My Boomer Tips

My Boomer Tips

Every few days I come accross some oped piece or some other article where a baby boomer pontificates about the greatness and bravery of their generation. What in the hell have these people done to make them feel so superior? I'll give them two things civil rights and women rights. That's it. Everything else they claim as accomplishments of their generation is pure fiction. Open my eyes people and show me what good this over indulgent generation has done. The legacy of the boomer generation is overpriced housing, daycare centers, strip malls, and a crumbling country and culture.
Faitfhful Atheist: Not sure you know what generation I'm talking about.

I got you babe: Wow, that's exactly the kind of crap I'm talking about. Boomer's are so full of crap that its coming out your ears. By your own admission the only thing the boomers have done is the equivalent to saying "hey the sky is blue!". Your generation built nothing, and destroyed everything. Education in the U.S.A. started going down hill precisely when the first boomers started getting involved in policy decisions. Social morals and civic duty started to erode just as the first boomers entered adult hood. I guess pointing out faults is fun but its not productive. My generation may contribute little but will not claim to have done it all like the boomers have, we're too cynical for that. We hate hypocrisy while the boomers wear it like a warm sweater.

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I need help in dealing with my "Dad". He was a guy I always thought was "Mr. Morals" and therefore, even though he was impossible to be around he always had that going for him. Then he cheated and left my Mom for her best friend. The double betrayal killed my Mom. She got bone cancer shortly after wards and died a few years later. My Mom and I were tight. I was her first born (son) and I have a younger sister. My Dad has always been about mind games and manipulation. Nothing I ever did was good enough for him and compliments were hard to come by. He always finds faults and criticizes everyone. He doesn't have any friends and his sisters have all but forgotten him because he's such a treat to be around. So self-righteous. I've been successful in my life. I graduated college, married, 2 kids, nice house, support myself etc. My sister is fat, lazy, no job, and just like him. He walks on water for her and treats me poorly. It took a few years before I'd even be in the same room with that thing he married and I made it clear at that time that she'd never be grandma to my kids and I've told my Dad that I won't get her presents. Because of this when it comes time for gift giving I get the cheapest crappiest presents when he used to give nice presents. He's just trying to manipulate me into giving his woman gifts too. Because of this I told him, "no more x-mas gift exchanges" so this year, for my 40th birthday I get a fishing rod with the tag still on it and not wrapped and when he hands it to me his thing says, "we bought it last year". WTF? He seems to find the negatives with my kids and there definately is no balance there with compliments. The land he lives on has been in the family for 5 generations and I was always told by my Grandmother that it would be mine someday. When I ask Dad about it so that I can plan my future he gives me a smarmy grin and says he won't choose between me and my sister. Now, often times when I see him they bring up how they might sell the place and move south. It's like they get off on holding it over my head. It's to the point now that I don't even want it. Many times when we go to see him I get this anxiety in my chest and the thought of "What's he going to do this time?" Is it going to be happy Dad or pissy Dad? My Mom had told my wife and I before she died that I always had to prove myself to him and it was never good enough and my sister never had to endure that. I also heard from her that I was an oopsy pregnancy and that he didn't want kids. There have been a few times in the past where I've gone a year or better without speaking to him. I'm tired of the negative energy he puts out and the feeling of inadequacy. I'm starting to hear him say things in front of my kids and don't want to subject them to what I had to go through. He's one of those that are never wrong either. We've had some heart to hearts in the past on different things and it always gets turned around where he starts to attack me some. I'm tired of it. Can somebody give me some good advice on how to handle this? I can't take much more. I'm worn out.

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I am 17 and I hate the Baby Boomer generation with a burning passion. My father is a member of the Baby Boomer generation, and when he complains about my generation, I ask him who has nearly bankrupted America, destroyed our reputation around the world, and destroyed the great morals we once had. The Baby Boomers are the idiots who started experimenting with drugs in the 60's and the ones who have nearly made our economy totally collapse.

I work at a grocery store, and Baby Boomers are some of the most rude people I come across. Its like they know their generation sucks and that they have successfully fucked up America, but they want to take their bitterness out on my generation, which is smarter than theirs and will do more things. They act like I owe them something, and I don't. They owe me an apology, if anything, for fucking up my country and then blaming my generation for everything that goes wrong and telling us how bad we are.

I admire my grandfather, who was born in 1934, much more than my father. He went to Harvard and Cornell and was not an idiot like many Baby Boomers are. He has much more wisdom and intelligence than any Baby Boomer ever will.
If any Baby Boomers are on here, I have something to say: thanks for screwing up this country so bad that not only my generation, but my kids' generation will be fixing the problems you created. Thanks for blaming my generation for everything you did wrong. Also, thanks for destroying the sense of morality that this country had for so long, but lost when you came along. Thank you.

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You know, "spoil the child".

Way too many of today's children of Baby Boomers are spoiled, selfish and feel "entitled", lazy and unmotivated, mannerless, unruly, rebellious, and their morals are loose.

What went wrong? It seems I heard somewhere that even Dr. Spock admitted he goofed.

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The baby boomer generation will be the fall of america. They've nearly bankrupted us, destroyed our reputation around the world, and destroyed the great morals we once had. The baby boomers are the idiots who started experimenting with drugs in the 60's and fried their brains. And to top it all off they also feel the insatiable need to tax the sh*t out of the generations after them to pay for their social security and medicare.

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My guy friend and I are sophomores in high school, and he is extremely intelligent, meaning that he'll be leaving our high school next year for an accelerated program.
In my life, my grandmother recently died, and I just attended her funeral.

Between these two things, I've become very sentimental.

Now there's this little thing I've added on to every once in a while on my computer. It's basically a document with lyrics of some songs from my iPod that I've realized fit our very topsy-turvy friendship, and I just finished it.

I realize this is kind of dorky and not exactly the best present for a guy, but like I said, I've become very sentimental lately, and I've decided to go ahead and give it to him.

How should I do this? Just hand it off to him at the end of class? Present it with some ceremony? I'm kinda nervous about how he'll take it.

***THE EXTRA INFO, in case you've already seen this question and wanted more info to answer***
***He knows I can get sentimental, and usually accepts it pretty well, but at the same time he's a very logical person and at times can brush sentiment off.***
***We've been friends for two years, and while we used to used to be a group of three friends, there was a fallout and now it's just me and him, and he's a very different person than he was when I met him. At the same time, though, so am I. I have bent my morals into pretzals trying to keep our friendship- not to mention him- together. Now we're friends as normal again, but I can already feel the distance settling in, and he hasn't even gone off to his program yet.***

PS- I think I kind of like him in more than a friendly way, but I don't know if that changes how I should do this.

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Reposting for max help.

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* do you think things were better in the 60s and 70s than they are today?
* do people have less morals today than they do now?
* what do you think of all these social networking sites like facebook and myspace?
* what do you think of twitter?

*best bands of the 60s and 70s?
* modern music vs old school music?

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I'm referring to the babies of today's teenagers. How do you think they're life will be when they grow up? Do you think they will be made fun of or will there be so many accidental babies that it's just the new norm? What about their own morals? Do you think they'll despise their parents mistake or begin getting drunk and pregnant at an even earlier age?

People need to start thinking about the future...not just their owns...what are your thoughts on this?