Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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marcusluvsvols said:
There is an incredible amount of info on Reddit...its the 3rd busiest website on earth. There is a subreddit for just about ANYTHING on earth you are interested in. Seriously.

It is hard to deal with anything in the main feed though. Users on average are very young and liberal...meaning ignorant. I get called a "boomer" pretty regularly because I domt want to be a socialist when I grow up...or ever. FWIW I am 42...by the last chart I saw, I am just barely a GenX...my wife is 37 and actually considered a millennial. Apparently the 5 year gap between us is the cutoff...1980 I think. My parents are boomers. Lol...sure hope these kids really wake up...if not this country will be a socialist dump for most of my kids lives and surely implode.
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You are Gen X. My sisters are around your age, and there is a definite generational divide between them and me (I'm a Millennial). Not as strong a divide as Boomers and Millennials, but there are some differences. Anecdotal I know, but you sound a lot like my sisters when they talk about stuff. You are way more conservative, but the way you and my sisters talk about stuff is the same. Just a different viewpoint on the world.

Reddit is awesome, best thing on the internet (sorry Volnation). But yeah, it is definitely skewed. I think the average user is white male 30-35. Hence the liberal bias on a lot of subs. Take the Politics subreddit for example. I get run out of there because I'm not liberal enough. Don't dare disparage the Bern on there unless you are ready for relentless downvotes. And I'm a pretty liberal dude. But that doesn't matter. Bernie or bust with that subreddit.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
You are Gen X. My sisters are around your age, and there is a definite generational divide between them and me (I'm a Millennial). Not as strong a divide as Boomers and Millennials, but there are some differences. Anecdotal I know, but you sound a lot like my sisters when they talk about stuff. You are way more conservative, but the way you and my sisters talk about stuff is the same. Just a different viewpoint on the world.

Reddit is awesome, best thing on the internet (sorry Volnation). But yeah, it is definitely skewed. I think the average user is white male 30-35. Hence the liberal bias on a lot of subs. Take the Politics subreddit for example. I get run out of there because I'm not liberal enough. Don't dare disparage the Bern on there unless you are ready for relentless downvotes. And I'm a pretty liberal dude. But that doesn't matter. Bernie or bust with that subreddit.
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I am generation x.

We hate both ur generations and the boomers so don’t worry.

It’s our generation paying for both your generations crap.

Just say thank you for us actually working while both ur generation and the boomers sponge off us.
 
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NEOCON said:
I am generation x.

We hate both ur generations and the boomers so don’t worry.

It’s our generation paying for both your generations crap.

Just say thank you for us actually working while both ur generation and the boomers sponge off us.
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Well get off of here and get back to work, my dude. Try to include free beer in your contributions next time.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
Well get off of here and get back to work, my dude. Try to include free beer in your contributions next time.
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I pay my accountant a lot of money to legally contribute as little as possible because ppl like u don’t deserve a damn cent of my money .
 
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NEOCON said:
I pay my accountant a lot of money to legally contribute as little as possible because ppl like u don’t deserve a damn cent of my money .
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I don't deserve or take any of your money. Lighten up a little man, I was just poking fun. Unless you have free beer, I'm game for that.
 
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NEOCON said:
I am generation x.

We hate both ur generations and the boomers so don’t worry.

It’s our generation paying for both your generations crap.

Just say thank you for us actually working while both ur generation and the boomers sponge off us.
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Hey, if it weren't for us boomers, your generation wouldn't be here you ungrateful little sh!ts. And most of us paid dearly for our SS. Thank FDR for the Ponzi program and LBJ for the other major "entitlement" expansion ... they weren't boomers BTW. I'm not sure how a lot of stuff that nobody individually paid for can be considered an entitlement though.

Anyway we boomers are often paying federal income taxes on our SS, and we're still paying premiums for our Medicare. Remember when boomers were paying into SS and Medicare, there were a lot of SS recipients and certainly Medicare recipients who never paid into the programs because the programs were born after those recipients were. Also a lot of us boomers were screwed on retirement programs before IRAs and 401ks came into being - a change of jobs and what had been paid into a retirement program just went away.
 
