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The Worst Generation

  • Since there is a Greatest Generation, there must be a worst one too. Personally, I nominate the Baby Boomers. I would have said my generation (I guess we're called Millennials) until we got boned by the baby boomers being the greediest sumbitches on the planet. Also, because my generation is the product of the Baby Boomers, they bear a lot of responsibility for how lazy and selfish we all are.

    What say ye, suque?

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    JManslow ●

  • Baby Boomers are the most selfish assholes the planet has ever seen. I think they will be responsible for the upcoming zombie wasteland.

    TomsOfMD

  • Everytime I see one of those retirement investing commercials (Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Morgan Stanley) featuring those smug babyboomers, I just want to punch them in the face. Also GTFO with not being able to get a boner without drugs.

    esquire

  • :esquire said...

    Everytime I see one of those retirement investing commercials (Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Morgan Stanley) featuring those smug babyboomers, I just want to punch them in the face. Also GTFO with not being able to get a boner without drugs.

    A Vineyard? GIVE ME A BREAK!

    NYCTerp05: i guarantee you my child won't turn out gay

    JemoTerp

  • :esquire said...

    Everytime I see one of those retirement investing commercials (Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Morgan Stanley) featuring those smug babyboomers, I just want to punch them in the face. Also GTFO with not being able to get a boner without drugs.

    Those commercials remind me of the rich assholes getting into a life raft ahead of women and children on the Titanic. It's like "Hey! We were handed life on a silver platter and now we're outty, have fun with our mess!"

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    JManslow ●

  • I never really understood the term "the greatest generation". Was it because the women went to work in WW2? They all pulled together in time of need? It just doesn't seem like it was all that great if you were a minority living in the south.

    sniper_terp ●

  • I give the Boomers credit because they at least had to deal with Vietnam. As bad as Iraq and Afghanistan have been, quadruple it and add a draft.

    I personally think my generation, those on the tail end of the baby boom and the beginning of Gen X, are pretty awful. We had zero hardship in our lives, were weened in the gimme, gimme, gimme era, and were not instilled with the sense of community that previous generations felt. We are in it for ourselves and make no bones about it.

    fletchterpz ●

  • sniper_terp said...

    I never really understood the term "the greatest generation". Was it because the women went to work in WW2? They all pulled together in time of need? It just doesn't seem like it was all that great if you were a minority living in the south.

    It was due to the fact that they survived The Great Depression, and most able man (and woman) went into service without being drafted during WWII.

    "The drummer for Maryland's pep band just freaked out: 'They're trying to slow the game down,' he screamed. 'Get up on them, get up on them.

    Terp02

  • I'd say many members of the greatest generation were responsible for a lot of civil rights progress.

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    JManslow ●

  • JManslow said...

    I'd say many members of the greatest generation were responsible for a lot of civil rights progress.

    NSFW (language)

    This post was edited by Gumbercules on 11/16/2010 at 4:05 PM

    Gumbercules

  • This whole generation thing is just dumb. People are people, and they play the hand they are dealt. It's not like if you took all the people who were born in 1920 and jumped them ahead to 1950, then we'd all have saved for our retirement and not be upside-down on mortgages today.

    The baby boomers were exceptionally lucky about when and where in history they were born. They sucked that well pretty much bone dry, no doubt about it. But you would have too if you'd been there.

    thesloth

  • thesloth said...

    This whole generation thing is just dumb. People are people, and they play the hand they are dealt. It's not like if you took all the people who were born in 1920 and jumped them ahead to 1950, then we'd all have saved for our retirement and not be upside-down on mortgages today.

    The baby boomers were exceptionally lucky about when and where in history they were born. They sucked that well pretty much bone dry, no doubt about it. But you would have too if you'd been there.

    This works if you are looking at it on a micro level, but the macro level observations about generations provide great insights about how American culture has progressed/regressed.

    The greatest generation thing clearly does not refer to the equality issues that have been in existence since before our country was officially established. To be fair, getting minorities involved in WWII helped provide the spark for future civil rights. They earned this title the hard way. The Depression and World War II were threatening the very existence of our nation. Yet, these people, who were subjected to extreme hardship throughout their lives, stepped up, unified, and made the world a better place.

    We missed our chance to unite and change the world after 9/11. There was a period where I thought we could have an impact and be remembered for being a great generation. We, as a people, are too entitled and too selfish to ever come together like the World War II generation did. There are a lot of great people in this age demographic, but I would wager that if you transplanted us into a real depression then threw WWII at us, we would not be up to the task relative to the Greatest Generation.

