Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for March 09, 2023

wisdom

And us old folks ( The Greatest Generation) hate all of you. Grumble, grumble…….

You got big fingers.

Hating entire groups of people is a waste of energy.

I don’t hate millenials. They’re good comedy relief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI

More of a generational gripe than a gap.

The setting for the movie “Soylent Green” took place in a dystopian 2022. It hasn’t yet come to pass — as far as we know or admit.

By wearing green, is Aunty inadvertently signaling she is ready to be “harvested.” I pity the person who gets the batch made from her Boomer cadaver. It would be sour and bitter by turns. And like hardtack, one might break a tooth on it.

So, Millennials — pass her by! Spare her and spare others a bad case of indigestion!

Hate is such a strong word

Oh, I don’t know about that, Auntie.

Millennials are waiting for us to get out of the way. We refuse to die on time and we refuse to give up.

After reading history after history after history—and living through 70+ years of changes—I can’t see that one generation has any call to “hate” another generation.

As the old verse says, “There’s so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us, to talk about the rest of us.”

Can’t we all just get a bong?

(˘ ͜ʖ ˘)

Does anyone actually hate anyone? From my experience, the only young folks I know well enough to get up the energy to even dislike are my own grandkids. I don’t think anyone born after the turn of the century other than them are even more than vaguely aware that I exist. I do feel sorry for them. When I graduated from high school in 1962, my husband and I bought a three bedroom, two bath house and two decent cars within the next few years, on what he was making on a job he got right out of high school. Most of the guys I graduated with did the same. I didn’t work, few women did, and those who did usually chose to do so. Now, it isn’t really a choice for most women, unless they don’t mind living in poverty. When I decided to become a teacher, my first quarter’s tuition at Southern Illinois University was $79, and we rented any books we needed for $20. Anyone could go to college with just a part time job to pay for it, and without piling up a lifetime of debt. Since that time, the GNP has skyrocketed and the American worker is acknowledged to be the most productive in the world. But, most of the value they are producing is going to the top 1%. who use that money to buy politicians who make laws that insure that they keep making most of the money, which they can use to buy more politicians, who will write more laws so they can make more money to buy more politicians and etc etc etc. The Middle Class standard of living is declining, and a college graduate hasn’t anywhere near as easy a time as we had with just high school. We produce the highest quality goods on earth, and we can’t afford to buy them. A young person told me a while back that I couldn’t really understand why their generation was so angry. What I actually don’t understand is why they aren’t rioting in the streets.

Don’t drag us into your hating, I hate when you do that.

Hatred : The Universal Solvent

I’m defiantly a boomer (username a big clue) I do not hate any subsequent generation, I’m disappointed by mankind as a whole.

This kind of thing burns me up, and I place the majority of blame on the media. Finding fault with a whole generation tends to snowball as the media emphasizes the negatives. Negative stereotyping just causes division, and it should stop.

I am a boomer who raised a member of the generation between Boomers and Millennials. I raised a Gen X. I don’t hate any generation. I prefer to dislike people individually, who actually deserve it.

local news in japan this week featured stories about 1) a 79-yo hunter who blasted a car, mistaking it for a deer, 2) a 79-yo woman who asphyxiated when she, oops, knocked over her heater and set her apartment on fire, and 3) in news that has since gone viral worldwide, clueless young “sushi terrorists” filmed themselves licking communal condiment bottles and committing various other acts of vandalism at sushi shops. for the sake of brevity, i’ve omitted all the stories about youngsters and oldsters threatening each other with knives, smacking each other, and engaging in various other forms of mayhem. for whatever reason, the generations in between mainly seem to prefer sexual assault…

whatever generation you belong to, there’s plenty to love… ☺