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cockerpunk 07-30-2014 06:52 AM

data shows that gen Y is safer, more moral and improving the world
 
https://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/generation-y/

techweenie 07-30-2014 07:17 AM

That'll rile up the old farts.

gacook 07-30-2014 07:24 AM

I'm right at the tip of Gen Y. Safety has never been at the forefront of my mind with most things I've done ;)

LakeCleElum 07-30-2014 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by techweenie (Post 8189534)
That'll rile up the old farts.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1406734296.jpg

:eek: What? More moral than Woodstock and the Sexual Revolution? Say it isn't so :eek:

Nostril Cheese 07-30-2014 07:37 AM

I know some people here are going to whine and ***** about how better things were when Chester A. Arthur was president.

Seahawk 07-30-2014 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by techweenie (Post 8189534)
That'll rile up the old farts.

Not me. Actually a very interesting link, and the supporting links to get to the data are legit.

I will ask however, given the stats, how they are improving the world from their parents basement:D

techweenie 07-30-2014 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 8189595)
I will ask however, given the stats, they are improving the world from their parents basement:D

^^^

Ha!

I doubt I'll see a more perfect comment this month.

Hugh R 07-30-2014 08:01 AM

More unemployed, smoking more dope, up 38% and I'm supposed to be impressed?

island911 07-30-2014 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Hugh R (Post 8189622)
More unemployed, smoking more dope, up 38% and I'm supposed to be impressed?

You're supposed to believe that they (and gen-x) will pay for all the retirees.

Yeah, they want to take over the house above the basement. And if the VA can sit and wait, they can wait.

gacook 07-30-2014 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by island911 (Post 8189662)
You're supposed to believe that they (and gen-x) will pay for all the retirees.

Yeah, they want to take over the house above the basement. If the VA can wait, they can wait.

How many of you actually thought/think you'd get your parents house when they kick off? That thought process has always been foreign to me...

RANDY P 07-30-2014 08:25 AM

it's an excuse for being Eunuchs when compared to previous generations. Gen Y "cares" Oh boy, what a contribution :rolleyes:

Maybe soon 3M will be putting out products that say things on the label: "Imperial Hand Glaze- use product their and sparengly. Polish to grate shine.."

Gen Y in action - yeah buddy!

rjp

RANDY P 07-30-2014 08:29 AM

The whole generation "cares" by *****ing about it on FB....

Maybe attending a ****ing rally about 1%'ers. Ya, that's great, effective too.

island911 07-30-2014 08:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gacook (Post 8189668)
How many of you actually thought/think you'd get your parents house when they kick off? That thought process has always been foreign to me...

Just wait until they hear dad say Son, I'm selling the house and buying an RV. Maybe one of your friends basement is big enough for you and your videogame library.

BlueSkyJaunte 07-30-2014 08:38 AM

Go, Gen Y, go!!!

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt...e%20Flickr.jpg

:rolleyes:

RANDY P 07-30-2014 08:45 AM

Changing the world, one level at a time
 
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1406738742.jpg

fastfredracing 07-30-2014 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by RANDY P (Post 8189731)

They would probably be some real hell raisers, if they ever set down their smart phones.

VINMAN 07-30-2014 09:18 AM

Hard to argue against the data when you have stunning examples such as this...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1406740679.jpg

kach22i 07-30-2014 09:22 AM

More like generation do nothing.

How do you know that you are having fun unless you are getting into trouble?

All kidding aside that Shenanigans cart just blows my mind.

The one thing up, even more so.

cockerpunk 07-30-2014 09:32 AM

pretty typical responses all in all. lol.

i love this video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4IjTUxZORE

island911 07-30-2014 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by cockerpunk (Post 8189826)
pretty typical responses all in all. lol.

i love this video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4IjTUxZORE

WOW, what a bunch of whiney beotches...

Look around, beyond the cell... so much infrastructure provided by generations before. Even enough technical infrastructure to make easy work of the production a sarcastic video focused on why the earlier gens didn't do enough for the current. Ha!

Eric 951 07-30-2014 09:52 AM

Yeah, right. damn kids with your twitterbooks and facespaces

In my day, things were better:

I remember taking the ferry into shelbyville, I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, but you could only get yellow onions because of the war,
anyways the ferry cost a nickle, which had pictures of bumble bees on them, 5 bees for a quarter you would say,
anyways, I think it was back in nineteen dickety six, you had to say "dickety" because the Kasier stole our word for "twenty", I chased him, but gave up after dickety six miles....

cockerpunk 07-30-2014 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by island911 (Post 8189845)
WOW, what a bunch of whiney beotches...

Look around, beyond the cell... so much infrastructure provided by generations before. Even enough technical infrastructure to make easy work of the production a sarcastic video focused on why the earlier gens didn't do enough for the current. Ha!

look at who built all that infrastructure? the post ww2 generation. the greatest generation as the folks around here like to call it.

what happened to that infrastructure when the boomers were in charge?

oh, yeah, its falling to garbage. because you refuse to pay to fix it, and when we, the millennials, would like to fix it, you call us socialists.

Noah930 07-30-2014 10:32 AM

There's no app for fixing roads. Just sayin'.

gacook 07-30-2014 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noah930 (Post 8189927)
There's no app for fixing roads. Just sayin'.

