Generation Gap/Millennials/Pool/Sports

[JazzyJeff87]

Does anyone remember going into a Blockbuster video?

We had a little mom and pop place called Star video I believe, right next to Pace Way, the gas station. The guy let me rent R rated movies when I was but a scamp. Great freakin summers as a kid.

 

[Island Drive]

Does anyone remember going into a Blockbuster video?

We had a little mom and pop place called Star video I believe, right next to Pace Way, the gas station. The guy let me rent R rated movies when I was but a scamp. Great freakin summers as a kid.

As was my bearded 17 yr old HS football playing buddy who never got carded in 1966 to buy beer.

 

[JessEm]

Does anyone remember going into a Blockbuster video?

We had a little mom and pop place called Star video I believe, right next to Pace Way, the gas station. The guy let me rent R rated movies when I was but a scamp. Great freakin summers as a kid.

A LOT of awesomeness is lost, that's for sure.


Living life through a screen on a device... Self-worth based on the number of likes and followers... Never experiencing any other way except through stories and their, um, imagination... They have my sympathy.

 

[Island Drive]

On a similar but completely different moment in time

A LOT of awesomeness is lost, that's for sure.


Living life through a screen on a device... Self-worth based on the number of likes and followers... Never experiencing any other way except through stories and their, um, imagination... They have my sympathy.

1966, our HS boys club held a party at my friends house across the street on Spring Ave. in Glen Ellyn IL....Greg Creek was his name. Weeeeeelllllllllllllllll, he found a way to get into Dad's WWII chest of memorabilia. Low and behold there were 16mm porno films within. Most everyone had a girl with em, as we invited the girls club members. Wheaton was the next town over, dry, but ironically the Beluschi family moved there, before John then Jim became famous. What a lucky time to be in HS.

 

[logical]

At least millennials aren't mired in an endless game of "remember when". Every generation has it's own cross to bear.

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[ShootingArts]

They will be!

At least millennials aren't mired in an endless game of "remember when". Every generation has it's own cross to bear.

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Just a matter of time, the members of every generation gets old if they are lucky. I used to sit around with my friends bench racing, talking about V-8 hot rods and race cars. I happened by a speed shop some time back now and listened to two lads bench racing. They were eagerly talking about the performance of their cars, what they had done to make them go faster, what they were planning. When I realized that they were talking about small four cylinders I had to bite my tongue. At their age I was talking about 327's, 427's, 454's and punched out monster motors some exceeding 600 cubic inches.

Fortunately I realized they had as much right to be excited about hot rodding their little engines in little cars as I had to be excited about my hot rod days. Not too many years from now they will be saying, "I remember when I had that 2000 cl Mustang with a header and supercharger. Ran the quarter in fifteen flat!"

Every generation's time comes to be the old man sitting in the corner half asleep.

Hu

 

[maxeypad2007]

Our top players right now in many cases are millenials:

Shane
Billy T
Skylar
All the young chinese players

Some of the most valuable companies of our time were founded by millenials: Uber, Lyft, Facebook, Twitter, Venmo.

As a manager of a large number of people I find people over 50 to be extremely entitled in many cases and unwilling to. Millennials have had a very tough hand but work very hard and in a creative way.

I just see a lot of grouchy old men complaining about how "soft" young people are with a fraction of the opportunities and half the buying power with the same or worse salaries than previous generations at the same age.

 

[Jimmy C-Note]

Our top players right now in many cases are millenials:

Shane
Billy T
Skylar
All the young chinese players

Some of the most valuable companies of our time were founded by millenials: Uber, Lyft, Facebook, Twitter, Venmo.

As a manager of a large number of people I find people over 50 to be extremely entitled in many cases and unwilling to. Millennials have had a very tough hand but work very hard and in a creative way.

I just see a lot of grouchy old men complaining about how "soft" young people are with a fraction of the opportunities and half the buying power with the same or worse salaries than previous generations at the same age.

Millenials have not had it tougher (and in some ways have had it much easier) than any other generation. Many of them just whine about it more than other generations.
Some people just love playing the victim.

 

[jrctherake]

Cop out. Suggesting that "respect for elders" derives from their grasp of technology, or lack thereof, is, in itself, a perfect example of the problem. It's the kind of comment I would expect to see on Facebook. And I'm in between...

It's comes down to decent parenting and how you're raised.

Yes Sir!

I agree.

A person's parents can/will affect the way they act later as an adult.

Having said that, the prisons are full of people that had good parents.

So, we raised em but, they still have to be "own their own".

Someone mentioned the 08 market drop.....lol...

They HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!!!

