That’s so funny. I myself have bottomed up one of those old cans as a young kit. Ahhhhhh the simplicity of life in the 70’s. (My dad only gave us the can when it was mostly empty / backwash but what did I know?). Gen-x had it good I say. Proud member.
Yeah the supposedly eco-progressives have bewildered me again. First they become Pfizer cheerleaders, now apparently the only way they feed their babies is Big Pharma Baby Formula.
It's the eco-progressives virtue-signalling their alleged concern for all the poor WIC/SNAP mothers. The eco-prgogressives are buying the good shit (organic, grass-fed-grass-finished cow powdered milk mixed with heirloom soybeans that have been raised according to two-thousand-year-old indigenous first nations agricultural practices, processed in facilities where the employees all make 30.00 per hour and have 12 personal mental health days per year). But they FEEL just as bad about the fact that the poor WIC/SNAP mothers can't get this same good shit, as they feel about all the black/brown people still systemically oppressed. Just like they need to balance their eco-progressive "I eat veganic organic" with a dose of "...and I let Big Pharma jab me with whatever"--because they think it makes them look pragmatic and science-based and not completely woo-woo. Because they FEEL bad when you don't take them serious.
LOL first job ever @ 3.35/hr. Spent it all on records, too, and smokes, which were only a buck ten a pack. Well and booze, which, no, don't remember....
My kids were working at 12. I was a single mom, a chef, always working. My daughter has over 50K saved up since then. Not all millennials are retards, thank God.
Make them wash their clothes with a washing board for a week with lye soap. From they're they'll figure out how to use the washer/dryer. I wouldn't count on proper folding though...that comes many years later.
I started working at age 15 for $3.35. It was so awesome to quit that job for a better one at $3.45. Even better that the union at the new job took a tithe as dues. Unlike Michele, I did not smoke. I spent mine on gasoline and lunch and beer when I could get it.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my generation lately- Gen X. We were really “go along, get along” types. We never really rebelled against authority, probably to our detriment. I feel that we were always respectful and maybe intimidated by our elders. We were always focused on our own achievements without blaming others for our shortcomings. We listened to and followed advice from our parents. Some of us raised some damn brats though.
I agree Kat Bro. We were the latch key kids often left unsupervised. We got into a lot of trouble (and learned how not to get into trouble '-), but also had a lot of fun. I know many of us do not take kindly to authority unless it is well earned. God Bless us for that.
So true!!! I blame the 80’s divorce “pandemic” that essentially gave our parents an excuse to opt out of proper parenting as they were caught up in their own personal dramas. Me and my mean siblings raised ourselves.
Yeah there's a direct correlation from that to the lack of responsible MEN these days. That's why the last two generations males are predominantly betas
You don't have to speak so derogatory about a group of people. Maybe there are many conditions in play here. So be a little bit more balanced and you don't have to lash out on a group.
Absolutely, which is why we have to fix the situation. We have a society where Women are lashing out at other Women to protect the rights of Men who “identify” as women and so on and so forth. These “circumstances” were created to incite divisions among US, the people that give power to the monsters now controlling us. So HOW we got here took years of indoctrination now we have to get out.
I'm not sure what your talking about? First, you and I are on the same team. Second, it is undeniable that there was a shocking lack of leadership by real MEN. There are no excuses for MEN letting down their children. Provide an explanation and be specific
This is my childhood, until she remarried, but I still walked home, did chores, started dinner and did homework. My awesome wife of 28 years who is two months older than I had a stay home mother. She still can't cook.
Latchkey at 6 years old in 1975. Peed my pants trying to get in the house on a winter day in metro Detroit, because my hands were cold and I did not have the dexterity to unlock the door. My single mother hated that I would eat peanut butter with a spoon from the jar. But, Hell, I had 90 minutes at home to do whatever I wanted.
In 85, we drove overnight on Friday from the Bay Area to go to Tijuana, made it back home Saturday night, as 16 year-olds. Do that now, parents (who still don't know it happed) would be in jail.
