AA, you might want to use spellcheck...

Avgirl said:
Now, that is unbelievably mean and judgmental. Everything we have was made possible by that generation. Instead of being so disrespectful, you should be thankful. They aren't perfect (no generation is), but without that generation, none of us in subsequent generations would even exist.

The animal analogy doesn't make me think of you as a great human being either. All for peeing on the carpet? It is one thing for an animal to be suffering, but another for it to be inconvenient. Granted, you probably haven't been there to see your pet pass away. Maybe you would look at things differently, but I value my animals as family members.
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And that's because you don't have actual kids. I've been there holding every pet as they passed, btw.
 
Murdoughnut said:
I know you think that demographics are meaningless, but look at who is driving the Trump demogoaugery and get back to me.
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That is completely false. His backers are not all from the greatest generation. Heck, I might even vote for the guy strictly because of strategy, who knows? I have a lot of time to decide.

Murdoughnut said:
And that's because you don't have actual kids. I've been there holding every pet as they passed, btw.
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So, people with kids suddenly downgrade their pets? That would never happen with me, and there, you have it in writing. I know plenty of people have that attitude that a pet once valued is no longer once children come into the picture...I have volunteered at shelters and have fostered plenty of animals given up because of children. But, if I teach my children that animals are disposable, what does that make me? What kind of children would I be raising? Pets are amazing and my future children will always know that.
 
Avgirl said:
That is completely false. His backers are not all from the greatest generation. Heck, I might even vote for the guy strictly because of strategy, who knows? I have a lot of time to decide.



So, people with kids suddenly downgrade their pets? That would never happen with me, and there, you have it in writing. I know plenty of people have that attitude that a pet once valued is no longer once children come into the picture...I have volunteered at shelters and have fostered plenty of animals given up because of children. But, if I teach my children that animals are disposable, what does that make me? What kind of children would I be raising? Pets are amazing and my future children will always know that.
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Yeah our pets were our kids too. Have kids and get back to me.
 
Murdoughnut said:
They're also the most racist, bigoted, backward think generation of twits still alive. Winning WII only gets you so far. It's like the cat I have that was great until she started pissing on our carpet at age 12. I love you, but it's time to cross that rainbow bridge and move on.
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You should never judge a past character by today's standards. In no way is that to imply that racism is okay under any circumstances. It merely notes that the definition of "acceptable" evolves over time. Using today's standards to judge past heroes means that there would be no heroes in history ever — Washington, Columbus, Lincoln, Truman, you name it.
 
Millennial here. My issue with many millennials that graduated from college is how we responded to the recession in 2008. Instead of buckling down for a few years and working in a role that perhaps wasn't our preferred position, many went straight back to graduate school and continued to compound their student loan debt with little assurance or evidence of opportunities at the end.

This was especially prevalent amongst law and business schools. Despite countless articles and data supporting a large influx of students returning to graduate school to pursue law degrees and MBA's, many of my college friends willingly took out additional $100K loans to attend, in many cases, average schools, and seemingly ignore basic economics in the process (the schools were making a killing). They're now graduated or just graduating (with no real experience) and are shocked at how difficult it is to find a job, not to mention the payments they now have to make. Most of my legal friends in particular have been offered positions, but they're far, far less than the salaries they were expecting and, as a result, are overwhelmingly unhappy.

I now get to hear about it every time we're out as if it's some big revelation.
 
Constellation said:
Millennial here. My issue with many millennials that graduated from college is how we responded to the recession in 2008. Instead of buckling down for a few years and working in a role that perhaps wasn't our preferred position, many went straight back to graduate school and continued to compound their student loan debt with little assurance or evidence of opportunities at the end.

This was especially prevalent amongst law and business schools. Despite countless articles and data supporting a large influx of students returning to graduate school to pursue law degrees and MBA's, many of my college friends willingly took out additional $100K loans to attend, in many cases, average schools, and seemingly ignore basic economics in the process (the schools were making a killing). They're now graduated or just graduating (with no real experience) and are shocked at how difficult it is to find a job, not to mention the payments they now have to make. Most of my legal friends in particular have been offered positions, but they're far, far less than the salaries they were expecting and, as a result, are overwhelmingly unhappy.

I now get to hear about it every time we're out as if it's some big revelation.
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20 years ago, I could have predicted the financial crisis based on my fellow sometimes-referred-to-as "Generation Y ers" (end of Gen X) spent. We are HORRIBLE with money. I remember asking my friends how they knew how much debt they could take on.

