2. While you are young, screw yourselves over to get ahead, because the man will take care of you.

And even if she had, twouldn't'a hurt 'em none.

They have been consistently in favor of social justice and economic equality. They qualify as the most educated generation this country has ever seen.


Those aren't the boomers we're looking for. The talk-radio addled, ladder-pulling, generation-warrior fatheads prattling about a "work ethic" consisting of "suck up and suck it up" are the ones who ought to go up against the wall.

1) you fark'd that up
2) you fark'd that up
3) perhaps worrying a bit more would of helped us all out?
4) my grandfather drank every day of his life until he dropped dead at 91. So fark you.
5) its idiots like you that are preventing me from getting married to my partner of 10 years. So fark you again.
6) Perhaps you should of said no one or two more times than you did - and we wouldn't be in the fark'd up situation we are in

/not bitter
//really

8. Find a near-infinite quantity of free energy, blow it on private cars.
9. Establish client states in the most resource-rich areas of the world, exploit.
10. Expect every good trend to continue in an upward trajectory indefinitely and every bad trend to decline miraculously.

I'm not taking any parenting advice from the generation that raised baby boomers.

My grandpa told me to "sew your wild oats"

Still working on that

1. you're doomed. you will never be a multi-millionair superstar and you will die cold and alone and there's not a damned thing you can do about it so stop trying to live forever, let the petty stuff go and just get on living.

ginandbacon: James!: ginandbacon: Just don't eat me ma. I'm fairly fond of her.

She'll have to fight her way through the retirement zone like everyone else.

She's hidden in a densely populated urban center in the Northeast. You'll have to find her first.

GAT_00: ginandbacon: You keep missing the point.

You said the Baby Boomers have consistently been in favor of social justice and economic equality. That simply isn't true.

Generationally, they are.

Only those hidden in densely populated urban centers in the Northeast.

/there used to be a few in California
//now they just pester the state assembly on NIMBY issues
///conservative win

Seems pretty straight forward advice, though I can see many in here already stand against it as a matter of principle. Ohh well, best of luck in life.

1. Screw you, I got mine!

2. Screw you, I got mine, biatch!

3. Do well in school and get a degree or you'll end up in a dead-end job flipping burgers, and you don't want that, do you?

4. Look at the entitled snowflakes! Suddenly a dead-end job flipping burgers isn't good enough for you?

5. We decided to never keep score and only hand out participation ribbons, so now we get to mock you for being the "participation generation" because that's how we raised you.

6. No one is entitled to or has a right to have a job, so quit whining about everything and go get a job, you smelly hippies!

ginandbacon:
The Boomers were the first generation to significantly raise productivity without ever seeing a pay increase for their hard work. Their pensions were disappeared and their COLA/SS payments are at historic lows. They are the generation fastest slipping into poverty.


Really their SS Payments are at Historic lows? Uh I think their grand Parents didn't even have cola's or ss payments as they didn't exist. You can't compare generations and ignore the fact that people believe they should be able to live on a program that was intended to supplement income, or keep people from starving to death. The numbers just don't work. We need to either decrease benefits or increase taxes. One or the other.

I can't believe I'm the first to point this out. These people are not boomers. They are from the generation prior. They did not cause all of todays problems; the boomers did.

ginandbacon SmartestFunniest 2011-12-27 11:26:57 AM


Go ahead and try to convince me that BOOMERS ARE EBIL!

We've been having this same stupid conversation for months now. If you don't understand that you are swallowing a load of crap from the same people that brought you the urgent news that ALMOST HALF OF AMERICANS DON'T PAY TAXESEZ! Than you are not paying attention.

The Boomers were the first generation to significantly raise productivity without ever seeing a pay increase for their hard work. Their pensions were disappeared and their COLA/SS payments are at historic lows. They are the generation fastest slipping into poverty.

They have been consistently in favor of social justice and economic equality. They qualify as the most educated generation this country has ever seen.

But yeah. Keep on pushing the talking points of some lovely assholes who just want to take the $2.6 trillion surplus that SS has and redirect it to the private market because Wall Street hasn't gotten enough taxpayer monies yet.

Ya know, you say they favored economic equality, but they have done nothing but put into office that give us economic inequality. You say they want social justice, but i have to be careful where and when i fart or i'll get sued, I cant sit in my effing house and smoke a joint and mind my own business, I can't fly on an airplane without being molested. You say they are the most educated people in the counry, yet they have made getting an education cost a farking fortune, my education is catered to the lowest common demoninator so we dont leave any kids behind. It's called karma. They voted themselves all that shiat, then voted into office the people that took it all away.

Well if the're so smart, then why are they dead (or gonna die)?

ginandbacon: Go ahead and try to convince me that BOOMERS ARE EBIL!

We've been having this same stupid conversation for months now. If you don't understand that you are swallowing a load of crap from the same people that brought you the urgent news that ALMOST HALF OF AMERICANS DON'T PAY TAXESEZ! Than you are not paying attention.

The Boomers were the first generation to significantly raise productivity without ever seeing a pay increase for their hard work. Their pensions were disappeared and their COLA/SS payments are at historic lows. They are the generation fastest slipping into poverty.

They have been consistently in favor of social justice and economic equality. They qualify as the most educated generation this country has ever seen.

But yeah. Keep on pushing the talking points of some lovely assholes who just want to take the $2.6 trillion surplus that SS has and redirect it to the private market because Wall Street hasn't gotten enough taxpayer monies yet.

They certainly aren't the most educated generation this country has ever seen, that would be every single generation after the baby boomers.

As for the social justice and economic equality part, that hasn't been true since the 1980s (if it was ever true).

