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re: I've come to the conclusion that Millenials are giant pussies.

Posted on 7/11/15 at 8:54 pm to
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
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Posted on 7/11/15 at 8:54 pm to
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In regard to defining generations, I'd put "millenial" as any person in the US born in 1987 or later, based on when the internet became a household utility and the rollout of associated technologies that would have been accessed by children during their formative adolescent years.


I was born in '88.

Used to listen to my parents' 8-tracks and records and owned tons of cassettes. Used the dewey decimal system to look up books in the library for reports. Didn't really start using the internet much until I was 13. Got my first cell phone at 17.

Really depends on the households when it comes to the mid/late 80s folks. Very gray area I guess

quote:

Men can't be men. Women can be whatever they want to be.... but if a man wants to be a man, he's a shite head

It's no longer a virtue to be a Man.


I agree with this, sadly
Posted by deeprig9
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Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 7/11/15 at 9:49 pm to
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Didn't really start using the internet much until I was 13


That's why you are a millenial.


Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
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Posted on 7/11/15 at 9:55 pm to
Didn't get an email until 16

Don't really GAF about these silly generational designators, though
Posted by Jagd Tiger
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Member since Mar 2014
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:55 am to


I'm just glad I don't live in the fukked up warped bizzaro world you live in..
Posted by cokebottleag
I’m a Santos Republican
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:25 pm to
I got my first cell phone when I was 17.

Born in '86.

I started using a computer on a regular basis when I was 5. frick all you johnny-come-latelys, I used DOS and Pathminder (score for anyone who knows what that wise).

None of that matters as far as crafting the millenial generation any more than radio made the 1900s generation decadent. What a silly idea. Technology has little, if any, effect on how useful or hard working a generation is. Generations grow up to maximize the productivity using the technology at hand; the agricultural revolution didn't make our ancestors more lazy than their horse-drawn plow fathers.

I don't think millenials are any different than the previous generations. They were raised with the same work ethic (by and large) that their parents and grandparents where. The average hours worked has decreased on low skill/low pay jobs (for obvious reasons) and increased for higher skilled/pay jobs. Wikipedia has a blurb about this:

quote:

As President Truman’s 1951 message had predicted, the share of working women rose from 30 percent of the labor force in 1950 to 47 percent by 2000 – growing at a particularly rapid rate during the 1970s.[52] According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued May 2002, "In 1950, the overall participation rate of women was 34 percent ... The rate rose to 38 percent in 1960, 43 percent in 1970, 52 percent in 1980, and 58 percent in 1990 and reached 60 percent by 2000. The overall labor force participation rate of women is projected to attain its highest level in 2010, at 62 percent.”[52] The inclusion of women in the work force can be seen as symbolic of social progress as well as of increasing American productivity and hours worked.

Between 1950 and 2007 official price inflation was measured to 861 percent. President Truman, in his 1951 message to Congress, predicted correctly that his military buildup “will cause intense and mounting inflationary pressures.” Using the data provided by the United State Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erik Rauch has estimated productivity to have increased by nearly 400%.[53] According to Rauch, “if productivity means anything at all, a worker should be able to earn the same standard of living as a 1950 worker in only 11 hours per week.”

In the United States, the working time for upper-income professionals has increased compared to 1965, while total annual working time for low-skill, low-income workers has decreased.[54] This effect is sometimes called the "leisure gap".


Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 7:19 pm to
Two things are at work here when folks discuss generational behaviors and differences, IMO:

1.) People generally tend to have a romanticized/nostalgic view of their own and their predecessors' past and a negative view of their successors who are viewed as having it easier then themselves

2.) Thanks to unprecedented worldwide connectivity and sharing ability, the knuckleheads of this generation have more avenues to display their stupidity to a massive audience than any prior generation. There aren't necessarily more idiots than usual among today's youth--we just see more of the same silliness that's always been going on in front of limited audiences the whole time.

Ain't really anything new under the sun.
Posted by Stir of Echoes
SD, LA, OC, and the Inland Empire.
Member since Feb 2015
1052 posts
Posted on 7/14/15 at 7:39 pm to
I'll be honest here. I posted the OP when I was drunk one night.

I didn't think it would get the response it did.

It's been quite entertaining.

Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
134026 posts
Posted on 7/14/15 at 7:43 pm to
Drunk posting is best posting
Posted by Stir of Echoes
SD, LA, OC, and the Inland Empire.
Member since Feb 2015
1052 posts
Posted on 7/14/15 at 7:59 pm to
Sober me says you guys are just pussies, not giant pussies.

So, you've got that going for you.

Now, stop going to see the remakes of the awesome movies of my childhood, so that my generation will stop making them.

Also, quit with the facial hair, it's run its course, and pants should go all the way down to the shoe. It's like you all want to live in 1919 and go digging in the sand on the beach.

I look forward to seeing JNCO Jeans and pooka shells in 20 years when I'm 60. I should have saved that shite for my kids. They might need it.
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:04 pm to


Facial hair ain't going anywhere for me, and I kinda wanna get my hair cut in a "'fro-hawk" just once just for the hell of it.

Have had to rock the military-style cut for 10 years now out of necessity.
Posted by Stir of Echoes
SD, LA, OC, and the Inland Empire.
Member since Feb 2015
1052 posts
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:31 pm to
I've been torn between two haircuts as of late.

Only because this might be the last actuall haircut I get. As its going away faster than I had first thought.

1. Feaux-Hawk, I'd have to grow it out a bit and when I do I get a bit of a Jewish Kipa look to my head. So that might be out. However, I'd enjoy the looks when I walk into work wearing it. Would be worth it.

2. Boot Camp high and tight. I enjoyed that haircut back in the day so I might bring it back for a while.

Either one won't be for long.
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
134026 posts
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:36 pm to
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Either one won't be for long.



Damn that sucks. Sorry bruh.

Yeah, you definitely gotta give a wild haircut one last hurrah before it's no longer possible. My hair has been conservative thanks to my parents and the military the whole time I've been alive. Could never grow and afro, and of course never had enough for cornrows or anything.

Will probably cut my capers in the short couple of months I have before wifey comes down from MO and puts the kibosh on any hair experimentation
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
21094 posts
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:26 pm to
Didn't read this whole thread, but Baby Boomers were the worst thing ever to happen to this country.
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