My Boomer Tips

My Boomer Tips

Why is it the generation who tried their parents the most are totally out of touch with young people? Seems they have forgotten what being young is about. They are (some, not all) complainers, winers and totally against anything for young people. complain about noise when they had more music noise than anyone, about clothes, about everything they did they doin't want anyone else to experience. that is...FUN

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This is by my friend and I and we want to see what you think. It's called Pretend.

(p-r-e-t-e-n-d, p-r-e-t-e-n-d, p-r-e-t-e-n-d)
I'm riding down the street and a girl came up to me singing to the beat,beat,beat and she tapped her feet,feet,feet, and she said she wanted to go to the flow of the music. She asked everyone to come along to sing a song.
*chorus*
She grabbed boys, she grabbed girls, she said grab your hands so we can do some twirls, she gave out a shout and said, callin' all sisters, callin' all brothers, yeah ya fathers, and yeah ya mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, whoa hey cousins, neices, nephews, best (best) friends, ya gotta have faith, you gotta fend, pretend (1,2,1,2) that you have the best thing ever, you gotta pretend I know you, you gotta pretend to show you, not once, but twice, you know me and I know you, I know your not very nice, isn't that so preciced?
*chorus*
Don't you want to believe that in our minds, a hand is what you lend when your helping a friend.
Don't you want to pretend that your the best thing ever as a friend, don't you want to pretend that you can start a trend.
Pretend you know me, pretend it's me you love, pretend I'm a gift from above.
I'm pretending I'm in a chair, I'm pretending I'm floating in the air.
Pretending is all about imagination, pretending is going across the nation, pretending is going everywhere, you can have a secret place over there.
*chorus*
Don't you want to pretend that at the end, everything is ok, at the end of the day!
Pretend!

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That more so than any other generation I belive kids now a days can still relate to your music ? My son was downloading songs for his MP3 and alot was from your era ... nice huh?

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Many of them seem to be too confrontational or too competitive, as if they have to "prove something" all of the time, or try to "out-do" generation Xers, which causes them to give up or try less than their parents. I'm 36, and I can think of numerous times when I would try to befriend or have a pleasant conversation with baby boomer men, and their replies were often a predictable sarcastic response, such as, "Ha!, you weren't even born back when this happened" (in a less than kind, non-joking tone), and things like "Our music, our cars, etc, were better." Yet, I tend to get along just fine with people born in the Silent Generation, because even though many of them were competitive, they treated each other, including younger people, with a bit more class and dignity.

As a person born in 1975, I have really grown tired of Baby Boomers trying to pick generational fights with their offspring. I despise being told how we are less productive, when it was their generation that exported all of our quality factory jobs, shunned the true classical works of music and art, and became the impetus of the modern-day drug epidemic. Many of them are never satisfied with life as it is, and try to force their will upon the masses rather than letting people and things live and be as they are.

Does anyone else feel this way, too, sometimes?

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This is the best way I can explain this. Most of the baby boomers who were hippies and lived that life only did for a short period. Around the time of having kids they realized the corperate world and stability were actually good things. However, today, I've noticed with adults in their 30's and 40's have their kids and are still rockers as far as music goes and even go as far to listen to what their kids listen to. Also, parents with kids and teens are still getting pierced and tattooed. This is something our parents who were born in the 50's and 60's only did before they settled down and had a family. Why do you think people even with kids today don't fully settle down? Has settling down gained a new definition? My parents musical interest changed somewhat too. I guess what it all boils down to is that people today don't feel the pressure of settling like their parents did as early or to change as drastically, I should say. Also, the 30's and 40's age group still have a lot of the same points of view they had in their early 20's. Could baby boomers raising grand children also have something to do with this?

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And/or are the artists suddenly being offered sums that they can't refuse for use of their music? I don't imagine that they've all lost the rights to their music recently.
-Thank you

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I want to buy my grandmother a christmas gift. I have never bought one for her before because I have never really bought presents for my family and I thought that I will start the new me when I turned 15. Cheesy I know.

But anyway, what exactly could I buy for the sweet elderly lady that I know as my gran? She doesn't wear makeup and is about 70. She doesn't look old if you know what I mean and is a lady who will not settle for anything less than the best(if someone wants something she will not get them the item that is not very good but cheap, she will spend up to a great amount of money just so she can give you the better which I think is cute but expensive).

She has to watch what what she eats because of her cholesterol and is allergic to eggs(but not stuff with a little egg in like cake). She cares a lot about her appearance but is not vain.

I am not sure what books or music she likes but she loves the stuff that was around when she was in her 20's. I hope I have given enough information for you to help, if not please say.

Thank you
I meant to say buy in the title. :L

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Of course not all of them. I'm painting with a broad brush...If that's the expression. lol

They never lived up to the legacy of their parents. Many of them were just flat out cowards when it came to the war in Vietnam. They really screwed up a lot of good things in this country. And now they're all washed up and needy. They treated the only honorable ones among them (the veterans of the era) like crap.

I'm never going to do lsd because you guys.

The only good thing to come out of that era was the music.

My parents are boomers, but my dad was a marine and my mom was a normal person.