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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!

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5 minutes ago, Lurch said:


Same

I was also just introduced to its insane video a few days ago

Ok, Boomer. 😃

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57 minutes ago, F250 said:

Let's solve this once and for all.

Everyone born before 1970 is a Boomer. Everyone born after 1984 is a Millennial. Everyone born between those years is Gen-X.

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fuck what you're talking about. Signed, October '69

3 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

fuck what you're talking about. Signed, October '69

Okay, Boomer.

2 minutes ago, troph said:

Who does he think made message boards popular man? It wasn’t the millennials I’ll tell ya that much.  Comes over here acting like the world started when he was born. Geez. When we was born our parents said “aren’t you adorable… now listen… the key to the house is under the flower pot by the garden hose, that should about do it… good luck.”

Bitch you ain’t special. I was a latchkey kid too 

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Just now, Js1 said:

Bitch you ain’t special. I was a latchkey kid too 

Latchkey kids were a cultural phenomenon that resulted from multiple factors like divorce and more women entering the workplace. For Gen-X kids, this was a consequence of society changing.

If you were a latchkey kid as a Millennial it just meant your parents didn't love you.

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7 minutes ago, F250 said:

Latchkey kids were a cultural phenomenon that resulted from multiple factors like divorce and more women entering the workplace.

And here I thought all along it was miscegenation.

1 minute ago, troph said:

my dad beat my ass when I asked for one of these for Christmas. kinda kidding, i new better than to ask for it, I didn't want my ass beaten.

My cousin had one. We were basically like brother and sister growing up, because being Gen X of course my parents divorced when I was 18 months old, and my aunt worked as well, so she and I spent every weekday together at our grandmother's until we were school age. I will admit trying to make a cake in one of these fucking things.

4 minutes ago, troph said:

my dad beat my ass when I asked for one of these for Christmas. kinda kidding, i new better than to ask for it, I didn't want my ass beaten.

I had one. I was all boy, I just liked to cook from an early age and my folks were open minded. 
IIRC they weren’t cheap either. Pretty sure my dad got it on layaway at Sears.

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4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I had one. I was all boy, I just liked to cook from an early age and my folks were open minded. 
IIRC they weren’t cheap either. Pretty sure my dad got it on layaway at Sears.

I will say one of the cool things about having a single mom as a kid is she taught me to cook from an early age.

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That mother fucking foil lined sleeve you had to put the hot pocket in was my easy bake oven. 

2 minutes ago, G650 said:

I will say one of the cool things about having a single mom as a kid is she taught me to cook from an early age.

I have talked about my grandfather a lot here but I also had very loving grandmothers and I’m so lucky I got to spend time with them and learn from them. Neither of them liked cooking much, but they were both good at it and I learned a lot from them both, about cooking and a whole lot else.

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9 minutes ago, troph said:

also what age and for how long? For me it was 4th grade I was basically on my own (except for school) from 7am until about 7pm. only instructions given, "fish sticks in the freezer, you can use the microwave but not the oven or the stove, still don't burn the house down, and oh, don't open the door for anyone except the fire or police and definitely don't open it for the mormons or jehovah's witnesses, those folks are a cult."

4th and 5th grade for me but I had older siblings in middle and high school that would would arrive home shortly after me.

13 minutes ago, troph said:

my dad beat my ass when I asked for one of these for Christmas. kinda kidding, i new better than to ask for it, I didn't want my ass beaten.

Shit, I wanted one because of cake.

Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

I have talked about my grandfather a lot here but I also had very loving grandmothers and I’m so lucky I got to spend time with them and learn from them. Neither of them liked cooking much, but they were both good at it and I learned a lot from them both. 

No doubt. Funny enough, my step grandfather actually was the cook in their house, my grandmother could burn cereal. He actually entrusted his recipes to me before he passed, which I was pretty touched by.

 

I honestly don't know how my grandmother and grandpa on that side didn't starve when they were marries as neither one could cook.

My uncle also was the cook in their house, though my aunt does make a few things.

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I also wanted one of these too.

 

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Just now, F250 said:

I also wanted on of these too.

 

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Oh I had one of those. Got it for either Christmas or my birthday one year, can't remember.

