Flipping Kids!

This month, million of kids will go off to college. They are 18, which means they were born in 2000! Last of the 20th century kids to enter! What do they know?

They were born 2 years after "Seinfeld" went off the air. Not only do they probably not get the references, they have never had a "water cooler show" to talk about and probably do not understand how out of it you were the next day if you missed the show.

They do not remember the 9/11 attacks or the Iraq War. They do not get why we are still in Afghanistan (not alone there!)

They have never heard the term "Detroit Big 3" used seriously, they may think it is the Lions, Tigers, and Red Wings.

The idea that a person would wait 10-20 minutes for a song to download is impossible to believe.

They have always had GPS and probably cannot read a city map unless their parents took the time to teach them.

They have no functional memory of any POTUS other than Obama and Trump. John Paul II died when they were 5. Putin has always run Russia.

Because the USSR and her block collapsed 10 years before they were born, they do not know the evils of socialism and communism.

Malls have been in decline all their life. They do not get why you would "go to the mall just to go to the mall."

They do not remember the 2008 financial crisis or it's aftermath very much.

Smartphones have always been around. They figure "there is an app" for most problems.

Microsoft has just been an OS company, not a behemoth. Bill Gates is some philanthropist. Steve Jobs has always been dead. Computers have always been laptops, a desktop computer is an antique.

The cola wars? What is that about? Bottled water is as big a seller as cola to them.

They do not remember Tony Soprano, Al Bundy, or Vic Mackey.

"The Simpsons" was on for 11 years on the day they were born!

Quote: AZDuffman

Smartphones have always been around.

Was with the wife yesterday on
the way to the casino. I was
wondering how old Omarosa
was. My wife took out her phone
and spoke into it: How old is
Omarosa? And it immediately
told her.

I was blown away, I didn't know
they could do that. Now I for
sure will never want one.

Quote: Evenbob

Was with the wife yesterday on
the way to the casino. I was
wondering how old Omarosa
was. My wife took out her phone
and spoke into it: How old is
Omarosa? And it immediately
told her.

I was blown away, I didn't know
they could do that. Now I for
sure will never want one.

It is getting hard to function without one. I cannot do my main job or side hustles without one. Although I do not use Siri, I do not like the speak feature, I prefer to type it in.

If you were born in 2000, we have
always been in Afghanistan. Bill
Cosby has always been an old
has been. Kids have always used
computers in school. Global
warming has always been an issue.
The Clinton's have always been old
fogeys.

None of that kind of stuff applied
to me in 1968. The only TV show
that was always on was Gunsmoke.
Phones and TV's were always
the same. Nothing really died out
from the 40's that I would know nothing
about.

Quote: AZDuffman

This month, million of kids will go off to college. They are 18, which means they were born in 2000! Last of the 20th century kids to enter! What do they know?

Every generation can make that rant about the last one. I was born 1.5 years after the Kennedy assassination. I overheard those above me say that people of my generation would never get the sixties and that we were born too late and doomed to empty materialism.

Every generation will remember the times when they were roughly 15-25. That is why I can torture people with trivia from television shows from the 70's and early 80's.

In the end, what difference does it make? I find it funny how every presidential election everybody says that this one is critical. They are all the same. Destiny chooses us, we don't choose it.

Quote: Wizard

In the end, what difference does it make? I find it funny how every presidential election everybody says that this one is critical. .

The 2016 election was critical. 8 years
of Hillary would have been a disaster,
Severe unemployment, severe raising
of taxes to pay for her socialist programs,
open borders with welfare hungry illegals
streaming in.

We owe Obama a debt of gratitude. If
he hadn't been such a failure of
a president, it would be President Pantsuit
in the WH now.

"What's Trump gonna do, wave a magic wand and fix the economy?" Obama, 2016

Yup, pretty much what he did do.

Quote: Wizard

Every generation can make that rant about the last one. I was born 1.5 years after the Kennedy assassination. I overheard those above me say that people of my generation would never get the sixties and that we were born too late and doomed to empty materialism.

Every generation will remember the times when they were roughly 15-25. That is why I can torture people with trivia from television shows from the 70's and early 80's.

In the end, what difference does it make? I find it funny how every presidential election everybody says that this one is critical. They are all the same. Destiny chooses us, we don't choose it.

Not a rant, pointing out how time has passed.

it is true that each generation gets accused of slipping in terms of intestinal fortitude and things like that , fairly unjustly especially as a universally applied generalization

but I think you can say that this up and coming one is strikingly different

things many have noticed, as I can think of them , some of these things are banal but 'just sayin'. Again, these things are generalizations that don't work universally

*much larger percentage of them more open to socialist ideas

*are so affected by their new devices that they can't think of living without them; always have their noses buried in them [but that is starting to go for some 70 yr olds I know too]

*have a different set of socially unacceptable speech standards. for example OK to use the F-bomb even online with family, say, but to even slightly disparage members of certain groups will get a person ostracized

*a larger percentage care less about owning homes etc; this has started to worry the real estate folks

*for the most part don't care a hoot about collectibles

*they have the beer industry quite worried as other alcohol choices are being favored; may be drinking less generally

*golf or at least country clubs look doomed

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Here are 19 things millennials are killing

including napkins, cereal, motorcycles, yogurt, soap bars, diamonds, banks, dept stores, gyms, home depot!, the nfl, ... gotta read this

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-are-killing-list-2017-8#oil-20

Quote: odiousgambit

*are so affected by their new devices that they can't think of living without them; always have their noses buried in them [but that is starting to go for some 70 yr olds I know too]

I still think my example shows something on this. I took walks at lunch, wondered how far I walked. So I counted the sections of concrete in the sidewalk, knowing they are 4x8. Then I figured for the sides of the building based on this info, did some basic math, and got a number. Didn't have to be super-accurate, I wasn't laying the concrete, just wanted to know how far I walked.

So when I get back somehow someone asks how my walk went. I told them that story. Millennial girl says, "uh, you know there is an app for that!" Not being rude, just telling me. You can figure how that just extrapolates to how each of us will try to figure out things and solve problems.

And, BTW, I downloaded an app, and my measurement was close enough for what I needed!

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*a larger percentage care less about owning homes etc; this has started to worry the real estate folks

Not me, I will be a lord over the serfs in my old age!

of course a lot of things, too, ascribed to the Millenials are general trends

for example older folks are drinking less beer too, just don't have the capacity anymore, and may want to get a buzz without putting away multiples of 12 ounce servings