I am sick and tired of the baby boomers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen-Xer here. Look, there's plenty of blame to go around for our current economic and political problems - it doesn't all fall at the feet of the Boomers.

HOWEVER, I do wish Boomers would recognize a few things about themselves that annoy the living fuck out of the rest of us:

- Nobody cares where you were when JFK was shot;
- You did not invent civil rights or social justice;
- The Beatles were great. Were. Past tense;
- Hippies suck.
- Yuppies are even worse than hippies;
- Yes, you are self-absorbed.

I am seriously tired of hearing how great Boomer music is. I've heard it so much I seriously do not care if I hear anything recorded before 1977 ever again.

Can't wait until people get seriously tired of hearing out great your generations music is. Hopefully, you'll have the decency to shut the eff up. Oh, yeah, it's coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen-Xer here. Look, there's plenty of blame to go around for our current economic and political problems - it doesn't all fall at the feet of the Boomers.

HOWEVER, I do wish Boomers would recognize a few things about themselves that annoy the living fuck out of the rest of us:

- Nobody cares where you were when JFK was shot;
- You did not invent civil rights or social justice;
- The Beatles were great. Were. Past tense;
- Hippies suck.
- Yuppies are even worse than hippies;
- Yes, you are self-absorbed.

I am seriously tired of hearing how great Boomer music is. I've heard it so much I seriously do not care if I hear anything recorded before 1977 ever again.

Can't wait until people get seriously tired of hearing out great your generations music is. Hopefully, you'll have the decency to shut the eff up. Oh, yeah, it's coming.

No one has ever talked about how great our generation's music was because they were STILL so busy talking about how great the fucking Boomer music was. My husband graduated in 1989 and his prom theme - we still have the mug - was "Wonderful Tonight," written in 1977 about how great one of the Beatles' wives was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You Gen X'ers and Millenials are funny. Do you really think it's possible to generalize about a group of adults ranging in current age from 51-almost 70 years? I was born in 1961 and certainly don't remember where I was when JFK was shot, nor do I worship at the alter of the Beatles. Boomers are not all the same, anymore than your cohorts are monolithic.

Grow up already. No generation is perfect, and none should be villified either. There are simply different challenges and advantages that shaped the Boomers -- no better or worse than those that will shape your generation. And eventually, every generation gets old, is blamed for the world's problems, and then dies. It will be the same for you all.

Though I was young, I do remember where I was when JFK was shot. And when MLK was shot. I also remember where I was on 9/11.

Sadly, there will be people like the other pp who will say nobody cares where you were on 9/11.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen-Xer here. Look, there's plenty of blame to go around for our current economic and political problems - it doesn't all fall at the feet of the Boomers.

HOWEVER, I do wish Boomers would recognize a few things about themselves that annoy the living fuck out of the rest of us:

- Nobody cares where you were when JFK was shot;
- You did not invent civil rights or social justice;
- The Beatles were great. Were. Past tense;
- Hippies suck.
- Yuppies are even worse than hippies;
- Yes, you are self-absorbed.

I am seriously tired of hearing how great Boomer music is. I've heard it so much I seriously do not care if I hear anything recorded before 1977 ever again.

Can't wait until people get seriously tired of hearing out great your generations music is. Hopefully, you'll have the decency to shut the eff up. Oh, yeah, it's coming.

No one has ever talked about how great our generation's music was because they were STILL so busy talking about how great the fucking Boomer music was. My husband graduated in 1989 and his prom theme - we still have the mug - was "Wonderful Tonight," written in 1977 about how great one of the Beatles' wives was.

This song was banned at my wedding.

To be fair, some Boomers were doing great things -- but mostly in the punk and post-punk movements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You Gen X'ers and Millenials are funny. Do you really think it's possible to generalize about a group of adults ranging in current age from 51-almost 70 years? I was born in 1961 and certainly don't remember where I was when JFK was shot, nor do I worship at the alter of the Beatles. Boomers are not all the same, anymore than your cohorts are monolithic.

Grow up already. No generation is perfect, and none should be villified either. There are simply different challenges and advantages that shaped the Boomers -- no better or worse than those that will shape your generation. And eventually, every generation gets old, is blamed for the world's problems, and then dies. It will be the same for you all.

Though I was young, I do remember where I was when JFK was shot. And when MLK was shot. I also remember where I was on 9/11.

