I just spent about 15 minutes scrolling through Yahoo and MSN news feeds, and thought "We need a 'What the hell is wrong with people' thread". Then I remembered this thread, which pretty well covers the subject, and thought "I should thank @webmost for this."
Thanks!
You can't make this stuff up.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Unmitigated risk aversion is the new Puritanism; complete with witch hunts funny outfits and humorless preachers thundering doom. The Deity is Safety; Satan is a Lawyer; but the object is the same: to suck the life out of life and tell you how to live it.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Yeah, I saw that this morning. That's right up there with apt names like Bell's telephone and eponyms like Crapper's toilet.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
The MTA sent a guy out at 8:30 Wednesday morning to paint fresh yellow stripe on the platform.
Rush hour continued:
Who'd of thunk it?
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Sounds about right. When I lived in Nashville, I learned not to get too excited when they'd pave a road or street. Six weeks after the lines were painted, the new pavement gets ripped up to replace the sewer lines. Every freaking time.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
According to the Strauss-Howe generational theory those born from 1982 to 2004 are millennials.
I’ve encountered a few. I’m happy to say they’re not all as vapid as the one depicted in the video but there are more than I would have hoped. I blame a lot if it on out education system.
Very few are actually quite that bad. They just happen to be the loudest about it so they get the attention and the rest of us suffer from misguided association. That theory is strange. I always figured it was related more to the decade you came of age in. Millenials turned 18 between 2000 and 2010. Gen z between 2010 and 2020.
Gen y and millenials overlap so much it seems there's not enough distinction to warrant two categories. Also, does this graph show that all the generation lines were drawn by different sources. What about people born 82-84? Do they just identify with whatever they feel like?
It's really interesting. I googled it myself and found many of the quoted sources as well as several others, including one that didn't separate millenials and gen y. It even went as far as the next generation it called the iGen, centurials, or the more commonly known gen z. I wonder what kind of reaction you would get out of two people, born in 83 and 03 respectively, when you told them they were demographically in the same generation.
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You can't make this stuff up.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201801/all-over-your-face
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/23/penn-state-calls-outing-club-too-risky-bans-it-from-going-outside.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/24/uranus-fart-smelling-gas-clouds-oxford/545139002/
Ur-****...
The clouds around mine smell like primroses and petunias....
Edit: Or maybe that’s agapanthus and aspidastra.....
Rush hour continued:
Who'd of thunk it?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I’ve encountered a few. I’m happy to say they’re not all as vapid as the one depicted in the video but there are more than I would have hoped. I blame a lot if it on out education system.
I dont pretend to know. I was just trying to make the generation names a little clearer. The graphs helped me to visualize them easier.