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AM64 said:
Hey, if it weren't for us boomers, your generation wouldn't be here you ungrateful little sh!ts. And most of us paid dearly for our SS. Thank FDR for the Ponzi program and LBJ for the other major "entitlement" expansion ... they weren't boomers BTW. I'm not sure how a lot of stuff that nobody individually paid for can be considered an entitlement though.

Anyway we boomers are often paying federal income taxes on our SS, and we're still paying premiums for our Medicare. Remember when boomers were paying into SS and Medicare, there were a lot of SS recipients and certainly Medicare recipients who never paid into the programs because the programs were born after those recipients were. Also a lot of us boomers were screwed on retirement programs before IRAs and 401ks came into being - a change of jobs and what had been paid into a retirement program just went away.
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Politicians and partisans divide us. Rise above. Be better than them.
 
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AM64 said:
Hey, if it weren't for us boomers, your generation wouldn't be here you ungrateful little sh!ts. And most of us paid dearly for our SS. Thank FDR for the Ponzi program and LBJ for the other major "entitlement" expansion ... they weren't boomers BTW. I'm not sure how a lot of stuff that nobody individually paid for can be considered an entitlement though.

Anyway we boomers are often paying federal income taxes on our SS, and we're still paying premiums for our Medicare. Remember when boomers were paying into SS and Medicare, there were a lot of SS recipients and certainly Medicare recipients who never paid into the programs because the programs were born after those recipients were. Also a lot of us boomers were screwed on retirement programs before IRAs and 401ks came into being - a change of jobs and what had been paid into a retirement program just went away.
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Boomers didn’t fight ww2.

You seem like a good guy.
My parents are boomers and are good ppl.
But....big but here....

Boomers started the whole peace love thing. Then the 80s came and they sold us down the river and went into Wall Street.

Boomers created latch key kids. I was the only kid I know who wasn’t one. The rest were so mommy and daddy could drive a Benz.

Boomers created the debt.

Boomers pushed credit cards as they wanted more and more stuff they couldn’t afford.

Boomers created Mc mansions.
My generation is X cause we were basically a throw away generation the boomers didn’t have time for because they were too busy making as much money as possible.

So now you hsve millenials. The exact opposite and far extreme.

All about memories and the moment and chills care less about money but still want things cause they don’t understand the system yet.

Not all boomers suck but on a whole thst generation sold us our and this mass capitalism and need to spend was created by them.

Sorry, just the facts.
 
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NEOCON said:
Boomers didn’t fight ww2.

You seem like a good guy.
My parents are boomers and are good ppl.
But....big but here....

Boomers started the whole peace love thing. Then the 80s came and they sold us down the river and went into Wall Street.

Boomers created latch key kids. I was the only kid I know who wasn’t one. The rest were so mommy and daddy could drive a Benz.

Boomers created the debt.

Boomers pushed credit cards as they wanted more and more stuff they couldn’t afford.

Boomers created Mc mansions.
My generation is X cause we were basically a throw away generation the boomers didn’t have time for because they were too busy making as much money as possible.

So now you hsve millenials. The exact opposite and far extreme.

All about memories and the moment and chills care less about money but still want things cause they don’t understand the system yet.

Not all boomers suck but on a whole thst generation sold us our and this mass capitalism and need to spend was created by them.

Sorry, just the facts.
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I still don't deserve or take your money. Yell at the other guy.
 
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AM64 said:
Hey, if it weren't for us boomers, your generation wouldn't be here you ungrateful little sh!ts. And most of us paid dearly for our SS. Thank FDR for the Ponzi program and LBJ for the other major "entitlement" expansion ... they weren't boomers BTW. I'm not sure how a lot of stuff that nobody individually paid for can be considered an entitlement though.

Anyway we boomers are often paying federal income taxes on our SS, and we're still paying premiums for our Medicare. Remember when boomers were paying into SS and Medicare, there were a lot of SS recipients and certainly Medicare recipients who never paid into the programs because the programs were born after those recipients were. Also a lot of us boomers were screwed on retirement programs before IRAs and 401ks came into being - a change of jobs and what had been paid into a retirement program just went away.
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Do you have free beer? That is the important part of this conversation.
 
