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McDonald's.
Jesus ing Christ, you cannot spell McDonald's and you claim to have post graduate degree.
A 29 year old isn't a "youth". Youths are teens or younger imo.
It's not what's wrong with the younger generation. It's been happening forever. We challenged the ethics taught to us by our parents and our kids challenge ours. Plus, 30 years ago we weren't on internet forums and news blogs with live news 24/7, so plenty of events didn't get national attention. Now one kid shoots another and everyone in the world hears about it because it becomes a political talking point, then every fb dip has to comment on it and push their ignorant ass agenda despite the event itself.
So it's not people, per se, but the fact that information is being tailored and force fed to society to achieve a consensus that agrees with what the news media moguls need to remain profitable.
You can trace it all back to money.
McDonald's.
Jesus ing Christ, you cannot spell McDonald's and you claim to have post graduate degree.
It's kept me away from MacDonalds, hasn't it?
Do you eat there? That isn't food, it's barely fit for rats, and then they die young.
Yeah that's hilarious. You should go on tour.It's kept me away from MacDonalds, hasn't it?
Do you eat there? That isn't food, it's barely fit for rats, and then they die young.
Thank you, I'm tickled to death to be here today!
Umm. The silent and WW2 generation gave you pukes the golden age of the US as a legacy. You are the ones that decided to go back to the days and ways of Hoover and Coolidge which your forebears dug themselves out of.
He claims to have a minor in philosophy. I don't believe him. I am all but convinced he is avante at this point.
Yeah I said so some time ago.
To be accurate -
you can trace it to the love of money - or greed to be really accurate.
I agree.
Plus we have bred generations that tend to expect "instant gratification". The media is partly responsible, but it first became apparent with the boomers IMHO.
I humbly think the boomers were more spoiled back in their 20s than we are. they inherited the world's richest country but somehow turned it into one that has the world's largest debt within just a few decades
I can't argue against that. A lot of mistakes were made, unfortunately.
A kid who is 20 was 8 when 9-11 happened. He or she has spent almost their entire life that they can remember in a country at war. They have witnessed nothing but economic bad times, mortgage crises, Hurricane Katrina, BP oil spill, Enron scandal, and government shutdowns. Many of them have watched one or both parents give up on their family. How do you expect them to feel? They have good reason not to trust anyone.
The goods.
But the family structure suffered the same problems for the boomers as well. And they went through the worst scares of the Cold War told to hide under our school desks as if that would protect us from an atomic blast. Those were very scary times.
No they did not. The last boomers were coming of age from 1963 to 1983. Divorce rates didn't begin to jump until into the 70s. And it was not the people that were married for 25 years that started getting divorced at that time. 10 years or so into the boomers legacy and divorce rates start climbing. You understand the term causation?
The baby boomers are the epitomize a lack of accountability.
Not true, divorce rates were already jumping when I was a young tot in 1951. My own family was just one in particular!
And your last sentence is just another typical example of your hostile at ude, and further erodes the credibility of any of your posts in general, regardless of whether you might be right about something. The only one you will have to blame for making a fool of yourself is you.
I keep trying to clue you into this eventuality, but you refuse to understand it.
So, in light of that, and in the interest of civility, know any good jokes you can share?
Because your discussion decorum leaves a of a lot to be desired.
You mean epitome?
You just ragged on someone else's education.
Yeah, he was using it as a verb but forgot to erase the "are the" part of his sentence.
That is why I pay very little attention to his posts anymore unless I have to correct an obvious fallacy.
He will have to fade his own heat when it comes to obvious hypocrisy and pseudo intellectualism.
That's also why I try to steer him toward something less hostile, less use of the intellect, and more civilly palatable such as jokes and humor.
There are too many people in the world. I cannot concern myself with them all. Teach your kid how to act, react to him in a proper manner when he oversteps his boundaries, then be available for them when they need you. After that just hope you did what you needed to in order to give them the proper tools to live out their lives comfortably. That's all you can do. Wringing your hands over every event in the world, somehow linking that to your immediate group, that's not productive.
Also, if the boomers lack accountability, is it the fault of their parents? If so, if their parents didn't raise them right, is that the fault of their parents? Slippery slope. Individual accountability is where the buck stops.
I am not going to place nice with you, avante. crying about me being 'hostile' is not going to change that.Not true, divorce rates were already jumping when I was a young tot in 1951. My own family was just one in particular!
And your last sentence is just another typical example of your hostile at ude, and further erodes the credibility of any of your posts in general, regardless of whether you might be right about something. The only one you will have to blame for making a fool of yourself is you.
I keep trying to clue you into this eventuality, but you refuse to understand it.
So, in light of that, and in the interest of civility, know any good jokes you can share?