It was easy for me. I grew up in San Diego. Rolled right in there, with my eight track blaring, in my hand-me-down, red 78' t-bird. It was a rite of passage...I repeated multiple times
I used to disconnect the odometer on my dad's car and cruise the farmland all nite listening to 8 tracks of Sabbath and Zeppelin. Sometimes we had some cheap beer or boone's farm.
I learned those back roads so well, I was the the designated drivers (still drinking, just designated) because I could navigate around the roads known for cops and roadblocks. In the day I was nominated "Most likely to drive the getaway car".
Did you ever "jump" start a stick-shift by putting it neutral and pushing it down a decline? That took timing...and you had to leave the door open. That should be an essential life training skill. Lol
No. They are very proud of you. You will get a galactic high five when you return to stardust. I don't know you, but I am proud of you! Rock it Sister!
Thomas guides were dangerous especially sans seat belt. God im almost there on pg. 34...but I have to skip to pg. 178 for the final stretch...or I'm screwed. Oh wait, this song sucks...better change station. Knee driving was an essential learned skill
A metalhead kid brought AJA to art class in 1979 or thereabouts and we literally listened to it nearly every day for a year. It is still a frequent flier on my playlists and a desert island album 4ever....
Fake Platic Trees for me. But that album and OK computers are their "dual-magnus opum". They were both meant to be played in sequential order. Same with PJ's Ten.
I had a black Schwinn beach cruiser with rubber grips up the handlebars and pegs on the front. My dad got it for me when I got all A’s in the 8th grade.
That's good but what my response was about that generalisations in my opinion just didn't work at all in the last 2 years. I see many political / class overlaps and just really unpredictable who became a covidian.
You guys are the “lost years” generation--too young to be Boomers, too old to be Gen X. I graduated high school in ‘86 and I’m an ooooold Xer. And proud of it.
Indeed. I can only speak for myself, but the latter part of the Boomer generation has nothing to do with the early Boomers. The early ones were born immediately postwar and children coming of age would have had an at least tangential relationship to some 1950s pop culture for example. By the time I was coming of age that seemed like ancient history, and really, when I was in middle school even the Beatles seemed outdated.
We know that everything changed after JFK's assassination and again after RFK and MLK. Again, older Boomers would have a more immediate experience of these events that likely made imprints on their outlook. The earliest Boomers were graduating high school before the RFK and MLK tragedies. So someone born in 1961 (me) has less (but not non existent) imprints from these (and other chaotic events during the late 60s and early 70s).
I remember being at work one day (about 1990/1991) reading my boss's Wall Street Journal and there was an article discussing this newest generation (Gen X). This cohort did not have a "name" yet, but the article was discussing their general outlook on life and work and the article was meant to be informative for those who are doing the hiring. As I read the article I kept thinking, "hmph...I have quite a few things in common with this next generation"! LOL!
I was born in Tampa and my dad worked at Schlitz brewery there. I have a black & white snapshot of me as a baby drinking from my bottle that had a slosh of beer in it.
He later worked for Anheuser Busch so my growing up years involved beer and we were allowed to have short glasses of it. As a kid I didn't particularly care for it straight, but I did like to dunk a pretzel in it then eat the pretzel. I've often wonder if that's why the high school thing of getting someone to buy you beer or get a fake ID was not interesting to me. Cheers! 🍻
Come back to Tampa! Been doing business here for 20 years. It's changed a lot...for the better - especially in the last two years. I'd call it home of Team Reality now. My wife and I moved here about 2 years ago. Best decision we ever made
My dad really liked Florida; I had a great-uncle & aunt who lived in Tampa, and my sister and I were born there. However, my family is from south-central Ohio (several generations), and I think family ties were a little stronger than love of the Florida weather so my parents moved back when we girls were little. 🦩
Yeah, I get it. I grew up in San Diego and met my wife there. We were in KC from 08' through 20', and loved it - until the Vid. I couldn't believe how crazy Midwesterners got with FEAR. We had no choice with young children.
