1. Spam Calls Posted on 12/02/2023 12:17:41 PM PST by DallasBiff
Spam calls may see a decline as baby boomers dwindle. People have become more tech-savvy and have access to advanced call-blocking and filtering technologies. Additionally, regulatory efforts and increased awareness are aimed at reducing spam calls, making it less likely for future generations to experience the same level of nuisance and intrusion.
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I’m not judging anybody. You’re the one doing all the judging. I’m pointing out to you well documented demographic trends. Younger generations just aren’t into these things. They don’t want to store other people’s memories.
Well the specifics of that person won’t be in the museums. But the general “how people lived back then” will be. Already is. Look the 1970s are museum fodder already:
https://durhammuseum.org/the-1970s-come-alive-in-new-durham-museum-exhibition/
“The greatest generation and their parents gave us FDR and the New Deal. Been downhill since.”
No, their parents did.
Someone still has a fax machine?
“ Boomers are just narcissistic, stupid, and greedy whiners. ”
Wow, way to stereotype entire groups of people.
That’s what liberals as ls do.
Think man.
Nobody raised us except Rowan and Martin, Jerry Lewis, Walter Cronkite and John Wayne. Both parents worked
Yes, sort of, https://youtu.be/mBcY3W5WgNU?t=3
“Beauty of it all is, we got ours, and USA kids are stuck with the Democrats.”
Pithy. True.
And while there was prosperity during several decades after WW II, there were also still many long lived STRIKES ( which workers didn't get paid during ) and also recessions throughout the '50s and parts of the '60s.
And happily, not everyone, in every generation raised.raises their children the WRONG way, which you and I are examples of.
Paper cheques have been all but obsolete in Canada for more than a decade; even Boomers don’t bother with them.
1. Spam Calls
2. Travel Agents
3. Paper Checks
4. Wellness Phone Calls
5. Suits in the Workplace
6. Personal Service
7. Cable TV and Landline Phones
8. Silverware
9. China Cabinets
10. Fax Machines
11. Broadcast TV
12. Paper Maps
13. Writing Personal Letters
14. Physical Newspapers
15. VHS and Tape players
16. Physical Music CDs
17. Physical Photo Albums
18. Brick-and-Mortar Video Rentals
19. Standalone GPS Devices
20. Film Cameras
21. Pagers
22. Printed Encyclopedias
23. Physical Bank Branches
24. Print Magazines
The Silent Generation 1925-1945 raised many or perhaps most boomers.
For some reason the generation of 1925 to 1945 is invisible to everyone, including FR.
Just about every young lefty or musician or band that anyone can name from the 1960s was of the silent generation.
“FDR was a commie that made the great recessions into the great and long depression.”
The damage done was far more profound than a Great Depression. That was also the birth of the Military Industrial Complex - the Deep State - which has subverted and destroyed this once great Republic.
Of course, I’m not blaming the brave men (including my father and seven uncles) who fought in WWII - but the voters of that generation made an awful mistake when they allowed FDR to amass that behemoth administrative state - unelected, permanent and entirely unaccountable to we the people.
A majority of “the greatest generation” voted for all that new deal crap - and walked blindly into the Marxist trap.
Now that they know they can steal a presidential election, get away with it, and throw political opponents in jail, they are unstoppable.
Yep. Boomers spend so much time taking pictures and videos of themselves while sitting in vehicles and mugging in bathroom mirrors and then posting their selfies and their vehicle-seat pontificating out for the world to see. So narcissistic.
Oh, wait…it’s not boomers who do that. Or Gen X. 🤔
And are they not teaching about the Vietnam War in public schools these days? A lot of people who lost loved ones in that war and a lot of veterans who valiantly served and have never been the same since might be interested in your comments.
“A few VietNam veterans might want to have a word with you. Doubt you’re man enough to show up though.”
Exactly! 58,000 names on the wall who did what their Country asked them to do. And tens of thousands more dead and dying from Agent Orange and he had the guts to show how far his head was where it didn’t belong.
The Obituary of Common Sense
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
Why the early bird gets the worm;
Life isn’t always fair; and
Maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.
Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
Ima Whiner
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
I’ve been working on family genealogy the past five years. What I would give to have old family documents, letters, and photos today! Even from my folks and grandparents.
Somehow you’d have to incentivize multiple succeeding generations to hold onto the stuff and then, somewhere down the road, hope that one of your children, grandchildren, gr-grandchildren, gr-gr-grandchildren, etc. becomes interested in who they are and where they came from. They they would have that treasure trove of family info.
“At the risk of intense flaming, we allowed women to raise the children as bubble wrapped babies afraid of their own shadows.”
Even worse, women stopped raising their children altogether and handed them off to people they didn’t know for 10 hours a day.
Very much that too.
They forgot the big one. People who grew up in a free country.
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