NOT directed at YOU, @"EndtheMadnessNow"
Triggered? No, not really. However, as a 'Cusper' myself (to coin the words of the author), I do have some observations.
First off, what a Millennial and Gen Z load of utter bullshit! I could go line by line, but I won't. I do think this piece encapsulates exactly how Millennials and Gen Z'ers feel about everyone but themselves, and all generations but their own. In fact, you could group both together and call them the "Me!" generation. 'It's everyone else's fault'...is their slogan. They've spent their entire adult live's whining and finding people to blame for their own lack of responsibility and accountability.
Spend any time on the cesspool called Reddit and you can see this same theme over and over again until you choke (to death). It's a beehive of anti-boomers. Boomers are to blame for everything, if you pay any mind to them.
So, my rejoinder to the author of the quoted piece...
Who do you think built all this shit? Certainly not the Millennials; they're challenged to even pick up a hammer or a shovel, let alone know how to use it, and the Gen Z'ers don't even know what the fk a hammer or a shovel even is! Everything to them is..."Whaa, housing...whaa, jobs....whaa, prices...it's all their fault!"...from the comforts of their Mommy's basement. It's pathetic, and this piece just reeks of it. Paragraph after paragraph of..."It's all their fault! I have no responsibility for any of it. They did it, not me! It was them! And how would you act if you got handed a plate of shit like we've been handed?" Well, listen up, Buck-o...just exactly who's payin' the fkin' bills around this joint while you play video games down in the basement and bitch about everything and anything? Who paid for your tuition? Not you! No, we didn't let you take out a $500,000 loan and sell your soul to the Devil so you could go party in Fort Lauderdale twice a year, buy a bunch of senseless stuff, and be irresponsible (which you still are at 20-something). But that wasn't good enough? No, now you want to bitch about it. Oh, and those jobs? Yeah, well, those jobs involve getting your lazy ass up off the couch and going outside when it's cold out, or when it's hot out, or when it's raining, and working up a sweat (something you've never experienced). 'Influencer' wasn't a career path back then; there was no Internet (for you to go belly ache on Reddit). The old man would have put a boot dead square in my ass if I ever said I wanted to be a prostitute, and that's exactly what 'Influencers' are! But don't let me interrupt your OnlyFans time here.
And lets talk about something like cars for a moment, shall we? Our idea of a car was something with four wheels and ran barely well enough to get to work. Your idea of a "car" is a brand new Lexus, and anything short of this is categorically unacceptable and for "losers" (to your peers). We didn't buy cars from a dealer, we bought them from the guy down the road who had an old junker out behind his shed that we wrenched on every night just to keep it running well enough to, you guessed it, save us from having to walk to work (which we would have done, BTW). To you, cars are "too expensive". Damn straight they are! I can't even afford a Lexus today, let alone when I was 19! Get your head out of your ass!
Oh, and housing? Housing wasn't any more expensive then than it is now adjusted for inflation. From our perspective, housing was always expensive...that's why we had to have a JOB to afford it! Nobody gave us any of this stuff, we had to pay for it. And we ate lots of Ramen noodles too to make sure the rent got paid. Clubbing? We didn't even know what a club was...because we couldn't even think about affording something like that. The difference today is, you don't feel like you should have to pay for anything, that everything should just be given to you free of charge...so you can go to the club on Friday night, or pay for your precious cellular phone. That's not how it works! You want free? Go live in Russia! But you'll have to get a job there too, where the highest paid professional makes half what a McDonald's server makes today. Your choice.
And on the subject of recreational drugs; at least we took drugs that didn't kill us and grew in the ditch by the side of the road. We didn't go down the cleaning chemical aisle at Walmart and mix together all the stuff with skulls and crossbones on the label and then wait to see what happens.
All that aside, you can call your generation anything you want, but "Mop up" ain't it, because this would mean you'd actually have to pick up a mop and use it, something you never learned how to do because it's beneath your 'Influencer' ass. So, why don't you take a moment to put that gawd-forsaken phone down and pull your head out of your ass. Complaining about everything ain't gonna' make anything better for you, and it certainly won't for the generation which follows you. Which brings up another point...this generation you loathe so much? Yeah, we built the future for follow-on generations. What have you built? Besides a massive mountain of butthurt?
What's gonna' happen when we're no longer around to blame? Who ya' gonna' blame then?
Sincerely,
Your dad (who can still put a boot in your ass!), the true Cusper.
P.S. The dude who wrote that article is as far away from being a "Cusper" between Boomers and Gen X'ers as cats are different from ham sandwiches. The author is clearly a solid late Millennial or early Gen Z'er. If not, they're a liberal who don't have generational names; they've always been about blaming everyone else since the dawn of time.
