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Nightmare Scenarios: What If Batman And Superman Had Been Millennials?
Forbes ^ | February 5, 2014 | Rob Asghar

Posted on 02/06/2014 6:44:48 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Some of America’s greatest superheroes came of age in the gritty days of the Depression and World War II. But how different would things be if Superman and Batman been millennials?

Just imagine:

•The Bat-signal would regularly go undetected by its intended recipient, lost within a flood of social media streams.
•Superman would avoid the DTR (define-the-relationship) talk with Wonder Woman, flee to grad school to wait out the soft economy and ponder his true purpose, and rack up serious student debt.
•The embattled mayor of Gotham would feel torn between his productivity goals and his heroes’ demands for foosball tables, free organic food and “fight-from-home” options.
•The heroes would complain about how they never hear from any interesting arch-villains, while arch-villains would complain that their voicemails never get answered.
•And Super-Helicopter parents and Bat-parents would continually swoop in to meddle in situations that they can’t trust Junior to handle on his own.

Oh, don’t take it personally. Some of my best friends are villains—I mean millennials...

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: business; comicbooks; economy; millennials
Millennials in the Workplace Training Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0o9clVQu8
1 posted on 02/06/2014 6:44:48 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow - slow news day...


2 posted on 02/06/2014 6:48:10 AM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess they’d be asking about their 401Ks, their time off, etc., in addition to being concerned about things like those pansies on that TV commercial for “No-No” hair removal products - like the young guy saying “This is great! It looks like you’ve just had a fresh wax!” Whassup wit dat?


3 posted on 02/06/2014 6:48:56 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Batman and Robin would ditch Gotham City and move to Key West.


4 posted on 02/06/2014 6:49:48 AM PST by AU72
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clark Kent would be continuously late to work.


5 posted on 02/06/2014 6:52:57 AM PST by struggle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL. And what if they were Baby Boomers? They would buy trillions of dollars worth of equipment and renovations for the Bat Cave and hand the bill to their kids.


6 posted on 02/06/2014 6:52:57 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
And the millennials (young single women) who helped elect Obama? What untold debt have they unleashed - and that is just in ObamaCare.?
7 posted on 02/06/2014 6:57:56 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bruce Wayne would have never been able to afford all the Batman stuff because the Inheritance taxes would have eaten up every dime of the family fortune after his ‘rents got murdered.


8 posted on 02/06/2014 7:02:14 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: struggle

In this era in which we celebrate homosexuality, would any super heroes be “gay”?


9 posted on 02/06/2014 7:05:21 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What if Superman grew up in Germany in the 1930s.....

http://vimeo.com/30954731


10 posted on 02/06/2014 7:06:38 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What if Hitler had been “The Obama Girl”?


11 posted on 02/06/2014 7:07:55 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria (& Eric Holder))
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To: Dilbert San Diego
In this era in which we celebrate homosexuality, would any super heroes be “gay”?

We already have one.


12 posted on 02/06/2014 7:12:13 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria (& Eric Holder))
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To: Gaffer

Wonder Woman would be wearing a pink vagina costume.


13 posted on 02/06/2014 7:14:59 AM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Catmom

Batman to Robyn (Robin changes name to reflect PC names) “Does my ass look fat in this outfit?”


14 posted on 02/06/2014 7:20:14 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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To: Catmom

Probably so. But it evokes an unadulterated “ewwwwww” reminiscent of seeing a bunch of women on stage reciting “The Vagina Monologues.”


15 posted on 02/06/2014 7:22:14 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
•And Super-Helicopter parents and Bat-parents would continually swoop in to meddle in situations that they can’t trust Junior to handle on his own.

Bat-parents would still be shot dead during Bruc Waynes's youth. That element is still around.

Good luck to the Kents for keeping Superboy under control if he had a modern attitude. He wouldn't even have to get up. A quick blast of heat vision will keep'm off his case.
16 posted on 02/06/2014 7:43:33 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("We are not sluts."--Sandra Fluke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is such a true video. Just this week I had one of my newer machinists walk off tge job. Apparently he didn’t get enough atta boys or something. He wasn’t even man enough to tell me to my face. Luckily I have a couple trusted guys and it won’t hurt any. I have one millenial that is entry level butlearning the trade and he’s working out great.

Millenials can serve me coffee.


17 posted on 02/06/2014 7:49:36 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t know what is going on but the Wall Street Journal offices are CLOSED today?


18 posted on 02/06/2014 10:04:23 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: reed13k
Wow - slow news day...

Yes! We don't even need these "what if" theoreticals anymore; reality itself is unimaginable!

19 posted on 02/06/2014 10:07:28 AM PST by uncitizen (Impeach the Communist Already!)
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