What you guys did give us though, is Lethal Weapon and Die Hard and to a lesser extend Stephen Segale. Those movies were pure gold.
BTW I agree my generation disappoints me.
The current teens just making me want to vomit.
Don’t even want to imagine what the pre-schoolers are going to be like when they get older.
[quote]TDub301 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
Social Security? I sure as shit won’t be seeing any of that when I get of age.[/quote]
Nah, I wouldn’t worry about that.
They will patch it up and kick the problem down to your kid’s generation. Maybe your grandkids.
They will move the age back though, that I would bet on.[/quote]
I thought they already did move it back 2 or 3 years. Or was that just what is considered “retirement age”?[/quote]
That is what i mean. It is a double edged sword though.
First, they want to get the old fuckers out of the work force to make room for us not-so-old fuckers to move into their spot, so the young fuckers can work in the mail room.
BUT… SS can’t afford to not push the age back until you get full benefits from where it is today. So us not-so-old fuckers and you young fuckers can give more of our money to feed the old fuckers when they retire with their liver spots.
[quote]gonepostal wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Consul wrote:
I’m 21, and a lot of the music I like is not really from “my generation”. Most popular music in the UK shouldn’t be called music, IMO.[/quote]
Congrats hipster, here is your gold star shaped like a snow flake.[/quote]
Congrats bro, here is your gold cane. [/quote]
Cane? Like a pimp cane?
[quote]Teledin wrote:
BTW I agree my generation disappoints me.
The current teens just making me want to vomit.
Don’t even want to imagine what the pre-schoolers are going to be like when they get older.[/quote]
Actually, I am not hating on teens or the younger generation, I actually like them quite a bit and think they get a bad rap just for being young. I am a huge advocate for the young in terms of standing up for they character and them as people.
I am mainly targeting the ‘billy-badass’ rebels who think they are being all original and avante garde, and “shocking”. My message to them is, we’ve seen it all you ain’t getting us back on our heels.
Second, the performing arts have just become shit. Everything is a retread of something old…Does anybody have an original idea? I check out Rolling Stone and I see two new artists, Lady Gaga who I think is just a copy cat fake, and Justin Beaver (give me a fucking break), then in the corner you have a snippet about Jay-Z and then a bunch of shit about old bands like Hole. Lollapolooza was cool 20 years ago when Jane’s Addiction was headlining. Bonaroo was ok, it’s shit now.
Movies are just painful. We have super heros, but it’s not Super Man, it’s the Man of Steel, all serious and shit. There’s now more onomonopia in Batman anymore, it’s the Dark fucking Knight, like now it’s all serious, ooooo.
The performing arts have the most important part of the whole business and that’s the ability to tell a story. It’s all fancy shots and shock value, completely devoid of a story or point. Where is the story? That’s what matters, between the '60’s and now, we’ve been about as shocked as we are going to get. Anybody can put on a show, not everyone can tell a story.
The thing that makes you remember a movie or a song is the story, not the shot of the car’s ceiling with shadow of the drivers face during a chase scene that you’re not even sure why the fucking thing is happening because the movie has no point.
The things that endure are stories, I am afraid the current 2 decades have been quite forgettable…
You just took this into movies…and your opinion on movies has been proven to suck more than the hoes on Bissonette in Houston at 3am. The 50’s need to stay in the 50’s…and no one today can relate to a super-Vanilla superhero wreaking of weak comedic attempts when that has already been played to death.
I agree with you that nothing can shock anyone born after 1965. If you even knew about Viet Nam, you probably have seen enough by now that you aren’t jotting “skinny jeans, popped collars, and too-tight t-shirts” as daring and cutting edge.
It’s been done before.
I agree that there seems to be a HUGE lack of truly original ideas and talent in media and music. Guys like Nas hit the seen at 16 years of age and held his position for 2 decades. There is no way in hell Soulja Boy can hold a candle to that.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You just took this into movies…and your opinion on movies has been proven to suck more than the hoes on Bissonette in Houston at 3am. The 50’s need to stay in the 50’s…and no one today can relate to a super-Vanilla superhero wreaking of weak comedic attempts when that has already been played to death.
I agree with you that nothing can shock anyone born after 1965. If you even knew about Viet Nam, you probably have seen enough by now that you aren’t jotting “skinny jeans, popped collars, and too-tight t-shirts” as daring and cutting edge.
It’s been done before.
I agree that there seems to be a HUGE lack of truly original ideas and talent in media and music. Guys like Nas hit the seen at 16 years of age and held his position for 2 decades. There is no way in hell Soulja Boy can hold a candle to that.[/quote]
^This right here.
