Hangman

I supervise the servicing of all existing loans in our bank's portfolio. Specifically, my team ensures that customers maintain insurance for life of their loan(s) and pay property taxes, insurance, PMI, etc. from escrow accounts.

Many forget the back story of this episode because the candy assembly line bit was so classic. Fred and Ricky were cooking rice (a disaster waiting to happen). When Ricky asked Fred if he knew anything about rice, he said something along the lines of "I know I had it thrown at me on the worst day of my life".

This is also the episode where Ricky explains to Fred that you have to use a lot of starch with your stockings and puts the iron imprint on all of his white tee shirts. :lol2:

I don't care what decade you're in.. Lucy holds up as good or better than any show I've ever seen. I have them all on DVD and pop them in from time to time when I need a pick me up. The episode where she locks herself in the meat freezer is also classic.

"What does a yellow light mean?" is hard to top. I love Taxi and watch every chance I get.

But you have to go with the original queen of comedy here.

"Speeeeeeed it up a little!"

Yes. My baby face hasn't changed. It's just expanded, along with the rest of me.

Everything that I've seen/heard before takes it in 20 year increments, starting at the end of WWII. So, from 1945-65...those were the baby boomers. From 65-85, Gen-X, and so on.

However it's ultimately defined, the world I grew up in is much closer to that of someone born in 1980 than someone born in 2005.

You are welcome!

To be fair, it was off the rails until millennials saved it. :lol2:

What a solid thread.

It's been a dandy.

When I graduated high school, I had so many opportunities available to me. I had full scholarship offers to Union College and Pikeville College. But my dad had died in a car accident and I was just angry about a lot of things. I let those opportunities pass me by with the understanding that I'd go back.

I regret that decision to this day, as I've been taking classes here and there for the better part of the last decade. It's tough, but I may have that degree before I'm 40.

Been the opposite for me when I'm in a rural area. They always seem to pull over as soon as they are able regardless of age. Now, young people in a car with their phone, that's where the ignorance and self absorbed behavior gets out of hand. Sometimes it's people my age or older as well, but mostly younger.

Talking on the phone or texting? Because millennials don't talk on the phone. :lol2:

Texting while driving, though, I have zero tolerance for. There's no text so important that you should put your life and mine in danger to read/send.

Virginia is for real.

LSU from 94. I can still remember watching with my dad and his excitement when they came back. It sealed the deal for me.

Sounds like you need some side hustles.

 

I can easily fill 40 hours a week doing the things I enjoy.

I could fill 40. It's the other 128 that would kill me.

Yeah, that would be a battle. But the fact that you continue to bust your hump helps to dispel that stigma. Keep up the good fight.

No doubt. I will also say that I've seen the opposite, where older folks were discounted because of their age and a perception that maybe the pace would be too much for them. I advocate for them as well. I don't want to see anyone judged on age either way.

For the overly sensitive and caring too much, I blame on the "everybody is special" phenomenon that I spoke of. The indifference is more complex, but not something I see as much as the aforementioned. I suppose that could come from being coddled too much, but I saw kids in my generation coddled too much as well.

I hear ya. It's just bizarre. And like I said very early on in the thread, it's all just a pet peeve of mine because I'm in the career I'm in constantly fighting this age stigma. It's a major hindrance to be taken seriously when someone makes their mind up about you based on your age.

Whatever the wife says.

Man, trust me... That crosses generations. :lol2:

Nope. Just knew how to buckle down and find a way.

What does one do when retired at 53? I'm bored when I have a day off of work. I think I'll work til I die both out of necessity, and a general lack of knowing what to do with my time.

My 2 cents worth, and remember this is merely my opinion. I have always felt each generation has shown decline in toughness and work ethic. This includes my generation, my parents and grandparents were better in those areas than mine in my mind and without question. That doesn't mean any single generation is lazy overall. My parents and grandparents had to be tougher and work harder to survive. The kids today would curl up in the fetal position if they had to endure what they had to because they're so far removed from that harsher lifestyle.

