Yeah, except for the 24 / 7 worrying about those under 25 that we care about...

Farkin A Bubba: Yeah, except for the 24 / 7 worrying about those under 25 that we care about...

The Baby Boomers were the generation that wanted everything to be given to them for free, and now they're the ones that want to keep everything for themselves.

They're the ones who helped create our modern American "culture" and then so it was never surpassed, they're the ones who restrict it today as the heads of entertainment companies. That way they will always be known as the "greatest" and will keep the rest of us seeking their approval.

They're the ones who were able to succeed based solely on their free education, and now they are the ones who have created a market place where it costs most people to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt just to be competitive in the marketplace. Low-income jobs that would provide on-the-job training now require individuals to pay for 2 years of training at a "school" with no accreditation just to become a glorified secretary.

They're the ones who wanted the government to back off and butt out, and now they're the ones passing laws monitoring what we do in our cars, what we put in our bodies, and what we can watch and listen to - even what words we can and cannot say.

I cannot wait until they all die off.

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El Chode: Farkin A Bubba: Yeah, except for the 24 / 7 worrying about those under 25 that we care about...

The Baby Boomers were the generation that wanted everything to be given to them for free, and now they're the ones that want to keep everything for themselves.

They're the ones who helped create our modern American "culture" and then so it was never surpassed, they're the ones who restrict it today as the heads of entertainment companies. That way they will always be known as the "greatest" and will keep the rest of us seeking their approval.

They're the ones who were able to succeed based solely on their free education, and now they are the ones who have created a market place where it costs most people to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt just to be competitive in the marketplace. Low-income jobs that would provide on-the-job training now require individuals to pay for 2 years of training at a "school" with no accreditation just to become a glorified secretary.

They're the ones who wanted the government to back off and butt out, and now they're the ones passing laws monitoring what we do in our cars, what we put in our bodies, and what we can watch and listen to - even what words we can and cannot say.

I cannot wait until they all die off.

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You can suck my big fat privileged cock.

LaChanz: You can suck my big fat privileged cock.

It's probably big and fat from the cancer you got from the irresponsible lifestyle you lead and reliance on big industry for your red meat.

LaChanz: You can suck my big fat privileged cock.

Which brings us to the whole "we're entitled to have functioning boners till we're 85" thing.

I'm sure you're justified, if at least in your own mind, about your hatred for boomers. I'm a small business owner and have to have help for my business. Every under 30 person I ever hire I have to either wake up every morning because they've either been up all night playing video games or drinking or they work 3 days and call in sick 2. If someone around 25 is cleaning toilets for a living I'm willing to bet they're doing a sucky job at it.

...and just to mention. I've cleaned toilets for a living. I did a good job at it and ended up running a crew when I was 22.

LaChanz: You can suck my big fat privileged cock.

You people haven't done anything in the last 40 years except drain the world dry of resources and demand more. You are a parasite on society.

GAT_00: LaChanz: You can suck my big fat privileged cock.

You people haven't done anything in the last 40 years except drain the world dry of resources and demand more. You are a parasite on society.

Obvious troll is obvious. Enjoy living in your grass house with your coconut computer.

We should increase taxes on Baby Boomers since they are wealthy and use a disproportionate amount of government spending.

I'm sure they won't mind sacrificing so their children can have health care.

LaChanz: Every under 30 person I ever hire I have to either wake up every morning because they've either been up all night playing video games or drinking or they work 3 days and call in sick 2.

I've seen a few exceptions, but pretty much this. That or they just stop showing up for work. I think personal responsibility went out the window about 15-20 years ago. Chode seems to bear that out, what with everything apparently being someone else's fault.

I've cleaned toilets, too. Did roofing one summer, house painting the next. In Phoenix. Crawled around in attics the summer after that as an electrician's apprentice. Worked in a warehouse, sans AC, driving a propane powered forklift for a couple years before college, saving as much as I could.

Taught me what actually working for a living means, as well as the value of a desk job. :-) I don't think most kids these days are getting that kind of education.

Blaming an entire generation of people for anything is farking retarded. They're not some monolithic hive-mind or a secret society. All boomers aren't evil, greedy f*cks who masturbate to the idea of bleeding the planet dry and all youngsters aren't shiftless slobs who've never worked a day in their lives.

wee: LaChanz: Every under 30 person I ever hire I have to either wake up every morning because they've either been up all night playing video games or drinking or they work 3 days and call in sick 2.