Triggered? No, not really. However, as a 'Cusper' myself (to coin the words of the author), I do have some observations.
First off, what a Millennial and Gen Z load of utter bullshit! I could go line by line, but I won't. I do think this piece encapsulates exactly how Millennials and Gen Z'ers feel about everyone but themselves, and all generations but their own. In fact, you could group both together and call them the "Me!" generation. 'It's everyone else's fault'...is their slogan. They've spent their entire adult live's whining and finding people to blame for their own lack of responsibility and accountability.
Spend any time on the cesspool called Reddit and you can see this same theme over and over again until you choke (to death). It's a beehive of anti-boomers. Boomers are to blame for everything, if you pay any mind to them.
So, my rejoinder to the author of the quoted piece...
Who do you think built all this shit? Certainly not the Millennials; they're challenged to even pick up a hammer or a shovel, let alone know how to use it, and the Gen Z'ers don't even know what the fk a hammer or a shovel even is! Everything to them is..."Whaa, housing...whaa, jobs....whaa, prices...it's all their fault!"...from the comforts of their Mommy's basement. It's pathetic, and this piece just reeks of it. Paragraph after paragraph of..."It's all their fault! I have no responsibility for any of it. They did it, not me! It was them! And how would you act if you got handed a plate of shit like we've been handed?" Well, listen up, Buck-o...just exactly who's payin' the fkin' bills around this joint while you play video games down in the basement and bitch about everything and anything? Who paid for your tuition? Not you! No, we didn't let you take out a $500,000 loan and sell your soul to the Devil so you could go party in Fort Lauderdale twice a year, buy a bunch of senseless stuff, and be irresponsible (which you still are at 20-something). But that wasn't good enough? No, now you want to bitch about it. Oh, and those jobs? Yeah, well, those jobs involve getting your lazy ass up off the couch and going outside when it's cold out, or when it's hot out, or when it's raining, and working up a sweat (something you've never experienced). 'Influencer' wasn't a career path back then; there was no Internet (for you to go belly ache on Reddit). The old man would have put a boot dead square in my ass if I ever said I wanted to be a prostitute, and that's exactly what 'Influencers' are! But don't let me interrupt your OnlyFans time here.
And lets talk about something like cars for a moment, shall we? Our idea of a car was something with four wheels and ran barely well enough to get to work. Your idea of a "car" is a brand new Lexus, and anything short of this is categorically unacceptable and for "losers" (to your peers). We didn't buy cars from a dealer, we bought them from the guy down the road who had an old junker out behind his shed that we wrenched on every night just to keep it running well enough to, you guessed it, save us from having to walk to work (which we would have done, BTW). To you, cars are "too expensive". Damn straight they are! I can't even afford a Lexus today, let alone when I was 19! Get your head out of your ass!
Oh, and housing? Housing wasn't any more expensive then than it is now adjusted for inflation. From our perspective, housing was always expensive...that's why we had to have a JOB to afford it! Nobody gave us any of this stuff, we had to pay for it. And we ate lots of Ramen noodles too to make sure the rent got paid. Clubbing? We didn't even know what a club was...because we couldn't even think about affording something like that. The difference today is, you don't feel like you should have to pay for anything, that everything should just be given to you free of charge...so you can go to the club on Friday night, or pay for your precious cellular phone. That's not how it works! You want free? Go live in Russia! But you'll have to get a job there too, where the highest paid professional makes half what a McDonald's server makes today. Your choice.
And on the subject of recreational drugs; at least we took drugs that didn't kill us and grew in the ditch by the side of the road. We didn't go down the cleaning chemical aisle at Walmart and mix together all the stuff with skulls and crossbones on the label and then wait to see what happens.
All that aside, you can call your generation anything you want, but "Mop up" ain't it, because this would mean you'd actually have to pick up a mop and use it, something you never learned how to do because it's beneath your 'Influencer' ass. So, why don't you take a moment to put that gawd-forsaken phone down and pull your head out of your ass. Complaining about everything ain't gonna' make anything better for you, and it certainly won't for the generation which follows you. Which brings up another point...this generation you loathe so much? Yeah, we built the future for follow-on generations. What have you built? Besides a massive mountain of butthurt?
What's gonna' happen when we're no longer around to blame? Who ya' gonna' blame then?
Sincerely,
Your dad (who can still put a boot in your ass!), the true Cusper.
P.S. The dude who wrote that article is as far away from being a "Cusper" between Boomers and Gen X'ers as cats are different from ham sandwiches. The author is clearly a solid late Millennial or early Gen Z'er. If not, they're a liberal who don't have generational names; they've always been about blaming everyone else since the dawn of time.