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Do you mean appreciate what he gets in life?

Hell no, I know im damn lucky to have the life i have, I know the world doesnt own me gak. So im going to use all the advantages I do have t get further in life and give those advantages to my kids. The only thing the world owes me is air to breath.

Here we go. Some events that impact ones life

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/1970-2012-annotated-timeline

Oh yeah, how is the near collapse of our financial system not also a major crisis?

 EmilCrane wrote:
Just to be clear which generation are we talking about here? X? Y? Z? Yes gen z is a thing, which is the current generation babies are being born into now.

I dislike my own generation (Y), I hate the current one and I'm not fond of the previous one either. Personally I think the last good generation was the GI generation. I think I was born in the wrong decade.

Yeah, all that casual racism and regular lynchings were great.


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God, I need to stop reading this thread, it gets me too mad.

 Rented Tritium wrote:

 EmilCrane wrote:
Just to be clear which generation are we talking about here? X? Y? Z? Yes gen z is a thing, which is the current generation babies are being born into now.

I dislike my own generation (Y), I hate the current one and I'm not fond of the previous one either. Personally I think the last good generation was the GI generation. I think I was born in the wrong decade.

Yeah, all that casual racism and regular lynchings were great.


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God, I need to stop reading this thread, it gets me too mad.

Yeah, there's way too much stupid in it.

Reading this thread is like repeatedly bludgeoning yourself with a hammer. You can feel your IQ plummeting.

Oh yeah, how is the near collapse of our financial system not also a major crisis?

How old were you when the Golf got pummel by hurricanes? All the refineries down there got jacked up and gas prices jumped to $5-4 dollars a gallon at reg unleaded. We survived that financial crunch. You as a student Hotsauce have a financial crunch coming. Have you taken any gov't school loans? If not don't take one now. Think its an extra 3K on a ten year loan. We haven't hit the financial crash yet and when we do. I lay good money its a "reset" for the US government. Stock up and be a "Prepper"

Fortress DakkaDakka west of Seattle. Bring your mini's and your own rounds/food

 Jihadin wrote:

Fortress DakkaDakka west of Seattle. Bring your mini's and your own rounds/food

What's the password?

 Squidmanlolz wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:

Fortress DakkaDakka west of Seattle. Bring your mini's and your own rounds/food

What's the password?

"Nerd tomb"

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
um 9/11 was a major crisis i was alive for.

You are correct but it never directly threaten the easy going life the generation in question had. The conflicts that resulted were lower scale than all out war and iirc even Al-Qaeda said they couldn't take down the U.S.A. (they needed us to do it for them.)

Yes there have been incidents that many of us were alive for but for the most part life went on as usual. Sad really considering 9/11 for awhile it was THE major thing, now mostly forgotten and not much good learned because of it.

 Jihadin wrote:

Oh yeah, how is the near collapse of our financial system not also a major crisis?

How old were you when the Golf got pummel by hurricanes? All the refineries down there got jacked up and gas prices jumped to $5-4 dollars a gallon at reg unleaded. We survived that financial crunch. You as a student Hotsauce have a financial crunch coming. Have you taken any gov't school loans? If not don't take one now. Think its an extra 3K on a ten year loan. We haven't hit the financial crash yet and when we do. I lay good money its a "reset" for the US government. Stock up and be a "Prepper"

Fortress DakkaDakka west of Seattle. Bring your mini's and your own rounds/food

I have never taken a student loan in my 4 years of schooling.

 Squidmanlolz wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:

Fortress DakkaDakka west of Seattle. Bring your mini's and your own rounds/food

What's the password?

"Matt Ward"

lack of parenting....

lack of spanking as a child....

no respect for anything....

innate sense of "being owed" something....

lack of taking responsibility for ones own choices and actions...

.... i could go on... lol

 caledoneus wrote:

innate sense of "being owed" something....

It's this. It's only this.

It's a generation raised by baby boomers who made them think that they were special and significant, and when they come into contact with people who just want them to run the cash register and shut the hell up they don't understand why they are summarily dismissed. Then I get to read on various forums about how hard it is to hold a job "in this economy."

Are we talking about generation X, Y, or Z here?

My generation (Y) is generally thought of as civic-minded and similar to the G.I. Generation while being more open minded concerning controversial issues.