Sadly, there will be people like the other pp who will say nobody cares where you were on 9/11.

Nobody should care where I was on 9/11. It's irrelevant and uninteresting, and to pretend otherwise would be an exercise in petty narcissism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You Gen X'ers and Millenials are funny. Do you really think it's possible to generalize about a group of adults ranging in current age from 51-almost 70 years? I was born in 1961 and certainly don't remember where I was when JFK was shot, nor do I worship at the alter of the Beatles. Boomers are not all the same, anymore than your cohorts are monolithic.

Grow up already. No generation is perfect, and none should be villified either. There are simply different challenges and advantages that shaped the Boomers -- no better or worse than those that will shape your generation. And eventually, every generation gets old, is blamed for the world's problems, and then dies. It will be the same for you all.

Though I was young, I do remember where I was when JFK was shot. And when MLK was shot. I also remember where I was on 9/11.

Sadly, there will be people like the other pp who will say nobody cares where you were on 9/11.

Nobody should care where I was on 9/11. It's irrelevant and uninteresting, and to pretend otherwise would be an exercise in petty narcissism.

+1000 THANK YOU!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen-Xer here. Look, there's plenty of blame to go around for our current economic and political problems - it doesn't all fall at the feet of the Boomers.

HOWEVER, I do wish Boomers would recognize a few things about themselves that annoy the living fuck out of the rest of us:

- Nobody cares where you were when JFK was shot;
- You did not invent civil rights or social justice;- The Beatles were great. Were. Past tense;
- Hippies suck.
- Yuppies are even worse than hippies;
- Yes, you are self-absorbed.

I am seriously tired of hearing how great Boomer music is. I've heard it so much I seriously do not care if I hear anything recorded before 1977 ever again.

Can't wait until people get seriously tired of hearing out great your generations music is. Hopefully, you'll have the decency to shut the eff up. Oh, yeah, it's coming.

Except that they did. Oh and started the computer revolution, the internet, the cell phone and so on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You Gen X'ers and Millenials are funny. Do you really think it's possible to generalize about a group of adults ranging in current age from 51-almost 70 years? I was born in 1961 and certainly don't remember where I was when JFK was shot, nor do I worship at the alter of the Beatles. Boomers are not all the same, anymore than your cohorts are monolithic.

Grow up already. No generation is perfect, and none should be villified either. There are simply different challenges and advantages that shaped the Boomers -- no better or worse than those that will shape your generation. And eventually, every generation gets old, is blamed for the world's problems, and then dies. It will be the same for you all.

Though I was young, I do remember where I was when JFK was shot. And when MLK was shot. I also remember where I was on 9/11.

Sadly, there will be people like the other pp who will say nobody cares where you were on 9/11.

Nobody should care where I was on 9/11. It's irrelevant and uninteresting, and to pretend otherwise would be an exercise in petty narcissism.

+1000 THANK YOU!

Ah, but you forget. The Boomers have a monopoly on petty narcissism. How in the world will the rest of us know the *right* way to think without them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen-Xer here. Look, there's plenty of blame to go around for our current economic and political problems - it doesn't all fall at the feet of the Boomers.

HOWEVER, I do wish Boomers would recognize a few things about themselves that annoy the living fuck out of the rest of us:

- Nobody cares where you were when JFK was shot;
- You did not invent civil rights or social justice;- The Beatles were great. Were. Past tense;
- Hippies suck.
- Yuppies are even worse than hippies;
- Yes, you are self-absorbed.

I am seriously tired of hearing how great Boomer music is. I've heard it so much I seriously do not care if I hear anything recorded before 1977 ever again.

Can't wait until people get seriously tired of hearing out great your generations music is. Hopefully, you'll have the decency to shut the eff up. Oh, yeah, it's coming.

Except that they did. Oh and started the computer revolution, the internet, the cell phone and so on

OH, that's right. Al Gore invented the internet and he's Boomer through and through. I forgot about that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't trust anyone over 30.

Your day is coming, and you won't be trusted. Guaranteed.

If she doesn't die first

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
And you are not self-absorbed?

Group attributes are what we're talking about here, not individual ones. Do try to keep up.

