Alright. Enough blaming GenX for Chimpy and other things.

I know that it's pretty stupid to blame a whole generation on a mistake, like blaming Boomers for Reagan. But! Like it or not, there is no tit-for-tat in the argument that if that stands to reason, then Xers can be blamed for Bush. The math doesn't add up.

*GenX were originally called "Baby Busters" precisely for the reason that the birth rate went down by 1/3 in the early 60s. We busted the "Boom". So Boomers will ALWAYS be more numerous than us until they die off. GenX can never be blamed for putting anybody in the White House, because we just don't have the numbers to do that. Once the Boomers start dying off, the Yers will overtake us because they're a larger pop. than us too.

*Chimpy lost both of his elections. I will go to my grave believing that 2004 was stolen also, even if we never find out definitively, so we can't be held responsible for something his cabal stole.

*Xers are just as demographically diverse as any other generation statistically, so can it with the "All the Xers are right wingers" BS.

*Just as Boomers were lied to about communism, separate but equal, Gulf of Ton kin, etc. so were we. Consider the lies...
Social Security will never be there for you, kid! I heard that in 1979.
The Media has a liberal Bias.
Reagan won the Cold War.
Unions have no purpose any longer.
The list goes on.

As far as us being "pampered, privileged, and getting much more than us" load of bull, consider...

*You got Ford Mustangs for $2500. We got $15,000 Honda Preludes.
*Your houses in the 70s costed $20-30,000. Ours in the 90s were more than $100 depending on the region.
*You had 25% union membership in the workforce. Our work world consisted of less than 12% union membership. We also had the propaganda drummed into us (mostly by people older than Boomers) that unions were unnecessary and harmful to our employment security.
*You saw the landing on the moon. We watched a shuttle explode.
*You had the Great Society. We had "Just say no!"
*You had Edward R. Murrow. We had Oprah.
*You had Bobby Kennedy. We had Michael Dukakis.
*You had hair salons for your beehives. We had to put Kool-Aid in our hair.
*You had Sean Connery. We had Roger Moore.
*You had free love. We still have AIDS.

In fairness...

*The Beatles didn't last long. U2 is still going strong after 28 years, and they still haven't sold out to a Bond film.
*Walkmans were better than Quadraphonic Stereo.
*Diversity Training is better than gay bar police raids.
*Muscle shirts look better than bell-bottoms.
*I'd rather see Back To The Future 20 times than sit through Ben-Hur again.
*Computers were better than punch cards.

Sorry for the rant, but I had to clear my throat.:hi:

Thanks YOU! :pals:

Let me add:
They had McCarthyism. We had the Cola Wars.
They put the wall up - we saw it torn down.
They had, "It's Cheaper to Keep Her." We had "Where's the beef?"


Now going against us GenXer's?

They had Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. We've still got Madonna. Doh! And I think I heard "Blame it on the Rain" yesterday while driving in my car.


For both generations (sorry - Genocide is my pet peeve in terms of Global Politics):
They had the after effects of the Holocaust, and the Genocide in Cambodia.

We had the Kurds, the Serbs, and Rwanda.

We all own Darfur.

One makes you horny. The other enslaves you to death.

stopped being blamed and uh... well..

Yeah! :yourock:

:D

Just one thing, you might not want to sit through Ben-Hur again - but what about American Graffiti?

:hi:

"Get away from her, you BITCH!"

or

"Oh' damn you all to HEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL!"

Jesus...how bad was the first AvP that they had to make a second one...

Hell, let's blame Adam and Eve.

In fairness, boomers lived under a far better economy. I wonder who raised them?

To be fair they did do songs for "Batman Forever" and "Tomb Raider", A James Bond film might be a creative step up from that.

...but I don't remember Batman Forever. Didn't Siouxie and the Banshees do a song for that film? And Seal?

"Kiss from a rose" but U2 did one too. "Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me" and "Elevation" was from "Tomb Raider"

wasn't much left, so $2500 for a Mustang was a BIG deal.

And Reagan put a larger tax burden on the working class than Kennedy/Johnson did. What's your point? 3 times the salary, vs. 6 times the price of a sports coupe. If salaries and car prices were commensurate, those Preludes should've been $7500 a piece. They were twice that.