    The fact is, we haven't ever had to fight our way out of a corner. Everything is resolved way too quickly (the economy teetered, but did not die) or is compartmentalized (Afghanistan/Iraq) for it to change the way we think.

    That being said, we are also the luckiest people on the face of the earth. Let's hope it stays that way.

    TwiggaTerp

  • The "Greatest Generation" really did rule. They grew up through The Depression and then once that was over they weren't like, "Thank God thats over. Lets get back to buying shit we don't need, drinking, and watching baseball." Instead they were like, "Fuck this Hitler guy, I'm signing up for the Marines. We'll make a bunch of babies when I get back, hunny. I guess just go build B-52 bombers while I'm gone."

    "I suffered through the Boller years and nearly a decade of offensive futility." -Bmorechil

    ccterp ●

  • from a macro level it does appear that the boomer let their greed run over personal ethics-and generally ethics are passed down from generation to generation in my view. perhaps the hippie generation is more responsible for the lack of ethics.

    TerpPride

  • Whatever generation raised their kids to think that dodgeball should be outlawed and that sports without scores were the way to go because "everybody's a winner because you participated!"

    bkmalik

  • TwiggaTerp said...

    This works if you are looking at it on a micro level, but the macro level observations about generations provide great insights about how American culture has progressed/regressed.

    To quote a sign I saw at the Rally to Restore Sanity: "You make a good point!"

    I will certainly agree that we can view each generation in the context of history and conclude that the WWII generation faced great challenges and rose to the occasion, while the Boomers were presented with great opportunity and mostly squandered it.

    I'm just saying that if you transplanted me into the Depression era and threw WWII at me, I wouldn't be me - I'd be my dad, and I'd do much the same stuff he did. And so would the rest of the Boomers. Our curse has been our easy road to wealth and a standard of living that is probably unsustainable in an emerging global society.

    thesloth

  • ccterp said...

    The "Greatest Generation" really did rule. They grew up through The Depression and then once that was over they weren't like, "Thank God thats over. Lets get back to buying shit we don't need, drinking, and watching baseball." Instead they were like, "Fuck this Hitler guy, I'm signing up for the Marines. We'll make a bunch of babies when I get back, hunny. I guess just go build B-52 bombers while I'm gone."

    One of my favorite random, small-level WWII stories was from an Eisenhower biography.

    He was talking terms of surrender with a Nazi lieutenant or something, and Eisenhower basically told the guy that if the 48-hour truce (no guns fired whatsoever) was broken, he would personally hunt him down and kill him.

    Dwight David MF'ing Eisenhower

    "And I try to har-mo-nize with songs the lonesome sparrow sings... There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden."

    dixonownsyou ●

  • My grandfather got a letter from his mom to join the Navy at age 16 because he knew how to work on electric motors and wanted to help kill Nazi's.

    I'm pretty sure there are 16 year olds today that can't wipe their own asses without mommy and daddy's help.

    "I suffered through the Boller years and nearly a decade of offensive futility." -Bmorechil

    ccterp ●

  • just because Tom Brokaw said so, it doesn't mean that they were the greatest generation

    I'm sure there were better generations

    Overrated IMO

    esquire

  • It's great. The Gen Y'ers are complaining about the Baby Boomers who are buying them houses and paying their credit card and cell phone bills while they live at home because they haven't been offered a job that is worthy of their enormous talents.

    Awesome.

    terpinnyc

  • terpinnyc said...

    It's great. The Gen Y'ers are complaining about the Baby Boomers who are buying them houses and paying their credit card and cell phone bills while they live at home because they haven't been offered a job that is worthy of their enormous talents.

    Awesome.

    Cool post.

    TomsOfMD

  • the first thing I was reminded of on opening this thread...

    OttoMaddox

  • terpinnyc said...

    It's great. The Gen Y'ers are complaining about the Baby Boomers who are buying them houses and paying their credit card and cell phone bills while they live at home because they haven't been offered a job that is worthy of their enormous talents.

    Awesome.

    Thanks for proving why Booomers suck. Not because of your post, but because most of you are the ones who raised us to believe that we were something special who didn't need to be self-reliant.

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    JManslow ●

  • I'm not a Boomer, I would be considered Gen X. I share much of your viewpoint, though laugh at your cohort's efforts.

    terpinnyc

  • Nevermind then. You're cool in my book.

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    JManslow ●

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