Alcohol was never "forbidden fruit" when I was growing up; at dinnertime, it wasn't unusual to have a little bit of whatever my parents were drinking. I think it ended up turning into almost a complete disinterest in the stuff from when I was 14 or 15 until I bought my first six-pack at 23. Never had a fake ID, never had any interest in acquiring a fake ID.
I was HS class of '87 in suburban Detroit. You didn't need a fake ID. You just needed to drive far enough down five, six or seven mile road, and you could usually buy whatever you wanted. When I turned 21, I went out to dinner and had a margarita. It was no big deal by then.
My dad always gave me a bit of wine, beer, etc, at dinner.when I was as young as 4 or 5...my favourite was in the summer when he would let me soak a piece of peach/nectarine in about a tablespoon of wine....oh, and I'm Grad '87!
I'm glad my parents weren't the only ones! I remember having a very weak frozen (made with ice cream) Grasshopper New Years Eve when I was 4. I usually got a small diluted version of whatever they happened to drink. Didn't like beer, Manhattans, or Martinis. Didn't start drinking much at all until I was 23, because it wasn't something verboten. Rarely drink anything now, except New Years, then I'm good for another year.
Exactly. My husband and I rarely have any alcohol, but when we do we always include our son (he's 17) in a small (or since I'm the bartender, a watered down version). His attitude is one of disinterest also. I like to think that it takes the mystery out of it, and I get to treat him as an adult, and we have the occasional conversation about adult/mature attitude and behavior towards alcohol.
Sad to say, as a boomer and product if the 60s, I am finding that most of my cohort sound like the Gen X response above and it is only younger people with whom I can have genuine discussions.
Yes, there are many boomers who know better but society be damned, they say to hell with Trump. So they go and vote based on that hatred. Truly, they can't get over themselves. Like the Roe v Wade issue,they believe all their agitations truly helped society. THEY did it! Thanks wasn't enough. Can they please have their award now, before it is struck down?
I guess my point in the previous comment was that the idea that government can actually fix a problem has been lost and continues to be lost with every successive generation. The boomers were maybe the last generation that had a small amount of faith that the government was competent at anything and had any kind of moral compass (starving babies = bad) Thus they would be more likely to vote in response to government failure. I still stand by my gen X characterization 🤷
I have heard that older boomers are much as you described, but younger Boomers are more similar to older Gen Xers. I do think there is a difference due to events they experienced. Perhaps this accounts for the inconsistencies.
Yes I understand the boomer gen spans a few extra years more than gen XYZ or whatever they are. Conan O'Brien had a riff about why is he a baby boomer? he was born in 1964 and doesn't relate.
Ryan, how about this: in my senior year my vocational ed job was as secretary to the high school vice principal. He had the famous poster of Farrah (red swimsuit + well you know...) on the back of his office door. Think that would fly today? 😁
One if the problems we have today is that they've pretty much ended vocational job ed. People don't know how stuffs made. Voila it just shows up at the door...
We homeschooled our son so what is available in public schools is a bit of a mystery to me. I had assumed, based on things I read, that voc ed didn't exist anymore. It's a shame, too. I didn't want to go to college right away, but I was immediately employable. I had so many job offers that I had figure out how to make a decision. My high school offered several types of voc ed and local employers worked with the high school seniors who were employed part of the day and in class part of the day. I really liked it, and I find it maddening that parents and communities don't step up and start demanding a return instead of thinking college is for everyone right out of high school.
Yeah, if you really crunch the numbers, it really doesn't make sense to send kids to college these days. And that's ok, honestly, for most kids. I went to college and am a better person for it. But, that was a different time. I do question it for my kids though.
As far as homeschooling; I'm a big proponent. We did it when this nonsense first started, cuz we didn't want our kids to cover their faces. We found it difficult because I travel so much. We did okay with it, but I felt like my wife and I were "losing" quality time together. So we moved to Florida in late April of 2020. That sort of resolved the matter for us.