Because your discussion decorum leaves a of a lot to be desired.
the divorce rate in 1949 was 27%. the divorce rate in 1967 was 26%. The rate in 1970 was 33%. The rate in 1975 was 48%.
http://divorce.lovetoknow.com/Histor...ate_Statistics
^not this bleeding vagina again^
If it affected you then that is fact, and personally felt. It affected my family, so it was real and held validity.
No one can deny that fact, and no percentage point can change that.
It either is, or it isn't, and in our case it happened.
So anyone can place figures on it but if they weren't affected then for them they have no basis in reality, they are simply quoting figures, whereas I have first hand knowledge.
Those that it happened to, who were directly affected by divorce, they know the real truth of the matter first hand.
I would trust first hand truth from someone directly involved, than a cold uninvolved statistic, every time, and twice on Sunday, and so would any one with any semblance of intelligence, compassion, or objectivity.
It happened, and what happened cannot be changed, not with stats, voodoo dolls, "oh, gee, I wishes", obvious misnomers, or any other such mumbo jumbo.
And Fuzzy, none of your obsessions with me, nor your hypocritical nature, and not even your pseudo intellectualism, none of that will change either, unless you take an active involvement in changing it yourself because the facts are, no one can change that for you, you have to do it yourself. I cannot do it for you.
The same is true that no amount of your impersonal and biased statistics, nor your desire to be hostile and argumentative, not even your love of baiting and enjoyment of pissing contests, none of that will change either, unless you change it yourself.
None of us impartial and neutral observers can change it for you.
Sorry. I wish we could. But we cannot do it for you. You have to take the responsibility and do it yourself. Fact of life.
These are a few more reasons I keep trying to get you to accept a little humor in your life, and quit taking yourself so seriously, because it can help you with all of these problems that you don't seem to want to face, and definitely make change easier for you to accept.
Laugh a little. You just might like it.
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Your personal anecdote is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Your moralism falls on deaf ears, avante. This is much the same as when sbm and sa210 try to bait people into their roundabout. They are an obvious ploy for when you have no leg to stand on in your assertions. This way you never have to admit that you cannot back up what you say.If it affected you then that is fact, and personally felt. It affected my family, so it was real and held validity.
No one can deny that fact, and no percentage point can change that.
It either is, or it isn't, and in our case it happened.
So anyone can place figures on it but if they weren't affected then for them they have no basis in reality, they are simply quoting figures, whereas I have first hand knowledge.
Those that it happened to, who were directly affected by divorce, they know the real truth of the matter first hand.
I would trust first hand truth from someone directly involved, than a cold uninvolved statistic, every time, and twice on Sunday, and so would any one with any semblance of intelligence, compassion, or objectivity.
It happened, and what happened cannot be changed, not with stats, voodoo dolls, "oh, gee, I wishes", obvious misnomers, or any other such mumbo jumbo.
And Fuzzy, none of your obsessions with me, nor your hypocritical nature, and not even your pseudo intellectualism, none of that will change either, unless you take an active involvement in changing it yourself because the facts are, no one can change that for you, you have to do it yourself. I cannot do it for you.
The same is true that no amount of your impersonal and biased statistics, nor your desire to be hostile and argumentative, not even your love of baiting and enjoyment of pissing contests, none of that will change either, unless you change it yourself.
None of us impartial and neutral observers can change it for you.
Sorry. I wish we could. But we cannot do it for you. You have to take the responsibility and do it yourself. Fact of life.
These are a few more reasons I keep trying to get you to accept a little humor in your life, and quit taking yourself so seriously, because it can help you with all of these problems that you don't seem to want to face, and definitely make change easier for you to accept.
Laugh a little. You just might like it.
Statistics show that divorce rates from 1950 to 1965 were stable. This counters your anecdote of your parents divorce. I imagine one of them wanted to be away from you as cause before a societal trend. It was not until 1970, after boomers started entering their majority, that divorce rates doubled.
That speaks to the reality in US culture as opposed to the world of avante. You have to go back to the 19th century to find a generation worse than the boomers. Even that is arguable. The ones that led the charge to black sunday and the great depression didn't fall quite from as lofty heights.
Your ability to twist stats in your favor impresses no one, not me, not Chump, not Blake, not SA210, not SBM, not even yourself if you are honest. Until you've been there, you have no conception of the truth of anything, rather you are merely guessing at best, thus you are the one with no leg to stand on! Simple truth.
But this is all moot since you were addressing someone other than me.
You might try getting your quotes correct next time, thus there is no point in reading your post since it was meant for Avante.
Good luck appealing to him.
Or was it another misnomer? If so, this is further proof of your pseudo intellectualism. You should really get that checked, or use the edit function next time.
However if it wasn't, then this is further proof of your hostile demeanor and baiting mentality.
Or is it both? That would tend to explain some of your cognitive dissonance concerning me in particular.
Just saying.
I honestly believe you just need a good dosage of humor to round out your life.
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