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Why I don't like Boomers (spinoff)
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Anonymous
| No, I'm not really a bitter person. I thought some of the Boomer commentary was so hilarious in the Giant thread that I had to start another. I don't like Boomers because they will live forever and spend all the SS and Medicare $. I'm jealous as crap because they had many more income-earning years before the recession. The volvo-driving, latte-sipping, Whole foods-shopping, argula-eating, NPR-listening Boomer drives me crazy. |
Anonymous
okay---you just described me to a T...and I was born in 1970. |
Anonymous
| You just described me too. I was born in 1968. I believe that makes me and the PP solidly Generation X. |
Anonymous
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I'm 1970 also.
So how are we X'ers different then? Is it b/c they like Steely Dan and we like the Pixies (way cooler IMHO)? What are the fundamental differences? For one thing, I feel like we X'ers have much less of a sense of entitlement than the Boomers, and for that matter, Gen Y. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, this sounds like us Gen Xers to me with our trials and tribulations (http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/white_problems/). |
Anonymous
| I'm a pp from the Giant thread about boomers and how I don't like them. i don't like them b/c they had it VERY easy regarding job opportunities and seem to take for granted how easily things did come to them. Most of the boomers I know also don't seem to fathom why younger people don't have everything they have. I was born in 1970 too and although I shop at WF, drink lattes and have a volvo it's used, paid with cash, consider lattes a treat and shop at WF because it's closer to my house and I like their food. Anyway, I don't like boomers because they won't get out of the way and let Gen Xers start to run things. I find most of them very self-absorbed and have a sense of entitlement. All of my siblings are boomers and they generally have the same traits of behavior. Oh, and can I mention Chicos as the fashion place of choice for many boomer women? Or that store iJill? WEIRD! |
Anonymous
| Since I was born in November 1976, am I Gen X or Y? |
Anonymous
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I don't like them because so many of them have pensions yet will still consume all the Medicare and Medicaid money.
Show me one person born in 1970 who will have a pension!? |
Anonymous
You're at the tail end of X... probably could go either way. How do you see yourself? Are you obsessed with Facebook? .... if so you're probably a Y (LOL!) |
Anonymous
Well, I was born in 67 and will have two. Does that count? |
Anonymous
Good for you. Go ahead and rub salt in the wound. |
Anonymous
What wound? I was making crap in the 90s when all my friends were getting rich during the tech boom. You gotta make it (or lose it) one way or the other. |
Anonymous
| Well, I was born in '73 and have recently discovered that some Boomers are actually pleasant people BUT if we're generalizing, I hate them because they decided that I have to do EVERYTHING as part of that idiotic "having it all" blather, and if I can't do EVERYTHING single-handed (because that's the way it can be for women who don't have considerable support at home in the real world-- the one that bites) then I should have chosen to focus on a career until I was crusty and gray instead of reproducing at a biologically appropriate age when the plumbing still worked... as I chose to do. They're the reason why I need to buckle down to my second shift of home-related work now that I've just arrived home (at 9:30) after an already busy day instead of sleeping. |
Anonymous
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"And I have to endure pinheads like you rusting above me for the rest of my life, always grabbing the best piece of cake first, and then putting barbed wire around the rest. You really make me sick."
Douglas Coupland, Generation X |
Anonymous
| ... and the reason I've consumed soooo much caffeine to mimic super-human powers that I can't actually demonstrate. Bet they're enjoying their yoga. |