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I have fond memories of my latchkey kid days. Microwave nachos and Red Baron pizzas. Threw a tennis ball at a pillow placed on the couch as a strike zone while watching Cubs games. 

 

 

 

25 minutes ago, F250 said:

I also wanted one of these too.

 

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I had one of these 

1 hour ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

And no, I had no idea what was going on.

 

Do you have any younger siblings born nine months later?  Because if you do, we can tell you exactly what was going on.

41 minutes ago, G650 said:

I will say one of the cool things about having a single mom as a kid is she taught me to cook from an early age.


Same for me, but it was a single dad. He was too busy working to cook for my scrawny ass. 

8 minutes ago, immamac said:

Back on topic. 

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1 hour ago, G650 said:

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Jr wanted one for Xmas but then cried like a bitch on Xmas morning when he got it. 
 

8 minutes ago, immamac said:

Back on topic. 

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I had one. I was all boy, I just liked to cook from an early age and my folks were open minded. 
IIRC they weren’t cheap either. Pretty sure my dad got it on layaway at Sears.

Try having a dad who went to Rice.  I didn’t know if I was taunting kids or getting the fuck beat out of me. 

1 hour ago, F250 said:

I also wanted one of these too.

 

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I had one of those. It was pretty cool except when you pressed down on the plunger too long and wound up with plastic shavings in your sno-cone. 

48 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I have fond memories of my latchkey kid days. Microwave nachos and Red Baron pizzas. Threw a tennis ball at a pillow placed on the couch as a strike zone while watching Cubs games. 

 

 

 

Is that all you did to the pillow, Hank?

Ok, so we’re abandoning this thread and retitling it as “No one can agree on the definition of Gen-X and their impact”, right?

8 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Is that all you did to the pillow, Hank?

JD has entered the chat. 

FYI, on a whim, I looked.  Easy Bake Ovens are $125 or so now.  They haven't had a lightbulb in them for over 10 years now,  but some kind of heating element which speeds up cooking time, and led to the increased cost.

 

 

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I turned 40 this year. Thank you all for making me feel young. 

Do y'all remember this from childhood?

 

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19 minutes ago, troph said:

I never had to worry about a knock on the bathroom door.

Yes but the internet was slow to non-existent.

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

FYI, on a whim, I looked.  Easy Bake Ovens are $125 or so now.  They haven't had a lightbulb in them for over 10 years now,  but some kind of heating element which speeds up cooking time, and led to the increased cost.

 

 

That's one expensive toaster 

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A recovered addict and former prostitute named Shannae baked my first sobriety anniversary birthday cake in her easy bake oven. She had legs like Tina Turner and I had no idea that she even knew my name. When she presented it to me in front of several dozen people I cried like a baby, and that was the most delicious cake I’ve ever eaten. I’ll cherish that memory til my dying days, though it’s been a few years since I’ve seen her.

She also made one for my buddy Charlie (Sawbonz knew him) RIP, he died from Covid.

Also - because I crack myself up - I’m gen X but half of me did a year in ‘Nam - couldn’t see shit though.

1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

Yes but the internet was slow to non-existent.

That’s what the Sunday JC Penney underwear ads were for.

1 hour ago, BearSchlong said:

Also - because I crack myself up - I’m gen X but half of me did a year in ‘Nam - couldn’t see shit though.

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While you dorks were playing with easy bake ovens and snoopy slushy machines, I was cranking out one solid puff on my bubblegum cigarette. 

4 hours ago, G650 said:

Oh I had one of those. Got it for either Christmas or my birthday one year, can't remember.

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6 hours ago, F250 said:

Let's solve this once and for all.

Everyone born before 1970 is a Boomer. Everyone born after 1984 is a Millennial. Everyone born between those years is Gen-X.

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With the lights out

There's low taxes

Here we are now

Codifying deregulatory policies on a turbo unicorn of economic freedom

YEAH!

6 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Well  let me tell you about Dallas and Houston. 

Or Hall and Oates.

10 hours ago, burntorangebongos said:

Well, fuck me, I didn't know I was a Gen Xer until now. HAHA

Most Gen-X thing said on this thread.

Also, do we find it weird that Trump of all people picked a fucking Millennial as his running mate?

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