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MikeWaters · 05-19-2010, 08:55 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/op...9pressler.html

SeattleUte · 05-20-2010, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/op...9pressler.html

You mean gen xers? Perpetually immature genexers, who cursed us with tattoos and hip hop (thankfully now going out of business), indifferent to the slaughter of their peers in foreign wars. Boomers brought us the Internet, PC's, miracle drugs for cholesterol and HIV treatment. Gen xers brought us the current economic catastrophe.

SeattleUte · 05-20-2010, 05:01 AM

"How can a generation whose cultural trademark is a refusal to grow up have a midlife crisis?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/we...x&st=cse&scp=1

tooblue · 05-20-2010, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/op...9pressler.html

The even bigger problem are their children ... a generation that only knows how to ask Y'. Y can't you do it for me; 'Y' is this so hard; 'Y' can't you wipe if for me; 'Y' can't daddy just buy it for me?

SeattleUte · 05-20-2010, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by tooblue

The even bigger problem are their children ... a generation that only knows how to ask Y'. Y can't you do it for me; 'Y' is this so hard; 'Y' can't you wipe if for me; 'Y' can't daddy just buy it for me?

Note that it's the gen xers themselves who started this boomer hate. Speaks volumes, though my only point is the folly of these kinds of generalzations anyway.

By the way, Robin has a big boomer hate thread on Cougaruteforum. You may want to check that out, Waters.

MikeWaters · 05-20-2010, 03:57 PM

Baby boomer presidents: Clinton, GWB, Obama.

Big thumbs down.

SeattleUte · 05-20-2010, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Baby boomer presidents: Clinton, GWB, Obama.

Big thumbs down.

Funny how boomers keep getting more numerous. I didn't used to be one. What is the begin and end dates?

MikeWaters · 05-20-2010, 07:18 PM

When the demographers realized your douchiness, they redefined the generation to include you.

Egomaniac.

MikeWaters · 05-20-2010, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

By the way, Robin has a big boomer hate thread on Cougaruteforum. You may want to check that out, Waters.

It's kind of ironic that Robin ended up banned from Cougarguard, and that CUF formed with almost the exact same makeup of CG, with the notable exception of me.

So in some ways it is merely a trade of me for Robin.

Given that to some degree CP was a reaction to Robin (not entirely, but partly), and that CP is arguably what led to the downfall of CG, the whole thing has a kind of snake-swallowing-its-tail irony and harmony.

I could not have imagined it at the beginning, but now at the end, it makes me smile.

ute4ever · 05-21-2010, 02:41 AM

Oh Mike, don't be fooled by the exodus's guise of taking the high road; there were some who simply coveted your authority.

05-19-2010, 08:55 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	More commentary on the nation's Worst Generation http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/op...9pressler.html

05-20-2010, 05:01 AM	#3
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	"How can a generation whose cultural trademark is a refusal to grow up have a midlife crisis?" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/we...x&st=cse&scp=1 __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

05-20-2010, 03:57 PM	#6
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Baby boomer presidents: Clinton, GWB, Obama. Big thumbs down.

05-20-2010, 07:18 PM	#8
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	When the demographers realized your douchiness, they redefined the generation to include you. Egomaniac.

05-21-2010, 02:41 AM	#10
ute4ever I must not tell lies Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,103	Oh Mike, don't be fooled by the exodus's guise of taking the high road; there were some who simply coveted your authority.