I've seen a few exceptions, but pretty much this. That or they just stop showing up for work. I think personal responsibility went out the window about 15-20 years ago. Chode seems to bear that out, what with everything apparently being someone else's fault.

I've cleaned toilets, too. Did roofing one summer, house painting the next. In Phoenix. Crawled around in attics the summer after that as an electrician's apprentice. Worked in a warehouse, sans AC, driving a propane powered forklift for a couple years before college, saving as much as I could.

Taught me what actually working for a living means, as well as the value of a desk job. :-) I don't think most kids these days are getting that kind of education.

Unfortunately, Mexicans do all those jobs now because brilliant baby boomer business owners figured out they can make more money that way. (And the entry level desk jobs are in India)

Thanks boomers!

wee: I've seen a few exceptions, but pretty much this. That or they just stop showing up for work. I think personal responsibility went out the window about 15-20 years ago. Chode seems to bear that out, what with everything apparently being someone else's fault.

On the flip side, you have wages that haven't really risen since the 80's, and a corporate environment where everyone will be thrown out on their ass and replaced with temps to raise the company stock a few points. Why bother being loyal for a system that isn't faithful itself?

Oh, and let's not forget the joys of 38.5 hour weeks!

El Chode: The Baby Boomers were the generation that wanted everything to be given to them for free, and now they're the ones that want to keep everything for themselves.

Thread over.

El Chode:



I cannot wait until they all die off.

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Even if I die tomorrow, I will still have gotten more pussy than you ever will

.

IrateShadow: Why bother being loyal for a system that isn't faithful itself?

To me it's not really about the system as much as taking pride in what you do. When I was a teen I worked at Burger King with really no hope of rising to the glorified position of manager. But I was the best employee they had because I took pride in the fact I did my job well.

\off to bed because I'm old (45) and have to work early.
\\maybe I'll just call in sick, my job sucks anyway :)

IrateShadow: wee: I've seen a few exceptions, but pretty much this. That or they just stop showing up for work. I think personal responsibility went out the window about 15-20 years ago. Chode seems to bear that out, what with everything apparently being someone else's fault.

On the flip side, you have wages that haven't really risen since the 80's, and a corporate environment where everyone will be thrown out on their ass and replaced with temps to raise the company stock a few points. Why bother being loyal for a system that isn't faithful itself?

I haven't had a raise of more than .5 to 1% in 3 years. My department is consistently operated with 60% of the bodies we need. We are constantly behind and asked to give 125% everyday. Simply because our CEO would rather burn us out rather than hire bodies.

I won't blame the baby boomers any more than I blame the young "conservatives" like myself that were fooled 15-20 years ago into buying into the Republican mindset lock, stock, and barrel. It's taken me 15 years to go from dyed-in-the-wool Republican to Libertarian to might-as-well-be-liberal, and it's been destructive right-wing policies that have made me and a number of reformed Republicans see the error of our ways. Are we, 30 years from now, to be blamed for the decade of despair?

LaChanz: To me it's not really about the system as much as taking pride in what you do.

I can understand that, but almost everything is fungible at this point, including people. You don't pay the guy who has pride more, because you can hire two guys who don't give a shiat for what you pay him. And who cares if they cost you business? Most of the time there's no competition, or they're just as bad as you are.

Thank you for cleaning my toilet.
Remind me to leave you a little something extra.

TommyymmoT: Thank you for cleaning my toilet.
Remind me to leave you a little something extra.

*pleasedon'tletitbeinthetoilet*pleasedon'tletitbeinthetoilet*pleasedon'tletitbe i nthetoilet*pleasedon'tletitbeinthetoilet*

The under 25s, in contrast, are the generation most likely to be lonely and stressed by money worries, a survey claims.

Which generation had all those wealthy under 25s?

LaChanz: To me it's not really about the system as much as taking pride in what you do. When I was a teen I worked at Burger King with really no hope of rising to the glorified position of manager. But I was the best employee they had because I took pride in the fact I did my job well.

That's all well and good, until one day at work you realize that even though you're going to graduate from college soon, you will probably be stuck at this job because the shiatty economy has left very few career-jobs out there. Then you realize that even though you're working hard, no one cares. The customers don't give a crap as long as their fat faces are stuffed. The manager doesn't give a crap because he's busy kissing the DM's ass. Your co-workers don't care because they already realized this sad joke a long time ago, or because they're just honestly lazy and apathetic. You clean extra and do your best to stick to standards and do a good job and for what? What, may I ask you? Self-satisfaction will not pay the student loans, my friend.