We don’t need anymore cheesy garbage like Batman & Robin.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You just took this into movies…and your opinion on movies has been proven to suck more than the hoes on Bissonette in Houston at 3am. The 50’s need to stay in the 50’s…and no one today can relate to a super-Vanilla superhero wreaking of weak comedic attempts when that has already been played to death.
I agree with you that nothing can shock anyone born after 1965. If you even knew about Viet Nam, you probably have seen enough by now that you aren’t jotting “skinny jeans, popped collars, and too-tight t-shirts” as daring and cutting edge.
It’s been done before.
I agree that there seems to be a HUGE lack of truly original ideas and talent in media and music. Guys like Nas hit the seen at 16 years of age and held his position for 2 decades. There is no way in hell Soulja Boy can hold a candle to that.[/quote]
You get ‘‘life is good’’?
What agrivates me is the technology - it’s replacing our brains. I had a conversation about this with my 15 year old son not too long ago. He missed calling me “cuz his phone died”. I was like, “well you just should have used your FRIEND’S phone”. His reply was, “Well how was I supposed to know your PHONE NUMBER?”. He really wasn’t being a smartass either.
He’s in a highly selective engineering program at his High School - the kid knows Pi to like 15 decimal places but it never occurred to him to memorize my phone number! (I’ve since remedied THAT little oversight the old fashioned way involving pencil, paper and writer’s cramp LOL)
But it’s more than just phone numbers, it’s sense of direction as well - how we managed to survive BEFORE GPS is beyond me. How many people under 35 still carry a MAP in their glove box? (for those youngsters who don’t know what a “map” is, it’s kinda like a big piece of paper that you can fold up and it has roads and streets printed on it. It generally has a grid with letters and numbers so that you can ‘look up’ a road from a list printed in the bottom corner).
Imagine trying to navigate today without GPS or cell phones? I don’t know, but my generation SOMEHOW managed to make it to the doctor appointments on time…
The biggest pet peeve of them all is TEXTING. Texting is stealing the soul out of courtship. No longer do you need to lift your skirt and grab your balls and TAKE A RISK. No, now all they do is get her number or name and text or “facebook” her. I USED to have guys asking me, “so when I go up to her, what’s the best thing to say?”.
Now, I get guys asking me, “so what should my first text to her say?”. To which I normally reply, “Hi I’m ‘John’. I lack the testicular fortitude 2 actually call U n have a conversation with U so I chose to text U so that if U don’t really like me you won’t hurt my feelings”.
It’s not just the guys either! There’s plenty of times where I call a chick (under 30 - most older broads don’t play this shit), get her voicemail and leave a message, only to have her TEXT me five minutes later! It boggles my little brain… WTF? I actually miss out on a lot of younger pussy as a result, cuz I rarely play the text game. We are slowly losing the ART of having an actual conversation.
That’s enough bitching for now!
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
What agrivates me is the technology - it’s replacing our brains. I had a conversation about this with my 15 year old son not too long ago. He missed calling me “cuz his phone died”. I was like, “well you just should have used your FRIEND’S phone”. His reply was, “Well how was I supposed to know your PHONE NUMBER?”. He really wasn’t being a smartass either. He’s in a highly selective engineering program at his High School - the kid knows Pi to like 15 decimal places but it never occurred to him to memorize my phone number! (I’ve since remedied THAT little oversight the old fashioned way involving pencil, paper and writer’s cramp LOL)
But it’s more than just phone numbers, it’s sense of direction as well - how we managed to survive BEFORE GPS is beyond me. How many people under 35 still carry a MAP in their glove box? (for those youngsters who don’t know what a “map” is, it’s kinda like a big piece of paper that you can fold up and it has roads and streets printed on it. It generally has a grid with letters and numbers so that you can ‘look up’ a road from a list printed in the bottom corner). Imagine trying to navigate today without GPS or cell phones? I don’t know, but my generation SOMEHOW managed to make it to the doctor appointments on time…
The biggest pet peeve of them all is TEXTING. Texting is stealing the soul out of courtship. No longer do you need to lift your skirt and grab your balls and TAKE A RISK. No, now all they do is get her number or name and text or “facebook” her. I USED to have guys asking me, “so when I go up to her, what’s the best thing to say?”. Now, I get guys asking me, “so what should my first text to her say?”. To which I normally reply, “Hi I’m ‘John’. I lack the testicular fortitude 2 actually call U n have a conversation with U so I chose to text U so that if U don’t really like me you won’t hurt my feelings”.
