I really hate the Mexican War generation cept for Lincoln
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
whichever the OG handlebar mustache and pocketwatch generation is = my favorite generation
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
millenials seems the least skeptical of authority of anyone since them who fought in the great wars
I definitely think this is one side of the coin. There is a sizable number of them, for instance, involved in the Occupy movement on the other side of the coin, but these are kids who came of age in Bush II's America and for whom The Patriot Act has been a thing roughly forever (not to mention that No Child Left Behind probably hobbled a lot of critical faculties right out of the gate). A lot of that shit has, unfortunately, become pretty normalized. Like, I'll rant about stuff around my sister like Facebook's disregard for people's privacy, and she just could not give one solitary fuck. Actually, I could probably suss out a lot of the generational divide based on the stuff my sister and I wildly disagree about.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 4:45 AM (7 minutes ago)
this is like the generation that killed loads of people in the third world in the process of stealing their resources whilst failing to realize how much better wristwatches are than pocketwatches
― Ms Tum-Bla-Wi-Tee (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
Like, I'll rant about stuff around my sister like Facebook's disregard for people's privacy, and she just could not give one solitary fuck.
Lack of interest in privacy among the younger generations is a trend that should be lauded. A more open society is a better society.
― Banaka™ (banaka), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
Give people a bit of privacy and you don't know what they'll do with it.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
not a more open society, a 24/7 communal shower society
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
It is a travesty that humans are allowed to bathe alone in any capacity.
― Banaka™ (banaka), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
Somebody get Tombot to weigh in on this
my answer is the boomers, naturally. handed the greatest society yet, and trashed it all.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
banaka, we're working as hard as possible to attain singularity. plz, just a little patience.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
boomers did okay. i don't think any single 20th century american generation deserves to be called the best or worst, except maybe gen exxors, who don't seem to have accomplished much but general apathy and the digitization of everything.
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
those are 2 p awesome accomplishments tho
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
xp - traitor!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
hey, it's what we do
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
there's probably a douglas copeland book about it
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, self-loathing is probably as endemic of gen x as self-satisfaction is of the millinnials.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
have we ever discussed vocal fry on ilx? i don't see a thread for it..
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
we talked abt it somehwerrreee
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh my gawd
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
does lumpy space princess talk with a vocal fry?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
I remember reading about it on here before but I have a feeling it may be lost in a general discussion thread...
― emil.y, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh my glob. what the lump?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
Banaka showing up on a thread like this means I am going to have a great day.
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
i really love banaka
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
he should post here ray kurzweil's 'the singularity is near' & any other technological singularity-related books you might care about
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
it's a banaka blast
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
why DID the Boomers 'stampede into conservatism' as mentioned upthread? my parents are classic Boomers and my mum is classic Boomer-Conservative. i'm always baffled how that happened. is this a known 'thing' in the States?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
yes. it's partially the neoconservative story too
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
people get older they get conservative ronald reagan blah blah
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
blah blah david mamet blah blah
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Esp inasmuch as many of the founding neo-cons were liberals or fellow-travelers who crossed over to the dark side.
xxpost
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
they weren't particularly liberal to begin w/
― iatee, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
contrary to popular belief most 20 somethings were not living on haight st in 1969
― iatee, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
*audible gasp*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
mamet writes reviews like he writes dialogue:
"What can one say to the self-proclaimed 'independent' who never has nor ever will vote other than Democratic; or to the wise soul suggesting, of any conflict at all, "the truth must lie somewhere in between"? Mr. Goldberg reminds us that one must stand up and demand of the muddled and supine either an absolute declaration of their principles and acknowledgment of the results of actions having flowed therefrom or a straightforward admission of their intransigence in refusing a concise reply."
(-DAVID MAMET, bestselling author of The Secret Knowledge )
^mamet endorsing the tyrrany of cliches
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/3mQdc.png
― iatee, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
xpost needs more swears imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
vocal fry was discussed in a thread - pretty sure La Lechera started it - could've been on the sandbox though
― sarahell, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
bitter millennial narrative re: reagan revolution is, the boomers had this big revolution where instead of being CONFORMIST DRONES they were going to BREAK FREE and SELF-ACTUALIZE and FIND THEMSELVES, which confused the corporations for about five minutes before they pulled themselves together and were like oh ok that's cool! hey you know a good way to find yourself? buy these sunglasses and vote against regulation. government's the problem!
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
do these speech patterns really span a generation or are they more region specific? can anyone give some examples of someone well known that speaks like this?
― Moodles, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
Iatee's explanation seems most convincing so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
I had to immediately vote "Greatest Generation" just because, c'mon. Humility is very important to me.
Also, you effing nuked Japan. Assholes.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
To be fair, they didn't nuke Japan. It's not like they voted on it.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
the boomers had this big revolution where instead of being CONFORMIST DRONES they were going to BREAK FREE and SELF-ACTUALIZE and FIND THEMSELVES
what cartoon is this?
bitter millennial narrative re: reagan revolution
I remember when millenials were making this complaint back when they started punk rock
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
It's not like they voted on it.
Truman definitely Lost Generation
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
I remember lots of ppl who had been vaguely non-conformist voting for Raygun in '84 - they had rediscovered money but they still wanted to be thought of as 'cool'.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
"bitter millennial narrative" was just me full-disclosing, although to be fair the people who started punk rock hadn't actually grown up in the country the reagan revolution made
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
i guess Boomers aren't quite as bad as they've been made out to be, but they (and their culture/culture that panders to them) have been so omnipresent for so long that it's very tempting to vote for them b/c more than anything else i want that generation to just STFU already.
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
nah they're still bad it's just the simple narrative about them is kinda misleading
― iatee, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
'they were all hippies! all them! then they were all reagan republicans! all of them!'