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I was born in the wrong decade (1 Viewer)
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STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
We weren't in your head for the part before this. Unpack this a little.,
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Did you mean prevalent?
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
I have a good friend who is 31 who says this all the time. I've heard him speak of these things with people his own age, and they think the same.
Pretty sure they wanted to be born in 1340s so they could experience plague and suffering. Then they go back to loving the only thing that loves them back: their cell phone. Ah, what could have been they lament.
Pretty sure they wanted to be born in 1340s so they could experience plague and suffering. Then they go back to loving the only thing that loves them back: their cell phone. Ah, what could have been they lament.
Riversco
Footballguy
It happens when guys in their 30s hear a Van Halen album like 1984 for the first time. I read the comments section in youtube postings of Van Halen songs and read this sentiment a lot.
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
i should have been born during the Hyborian age
skol asylum
Footballguy
I was born in 73. It wasnt that glamorous. Of course I grew up in the middle of nowhere in NW Minnesota.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Under 10 is not the ideal age to be doing black beauties and blow off of a dancer's belly button so ...
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
I think some of these comments are related to the perceived ease of earning the American Dream (being able to get a good paying factory-type job without a college education) and these same baby boomers chewing up all the social security.
HellToupee
Footballguy
ever get a wedgie in school or whip someones ### with a towel after taking a prison type shower after gym?Things were barbaric in the good old days. I feel like I went to school in a gladiater camp
HellToupee
Footballguy
Insein
Footballguy
I agree. Kids these days have no idea how hard it was.Finding a playboy was.
Milkman
Footballguy
Yeah i think this is what they meant. My grandfather and uncle both were firemen for the LAFD and they both retired rich with fat pensions before their 54th birthday. I tried to get hired on my local FD. They had 3 openings and 4,000+ applicants.
It's definitely harder now. I still have a good job but my pension is going to be half of what theirs was and I'm going to have to work nearly 15 years longer than they did.
Seriously something has to give. This free market trickle down BS is a hustle.
Milkman
Footballguy
Milker #27 dog but I'm moving up.
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Milkman
Footballguy
I'm joking man. I'm not a milkman. I have one of the few good union jobs left in this country but it's going to #### just like everybody else's job.
This is the thing. The economy isn't coming back until the middle class comes back. The top 20% of earners can't carry the American economy. Wages need to go up and profit margins, CEO pay, and corporate elite pay need to go down.
ClownCausedChaos2
Footballguy
My mother suffered from an extremely rare condition that caused her to carry me in utero for 15 years. So, yeah.
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Sabertooth
Footballguy
And corporations need to start paying taxes.
I really wish this country would totally redo the tax code.
FUBAR
Footballguy
Kids these days all think they're winners and being kind to each other is more important than hard work. "Why can't we get along?" Screw that. You take the kind mentality, I'll take the winning mentality. Greed is good.
FUBAR
Footballguy
If all Americans have the opportunity to own stock and profit margins allow companies to pay dividends, why would you take money away from Grandma's investments?
I'm all for CEO and corporate elite pay decreases but good luck selling that.
Sabertooth
Footballguy
The phones suck nowadays though. People are totally hooked on them. They look ridiculous. Heck I catch myself with my nose in my phone when life is happening around me sometimes. My dad though (baby boomer) is the worst. He loves loves loves his phone. Bring the grand kids over to see him and grandpa is reading CNN on his phone. Its sickening.
Jeff Vader
Footballguy
You're crazy. I was born in 1973. I played video games in the 80s and rode a skateboard on a halfpipe while listening to punk and hating on the crap music of the times.
If you wanted to do coke in the 80s, I suggest being born in 1963, not 73. Teenagers don't blow coke off hooker's breasts on Wallstreet. They smoke bongs and jerk off at night to cheerleaders. It wasn't glamorous.
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Jeff Vader
Footballguy
My theory about people in their early 30s lamenting their birth decade is that they had to live their 20s in the aughts. What a crappy decade to spend the freest and wildest ten years of your life. You had terrorism, rampant commercialism, economic implosion, and the biggest idiots in office since the Harding administration. No wonder they all turned to snide hipsters.
Like I said above, I was born in 73 so lived most of my 20s in the 1990s, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. We had grunge, hip hop, Clinton, post-Berlin Wall economic prosperity. The 90s won't be remembered for its fashion sense, but damn was it a great time to go to college and be a young swinging richard.
Like I said above, I was born in 73 so lived most of my 20s in the 1990s, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. We had grunge, hip hop, Clinton, post-Berlin Wall economic prosperity. The 90s won't be remembered for its fashion sense, but damn was it a great time to go to college and be a young swinging richard.
Milkman
Footballguy
How about a compromise? Everybody is paid a living wage or above and there are cost of living wages every year that coincide with inflation. Then just flat tax everybody 10%. EZ game.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
I think it was Paul Kantner who said, "anybody who says they had a good time at Woodstock obviously wasn't there."
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Man, the '90s were a fantastic time to be alive and in one's 20s. I'm not sure I would pick any other era to have been that age.
FUBAR
Footballguy
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Born in 1976, I had fun in the late 90s in college, but probably no more (or less) than I would have during any other time.
Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
I enjoyed partying in the late 90's and early 2000's when people weren't addicted to their cell phones and every moment of your life wasn't being captured on social media and photographed by every person who has a camera/video recorder in their pocket.
I think that it is cool that I grew up without tech and the innernet and was around to see it proliferate.
Proud to be '77 here!
George Jefferson Airplane
Footballguy
Millennials are just mad they missed the Soul Train.
Foosball God
Foos
You would have gone to college during the accursed Grunge years and had every girl wearing f'n flannel instead of short skirts.Quez said:
Stupid Cobain.
SeaDogStat
Footballguy
Watch Hot Tub Time Machine and forget about it...
Sabertooth
Footballguy
74 here. Yay.(HULK) said:
Sabertooth
Footballguy
And also the height of girl power. Equality. All that bull####. Now they are miserable moms with pinterest envy.
xulf
Footballguy
I guess, looking at this, I could see how some people would feel that way. Probably 30%+ of my friend group got laid off during the recession (many in architecture/design). They all found new jobs and are employed (all soon after), but I could see that making some people bitter. But, I don't at all fee early 30s is the "entitled" group. That is not at all the case, if anything, the recession only made them understand resilience and perseverance. My age doesn't really fall into any standard "generation" but we keep getting lumped into the younger one.xulf said:
TheIronSheik
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"Are we not doing 'Phrasing' anymore?" - Sterling Mallory ArcherInsein said:I agree. Kids these days have no idea how hard it was.HellToupee said:Finding a playboy wasInsein said:
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Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
This is the best time to be alive. Seriously.
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