[Ancient Drive]

grow up!

[qam1]

Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.

[LanPB01]

I’m 32. I guess whenever I start to question the accomplishments in my life, I can at least look at the people in this article and feel a whole lot better.

[pikachu]

Rosann Barr’s show was nicknamed -’two-thirty something’

[wideawake]

When I was 20, I thought that by the time I was 30 I would be married, have children, have a serious career, own my own home and have paid off my school loans.

Check, check, check, check, check.

It's not that hard.

[Frapster]

I turn 40 this November. My kids are ages 21, 14, 12, 10. People my age are, for the most part, do not have kids the same age as mine. I typically find that my friends parents are 5 to 10 years older than me.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

It was a stupid TV show. Most of us who were that age at that time had nothing in common with those dumb characters shown on it.

Much of this supposed generational conflict is just the juxtaposition of one artificial media-created image of one period with the artificial media created image from another period.

People change less in fundamentals over time than the mass media superficials would suggest.

[DuncanWaring]

Most parents bought their house in 1968 for $65,000, but it would go for $800,000 today...

They were also paying for that $65,000 house on one $10 per hour paycheck.

[T.Smith]

Everyone talked about how they were broke and don't have a family yet and their parents think they're a screw-up," she said of her subjects

Guess what? You are a screw-up.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I'm 38. 

I thought by 35 I'd have the entire planet cowering under my Iron Fist of Justice....so I'm a little behind on that.

Other than that, I'm right on track with what I want.  Life is good.

I am sick though, of listening to perpetual whiners who have a better standard of living than 90% of all the people in human history, prattle on and on and on about how terrible their life is.

It should be legal to smack those people.  I can't stand being in the same room with them.

 

[isaiah55version11_0]

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[PennsylvaniaMom]

I remember Thirtysomething. I watched it a few times...it annoyed me so I didn't watch it any more than that. If I recall the central couple (Hope and Michael? I am good at meaningless info) were whiny...and the 'realism' was that by TV standards they had angst, steretypical friends (the cheating male best friend; the frustrated stay at home mom; the single career driven female friend (Ellen?); and really messy 'sets' (to reflect the chaos in their lives?) Anyway...I just found it unentertaining and soapish.

[FightThePower!]

Wow, what a bunch of losers. I’m 33, my wife and I have great careers and investments. Not all of us are like that.

[stainlessbanner]

she received a gift certificate for a dating service.

take the hint

[kalee]

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[LongTimeMILurker]

I agree, they were mostly whiny stereotypical liberals with stereotypical liberal friends. They lived in Philadelphia, not the suburbs as I recall. Hope and Michael’s house was dilapidated as I recall, and they were fixing it up in one of those “gentrification” schemes so popular in that day. In reality, one brush with crime, and sometimes real human concern for their children, sent the Hopes and Michaels of the world out to the suburbs.

[LonePalm]

I'm growing older but not up.
My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck.
Let these winds of time blow over my head.
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
-- Jimmy Buffett

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[mo]

Doncha know! A vote for Hillarhea!! will cure what ails you!!Or just pay for an EcoGreen indulgence...buy carbon offsets and feel REALLY good!!

[Kevmo]

Everyone says, ‘Where’s my picket fence and RRSP?’

From Acronymfinder.com
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
RRSP Registered Retirement Savings Plan
RRSP Risk and Revenue Sharing Partner

[Drew68]

"Got no house, no wife, no kids, no car and 71 cents in my bank account. Not where I thought I'd be at 30 if you asked me when I was 20."

OK, I'll fess up. This was exactly where I was on the cusp of my 30th birthday. Now at 38, things have improved quite a bit but I did finally come to the realization that I'll never be a rock star. I still may churn out that best-selling novel, though! :-)