Things You Don't Like About The Greatest Generation (1 Viewer)

[Good Posting Judge]

1) Took too long to beat the Krauts

 

[Good Posting Judge]

2) Drank most of the inheritance

 

[Good Posting Judge]

3) Bad taste in music

 

[Good Posting Judge]

4) Really, and I mean REEEEEALLY, racist

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Didn't take too kindly to colored folk

 

[Good Posting Judge]

5) Couple of them are related to Eminence

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

4) Really, and I mean REEEEEALLY, racist

Didn't take too kindly to colored folk

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Punched grandma.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

6) Slaughtering dozens of Jerry prisoners not exactly transferable into today's modern job market

 

[Scoresman]

Those really ugly hats that have the name of the ship and crew/regiment they served on or whatever.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

7) Not a fan of your tattoo

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Had lots of stories about walking uphill both ways to school

 

[Good Posting Judge]

8) Think that just because they jumped out of a floating metal box on to a beach under heavy machine gun fire that they can just go eat the last GD ice cream sandwich

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Pretty old.

 

[Scoresman]

getting discounts at Denny's just because they're old.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Poor foot hygiene (possibly from all that walking in war and up hill to school)

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Killed the ozone with all their motor homes and Ford LTD station wagons with 11 kids in the back.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Pretty sure they made it a federal law that everybody had to own at least 2 of these and mount them on their kitchen wall.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Made you carve your name into the paddle, even if that paddle wasn't used on you.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Yeah way too many chotchkes (sp?)

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Too much spoon collecting in this generation (Peyton Marino must have loved them so much).

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Avoids buying organic food on purpose.

 

[Scoresman]

Wheel of Fortune wont get off my ####### TV until the rest of them die off.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Got too tired to get the hat trick and take out the Russians too.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Gassy.

 

[Guest]

Had too many children.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

If they didn't like something you did, they would pretty hit you with whatever they had in their hands.

 

[Guest]

Really don't like people on their lawns.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

The playing of home movies at parties

 

[Guest]

They think socks make nice Christmas presents.

ETA: I really miss getting socks from my grandma. :(

 

[xulf]

Pretentious as hell - the greatest generation...really? I mean comeon.

 

[dgreen]

They actually think they're the greatest generation.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Not at all familiar with the musical works of Young Thug.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Pretentious as hell - the greatest generation...really? I mean comeon.

Right? We have drones. Work smarter, not harder.

 

[NREC34]

They never could figure out how to work a computer

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Had to watch the Lawrence Welk show

 

[Doctor Detroit]

They never could figure out how to work a computer

Back to the Gen X thread...

...THEY INVENTED COMPUTERS

 

[Guest]

Always had less than the younger generations growing up, and liked it.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Caused the Great Depression.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Caused the Great Depression.

I think that was their parents, the "unGreatest Generation."

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

8) Think that just because they jumped out of a floating metal box on to a beach under heavy machine gun fire that they can just go eat the last GD ice cream sandwich

 

[Doctor Detroit]

8) Think that just because they jumped out of a floating metal box on to a beach under heavy machine gun fire that they can just go eat the last GD ice cream sandwich

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Responsible for "Gunsmoke" being on the air for 20 fing years.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Responsible for "Gunsmoke" being on the air for 20 fing years.

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[Officer Pete Malloy]

Added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. That phrase takes at least one second to say. Multiply that second times how many days in a school year times how long I've been teaching and it means I've wasted 57 minutes say it.

 

[Zow]

4) Really, and I mean REEEEEALLY, racist

This is the main one.

 

[Zow]

Added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. That phrase takes at least one second to say. Multiply that second times how many days in a school year times how long I've been teaching and it means I've wasted 57 minutes say it.

Plus it's borderline unconstitutional. And makes Jefferson roll over in his grave.

 

[Rove!]

Their kids

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Their kids

Out of likes, will PM Mr. Pickles to see if I can borrow one.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. That phrase takes at least one second to say. Multiply that second times how many days in a school year times how long I've been teaching and it means I've wasted 57 minutes say it.

What's your school's policy on the pledge? Can kids just sit it out if they want?