It’s not just the guys either! There’s plenty of times where I call a chick (under 30 - most older broads don’t play this shit), get her voicemail and leave a message, only to have her TEXT me five minutes later! It boggles my little brain… WTF? I actually miss out on a lot of younger pussy as a result, cuz I rarely play the text game. We are slowly losing the ART of having an actual conversation.
That’s enough bitching for now!
[/quote]
QFT. And explain to me how you have a smart phone but no job or car?
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Teledin wrote:
BTW I agree my generation disappoints me.
The current teens just making me want to vomit.
Don’t even want to imagine what the pre-schoolers are going to be like when they get older.[/quote]
Actually, I am not hating on teens or the younger generation, I actually like them quite a bit and think they get a bad rap just for being young. I am a huge advocate for the young in terms of standing up for they character and them as people.
I am mainly targeting the ‘billy-badass’ rebels who think they are being all original and avante garde, and “shocking”. My message to them is, we’ve seen it all you ain’t getting us back on our heels.
Second, the performing arts have just become shit. Everything is a retread of something old…Does anybody have an original idea? I check out Rolling Stone and I see two new artists, Lady Gaga who I think is just a copy cat fake, and Justin Beaver (give me a fucking break), then in the corner you have a snippet about Jay-Z and then a bunch of shit about old bands like Hole. Lollapolooza was cool 20 years ago when Jane’s Addiction was headlining. Bonaroo was ok, it’s shit now.
Movies are just painful. We have super heros, but it’s not Super Man, it’s the Man of Steel, all serious and shit. There’s now more onomonopia in Batman anymore, it’s the Dark fucking Knight, like now it’s all serious, ooooo.
The performing arts have the most important part of the whole business and that’s the ability to tell a story. It’s all fancy shots and shock value, completely devoid of a story or point. Where is the story? That’s what matters, between the '60’s and now, we’ve been about as shocked as we are going to get. Anybody can put on a show, not everyone can tell a story.
The thing that makes you remember a movie or a song is the story, not the shot of the car’s ceiling with shadow of the drivers face during a chase scene that you’re not even sure why the fucking thing is happening because the movie has no point.
The things that endure are stories, I am afraid the current 2 decades have been quite forgettable…[/quote]
I think, in a way, the stories stay around because what happens is they take the same story and put new bells and whistles around it and call it a new movie when it’s been done probably multiple times already. That’s most movies nowadays to me.
And video games. I don’t play much any more because they all seem like the same damn thing I mastered years ago and don’t feel like spending time doing the same thing over again.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
What agrivates me is the technology - it’s replacing our brains. I had a conversation about this with my 15 year old son not too long ago. He missed calling me “cuz his phone died”. I was like, “well you just should have used your FRIEND’S phone”. His reply was, “Well how was I supposed to know your PHONE NUMBER?”. He really wasn’t being a smartass either.
He’s in a highly selective engineering program at his High School - the kid knows Pi to like 15 decimal places but it never occurred to him to memorize my phone number! (I’ve since remedied THAT little oversight the old fashioned way involving pencil, paper and writer’s cramp LOL)
But it’s more than just phone numbers, it’s sense of direction as well - how we managed to survive BEFORE GPS is beyond me. How many people under 35 still carry a MAP in their glove box? (for those youngsters who don’t know what a “map” is, it’s kinda like a big piece of paper that you can fold up and it has roads and streets printed on it. It generally has a grid with letters and numbers so that you can ‘look up’ a road from a list printed in the bottom corner).
Imagine trying to navigate today without GPS or cell phones? I don’t know, but my generation SOMEHOW managed to make it to the doctor appointments on time…
The biggest pet peeve of them all is TEXTING. Texting is stealing the soul out of courtship. No longer do you need to lift your skirt and grab your balls and TAKE A RISK. No, now all they do is get her number or name and text or “facebook” her. I USED to have guys asking me, “so when I go up to her, what’s the best thing to say?”.
Now, I get guys asking me, “so what should my first text to her say?”. To which I normally reply, “Hi I’m ‘John’. I lack the testicular fortitude 2 actually call U n have a conversation with U so I chose to text U so that if U don’t really like me you won’t hurt my feelings”.
It’s not just the guys either! There’s plenty of times where I call a chick (under 30 - most older broads don’t play this shit), get her voicemail and leave a message, only to have her TEXT me five minutes later! It boggles my little brain… WTF? I actually miss out on a lot of younger pussy as a result, cuz I rarely play the text game. We are slowly losing the ART of having an actual conversation.
That’s enough bitching for now!
