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Re: I Dub 2011 The Year of the Kleenex

meleahrebeccah — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:58:16 -0000

Ahhahahahah! AHHAHAHhaahh!

I'm sorry I am laughing, but welcome to MY world. I am a sappy, crying, emotional train wreck anymore.

This... coming from the girl who once hitch-hiked cross-country with NO fear whatsoever.

Embrace the feelings. Because when you cry like that? The other side of the pendulum is laughing like that.

TOTALLY WORTH IT.

Re: 2012 Better Get Its Act Together

geechee_girl — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:15:07 -0000

I like it too. From besties to even better besties :)

Re: 2012 Better Get Its Act Together

meleahrebeccah — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:12:49 -0000

I love you. And, even though we've been friends for 25+ years, I love how much closer we've gotten in 2011. Here's to 2012 NOT sucking.

Re: 2012 Better Get Its Act Together

Wormie — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:20:05 -0000

Happy New Year and all the best for a GREAT 2012

Re: 2012 Better Get Its Act Together

geechee_girl — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:24:01 -0000

Thanks :)

Re: 2012 Better Get Its Act Together

Kevin Elliott — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:59:35 -0000

Goal words... yes... everything old is new again. 2012 is going to be a bit of a renaissance, I think. For me personally and the world at large.

One day at a time, little duckie... That and staying engaged with those around you... That's the trick, I think.

:)

Re: Paying The Toll For The Baby Boomers

Barry Waterfield351 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:39:53 -0000

I think to lump nearly eighty million people together and call them all useless and even ruder and more unkind things than that, is just about as bad as those who say all Americans are thick and let's face it a great many people think that from China to the North Pole. . People are people. Many baby boomers worked hard and lavished more on their children than any previous generation. They also championed equal rights for women non national gays pensioners and those with mental afflictions. We also made a lot of money and paid a lot of money in tax.Sure we made mistakes, so will you, every generation has problems. Can you imagine what they said about the generation that was in the hot seat before world war one?

Re: Paying The Toll For The Baby Boomers

Barry Waterfield — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:35:55 -0000

Yes we are getting old and truth to tell I think we probably never thought we would, though inside I still in some ways feel the same age as I did when I was a paperboy right at the start of the good times.. I suppose it's probably true to say that we are also afraid of dying, although I'm not personally I feel I'm ready because I feel paradoxically to what I said earlier that I am getting tired and the world is changing round me, in a sense it's not my world any more. I also think that some of us have become selfish but that happens in all generations, however, as to having given up the fight, this is only partially true. Youth crusades with far more effectiveness than old age, we had the stamina then, but I think most of us feel a very strong sense of justice still, there are very few fascists in our ranks nor ever will be, we all remember uncle Adolf far too well. I like to think we make that sense of justice felt still today by the way we vote. We probably are selfish over the driving test I agree. It is however, very hurtful to be resented because the time has come to retire us. I paid a lot of tax over the years, plus all the pension contributions, and it was mostly a generation older than mine that miss managed the books. I personally hope that some of this hatred will pass as we gradually die off, but a lot of us are going to have to pass over feeling really despised and that's not nice. Anyway it's your turn now, try to remember the good we did and forgive the bad, and if you fight a good fight you'll have no end of fun, that much I can remember.

Re: Paying The Toll For The Baby Boomers

Barry Waterfield — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:04:39 -0000

I find this to be a very nasty page and the general tone of hitting my generation makes me resent having paid a high rate of tax for most of my working life.It also makes me sad when I think of the many children I have given love to possibly resenting me so much. This quite aside from any general good I have tried to do. There seems to be a new graze of beat up the baby boomer, it seems to have replaced the 'Christians beat up the Gays' brigade, particularly in America, a country that I do not think I wish to visit now. I hope when you reach a more mature viewpoint you may reflect upon the true state of things. We followed a World War, in the early years there was hardly any of the things children take for granted today, not in England anyway. I did not even have a teddy bear (I'm not trying to sound pie). There weren't any, mine was made by my mother out of a sock. There was little fuel for fires in the early years and schooling was limited. Against this backdrop we grew into a generation that believed in social justice and fought for it. It's not our fault that there are so many of us and that we are getting old now, and most of us believed passionately in many of the things you now take for granted. Until my generation pressed for equality there was no such thing as, equal pay for women, for example. Any job a woman did was paid at a lesser rate than the same job performed by a man. Racialism was as strong as any right wing politician could have wished for especially in America, and the reasons they put up to stop the Gays living their own lives were legion.We fought against all that. On a personal level I am ready to go. I would rather not live in a world that started off lousy and looks like heading full circle. You're welcome to the good that we did and you're obviously free to slag us of as much as you like. It's your world now miss smarty pants, see if you're liked any the better.

