Oh, Eric, bless you! I just posted this, too! I remortgaged the house after watching this. Even now, the tears stream down as I watch...the need is so great.
I have three worthless college degrees. Not one employer ever asked to see my diplomas. Now every prospective employer requires to see my Walgreens "papers".
Knew this broad that got a BS in Anthropology. There's nothing you can do with a BS in Anthropology. I wish I had a dime for every minute I had to be polite and listen to her bitch about not being able to find a job "in her field." In a rural area in the Midwest. 🙄 I soooo wanted to scream at her, "Get a useful degree." She was the sister-in-law of a good friend.....I kept my mouth shut. 😢
That is why they must starve first. The collapse of a great civilization is under way. Its plausible that the fastest way out is a war and purge of the entitled, the fat and the lazy, which will come eventually anyhow. Of course, starting this war is immoral as it gets, so what ends up happening is a slow decay.
I concur. My gut/intuition or whatever one may call it has been telling me the same for months. I do believe it will all turn around eventually, but it will be a slow and painful road for all.
I've often wondered how that would pan out. I think they'll find out in the next few years unfortunately - society seems to be heading towards volatile times.
I ain't woke and I'm not fighting for these people either. I'd be more inclined to shoot leftists burning down my city than Russians invading a country they've been clashing with for centuries.
You know how it’s said that ‘history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes’?
In the 1960s, millions of young people dropped out, joined communes, advocated that everyone could live on just ‘peace and love’. Well, reality caught up with all of us eventually, and we went back to paths of productive employment (mostly) and worthwhile degrees.
Mine was in engineering.
Some kind of Reality will push millennials to ‘get real’ with life. The interesting mystery is, what will it be?
World War 3? Half their generation sick with vaccine-related adverse events? Hyperinflation followed by a Great Depression ten times worse than the 1930s?
I get the feeling that interesting times are coming, and millennials will be astonished that they were ever concerned about sushi and lattes - they’ll be busy loading ammo into weapons, or scrounging for anything edible from a garage can.
I don't think they'll make it as far as ammo loading. They will drop like moths. Like petals from flowers that bloom for a single day. Not all of them, of course. But quite a few. I only hope the loathsome vandals who desecrated the RAF Memorial last week in London will have the time to ponder what they did, before the monster they created destroys them.
overstated. not believing millions went to communes. and not all or even most millennials are loser as portrayed. I have two daughters, millennials, who probably make more money than half the people commenting here. they are not in debt (I paid for most of their college). it is fun to flame other generations but it is cheap thrills. as a boomer I can recall how we were seen as spoiled, wastrels, lazy etc. oh, they are also purebloods.
I have two children, both millennials, who fit into the same categories you described. I didn't pay for their college, they did and they do not have any college debt and they much appreciate what the have EARNED. They do not intend to pay for their children's post secondary education as they found their experience to be a valuable like lesson that they should also teach their children. They would also make light of many of their millennial peers for the same reasons other here have. Probably get some cheap thrills from it to boot.
You are right - millions didn’t join communes, but millions certainly did ‘drop out’ and smoke a lot of pot.
I’m glad to hear that your children have turned out well, and you’re right, MOST of each generation does turn out okay. Most of us eventually get our heads together (although I certainly wish MY parents had helped pay for my degree). I think many people are just frustrated at having to pay (via Biden’s vote-buying) for things that we have had to pay for ourselves, like our college degrees. And for USELESS degrees, like ‘gender studies’! People wouldn’t mind investing in the next generations if it was money well spent!
agreed. In retirement I teach a couple of classes (Intro to Psych; I'm not a therapist bty). pretty good school overall. but the range of talent is very wide (no admission req, of course). 30% won't finish 2 yrs I expect. Fewer will get thru 4 yr college. I sneak in a "commercial" occasionally about useful and "less so" degrees and trades. these kids now are not millennials technically. I aksed the other day who has ever worked on a car. 2 of 40--one was a young lady. :)
That is also something that we taught our children, how to change oil, filters, tires and other basic maintenance as well as learning to drive with a manual transmission. That last one got them some work transporting cars for dealers!