 

I find most millennials to be very tech savvy and I see nothing wrong with taking advantage of that. I have no problem with call ahead seating or using an app for checking in, I've been using call ahead for years because I hate waiting. My kids are millennials and I think they're well adjusted and hard working. Where they differ from some (not all) millennials I know, they aren't near as disrespectful. Something I see drastically different from my generation. Yes, we had disrespectful people in my generation, but not at the level I see from millennials. Then again, my generation was less respectful than my parents. One glaring difference I see between millennials and my generation is how thin skinned they are, so easily offended in comparison. I also see where many (again, not all) millennials do have a sense of entitlement and think they should start at a very high rung of the company ladder instead of the bottom, something my generation seemed to understand and didn't mind. I feel many of them were told by society (especially school) that they were special and some bought in to that. There were a lot of failed parenting strategies tried on millennials that weren't tried on older generations as well so some of it falls on my generation, although most folks I know deplored those strategies and laughed them off like I did.

Overall, every generation thinks their generation is better and that their parents just didn't get it. As someone already said, you younger folks will likely think your kids generation is greatly lacking compared to yours.

I often hear the criticism that millennials are overly sensitive and care too much. And then I also hear the feedback that the problem with this generation is our indifference. I just don't understand how it can go both ways.

For any "millennial" who has illusions about the world handing them something, they're smacked down quickly. I once interviewed someone for an entry level position who came in with a briefcase and said "I want to be in management because my dad is in management. I won't settle for anything else." Zero experience. I laughed out loud. But that's the exception, not the norm.

Chappelle and Hart are rock stars? I can understand the massively famous Jack White forcing the audience to have a more authentic, human experience free of distractions like Instagram and Snapchat.

When the masters banned phones only rich folks had them. It was Long before one came out with the placenta at birth.

Standup comics do it so you don't film their routine, post it on YouTube, and ruin their jokes for people who may otherwise be willing to pay for the show.

My brain is having a hard time processing this idea. I'll have to think about it.

Apparently the millennials have also ruined the live concert experience. Should have known.

You name it, we ruined it. Doesn't even matter what decade it happened.

Hey Millennials this is not a new concept. The Masters has done this forever!! NO PHONES!

The Masters is a little different, as they try to minimize the distraction of the golfers. It's not unprecedented to ban a cell phone anywhere. But at a rock concert, yes it's new.

Millennials are the only people with cell phones though, right?

At all Kevin Hart's shows, they will literally kick you out if you pull your phone out during his show. I've seen it with my own two eyes. :lol2:

I saw Chappelle at the Palace last year and security was not messing around on that point. Smart watches were also banned.

While I don't think it is something that they have "ruined" per se, I do think there is something that millenials are missing out on...and that's the "live" experience. They'd rather watch a sporting event or concert or something else through a 2"x5" screen on their phone, than with their own two eyes.

 

I get it. I've done it myself, thinking that I'll be able to go back and re-enjoy the moment. But, I never have. Sure, I may have shared it on Facebook or something like that. But, in all honesty, I've been to some concerts where I wish they would've banned phones. All you keep seeing is people holding their hands up so they can get a good shot above the people in front of them. They aren't enjoying the concert, they're trying to get a good pic/video so they can brag to their friends.

 

That's all.

 

Now get off my lawn!

I go to a ton of concerts, and I used to do exactly as you explained. Then I realized: Nobody cares about my pictures. And I rarely looked at them again. These days, I hardly ever take any pictures at all. What you cite is far from limited to millennials, though.

Off topic, but Jack White has banned cell phones from his shows from his upcoming tour. Several standup comedians have done this for the last couple of years, requiring you to put them in the pouches when entering and have designated areas where you can use the phone if needed. I think it's a trend that will continue to grow over the upcoming months and years.

My hair has stayed the same my entire life because I don't want to risk anyone noticing me. I combed it one day and got a compliment. I can't be having that. :lol2:

I live in Pikeville. I don't even know what Great Clips is.