Panthers crying about Mac's hold on Burns.

[Pats2000]

Most people consider Mills to be people who grew up in the millennial. I realize the actual generational span is bigger but if you are 40 you are much more Gen X in my opinion than Mill.

I think that most people who are baby boomers think that, because they are typically the most uniformed and care the least about learning about anyone outside of their own generation. It's not our fault boomers are consistently the most wrong because they don't understand how to google.

 

[Pats1971]

Can you imagine Barmore crying for a whole week from Zach Wilson grabbing his leg?

This guy wants an apology? Mac ought to tell him to GTFO with that noise.

Worse then that, now he is putting a price out on Mac's head telling his "DE brothers" happy hunting on Jones.

 

[sb1]

Worse then that, now he is putting a price out on Mac's head telling his "DE brothers" happy hunting on Jones.

Yeah. That should get a fine IMO.

I don't think anyone will try though. They know what Mac's teammates will do to them if they do and it won't be pretty.

 

[Pats1971]

Yeah. That should get a fine IMO.

I don't think anyone will try though. They know what Mac's teammates will do to them if they do and it won't be pretty.

Yeah I am not sure you can start putting bounties out like that in the media.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I think that most people who are baby boomers think that, because they are typically the most uniformed and care the least about learning about anyone outside of their own generation. It's not our fault boomers are consistently the most wrong because they don't understand how to google.

I tend to agree.

The Gen X crowd (me) I think have the best of both worlds. We grew up with low/no-tech but because we have Mils for employees/friends and Gen Z for children we have no choice to be high-tech but also have the ability to not be owned by tech.

 

[venecol]

I think that most people who are baby boomers think that, because they are typically the most uniformed and care the least about learning about anyone outside of their own generation. It's not our fault boomers are consistently the most wrong because they don't understand how to google.

Maybe, but you still have to bow to the masters.

Ranking U.S. Generations on Their Power and Influence Over Society

Using data from our new Generational Power Index, we look at how much economic, political, and cultural power each U.S. generation holds.

www.visualcapitalist.com

 

[sb1]

Yeah I am not sure you can start putting bounties out like that in the media.

 

[NovaScotiaPatsFan]

Well, if you guys are interested in seeing the Panthers suffer...

 

[Pats2000]

Maybe, but you still have to bow to the masters.

Ranking U.S. Generations on Their Power and Influence Over Society

Using data from our new Generational Power Index, we look at how much economic, political, and cultural power each U.S. generation holds.

www.visualcapitalist.com

I own my own company, I dont have to bow to anyone

 

[PatsFanInVa]

I just turned 40, so I'm on the very beginning of that generation. But you would be wrong about your assumption. They were folks that were becoming adults around the millenium. Don't let some entitled as*hole send you back to the gutter though.

Hilarious scene in the Pete Davidson movie "The King of Staten Island," when one of his buddies is talking about a little kid and says "I don't understand millennials." Pete Davidson says "We're millennials."

Many years ago, I worked with a guy who was salty that Doug Coupland or somebody got to name Generation X. He and his partner ended up writing several books about generational cycles. Apparently their theory inspired Steve Bannon, so I guess he's very slightly my fault. Anyway, those two are the guys that named the millennials. They were also trying to rebrand Generation X as "13ers" but got over it, because pretty quickly the hot new thing becomes borrrrring. Also there were so comparatively few Gen Xers that they never ruled culture. Boomers got to say they changed the world, then sold out. Millennials were our most recent media obsession and by the way, to me, they don't seem to have sold out... for example, they tend to really be colorblind compared with Boomers and Xers. I'm talking about swaths of 10s of millions, not something gainsaid by what 1 relative or friend says. But then, I'm going from surveys I've read over decades. What do I know either.

I liked millennials and like gen z more from what little I know, if you can "like" generations. But of course, it's a matter of which individuals you mean, anytime you're throwing around generational labels. We should always start with that, because some idiot will proclaim himself the font of wisdom and babble "the generation I'm in has nothing to do with who I am!" Said db will also believe himself to be the first person ever to babble said sentiment.

I think part of the cranky relatively privileged problem is the final uncooling of GenX... the whole "Despite all the **** I own and my privileged place in society I am still just a rat in a cage" ethos. Wanting to have something to be angry about, being jealous of people who really do have things to be angry about, and then being angry about that. (Not that right-wing boomers aren't crying too)

While we're on the topic... if social media is such a huge breeding ground for conspiracy nuts... why are so many hate/conspiracy nuts old people, meaning people my age+?

 

[venecol]

I own my own company, I dont have to bow to anyone

You're on an island. I get it.

 

[Pats2000]

You're on an island. I get it.

I mean I don't have some boomer manager sitting above me waiting to retire or running around calling anyone younger than 40, millennials, that can't understand why you can't make jokes about being gay anymore.

 

[venecol]

Also there were so comparatively few Gen Xers that they never ruled culture.

Xers have the most influence in Culture.

 

[Joker]

I mean I don't have some boomer manager sitting above me waiting to retire or running around calling anyone younger than 40, millennials, that can't understand why you can't make jokes about being gay anymore.

Oh...so, YOU are solidly behind Don Lemon and Anderson Pooper and their ceaseless quest to find those MAGA hat (and baby boomer) white assaulters what attacked poor defenseless Jusse at 2 a.m. in a Chicago black/gay neighborhood....got it. BTW, congrats on being the CEO of your prodigious company...bildos-R-Us.

