For the 30+ crowd - Updated list

[andrewas]

Damn, I said I would regard this post as wrong when someone my age complained about it. Luckily, Arledrian is two years younger than me, So I can still say its OK

But seriously, lighten up. One of the skills you need to get through life is laughing at yourself. If you persist in taking everything seriously, well, that way youll crack up.

You're probably right, Andrew. I'm not the most uptight person around, but things like that do tend to get on my nerves. Saying that, I've had about three hours of sleep and am in a rotten mood, so woe betide those who cross me

[Attalus]

Originally posted by Melusine: Attalus - that's pretty impressive of Piestrider. History's such an interesting topic, too! !

Thank you, Melusine, we are very proud of him. He started getting interested in WWII when he and I started building model aircraft together, and he went to club meetings. He met some real heroes, not just vets (whom I honor, but these guys are special) like Paul Tibbets, who flew the Enola Gay, , "Gabby" Gabreski, who was one of the highest-scoring aces in the ETO, and Dick Best, who commanded VB-6 at the Battle of Midway. From then on, he has been reading voraciously.

[ 10-11-2002, 03:18 PM: Message edited by: Attalus ]

[Ronn_Bman]

Originally posted by Arledrian: quote: Originally posted by Ronn_Bman: The original or my comment on it? [img]smile.gif[/img]

The original. I find it degrading and a little tasteless at best. If younger people discriminate against senior citizens they get reprimanded or even accused of being ageist, but when it's the other way around, it seems that anything goes. [/QUOTE]I don't think anything should go against the younger crowd, nor did I find this list "falling down" funny. Really, I didn't think this was an anti-youth post, but more of a "wow, you're really getting old" post. Not that young people don't know any of this, but that they didn't live through most of it.

I'm getting sooooooo very old. I can remember my dad saying things to me when I was young, and I remember thinking, "I'll never say or do this or that", but now I have kids, and I'm saying them myself.


[ 10-11-2002, 06:46 PM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by Ronn_Bman: quote: Originally posted by Melusine: it gives young people far too little credit. Just my 2c

I took it more as, "what we've lived, they can only learn about". [img]smile.gif[/img]
[/QB][/QUOTE]If that's what it was saying then I wouldn't find it insulting. But what it's actually saying is 'what we've lived, they don't know/care about'. The implication being that young people live in some sort of vacuum where they are ignorant, and pleased to be ignorant, about everything that doesn't directly concern them. "Tianamen Square means nothing to them." The funny thing is I would wager there'd be just as many older people who have no idea about most important world events than young people.

[Ronn_Bman]

Originally posted by Aelia Jusa: I would wager there'd be just as many older people who have no idea about most important world events than young people.[/QB]

Probably a pretty good bet [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Azred]

I would say that the average "under 30" member of Ironworks [img]graemlins/erm.gif[/img] ...excuse me... Escape forum is most likely more informed then the average person under 30.

However, Belle works with plenty of people who are barely into their 20s and it is both laughable and pathetic at the lack of general knowledge of recent history/culture they possess. True, many of the things listed in Charean's initial post are "generational", but it does make you think--why don't those younger folks learn as much these days? Oh, well. I'm quite sure the people who are 15 to 20 years older than me think "why do those 30-somethings (another reference to 80s TV) not know the things I know?" [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img]
We once heard two teenagers in Blockbuster talking about The Phantom Menace, and one of them asked "who is Darth Vader?" [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img]

Every generation gets to laugh at the younger generations.

Meanwhile, I'll pull up to the drive-through window in my DeLorean, ask "where's the beef?", phone home, vote for Bill and Opus, then make Night Tracks to the drive-in. [img]graemlins/happywave.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/beigesmilewinkgrin.gif[/img]

[John D Harris]

LOL, The Whipper Snapper's

[J.J.]

Originally posted by Ronn_Bman: quote: Originally posted by Arledrian: I think that was a horrible post.

The original or my comment on it? [img]smile.gif[/img]

The original contains some undeniable facts, but also some insinuations. I don't look at it as a put down on the younger crowd though. It just helps me understand how very different things have been for them. Just as things were different for me from my parents and their contemporaries. Our opinions are influenced by our upbringing, surroundings, and memories.

Anyway, I didn't mean anything unfavorable about the youth of today. I wish I was one of them..lol [/QUOTE]ME TOO!!! [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img] WOW, what a list. scary thought, pass the geritol(tm) -add that product to the list, btw, LOLOLOL gawd, that was the year I was able to vote in my first presidential election for R.R., I am proud to say.

I remember our black and white t.v.(broke it trying to move the stand it was on at about 5 yrs old) phones sat on a desk or mounted on a wall, and they ALL had dials. the weedeater was an invention i lusted after mightily, trimming the grass edge by hand with clippers. banana seats and sissy bars on bikes. H.A.S.H. jeans. the smiley face. keep on truckin' posters. the Sonny and Cher show. aaaack! stop me b4 senile dementia roots too deeply. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[/)eathKiller]

For a college student who just like... started... and is 17 and born in 1985... making my younger than the dates you placed, I experience a WHOLE lot of those things, sure I was one when the space shuttle blew up, but I remember it because of everyones reactions around me... I remember using a record player, but not an A-track... and I never was in a world without Apple or Microsoft [img]tongue.gif[/img] But I did have an atari... i liked playing pacman, but pong was kind of old.... Micheal jackson was only turning white as far as I remember it [img]tongue.gif[/img] and I also remember only getting AFN re-runs in Germany so Mork and Mindy were fairly well known to me [img]tongue.gif[/img] Just sayin' . . .