Ex sister-in-law became a grandma at 29. How old are you, submitter?

p.s. - Don't take away your teenager's birth control pills.

I think Dad would have liked to have lived long enough to be called 'Grandad'.

*sigh*

Coworker insists on being called Gigi instead of Grandma. *rolls eyes*

You whippersnapper, subby! By cracky, if I still made it around like I used to I'd beat you with this onion hanging from my belt!

I remember when I thought 30 was "old."

Not a shock: The most self-absorbed generation in history can't handle being called grandma or grandpa. Seems it makes them feel old. News flash: You are accuses another generation of being self-absorbed.

FTFY retardmitter

Try not to whine too much about what I've done to your post in between whining about not being able to get a job after surfing myspace through high school and college...but wait, that's some other generation's fault right? Just like everything else.

fail you whiney farking losers...fail.

Weaver95: I think Dad would have liked to have lived long enough to be called 'Grandad'.

*sigh*

:(

Weaver95: I think Dad would have liked to have lived long enough to be called 'Grandad'.

It's not often I agree with you, but: *this*

Madbassist1: most self-absorbed generation

let history be the judge

Some farker a few weeks ago posted something to the effect of "The greatest generation were truly great, but they were shiatty parents." I agree.

My mom is a baby boomer (born in '51) and even she says that her generation has farked everything up.

I'm a new and very proud grandma. His name is Colin William, and he's better than anybody else's grandbaby.

/Born in '55. Get off my lawn.

SuperTramp: I remember when I thought 30 was "old."

I'm so old I remember that Farrah Fawcett was in that movie.

A few of my friends have grandkids; none of them complain about being called Grandma or Grandpa.

/and our music is STILL better than yours

Weaver95: I think Dad would have liked to have lived long enough to be called 'Grandad'.

*sigh*

Make that a double sigh. Mine would have liked to live long enough to see me graduate from college.


/Just wrote in another thread about how Abbey Road was forty years old. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

//And you are welcome on my lawn anytime, punkmitter. As long as you bring a mower.

Lorelle: /and our music is STILL better than yours

Nope.

But it's better than the crap th kids are listening to today.

The Greediest Generation has completely farked over the planet, and it's up to my generation to fix it for our kids since you bastards didn't give a damn.

I guess it depends on the background. Between my wife and I, our kids have a Mima (pronunced Mee-mah), a Mima (pronounced Mi-muh), a Mawmaw, a Mimi, and a Memere. Grandma would actually be a welcome and less confusing addition here.

MorrisBird: I'm a new and very proud grandma. His name is Colin William, and he's better than anybody else's grandbaby.

Aw, congratulations, and have fun with your revenge!

Best Comment from FTA:

dianaleez wrote:
Perhaps it's time for the Boomers to get over themselves - it's all about the grandchildren, not the grandparents.

While I hope it's a quite few years before I become a grandmother (I'm only 39), when it does happen, I'll be proud to have my grandchildren call me "Grandma".

Madbassist1: Not a shock: The most self-absorbed generation in history can't handle being called grandma or grandpa. Seems it makes them feel old. News flash: You are accuses another generation of being self-absorbed.

FTFY retardmitter

Try not to whine too much about what I've done to your post in between whining about not being able to get a job after surfing myspace through high school and college...but wait, that's some other generation's fault right? Just like everything else.

fail you whiney farking losers...fail.

Wait a minute, didn't your generation raise these "whiny losers?"

jestme: Ex sister-in-law became a grandma at 29. How old are you, submitter?

p.s. - Don't take away your teenager's birth control pills.

Fap?

msannomalley: Madbassist1: Not a shock: The most self-absorbed generation in history can't handle being called grandma or grandpa. Seems it makes them feel old. News flash: You are accuses another generation of being self-absorbed.

FTFY retardmitter

Try not to whine too much about what I've done to your post in between whining about not being able to get a job after surfing myspace through high school and college...but wait, that's some other generation's fault right? Just like everything else.

fail you whiney farking losers...fail.

Wait a minute, didn't your generation raise these "whiny losers?"

These are boomers we are talking about here. Taking responsibility for their actions is a completely foreign concept to them.

I'm actually one year too old to be considered a 'boomer'.

I'm proud to be called 'Grandad'

my little nieces call my mom "doe" for some reason. its very cute

My mom refuses to be called Grandma *insert surname here*. She says "that's my mother-in-laws name and it makes me feel old". She insists all the grandkids call her Grandma Bonnie instead.

Freakpower: I guess it depends on the background. Between my wife and I, our kids have a Mima (pronunced Mee-mah), a Mima (pronounced Mi-muh), a Mawmaw, a Mimi, and a Memere. Grandma would actually be a welcome and less confusing addition here.

Saying meemaw and peepaw is the result of genetic abberation that should be removed from the gene pool.

Had a person actually say in a discussion group back in college "as my peepaw says..." and I wanted to put a bullet through his brain.

Stanfan114: my little nieces call my mom "doe" for some reason. its very cute

Sure it's not "doh!"?

Eh, every generation is the most self-absorbed generation. And the laziest generation, and the greediest generation. Give it time, watch the trends.

My DF's mom is 65, and she can't stand the idea of being a grandma.

Says she's too young.

I just roll my eyes when she makes comments like that. At what point will she be old enough? When she's 90?

Yeah, the "me" generation.... the problems started with them, and look at the shiatty kids they produced (me included)

so headline gets +1 for accuracy, and if the headline offended you in any way, go see your precious shrink about it, ya useless, old hippie

Weaver95: I think Dad would have liked to have lived long enough to be called 'Grandad'.

