A significant % of US Baby Boomers are absolute shit-bags. Why?

Are you sexist and racist as well?

Facebook

Real estate

they are awful before facebook tho. 

Phish

The lack of good drugs, or overindulgence in bad ones, during their formative years

greed 

you mean the old people pushing their way past/into me at concerts while recording video or talking on facetime ?

Drugs are partially responsible.... this is the generation that turned the word "party" from a noun (a celebratory gathering) into a verb (let's do drugs).

Once it became culturally acceptable to be stoned all the time (on whatever), a significant amount of people did just that. Consequently, anything that did not directly effect their life and required extra effort and/or clear thinking became superfluous.

It's easier to be dumb and lazy.

Because they can. lol

oh, let's not forget television -- I date the quality turning point to when Three's Company came out -- mostly downhill ever since. Crappy 70s Saturday morning cartoons also hastened the intellectual demise of a whole generation of kids

6er never forgets to mention he’s seen Television but I think he forgot who is in the band lolz

Nature Cat is educational and funny. 

The demise of Television Entertainment started when black and white ended.

Boomers hate millennials.

Millennials hate boomers.

They both forget that there's an entire generation in between them that hate them both.

Zoomers will save us all.

man, presumably in 60's last txr show is on facetime talking to an asian lady maybe in her 20's? during the fucking show....it was so weird. showing her the show/crowd...

>>They both forget that there's an entire generation in between them 

Yes. In between Boomers and Millennials is the generation known as Whiners.

>>70’s Saturday morning cartoons

Most Boomers were too old to watch Saturday morning cartoons in the 1970’s - Boomers watched Saturday morning cartoons in the 60’s.

<Most Boomers were too old to watch Saturday morning cartoons in the 1970’s ->

Mostly true -- even Sesame Street wasn't on until 69, though it seems to have been around forever.

(But what do you think we watched in jr high while smoking that Acapulco Gold and Red Columbian?)

>>>>A significant % of US Baby Boomers  people are absolute shit-bags. 

Fixed that for ya.

>>> Yes. In between Boomers and Millennials is the generation known as Whiners. <<<
 

Whatever (rolls eyes)

>>(But what do you think we watched in jr high while smoking that Acapulco Gold and Red Columbian?)

H.R. Puffinstuff ?

Also - All Baby Boomers are US - so no need to make note if it. Other countries don’t have an obsessive need to name generations - nor do they have the self- importance that all US generations seem to have.

These guys were da shit 

"You refer to us as Karen, but if you really knew us... It would be Heather"

- X

Turt. That FaceTiming was weird.  Especially considering the other event that night

and randy comes to mind also.  Annoying

you did seem to be in a good space tho.....

long live all generations

Captain kangaroo and Bullwinkle and spy versus spy

Followed by my mother watching Roller derby at noon while eating her cottage cheese and canned fruit salad lunch 

You have obviously done some in-depth research on this.

Why is the greatest gen. birth span almost twice that of the most recent ones? They should all be the same length.

>>> You have obviously done some in-depth research on this. <<<

It's amazing you could see that from up there.

people are shit bags. i thought once millenials were adults, and the older boomers started dying, that big social changes would be on the horizon concerning things like how informed people are, materialism and vanity, things like that. 

im currently watching my generation become vain, materialistic shit bags. all the signs are there. in 20 years millenials will be just as shitty.

the world will break them, responsibilities will arise, and the shit will flow. no question.

And Zoomers will turn the flowing shit into a viable resource and save us all.

The Generation Gap.

How does it work?

Larry is one wise MFer

Generation Shitbag.  1946 - 2012

this thread needs pictures

>>>>Once it became culturally acceptable to be stoned all the time (on whatever), a significant amount of people did just that. Consequently, anything that did not directly effect their life and required extra effort and/or clear thinking became superfluous.

It's easier to be dumb and lazy.

no I think OP and the world in general are talking about the one's in charge who are fucking up the world politically, financially and environmentally. 
 

not talking about stoners on the couch, talking about people in charge. 

I think if the OP meant Baby Boomer leaders - they would have put that in the title or the first post of the thread. 

Instead I read it as literally a high % of all baby boomers not just leaders.

obviously ymmv

College generation

 Both

all of us

We stopped a huge war in our youth. We are getting old.  Your turn.

It's kind of funny when entitled Millennials are mean to their grandparents.