Everyone here in Germany has to learn to drive with a manual transmission. I never got a rental car anywhere in southern Europe with an automatic transmission so we really need that skill over here....
A plague of old people ailments like heart disease will assail them this decade. They will love their new victimhood status, once they finally embrace it. They will be bitterer…they will elect leaders who will demand more laborers support them for the rest of their lives. Zoomers will deny them this. Imported peons will turn on them. Avocado Apocalypse!!!
Or these "poor souls" (lol) can be urged to do the same thing they always tell us life long blue collar workers to do when our middle class jobs get shut down: "Learn to code".
I never got the tattoo thing. Here in Tennessee tattoos are de rigueur. The worst thing is otherwise very attractive women war painted top to bottom.
The phenomenon reminds me of an old Richard Guindon cartoon from the late '70s where these two old guys are sitting there with drooping nose and earrings, and sagging tattoos with the caption reading, "Oh, I see you were an idiot in the 70s, too" or something along that line.
LOL. I nearly fell off my chair. That is funny as heck.
There was a hairdresser at place where I used to have my hair cut who had a tear drop tattoo on his face. When I was feeling particularly obnoxious I used to ask him how many people he killed as a hair stylist.
Penalty for fake tattoos in the Russian Underworld is death. So probably prudent not to get involved in “Stolen Valor” scenarios. If you are tattooed as a thief you are “honor bound” to make your way as a thief… same for a hit man. If you recognize no rules on your personal sovereignty you may advertise with a five-pointed star over the heart or on the knees.
Hence why my friend balked at doing those - some idiot sports what he thinks makes him "cool" and the real deal takes umbrage, it may well splatter others too.
He calls tattoos on the face and hands "I never wanna work"-marks.
Fascinating. And naturally I'm not even remotely curious about how you know all this.
The Chinese gangs on the West Coast and in the Kingdom of Hawai'i in the mid to late 19th century had some daunting rules. I have held a copy of one of their handbooks, which were in English as well as Chinese. Just about every little transgression was punished by death, often in extremely slow and nasty ways, and would include your family. And tattoos were a very big deal. And people think gangs today are scary.
Yes, probably not a good idea to get involved with “stolen valor” gang tattoos. In the Russian Underworld a counterfeit tattoo wins the death penalty. If your tattoos say you are a thief, you are honor-bound to make your way in the world as a thief. Same for a hit man. I think the exception is a five-pointed star on the heart or knees. That means you declare you follow nobody’s rules about anything.
In defense of having long hair, yet confining it, he is correct - short hair is always on your neck. With long hair you can get it off the neck in hot weather and use it as a scarf in cold weather.
The Man Bun/B.A. in Gender Studies combo is still a thing in my former northern suburb. I used to see these guys working as bartenders at hip pubs shilling I.P.A. or baristas in the local Starbucks. Of course, they're also in a band or dabble in IT. There's a song by The Dandy Warhols called "Bohemian Like You" that captures the ethos brilliantly, sans the Man Bun:
What kills me here in NorCal are the women "of a certain age" - and we're talking the majority - who run out and get a new tattoo every time they see a new wrinkle. Talk about mutton dressed as lamb...
"As a person who taught at Sarah Lawrence College for thirty-eight years, I can't tell you what I've seen in the way of the transformation of the erotic morality of young women. Things are different, that's all." - Joseph Campbell, "Pathways to Bliss", 2004
They don't seem very blissful or even happy to me.
🙌 Oh, Praise the Lord, Ryan! I thought I was the only person on Earth that was still bothered by high-waters. Who wants to see their ugly shoes, socks and ankles?
A friend of mine wrote the following poem in Junior High School for an assignment (The teacher had a sense of humor. She got an A.):
I'm very much stuck on the notion of community being a product of having to work together for mutual survival, where the obnoxious, spoilt and narcissistic eliminate themselves by being shut out by the ones managing to subjugate their egos and put their shoulder to the wheel.
On the other hand, people like me always used to complain us in pol sci and sociology weren't allowed to do large-scale behaviouristic experiements on humans, so the data that can be gathered from 1990 onwards will quite possibly be a tremendous boon to future social engineers.