That’s so funny. I myself have bottomed up one of those old cans as a young kit. Ahhhhhh the simplicity of life in the 70’s. (My dad only gave us the can when it was mostly empty / backwash but what did I know?). Gen-x had it good I say. Proud member.
Proud Gen Xer here too!
Proud member here👊👊
Lots of Gen Xer's here apparently. Yay!
probably better than the formula
Yeah the supposedly eco-progressives have bewildered me again. First they become Pfizer cheerleaders, now apparently the only way they feed their babies is Big Pharma Baby Formula.
It's the eco-progressives virtue-signalling their alleged concern for all the poor WIC/SNAP mothers. The eco-prgogressives are buying the good shit (organic, grass-fed-grass-finished cow powdered milk mixed with heirloom soybeans that have been raised according to two-thousand-year-old indigenous first nations agricultural practices, processed in facilities where the employees all make 30.00 per hour and have 12 personal mental health days per year). But they FEEL just as bad about the fact that the poor WIC/SNAP mothers can't get this same good shit, as they feel about all the black/brown people still systemically oppressed. Just like they need to balance their eco-progressive "I eat veganic organic" with a dose of "...and I let Big Pharma jab me with whatever"--because they think it makes them look pragmatic and science-based and not completely woo-woo. Because they FEEL bad when you don't take them serious.
Lay it down!
Damn dude. Scorching.
😂 😂😂
Coors . . the banquet formula.
Does Gato remember how exciting it was when minimum wage went from $3.10 to $3.35? I could go all day.
Might be best "game" so far Gato!
LOL first job ever @ 3.35/hr. Spent it all on records, too, and smokes, which were only a buck ten a pack. Well and booze, which, no, don't remember....
Bagging groceries at 14. My nieces in college can't do laundry 😂😂😥
It’s not funny.
My kids were working at 12. I was a single mom, a chef, always working. My daughter has over 50K saved up since then. Not all millennials are retards, thank God.
'Cause of the parent(s) they have. Give yourself credit for that, lady!
🙏
Make them wash their clothes with a washing board for a week with lye soap. From they're they'll figure out how to use the washer/dryer. I wouldn't count on proper folding though...that comes many years later.
I still can't fold worth a crap! 😖
They teach it in boot camp.
That's very true and why many men can fold better than I can.
😂😂🎯
We got out of high-school at exactly 4.20 PM whether the teachers liked it or not...;]
Ha! My first job was $350/month, so that would pencil out at about to about $2.19 an hour, before taxes. That was 1967.
Babysitting 6 rug rats when I was 13 years old in 1959 - 35 cents an hour. Those were the days!
I started working at age 15 for $3.35. It was so awesome to quit that job for a better one at $3.45. Even better that the union at the new job took a tithe as dues. Unlike Michele, I did not smoke. I spent mine on gasoline and lunch and beer when I could get it.
But I only made $2.65 during the 6-8 week “training period” (at Baskin Robbins). I remember!!
Indentured servitude
I dunno...I was 15.
I remember that. I was working at the Octopus Car Wash.
Yes! Good one
I remember! I thought 3.10 was SO much money! Lmao!
I’ve been thinking a lot about my generation lately- Gen X. We were really “go along, get along” types. We never really rebelled against authority, probably to our detriment. I feel that we were always respectful and maybe intimidated by our elders. We were always focused on our own achievements without blaming others for our shortcomings. We listened to and followed advice from our parents. Some of us raised some damn brats though.
I’m not sure your describing any gen x I know… me included!
I agree Kat Bro. We were the latch key kids often left unsupervised. We got into a lot of trouble (and learned how not to get into trouble '-), but also had a lot of fun. I know many of us do not take kindly to authority unless it is well earned. God Bless us for that.
So true!!! I blame the 80’s divorce “pandemic” that essentially gave our parents an excuse to opt out of proper parenting as they were caught up in their own personal dramas. Me and my mean siblings raised ourselves.
Yeah there's a direct correlation from that to the lack of responsible MEN these days. That's why the last two generations males are predominantly betas
The men are pussies. Full on lame ass cowardly pussies with little inverted dicks.