The Prelude's final year, 2001 I think, they were $24,000. Mustangs now go for $30,000 if you want anything on them.

make due, I was in my 30's before I got my first new car, 40's before I could afford to buy a house, now days you see teenagers driving new cars and 20 somethings buying up condos.I'm not saying anyone had it harder, I'm saying we all have our crosses to bear.

...this, by Boomers who asserted it in another thread, and asserted it in many other venues. I was giving perspective with those bullet points, not playing a whose worse off game.

We may have gotten more battery operated toys, but those never make life truly easier.

The 'teenagers' and young twenty somethings aren't Gen X.

Look at them . . .

God bless them, but they aren't Cynical Assholes who think Adam Sandler is high art and know who sang, "Youuuu - you got what I need, but you say he's just a friend, yes you say he's just a friend" . . . like us Gen X'ers! LMAO!

Actually up to 28 is GenY. We were cut off when Reagan was elected. 1980 started the Millenials/GenYers. So yeah, I blame those damn kids for Sandler, and especially Will Farrell.:puke:

We're more like..."Well Goddamn Heather! Fuck me gently with a chainsaw! Do I look like Mother Theresa to you?"

Jesus...the guy laughs at his own jokes...that's never funny.

and as for Farrell..."Taledega Nights" got about 2 laughs out of me. For an 1 1/2 film called a "comedy" that is not par for the course.

They were the best enseamble since the originals. So many great characters. Hell, even Dennis Miller was funny back then!

Master Thespian
Deiter
Church Lady (Edna Strict...bet you didn't know her real name)
Toonces: The driving cat.
The Sweeney Sisters
As World Turn; with Tonto, Frankenstein and Tarzan.
The Devil
Bette Davis
Massive Head Wound Harry
The Anal Retentive Chef
Wayne & Garth
Hans and Franz
Tammy Faye Bakker
The "Chicken make lousy housepet" boy
Nathan Therm
Ed Grimley
Caveman Lawyer
Jon Lovitz's pathological liar (can't remember his name) with his wife, Morgan Fairchild, whom he's seen naked.

Yeah. That's the ticket!
Time to do our superior dance. Hit it Pearl!

D'OH! You're right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtr5-hOjJfs&feature=related

But Sandler is NOT high art...funny but NOT high art.

See I was in college in 1992 and we have (gulp) VCRS . . . remember those things? We used to tape that class on SNL and watch it Sunday mornings . . . Sandler, Chris Rock . . . :-)


Hmmm - I do have a special place in my heart though for Old School. I went through a break up at the time that came out on DVD and that movie was a male version of what my 30-32 year old girlfriends and I were up to. . . what else could we do?

The good old days were when we were in college and Bill Clinton - whom we voted for in our first round of voting (a lot of that had to do with his Sax skills) was in office.

Maaaaaaaan - college days are the Good Old Days for me! LMAO -

Okay but please tell me you guys love Will Farrells cheerleader skits with Cheri!

run into the ground. Not unlike Rob Schneider and the "copy guy" bit. "Pat" was run into the ground. The "Superstar" character was as well...

Of course Toonces is still funny. Jesus, I don't know why...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4djg6ILxU

As far as I know the people responsible for Bush being in the WH is the five members of the US Supreme Court who voted to stop the vote count in Florida.

It was started by a GenXer admittedly, but not me.:D

I did get worked up by a lot of ageist and ill-informed comments from Boomers though, hense my rant.

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That doesn't even make sense. Economically? "Reality Bites" is supposed to be "our" movie. Culturally? "Reality Bites" is supposed to be "our" movie.

:D

.... and I wasn't old enough to vote until the 1992 election.....Gen X wasn't responsible for Reagan, Reagan and Bush I.

and 3 recs is not enough.:P

:kick:

Look at my screen name . . .

It should really be Just Another Generation Exer - but that's too long. :wink:

:hug:

The chimp is a boomer. Not one I care to claim, but a boomer nonetheless.

...their idealism from the 60s and went with "The ME Decade" 80s by electing Reagan. Then some Boomers said, "Well if that's the way you want to play, then you ingrates (Xers) voted in Chimpy! So there! And Ketchup IS a vegetable!" The argument devolved from there. Neither is very true, but only more plausable with the Boomers & Reagan thing, because of the small population of Xers there are, and the fact that Reagan actually won his elections.

I'd ignore all the stupid things being said, especially when it involves pitting people against one another based on birth years. What next - the astrology wars?

n/t

YAWN!