/ahem

El Chode

I cannot wait until they all die off.

I've got an idea...



but you'd probably run.

Look, I didn't make them get a degree in art history, OK? Just mow my farking lawn and fetch me a bag of cheeseburgers...

El Chode: I cannot wait until they all die off.

You are such a loser...

McFifenstein: Which brings us to the whole "we're entitled to have functioning boners till we're 85" thing.

I am immensely pleased I took you off my ignore list.

Great Metal Jesus: Blaming an entire generation of people for anything is farking retarded. They're not some monolithic hive-mind or a secret society. All boomers aren't evil, greedy f*cks who masturbate to the idea of bleeding the planet dry and all youngsters aren't shiftless slobs who've never worked a day in their lives.

Of course the whole generation isn't evil.

However on the whole they where over-indulged by everyone from parents to government because the nukes were coming anytime. Maybe that is why they seem so damn greedy. They promised to change the world but things still seem the be the same if not worse. They have by and large turned into the crabby old men and women they so easily accused their parents of being.

So yeah many of us who bought their hippie shiat aren't really happy that with them right about now. The boomers having had their turn at running the country are running scared. All they manged was to choose a playboy and a fratboy, in that order, as their generation's selections to the be President.

Evil...no.
Changing f*ck all...yes.

Seit_N_Zounde:

[. . .]

Well that's reductive enough to qualify as pure wharrgarbl. If you can't think your way out of a wet paper bag, perhaps you deserve to be beset by overpriveleged geriatrics

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Bek: McFifenstein: Which brings us to the whole "we're entitled to have functioning boners till we're 85" thing.

My boner stops functioning at around 78 inches. After that it turns into one of those promotional balloon guys.

Sorry ladies.

as long as the 55 and older crowd isn't working for health care coverage in the US; i see a ton of them

LaChanz: I'm sure you're justified, if at least in your own mind, about your hatred for boomers. I'm a small business owner and have to have help for my business. Every under 30 person I ever hire I have to either wake up every morning because they've either been up all night playing video games or drinking or they work 3 days and call in sick 2. If someone around 25 is cleaning toilets for a living I'm willing to bet they're doing a sucky job at it.


did you ever stop to wonder why ?

no, I didn't think so.

Thought this thread might be about Tokyo Sonata.


/leaving disappointed

/okay, not really

take your generational generalizations and f*ck off
it's beyond retarded to label everyone born in the same years


El ChodeThe Baby Boomers were the generation that wanted everything to be given to them for free, and now they're the ones that want to keep everything for themselves.


Are you for f*cking real?
Anybody else left to blame for your shiitty life?


/by the way i was born in 1962, technically the end of the BB's
//unemployed, broke and alone
///hope that doesn't f*ck you up too much

I hope they all get hand cancer so they have to wipe their ass with eachother's feet.

/not done with it yet.

I'm unemployed, having just been layed off for the second time in 6 months with 8 bucks in my checking account; so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

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//drinking 32oz hurricanes tonight :)

SLinky-Griffith: I'm unemployed, having just been layed off for the second time in 6 months with 8 bucks in my checking account; so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/24
//drinking 32oz hurricanes tonight :)


8 bucks in your account, and you are here on fark ? you are moments from homeless dude. internet is a luxury you can't afford.

Count me in on that. 24 and have been searching for a job for about 4 months now. Almost all the people I call to follow up on my resume give me a curt "We're still reviewing resumes, bye." I love slaving over a hot grill and living at my fiancee's parents' house to pay for bills and my financial aid, which can't be consolidated now because they've been overwhelmed with consolidation requests.

Pure BS. What freaking fantasy world was this article talking about? I don't know many (perhaps any) "over 55's" who are jetting across the globe as they sip champagne. In fact, I do know many "over 55's" who are working just as hard as they were at 25 so they can pay the bills.

dbaggins: SLinky-Griffith: I'm unemployed, having just been layed off for the second time in 6 months with 8 bucks in my checking account; so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/24
//drinking 32oz hurricanes tonight :)


8 bucks in your account, and you are here on fark ? you are moments from homeless dude. internet is a luxury you can't afford.

Maybe he has stupid neighbors. That's how I got wireless for a couple years.

