C@LAg said:

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we need a boomer sooner remover.


(the song, not the people).

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This thread delivers.

What are your feelings towards the dutch?

Bump in honor of the lt gov's comments

pdc093 said:

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Read elsewhere this is the term middle/high schoolers are using when talking about COVID-19.

That's mean.

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I for one am glad we can all rally around a cry to wipe Oklahoma off the map. Bunch of cheating land thieves!!!

Duncan Idaho said:

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Bump in honor of the lt gov's comments

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I think he should make the noblest of sacrifices and lick a doorknob to really jump start this economy.

Duncan Idaho said:

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Bump in honor of the lt gov's comments

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Sometimes old Danny Goeb the dumb radio shock jock can't help himself.

I like to call it "My estate is going to your Uncle".

Now they are saying gen x should be happy to die.

Quote:

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So, I'm in the danger zone. I would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working."

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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/489472-glenn-beck-id-rather-die-from-coronavirus-than-kill-the-country-from-economic

SeaHoss said:

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"So we can thank the boomers for the hippies. That snowballed everything."

Nah, the "Greatest Generation" gave us the hippies. My Marine Corps dad returned from the South Pacific in '46 and promptly knocked up my mom. My sister was born in '47. Full blown hippie in the 60's.

The boomers born in the 50's are cool and level headed.

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As I see it (born in late '58), there are at least 2 cohorts in the Boomers: those born in the late 40s to early 50s (such as my older siblings & cousins) who graduated high school and went on to college in the 60s to very early 70s (I call them the Early Boomers or First Wave Boomers); and then there are those of us born after the peak of the Boom ('57 to '60 or '61) who were in high school in the 1970s and entered college in the mid-to late '70s, graduating college in the early '80s (some demographers call us "Generation Jones" because we tend to be eclipsed by the Early Boomers). I would say that the cultural experience of Generation Jones was way different than that of the Early Boomers, particularly for men. e.g.: Did you have to sign up for Selective Service and then worry about being drafted and sent to Vietnam? Then you're an Early Boomer. Did you not have to sign up at all because you were born in '58 or '59 (or late '57)? You're Generation Jones.

Pretty sure 18 year old males are still REQUIRED to register for Selective Service.

pdc093 said:

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Pretty sure 18 year old males are still REQUIRED to register for Selective Service.

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Yes. Allow me to explain ...

The Military Selective Service Act expired in June 1973 (when I was 14). So when I turned 18 in October 1976, I was not required to register for Selective Service.

Then, on 2 July 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4771 (Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act) in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the previous year, retroactively re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18- to 26-year-old male citizens born on or after 1 January 1960. As a result, only men born between 29 March 1957 and 31 December 1959 were completely exempt from Selective Service registration. (and so, despite being 21 when Proclamation 4771 was signed, I didn't have to register ... )