For the older crowd

[Booz]

Originally posted by J_A_B
You had lots of unprotected sex, and it caused you to learn about AIDS and various other STD's that nobody ever heard of before.

You whined about war, only to become the first American generation to ever lose a war.  Congrats.

You grew up under the hard work and resources of your parents, only to shove them away in lousy nursing homes.

You wanted instant gratification and no responsibility, and created a generation of latchkey children with 1 parent and no guidance.

You whine about "kids these days" who have Nintendos and cell phones, yet you bought them for those kids!



All those "whiny" and "soft" Americans?  That's YOU.  The selfish, sue-happy, annoying ones?  That's YOU.  The people voting for all those retarded laws in Washington?  That's YOU.  Your generation is the first in the history of the US that will leave the country worse off then it was when you inhereted it.  Thanks for nothing.  Hopefully your kids and grandkids can clean up your mess.  Oh, and enjoy your underfunded, understaffed nursing homes when you're old a couple decades from now.  Perhaps it's poetic justice.  Hope you like marinating in your own poop.


I feel sorry for the people of that generation who aren't like most of their peers.  It can't be easy watching your peers selfishly ruin nearly everything they get control of.


J_A_B

 Yeah and we're burning up the last of the oil too, Learn to farm & make swords lol lol

[nirvana]

Originally posted by *NDM*JohnnyX
... Every generation thinks theirs is the best and their kids are lousy good-for-nothing slackers...

Actually I hate my generation, I think they all suck.  I think almost all kids today are immature and should learn to have some respect for people.  I'm not a good christian boy by far but some of the crap is out of control.  I think of Skyrock's post about the kid assaulting a school police officer when I say that.  I was born in the late 80's what generation am I?  The Generation of Degenerates.

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

Agreed Nirvana, but Hangtime proves stupidity knows no age range.

[J_A_B]

"WOW JAB and JohnnyX. Sounds like you guys have some issues. This was never a whinning thread. It was supposed to be fun, you know a remember when type thing."


I'm having lots of fun, and I think Hangtime is too.  




J_A_B

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

Something tells me he spends alot of time yelling at kids that stray onto his lawn.

[lazs2]

Yep.. and we are probly the first generation who allowed women to vote....

sure... they had the right before but they voted like their husbands told em too..  now..we let em tell us how to vote....  

seat belts, air bags... helmets... cars that feel like they are going 50 when they are going 100... is is better?   most of us drove cars that shook at 70 mph and had marginal brakes and would get a flat tire every few months...  100 mph was friggin scary.   Now... people go 90 with one hand holding on to a cell phone in the rain....  fatalities are just as bad.   they are at higher speed tho.  

It is the false sense of security that permeates this generation... the feeling that you should be able to do what ever you want but if something goes wrong.... it has to be someone elses fault... the guy who sold you the SUV that rolled over at twice the speed that a 50's sports car would have...  the doctor... the kid who sold you a cup of coffee that was too hot... whoever.

now... we have a bunch of wussies that vote like women... with the women...

Some of you are not like that... my son for instance... I feel sorry for him and for you.... I have had a good run.   you never will... it will only get worse as nanny runs more and more of your life...  I have the resources to get away from it a little too if I like... retire to a small community and shoot guns and play with hot rods and don't interact too much with "society".  Live out my life in some "backward" state.

But you can't.... you will be haveing ungratifying "protected sex" and working in a big city with all the womanly rules and PC, watch your step, whitey crap that the women can throw at you...

and... if you vote for socialistic, womanly one world government crap...

you deserve every bit of it....  Just stay the hell away from me.

lazs

[Jackal1]

"Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves"

[storch]

here's an example that may illustrate the difference between parents of people from my generation and some of us parents of my generation.

the town where I grew up is built upon a very very fine white sand, it's almost powder.  we used a huge empty sandlot in our neighborhood to play football and baseball on almost daily.  the lot was purchased by a developer who promptly built homes upon it but we still had about half of the depth to use for scrimages though baseball was from then on out of the question.  Dr. Porro purchased the home smack in the middle of that block and promptly had a fence erected.  When we kids saw the fence posts up when coming to play after school, we rebelled and pulled the freshly set posts out and laid them aside.  when Dr. Porro came home and saw what we had done he asked why we had done it.  He gave us the option of resetting all those posts or each of us visiting our parents along with him.  we reset his posts.  to a man we knew what the outcome would have been had he visited our folks.

All of our kids have been educated in the public education system up to middle school.  from middle school on we have home schooled them utilizing the Abeka program on computers.  After highschool they returned to the public education system for college.  Since my wife was a stay at home mom and I had great flexibility both as an employee at first and later as owner of our business we were able to volunteer at our community school and help the faculty and administration out.  the experience there and our continuing involvement with neighbor kids at our dojo has given us a great deal of insight into the difference between how most of the parents were bring up their children compared to how they were almost certainly brought up.

1. few are two parent homes.  most of my peers and I came from two married opposite sex parent type homes.  a "broken home" was a stigma for both of the people involved.   it seems to me my parent's generation considered others needs before considering their own to a big extent.  my mom and dad were truly concerned about what "people would say".  So were all of the people in their circle of influence.
2. of those very very few are stay at home moms.  my mom's "workplace" was her home and her family.  Thanks mom and dad for the sacrifices made.
3. lots of kids (mostly boys) are on ritalin other types of drugs prescribed for behavior that I probably still exhibit and control with exercise and practicing martial arts.
4. most children exhibit a complete lack of discipline and are coddled to harmful levels in my opinion.  many show sociopathic behavior.  furthermore you cannot engage some of these parents concerning the behavioral problems their kids display.  they rationalize everything.  If a neighbor visited my folks with a complaint regarding my behavior it was a strapping for sure.  adults were treated with respect, actions had consequences, wrongs were righted.  while attempting to intelligently and cleverly squirm out of trouble to mitigate the punishment was often rewarded with leniancy one was expected to step up to the plate and admit guilt if one was indeed guilty.  for me nothing seemed to work better than saying yes I did it and then shutting up and taking my lumps.

