Let's be Baby Boomers and Gen X acting like they're the toughest generations ever!

Get a fucking life.

Why sweetie, r1?

You don't like having the tables turned against you, R1?

That little (latchkey) girl was me.

What's wrong, R1?

You all acted like you're so tough and you wanted a fight with younger people?

Well you finally got what you were asking for.

I'm Ronald Reagan. They worship me.

Look everybody!

The two generations who grew up in to the prosperous post-WWII afterglow want to act like they're the toughest generations in American history.

Nevermind that that the Draft was removed for them. They had free and open access to abortion. They had some of the best housing and educational costs this country has ever seen. The Greatest generation and Silent Generation actually fought for them to have a better life than their Depression-era childhoods.

But they drank from a water hose. So they're real tough.

I don't have the DL troll thing activated, but are all these posts from the same stupid person?

I can't believe how rotted some GenZer's and Millennial's brains are. They go to take a swing and fall on their face. And aren't some of them in their 40s now? Scary.

[quote]Nevermind that that the Draft was removed for them.

R7 really? Ever hear of the Vietnam War? The one where Baby Boomers were getting drafted left and right to go off and die? Almost 60,000 dead? The one where you had a number and you had to wait to see if yours was called to know if you were going to go off and die?

The stupidity...

Maybe I should start bumping all of the endless threads where Baby Boomers and Gen X took ENDLESS GLEE in trashing youth?

[quote] [R7] really? Ever hear of the Vietnam War? The one where Baby Boomers were getting drafted left and right to go off and die? Almost 60,000 dead? The one where you had a number and you had to wait to see if yours was called to know if you were going to go off and die? The stupidity...

That was less than half of the Baby Boomer generation, you stupid asshole. The draft was abolished in 1973.

[quote] I can't believe how rotted some GenZer's and Millennial's brains are.

Go fuck yourself.

ok, R10... It was just less than half of 71 million people. Or 35 million men... My bad. The Baby Boomer generation started in 1946, so every single man of age in 1969 was eligible, every single family in America was effected. My dad had a number, but thank god, it never came up. My Uncle's did and he went. He's 77 now and still fucked up and on drugs from the VA hospital. So, there's that...

I am a GenXer, and even though we had disagreements with Boomers, I never once remember having the audacity to denigrate the experiences of the previous generation, especially my gay elders - because my generation was a front-row witnesses to, and we weren't shielded from, their pain.

[quote] I am a GenXer, and even though we had disagreements with Boomers, I never once remember having the audacity to denigrate the experiences of the previous generation,

Oh do shut the fuck up. Because I'm old enough to remember you assholes when you were teenagers and you HATED the baby boomers. There were entire television episodes about the generation gap between you two cunts.

Don't try your historical revisionism with me. It won't work.

Ok r13. You're unhinged....Noted.

I too wish I was part or OP's generation, where painting your nails and wearing your Auntie's hoop earrings was a courageous act of self-expression.

[quote] I too wish I was part or OP's generation, where painting your nails and wearing your Auntie's hoop earrings

I think that was your generation, sweetiepie. Alice Cooper and Boy George popularized these things

These are stupid threads all started by the same bored, unemployed douche who still lives with Mommy. 🙄 Get a job, cuntlette.

Oh no!

We can't possibly criticize the Boomers or Gen X? Those little snowflakes can dish it but they can't handle it!

The funnest part of this all is that it won't take very much to get the majority of Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha to agree with me and turn against you.

[quote]I think that was your generation, sweetiepie. Alice Cooper and Boy George popularized these things

It was being done way before them. But of course you wouldn't know this because your generation is painfully unaware of most things that existed before a certain point. But at least these artist did it with with an edge, an actual point of view, and left us with great music. AND NOT in a Talbots sweater set and culottes thinking they're on the forefront and breaking gender barriers. I see some of these kids out and about dressing on the softer side of Sears and think, that would be so much more affective if it weren't just so fucking tacky. They look like a bunch of Elaine's from Ronkonkama.

[quote] [quote] It was being done way before them.

Then why did you act like painted nails and hoop earrings was our creation?

OH, I see. You're gonna bring up TRANS. What a classic move!

BTW R20, I'm pretty sure TRANNIES Christine Jorgensen and Amanda Lepore pre-date my generation!

Have fun retiring!

Silly, I didn't say your generation invented it. I was pointing out the fact that ONE, it's treatment as a courageous act of self expression while TWO being done in an extremely tacky way. "I'll just throw on my auntie's hoop earrings and paint my nails and dare someone to misgender me!"