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Engine block has made it home, finally. While I'm prepping the block for assembly, I notice the main bearings don't look right, so I checked the tag. Sure enough, the machine shop ordered small block 350 bearings, not LS engine. SMH. While I wait, the main studs are installed and I guess I'll mask off and paint the block.
 
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NEOCON said:
Boomers didn’t fight ww2.

You seem like a good guy.
My parents are boomers and are good ppl.
But....big but here....

Boomers started the whole peace love thing. Then the 80s came and they sold us down the river and went into Wall Street.

Boomers created latch key kids. I was the only kid I know who wasn’t one. The rest were so mommy and daddy could drive a Benz.

Boomers created the debt.

Boomers pushed credit cards as they wanted more and more stuff they couldn’t afford.

Boomers created Mc mansions.
My generation is X cause we were basically a throw away generation the boomers didn’t have time for because they were too busy making as much money as possible.

So now you hsve millenials. The exact opposite and far extreme.

All about memories and the moment and chills care less about money but still want things cause they don’t understand the system yet.

Not all boomers suck but on a whole thst generation sold us our and this mass capitalism and need to spend was created by them.

Sorry, just the facts.
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Maybe I should have used the blue ink in a couple of places this time. I apologize if I offended you. However, I think you are wrong in some of your perceptions but right overall.

By definition we were born at the end of WW2 to fathers who returned after the WW2 and got their lives back together, so we definitely didn't fight in WW2 or Korea. My dad like many others was in combat during both WW2 and Korea. We had our own mismanaged debacle called Vietnam and were as I recall the last generation to have military draftees. I would think that a larger population and limited military activity may have put a draft to rest; hard to predict with China around though.

I absolutely agree with you about a lot of things you don't like about boomers ... particularly the peace thing, but it was far from universal. I quit school in my junior year to join the Army (spring of 1967) I would guess that in basic training at Ft Benning my company was half and half guys who enlisted and draftees - no way to know for sure.

Just like the peace movement which I detested then and now, there was the feminist movement - women needed to be out of the house to be somebody. That was probably the more harmful of the two because it completely disrupted society by dumping hordes of women into the job market - to prove their worth. It almost overnight created the need for a two income family and permanently screwed child rearing. Yes, the dinks and yuppies grew out of that. I was not happy when my wife went back to work after our first son (she's a nurse and worked part time), and I had a job that by the very nature frequently demanded long and uncertain hours. I always insisted that except for those times when I was called away that we had dinner together and tried to be the kind of family that my wife and I knew.

Some of the family distractions have/had nothing to do with parents themselves. Growing up we didn't have multiple TVs, electronic games, computers, and (later) cellphones. As parents we were also the victim of peer pressure by the kind of parents you don't like ... the ones who earned or at least spent more and gave kids cars, etc - as consolation prizes or a measure of affluence. It's really tough standing up to "so and so has a car and can ... why can't I"

Yeah, I can understand your feelings, and you have no idea how much I detest the movements of the 60s and 70s ... sometimes fueled by people too young to know enough ... and their kind are still around, we just usually call them things like liberal and progressive. Sometimes those movements were not really the work of boomers, but people a bit older who used boomers.

You also have to realize that a lot of the"leadership" during all this time wasn't boomers. I think the first election I could vote in was Nixon - not Kennedy/Nixon. Reagan created some of the things money issues you don't like, and he definitely wasn't a boomer. The generation before us ran things for a very long time. I think if you look at the dim candidate mess you'll recognize a lot of older people (perhaps even boomers) fronting ideas that "kids' to young to know better want, but that's the duality of representation/"leadership" and politicians wanting to stay in office forever.

In the end, the funny thing is as a boomer (and one of the early ones - born in 1946), I agree with you on so much of what you dislike, but there were plenty of us who just worked and tried to continue our lives something like our parents did - without thoughts of changing the world. And a lot of us paid later on with a very insecure job market - at one point I was in my 50s - a successful and unemployed engineer - and completely screwed - there were no prospects for a job. It was so bad that electronic firms were laying off engineers in their 30s to avoid age related lawsuits for dumping guys in their 40s.

Sorry. This was long, but important to me.
 
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