That's why they wanna keep all the illegals here; so they don't need to get real jobs ;)

island911 07-30-2014 10:48 AM

LOL
Quote:

Originally Posted by cockerpunk (Post 8189889)
look at who built all that infrastructure? the post ww2 generation. the greatest generation as the folks around here like to call it.
...

Thanks for reinforcing my point --some generations praise the earlier. You and yours just beotch and moan about what fck-ups the older gens are/were. --your linked vid did, and you just did.

bivenator 07-30-2014 10:50 AM

Looked like a bunch of Mexican guys fixing the road I was on this morning. They didn't look much like a millennial but I could be mistaken. The tax money being used to pay them was probably boomer taxes as the millennials haven't been able to get jobs.

Noah930 07-30-2014 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by gacook (Post 8189953)
That's why they wanna keep all the illegals here; so they don't need to get real jobs ;)

There's an element of truth to that. BTW, I am not pointing fingers at Gen Y/millennials. But the types of jobs that illegals do are not the types of jobs that most Americans are willing to do, even if they (the Americans)were to receive minimum wage to do so.

widgeon13 07-30-2014 10:55 AM

Yeah, they're boinking their way to success and smoking legal pot now.

Me thinks the standards have been lowered like they have been for politician's behavior! :D

Heard the old saying, "figures lie and liars figure", lots of examples of that today.

Does the Y gen include gang members across the country and those operating meth labs?

gacook 07-30-2014 10:59 AM

Thing is, most of those road fixing jobs are paid far higher than minimum wage, especially if they're city/state workers.

Now, I AM pointing fingers at Gen Yers (I'm one of them). Most of the ones I know are lazy as ****. They want office jobs, computer jobs, etc. Even the ones who failed out of college; they still expect some executive level job to be given to them. Labor work is not something that is in their nature.

I'm glad I grew up the way I did. I did labor jobs as a kid (yard work, odd jobs for dad's friends like pouring concrete, roofing, working on a golf course, etc). Now, I have an exec-type job, and it bores me; I'd rather be working with my hands out in the sun.

scottmandue 07-30-2014 11:00 AM

so what we have here...

Is a bunch of old guys whining on the internet...

About young people whining on the internet?


Just sayin :p ;)

cockerpunk 07-30-2014 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by island911 (Post 8189954)
LOL


Thanks for reinforcing my point --some generations praise the earlier. You and yours just beotch and moan about what fck-ups the older gens are/were. --your linked vid did, and you just did.

and then you blame us when we try to fix your generations problems.

yup.

RANDY P 07-30-2014 11:02 AM

You have to leave mom's basement, get a job in order to do anything. *****ing about it on FB doesn't count was doing anything.

rjp

gacook 07-30-2014 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottmandue (Post 8189984)
so what we have here...

Is a bunch of old guys whining on the internet...

About young people whining on the internet?


Just sayin :p ;)

No. I'm a young-ish guy (mid-30's) whining about the young-er guys whining on the internet. Get it right, old man ;)

island911 07-30-2014 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cockerpunk (Post 8189986)
and then you blame us when we try to fix your generations problems.

yup.

Well yeah, you're a bunch of young idiots. -- We know, we were too at one time.

I mean, for example, you guys think that Obamacare funding isn't aimed to be coming out of your hide. That is naivety right thar.

cockerpunk 07-30-2014 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by island911 (Post 8189994)
Well yeah, you're a bunch of young idiots. -- We know, we were too at one time.

I mean, for example, you guys think that Obamacare funding isn't aimed to be coming out of your hide. That is naivety right thar.

you just cited "infrastructure" as your generations contribution to society.

nope.jpg

i think you must mean "letting the USAs economic and intellectual infrastructure crumble" as your generations contribution to our society. something we, would very much like to fix. and then you call us idiots and socialists for wanting to fix it. all while trying to take credit for infrastructure as a good thing, and something you built (you didn't).

LOL

Don Ro 07-30-2014 11:19 AM

Taking bets - how many more posts before this descends to PARF?
Place yer bets, gents.

GH85Carrera 07-30-2014 11:36 AM

In before PARF!

craigster59 07-30-2014 11:40 AM

I think it runs more along the lines of Gen Y-ers are more apt to toot their own horn and parade around after doing a mediocre job. Sorta like getting trophies even though you came in last place.

gacook 07-30-2014 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cockerpunk (Post 8190002)
you just cited "infrastructure" as your generations contribution to society.

nope.jpg

i think you must mean "letting the USAs economic and intellectual infrastructure crumble" as your generations contribution to our society. something we, would very much like to fix. and then you call us idiots and socialists for wanting to fix it. all while trying to take credit for infrastructure as a good thing, and something you built (you didn't).

LOL

Soo...WW2 generation laid the infrastucture for your internet/cellular network? Interesting, as I had no idea those things even existed that far back...

cockerpunk 07-30-2014 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gacook (Post 8190066)
Soo...WW2 generation laid the infrastucture for your internet/cellular network? Interesting, as I had no idea those things even existed that far back...

seriously? :rolleyes:

and even on that front, they did a ****ty job, at least in the USA.


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