So well written. You forgot squirrely, mealy mouthed and tic-tacs for b*lls.
Well...maybe those tic-tacs are kept inverted with their other "soft parts".
My wife and I can not get over how big of pussy's grown men have been over the last two years
You don't have to speak so derogatory about a group of people. Maybe there are many conditions in play here. So be a little bit more balanced and you don't have to lash out on a group.
🫣🫢😲
There are a lot of other circumstances why this happened.
Absolutely, which is why we have to fix the situation. We have a society where Women are lashing out at other Women to protect the rights of Men who “identify” as women and so on and so forth. These “circumstances” were created to incite divisions among US, the people that give power to the monsters now controlling us. So HOW we got here took years of indoctrination now we have to get out.
I'm not sure what your talking about? First, you and I are on the same team. Second, it is undeniable that there was a shocking lack of leadership by real MEN. There are no excuses for MEN letting down their children. Provide an explanation and be specific
Yep. Walked home from school and did chores, homework and started dinner, for my single Mom, before she got home from work. I was 10😂
Yes!! I was cooking at 6yrs old!
This is my childhood, until she remarried, but I still walked home, did chores, started dinner and did homework. My awesome wife of 28 years who is two months older than I had a stay home mother. She still can't cook.
Latchkey at 6 years old in 1975. Peed my pants trying to get in the house on a winter day in metro Detroit, because my hands were cold and I did not have the dexterity to unlock the door. My single mother hated that I would eat peanut butter with a spoon from the jar. But, Hell, I had 90 minutes at home to do whatever I wanted.
I grew up outside of detroit too!!! Probably peed my pants as well but I don’t remember much.
I agree! We raised hell. We were just mischievous enough with just a large enough tech gap to fool our parents.
This MUST be sarcasm!
From, 1979. Quietly Cool-ly Proudly.
PS ❤️this thread
Gato is a gen X'er?!...I would've never guessed
Hah. Bite your tongue! I venture to guess he is a younger Gen Xer, but definitely Gen X.
i am definitely gen X.
child of the 70's.
Thought so, I’m 67, we think the same.
I’m 64 and my life was the same as the Gen Xers, except we still said Mr. and Mrs.
1975 is my guess.
In 85, we drove overnight on Friday from the Bay Area to go to Tijuana, made it back home Saturday night, as 16 year-olds. Do that now, parents (who still don't know it happed) would be in jail.
It was easy for me. I grew up in San Diego. Rolled right in there, with my eight track blaring, in my hand-me-down, red 78' t-bird. It was a rite of passage...I repeated multiple times
I used to disconnect the odometer on my dad's car and cruise the farmland all nite listening to 8 tracks of Sabbath and Zeppelin. Sometimes we had some cheap beer or boone's farm.
I learned those back roads so well, I was the the designated drivers (still drinking, just designated) because I could navigate around the roads known for cops and roadblocks. In the day I was nominated "Most likely to drive the getaway car".
Did you ever "jump" start a stick-shift by putting it neutral and pushing it down a decline? That took timing...and you had to leave the door open. That should be an essential life training skill. Lol
Best Everything!! No bike helmets. Dangerous playgrounds. Bugs bunny. We had imagination.
Riding in truck beds is an all-time fave. Never see it anymore. And smoking cigarettes.
I remember my mom smoking in planes
She probably wasn't wearing yoga pants either...
that's the problem right?! no ability to "create" or to think critically.
Remember lawn jarts?
The shit I did! My folks are rolling in their graves, or fluffing in their urns
No. They are very proud of you. You will get a galactic high five when you return to stardust. I don't know you, but I am proud of you! Rock it Sister!
Clearly you have good taste, good to know you now!
LOL fluffing in their urns. 😂
It’s the “free range” part that I miss so much!
Viva Thomas Guides. I still have my two-county edition from 1983.
Thomas guides were dangerous especially sans seat belt. God im almost there on pg. 34...but I have to skip to pg. 178 for the final stretch...or I'm screwed. Oh wait, this song sucks...better change station. Knee driving was an essential learned skill
Or you could pull over, like normal people.