[/quote]
What a great rant. So much truth. In fact, I think, a lot of it boils down to being intellectually lazy; the biggest downfall of society, in my opinion.
complain all you want but no one is forcing you to use a gps, no one is making you watch movies and no one is telling you you cant make a movie the way you like it.
Get it?
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
What agrivates me is the technology - it’s replacing our brains. I had a conversation about this with my 15 year old son not too long ago. He missed calling me “cuz his phone died”. I was like, “well you just should have used your FRIEND’S phone”. His reply was, “Well how was I supposed to know your PHONE NUMBER?”. He really wasn’t being a smartass either.
He’s in a highly selective engineering program at his High School - the kid knows Pi to like 15 decimal places but it never occurred to him to memorize my phone number! (I’ve since remedied THAT little oversight the old fashioned way involving pencil, paper and writer’s cramp LOL)
But it’s more than just phone numbers, it’s sense of direction as well - how we managed to survive BEFORE GPS is beyond me. How many people under 35 still carry a MAP in their glove box? (for those youngsters who don’t know what a “map” is, it’s kinda like a big piece of paper that you can fold up and it has roads and streets printed on it. It generally has a grid with letters and numbers so that you can ‘look up’ a road from a list printed in the bottom corner).
Imagine trying to navigate today without GPS or cell phones? I don’t know, but my generation SOMEHOW managed to make it to the doctor appointments on time…
The biggest pet peeve of them all is TEXTING. Texting is stealing the soul out of courtship. No longer do you need to lift your skirt and grab your balls and TAKE A RISK. No, now all they do is get her number or name and text or “facebook” her. I USED to have guys asking me, “so when I go up to her, what’s the best thing to say?”.
Now, I get guys asking me, “so what should my first text to her say?”. To which I normally reply, “Hi I’m ‘John’. I lack the testicular fortitude 2 actually call U n have a conversation with U so I chose to text U so that if U don’t really like me you won’t hurt my feelings”.
It’s not just the guys either! There’s plenty of times where I call a chick (under 30 - most older broads don’t play this shit), get her voicemail and leave a message, only to have her TEXT me five minutes later! It boggles my little brain… WTF? I actually miss out on a lot of younger pussy as a result, cuz I rarely play the text game. We are slowly losing the ART of having an actual conversation.
That’s enough bitching for now!
[/quote]
I completely agree (have a GPS that I got for Christmas and 2 different maps in my car just for insurance, the GPS isn’t always right).
But I have to confess I’m a big texter. For a few reasons, 1. for some reason I can’t hear people very well on my cell phone. I don’t know what it is, but every other sentence, no matter who I’m talking to, I have to ask “what was that?” “what did you say?” it gets old quick… I don’t avoid talking on the phone with women, though, I just text and if they would rather talk on the phone, then I call and try my best to hear everything. 2. I can multitask. If we’re texting, then I can talk to someone and still actually eat or lift or do what it was I wanted to do with my evening. 3. I can actually give good thought to what I say before saying it (if necessary), which elicits much better answers and conversations in my opinion. I can also tell a lot about someone by how they text. Do they spell correctly? Use good grammar? Are they descriptive? Or do they just don’t give a fuck and are they sloppy? 4. If I can’t remember something they told me that’s important (i.e., their favorite food) then I can just scroll up and take note.
I’ve also met plenty of women in their 30s who do the texting thing, although I will say that it isn’t as common with them as with younger girls. For the younger people, it’s like it’s the preferred form of communication.
This is starting to remind me of Wall-E. Did anyone see the end of that? I don’t think it’s that far-fetched and it was pretty scary to me.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
What agrivates me is the technology - it’s replacing our brains. I had a conversation about this with my 15 year old son not too long ago. He missed calling me “cuz his phone died”. I was like, “well you just should have used your FRIEND’S phone”. His reply was, “Well how was I supposed to know your PHONE NUMBER?”. He really wasn’t being a smartass either.
He’s in a highly selective engineering program at his High School - the kid knows Pi to like 15 decimal places but it never occurred to him to memorize my phone number! (I’ve since remedied THAT little oversight the old fashioned way involving pencil, paper and writer’s cramp LOL)
But it’s more than just phone numbers, it’s sense of direction as well - how we managed to survive BEFORE GPS is beyond me. How many people under 35 still carry a MAP in their glove box? (for those youngsters who don’t know what a “map” is, it’s kinda like a big piece of paper that you can fold up and it has roads and streets printed on it. It generally has a grid with letters and numbers so that you can ‘look up’ a road from a list printed in the bottom corner).
