolen.

FreeSpiritCat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 4:38 pm I cold leave my bicycle unlocked on the front porch and not be worried it would be stolen.

We used to leave our bikes just piled up where we left them. Just like in the movies.

Since we are talking about generations, my paternal grandfather grew up in Little Falls, MN. Very poor, wrong side of the tracks, but lived in the same town as Charles Lindbergh who lived on the other side of town.

So my grandpa who was too poor to have his own bicycle, decided to steal Charles'. So goes family lore anyway, and he never denied it. Don't think he was ever caught.

There’s a creek that runs right through my neighborhood.

A Boomer called the police on some kids who were exploring it.

Kids don’t play around in the creek anymore.

Yeah, the "normal" stuff we did when I was a kid in the 80s would be verboten these days. We'd build forts and have camp fires out in the desert (private property back then, but no one cared!).

I was born in the last 100 days of the official baby boom, but I always considered myself a Gen X'er. Don't have much in common with the people who came of age in the 50's and 60's.

Also known as Generation Jones (1954 - 1965): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 6:05 pm There’s a creek that runs right through my neighborhood.

A Boomer called the police on some kids who were exploring it.

Kids don’t play around in the creek anymore.

Duh, it's totally unAmerican that Boomers aren't allowed to be kids anymore. Ageist fucks need to pay me more Social Security.

In defense of Karen boomers, we do remember the bad things too. I have known several people who lost an eye as a kid due to bb guns or penknives given to them too young.

My mom had a friend who had kids the same ages as my brother and I who were real close. Used to go over there all the time. Then one day we stopped going over and I asked my mom why. She said the oldest son was digging a tunnel and it caved in on him.

Not that I would ever call on those kids. Maybe some kid by themselves if they looked lost.

Think of all the later generations' kids who grew up never knowing a righteous model-airplane-glue buzz.

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:01 pm Think of all the later generations' kids who grew up never knowing a righteous model-airplane-glue buzz.

No buzz, but the smell of mimeographs was legendary.

The crazy thing is, most of the shit boomers give "kids" crap for they created or took away. Most boomers think of millennials as entitled kids (millennials are all pretty much in their 30s and 40s now), but who raised them? Boomers! Those participation trophies were created by boomers! Also most of the nonsense that boomers and Gen X spew about being the last generation to play outside or whatever is crazy. I was a kid in the 90s and I have much more in common with a childhood of the 50s than even the 2000s.

Since most of you didn't have to get off your ass and walk the 8 feet to change the channel of the TV you can go fuck yourselves.

scumdevils86 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:40 pm The crazy thing is, most of the shit boomers give "kids" crap for they created or took away. Most boomers think of millennials as entitled kids (millennials are all pretty much in their 30s and 40s now), but who raised them? Boomers!

I have proudly said many times that we are the OG snowflakes. We forgive you for growing up in our shadow. Perhaps next time you'll choose your parents more wisely.

scumdevils86 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:40 pm Those participation trophies were created by boomers!

We knew you couldn't walk to school uphill both ways in a blinding snow storm because we caused global warming and forced you onto buses. We get no respect, no fucking respect at all.

scumdevils86 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:40 pm Also most of the nonsense that boomers and Gen X spew about being the last generation to play outside or whatever is crazy. I was a kid in the 90s and I have much more in common with a childhood of the 50s than even the 2000s.

Fair enough, but skateboards don't count.

Gen Z yearning for fascism? It's grim — but I'm not surprised

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ge ... 455&ei=129

Over half of people in the UK aged between 13 and 27 want the country to be a dictatorship, according to a new poll from Channel 4. Not only would they prefer to do away with democratic institutions such as elections and parliament, the gender divide is particularly stark. Of the young men surveyed, 45 per cent agreed with the statement that “we have gone so far in promoting women’s equality that we are discriminating against me” and “when it comes to giving women equal rights, things have gone far enough”.

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