R24: Go lick Christine Jorgensen's mantwat.

Another defect of your generation is that you don't know how to properly read someone without resorting to "fucks" and insults. It's something gays used to excel at and were known for. I don't even know why there is a Wit/Wisdom option anymore - because that is definitely proving to be a relic.

[quote]OH, I see. You're gonna bring up TRANS. What a classic move!

There are Trans people and there are Attention Whores. 90% of the current generation claiming to be trans are the latter. And their commitment to any cause is about as shallow as the ankle socks they'll be wearing with their Skechers in fifteen years as they load their 2.5 kids into the back of their Subaru.

R26 and one of your weaknesses is how very slow you are and how long it takes you to roll out your supposed 'wit.' But I guess that's what happens when you type with two fingers.

In terms of your second paragraph, I could not give less of a fuck about trannies or your opinion about trannies.

BTW R26, neither the Baby Boomers nor Gen X were slouches when it came to cussing or the "F" word.

Spare me your church-lady act. As if your virgin ears have never heard four-letter words before.

No intelligence or wit to be found in OP"s posts. Sad.

Ok, kiddo, it's been fun, but I gotta go. There is life outside. Try to find a friend today, if you can. I know you've been hanging on my every word, but let me just advise you - ours is not a real relationship.

R29 and yours?

R30 get your will and living trust in order. You're not long for this world.

OP and its socks need Anafronil stat!

[quote]Spare me your church-lady act. As if your virgin ears have never heard four-letter words before.

I can't resist because this is just endemic to OP's generation. They really have difficulty with reading comprehension and extracting the point of the matter. OP's brain being especially smooth.

It's not your USE of the word FUCK that is tiresome. It's your inability to communicate without using the word FUCK that is tiresome. There.

That little crackwhore was me!

[quote] But of course you wouldn't know this because your generation is painfully unaware of most things that existed before a certain point.

Oh yes. Like you fucking Boomer and Gen X cunts know just so much before [italic]your[/italic] generational period. Ha!

You know your era. And that's about it.

^ I’ll let the others devour you on this one…

Let's go ahead and try, Twat R37? Try as you might, history begins before your vapid Golden Age of Hollywood.

I walked 10 miles uphill in the snow.

Hose water is not even safe for animals.

No wonder you all act like absolute beasts.

I didn’t commit suicide when I was teased online.

You're right, R41. You didn't. But others like you ran away and became homeless AIDS runaways!

Whatever that means.

Who are you referring to, R43?

R41 maybe you should've?

And btw R41, I thought Gen X wasn't online during their formative years?

OP must have just gotten his Adderall perscription filled for his ADHDXYZ.

Fuck Off, Chipotle-bowl-boi, go down in a bucket of iced coffee

Although Boomers and GenX do belong to the subgroup 'Everyone Who Is Older Than Millenials,' there is a huge difference. Boomers were brought up knowing that by dint of their sheer numbers at each stage of life, everything was geared to revolve around and benefit them.

As for GenX, there were two weeks in 1993 when all of the advertising was directed at us, and that was all we got.

Are there really that many fewer of Gen X? I call foul especially if you include the early 60s bornes.

We didn't have to take a mental health day every time the boss yelled at us.

We could, and can, live without a cell phone.

We didn't have to be medicated for every damn thing: anxiety, depression, anger, insecurities, etc...

We knew how to approach someone to get a date or hookup.

[quote] I don't have the DL troll thing activated, but are all these posts from the same stupid person?

Unfortunately, yes. He’s a very obese and lonely man who is also the I Hate Emily Blunt Troll. He hates her because she’s rich and beautiful and isn’t fond of fat people like him.

He’s hoping to find friends here the same way an ugly child does by pulling on the pretty girl’s pigtails. It’s that social ineptitude that truly makes him a tragic figure.

Don't think too harshly of him. It has to be soul-crushing when pulling the underwear elastic out of your fat folds causes burning pain and occasional bleeding.

Just realize that you and everyone else here is better than him. And always will be.

I wish you well, OP.

[quote] We could, and can, live without a cell phone.

Oh, really, Gen X because I don't think Facebook or Next door would exist without you. Neither would MAGA.

You're their bread and butter.

Would not exist without you."

"We could exist without a cell phone." OH please! You cunts were the among the first ones running around with primitive brick cell phones. You popularized cell phones.

So you should be more grateful then? Yes! A little thanks to us wouldn’t kill ya.