Excuse us. We've been working so hard to support our grown 30+ kids that I forgot how put upon you little 30- kids are. My husband, who almost died from a heart attack three years ago, works 50+ hours a week to make payments on two houses so our daughter and her family have some place to live since her husband got laid off right before Christmas. I was laid off from my job last year and haven't been able to find another one yet.

Two houses mind you that are now worth a lot less than we paid for them. I should tell the bank that we're baby boomers, so we won't have to pay the mortgages any more.

Oh and even with our great insurance we still spend around $500 a month for medicine and Doctors visits.

Yeah. We've got it made

LaChanz: I'm sure you're justified, if at least in your own mind, about your hatred for boomers. I'm a small business owner and have to have help for my business. Every under 30 person I ever hire I have to either wake up every morning because they've either been up all night playing video games or drinking or they work 3 days and call in sick 2. If someone around 25 is cleaning toilets for a living I'm willing to bet they're doing a sucky job at it.

Either you pay shiat wage, are a shiat boss, or have shiat work or are shiat at screening applicants (or some admixture of the prior).

aybara: IrateShadow: wee: I've seen a few exceptions, but pretty much this. That or they just stop showing up for work. I think personal responsibility went out the window about 15-20 years ago. Chode seems to bear that out, what with everything apparently being someone else's fault.

On the flip side, you have wages that haven't really risen since the 80's, and a corporate environment where everyone will be thrown out on their ass and replaced with temps to raise the company stock a few points. Why bother being loyal for a system that isn't faithful itself?

I haven't had a raise of more than .5 to 1% in 3 years. My department is consistently operated with 60% of the bodies we need. We are constantly behind and asked to give 125% everyday. Simply because our CEO would rather burn us out rather than hire bodies.

That's why it's called "work", snowflake.

GreyArt: Excuse us. We've been working so hard to support our grown 30+ kids that I forgot how put upon you little 30- kids are. My husband, who almost died from a heart attack three years ago, works 50+ hours a week to make payments on two houses so our daughter and her family have some place to live since her husband got laid off right before Christmas. I was laid off from my job last year and haven't been able to find another one yet.

Two houses mind you that are now worth a lot less than we paid for them. I should tell the bank that we're baby boomers, so we won't have to pay the mortgages any more.

Oh and even with our great insurance we still spend around $500 a month for medicine and Doctors visits.

Yeah. We've got it made

So you bought a freaking house? Were there no places for rent or something?

logruszed: LaChanz: I'm sure you're justified, if at least in your own mind, about your hatred for boomers. I'm a small business owner and have to have help for my business. Every under 30 person I ever hire I have to either wake up every morning because they've either been up all night playing video games or drinking or they work 3 days and call in sick 2. If someone around 25 is cleaning toilets for a living I'm willing to bet they're doing a sucky job at it.

Either you pay shiat wage, are a shiat boss, or have shiat work or are shiat at screening applicants (or some admixture of the prior).

The last kitchen I worked for would literally hire people who could fill out an application almost right. The owner wondered why he kept getting shiatty workers and having all his good people leave.

GreyArt: Excuse us. We've been working so hard to support our grown 30+ kids that I forgot how put upon you little 30- kids are. My husband, who almost died from a heart attack three years ago, works 50+ hours a week to make payments on two houses so our daughter and her family have some place to live since her husband got laid off right before Christmas. I was laid off from my job last year and haven't been able to find another one yet.

Two houses mind you that are now worth a lot less than we paid for them. I should tell the bank that we're baby boomers, so we won't have to pay the mortgages any more.

Oh and even with our great insurance we still spend around $500 a month for medicine and Doctors visits.

Yeah. We've got it made

Are you seriously complaining when you've got two houses??? You poor dear.

LaChanz: I'm sure you're justified, if at least in your own mind, about your hatred for boomers. I'm a small business owner and have to have help for my business. Every under 30 person I ever hire I have to either wake up every morning because they've either been up all night playing video games or drinking or they work 3 days and call in sick 2. If someone around 25 is cleaning toilets for a living I'm willing to bet they're doing a sucky job at it.

I have to agree with you here. Even though I'm 27. I got a better job in order to not have to have roommates because they couldn't keep their menial jobs long enough to always have the rent, and there was no way I was going to save for a down payment if I had to keep bailing them out of trouble. Being well educated doesn't mean anything if you're still a lazy slob. Have fun in your crappy jobs for crappy money. I quit my job in December because of an ethics issue with my boss, and started a new job the first week of February with about a 25% salary increase. Tell me again how hard it is to find jobs when you're a good employee?