Imagine trying to navigate today without GPS or cell phones? I don’t know, but my generation SOMEHOW managed to make it to the doctor appointments on time…
The biggest pet peeve of them all is TEXTING. Texting is stealing the soul out of courtship. No longer do you need to lift your skirt and grab your balls and TAKE A RISK. No, now all they do is get her number or name and text or “facebook” her. I USED to have guys asking me, “so when I go up to her, what’s the best thing to say?”.
Now, I get guys asking me, “so what should my first text to her say?”. To which I normally reply, “Hi I’m ‘John’. I lack the testicular fortitude 2 actually call U n have a conversation with U so I chose to text U so that if U don’t really like me you won’t hurt my feelings”.
It’s not just the guys either! There’s plenty of times where I call a chick (under 30 - most older broads don’t play this shit), get her voicemail and leave a message, only to have her TEXT me five minutes later! It boggles my little brain… WTF? I actually miss out on a lot of younger pussy as a result, cuz I rarely play the text game. We are slowly losing the ART of having an actual conversation.
That’s enough bitching for now!
[/quote]
You can do a lot with texting, because most people just text utter drivel.
After you have approached her IRL.
I text way more now. Between guys, it works great. I don’t need to talk to all of my friends for 15min each to get basic details. No more random convos about the weather when you can just text “b there in a minute bitch”.
I am a cranky old man now, but I love Texting, I always hated talking on the phone, I always had a few friends who wanted to call to say “whats up” fucking hated that, I can text, convey info and the mundane phone calls like “uhhh whaddyadoin” “nothing what about you” “uh nothing” has been extinct in my life ever since.
Also the GPS thing, I will admit I was one of those full on retards that for the life of me could not read a map, and reading a map and driving…car wreck city. I was in law enforcement before GPS and had to make use of a map, it was horrible, what was even more embarrassing was someone telling me to go north or south, or god forbid northwest or some shit like that. Please tell me left or right I could do left or right, but I am not Amerigo Vespucci.
Oh and the traffic updates are awesome, the google navi on my phone saves me miles, frustration, time and money.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
I am a cranky old man now, but I love Texting, I always hated talking on the phone, I always had a few friends who wanted to call to say “whats up” fucking hated that, I can text, convey info and the mundane phone calls like “uhhh whaddyadoin” “nothing what about you” “uh nothing” has been extinct in my life ever since.
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Same here. I like action way more than talk. Texting allows me to get to the point quickly.
Yeah, future generations will lack the ability to communicate with other people outside of a computer screen. That is one of the main reasons a lot of the younger dudes act like complete assholes over the internet when you KNOW they would never say any of that in real life to someone.
It also explains why so few newbs actually go to a fucking gym first and make some progress before they waste 2 years on line trying to find the “perfect way to train”.
So we’ve gone from discussing shock value to who is best. Drugs, from sedatives to hallucinogens have been present for all time. Sex, vulgarity… counter culture in general are not exclusive or original to gen x. Nothing is. Same shit, different package.
Same as the “who’s better”. So far individual gripes have been put on a generation as a whole and there is disagreement from other members of the same generation.
Cell phones are excellent “game” tools. You still have to meet women, numbers don’t just appear in your phone. By the time you get one, you’ve already sparked attraction. If you’re looking for a hook up, cell phones give women the discretion they want to be slutty without appearing so. They don’t have to “leave with you” and you don’t have to wait to call, after the event, closing time et cetera, a quick text " Glad to meet you! Would love for you to come by…" feeding of the attraction you built gets them “home with you”, reputation intact, allowing for much more pussy if you really understand the female psyche. Building a relationship is another matter and involves more talking, et cetera. 20’s and teens still have relationships, marriages… using texts when appropriate they are great tools. Same as mundane “whats up” comments as Matty mentioned.
Yeah, people can read maps. Given the option though GPS is simply more efficient and smarter with traffic re-routes, updated roads, spoken direction for safety… There is a reason we drive cars instead of horse buggies and the logic follows.
Name a movie without a plot. All that has changed are much improved special effects, graphics and sound, all of which make movies better.
Music is a legit complaint, unfortunately a larger percentage of people like rap and pop, talentless noise synthesized by a computer as opposed to instrumental talent and harmony. Good music is still out there, it just isn’t marketed and guess who is currently senior management in most cases? Regardless, The Black Keys, Tab Benoit, Mumford and Sons and yes, Kings Of Leon amongst others are putting out great stuff.
Athletes are bigger, stronger, faster… better.
I can’t remember all the whines but its bullshit. You just can’t keep up.
Being a man, and not being able to read a map is about the equivalent of being a “lifter” and not doing squats and deads…