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(7,488 posts)it is an invitation to divide people by age that wouldn't be accepted if it were race, gender, nationality or religion. It crops up all over social media ahead of key elections, and in times of polarization. I do not think that is an accident. Malign entities would like to split Americans against each other.
I hope you will reconsider posting this type of content.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,902 posts)I think this is hilarious. Its humor, not boomer bashing.
Shellback Squid
(9,835 posts)gab13by13
(30,817 posts)I am a boomer and I played the blues back in the 60's, played it in red neck bars.
Iggo
(49,489 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(67,719 posts)lapfog_1
(31,498 posts)This asshole is not a boomer. I am. Nothing he talks about is relevant to my lived experience.
It is dismissive and ignorant, full of stereotypes.
My parents couldn't afford McDonalds. My generation ( actually a little older than me ) literally died in the streets protesting a little thing called the Vietnam war. And if we were not being shot in the protest, we were being drafted to die in a rice paddy a million miles from home. Ask my dead brother.
So please remove this crap.
gab13by13
(30,817 posts)Yeah college was cheaper but I worked when still in high school then worked on the highway for a subcontractor who worked the hell out of me. I stayed in a room above a bar and my last night I had no money left and one can of pears I brought from home to tide me over until I got paid.
I think I was allowed to play the blues. Our band played in this red neck bar and the bartender told us that no one will dance until they get some booze in them. We played a Temptations 6 pack (6 Temptations tunes) so we decided to open up with a Temptation's tune "Since I Lost My Baby," it was a tricky tune to dance to. The bar was all white people except for 1 black couple. We started playing and the black couple got up and danced fast to the tune and the white people got up and danced slow.
I loved playing in a band in the 60's.
lapfog_1
(31,498 posts)bailed hay, cut weeds out of soybean fields with a hand machete, picked fruit ( cherries ) in an orchard.
This was in addition to daily chores on our own farm...
Waking up at 5am in January, hiking about .5 miles to our pond to break the ice ( usually about a foot thick ) in the pond so our horses could keep it open and drink all day ( sub zero weather, wind, and stars like diamonds in the sky ). Feeding the horses, plowing our 2 acre garden by hand in the spring, mucking out the barn, mowing the pasture... etc.