worst generation

man my refrigerator joke is universal

stare into this joke and see the cosmos youngins

Which generation does the guy in LMFAO with the funny red hair belong to? His is the best generation.

I really hate the Mexican War generation cept for Lincoln

whichever the OG handlebar mustache and pocketwatch generation is = my favorite generation

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.

whichever the OG handlebar mustache and pocketwatch generation is = my favorite generation

― 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

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.

Give people a bit of privacy and you don't know what they'll do with it.

not a more open society, a 24/7 communal shower society

It is a travesty that humans are allowed to bathe alone in any capacity.

Somebody get Tombot to weigh in on this

my answer is the boomers, naturally. handed the greatest society yet, and trashed it all.

banaka, we're working as hard as possible to attain singularity. plz, just a little patience.

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.

those are 2 p awesome accomplishments tho

xp - traitor!

hey, it's what we do

there's probably a douglas copeland book about it

Yeah, self-loathing is probably as endemic of gen x as self-satisfaction is of the millinnials.

have we ever discussed vocal fry on ilx? i don't see a thread for it..

we talked abt it somehwerrreee

oh my gawd

does lumpy space princess talk with a vocal fry?

I remember reading about it on here before but I have a feeling it may be lost in a general discussion thread...

oh my glob. what the lump?

Banaka showing up on a thread like this means I am going to have a great day.

i really love banaka

he should post here ray kurzweil's 'the singularity is near' & any other technological singularity-related books you might care about

it's a banaka blast

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?

yes. it's partially the neoconservative story too

people get older they get conservative ronald reagan blah blah

blah blah david mamet blah blah

Esp inasmuch as many of the founding neo-cons were liberals or fellow-travelers who crossed over to the dark side.

xxpost

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?

they weren't particularly liberal to begin w/

contrary to popular belief most 20 somethings were not living on haight st in 1969

*audible gasp*

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

http://i.imgur.com/3mQdc.png

xpost needs more swears imo

vocal fry was discussed in a thread - pretty sure La Lechera started it - could've been on the sandbox though

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!

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?

Iatee's explanation seems most convincing so far.

I had to immediately vote "Greatest Generation" just because, c'mon. Humility is very important to me.

Also, you effing nuked Japan. Assholes.

To be fair, they didn't nuke Japan. It's not like they voted on it.

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

It's not like they voted on it.

Truman definitely Lost Generation

what cartoon is this?

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'.

"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