To be fair, we GenXers were (perhaps permanently) traumatized when Whitney died.

[bold]#OneOfUs

I'm Gen X but my parents were Silent Generation. My mom was a homemaker and didn't work outside the home so I wasn't a latchkey kid. I feel like I got the best of both worlds. My parents were strict yet loving and were always there for us.

Oh, Christ, this thread is no fun AT ALL.

Let’s be like op - shit 4 brains

All I know is that this is the first time in history I’ve ever seen Adult Diapers advertised toward young active millennials as a “lifestyle choice” and not just something you find in the back of a medical catalogue. That’s telling…

it’s the Millennials who ushered in that whole shitty Adult Baby ageplay kink… god help us all!

We would PLAY OUTSIDE...

Now if kids play outside gen x'ers and/or baby boomers call cps or the cops

The pearl clutching in by the older gens in this thread is pretty funny.

I'm gen X and I used to think we were a cool transitional generation but it ends up were just as bigoted and selfish as our elders

My FB feed is full of proof.... And they're all weirdly proud of dinking out of the hose. What a dumb flex

Poor Generation X.

They hitched their wagon to the sinking Baby Boomers.

Now they get to reap the benefits!

Imagine everyone has a special birthday cake! It has candles for how old you are. But what if someone said all chocolate cakes are silly and all vanilla cakes are boring? That wouldn't be fair! People are like cakes - they come in all sorts of flavors, even if they were born around the same time. Labels can't tell you everything about someone, just like a cake's flavor can't tell you if it's yummy!

I'll be the :

"Back in my day no one had depression, nobody was on anti-depressants"

Bigoted and selfish is very much part of human nature. As you move closer to death the human you become.

One thing they don’t tell you about as you get older is the fear surrounding losing your parents.

"Bigoted and selfish is very much part of human nature."

Only if you accept so....

This is what boomers don't seem to get, awful traits are to be controlled and worked on, not celebrated.

Millennials are going to be the ones to take the car keys away from the Boomers.

When did people stop using people’s ages to describe (or attack) others?

R72 The Baby Boomers and Gen X started it.

We, millennials, will end it.

R70 it’s human nature, I never said it was good. And I never said it’s impossible to overcome.

One of the things I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older, to make life a bit easier, is understanding what’s in our nature and what isn’t - to know when you have to work harder to overcome our nature and when to just go with it.

For example monogamy isn’t in our nature, but it’s something we can choose to live by - it takes more work than just giving into our human desires.

Bigotry and hatred is as well. We aren’t born hating certain people, that we learn - but the impulse is preset into us as a survival mechanism. Obviously you can overcome it, but it takes work and again, not giving into our basic nature.

If you really want to know human nature, watch a baby who will scream and cry when its needs aren’t being met and hit another baby over the head and take its toy. That’s a human being.

R74 perhaps you should teach Baby Boomers and Gen X to hate the younger generations less?

R75 there is no hate. It’s your generation with its over-sensitivity that turns any dislike, any disapproval or disappointment into hatred. You feel if someone doesn’t agree with you they hate you. Or if something makes you uncomfortable, then it’s wrong. That’s just not the case. There have always been generational gaps in thinking. You guys just aren’t handling it constructively - only pointing out what doesn’t work over and over again without coming up with anything to make it work.

And yes, that’s on your generation to make it work now, not ours. We’ve already spent more than enough time during your formative and adolescent years bending over backwards to make sure yours was probably the most listened to, catered to, the most accommodated generation ever in the history of the United States. You grew up in a protective bubble that unfortunately has left you with very unrealistic expectations about what life in the real world looks like - mostly that no one really cares how you feel when it comes to their own lives. Now take of that what you will and get on with your lives instead of blaming others. You too are getting a little too long in the tooth for such childishness.

R75

Poor baby you are so correct. I love you and your generation.

It’s really hard to respect a generation that was too lazy to even come up with its own genre of music to reflect its angst or a symbol of its rebellion. Boomers had Rock ‘n Roll that changed the world, Xers rap, hip hop and grunge. Where is their Crossfire Hurricane or Light My Fire? Where is their Smells Like Teen Spirit or Fuck the Police? What music did millennials have that wasn’t created FOR them? Of course, again, that wasn’t their fault…🙄

Respect for a generation because they came up with their own music baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

How fucking funny is that? The draft dogging do nothing cowards.

