I was born in 1998, I've lived in 2 centuries and 2 millennia too, so has anybody else over the age of 22
I was born in 1987, and I am fascinated by the immense differences between growing up in different decades. For you, I guess 9/11 and the insane transformation of the world that followed will be the same kind of memory that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the insane transformation of the world that followed is for me. The entire world changed, and it is difficult to even explain how everything was different before. Then with kids who were born in 2007/2008, the internet matured. When you grew up there wasn't really internet for 5-year-olds. Next decade, everyone is online all the time. It's a part of forming their earliest memories. And then today we have kids whose earliest memories are all Covid restrictions. If history hadn't ended before you were born, it would be fascinating to document this somehow.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but here goes:
I think the reason why boomers helped themselves to social programs and then voted them away is solely for "stolen valor" of the "bragging rights" that rightfully belong to milennials and gen Z.
What do boomers value as a personality type more than anything else? Toughness. Everything is about proving how tough they are.
After "winning" on easy mode, they voted to crank it up to "Dante must die" mode in hopes that people in other countries might be impressed at how well they're doing despite them not only living in hard mode by choice, but voting to make it harder and harder because "We Americans like to challenge ourselves, unlike you pansies!"
smh boomers claim to love capitalism yet complain about automation and concentration of production
You could order odd sodas that are uncommon today. Chocolate soda was pretty popular.
the syrup and the soda were two different things you mixed together. You can still mix soda today, but it's entirely different because you can only mix the end results, not the actual syrups.
Not to mention all the music from the 50s, 60s and 70s that is lost forever, that nobody will ever listen to again and that was just so much more available before piracy was a thing.
Lmao there's literally a post on that account bragging about drinking out of garden hoses
Where was grindcore, skramz and midwest emo in the 70s?
Exactly.
They all owe a heavy debt to 70s/early 80s metal, hardcore, proto- and post-punk tbf. On the other hand, Boomers had Disco and House, and they were so homophobic and racist that the banished it to Europe
Boomers acting like they were in the room while Cosi Fan Tutti was being written.
i bet they didn't even have 24/7 lo fi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to
Crying and shitting because I've never seen a soda fountain or been happy
8 decades? Uh, those guys are old. 4 decades? They're just not that cool. 5, 6 and 7 decades is the sweetspot.
There's blues-rock, which is pretty much all the music you'll ever want, slightly harder blues rock made by long haired guys for when you're having a whiskey in the man cave, and if you want to go crazy and "heady" there's noodly doodly rock for when you want to reminisce about smokin' a doob in 1975 and staring at a blacklight poster.
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8 decades you fucking hogs
(if you’re born just before a boundary, then since we’re just past another boundary you can be up to 18 years younger than your number of decades suggests; eg, 99 - 21 touches 4 decades, but you’re only 22)
It might be possible to be 19 years off if your 2021 birthday hasn’t happened yet
soda fountains
huh I wonder why boomers fixate on nostalgia for soda fountains so much?
ah, i see you are a comrade of culture and watch drew gooden as well :sicko-yes:
