Well, thank you for that explanation about cousins, yes.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 27/11/2011 09:41:57 PM
I've always wondered about that - I guess Americans with their obsession for genealogy *would* have terms like that and actually use them... I wouldn't know the terminology for those things in Dutch, or whether there's a difference between "second cousin" and "cousin once removed".
Apart from the long asides, though, or perhaps because of them, your conclusion seems rather extreme for your evidence. Of course there are other relevant differences between people than their generation, and no two persons have exactly the same cultural reference points. But that doesn't mean that "the whole concept of generation is a near total fiction".
Apart from the long asides, though, or perhaps because of them, your conclusion seems rather extreme for your evidence. Of course there are other relevant differences between people than their generation, and no two persons have exactly the same cultural reference points. But that doesn't mean that "the whole concept of generation is a near total fiction".
5 Ways We (gen X) Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation
27/11/2011 08:26:47 AM
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This article both pisses me off and makes me want to spend more time outdoors. *NM*
27/11/2011 09:26:58 AM
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Is gen x people who grew up in the 80's?
27/11/2011 12:48:35 PM
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Wikipedia gives a lose definition of people born between the early 60s to the early 80s. *NM*
27/11/2011 01:46:04 PM
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It's really mostly correct, and also highlights why OWS was a total failure.
27/11/2011 05:44:15 PM
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The whole concept of 'Generation' is a near total fiction
27/11/2011 08:49:28 PM
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Well, thank you for that explanation about cousins, yes.
27/11/2011 09:41:57 PM
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I always like to include useful pieces of trivia in my rants, like a lollipop from the dentist
27/11/2011 11:17:17 PM
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I disagree, but think generational influences are often oversimplified.
28/11/2011 02:14:07 AM
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I like that you're citing that your citing the stuff I was clearly staring at in my own post
28/11/2011 04:33:57 AM
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Well, without a cite there is no way to know if we are looking at the same stuff.
28/11/2011 06:27:29 AM
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It's more of a humorus aside, one of my drafts linked the graph
28/11/2011 07:21:34 AM
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Yeah, I just thought you were taking a more absolutist position than you did.
28/11/2011 09:05:08 PM
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John Cheese is an ass. His weekly column on a humor website is full of this crap
29/11/2011 02:09:45 AM
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There's an irritatingly large amount of that on Cracked these days, or even The Onion
29/11/2011 03:11:37 AM
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I wouldn't be putting the blame on Generation X. People have been screwing up the next generation
27/11/2011 09:54:30 PM
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So pretty much each succeeding generation of humanity is worse off *NM*
28/11/2011 01:27:31 AM
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Nah. Nature compensates in some unfathomable way to keep us from going to hell in a handbasket. *NM*
01/12/2011 01:16:02 AM
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How is it anyone's fault ?
27/11/2011 11:24:53 PM
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Basically, because there was no reason it had to get in line with the rest of the world.
28/11/2011 02:40:46 AM
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