[Indydealmaker]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

The depression ended in 1939. Ration books were from 1942-1945. I'm a late-generation Boomer. When I worked for Marcus Dairy in 2010 they still offered home delivery in milk boxes outside the door. A guy I was seeing when I was in High School had polio as a child, one of his arms had no muscle-tone and he walked with a limp because of it. He was born in 1959. We had black and white TV in the 1960's and I still played outside. The ONLY people during the "1%" generation who walked to the store downtown, were people who lived near the downtown area. Yes, some cities had playgrounds. No idea where you got the idea that they didn't exist in the 1930's - the first municipal playground was built in 1907 in New York City.

Your entire post sounds like some silly internet glurge that you picked up on a meme on Facebook somewhere.

Thrive on contention much?

[DONS999]

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Originally Posted by DONS999

99% of those born between 1930 and 1946 (worldwide) are now dead.
If you were born in this time span, you are one of the rare surviving one percenters of this special group.
Their ages range is between 77 and 93 years old, a 16-year age span.
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Very interesting. However, according to the census bureau, 6.7% of the population is over 75. So maybe we are the "6%ers"

75+ 22,182,000 6.7%
85+ 5,976,000 1.8%

1% OF THE WORLD POPULATIO NOT JUST us

[DONS999]

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[La lamy]

One of my best friends is 97 and doing great. Living in her own apartment and taking dance classes almost every day. I'll let her know she's one of the 1%!!!!

[manaboutown]

Rugerforum dot com is the source of the copy and paste OP: Just a moment...

Also: Hard to believe 99% are gone those born between 1930 and 1946 (worldwide) are now dead..????

and...Those born between 1930 and 1946 are part of a special group

This got around!

[Annie66]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

The depression ended in 1939. Ration books were from 1942-1945. I'm a late-generation Boomer. When I worked for Marcus Dairy in 2010 they still offered home delivery in milk boxes outside the door. A guy I was seeing when I was in High School had polio as a child, one of his arms had no muscle-tone and he walked with a limp because of it. He was born in 1959. We had black and white TV in the 1960's and I still played outside. The ONLY people during the "1%" generation who walked to the store downtown, were people who lived near the downtown area. Yes, some cities had playgrounds. No idea where you got the idea that they didn't exist in the 1930's - the first municipal playground was built in 1907 in New York City.

Your entire post sounds like some silly internet glurge that you picked up on a meme on Facebook somewhere.

I read with interest your post until your last line. It detracted greatly from your post and was unnecessary. It smacks of being very rude. You can do better.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Annie66

I read with interest your post until your last line. It detracted greatly from your post and was unnecessary. It smacks of being very rude. You can do better.

I read your post with interest but discovered that it seemed unnecessary and rude in the first sentence. Can you do better? I don't know, since I have no idea who you are.

Perhaps you don't know what the word "glurge" means, or aren't familiar with the term "meme." There's nothing rude about my post. Many people pick up glurge memes from Facebook and post them all over the internet. And many people pick up glurge memes from other parts of the internet and post them all over Facebook. It's a thing, it's a common thing, and it's equally common for some people to call it out when they see it. It doesn't make them any ruder than the person who spreads the glurge memes in the first place.

[shut the front door]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

I remember a talk that my parents had with each one of us when we reached an age where we'd be looking for work (summer work, about age 14 or so). It went something like this: "No matter who you work for, remember that you agreed to work for the wage that they are paying, and no matter what that wage is, you do the best job you're capable of". Wisdom born of the depression, I think, but still; one of the most valuable pieces of parental advice that I've ever received, and one that has served me well throughout life.

Today it seems that there are many folks, in my experience mainly under (say) 35, who flat-out refuse to work at a job that they consider beneath them. If they have alternatives to that particular type of work that do not take advantage of others, then I have no problem with it. But many of them don't. One young guy that I know personally, a law school graduate age about 24, flatly refuses to do any job that he considers menial, preferring instead to live with (and sponge off) his grandparents. It has been that way for three years so far. He lives in a town that has numerous job openings in the $12-$15 per hour range, but he won't even consider them. So grandma and grandpa support, feed--and of course--enable him. Unconscionable. But even more unconscionable are those young folks who use Joe Taxpayer as a substitute for enabling grandparents. I know several who think nothing of sitting at home and collecting either extended unemployment or welfare benefits to finance their indolent life style. I cannot help but think that had that been anyone of my age group, the parental advice that would have been dispensed would have been "don't let the door hit you in the a__ on your way out!"

I don't disagree about whose fault it is, but that is irrelevant at this time. Figuring out the causes of this problem doesn't fix it. The best thing we as a society could do at this point is to force the issue: if you're able to work, then work. No job is too menial if the alternative is taking advantage of others--be those "others" friends, family, or Joe Taxpayer.

Unfortunately, our society doesn't seem to have the will for that.

I hate to tell you, but there are many in your age group who are now letting their no good kids live with them. Not only do they enable the worthlessness, they bail them out of jail when they get busted. Not just in TV, but everywhere.
Sweeping generalizations don't work for any generation. There are bad apples in all of them.

[allsport]

Originally Posted by DONS999

99% of those born between 1930 and 1946 (worldwide) are now dead.
If you were born in this time span, you are one of the rare surviving one percenters of this special group.
Their ages range is between 77 and 93 years old, a 16-year age span.


INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE 1% ERS:

§ You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's.
You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war that rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.

You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.

You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into tin cans.

You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the "milk box" on the porch.

Discipline was enforced by parents and teachers.

You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you “imagined” what you heard on the radio.

With no TV, you spent your childhood "playing outside".

There was no Little League.

There was no city playground for kids.

The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.

We got “black-and-white” TV in the late 40s that had 3 stations and no remote.

Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines), and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).

Computers were called calculators; they were hand-cranked.

Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.

'INTERNET' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist.

Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on your radio in the evening (your dad would give you the comic pages when he read the news).

New highways would bring jobs and mobility. Most highways were 2 lanes (no interstates).

You went downtown to shop. You walked to school.

The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.

Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into working hard to make a living for their families.

You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus.

They were glad you played by yourselves.

They were busy discovering the postwar world.

You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves.

You felt secure in your future, although the depression and poverty were deeply remembered.

Polio was still a crippler. Everyone knew someone who had it.

You came of age in the '50s and '60s.

You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.

World War 2 was over, and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life.

Only your generation can remember a time after WW2 when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty.

You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better.

More than 99% of you are retired now, and you should feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"

If you have already reached the age of 77 years old, you have outlived 99% of all the other people in the world who were born in this special 16 year time span. You are a 1% 'er"!

Actually the article says 99% are retired or dead.

[Villages Kahuna]

As one of the 1%ers all I can say is Whoo-Hoo!!