Lol.
I have 2 from the nineties for the local 5 counties in my area. Still love maps over that GPS stuff.
Pearl Jam, Steely Dan and Radiohead for me...and well most of the better classic rock
the clash "london calling" is one of the most perfect and complete albums ever made.
True that. Front to back - in order. No exceptions
Now they’re all sellout’s
Steely Dan? Checks out. You're all right.
A metalhead kid brought AJA to art class in 1979 or thereabouts and we literally listened to it nearly every day for a year. It is still a frequent flier on my playlists and a desert island album 4ever....
Zeppelin is still best. Comfort music for me
Soundgarden❤
Wonder if Cornell would have complied like Vedder?
Jesus Christ Pose in top 30 songs though.
Cornell with Vedder on Hunger Strike (temple of the dog). Top 15
Tool! Just saw them in STL. Best visuals I've seen my entire life.
Saw them in concert right before the pandemic
Fake Platic Trees for me. But that album and OK computers are their "dual-magnus opum". They were both meant to be played in sequential order. Same with PJ's Ten.
Ah I see, you know how to play it. Your talking about the album...not jut the song
In your dreams!
Well put up or shut-up!...:)
I go deep on music. Give us a taste
Pink Floyd, "Darkside of the Moon." Best. Album. Ever.
Wrong!
1972 is my guess
Nah, my guess is about 1980.
The easiest question to ask would be to ask how much does he remember it cost to make a phone call a telephone booth
dime
Legit.
"Gotta dime? Call somebody who gives a shit." 'Member that?
Maybe, but he could watch movies that would let him know that already. You see he's already answered $.10
Does he vividly remember when the Iran hostages were released?...and on what day. Can't look it up Gato!
Second question: did you have freestyle pegs on your Haro, Redline or Mongoose?
I had a black Schwinn beach cruiser with rubber grips up the handlebars and pegs on the front. My dad got it for me when I got all A’s in the 8th grade.
Did you feel rad?! Lol
Too expensive for me. I had a Schwinn Scrambler 36/36. It was, uh, durable.
Huffy with wranglers here. Built ramps to jump city streets. It's not the arrow...it's the "indian". Take no offense wokesters
Over/under is the bicentennial
Always enjoy this from the Bee.
https://babylonbee.com/news/gen-xers-decide-to-split-off-from-rest-of-society-and-form-a-utopia-thats-all-relaxed-and-cool-and-whatever
We we're lied to about everything, why would the vaxx be any different?
All my gen-xers in my family and friends were rushing to take the vaccine. Who I know and held out were early millenials or late boomers.
My experience too.
I didn't take it. About half the gen xers I know didn't take it.
That's good but what my response was about that generalisations in my opinion just didn't work at all in the last 2 years. I see many political / class overlaps and just really unpredictable who became a covidian.
Finished HS in 1975. Good times in a small Central California Air Force town.
1979 here.
You guys are the “lost years” generation--too young to be Boomers, too old to be Gen X. I graduated high school in ‘86 and I’m an ooooold Xer. And proud of it.
Indeed. I can only speak for myself, but the latter part of the Boomer generation has nothing to do with the early Boomers. The early ones were born immediately postwar and children coming of age would have had an at least tangential relationship to some 1950s pop culture for example. By the time I was coming of age that seemed like ancient history, and really, when I was in middle school even the Beatles seemed outdated.
We know that everything changed after JFK's assassination and again after RFK and MLK. Again, older Boomers would have a more immediate experience of these events that likely made imprints on their outlook. The earliest Boomers were graduating high school before the RFK and MLK tragedies. So someone born in 1961 (me) has less (but not non existent) imprints from these (and other chaotic events during the late 60s and early 70s).
I remember being at work one day (about 1990/1991) reading my boss's Wall Street Journal and there was an article discussing this newest generation (Gen X). This cohort did not have a "name" yet, but the article was discussing their general outlook on life and work and the article was meant to be informative for those who are doing the hiring. As I read the article I kept thinking, "hmph...I have quite a few things in common with this next generation"! LOL!