 

[Pats2000]

Oh...so, YOU are solidly behind Don Lemon and Anderson Pooper and their ceaseless quest to find those MAGA hat (and baby boomer) white assaulters what attacked poor defenseless Jusse at 2 a.m. in a Chicago black/gay neighborhood....got it. BTW, congrats on being the CEO of your prodigious company...bildos-R-Us.

Man, are you boomer? Because you jump to conclusions like one.

I don't give a sh*t about any of the people you just mentioned. Also, sex toys make great money, but alas, I went into technology, also great money. Being nice to people regardless of sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, etc is just called be a decent human being.

 

[Joker]

Man, are you boomer? Because you jump to conclusions like one.

I don't give a sh*t about any of the people you just mentioned. Also, sex toys make great money, but alas, I went into technology, also great money. Being nice to people regardless of sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, etc is just called be a decent human being.

Yes...you ARE the most beautiful in all the land, o wicked queen...jeezus krist what a pompous azzole. The doctor must have slapped your mother when you were born.

 

[Pats2000]

Yes...you ARE the most beautiful in all the land, o wicked queen...jeezus krist what a pompous azzole. The doctor must have slapped your mother when you were born.

So, nothing of value to add, got it.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

Xers have the most influence in Culture.

we should probably define who we mean-ish. at least broad strokes.

So, Brady's an early millennial. There's football. No but seriously, the currently passing tranche of athletic talent (currently going away) is the Brady, earliest-millennial era. You might even argue for Brady, the old guy, as a late Gen Xer. But almost all athletes on the field/court are currently Mill/Z. But they only influence culture when, like Kaepernick, they step outside their role as athlete. Kap actually had an ENORMOUS cultural influence, more than Brady ever will, because of what he said/did having to do with the Nat. Anthem in intersection with the BLM movement.

In music you might be right. Lin Manuel Miranda was born in 80, that's X. But I think - THINK - he's offset a bit from those who are his most ardent fans (although it's hard to choose... he appeals to 70 year olds too. And with hip hop at that. Not bad.) Also the royalty of hip-hop, the dominant culture in music, is of that same rough vintage. Eminem, JayZ, Beyonce. etc. That is mainly because Hip-Hop is so new itself that its founders are still around. Rock is pretty much the junior (smaller) partner now in music and is even more loaded down with older icons. But again, that's through my eyes. The landscape is fragmented now, and I am used to a culture of albums. Now it's a culture of surfing and exploring. By the way, I recommend this Mongolian throat-singing band called The Hu. I **** you not.

So culturally, I can only look through old man eyes and describe the culture as celebrated by other aged institutions. I'm TV heavy compared to Xers and younger, and my online habits are like you'd have in 1999 or so, with the addition of facebook b/c old people LUVS us some facebook.

When I browse around quasi-randomly, or take in a kinetoscope for the younger crowd, featuring popular crooners and hoofers, I think I might be missing the proportionate influence of the younger set - they're not the kings and queens anymore, but the sheer numbers are younger.

If we mean computer icons, the hardware is boomer-descended, but necessarily what we have at a given moment is built by folks younger than X. In fact, Apple commemorated the last generation X engineer with its iphone X. It's all millennials and Zs now. Just kidding. But the guts of our culture is built by the young. The broadening behinds of the boomers are largely (heh) fading out and the rest of you are starting to see the sun that you've been climbing toward, if you actually had a "stuck" company job.

This one is kind of mind-blowing... politics is so ruled by older people, that Obama (a year older than me) STILL represents that breath of fresh air of a youthful president. (I mean, Bush was when he started, sort of.) But think about it. We STILL have not only never had a woman president, we have not even passed the baton to Gen X (Obama was trailing-edge baby boom.)

Kamala (b. 1964) would still have baby boom status by some reckonings.

But who are you thinking of when you say Gen X rules culture? You might be right via music, see above.

 

[Jim Beankie]

If the NFL had any consistency this would be fined pretty heavily, but it's the NYJFL so nothing will happen. Not sure how you suspend Gregg Williams indefinitely for "Bountygate" and take 1st round picks away, millions in fines, etc, but let guys go on about "happy hunting." It's the same thing.

Bounties imply extra compensation for intent to injure. What compensation ("non-contract bonus") is he providing? I can see maybe unsportsmanlike, but it's not that much different from PChung's kick their ass comment, so a weak fine, if that.

I thought this instructional video was part of every football program, and that "hunting" was part of the manual:

 

[patfanken]

I think that most people who are baby boomers think that, because they are typically the most uniformed and care the least about learning about anyone outside of their own generation. It's not our fault boomers are consistently the most wrong because they don't understand how to google.

Now THAT my friend is a gross generalization. Here is what most boomers take pride in. That they all grew up in a culture that valued work. Most of us had jobs early on in HS. I worked in a tire warehouse summers and during vacation weeks. $1.25/hr. A lot of us were first generation college grads and worked there as well. We grew up aware. We lived through Viet Nam, the hippies, (I was not one, but had a lot of friends who were) and then moved on, married, kids, etc. And contrary to your assertion, all the Boomers I know are well informed and keep up with what's going on with rapt attention, as well as doing their civic duties, volunteering, voting in ALL elections, not just the national ones, and caring about the communities they live in.

We are a generation that gets pissed when we see 18-20 somethings sit on the couch playing video games rather than go out and work all those menial jobs that are going unfilled because they are "beneath them":. Too many are waiting for society to do something for THEM, rather than figuring out how THEY can contribute to that society.

Now I understand that it is probably wrong to paint EVERYBODY with a broad stroke. I'm sure there are many hard working industrious and caring millennials. But if I can generalize myself, I would say Boomers came from a generation who wondered," how can I contribute to society", while millennials wonder "how can I get society to do something for ME.