You'd probably get right along with a friend of mine who managed a McDonalds for some 10+ years. Managed meaning he did all the paperwork, all the admin stuff an had to man the counter or kitchen too on top.
His interview question: "How many times did you have to burn yourself on the stove as a kid?"
Amazingly, a lot of people answered more than [1]. Even more Amazingly, a lot of them failed the secon question: "Do you know how to clean?"
Common denominator? Born 1990 onwards, with parents making more than average wage. The kind of adults who will happily go into debt to buy all the appliances they "need" for their "lifestyle choices" because "the first three years there are no payments and no interest, that's better than a bank loan!"...
Glad I never opted to become a math teacher, I'd have daily aneurysms.
There is a movie I saw in which the king’s fort is under attack by forces battering down the door of the fortress. The king is up in his tower watching. He turns to his son and the son’s gay lover and sneeringly asks them for advice. The lover misses his sarcasm and gives him some whereupon the king grabs him by the shirt and throws him out the window to the stone courtyard below. Is this what you mean?
HAHAH, this video is genius. Spot on!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGvrmltfMrA
Oh, Eric, bless you! I just posted this, too! I remortgaged the house after watching this. Even now, the tears stream down as I watch...the need is so great.
You care. 🥲 You really care.
🤣😆😂
😂
Not a snowball's chance in he🏒🏒! F them all!
I have three worthless college degrees. Not one employer ever asked to see my diplomas. Now every prospective employer requires to see my Walgreens "papers".
This is the world we have made.
The first useful thing I've seen on TikTok in quite a while.
oohhh...... sooo, you see the tiktok..... i understand...... please, can you tell me more?
(sushing: sweetie, smile, walk backwards, fetch me the bat)
I wish I did not know anyone about whom this video speaks. Ouch! Hitting kinda close to home, Bad Cat!
Knew this broad that got a BS in Anthropology. There's nothing you can do with a BS in Anthropology. I wish I had a dime for every minute I had to be polite and listen to her bitch about not being able to find a job "in her field." In a rural area in the Midwest. 🙄 I soooo wanted to scream at her, "Get a useful degree." She was the sister-in-law of a good friend.....I kept my mouth shut. 😢
the problem with degrees is they aren't in trophy format
Trust me, it'll all get better when they finally get rid of that nasty, racist "testing" business! It's BS!!
Trophies would be to lofty. I am thinking participation award format.
Diploma?
That's pretty much what most of them amount to.
All the money the Fed has ever printed would not be enough to snap these entitled babies out of their delusions.
That is why they must starve first. The collapse of a great civilization is under way. Its plausible that the fastest way out is a war and purge of the entitled, the fat and the lazy, which will come eventually anyhow. Of course, starting this war is immoral as it gets, so what ends up happening is a slow decay.
I concur. My gut/intuition or whatever one may call it has been telling me the same for months. I do believe it will all turn around eventually, but it will be a slow and painful road for all.
I've often wondered how that would pan out. I think they'll find out in the next few years unfortunately - society seems to be heading towards volatile times.
They'll just surrender. Then spill their guts. Hopefully, they'll kill them.
They couldn't stand up to a stiff breeze. They might be able to stay on their feet if a slight draft pushed against them.
We're screwed
I ain't woke and I'm not fighting for these people either. I'd be more inclined to shoot leftists burning down my city than Russians invading a country they've been clashing with for centuries.
😂🤣😂🤣
And I despise the people that "raised" them.
Mortality among millennials ages 25-44, like the bearded, tattooed, ear plugged version of a man in the picture, is up 84%. Thank you, clot shot.
49, proud genXer, unvaxxed. saved by the bell, dodging the bullet. phew!
let them eat bugs >:)
Co-worker of mine, 30 y/o male, just caught cancer. Yes, vaxxed.
What type of cancer? My uncle has a bad lymphoma and my 39 year old brother got bowel cancer. All vaxxed...
You know how it’s said that ‘history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes’?