1984 here. Also elder gen x
Graduated from HS in San Jose in 1975.
Bicentennial! '76, baby!
Actually, yes. I had my son in 1976. 😬He’s a Bicentennial Baby.
How did you graduate in 1975, but you're a gen x? It's not possible. Baby Boomer gen ends in 1964.
Bandit, I didn't get the impression BigT was saying he's a Gen X, more like adding to the conversation?
I was born in Tampa and my dad worked at Schlitz brewery there. I have a black & white snapshot of me as a baby drinking from my bottle that had a slosh of beer in it.
He later worked for Anheuser Busch so my growing up years involved beer and we were allowed to have short glasses of it. As a kid I didn't particularly care for it straight, but I did like to dunk a pretzel in it then eat the pretzel. I've often wonder if that's why the high school thing of getting someone to buy you beer or get a fake ID was not interesting to me. Cheers! 🍻
Come back to Tampa! Been doing business here for 20 years. It's changed a lot...for the better - especially in the last two years. I'd call it home of Team Reality now. My wife and I moved here about 2 years ago. Best decision we ever made
My dad really liked Florida; I had a great-uncle & aunt who lived in Tampa, and my sister and I were born there. However, my family is from south-central Ohio (several generations), and I think family ties were a little stronger than love of the Florida weather so my parents moved back when we girls were little. 🦩
Yeah, I get it. I grew up in San Diego and met my wife there. We were in KC from 08' through 20', and loved it - until the Vid. I couldn't believe how crazy Midwesterners got with FEAR. We had no choice with young children.
Anyway. Cheers!
Alcohol was never "forbidden fruit" when I was growing up; at dinnertime, it wasn't unusual to have a little bit of whatever my parents were drinking. I think it ended up turning into almost a complete disinterest in the stuff from when I was 14 or 15 until I bought my first six-pack at 23. Never had a fake ID, never had any interest in acquiring a fake ID.
I was HS class of '87 in suburban Detroit. You didn't need a fake ID. You just needed to drive far enough down five, six or seven mile road, and you could usually buy whatever you wanted. When I turned 21, I went out to dinner and had a margarita. It was no big deal by then.
My dad always gave me a bit of wine, beer, etc, at dinner.when I was as young as 4 or 5...my favourite was in the summer when he would let me soak a piece of peach/nectarine in about a tablespoon of wine....oh, and I'm Grad '87!
The peach soaked in wine sounds pretty good!
It was red wine and it was delicious....we should start a trend..... :)
Sounds like a winner to me! 😊
I'm glad my parents weren't the only ones! I remember having a very weak frozen (made with ice cream) Grasshopper New Years Eve when I was 4. I usually got a small diluted version of whatever they happened to drink. Didn't like beer, Manhattans, or Martinis. Didn't start drinking much at all until I was 23, because it wasn't something verboten. Rarely drink anything now, except New Years, then I'm good for another year.
Once a year - that's nearly us too. LOL!
Exactly. My husband and I rarely have any alcohol, but when we do we always include our son (he's 17) in a small (or since I'm the bartender, a watered down version). His attitude is one of disinterest also. I like to think that it takes the mystery out of it, and I get to treat him as an adult, and we have the occasional conversation about adult/mature attitude and behavior towards alcohol.
70's baby Xanax: scosh of brandy in a little warm milk.
Whiskey on the gums
That’s what my mom used when I was teething…it may have been brandy though.
Man, I'm choking on my upper lip with that one
There used to be a word to describe people who chest feed . . . help me out here . . . wumpen, wimin, wowan ?
Wamyn? Whinin'? Womprats?
Also, why formula at all? Make your own gruel for pity's sake. Breastfeed, then gruel, then puréed food, then soft food, then chewy stuff.
and let em' out the "shoot"...kicking and screaming. It's an evolutionary imperative for the immune system.
yes, i know exceptions exist.