What about the 60ish year old that was getting ready to retire and live on money "THEY WORKED FOR DECADES FOR".........to only be told:

Oh, sorry, your LIFETIME of saving.......IS GONE!

He needs to wake up and smell what he's shoveling.

I have two children as well. A son that is 23 and a daughter that is 30.

They aren't your usual for their age though.

They both know that in this life, you sometimes get what you pay for but, you always pay for what you get.

Life is tough for most and the strong in mind are usually the ones that succeed.

My grandfather was one the most intelligent people i have ever met and i doubt he would even knew what a laptop was.

Then again, he wasn't to lazy to open a book, study, do research and:

BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

 

[dbgordie]

Millennials are great at using new technology. Millennials are great at communicating using new technology. But alas, many are not good at communicating face to face. Have you ever been talking to a millennial and just started saying NO to yourself in your head? I always tell people to listen to their inner voice.

 

[mark187]

Millennial applies to most people currently 24 - 38. I work with a lot of people in this age range, and most work hard and are good people. The younger end are more attached to their phones, but the older end are not much different from colleagues 38-50 and whatever that generation was called.

 

[CGM]

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What's sad about what you said, is all the friends I lost in Vietnam during my college years and all the shipmates my dad lost in WWII when his destroyer was sunk by a Kamakazi 30 days after he was decomissioned

Just because you and your father served doesn't change the fact that the world we are passing down to our children is in many ways worse than it was 50 years ago.

 

[one stroke]

Just because you and your father served doesn't change the fact that the world we are passing down to our children is in many ways worse than it was 50 years ago.

Ya and in many ways it's better


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[Island Drive]

Just because you and your father served doesn't change the fact that the world we are passing down to our children is in many ways worse than it was 50 years ago.

That was Not what I said. Reread prior posts to understand the meaning of my post. Also, I never did serve, so I assume you didn't read the prior posts leading up to your response. Mine was a response to the guy with the screaming Face with debris on his face.

 

[CGM]

Ya and in many ways it's better


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Speaking strictly of the financial burden and hurdle they must clear just to get started in life I would argue it is not but yes there are definite benefits to existing in todays society. The world has become much smaller in many ways.

 

[MmmSharp]

To say they have a harder time financially is not really accurate. To say they insist on putting themselves in a harder financial spot because they do not want to spend years working towards being financially stable is. they have adopted a more consumer and expensive life style, but claim it is due to financially harder times.

Prime example. I am Canadian, and near Toronto. I could never afford to live there, so I live in a small town and commute to work. I find that so many of my gen (gen X) and the ones that follow us want everything now, and it has to be a specific way or else it just isn't good enough.

There is definitely a sense of entitlement. but it isn't exactly how people generalize it. it is more that these generations want to live the "good" life, but do not want to work for it, or can not afford it. They often have life styles they can not support and then think it was so much easier in the 80s. when really, in the 80s most did not go out to dinner 3x a week. I remember it being a big deal to go to a mid level restaurant once a month.

those learning channel shows where someone comes in to teach and force you to live within your means a snapshot of how people claim they are hard done by financially, but are really just making poor financial choices.

 

[jrctherake]

My gen "had to adapt", my father's gen "had to adapt", his dad's gen "had to adapt"......guess what?

NOBODY is special, ........especially the ones that "think they are".

Like i said above, EVERYONE had/has to adapt and to be honest, adapting is not hard. Whats hard is OVERCOMING after adapting.

What my grandfather told my father:

Keep your head down, mouth shut, ears OPEN and ....dont forget "why" you are doing what you do and never forget where you came from (who you are).

That advice served my father well and it served me well just like:

It's serving my son well.

Look, it's really simpler than most care to admit. It is like being thrown in the deep end of the pool and accepting the fact:

Sink or swim......

Some sink, some swim

 

[Island Drive]

My gen "had to adapt", my father's gen "had to adapt", his dad's gen "had to adapt"......guess what?

NOBODY is special, ........especially the ones that "think they are".

Like i said above, EVERYONE had/has to adapt and to be honest, adapting is not hard. Whats hard is OVERCOMING after adapting.

What my grandfather told my father:

Keep your head down, mouth shut, ears OPEN and ....dont forget "why" you are doing what you do and never forget where you came from (who you are).

That advice served my father well and it served me well just like:

It's serving my son well.

Look, it's really simpler than most care to admit. It is like being thrown in the deep end of the pool and accepting the fact:

Sink or swim......

Some sink, some swim

Yep, but if I was there it would be, reach, throw row or GO. :thumbup:

 

[nataddrho]

I get frustrated when I hear the term snowflake... https://time.com/5606411/millennials-deaths-of-despair/