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Hey Baby Boomers, grow up!
NY Post ^ | February 26, 2011 | TRACEY JACKSON

Posted on 02/27/2011 3:03:31 AM PST by Scanian

Baby Boomers are having a hard time. Not just with the economy, or the health issues that crop up in your 50s and 60s, or even getting caught between taking care of our aging parents and unemployed kids.

No, I’m talking about the fact that many Boomers, of which I am one, do not want to grow up.

Those of us born in the Baby Boomer period, between 1946 and 1964, range in age from 47 to 65. We are either on the young side of old, or we’re just a hop, skip and hopefully not a fall into 70.

I don’t know that we mind growing up, but many of us don’t want to grow old. But certain Boomer minds have somehow merged the two. In order not to grow old, they have taken the position that they will simply not grow up.

You see it in the absurd notion put forward by journalists and advertisers — “50 is the new 30.” “60 is the new 40.” We buck each other up by dressing and behaving like it’s true, as though if we repeat it enough we will actually make it so.

And because we are Boomers and have been at the forefront of so many innovations, from rock ’n’ roll to the computer, some have this misguided impulse to act hip. Have you ever seen so many 50-year-olds dressed like teenagers? In my grandfather’s and even my father’s era, grown men did not wear sneakers, shorts, T-shirts and caps unless they were actually involved in an athletic activity. Grown men did not go to work looking like they were headed for sleep-away camp.

My grandfather dressed in slacks and a shirt and sensible shoes and a suit every day for work.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: absurdnotions; actyourage; clothes; growingold
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To: poobear

Hell, up cheer in Maine it’s dead wintah and ah’ve still got my Topsiders on... :O)


41 posted on 02/27/2011 4:43:48 AM PST by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: Scanian
In my grandfather’s and even my father’s era, grown men did not wear sneakers, shorts, T-shirts and caps unless they were actually involved in an athletic activity.

I had to think about that a few minutes.
Yes, my father and uncles all wore slacks and shirts. None would have been caught dead outside wearing a t-shirt as outer wear. But – what they wore in their 60s is the same style they grew up with. Jeans were for miners and cowboys. I don’t think any even owned a pair. They didn’t dress like their fathers, they dressed in what they felt comfortable with.
I usually wear jeans and t-shirt in warm weather and jeans and sweat shirt in cold weather. It’s what I grew up with, why should I dress like my father?

42 posted on 02/27/2011 4:44:38 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: reformedliberal

You are living proof that the older folks run rings around the younger generations in terms of common sense and taste.

The sags, bulges, and-—gasp!!-—bared midrifts of the silly snowbirds are exactly what I was talking about.

And you haven’t lived until you’ve seen the topless 55+ German woman who frequent certain Miami Beach hotels.

Yuck!!


43 posted on 02/27/2011 4:45:42 AM PST by Scanian
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To: garandgal
Never a more useless, disgusting group of people have ever existed than to spend ONE DIME researching and advertising this garbage while people truly suffer.

Then those participating in generational warfare have succeeded. You won't feel badly at all when they kill Grandma under Obamacare because she polluted the world with bad ideas.

44 posted on 02/27/2011 4:45:53 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: Scanian

What did grandpa do that he dressed like that?? Work on an assembly line?? I don’t think so.


45 posted on 02/27/2011 4:45:55 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: napscoordinator

“There is NO WAY on Earth that you can dispute me with this post.”

And I suppose that statement is your way of showing how mature your generation is?

You sound like the libs — showing offense that anyone would dare to disagree with you.


46 posted on 02/27/2011 4:50:38 AM PST by webstersII
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To: Scanian
This hand-wringing over the declining standards of our current generation is an eternal debate. I'm sure that our grandfathers (who always wore dress slacks or suits to work) were the object of ridicule from their own grandfathers for going out in public without a hat, not wearing a vest with their suit or not having a pocketwatch properly chained to their belt loop.

While I definitely believe in dressing up for work and would never go to work in jeans and sneakers, even if it was "casual" day, the implication of the article that grown men should never wear shorts in T-shirts is a bit ridiculous (though I think the author is being tongue-in-cheek).

During the summer, when I'm not at work, hiking in the woods or doing yard work, I will only wear shorts, short-sleeve shirts and I'll go sockless in a pair of boat shoes. It's all about comfort and staying cool (as in not hot).

47 posted on 02/27/2011 4:54:24 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 16 days from outliving Vince Foster)
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To: mainevet
“Yep you got it. Spending 20 years in the Navy was all about “ME ME ME”. 1960 Late Boomer.”

I was so unbelievably selfish that I only did one hitch. After that it was party, party, party.

48 posted on 02/27/2011 5:01:31 AM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: garandgal

Never a more useless, disgusting group of people have ever existed than to spend ONE DIME researching and advertising this garbage while people truly suffer.

It would seem suffering is relative. Especially where money is concerned.

On another subject, I’m hoping your screen name is more descriptive than “Memphis Belle”, a B-17, a crew, a generation, or a shorthaired pointer.


49 posted on 02/27/2011 5:02:18 AM PST by wita
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To: equaviator

“Nor did they wear backpacks...”

Where I work they come in with backpacks and those little wheeled luggage carts. They bring all the comforts of home except their mommies.


50 posted on 02/27/2011 5:04:00 AM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: metesky

;D! Topsiders are a tough habit to break even in winter.


51 posted on 02/27/2011 5:05:14 AM PST by poobear (FACTS - the turd in the punch bowl of liberal thought!)
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To: Scanian
My grandfather dressed in slacks and a shirt and sensible shoes and a suit every day for work.

Well, I guess wearing the military uniform for the past umteen years would be a disgrace to the writer. The reason I wear, sneakers, shorts and tee shirts is beacuse it is HOT in Texas during the summer.

52 posted on 02/27/2011 5:06:30 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: Scanian

I grew up, went from a lever action Marlin .45-70
to a CSAR, in .223 caliber with 40 round mags. The neighborhood is getting rough with all of these immigrants who hate America.


53 posted on 02/27/2011 5:07:59 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: dljordan

I was so unbelievably selfish that I only did one hitch. After that it was party, party, party.

I’m betting after one hitch you were pretty partied out.


54 posted on 02/27/2011 5:09:36 AM PST by wita
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To: Scanian
It is clear that the author is part of the problem, hence the comments. All I have to say is “Why do you see the speak that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?”
55 posted on 02/27/2011 5:10:29 AM PST by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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To: napscoordinator

:-)


56 posted on 02/27/2011 5:11:12 AM PST by EternalVigilance (But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, a universal license to be good. -- Hartley Coleridge)
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To: wita

“I’m betting after one hitch you were pretty partied out.”

Well, I did learn about projectile vomiting in the Navy.


57 posted on 02/27/2011 5:15:30 AM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: napscoordinator
Lol. Although funny. I would love to see the reasons. Generation X is more conservative than the Boomers (not 100 percent).

Yep, whenever I go to Tea Party rallies and see pictures of others it's all full of Gen X'ers.... Er, no wait. That's not right.

It's full of "boomers". Not a Gen X'er in sight.

Please, you're making me laugh.

58 posted on 02/27/2011 5:18:21 AM PST by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: dljordan

Well, I did learn about projectile vomiting in the Navy.

I didn’t know that a tin can in a typhoon could cause that.


59 posted on 02/27/2011 5:34:09 AM PST by wita
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To: Scanian

Is this the same Tracey Jackson that writes for the Huffington Post???


60 posted on 02/27/2011 5:39:03 AM PST by radioone (Proud to be an enemy of Obama)
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