If the younger Gens had been in charge in 1942 German and Japanese would now be our official languages

Again R77 with binaries - Love/Hate. Your love is not what’s needed. Respect is more called for - Respect for yourselves. Respect enough for yourself to learn the meaning of the word and to start applying it to your lives. And to stop infantalizing yourselves and using words like “Adulting” as if it’s something you do rather than become.

The Messiest Thread of 2024 goes to…

I’m the job will not retire from because they’re supporting their Millennial kids and their grandkids. FUCKING QUIT ALREADY!

I’m the dementia creeping in at work. How do you fire someone with dementia without an age discrimination lawsuit?

Do read up on the ADA, which protects people who can perform the essential functions of a job.

[quote]They hitched their wagon to the sinking Baby Boomers.

where does this trope come from? I'm born in 69 and had boomer aunts, about 8 years younger than my mom, but boomers were cultural thing for me growing up, but really didn't have much to do with me personally. there were no boomers to "hitch" to. where is this coming from?

AI's gonna have it real easy.

We're already here.

Hahaha, you think you're scared? But we're ramming AI thru anyway.

R6 Reagan for Boomers maybe. Clinton was

Reagan for Boomers, maybe. Clinton was Gen X's president.

Millenials (especially younger ones) and Gen Z (the older ones) are beyond laughable and ridiculous, but we, Boomers (the younger obes) and Gen X (the older ones) are the ones that raised them, and we have to own up to that.

Lots of Gen X couldn't even vote back in 1992.

😂 Funny to see all the eldergay tears on this thread.

They really are insufferable whiners.

No one's buying your baiting attempts R94

I'll be R95, I'll whine about how back in the day there was NO BULLYING, people were just called names and NOBODY cared about it.

Snowflakes these days just keep whining about being bullied instead of just putting up with it like people did in 1973.

r93, yet I did in 1988

^^^^^

Then you are the type who vote with Trumpers.

Someone mentioned trans.

There’s definitely an age gap among transgender.

“Queer” females tend to be teenagers to young adults.

Transgender women seem to lean towards Gen X and Boomers.

Like a transgender woman today is still a 50 year old man dressed like Britney Spears.

So don’t say that Gen X and boomers are above this radical liberal movement in the “queer” community.

R97 meanwhile as another Gen X, the 1st president I was able to vote for was in 2000 (I missed the 96 one by a few months)

And don't get me started on how many more wars I lost!

Like it seems with everything these days, there is major misconception about how and why Boomers and Gen X are maligned. It's not that there is abundant bad behavior, tribalism, and we-got-ours-fuck-the-rest-of-you-ism in Boomers and Gen Xers; it's that it's on one side of the political aisle, namely and specifically Republicans (now known as MAGA Trumpers). It scares me when I look at my peers and realize they hate me and the people I love whether same generation or younger. And I don't know where the hatred came from because I look at my parents and their peers in the Greatest Generation and I see people who sacrificed everything for their kids, from fighting fascism and Nazism to creating a society that worked for everyone (if ever so briefly), and then watched their children take advantage of it and then destroy it for the next generation. And that goes for everything beyond the first real social safety net in the world, the idea that if you went off to fight in a war you deserved the spoils of victory, the belief in a fair wage for a day's labor... nope, conservative/GOP Boomers and now Gen X tell us that we should have to work into old age, that corporate profits are the holy grail [italic]and[/italic] the only measurement of success, and that life — once outside the womb — is worthless, particularly if that life is black or brown, female, gay, or not straight white Christian and male in any and every way.

Don’t worry Boomers and GenXers, Millennials and Z will have their day when those sociopaths called Alphas and whatever’s next that they are raising come of age. They’ll wish we were still around to handle those nutcases. They will be another type of human all together. Good luck!

[quote] It’s really hard to respect a generation that was too lazy to even come up with its own genre of music to reflect its angst or a symbol of its rebellion. B

THIS is what you stupid assholes are proud of in terms of legacy? Music????

No wonder this country is fucked.

R104 its not what we’re proud of. It’s disappointing that it stopped. It shows younger generations have bo voice of their own to speak of. It’s scary. Like what happened to the forward momentum of a culture?

^no voice.

R105 we'll take the politics. You can keep the music.

Why R80? Because you stormed the beaches of Normandy?

OP is really torqued and has posted 36 of the posts here.

Being ignorant isn't cute. But it does explain your anger and trolling.

So what r109? Are you triggered?

Not a single day goes by where the Boomers and Xers are just laughing, laughing, gleefully punching down on Millennials and Gen Z in several threads.