Those are the ones that ate the brown acid

By knocking away the guardrails limiting Boomer winnings, aggressively engineering changes in the political landscape, and by dint of the often unanticipated consequences of their innovations, they created a nation of moats that protected them from accountability and from the damage their triumphs caused in the larger community.

no I think OP and the world in general are talking about the one's in charge who are fucking up the world politically, financially and environmentally.

the first thing that came to mind for me is materialism, vanity, lack of intelligence, appetites for mind numbingly stupid media/news/online content, adherence to meaningless social custom, and things like that.

when i was 17 i honestly thought a large part of my generation would reject a huge part of the concept of "keeping up appearances"...this can involve wealth or not. i thought almost nobody would care about driving fancy cars, decorating your house with meaningless knick knacks, spending tons of money on clothes, etc...basically thought all of the things that consume resources/money and offer no utility aside from looking nice would fall massively by the wayside.

and thats just one small aspect, not even getting into things relating to climate change, inflation/housing issues and other more commonly talked about issues.

im sure alot of you guys felt this way...probably moreso the zoners who grew up closer to the 60's. in our late teens and early 20's, when we ourselves are immersed in the counterculture, its easy to make the mistake that this is the direction your generation will go, and when the pressures of the world mount up and the majority turn into shitbags and sell out, its pretty disheartening. im sure this is not a feeling specific to just boomers or just millenials...im sure most generations will go thru some variant of this. 

Never trust anyone over thirty has always been a good general rule, of course I am an exception and there may be a few others 

Also they have the baby boomer era wrong and they missed one

the tail end of the boomers ended earlier that thought, it ended in 1958

the years of 59 - 64 is the era of the Space Age Kids

the years of 59 - 64 is the era of the Space Age Kids<<

I like it! 

Never felt like a boomer.

I'd never have a lawn.

Glad to hear about space age kids.

Never felt like a boomer either.

We've got a 5 year sub-classification....noice!

I like space.

>people are shit bags.

>> people are average 

ftfy, gravystain

Are you crushed now, Gravy?

^ 

Typical (read: average) boomer activity. 

Like viewing protoplasm under a lens.  

Fruit flies. How do they work?

>>>>>vast generalization POV.

Yes indeed.

You could not break it down any further, Tatters. If they don’t get it, that’s on them.

The next step would have to be put it in a powerpoint, but presented at the reading level of a small child. 

Unfortunately, drugs has deteriorated the minds of a large swath of this particular boomer herd. #deadhead4lyfe

Drosophila melanogaster

If all the hippies cut off all their hair, I don't care.

>> ok troller (Number 6)

>> typical boomer behaviour 

yeeep, and also,

Wow!

Lol !!

The truth hurts.  Thanks Tatters.

In case you haven’t noticed; The truth is optional in 2020.

Haha wow. 6er, this isn’t really how you want to proudly represent the boomer Deadhead contingent, is it? Mann ??

irony. how does it work?

Haha, hmm, ok. Suffice to say your fatuous nature belies the argument that you are somehow ‘above it,’ particularly vis a vis your online persona. Irony indeed :) 

now, cry some more about the lack of good decorum on this twilight zone, as you yourself employ the very callow fatuousness which with the other side of your mouth you simultaneously decry. 

And, now - you are dismissed, whineroomer.  

Lets make the most of what remains of a so far very pleasant wknd, I’m sure it can’t be that unpleasant wherever you reside (boring, milquetoast, and whitebread though it may be ;))

>>>>>From what I've gathered about the Boomers from a vast generalization POV.

great post tatters. absolutely nailed it. 

I’m dismissed? lol

Literally, like, OMG!

..

at least John Doe had some sense 

You all are just pissed you didn't get to see Jerry.

Jerry who?

Yea but weed is legal in several states now.

So there's that.

A great scent for a Vermont boomer home:

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-vagina-scented-c...

Because they are human

you?

This boomer had a good time 50 years ago last December 

don't believe everything you read 

https://youtu.be/5WAk6HJ3_Bs 

OK Millennial.

<<>>Yea but weed is legal in several states now.

w/ rec laws written by boomer corporate lobbyists that only benefit affluent white people, some of which have been fighting legalization their entire adult life, does nothing for the poc affected by the decades long drug war, etc etc.....ya know, generally. haha. 

Complainers gonna complain. SAIEW