I can't speak for Generation Z, IMO, they are somewhat of a lost cause. I don't see very much potential among the lot of them.

 Monster Rain wrote:

 caledoneus wrote:

innate sense of "being owed" something....

It's this. It's only this.

It's a generation raised by baby boomers who made them think that they were special and significant, and when they come into contact with people who just want them to run the cash register and shut the hell up they don't understand why they are summarily dismissed. Then I get to read on various forums about how hard it is to hold a job "in this economy."

I struggle to understand why someone can't believe that they are special and significant, while still being able to shut up and run the cash register, or do whatever simple job they got hired to do. I think the trouble that you are referring to stems more from simply not being smart enough to realize when it's best to keep your mouth shut and your opinions to yourself, rather than a belief that you as a human have value.

 Jihadin wrote:
I blame MTV when they stop doing music video's

I blame Big Band. All those Zoot Suits running around. Bunch of hooligans I say.

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Are we talking about generation X, Y, or Z here?

My generation (Y) is generally thought of as civic-minded and similar to the G.I. Generation while being more open minded concerning controversial issues.

I can't speak for Generation Z, IMO, they are somewhat of a lost cause. I don't see very much potential among the lot of them.

Y. Y's a bunch of tools. X'ers are also douchebags, but at least they're douchebags who tweet fewer pictures of their brunch.

Replace the generations in your posts with races and you'll realize how dumb and borderline age-bigoted this whole conversation is. You're talking about millions of people in each of these groups like they're one thing and of course the groups you aren't in are just the worst, surprise surprise.

 Rented Tritium wrote:
Replace the generations in your posts with races and you'll realize how dumb and borderline age-bigoted this whole conversation is. You're talking about millions of people in each of these groups like they're one thing and of course the groups you aren't in are just the worst, surprise surprise.

But...but...kids these days! Back in my day! Get off my lawn!





P.S. - I agree with you.

 Hordini wrote:

 Rented Tritium wrote:
Replace the generations in your posts with races and you'll realize how dumb and borderline age-bigoted this whole conversation is. You're talking about millions of people in each of these groups like they're one thing and of course the groups you aren't in are just the worst, surprise surprise.

But...but...kids these days! Back in my day! Get off my lawn!





P.S. - I agree with you.

I will say, kids these days (and adults) drive far, far worse. Too many distractions-music/texting/cell phone blah blah blah.

 Rented Tritium wrote:
Replace the generations in your posts with races and you'll realize how dumb and borderline age-bigoted this whole conversation is. You're talking about millions of people in each of these groups like they're one thing and of course the groups you aren't in are just the worst, surprise surprise.

There's an argument to be made that I'm in both of those generations.

And the worst are unquestionably the Zs. It's possible we may have to cull just to save the species.

If an EMP goes off over America......almost 2/3 of this country would go nuts without their cells, facebook, twitter, PS3, Xbox, WoW, and internet. I be in the corner with a bunch of other grunts playing Risk and watch huge battles develop over trying to take over South America.

 Rented Tritium wrote:
Replace the generations in your posts with races and you'll realize how dumb and borderline age-bigoted this whole conversation is. You're talking about millions of people in each of these groups like they're one thing and of course the groups you aren't in are just the worst, surprise surprise.

This.
Every generation claims the one after it is worse...
It's been happening for decades...
This seems relevant.

If teachers could still beat kids, our society would be A OK.

I will never forget the paddle with the damn holes drilled into it for a better grip on the butt......

 LValx wrote:
If teachers could still beat kids, our society would be A OK.

They still can in some states, so what else do you think the problem is?

 Jihadin wrote:
I will never forget the paddle with the damn holes drilled into it for a better grip on the butt......

And the rumor of an electrified paddle.

Admittedly, this whole conversation is based on a fairly wide generalization that the current "generations" are more "douchey" (to quote the OP) than former ones. And while it by the nature of a genralization it is not true of all Gen x, Y, or Zers, there is a reason we use generalizations... they tend to work. The modern generation is more needy, techno-dependent, and lazy than say, the generation that won WW2.... generally speaking...

and if you disagree... watch the jersey shore... that is what we call exhibit D (for dumb)