Gen X approved!
quality
Boomer response to baby formula shortage: appalled at the American Government, vote them them out
Gen X response: shrug, does the government do that? Aren't corporations in charge of the world now? Blame Trump, watch more CNN, keep voting democrat
Sad to say, as a boomer and product if the 60s, I am finding that most of my cohort sound like the Gen X response above and it is only younger people with whom I can have genuine discussions.
Yes, there are many boomers who know better but society be damned, they say to hell with Trump. So they go and vote based on that hatred. Truly, they can't get over themselves. Like the Roe v Wade issue,they believe all their agitations truly helped society. THEY did it! Thanks wasn't enough. Can they please have their award now, before it is struck down?
I guess my point in the previous comment was that the idea that government can actually fix a problem has been lost and continues to be lost with every successive generation. The boomers were maybe the last generation that had a small amount of faith that the government was competent at anything and had any kind of moral compass (starving babies = bad) Thus they would be more likely to vote in response to government failure. I still stand by my gen X characterization 🤷
I have heard that older boomers are much as you described, but younger Boomers are more similar to older Gen Xers. I do think there is a difference due to events they experienced. Perhaps this accounts for the inconsistencies.
Yes I understand the boomer gen spans a few extra years more than gen XYZ or whatever they are. Conan O'Brien had a riff about why is he a baby boomer? he was born in 1964 and doesn't relate.
Which group are the 39% who say they think Brandon is doing a good job??
🤔 I am going with aged union leaders and transgender government employees, probably on the younger side. So again, it's a mix.
Don't want to make any gender assumptions. But what was preference;
Farrah Fawcett or Christie Brinkley?
Or even more vexing and narrows a bit further:
Was preference; Christie Brinkley or Cindy Crawford
Ryan, how about this: in my senior year my vocational ed job was as secretary to the high school vice principal. He had the famous poster of Farrah (red swimsuit + well you know...) on the back of his office door. Think that would fly today? 😁
One if the problems we have today is that they've pretty much ended vocational job ed. People don't know how stuffs made. Voila it just shows up at the door...
We homeschooled our son so what is available in public schools is a bit of a mystery to me. I had assumed, based on things I read, that voc ed didn't exist anymore. It's a shame, too. I didn't want to go to college right away, but I was immediately employable. I had so many job offers that I had figure out how to make a decision. My high school offered several types of voc ed and local employers worked with the high school seniors who were employed part of the day and in class part of the day. I really liked it, and I find it maddening that parents and communities don't step up and start demanding a return instead of thinking college is for everyone right out of high school.
Yeah, if you really crunch the numbers, it really doesn't make sense to send kids to college these days. And that's ok, honestly, for most kids. I went to college and am a better person for it. But, that was a different time. I do question it for my kids though.
As far as homeschooling; I'm a big proponent. We did it when this nonsense first started, cuz we didn't want our kids to cover their faces. We found it difficult because I travel so much. We did okay with it, but I felt like my wife and I were "losing" quality time together. So we moved to Florida in late April of 2020. That sort of resolved the matter for us.
Absolutely love it. I inherited that poster from my uncle who's 5 years older. I still have it - although in storage.
Did anyone play the game of throwing darts at...er...certain body parts, on the poster, that could end the current baby formula shortage?
Cindy Crawford, for sure. My first wife could have answered that for me.
Christie Brinkley. Fairy Faucet is GROSS! 2nd question. Cindy Crawford fer shure!
I used to like you Bandit...damn. JJ. You like brunettes. Cindy Crawford drops the mic for brunettes. I'm a bit more, um... "inclusive".
Well, at least someone liked me at some point. `\_(•_•)_/` 😉😋
that old school emoji is awesome. don't even know if i know where the keys are on the keyboard. i'm practicing.
It's kinda easy on my phone. 😏 When you get yours done, you get more points for it than mine.
My gen x daughter turns 50 this year. I’m feelin’ ancient. 🙄😱
Big laugh. Saw an old picture of a child suckling off a goat’s teat. Apparently goats milk is quite good.