Education concerning...we can thank technology for spelling mistakes. And the focus is volume of education for most people, not quality. Not to mention the fact that many young people, when groomed to succeed their entire life, never quite build the foundational skills they need to function in public. The people who actually had to produce something to get by are leaving us and we will soon be limited to mostly people who were raised to keep an economy moving and not necessarily raised to produce anything. So, you get a lot of folks who are good at knowing when something's not right, but don't understand the inner workings of what they're dealing with. Many people have been going to HS, going to college, and then getting their first real job at 22-23. It's conceivable that many people in that notch will not know much more than how to make ends meet, much less think outside the box. It's not their fault. They were given just about every career and life move idea they've ever had.
 
I don't even believe in the generational thing.

There are deadbeats, death by autocorrect and slackers in every generation and will continue to propagate until a big extinction-level asteroid comes and a surviving organism will evolve over a few hundred million years and rise to the top of the food chain. :)
 
Whoa nelly this thread took a turn. I was hoping to pass on a little inconsequential humor at American's expense, but dang, that went sideways fast.

Who (from any generation of legal drinking age) is up for a beer? I'll buy the first round!
 
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Avgirl said:
That is completely false. His backers are not all from the greatest generation. Heck, I might even vote for the guy strictly because of strategy, who knows? I have a lot of time to decide.



So, people with kids suddenly downgrade their pets? That would never happen with me, and there, you have it in writing. I know plenty of people have that attitude that a pet once valued is no longer once children come into the picture...I have volunteered at shelters and have fostered plenty of animals given up because of children. But, if I teach my children that animals are disposable, what does that make me? What kind of children would I be raising? Pets are amazing and my future children will always know that.
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So how's the research for your boyfriend going? :cool:;)
 
Stone Cold said:
So how's the research for your boyfriend going? :cool:;)
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Ha. Didn't take long to research that...seriously, it isn't as complicated as everyone makes it, I don't know why there are so many rumors and misconceptions. He will be in training soon, depending on which carrier he decides to go with. Which is great news...because while he gets to play in simulators, I get to focus on dispatch stuff and travel.
 
CFIT99 said:
Easy kids....every generation feels the next generation has it easier/entitled/whatever

it's all just a product of the era you grew up in...I mean my nieces are not even in 1st grade and are learning C++ before cursive!
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C++ !!! when I was in school we learned FORTRAN. and we didn't have any of those fancy schmancy terminals, we had punch cards. And nobody blamed programming errors on "hanging chads". And by the way, we did this all without ...well ..alot of stuff... and we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow.;)
 
Constellation said:
Millennial here. My issue with many millennials that graduated from college is how we responded to the recession in 2008. Instead of buckling down for a few years and working in a role that perhaps wasn't our preferred position, many went straight back to graduate school and continued to compound their student loan debt with little assurance or evidence of opportunities at the end.

This was especially prevalent amongst law and business schools. Despite countless articles and data supporting a large influx of students returning to graduate school to pursue law degrees and MBA's, many of my college friends willingly took out additional $100K loans to attend, in many cases, average schools, and seemingly ignore basic economics in the process (the schools were making a killing). They're now graduated or just graduating (with no real experience) and are shocked at how difficult it is to find a job, not to mention the payments they now have to make. Most of my legal friends in particular have been offered positions, but they're far, far less than the salaries they were expecting and, as a result, are overwhelmingly unhappy.

I now get to hear about it every time we're out as if it's some big revelation.
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"It is 1000 times better to have common sense and no education than to have education and no common sense"

-Robert G. Ingersoll
 
Xcaliber said:
Whoa nelly this thread took a turn. I was hoping to pass on a little inconsequential humor at American's expense, but dang, that went sideways fast.

Who (from any generation of legal drinking age) is up for a beer? I'll buy the first round!
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Their's nothng funy abuot speling mistaks!
 
Baby boomers didn't even have this technology to make these mistakes. Don't argue about apples and oranges. I'm sure when we're all of age the baby boomers are at we'll be looking down talking bad in a positive/negative way.
 
Avgirl said:
Ha. Didn't take long to research that...seriously, it isn't as complicated as everyone makes it, I don't know why there are so many rumors and misconceptions. He will be in training soon, depending on which carrier he decides to go with. Which is great news...because while he gets to play in simulators, I get to focus on dispatch stuff and travel.
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Is it just me or is almost every post with @Avgirl someone brings up her bf. Still trying to figure out if it's curiosity or jealousy?

Lololol
 
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