I conclude that perhaps some of the comments by J_A_B and *NDM*JohnnyX are not baseless and that we, the the most privildged American generation have most definitely dropped the ball in some areas.  I am a "baby boomer"  the eldest of us are now turning 60.  maybe there is yet time for our selfish tulips to consider what our legacy will be and make the appropriate corrections to improve that.

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

At the risk of derailing the thread....

Lazs2, what type of hot rod do you tinker around with? I have an 05 Hemi Ram Daytona edition, and a 1970 Ford Fairlane 500 I mess around with.

[Hangtime]

you may have something on the 'women' angle, laz.

Back in the late 60's peace movement on campus there wuz a little rhyme that sez it all.. "Campus girls say YES! to guys that say "NO". i.e., guys that showed up at 'peace rallies' and anti-war protests got laid. If yah had long hair, yah wuz golden, a G.I. haircut was a sentance of no grapefruit.

American Women have used that furry beaver to accomplish quite a bit.. and since most young men have no brain above the end of their dicks it's pretty easy for 'em to 'brainwash' the helmet head with whatever political tripe they find makes their little Dr Spock blonde mentality's happy.

It's become the national pastime and accepted 'trade policy' to sell your product or service by portraying the male in the american household as a blitering idiot unable to handle even the simplest chore; turn on a computer or even install a lightbulb or shelf.  How many ad's, sitcoms, dramas do you see on TV that make the man look like an incompetent fat slob wuss while the wife is always a sweet slim hottie? The never ending subliminal message being toseed at us 24/7 is "Men are idiots, women are the smart ones, women run the family, pay the bills make the decisions and pass judgement on the quality of our men, based on their pliability to our dersires".

We're ****ed. In more ways than the original.

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

Exactly the reason I choose to stay single Hang. Maybe we can agree on at least one thing, huh?

[lazs2]

At present I have a 55 austin healey with a 331 chevy and muncie 4 speed in it and a 69 el camino with a 468 and 6 speed.

I have about a couple dozen various guns and a room I use for reloading..  

I have an old BMW motorcycle that my son gave me... I rode Harleys for 20 years but gave it up before the helmet laws... I never wore a helmet in all those years.

I wear the lap belts in the Hot Rods because I am likely to do risky things in em.... I don't wear the stupid seat belts that come with new cars.   I have gotten several tickets for no seatbelt or no helmet on the bike.  

I have moved several guns out of state as the women outlawed em and made me an instant criminal here.

I am monagomous by nature even with girlfriends and have never "worn protection" Why even bother?  

The house I built 20 years ago will buy my freedom in a state that has more than kalifornia when I sell it for some obscene amount more than it is worth.

I have survived hot rods form the sixties (fast and unsafe) and Harleys built in one car garages for $1000 and drug addiction and booze addiction... and fights of every nature...

I would rather  take my chances being shot at then live like kalifornia thinks I should... I will retire and never see another "sensitivity class" or be invited to another "winter solstice" party or have a mandatory "sexual harrasment' class...

I will live out my job with a hand picked crew that I can call "lazy fat asses" without them bursting into tears or going to the HR...  The people they hire after I leave will be useless.

So yeah...  I don't have much use for the ACLU and the socialists and the feminists and the poor minorities.  I just want to get as far away from em as I can..

you made... you deal with em.

lazs

[lazs2]

yep hang... look at the sperm lacking "men" on this board who are socialists and vote with women... the kerrie voters...  they vote because they think that they might get laid if they do what the women want and.....

are vocal about being "progressive"  

reality is... they say that they want you to be a wuss but.... I laid a lot of women back when the feminist "girls say no" thing was going on... I was just as much or more of a "chauvinist" then.  They felt bad cheating on their pasty liberal boyfriends but.... they did it.

even married... it is different now... be honest married guys... your wife tells you what to do but how often do you even ask her to do something?  They have no compunction about telling you to stop having fun and do this or that project but the reverse is never true...  

I have been lucky... I never really worked with women.   the few times I did were just plain unpleasant... they really can't do the physical work of a man... now... we have degraded the police and fire departments of the country by filling em up with useless women.

lazs

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

Wow, I bet that Austin flies huh? I've always been into the "toy" cars with v-8s stuffed into them.....my buddy had a 73 Vega GT that was Pro-Street with a 355 worked to the hilt, I think it was 450 or so hp at the wheels. Nothing beat the look of that tunnel ram sticking 2 feet out of the hood, or the sound that gear drive made. Very fun car for two 20 year olds to cruise around in, it's a wonder how we didn't kill ourselves in it haha.

My first car was a POS 82 elky with a 350....I hated it then, but man, I wish I still had it, had some fun times jumping it in our local dirtbike trails.

[lazs2]

so johnny... do you think that it is your responsibility to vote to get rid of those vega unsafe hot rods?   I mean... "if it will save just one childs life"????  how bout them dirt bikes... shouldn't you have to have em saftety inspected and wear a full body armor suit to ride em?

The people who would outlaw that hot rod are the same people who drive ****boxes at 80mph in the first rain of the season with tires as skinny as my forearm while talking on the cell phone and adjusting their makeup with the rear view mirror...

lazs