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Old 05-04-2019 | 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by BobZ
Well. The boomers did create the tech and devices you are using here to whine about the unfairness of life.
Along with some pretty good music imho.
The boomers are also going to hand off a generational transfer of wealth never before seen in history. Tens of millions of those silver platters are gonna add up to a bunch of $$..
But other than that...you are right. not much i guess.
The tech that was created by boomers was actually just tweaks to breakthroughs from the previous generation who made improvements to discoveries from the generation before who built on top of what had been created before them and so on and so on and so on. So to credit that all to the boomers seems a little bit offensive to DaVinci and his friends through the ages. Not to mention the changes that have been made since by, wait for it, millennials.

Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and their contemporaries probably would voice an opinion on the wealth aspect.

Boomers did make some good music though.
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Old 05-04-2019 | 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by BobZ
Social media would have failed miserably in previous generations.
Any millennial can attest that is not true. My parents, aunts, and uncles (boomers) spend just as much time getting involved in social media drama as a 14 year old.

I also see a lot of 50 year olds that are glued to their phone at the gate during boarding. I guess that is why the older people are the only ones using belt clips for their phones
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Old 05-04-2019 | 08:18 PM
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Im not talkg abt boomers. But their prdecessors.
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Old 05-04-2019 | 09:36 PM
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Somebody pointed out that older people have always complained about the younger generations, which is true. However, let’s not forget that the younger generations have also always complained about the previous generation. It goes round and round endlessly.
We (I now belong to the older generation) were young and knew it all not too long ago, then somehow our own children grew up and and now look at US as the problem, just as we did to our previous generation.

You folks in your 20’s and 30’s will be in our shoes before you know it, lol!

Now get off my lawn!
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Old 05-04-2019 | 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by BobZ
Im not talkg abt boomers. But their prdecessors.
I've got 4 different phone numbers, the only time they ring, robo calls. I got a tablet because DAL closed the ticket office in my area. Then I discovered APC. Now I'm a blabber- netter. Still don't carry my flip phone.
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Old 05-05-2019 | 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by ICUROOK
I'll tell you what I find funny. When snowflakes get offended by statements that were perfectly fine when said just 3 years ago. Now that is funny.
I’d say it’s more sad than funny.
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Old 05-05-2019 | 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by CLRtoPush
Nothing...The the best comedy is a reflection of the truth.
Indeed it is.
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Old 05-05-2019 | 06:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Halon1211
Don’t let symbian simian catch you making a non PC joke or he is going to come after you, because he is still socially “woke”.
Thanks for the advice!
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Old 05-05-2019 | 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Smutter
Man you are a snowflake. You're the same guy that started screaming remove this post, it's partisan politics. Another words you didn't like someone else's view so you did not want to hear it and wanted it removed so you can live in your safe space
You’re on point with this post. I’m not sure if he’s a troll, or if he really believes his view is the only one that can be expressed. He’s had several of my posts removed and there was nothing that could be considered as “partisan politics” in them.
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Old 05-05-2019 | 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by badflaps
In the olden days snowflake was ghetto slang for white guy.
That’s how it was used when I was in high school.
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