[Bucco]

Originally Posted by CWGUY

Painting my house soon..... where could I buy a "Broad Brush" like the one you use?


paint with a broad brush = To describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations.

good post

Seems to be the thing today in this country.

Label them, put them in a box, then attack them as a group, whether by age (as here), race, religion, politics, ethnic background.

Life is simple if you do that. You dont have to waste time even learning anything.

[Schaumburger]

Very interesting article -- definitely food for thought.

I see the positive and attributes in every generation. My father is part of the silent generation, born early in the Great Depression. He went to work on his family's farm when his older brothers went to fight in WWII. Marriage was for life. My mom quit working her paying job 3 months after she got married. No way was that the life for me!

I am boomer along with my 2 sisters. I don't think we were "spoiled,", but we did not want for material things within reason. Our parents were more frugal than we are. My father sees things in black and white; I tend to see things in shades of grey.

I am definitely more tolerant than my father; in today's workforce, you'd better learn to get along with everyone if you want to keep your job. I see even greater tolerance in my nieces who are millennials.

My nieces don't really remember a world without computers, but I learned to type on a manual typewriter in high school in the 1970's. Technology has certainly sped up the pace of change, especially in the past 30 years. Remember the VCR, dial-up modem and cell phones the size of bricks?

[rustyp]

Originally Posted by Schaumburger

Very interesting article -- definitely food for thought.

I see the positive and attributes in every generation. My father is part of the silent generation, born early in the Great Depression. He went to work on his family's farm when his older brothers went to fight in WWII. Marriage was for life. My mom quit working her paying job 3 months after she got married. No way was that the life for me!

I am boomer along with my 2 sisters. I don't think we were "spoiled,", but we did not want for material things within reason. Our parents were more frugal than we are. My father sees things in black and white; I tend to see things in shades of grey.

I am definitely more tolerant than my father; in today's workforce, you'd better learn to get along with everyone if you want to keep your job. I see even greater tolerance in my nieces who are millennials.

My nieces don't really remember a world without computers, but I learned to type on a manual typewriter in high school in the 1970's. Technology has certainly sped up the pace of change, especially in the past 30 years. Remember the VCR, dial-up modem and cell phones the size of bricks?

Excellent post

[rustyp]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

so what you're say every parent is to blame from Adam and Eve.

No I am actually saying no one is to blame. Time stands still for no one. Generations values in part are an adaptation to changing times in my opinion. Times have never changed as quickly as in the last century.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by rustyp

No I am actually saying no one is to blame. Time stands still for no one. Generations values in part are an adaptation to changing times in my opinion. Times have never changed as quickly as in the last century.

I so agree.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by rustyp

No I am actually saying no one is to blame. Time stands still for no one. Generations values in part are an adaptation to changing times in my opinion. Times have never changed as quickly as in the last century.

So true.

The link was a very unfair attempt to pigeon hole everyone.

I know young people who have a better work ethic than any of us elders. I also know elders who are very immature and lazy.

My point always is.....you cannot say ALL about any age, class, etc. the work is to get to KNOW of what or WHO you feel the need to judge.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by tomwed

Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way.

Kids!
I don't know what's wrong with these kids today
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs
Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy loaf-
Ers!

And while we're on the subject
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue
Kids!
But they still do just what they want to do
Why can't they be like we were
Perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?

[MAE]
Kids!
I've tried to raise you the best I could
Kids!
All the things I've done were for your own good
Kids!
Can't you once appreciated how I've sacrificed
Working, slaving, scrimping, saving pennies?
And livin' with your father
Kids!
No one knows the burden I've had to bear
(And in my condition!)
Kids!
I'm a poor, sick woman, and does he care?
Ha! Go on, go on, and kill me
That's what it's coming to
When a mother has kids like you

And that could have been written...in the 1700's.


I crack up (and pity) those people who think they are superior to others, simply because they were born a couple of years prior...to made up names for a particular 'generation.'

