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Idjit

Idjit

HOPEFUL

I'm lost

MAR 14, 2006 02:32 PM

Jesus. There's nothing that pisses me off more than people who start a thread, and then don't have the balls to go with it once it's loosed. Say what you mean, mean what you say. Take the inevitable snide remarks for what they are, learn your lessons, move on.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

MAR 14, 2006 02:37 PM

Shalome said:

Coi said:
Since when are people born in 1984 part of Generation X?? confused



They're... uh... not.

http://www.answers.com/topic/generation-x

Baby Boomers
More than 76 million baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 in the U.S. Older baby boomers were raised without desktop computers, and many did not even have TVs as children.

Generation X
Refers to persons born in the 1960s and 1970s. The name was coined as a result of a study of young people's attitudes in England in 1964 by Jane Deverson. The generation X period saw the rise of hippies and countercultures across the Western world. By the time older gen-Xers became teenagers, the personal computer revolution had begun.

Generation Y
Generation Y refers to people born in the 1980s and 1990s. In Western cultures, they were brought up entirely in the age of personal computers and electronic gadgets. Younger gen-Xers and all generation Y children were brought up in the thick of it.





::edit:: Huh. Wikipedia defines it as "Generation X, the period roughly between 1964 and 1984" -- which strikes me as really, really broad. The previous cut-offs I've seen were anywhere between 1975 and 1980.

[Edited on Mar 14, 2006 by Shalome]


I was born in 77 and I was always under the impression that I was not an X-er.

trilobyte

trilobyte

Black Rock City, NV
February 2003

MAR 14, 2006 02:37 PM

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHA....

This is at least the second or third time you've posted a thread and then edited out your original post when people got on your case. To me, that's even more annoying than being an attention whore in the first place. Here, I'll do the math for you (ATTN WHORE + COWARD = EVEN LAMER).

If you can't bear people coming down on you for posting something, perhaps you should reconsider starting the threads in the first place.

~Trilo~

trilobyte

trilobyte

Black Rock City, NV
February 2003

MAR 14, 2006 02:38 PM

Idjiit said:
Jesus. There's nothing that pisses me off more than people who start a thread, and then don't have the balls to go with it once it's loosed. Say what you mean, mean what you say. Take the inevitable snide remarks for what they are, learn your lessons, move on.


bingo

~Trilo~

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

MAR 14, 2006 02:40 PM

Subrosa said:

Shalome said:

Coi said:
Since when are people born in 1984 part of Generation X?? confused



They're... uh... not.

http://www.answers.com/topic/generation-x

Baby Boomers
More than 76 million baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 in the U.S. Older baby boomers were raised without desktop computers, and many did not even have TVs as children.

Generation X
Refers to persons born in the 1960s and 1970s. The name was coined as a result of a study of young people's attitudes in England in 1964 by Jane Deverson. The generation X period saw the rise of hippies and countercultures across the Western world. By the time older gen-Xers became teenagers, the personal computer revolution had begun.

Generation Y
Generation Y refers to people born in the 1980s and 1990s. In Western cultures, they were brought up entirely in the age of personal computers and electronic gadgets. Younger gen-Xers and all generation Y children were brought up in the thick of it.





::edit:: Huh. Wikipedia defines it as "Generation X, the period roughly between 1964 and 1984" -- which strikes me as really, really broad. The previous cut-offs I've seen were anywhere between 1975 and 1980.

[Edited on Mar 14, 2006 by Shalome]


I was born in 77 and I was always under the impression that I was not an X-er.



Same here. Or, if I was, it was on the tangential fringe of being an X-er.

But 1984? I mean, dear fucking christ, people born in 1984 were 9 or 10 when Kurt Cobain killed himself...

trilobyte

trilobyte

Black Rock City, NV
February 2003

MAR 14, 2006 02:44 PM

Shalome said:
But 1984? I mean, dear fucking christ, people born in 1984 were 9 or 10 when Kurt Cobain killed himself...


And may have been conceived while their parents were boning to "The Safety Dance" biggrin

~Trilo~

MisterSatan

MisterSatan

Portland, OR
August 2002

MAR 14, 2006 02:48 PM

trilobyte said:

Shalome said:
But 1984? I mean, dear fucking christ, people born in 1984 were 9 or 10 when Kurt Cobain killed himself...


And may have been conceived while their parents were boning to "The Safety Dance" biggrin

~Trilo~


Doesn't sound very safe to me.

trilobyte

trilobyte

Black Rock City, NV
February 2003

MAR 14, 2006 02:54 PM

MisterSatan said:

trilobyte said:

Shalome said:
But 1984? I mean, dear fucking christ, people born in 1984 were 9 or 10 when Kurt Cobain killed himself...