*sigh*

Mine too. Pretty sure Mom would have adored being called Grandma, too.

/just be happy you get to see another generation come along
//and your grandchildren will eventually just be calling you crazy anyway

Fano: Freakpower: I guess it depends on the background. Between my wife and I, our kids have a Mima (pronunced Mee-mah), a Mima (pronounced Mi-muh), a Mawmaw, a Mimi, and a Memere. Grandma would actually be a welcome and less confusing addition here.

Saying meemaw and peepaw is the result of genetic abberation that should be removed from the gene pool.

Had a person actually say in a discussion group back in college "as my peepaw says..." and I wanted to put a bullet through his brain.

No, it's just a southern thing. Some boomer grandparents are opting out of "grandma or pa" because they have parents still alive, and it causes a bunch of confusion. Some opt for the ethnic thing (like the Polish "busia").

//and some Polish aunties opt for ciocia.

I think it's more a factor of simplicity. My dad's parents were Grammy and Grandpa. My mom's parents were/are Memère and Pepère. Seeing as the French-Canadian blood runs deep on both sides, I'm not sure why we picked one over the other to use the French names, but it worked better than Grammy and Grandpa (insert last name here).

One of my co-workers has an interesting one. She and her husband (who are in their early 50s) went by Grandma and Grandpa, but one day their grandson overheard her husband call her "honey," and so he started calling her "Honey" or "Grandma Honey." She goes along with it because it's cute, and besides, she doesn't look like a grandmother yet anyway. (Though it made me realize, when I was hatched, my grandmother was only 50 or so, too. Some things, you just don't think about.)

The real warfare isn't between generations. It's between the creative, productive subset of each generation and the dead weight of each generation.

It's the dead weight that thinks in terms of inter-generational warfare. The creative, productive subset recognizes its own kind in every generation.

This is the truth. The more it offends you, the stronger the proof of it.

It's not just boomers. I'm 40 and most of the women my age are far more concerned with being "MILF's" than they are about their families.

/sad, really

Lorelle:
/and our music is STILL better than yours

Music snobbery transcends generations. Sadly it doesn't bring anyone closer, just increases the cacophony of douchebaggery.

Meh, I'm just waiting for the social freedom generation to get into power.

Someone wake me up when there's a generation that doesn't sell out at the age of 35.

What's the difference between a baby boomer and an whipper snapper? One's a baby boomer and the other's a fish!

Wait, lemme try again:

How many baby boomers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, they usually have a young kid to do that these days.

Aw geez, one more shot:

What do you call baby boomers with your last name? Mom and Dad.

When I become a grandparent, I will insist that my grandchildren refer to me simply as Captain Awesome.

Tired, tired, tired discussion. Why do so many have to fall for it?

Every generation thinks the ones directly in front of and behind it are "self-absorbed losers." I suppose I'm the only one that has noticed this.

Intergenerational pissing contests: boring and lame since the dawn of civilization.

--49, don't give a shiat.

What's Irish for "Grandma?"

HappyHarryHardon The "me" generation were the young men and women of the '80s, I believe.

jestme: Ex sister-in-law became a grandma at 29. How old are you, submitter?

p.s. - Don't take away your teenager's birth control pills.

PPS: be a better parent. If you're a grandmother prior to your 50s (preferably later), you've failed as a mother.

Self absorbed generation? I thought the article was going to be about Gen-Yers.

My baby boomer parents were organic gardening, recycling, composting, cloth diapering, laundry line using, wood chopping, chicken farming, bread baking, alternative energy freaks since back in the 70's. Never censored our television watching either. They're like the Anti-Greediest Generation. They're the parents the other kids liked.

Quite the generalization there, Fern.

Freakpower: I guess it depends on the background. Between my wife and I, our kids have a Mima (pronunced Mee-mah), a Mima (pronounced Mi-muh), a Mawmaw, a Mimi, and a Memere. Grandma would actually be a welcome and less confusing addition here.

Holy fark. When they were handing out cultures, you must have been taking a whizz.

Weaver95: I think Dad would have liked to have lived long enough to be called 'Grandad'.

*sigh*

This.

My mom loves being a grandma.

WFern: jestme: Ex sister-in-law became a grandma at 29. How old are you, submitter?

p.s. - Don't take away your teenager's birth control pills.

PPS: be a better parent. If you're a grandmother prior to your 50s (preferably later), you've failed as a mother.

Come to think of it, I should probably amend that to "failed as a human being" in this scenario. How the hell do you manage to have a teenager of childbearing age by 29?

WFern: jestme: Ex sister-in-law became a grandma at 29. How old are you, submitter?

p.s. - Don't take away your teenager's birth control pills.

PPS: be a better parent. If you're a grandmother prior to your 50s (preferably later), you've failed as a mother.

Excuse me, Mr. Morality, but my mother was a grandma in her 40s. She got married young, had a child at 22, and my sis got married at 20 and had her first child within a year. Nobody failed here; everybody had their children in a stable, two parent home. We just don't get married at the bourgeois-approved age of 25 1/2. Is that a problem?

WFern: WFern: jestme: Ex sister-in-law became a grandma at 29. How old are you, submitter?

p.s. - Don't take away your teenager's birth control pills.

PPS: be a better parent. If you're a grandmother prior to your 50s (preferably later), you've failed as a mother.

Come to think of it, I should probably amend that to "failed as a human being" in this scenario. How the hell do you manage to have a teenager of childbearing age by 29?

Wait, now I'm confused. Did you mean "30s" not "50s?"