In the 1960s, millions of young people dropped out, joined communes, advocated that everyone could live on just ‘peace and love’. Well, reality caught up with all of us eventually, and we went back to paths of productive employment (mostly) and worthwhile degrees.
Mine was in engineering.
Some kind of Reality will push millennials to ‘get real’ with life. The interesting mystery is, what will it be?
World War 3? Half their generation sick with vaccine-related adverse events? Hyperinflation followed by a Great Depression ten times worse than the 1930s?
I get the feeling that interesting times are coming, and millennials will be astonished that they were ever concerned about sushi and lattes - they’ll be busy loading ammo into weapons, or scrounging for anything edible from a garage can.
Then I will truly feel for their generation.
I don't think they'll make it as far as ammo loading. They will drop like moths. Like petals from flowers that bloom for a single day. Not all of them, of course. But quite a few. I only hope the loathsome vandals who desecrated the RAF Memorial last week in London will have the time to ponder what they did, before the monster they created destroys them.
Shame. I speculate this was perpetrated by “guests of the empire.”
It will take their enabling parents to kick them to the curb.
Will not be able to load ammo w/o a maglula; my donation.
You have one? Niiiice.
overstated. not believing millions went to communes. and not all or even most millennials are loser as portrayed. I have two daughters, millennials, who probably make more money than half the people commenting here. they are not in debt (I paid for most of their college). it is fun to flame other generations but it is cheap thrills. as a boomer I can recall how we were seen as spoiled, wastrels, lazy etc. oh, they are also purebloods.
I have two children, both millennials, who fit into the same categories you described. I didn't pay for their college, they did and they do not have any college debt and they much appreciate what the have EARNED. They do not intend to pay for their children's post secondary education as they found their experience to be a valuable like lesson that they should also teach their children. They would also make light of many of their millennial peers for the same reasons other here have. Probably get some cheap thrills from it to boot.
You are right - millions didn’t join communes, but millions certainly did ‘drop out’ and smoke a lot of pot.
I’m glad to hear that your children have turned out well, and you’re right, MOST of each generation does turn out okay. Most of us eventually get our heads together (although I certainly wish MY parents had helped pay for my degree). I think many people are just frustrated at having to pay (via Biden’s vote-buying) for things that we have had to pay for ourselves, like our college degrees. And for USELESS degrees, like ‘gender studies’! People wouldn’t mind investing in the next generations if it was money well spent!
agreed. In retirement I teach a couple of classes (Intro to Psych; I'm not a therapist bty). pretty good school overall. but the range of talent is very wide (no admission req, of course). 30% won't finish 2 yrs I expect. Fewer will get thru 4 yr college. I sneak in a "commercial" occasionally about useful and "less so" degrees and trades. these kids now are not millennials technically. I aksed the other day who has ever worked on a car. 2 of 40--one was a young lady. :)
That is also something that we taught our children, how to change oil, filters, tires and other basic maintenance as well as learning to drive with a manual transmission. That last one got them some work transporting cars for dealers!
Everyone here in Germany has to learn to drive with a manual transmission. I never got a rental car anywhere in southern Europe with an automatic transmission so we really need that skill over here....
In some respects Americans are truly lazy. I love a stick shift. When I was younger, I felt like I was a part of the car.
A plague of old people ailments like heart disease will assail them this decade. They will love their new victimhood status, once they finally embrace it. They will be bitterer…they will elect leaders who will demand more laborers support them for the rest of their lives. Zoomers will deny them this. Imported peons will turn on them. Avocado Apocalypse!!!
Or these "poor souls" (lol) can be urged to do the same thing they always tell us life long blue collar workers to do when our middle class jobs get shut down: "Learn to code".
Morse code? ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄
We'll need Morse code to communicate by short wave after the nukes arrive. 😉
Dah di dah dit Dah dah di dah
I only know S.O.S.
There's a page around here somewhere with the letters, but I didn't ever learn them.
😂 Hello, is there anybody out there?
No. --- That's too many letters to be: dah di dah dit dah dah dit dah
Or, if we don't play our cards right, after Big Brother takes over...