And may have been conceived while their parents were boning to "The Safety Dance" biggrin

~Trilo~


Doesn't sound very safe to me.


That's why they end up starting threads like this... (hell, it's a major win when one of 'em doesn't have to wear a helmet!)

Now the kids conceived to the sounds of The Eurythmics... an entirely different class of people!

~Trilo~

thorr74

thorr74

Sylvan Lake, AB
December 2004

MAR 14, 2006 03:01 PM

Friedhamster said:
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[Edited on Mar 14, 2006 by Friedhamster]



A serious response.....editing your post was kinda Lame....but I will tell you starting any thread regarding religion in SG (unless mocking it from the beginning) is usually a bad idea and don't expect any serious responses (except from me apparently).
I think it sucks you can't...but it is what it is.

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

MAR 14, 2006 03:02 PM

thorr74 said:

Friedhamster said:
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[Edited on Mar 14, 2006 by Friedhamster]



A serious response.....editing your post was kinda Lame....but I will tell you starting any thread regarding religion in SG (unless mocking it from the beginning) is usually a bad idea and don't expect any serious responses (except from me apparently).
I think it sucks you can't...but it is what it is.



It wasn't actually about religion.

thorr74

thorr74

Sylvan Lake, AB
December 2004

MAR 14, 2006 03:32 PM

Shalome said:

thorr74 said:

Friedhamster said:
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[Edited on Mar 14, 2006 by Friedhamster]



A serious response.....editing your post was kinda Lame....but I will tell you starting any thread regarding religion in SG (unless mocking it from the beginning) is usually a bad idea and don't expect any serious responses (except from me apparently).
I think it sucks you can't...but it is what it is.



It wasn't actually about religion.



That the way I read it....How many people were brought up a certain way (his example was Christian) and have moved away from that label...yeah he used a bunch of other examples of labels though.
Anyways...the title and his example of religion seemed to me to be part of the reason it wasn't taken seriously.....just one guys opinion.

Paul9000

Paul9000

Monterey, CA
November 2004

MAR 14, 2006 03:54 PM

Tough to discuss since the original post was removed but here's part of it I salvaged from my first reply.

Friedhamster said:
I'm wondering how many others, like myself, grew up in a home and have strayed from the 'path.' Be it christain, protestant or catholic, or anything else. Who else saw the utter hypocrisy that is an orginized religion? Who now listens to say... NIN after growing up listening to... oh god knows what crap?



He specifically asked about 'organized religion' and moving away from it.

How did this get misconstrued as a "label" question?

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

MAR 14, 2006 04:05 PM

Paul9000 said:
Tough to discuss since the original post was removed but here's part of it I salvaged from my first reply.

Friedhamster said:
I'm wondering how many others, like myself, grew up in a home and have strayed from the 'path.' Be it christain, protestant or catholic, or anything else. Who else saw the utter hypocrisy that is an orginized religion? Who now listens to say... NIN after growing up listening to... oh god knows what crap?



He specifically asked about 'organized religion' and moving away from it.

How did this get misconstrued as a "label" question?




Because in the entire rest of the post, he talked about punk/emo/"fringe" labels and what he was compared to what other people called him.

Paul9000

Paul9000

Monterey, CA
November 2004

MAR 14, 2006 04:22 PM

Shalome said:

Paul9000 said:
Tough to discuss since the original post was removed but here's part of it I salvaged from my first reply.

Friedhamster said:
I'm wondering how many others, like myself, grew up in a home and have strayed from the 'path.' Be it christain, protestant or catholic, or anything else. Who else saw the utter hypocrisy that is an orginized religion? Who now listens to say... NIN after growing up listening to... oh god knows what crap?



He specifically asked about 'organized religion' and moving away from it.

How did this get misconstrued as a "label" question?




Because in the entire rest of the post, he talked about punk/emo/"fringe" labels and what he was compared to what other people called him.


Sure, I belive his questions was something like, "I was born Christian and now I'm punk/emo etc."

Oh, ok, now I see how this was read as a topic on labels.

What I think he meant to share was, "I was born in a Christian environment. I was raised with Christian values. As I've gotten older I think the church is a bunch of hypocrites and I no longer hold those values. And because my values have changed I now express myself differently."

Overall, it was about leaving Christianity.

I thought this was a great thing to share. Myself, born and raised in the buckle of the Bible Belt, the church has a fucking death grip on your soul. Or so you think when you are growing up. It's a tough personal struggle to leave.

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