Why is the Y generation so dumb?! - GoFuckYourself.com

AdPatron · 05-16-2011, 08:13 AM

Fuck, they're as dumb as door knobs. No imagination, no creativity, no originality.

Vendzilla · 05-16-2011, 08:14 AM

I'm not sure what generation I am, is there a graph?

Jman · 05-16-2011, 08:15 AM

MTV, Video Games and TMZ... Duh... WINNING!!!

CaptainHowdy · 05-16-2011, 08:16 AM

You need consumers, not creators ...

AdPatron · 05-16-2011, 08:16 AM

Baby boomer, X? I don't know how old you are.

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Originally Posted by Vendzilla

I'm not sure what generation I am, is there a graph?

bronco67 · 05-16-2011, 08:16 AM

They can't spell either. Fuckers have grown up with spellcheck.

MetaMan · 05-16-2011, 08:17 AM

I think people have always been followers, but now you have mass media telling people being a follower is cool.

Vendzilla · 05-16-2011, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Pornless

Baby boomer, X? I don't know how old you are.

My avatar was taken on my 50th birthday, I think I'm a genX, but barely

Kiopa_Matt · 05-16-2011, 08:25 AM

That's what every generation says about the following generation.

PR_Glen · 05-16-2011, 08:25 AM

i think the term generation isn't used very affectively with those models... If you break it up into decades where you were in your teens and twenties it gives people a better idea I would say...

dyna mo · 05-16-2011, 08:28 AM

they don't seem any dumber than any other group, in general. they are certainly internet & computer savvy.

LAJ · 05-16-2011, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Vendzilla

My avatar was taken on my 50th birthday, I think I'm a genX, but barely

That makes you a baby boomer. Gen X didn't start until 1965 births.

LAJ · 05-16-2011, 08:30 AM

I dont see Gen Y as being dumb per se, however, they've never really known a life where all the information wasn't right at your fingertips right here right now.

dyna mo · 05-16-2011, 08:32 AM

if i may be so bold as to make an observation about the y gen, i'd say they have a greater sense of entitlement than generations that came before them.

bronco67 · 05-16-2011, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by dyna mo

if i may be so bold as to make an observation about the y gen, i'd say they have a greater sense of entitlement than generations that came before them.

I worked close with several Gen Y'ers at an office for a few years. It was pretty obvious most of them have been told they're little princes and princesses for their entire lives. They wanted to be in charge of something the first week they get on the job, and eventually they want your job, because they can automatically do it better.

These are facts to me, because I've lived through it first hand -- and its the reason I run my own business now. So I don't have to deal with self-entitled punks. That, and I can work in my underwear.

barcodes · 05-16-2011, 08:38 AM

Initially posted by Cherrylula in a previous post:

I have also attached one of white people doing it to avoid any racial comments

via wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_at_Bernie%27s
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In late 2010, a song called "Movin' Like Bernie" was released by rapper ISA and became popular on the internet. The song describes a dance in which one pretends to be dead like the titular character of the film. [4]

barcodes · 05-16-2011, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by dyna mo

if i may be so bold as to make an observation about the y gen, i'd say they have a greater sense of entitlement than generations that came before them.

barcodes · 05-16-2011, 08:45 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western post?World War II baby boom ended.[1] While there is no universally agreed upon time frame,[2] the term generally includes people born in the mid-1960s and the '70s up through the early '80s, and usually not later than 1982.[3][4][5] The term had also been used in different times and places for various different subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s.[6]

Vendzilla · 05-16-2011, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by LAJ

That makes you a baby boomer. Gen X didn't start until 1965 births.

I looked it up, I'm considered Generation Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

I remembered something about this looking it up before

Key characteristics: less optimistic, distrust of government, general cynicism that makes so much sense now, LMAO

Internet User · 05-16-2011, 08:49 AM

The answer is quite simple. They were not allowed to go outside to play and use their imagination, they were plopped down in front of a video game system. All thanks to the "Mister Stranger Danger" propaganda that they, and their parents were fed...

Rochard · 05-16-2011, 08:53 AM

Every generation says the one before it was dumb.

dyna mo · 05-16-2011, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by bronco67

I worked close with several Gen Y'ers at an office for a few years. It was pretty obvious most of them have been told they're little princes and princesses for their entire lives. They wanted to be in charge of something the first week they get on the job, and eventually they want your job, because they can automatically do it better.

These are facts to me, because I've lived through it first hand -- and its the reason I run my own business now. So I don't have to deal with self-entitled punks. That, and I can work in my underwear.

spot fuking on! lolz. my experience as well.

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Originally Posted by barcodes

i don't get it, but i never saw weekend at bernies. :-(

Sausage · 05-16-2011, 09:07 AM

Not all Gen Y. You get some Gen Y from China or India and you are probably looking at some of the smartest people on the planet. It's only really western Gen Y who have grown up in an environment where you can do no wrong, there are no winners and losers, and you get a pat on the back for managing to spell your name who are so pathetic.

barcodes · 05-16-2011, 09:07 AM

It probably just wasn't funny on my part.
My initial post on dumb gen Yers was about this bernie dance which is based on weekend at bernies movie, then I responded to your quote that they feel a sense of entitlement using the reaction from the still of that movie, pretty much in shock/anger/disgust that they should feel that way. Since one was posted under another I felt it would validate the image posted. I need to stop looking at memes, I think I just hit rock bottom lol.