Re: Keep Your Germs To Yourself

meleahrebeccah — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:36:40 -0000

“Coming in to work sick doesn’t make you dedicated. It makes you an asshole.” BEST SHIRT / MUG EVER.

I need BOTH. A shirt and a mug. STAT.

Even though I don't have a "job" or go to "work".

Re: More Reasons Dunkin Donuts Sucks

Kooz — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:34:16 -0000

Terrible coffee... My reason's I'm done with it here: http://kooztop5.blogspot.com/2...

Re: More Reasons Dunkin Donuts Sucks

K-hart8 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:17:49 -0000

He's right. I work there and have for 3 years.. Thank god college is almost over with so I dont need gas money to get there and back! Horrible company.

Re: More Reasons Dunkin Donuts Sucks

Billybob_22 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:18:55 -0000

DD coffee is over rated. It's convienient because they are everywhere, to beat he crowd get there early. Most of the time it's not worth it. You are a lemming if you think this is the best coffee you've ever had. Where's the BEAN??? To get a tip how about wiping the sugar off the side of the cup and give it a good stir and then maybe I'll tip you that nickel you want.

Re: Cult Of Personality

perry — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:11:50 -0000

Heyyy..what year did Scoot Mahoot graduate? Por favor senor ;-) !!! Thanks Leslie! Xo

Re: Cult Of Personality

Blake Nabours — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:44:42 -0000

I did.

Re: Cult Of Personality

geechee_girl — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:33:23 -0000

I guess this post needs an update :) Since then honey and I are just friends after a lifetime, it seems, of being together. Which feels weird, truly. And the Yahoo group, while still around, is kind of stagnant as most folks have found us all on Facebook (there are 4 or so core alumni groups over there)

Re: Cult Of Personality

Scottyj6971 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:23:57 -0000

Love and respect to all of us suvivers .scoot mahoot

Re: Paying The Toll For The Baby Boomers

David in Corpus — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:01:23 -0000

We are so interlinked it doesn't really matter.
I hate hippies, not all boomers. I especially hate hippies who went corporate. Sorry boomers, but those aholes belong to your generation. Fret not though, my generation of Xers are some of the most vicious hateful SOBs ever spawned. Fear for yourselves in old folks homes as my generation will steal your meds and sell them on the streets to Yers.

Re: More Reasons Dunkin Donuts Sucks

Jake — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:50:05 -0000

first of, dipshit. fuck you for even being a republican. secondly, being a conservative pussy i'm sure you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. thus, you've never worked a bottom-end, low paying, do 10,000 things at a time for next to nothing job. when they're walking away from your dumb ass 9 times out of 10 they're multi-tasking to the best ability of someone who hopefully DOESN'T give a fuck about how many splendas you get in your coffee for $5 and hour, and gets talked to like a piece of shit the entire time. everyone their has headsets to listen to drive thru. even the ones who work up front. i agree with you about the sand niggers, they are the biggest pieces of shit on the face of the earth and should all be exterminated like termites or republicans. YOU 20 hours a week and get a $200 check EVERY OTHER WEEK. and deal with one tenth of the bullshit they go through everyday. All rep's think they're more important than everyone else, you want a medium caramel iced latte with skim milk, and a large hazelnut coffee half decaf with 2 1/2 sugars one splenda and fourteen eyedrops of cream. You're not the sun motherfucker You can go fuck yourself with a steak knife. Work an honest day in your life.

Re: Paying The Toll For The Baby Boomers

Solarayn — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:03:35 -0000

I'm not a boomer, but am dismayed by the ugliness I am observing on this site, as well as a basic lack of understanding of how government programs such as Social Security work.

Re: Paying The Toll For The Baby Boomers

Solarayn — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:01:49 -0000

I'm not sure if you understand how Social Security works. You pay social security taxes during your lifetime of work. So, these folks are collecting on a system they have already paid into. Regarding being taxed to the brink: surprisingly, we are actually paying LESS taxes now than we have since the 1980s, especially if you happen to be wealthy. The reason our generation can't find work (I'm 39) is partially that 50,000 factories have been closed since 1989. Many have been moved to countries like Mexico, China, Bangladesh, etc. I have to say, I find it very disturbing to read posts such as "use them as cannon fodder, they are like vampires", etc. Aren't your parents part of this generation? Or maybe your grandparents? I'm not trying to sound argumentative, just trying to understand your rationale.

Re: New Digs! (Yes, Again)

meleahrebeccah — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:07:49 -0000

I am TOTALLY SUPER EXCITED. This is so awesome! xoxoxo

Re: New Digs! (Yes, Again)

geechee_girl — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:34:14 -0000

Thank you! I'm so excited!

Re: New Digs! (Yes, Again)

E. Christopher Clark — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:56:23 -0000

Nice photos! Looks like it'll be a great place.

Re: Spring Cleaning Means Stuff For Sale!

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