Techno-punk sounds awful!
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
techno punk sounds super lame
explorer is rad, we could be astronauts
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm...I'm an "Explorer, Part Two". Somehow it figures that I'm a sequel.
― I cannot host as my wife hates Walker (latebloomer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Explorer Part Two: The Mellowening
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61E7SJK44hL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
very ambivalent about technopunk on the one hand:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Electrocop_cover_art.jpg
on the other:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b7lQNiW2GI8/R6MWRH3q8UI/AAAAAAAAAA8/k1-0Jw0YXRM/s320/wired.gif
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
technopunk makes me think of white zombie or something
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
If the 'greatest generation' hadn't been so racist, it would have been a pretty good generation.
As a boomer, I know we were hopelessly erratic and a sizeable herd of us stampeded into conservatism in the most mindless and reactionary sort of way. But we aren't ALL bad, y'know. Boomers revived feminism from dormancy. Boomer gays started gay lib. Boomers even changed the American diet away from hot dish and jello salad.
Not intimate with later generations, but from what I've seen of the younger generations, they were likeable enough. I got no beef with them and certainly have no desire to peg any of them as 'worst'.
I abstain.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
that is the best opening to a post
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Explorers, part two –––– I feel good about this
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
EXPLORERS, MOUNT UP
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
Boomers the worst
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
I like how TINY the window is for explorers pt 2 and how vague and uninspiring the description is:
They are undisciplined and unfocused, but probably very positive and mature otherwise.
probably
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
who knows, maybe
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
does anyone *really* ever know?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
they suck but they're probably decent
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
I am an Explorer, except for the part where almost none of the Explorer description fits me. Except maybe the 'acting out on alienation destructively' part.
― grickodda thunder, zoos (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
They are "mellow," but also very cynical
the quotes confuse me
is he saying we're high? uptight?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm an explorer part two, as well, i feel this justifies my m4riju4na intake. the thing with boomers is they have basically gotten away with making the stage play of their adolescence official history. it's more sad than anything. the whole narrative is what capitalism really needed to get where it is now imo. xp
― yo just a couple (Matt P), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
What about the part where the "greatest generation" set up all this infrastructure that enabled the boomers to do all these horrible things?
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
Horrible things? Refrigerators and washing machines and transistor radios and hi-fi's and reel to reel and...?
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
h8 refrigerators
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Regardless, it was the golden age of household appliances and consumer goods for the working class, finally
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
ppl of my generation cannot relate to all these 'quirky jokes' about hating refrigerators and shit
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I've lived w/o a refrigerator before - in Paris with a lusty and lovely blonde. It was eminently do-able for me back then.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
life - refrigerator + lusty lovely blonde + paris = doable
yep all checks out
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
also highways and SPACE TRAVEL
kinda love the Greatest Generation even though the name kind of makes me want to not like them at all
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
If you have a market within easy walking distance, refrigeration is less of a necessity I expect.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
...depending on which generation you are from.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
bring back the icebox
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
Bring back the iceman!
― grickodda thunder, zoos (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
The Iceman Cometh Backeth
― grickodda thunder, zoos (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Am I a dick for not entirely buying the greatest generation thing? They didn't want war but they got it. They weren't exactly eager to join up and they got drafted. The economy finally recovered after 12 years and then they all moved to the 'burbs and started voting like a bunch of Republican dicks.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
also most of them are dead
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
If you have a market within easy walking distance
We did. We also subsisted on l'amour et l'eau fraîche. Actually, we had pasteurised milk and butter fro breakfast that we kept on a ledge outside that was both pigeon-proof and got no sun. Other than that, we either ate out or only bought what we needed for lunch/dinner.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
Three of my greatest gen grandparents are alive!
ur killing me w/this french butter on the windowsill imagery, feel like throwing my american refrigerator in the ocean
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
As a boomer I got a good look at the prior generation. They were my parents, my teachers, all the adults in my life as I grew up. They were mostly ok, except the rampant racism I mentioned above.
They were pretty thoroughly propagandized against the commies, too, but the commies mostly obliged them by being huge dicks and occupying eastern europe. Problem was, they had trouble distinguishing between commies and, say, civil rights advocates, or garden variety socialists.
Hard working people right across the board. Even the rottenest of capitalist pigs worked their tails off to amass their huge wealth and defend it.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
In the morning we'd heat the milk, spread the butter on the baguette toast and then pour the milk in the coffee. It was '88, I think, and I was a little disconcerted by her love of Rick Astley; thorn on the rose, serpent in the garden, etc...
x-post
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
MW, have u read this? http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/witnessing-a-change-in-williamsburg-brooklyn
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
I have now but I'm not sure how it's germane to the thread or my little derail
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
snows of yesteryear sentiments?
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
The greatest generation came up with a lot of the modern conveniences we now take for granted due to the insanely rapid industrialization of the US in the postwar era. Not really their fault, but they also created a system of production that they later moved to other countries as soon as it proved profitable, privileged automobile traffic in all instances over rail, let the fear of communism drive voting and public policy for decades, and unironically accepted the "Leave it to Beaver" model of entertainment until the cynicism of "All in the Family". And as mentioned above, the racism and attitudes were such that my grandfather found Archie Bunker funny because he thought he was on-point!
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
i would like to hear someone from the silent generation critique the greatest generation and compare it to gen x talking about boomers
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
something something refrigerators something something war something something racism something something DADDY WAS MEAN
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
xp - pretty sure there were quite a few scenes of this in the first two seasons of Mad Men, Mordy
― sarahell, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
There's also that part where the greatest generation fought a "good war," then transitioned into the cold war, and sent their kids off to Vietnam.
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
no gen-x'ers really yet in mad men
i think the thread kinda touched on this earlier but how do these generation tropes travel outside the united states? i assume like uk probably shares a lot of similar ideas and maybe other english speaking countries too? do they exist at all in non-English speaking countries? are they replaced with totally different paradigms?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Baby boomers aren't just an idea, though - food rationing didn't end in England until 1954, for example.
I mean, we know what is signified by these terms, it's just that what's signified is americans.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link