I try to toss out silly pics on gfy as much as possible, I guess they cant all be winners XD.

dyna mo · 05-16-2011, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by barcodes

It probably just wasn't funny on my part.
My initial post on dumb gen Yers was about this bernie dance which is based on weekend at bernies movie, then I responded to your quote that they feel a sense of entitlement using the reaction from the still of that movie, pretty much in shock/anger/disgust that they should feel that way. Since one was posted under another I felt it would validate the image posted. I need to stop looking at memes, I think I just hit rock bottom lol.

I try to toss out silly pics as much as possible, I guess they cant all be winners XD.

now that's funny! they can't all be winners eh.

blackmonsters · 05-16-2011, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by barcodes

Initially posted by Cherrylula in a previous post:

I have also attached one of white people doing it to avoid any racial comments

via wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_at_Bernie%27s
__________________________________________________ __
In late 2010, a song called "Movin' Like Bernie" was released by rapper ISA and became popular on the internet. The song describes a dance in which one pretends to be dead like the titular character of the film. [4]

>>I have also attached one of white people doing it to avoid any racial comments

Yeah, but maybe it's racist to have watched the first video and for some reason you
can't see the white guy doing it all the way through that video.

But I feel ya, he's "acting black" so therefore he must be.

Fail.

barcodes · 05-16-2011, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by blackmonsters

>>I have also attached one of white people doing it to avoid any racial comments

Yeah, but maybe it's racist to have watched the first video and for some reason you
can't see the white guy doing it all the way through that video.

But I feel ya, he's "acting black" so therefore he must be.

Fail.

The purple teletubby in the second video is hispanic and clearly that's what I was referring to.
I never said it was lacking caucasians! Proof or ban imo.

On a side note, I enjoyed your laughing arrow.

LAJ · 05-16-2011, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by barcodes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western post?World War II baby boom ended.[1] While there is no universally agreed upon time frame,[2] the term generally includes people born in the mid-1960s and the '70s up through the early '80s, and usually not later than 1982.[3][4][5] The term had also been used in different times and places for various different subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s.[6]

As far as I'm concerned... Gen X births end in the 70s. No offense to my friends in their early 30s and younger, but their lives and experiences are not in the same group as those of us born in the 60s and 70s. We grew up playing atari, worked for 3.35 / hour at our first jobs for the most part and could identify with "the breakfast club."

Barry-xlovecam · 05-16-2011, 09:31 AM

I thought mankind was evolving ? Silly me (a tail end boomer, just made it under the wire :P)

blackmonsters · 05-16-2011, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by barcodes

The purple teletubby in the second video is hispanic and clearly that's what I was referring to.
I never said it was lacking caucasians! Proof or ban imo.

On a side note, I enjoyed your laughing arrow.

bronco67 · 05-16-2011, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by barcodes

It probably just wasn't funny on my part.
My initial post on dumb gen Yers was about this bernie dance which is based on weekend at bernies movie, then I responded to your quote that they feel a sense of entitlement using the reaction from the still of that movie, pretty much in shock/anger/disgust that they should feel that way. Since one was posted under another I felt it would validate the image posted. I need to stop looking at memes, I think I just hit rock bottom lol.

I try to toss out silly pics on gfy as much as possible, I guess they cant all be winners XD.

Wow. You're the master of obscure, inside jokes.

okok · 05-16-2011, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Internet User

The answer is quite simple. They were not allowed to go outside to play and use their imagination, they were plopped down in front of a video game system. All thanks to the "Mister Stranger Danger" propaganda that they, and their parents were fed...

You should only speak in the form of Philosoraptor panels

Lint · 05-16-2011, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Pornless

No imagination, no creativity, no originality.

A bit like your website.

barcodes · 05-16-2011, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by bronco67

Wow. You're the master of obscure, inside jokes.

Yeah, people post like that in 4chan etc. I don't visit 4chan but from looking at all of the memes over time, I guess i got into a 4 chan-ish way of throwing up images in response to posts.

AdPatron · 05-16-2011, 01:07 PM

Generation X definitely ends with the 70s.

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dyna mo The People's Post Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: invisible 7-11 Posts: 65,149	if i may be so bold as to make an observation about the y gen, i'd say they have a greater sense of entitlement than generations that came before them.

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barcodes Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 2,040	Initially posted by Cherrylula in a previous post: I have also attached one of white people doing it to avoid any racial comments via wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_at_Bernie%27s __________________________________________________ __ In late 2010, a song called "Movin' Like Bernie" was released by rapper ISA and became popular on the internet. The song describes a dance in which one pretends to be dead like the titular character of the film. [4]

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barcodes Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 2,040	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western post?World War II baby boom ended.[1] While there is no universally agreed upon time frame,[2] the term generally includes people born in the mid-1960s and the '70s up through the early '80s, and usually not later than 1982.[3][4][5] The term had also been used in different times and places for various different subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s.[6]

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Sausage Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 3,012	Not all Gen Y. You get some Gen Y from China or India and you are probably looking at some of the smartest people on the planet. It's only really western Gen Y who have grown up in an environment where you can do no wrong, there are no winners and losers, and you get a pat on the back for managing to spell your name who are so pathetic.

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Barry-xlovecam It's 42 Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Global Posts: 18,083	I thought mankind was evolving ? Silly me (a tail end boomer, just made it under the wire :P)

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