You mean like now? 😏
LMAO!
Thank you! I was afraid nobody would get it!
Well played madame. 👍
Brilliant! Background music makes it so ASPCA, I was waiting to see crying puppies in the snow. Where do I pay?!
YOU REALLY GOTTA APPRECIATE THE MUSIC! IT MADE ME CRY!😪😪😪😭
Hey Porge, where’s your school spirit?
Rah rah ,Cis boom bah go school!!!!!!😁😁🤣🤣
Put the ball, in the thing, yah yah yah!!!
Lol!
"Let's not fix the problem and take money away from colleges" Brilliant. Thank you, Gato!:)
I need to shake that creator's hand.
It was some malign creativity, for sure!
Left me all glowy.
IKR?!
We'll never have SCTV again but must manage as best we can.
In lieu of financial donation a copy of el gato's classic "in praise of lawn darts" would be helpful!
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-lawn-darts
My sig oth (born 1943) remembers carrying his rifle to school. All the kids in the Gun Club did the same. It was no big deal.
Dude in a tie photo, that is totally a girls cut shirt!
Hilarious video!
They wear high-water jeans too!
Do you think they're aware that tattoos and humanities degrees are permanent?
Actually, with enough money, tattoos can be removed. The pervasive stench of those degrees however...
I never got the tattoo thing. Here in Tennessee tattoos are de rigueur. The worst thing is otherwise very attractive women war painted top to bottom.
The phenomenon reminds me of an old Richard Guindon cartoon from the late '70s where these two old guys are sitting there with drooping nose and earrings, and sagging tattoos with the caption reading, "Oh, I see you were an idiot in the 70s, too" or something along that line.
Friend of mine used to have his own tattoo-parlour, including piercings and stuff like suspension and such.
One thing he balked at was hipsters and local wiggers and kebab-technicians wanting russian gang & prison tattoos.
LOL. I nearly fell off my chair. That is funny as heck.
There was a hairdresser at place where I used to have my hair cut who had a tear drop tattoo on his face. When I was feeling particularly obnoxious I used to ask him how many people he killed as a hair stylist.
By Heimdal's nine mothers, how stupid can one get?
Funniest tattoo-mishap I've ever seen was more than 30 years ago. A guy had his own name tattooed on a scroll overlaying a rose.
Imagine his discomfort when men started trying to pick him up at the nude only outdoor bath he frequented.
How about those cool Japanese and Chinese characters that translate to "gullible white boy" -?
My prescient partner invested in stock for tattoo-removing machines. It's just a matter of time...
Penalty for fake tattoos in the Russian Underworld is death. So probably prudent not to get involved in “Stolen Valor” scenarios. If you are tattooed as a thief you are “honor bound” to make your way as a thief… same for a hit man. If you recognize no rules on your personal sovereignty you may advertise with a five-pointed star over the heart or on the knees.
Hence why my friend balked at doing those - some idiot sports what he thinks makes him "cool" and the real deal takes umbrage, it may well splatter others too.
He calls tattoos on the face and hands "I never wanna work"-marks.
Fascinating. And naturally I'm not even remotely curious about how you know all this.
The Chinese gangs on the West Coast and in the Kingdom of Hawai'i in the mid to late 19th century had some daunting rules. I have held a copy of one of their handbooks, which were in English as well as Chinese. Just about every little transgression was punished by death, often in extremely slow and nasty ways, and would include your family. And tattoos were a very big deal. And people think gangs today are scary.
Yes, probably not a good idea to get involved with “stolen valor” gang tattoos. In the Russian Underworld a counterfeit tattoo wins the death penalty. If your tattoos say you are a thief, you are honor-bound to make your way in the world as a thief. Same for a hit man. I think the exception is a five-pointed star on the heart or knees. That means you declare you follow nobody’s rules about anything.
What about those gosh darn man buns?
Worst ever imo. That's all I saw last time I was in Nashville.
Nashville? OMG what the hell is happening to Nashville? Pretty f@cking sad! IMO.
They totally woked-out over the last 15 years
Man bun still sounds like a pastry to me.
