(03-15-2017, 01:16 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:Usually it is excuse making, but sometimes it isn't.

I don't know, but if they weren't wearing a burka we all know men can't help themselves.

Whoa!  Whoa!  Not cool, man!  Rape is NEVER funny.  I was thinking more like this. 

Wow, that got dark.

Quote:What do you mean got dark?  You trying to say something?

(03-15-2017, 01:16 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:Usually it is excuse making, but sometimes it isn't.

I don't know, but if they weren't wearing a burka we all know men can't help themselves.

Whoa!  Whoa!  Not cool, man!  Rape is NEVER funny.

(03-15-2017, 04:19 AM)Galen Wrote: I remember the seventies and that was a decade I could have just as soon done without.  The only thing Eric the Obtuse remembers about the sixties and seventies is that he had a good time but he is lacking the details due to all of the recreational pharmaceuticals.  I rather liked the eighties and the nineties weren't too bad but you got the twenty-first century right.

(03-15-2017, 05:53 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 04:19 AM)Galen Wrote: I remember the seventies and that was a decade I could have just as soon done without.  The only thing Eric the Obtuse remembers about the sixties and seventies is that he had a good time but he is lacking the details due to all of the recreational pharmaceuticals.  I rather liked the eighties and the nineties weren't too bad but you got the twenty-first century right.

Galen,  geeze I suppose you're not a Jonser then. Fuck , man. I'm a 1962 cohort who enjoyed the fuck out of recreational pharmaceuticals. So here's Rag's attitudes wrt decades.

(03-16-2017, 03:04 AM)Galen Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 05:53 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 04:19 AM)Galen Wrote: I remember the seventies and that was a decade I could have just as soon done without.  The only thing Eric the Obtuse remembers about the sixties and seventies is that he had a good time but he is lacking the details due to all of the recreational pharmaceuticals.  I rather liked the eighties and the nineties weren't too bad but you got the twenty-first century right.

Galen,  geeze I suppose you're not a Jonser then. Fuck , man. I'm a 1962 cohort who enjoyed the fuck out of recreational pharmaceuticals. So here's Rag's attitudes wrt decades.

No, I am not since being 1965 vintage.  By the time my contemporaries started using weed the seventies were winding down.  My teenage years started while Carter was still president which was a real downer.  I expect by that time you were zoned out like the Boomers so you may have missed that.  Life was one big exercise in damage control around the nominal adults at the time.

(03-15-2017, 12:45 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 12:33 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(03-11-2017, 09:39 AM)Galen Wrote: If people are not allowed to experience the consequences of their decisions then they will have no clue as to what is right or wrong.

Yeah, but sometimes sh*t happens to people that they had no choice in and they still pay.  Your employer goes bankrupt and there goes your job, you are healthy and eat nutritional food and exercise and figure you can ride it out without health insurance until you get a new job, but then you find that lump...

Gee kinda makes you think that health insurance should follow the patient and not be based on their employment status.  I wonder who has posted about that in this thread before.

(03-16-2017, 11:03 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 05:53 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Galen,  geeze I suppose you're not a Jonser then. Fuck , man. I'm a 1962 cohort who enjoyed the fuck out of recreational pharmaceuticals. So here's Rag's attitudes wrt decades.

1960's :  Awesome, grade school Rags wore clover jewelry, like his peers.
1970's : Do Drugs.  That was the message and yeah, it was really fun.
1980's : Do Career. : Do shit to make lots of $$$$$.  Job/poker/ride the stock market escalator to the top:





Yeah, I don't give a fuck the "Jefferson's were of "color", hell, I was movin' to the top in the 1980's/1990's.
"nuf said, man. 

*Rags is of assorted races, so, fuck man.  I guess I'm "of color" as well.

2000's:  Fucking outsourcing fad started.  You know, Galen, I'd love to fuck over the CEOL's and outsourcers.  Taxes, burn at the stake, shoot with gun, etc.  I hate CEO's and outsourcers with a pasion.

2010's.  Fucking sucking green donkey dicks decade of shit/corporate Lords/CEO's need some lead.

I'm not a shrink but you seem to have this thing about wanting to be a Boomer. You either knowingly or unknowingly add about 5 years to your real age. 1960s? Grade school? OK, you went into Kindergarten fall of '67 (unless a very late in  1962 birth in which case it might have been fall of '68). You went into 1st grade in fall of '68. So, you had 2-1/2 school years "in the 1960s."



Hell, I'm only year behind you.

There might have been a few kids doing drugs when I was in 6th grade (1974 - 75). If so, I was not directly aware of it.

7th grade was where "the burnouts" really started to become "a thing" in terms of student subcultures. They would sneak off campus into the adjacent park, a typical Bay Area one with some nice (planted) Redwood circles you could duck into. Now, to be honest, I wanted to be a burn out but I was not one to cut class or take bong hits during school hours. I loved learning. My own "first weed" would have to wait until very late in my Freshman Year of HS. In any case, when I reached 7th grade, I'd say a single digit percentage of your cohort (8th graders) were doing bongs (or any thing in terms of drugs). That was the 1975 - 76 school year, half way through the 70s.

Let's say the typical stoner really got going Freshman year. For you, that was '76 - 77. So, yeah, you probably did some drugs during the mid to late 70s. Probably more during the 80s in your case.

(03-17-2017, 04:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'd say distrust of authority is also characteristic of Boomers; at any rate when they were younger.

(03-17-2017, 04:51 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-17-2017, 04:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'd say distrust of authority is also characteristic of Boomers; at any rate when they were younger.

You're not helping my cause there.  I guess a yen for noisy music may work?

