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re: Baby boomer nostalgia is about to get worse
Posted on 2/3/16 at 1:22 pm to knight_ryder
Posted on 2/3/16 at 1:22 pm to knight_ryder
I don't know about everything Baby Boomer always getting press coverage. Recently there occurred one of the greatest coincidences in music history, when 2 members of the '60s band The Jefferson Airplane died on the same day -- yet this received surprisingly little media attention.
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Posted on 2/3/16 at 1:28 pm to Kafka
Not mainstream, but it was pretty big on boomer social media. We're at the age where we'll be losing 60's and 70's musicians at a rapid pace.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 1:40 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:It reminds me of when I was a little kid in the '70s when it seemed like the newspaper always had an obit for somebody from the golden age of Hollywood in the 20s, 30s, and 40s
We're at the age where we'll be losing 60's and 70's musicians at a rapid pace
Of course as I was so young most of those names meant nothing to me at the time. Now a lot of them mean a great deal.
I also remember young people bitching about the WWII generation -- yep, the "Greatest Generation" -- who were responsible for the mess the world was in.
Even Baby Boomer resentment isn't new. I recall being on a bus in the mid-late '80s and overhearing 2 LSU grad students (I presume that's what they were) complaining about research grants drying up and that it wasn't like "the old days" when the money flowed "like manna from heaven".
Posted on 2/3/16 at 2:35 pm to Seldom Seen
Who do you think brought us PC? Boomers, especially those who never grew up, fighting all things they considered arbitrary, EXCEPT PC.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 3:06 pm to knight_ryder
The narrative:
Boomers: too self-absorbed
Millennials: too self-aware
Gen X : caught in between both worlds
Boomers: too self-absorbed
Millennials: too self-aware
Gen X : caught in between both worlds
Posted on 2/3/16 at 3:29 pm to Seldom Seen
quote:Until some students say "frick you" at a basketball game.
At least the boomers aren't all pc
Posted on 2/3/16 at 5:21 pm to Kafka
quote:
It reminds me of when I was a little kid in the '70s when it seemed like the newspaper always had an obit for somebody from the golden age of Hollywood in the 20s, 30s, and 40s
It was the same for comic book creators in the 90's and 2000's. All of the guys who created the superhero genre were teens at the same time when they got into the business at the end of the 30's. Jack Kirby died in '94 then we started to see more and more go until it was a monthly ritual. Now they're all gone except for Stan Lee and one or two other guys.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 5:40 pm to Purplehaze
Purple haze for president
Posted on 2/3/16 at 5:55 pm to knight_ryder
quote:
"The 'Me Generation' already glorifies its past, and we're about to hit the 50th anniversaries of the events of the late 1960s"
Here's good news for you: many of us Boomers will soon be at the age of Alzheimer's: in other words, we won't have any memory, so no memories to get nostalgic about.
Hope this makes you feel better.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 6:04 pm to knight_ryder
quote:I look forward to the 50th anniversary celebrations of cultural milestones for later generations:
"The 'Me Generation' already glorifies its past, and we're about to hit the 50th anniversaries of the events of the late 1960s
Introduction of the XBox
Third rebooting of Spiderman franchise
Michael Sam's Draft Day on ESPN
First college student prosecuted under hate speech code
Assassination of Tupac (with flags flown at half mast) and ensuing government cover up
Posted on 2/3/16 at 7:20 pm to Kafka
quote:
I look forward to the 50th anniversary celebrations of cultural milestones for later generations:
Introduction of the XBox
Third rebooting of Spiderman franchise
Michael Sam's Draft Day on ESPN
First college student prosecuted under hate speech code
Assassination of Tupac (with flags flown at half mast) and ensuing government cover up
This post was edited on 2/3/16 at 7:26 pm
Posted on 2/3/16 at 7:25 pm to Kafka
Don't forget about the recent recession and the situation in the middle east 
Posted on 2/3/16 at 7:28 pm to ipodking
Boomers and millennials hate each other because they are the same. They are the entitled generations.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 8:04 pm to AjaxFury
quote:
Gen X : caught in between both worlds
I get tired of the old entitled shitheads and the youngsters they spawned. Both of them annoy the hell out of me. Finding someone my age in Asheville is rare. They are all either in their Sixties or Twenties.
This post was edited on 2/3/16 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 2/3/16 at 8:14 pm to knight_ryder
Posted on 2/3/16 at 8:17 pm to ballscaster
quote:
I'm Generation X, and I can't wait for the Boomers to die off. They ruined this country
I'm Gen X also, and I can't wait for you to die off.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 8:22 pm to AjaxFury
quote:
Boomers: too self-absorbed
We became this after we raised our kids and the little bastards they brought into our houses.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:32 am to Godfather1
quote:Didn't ask and don't care, you little bitch.
I'm Gen X also, and I can't wait for you to die off.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:33 am to Redbone
quote:So you did a shitty job. That's the point.
We became this after we raised our kids and the little bastards they brought into our houses.
Posted on 2/4/16 at 12:40 am to Seldom Seen
quote:they invented it
quote:
Yep. As a member of the generation sandwiched between them, I can't stand either of them.
At least the boomers aren't all pc.
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