Or the worst named Marvel/DC super"hero".
They are pastries. Light and airy ones!
Here ya go, Ryan, just for you -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDFx1YOA5tI
haha
In defense of having long hair, yet confining it, he is correct - short hair is always on your neck. With long hair you can get it off the neck in hot weather and use it as a scarf in cold weather.
Seriously. Wtf!
Lol. Love ya girl.
You're good with these. Sorta like a savant...;]
The Man Bun/B.A. in Gender Studies combo is still a thing in my former northern suburb. I used to see these guys working as bartenders at hip pubs shilling I.P.A. or baristas in the local Starbucks. Of course, they're also in a band or dabble in IT. There's a song by The Dandy Warhols called "Bohemian Like You" that captures the ethos brilliantly, sans the Man Bun:
https://youtu.be/CU3mc0yvRNk
Exactly, but they think they're as hot as thousand July's
What kills me here in NorCal are the women "of a certain age" - and we're talking the majority - who run out and get a new tattoo every time they see a new wrinkle. Talk about mutton dressed as lamb...
How abouts the tramp stamp? That started happening when I was in college in the early 90's.
One of the best criteria to avoid girls with potential STD's....... sorry
It's handy, isn't it?
"As a person who taught at Sarah Lawrence College for thirty-eight years, I can't tell you what I've seen in the way of the transformation of the erotic morality of young women. Things are different, that's all." - Joseph Campbell, "Pathways to Bliss", 2004
They don't seem very blissful or even happy to me.
🙌 Oh, Praise the Lord, Ryan! I thought I was the only person on Earth that was still bothered by high-waters. Who wants to see their ugly shoes, socks and ankles?
A friend of mine wrote the following poem in Junior High School for an assignment (The teacher had a sense of humor. She got an A.):
The floods are gone.
The rivers are dry.
Why do you wear,
Your pants so high?
Jill Hayes, author
They're called manpris!
Hahaha
Here's an idea. Offer to cancel the debt.
If the debtor first completes 10 years military service as front line infantry in the US next invasion.
Too much?
If I were king, they'd be first against the wall.
Total liability.
King Gardner does not balk at weeding out the fleurs du mal of his kingdom!
A little more serious, surely these people can be salvaged?
Opportunity cost imo
Could well be, could well be.
I'm very much stuck on the notion of community being a product of having to work together for mutual survival, where the obnoxious, spoilt and narcissistic eliminate themselves by being shut out by the ones managing to subjugate their egos and put their shoulder to the wheel.
On the other hand, people like me always used to complain us in pol sci and sociology weren't allowed to do large-scale behaviouristic experiements on humans, so the data that can be gathered from 1990 onwards will quite possibly be a tremendous boon to future social engineers.
Whether that is a good thing or not...
Let me sum it up; most of the people who work for me are in the millennial and Gen Z crowd.
Interview process is easy:
Rule out for pussy's.
So....none of them get hired, right?
You'd probably get right along with a friend of mine who managed a McDonalds for some 10+ years. Managed meaning he did all the paperwork, all the admin stuff an had to man the counter or kitchen too on top.
His interview question: "How many times did you have to burn yourself on the stove as a kid?"
Amazingly, a lot of people answered more than [1]. Even more Amazingly, a lot of them failed the secon question: "Do you know how to clean?"
Common denominator? Born 1990 onwards, with parents making more than average wage. The kind of adults who will happily go into debt to buy all the appliances they "need" for their "lifestyle choices" because "the first three years there are no payments and no interest, that's better than a bank loan!"...
Glad I never opted to become a math teacher, I'd have daily aneurysms.
There is a movie I saw in which the king’s fort is under attack by forces battering down the door of the fortress. The king is up in his tower watching. He turns to his son and the son’s gay lover and sneeringly asks them for advice. The lover misses his sarcasm and gives him some whereupon the king grabs him by the shirt and throws him out the window to the stone courtyard below. Is this what you mean?
Presuming you refer to that utterly exquisite scene in Braveheart. Is similar to what you describe.
Musta been. A tough-love lesson from Dad on how to be a King.