(03-16-2017, 11:03 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 05:53 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 04:19 AM)Galen Wrote: I remember the seventies and that was a decade I could have just as soon done without.  The only thing Eric the Obtuse remembers about the sixties and seventies is that he had a good time but he is lacking the details due to all of the recreational pharmaceuticals.  I rather liked the eighties and the nineties weren't too bad but you got the twenty-first century right.

Galen,  geeze I suppose you're not a Jonser then. Fuck , man. I'm a 1962 cohort who enjoyed the fuck out of recreational pharmaceuticals. So here's Rag's attitudes wrt decades.

1960's :  Awesome, grade school Rags wore clover jewelry, like his peers.
1970's : Do Drugs.  That was the message and yeah, it was really fun.
1980's : Do Career. : Do shit to make lots of $$$$$.  Job/poker/ride the stock market escalator to the top:





Yeah, I don't give a fuck the "Jefferson's were of "color", hell, I was movin' to the top in the 1980's/1990's.
"nuf said, man. 

*Rags is of assorted races, so, fuck man.  I guess I'm "of color" as well.

2000's:  Fucking outsourcing fad started.  You know, Galen, I'd love to fuck over the CEOL's and outsourcers.  Taxes, burn at the stake, shoot with gun, etc.  I hate CEO's and outsourcers with a pasion.

2010's.  Fucking sucking green donkey dicks decade of shit/corporate Lords/CEO's need some lead.

I'm not a shrink but you seem to have this thing about wanting to be a Boomer. You either knowingly or unknowingly add about 5 years to your real age. 1960s? Grade school? OK, you went into Kindergarten fall of '67 (unless a very late in  1962 birth in which case it might have been fall of '68). You went into 1st grade in fall of '68. So, you had 2-1/2 school years "in the 1960s."

(03-18-2017, 04:22 AM)Galen Wrote:

(03-16-2017, 11:03 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 05:53 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 04:19 AM)Galen Wrote: I remember the seventies and that was a decade I could have just as soon done without.  The only thing Eric the Obtuse remembers about the sixties and seventies is that he had a good time but he is lacking the details due to all of the recreational pharmaceuticals.  I rather liked the eighties and the nineties weren't too bad but you got the twenty-first century right.

Galen,  geeze I suppose you're not a Jonser then. Fuck , man. I'm a 1962 cohort who enjoyed the fuck out of recreational pharmaceuticals. So here's Rag's attitudes wrt decades.

1960's :  Awesome, grade school Rags wore clover jewelry, like his peers.
1970's : Do Drugs.  That was the message and yeah, it was really fun.
1980's : Do Career. : Do shit to make lots of $$$$$.  Job/poker/ride the stock market escalator to the top:





Yeah, I don't give a fuck the "Jefferson's were of "color", hell, I was movin' to the top in the 1980's/1990's.
"nuf said, man. 

*Rags is of assorted races, so, fuck man.  I guess I'm "of color" as well.

2000's:  Fucking outsourcing fad started.  You know, Galen, I'd love to fuck over the CEOL's and outsourcers.  Taxes, burn at the stake, shoot with gun, etc.  I hate CEO's and outsourcers with a pasion.

2010's.  Fucking sucking green donkey dicks decade of shit/corporate Lords/CEO's need some lead.

I'm not a shrink but you seem to have this thing about wanting to be a Boomer. You either knowingly or unknowingly add about 5 years to your real age. 1960s? Grade school? OK, you went into Kindergarten fall of '67 (unless a very late in  1962 birth in which case it might have been fall of '68). You went into 1st grade in fall of '68. So, you had 2-1/2 school years "in the 1960s."

I am not really surprised by this.  Unlike most of Generation X he gets to participate in the tail end of the fun part but then gets to spend the rest of his life in the shitty parts the Boomers left behind.

(03-18-2017, 12:25 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-17-2017, 04:51 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-17-2017, 04:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'd say distrust of authority is also characteristic of Boomers; at any rate when they were younger.

You're not helping my cause there.  I guess a yen for noisy music may work?

Not sure what you mean.

Now I'm opposing Trump. Anti-authority as you can get. 

Voted for Hill. Also anti-authority, because anti-Trump.

Anti-authority is to go for quiet music.

YMMV

Eric

(03-18-2017, 06:24 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-18-2017, 04:22 AM)Galen Wrote: I am not really surprised by this.  Unlike most of Generation X he gets to participate in the tail end of the fun part but then gets to spend the rest of his life in the shitty parts the Boomers left behind.

? Why would the 1980's/1990's be shitty.  Like I said, those were the $/party/poker junket years.  Can't complains.
The only shitty stuff is the 4T.

(03-18-2017, 04:22 AM)Galen Wrote: I am not really surprised by this.  Unlike most of Generation X he gets to participate in the tail end of the fun part but then gets to spend the rest of his life in the shitty parts the Boomers left behind.

(03-18-2017, 02:02 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: So voting for the moat status quo/business as usual presidential candidate in the last 50 years is now "anti-authority".

The TDS is strong with Eric.  So strong I may need a booster shot.  But it does prove one thing conclusively, he has no idea who is and who is not the the Establishment. 

1. It is not clear he has united the country.  He has made a big splash for sure, but we seem to be as divided as ever.
   
2. The ideas are not new.  He is for the most part pushing the unravelling memes of cut taxes, cut services, and assume the government is the problem not the solution.  If 'establishment' means doing the same thing as has we have been all along, it is possible to say Trump is establishment.  (This isn't to say Hillary wasn't also establishment.  I don't think she would have made a Grey Campion pushing a strong values shifting regeneracy either.  Bernie, maybe.)
   
3. It's not clear that his 'new' values and ideas will work.  If borrow and spend trickle down does what it usually does, we will at best have another false regeneracy.  It's hard to transform the country when what you're trying to transform it into doesn't work.