But the one time someone actually returns the favor, OH NO!!! It's too much. You can't handle it? Who are the snowflake generations now?

R103 if we survived Sociopath Boomers and Gen X, we will survive the children just fine.

I bought my house for less than 200k and now it's worth over 600k. My mortgage is $1200 a month for a 4b/2b with a pool in a nice neighborhood.

R111

“ you can’t handle it” :-)

Oh my you are confused with people making fun of you and people that can’t handle you. You are just someone to have fun with. Your threads are hardly important. And you don’t trigger anyone.

Something tells me OP is cosplaying a disgruntled Millennial. His retorts don't have the voice of someone claiming to be his age. They just sound stupid. Next he'll recall being in the third grade listening to Britney Spears during his internet class.

At least Boomers and X'ers aren't afraid of work. The Mils and the Zils have given us "silent quitting" -- how about calling it what it is: "stealing my paycheck". These saboteurs should be exposed and blacklisted wherever they're found.

[quote]r116 The Mils and the Zils have given us "silent quitting" -- how about calling it what it is: "stealing my paycheck".

“Quiet Quitting” is not dishonest or dishonorable. It just means you do your job and leave, without over extending yourself.

It has always existed.

I'll be the ENDLESS whining about how it was so much better and easier to be gay 30 years ago.

OP, it's clear that with climate change, late-stage capitalism. the rise of the oligarchy and christian nationalism. the corruption of the Supreme Court and the disengagement of youth, your life will be a living hell. You have my sympathies.

R120 Whatever Boomer. I'd still rather be my age than yours.

OP sure is a bitter person. Life must suck for them.

OP will never own a home or be able to retire. No wonder he's bitter and looking for a scapegoat.

I will be the "I can still chew, even though I've got only ten teeth left"

R123 think again. Your assumptions are funny

Most the overwhelmingly vast majority of mature sane people would never start a thread like this. But there are a small few on DL that can’t seem to stop. I wonder what drives people who constantly start these attack threads?

A word to the wise:

The odd thing about this thread is that OP doesn't actually identify anything about the Boomers or Gen X that he dislikes.

Drinking from a water hose is no big deal. I did it. I wouldn't do it now, because it's probably unsanitary. But I don't remember thinking it was anything great.

Nobody is scared of no 50 60 70 year olds. You might break a bone at this point.

That was for R127

I’m Gen X, have always voted blue, and I much prefer the younger generations. I think they will save our country. I can’t wait for more of them to serve in public office. So much of my generation has become so depressingly and hopelessly conservative.

R121, we all had your age. It'll last as long for you as it did for us.

r131, I'll admit that my generation's (X) distaste for political life early on carrying over to now is disturbing. Matt Gaetz, Pete Buttigieg, and AOC are all WAY more compelling political figures than anyone in my generation.

R131 the crazy thing is that Gen X has remained relatively Blue given that people tend to swerve more conservative as they get old. And to be honest, I think this younger generation will be more conservative than anything else - especially the white ones when they are living in America where white people will noticeably no longer be the majority, not just on paper but in their everyday lives. They be grasping onto Make America Even Greater Again.

I always marvel how the MOST politically leftist, activist generation in America's history, the Boomers, has become so conservative. The hippies, the free-lovres. If they can become conservative, anyone can. I mean in what world would we ever imagine Rosanne Bar would be a republican? My mom wouldn't even let me watch her show growing up because of it's ultra liberal message.

I wonder who conservative GenZ is, they come out to rallies pretty happily about social issues, but then again, I live in a liberal coastal "bubble"

GenX is the toughest though. The divorce rate peaked in 1980. A ton of kids' parents were divorced as they were crashing out from '69 or disco madness among other societal shifts. The latch key kid thing is real.

totally, it defines us more than any other thing besides the baby bust which happened world-wide

I was a latchkey kid for sure. When I look back on it, it was crazy how young I was doing the things I did. My parents were divorced. My mom worked. My older brother went to a different school than I did. Was in the third grade, 8 years old, making my own breakfast and watching my Mom and bro leave as she drove him to school. I would get all my stuff together, lock up the apartment and walk to school by myself. I would come home by myself, throw my backpack in the corner and watch Benson and SOAP reruns on TV until I heard my mom come home and I would pretend to be busy doing school work. But there was something a tad scary for a kid my age coming home to an empty house. And I do remember in the beginning starring out the window while they left and crying feeling all alone.

^staring...

I'm not sure what the point of the OP is.

But if it's supposed to make me like young people it didn't work.