Oh, excuse me. Your generations is both self-absorbed and bitchy. Is that better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a member of Gerneration X, I am tired of having to pay for debts created by baby boomers to pay for benefits for baby boomers. If you were born between 1943 and 1960, I'm talking to you. And it is only getting worse. The changes to Medicare being dicussed will have the greatest effect not on the baby boomers but on those of us who follow in their wake. Just because you wasted all you money to buy a micro bus in the 60s, bell bottoms in the 70s, power suits in the 80s and pad thai in the 90s, doesn't mean that I want to bail you out. Let me talk to you in language you can understand, "Why don't you all just fff...fade away, I'm talkin' about [your] generation."

Another thing, The Beatles are over rated.

Then, you should most certainly vote Republican if you have any hopes of reducing the debt being passed to your generation and beyond. The Dems believe the debt is unimportant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Pretty much every one over 50 I know these days is a douchebag. On one hand we owe the liberal boomers a lot. The conservatives not so much. I do think on the whole they were the most fucked up generation, in that they where clearly disorganized, the hippie movement was clearly half baked as where most of its participants. But the biggest irony here is some many of that generation did drugs and had sex to rebel against their parents ideals only to become just like them when they hit 45. Not to mention that so many of you are clearly in denial about what happens when we get older, and simply don't like it. The younger generation wants some security, the older generation wants to be younger, and these so called millenials ( not a real word?) in turn will have to be more like their grandparents generation one that is capable of dealing with enormous stress, able to face the depressions of life, the ability to create a life outside of corporate infrastructure because once America was made up of small privately owned businesses instead of cookie cutter anything. Remember the old soda fountains, the barber shops, drugstores and hardware stores? Remember when your mechanic was your neighbor? I don't. I was born in 79, and those things were almost extinct by the time I hit middle school. The simple truth of my generation is this, most middle class jobs that once supported their workers no longer pay enough money to justify the hamster wheel they create. But I suspect that any baby boomers out there who are not financially secure already who are basically in the same boat as the younger gens, know this already. At some point the reality of things may change to where this discussion is obsolete and or moot, because as much as we all think" it's not our job to......" Society is something we all have to be a part of, and the young and old should take care of each other, and for thousands of years the older generations have had the money but they realized in the past it wasn't much use without people to care about. Too many baby boomers are afraid to retire, because either they haven't really got what they need to do so or they don't want to get old, because when their parents did that they got even older almost immediately and often passed away, death is scary, and well we shouldn't be so quick to push people of a cliff. However , you guys are really confusing, many of you obviously never really had your shit together , and , as child born to wealthy parents who lost it all in the 80s, so e of you where really spoiled, and don't even remember it , because you most likely took it for granted. In the late 60s my dad drove a jag XKE. He had it 8 months before he wrecked it. It was then replaced a series of equally expensive cars. He also basically stole my college money from under my nose. He also told me that if I was gay and ever got aids he would disown me. It didn't matter, he had already take everything. By the time we got there, there was nothing to disown.

Are you high? You seemed to have saved up all your grievances for one long spewing paragraph. Pp, I agree with you on some of the things you're saying here but even so it sounds a bit too much like whining. And of course your father is a huge dick. I hope you're not blaming that on me just because I'm a baby boomer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a typical Gen Xer (born in 73) and I found this article interesting. In some ways, we do need to stand up and take charge (just grab the reins from those stale, old Boomers!). However, as the most aborted, neglected, and lonely generation, I think we are actually reveling in standing back and remaining comfortable. We know that happiness is home made and you're not necessarily going to find it by trying to take charge and *change* everything. Perhaps our midlife crisis happened when we were trying to raise ourselves?

Also, I think there is a split among Gen Xers. The earlier waves (63-70) are the "Brat Pack"ers who were able to strike out and make rain throughout the 80's (which was one way to say FU to the previous generations). They may have lost their shirts in the dot.com bust but they had solid resumes by then to get back on the train. On the other hand, the mid to later waves (71-78ish) were the Cobain-loving, flannel-wearing, "Slackers" who have been completely raked over the coals both professionally and financially by the Boomers in charge.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/11/generation_x_gets_really_old_how_do_slackers_have_a_midlife_crisis/

Don't forget, those are only the white people. What about everyone else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is one old thread that I don't mind to see revived! Boomers are terrible!

But their children are worse!

And trolls are so unimaginative! Guys, you really have to do a better job of baiting us. You need to brush up on your trolling skills!