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Bucco

good post

Seems to be the thing today in this country.

Label them, put them in a box, then attack them as a group, whether by age (as here), race, religion, politics, ethnic background.

Life is simple if you do that. You dont have to waste time even learning anything.

Yep.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

And that could have been written...in the 1700's.


I crack up (and pity) those people who think they are superior to others, simply because they were born a couple of years prior...to made up names for a particular 'generation.'

I think that being respectful to others whether they are older OR younger is the key. Most of us Villagers have friends in a wide age span. Most people pick others to be around because they are fun, and nice and comfortable, and who have similar interests, and don't try to avoid others in any way just because of age, be it younger or older.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I think that being respectful to others whether they are older OR younger is the key. Most of us Villagers have friends in a wide age span. Most people pick others to be around because they are fun, and nice and comfortable, and who have similar interests, and don't try to avoid others in any way just because of age, be it younger or older.

Yep.

I have friends here from their late 40's...to their mid 80's.

What I don't have, are any friends who are bullies, passive-aggressive, bigoted, racist or otherwise nasty to others...as life is too short for that.

I don't think anything has changed at all, we just hear about it more. When I was in high school if a girl got pregnant they said she left to go into the convent it wasn't posted on FB. Things were covered up and not talked about. My unmarried uncle had a best friend until he died. Rape was just not mentioned it was just a misunderstanding. Now the media just jumps on everything and disects it ad nauseum. Bad behavior dates back to Adam and Eve.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by fw102807

I don't think anything has changed at all, we just hear about it more. When I was in high school if a girl got pregnant they said she left to go into the convent it wasn't posted on FB. Things were covered up and not talked about. My unmarried uncle had a best friend until he died. Rape was just not mentioned it was just a misunderstanding. Now the media just jumps on everything and disects it ad nauseum. Bad behavior dates back to Adam and Eve.

And their incestuous offspring.

Nothing really new...under this sun.

[dillywho]

Originally Posted by Bucco

So true.

The link was a very unfair attempt to pigeon hole everyone.

I know young people who have a better work ethic than any of us elders. I also know elders who are very immature and lazy.

My point always is.....you cannot say ALL about any age, class, etc. the work is to get to KNOW of what or WHO you feel the need to judge.

Quoted from the link and says it much better than I could:

"This is only a guideline, remember that everyone is different and not everyone fits into this analysis, but for the most part you can generalize their behavior."

I have said just what you have about pigeon-holing many times on this very forum. Do the words "old people" and "drivers" and "entitled" come to mind?

Believe it or not, every next generation is "hell-bound" according to the previous and or current one. Always has been and always will be. There is something good and something bad about every generation and has been for eons; this practice will endure far longer than we will.

Meanwhile, let's just relax and try to get along. Villagers have not all come from the same place nor from the same generation. We all have opinions and that is great! If not, how dull and boring would our lives both past and present be!!

[manaboutown]

"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
(From a sermon preached by Peter the Hermit in A.D. 1274)

[rustyp]

The article and for that matter the idea of labeling "generation" borders absurdity. First what wizzard got to tie a generation to a historical event ? If it were I - I would pick a positive one not a negative one like war. Second take the mature / silent generation 1927 - 1945 - does that mean if you were born in 1946 you value system is totally different ? I don't buy into the "generation thing". I feel it is a constant continuum adapting to the times. I remember my Dad born 1924 bucking his "generation " when teaching me to question whatever I have been told to make sure it passes a test of reasonableness. Not to be a radical but don't except blind faith (ah another subject). I could watch him change with the times as he raised me. A must was we be at the dinner table at 6 PM - no excuses. We will converse. One night we would have a conversation about you are young and should take risks (within the reasonableness clause). What do you have to lose ? The other 6 nights we got the save for a rainy day speech. I remember the depression" That was enough to make us pee our pants. That limited the risks in our mind to the nickle slots. So which "generation did my Dad belong to?