Baby Boomers (people currently between the ages of and 47 and 65) make up a disproportionate share of certain "non-progressive" groups that are ardently opposed to "social justice and economic equality" (at least how such terms are generally used). They helped make their bed (with the hefty assistance of the "Greatest Generation" and whatever generation is between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers) and now we are all sleeping in it.

They also oppose things like gay marriage by a good majority. So there you go.

Greatest Generation, "What recession?"

FTA: The elders much more strongly regret things they didn't do than what they did.

Daddy? Yes, son. What does regret mean? Well son, the funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something that you haven't done. And by the way,if you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her...SATAN SATAN SATAN!!!!- the Butthole Surfers

7. Live through the most prosperous times in American history with (not coincidentally) the highest marginal tax rates, then spend the second half of your life demanding lower taxes as well as increases in social services. Attempt to leave the next generations holding the bag because you earned it all.

ginandbacon: James!: ginandbacon: Just don't eat me ma. I'm fairly fond of her.

She'll have to fight her way through the retirement zone like everyone else.

She's hidden in a densely populated urban center in the Northeast. You'll have to find her first.

GAT_00: ginandbacon: You keep missing the point.

You said the Baby Boomers have consistently been in favor of social justice and economic equality. That simply isn't true.

Generationally, they are.

Really? Because every time there is a levy on a ballot for education or township improvements here in Ohio, the baby boomers come out of the wood work to scream no, even if it would be $60 a year on someone with $100K house.

They actually didn't live so good, I'm quite happy to learn from the mistakes of my elders, especially the ones they don't recognize as mistakes.

The attempt to not do #6 created #2, which led to #3 and #4.

Artillero: I can't believe I'm the first to point this out. These people are not boomers. They are from the generation prior. They did not cause all of todays problems; the boomers did.

FTFA: Participants ranged in age from age 60 to 108 (average age was 74)

I'm the first guy to throw the Boomers under the bus, but as noted, the article is mostly about their parents, the Greatest Generation, not the Boomers.

1- Be born before they flooded the USA with lawyers and regulations making opening up a hamburger stand a $250K minimum proposition.

2- The best time to buy anything is 20 years ago.

3- Close all your US factories, no matter how profitable, and watch your stock options soar!

4- After all your customers lose their spending incomes and can't buy your company's crap, (mostly from being laid off at yours and you competitions factories), get bailouts from the US Govt. and watch your stock options soar!!

5- Make sure to attend college while it's still cheap enough to afford while working part-time washing dishes, then jack-up the price so high that only the super-rich can afford it.

6- Figure out how to get people to afford the money for daily living expenses, (tune-ups, tires, veteranary bills) by using the equity in their homes, rather than demanding pay increases for the corresponding increases in productivity gained in the 90s-2000s.

Boba Chet: The attempt to not do #6 created #2, which led to #3 and #4.

or #3 leads to #4 which leads to #2 and #6

rumpelstiltskin SmartestFunniest 2011-12-27 12:38:47 PM


Although I'm not a Boomer, I am definitely old and wise enough to give advice to nitwit millenials. Not that it's ever done any good, because somehow they still remain nitwits. But I am generous, so I keep trying.
1) Don't borrow money to go to college. It's true, the best jobs require a college degree. But if you're not smart enough to compete for a scholarship, what makes you think you're smart enough to compete for those jobs when you graduate? Sure, there are some dummies out there, who's parents could afford to pay their ways through college. You might be able to compete with them, dummy on dummy. But there are a lot more borrowers, and most of them are going to lose out. They're going to have a load of debt, and eventually they're going to have to admit they're losers. They can't put that day off forever.

1. You're a Gen Xer, in which case you're speaking privaledges have been revoked. You have nothing to contribute to anything or anyone, may God have mercy on your soul
2. You're a Baby Boomer, which you claim not to be
3. You're a Millenial, which you say you are too old to be
4. You're part of "The Greatest Generation." Which we know you aren't because you wouldnt be able to use a computer

What I admire most about the "Greatest Generation," was their willingness to take risks and just go on adventures. My Grandfather and his brother just up and went to Arkansas from Oregon in the 40's, because he heard there was a lot of work for pipe-fitters there. No job ahead of time, no cell phones, no bail-me-out direct deposit from Mom and Dad. Just a wonky car and pocket money. They took odd jobs on the way down, slept in barns, traded the car for motorcycles when it broke down and generally had an honest to god adventure.

All things considered, I've had a pretty good life so far (28), but I've never had a "I have no idea where today is going to take me" adventure.

all the good names are gone: 1-6. Screw over the younger generations through greed.

Depends on what you mean by "old". Many of the GI Generation are still alive, and I learned a lot from them.

Your comment is more directed at Baby Boomers. I call them old to piss them off. Every piece of advice I got from the Boomers has been total crap, and I have been much better off for ignoring it. When offer advice at all, anyway. . . they're more inclined to offer "facts" which are the usual bunk they saw on Fox News, or warnings about how my life will turn out to be just like theirs. It's rather annoying; in one breath they laugh about how stupid they are, but don't want anyone around them doing or saying anything smarter. They're also in total denial about everyone blaming them for the state of this country, saying it's generational. Except no one blames the generation before them because they left the world better off.

I learned more about life working with my grandfather for several hours than all the noise I got from Baby Boomers combined.

Yea, that generation was dead set against marijuana........until they got old and feeble. Suddenly they saw it had benefits that they wanted. But do they push for overall legalization? Hell no, that would be giving liberty to all. They support only "medical marijuana" which benefits primarily them.