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Post#126 at 09-02-2007 11:47 PM by Bria67Xer [at Harrisburg, PA joined May 2007 #posts 339]
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I Guess We'll See

Seminomad - heh-heh, yeah, you have 3 years left before you start looking ridiculous if you're still out partying and drinking all the time.

I know there is a whole other 2nd wave of Gen Xers out there considerabily younger than me, who are not nearing middle-age years. I'm a 1st waver and many of my fellow cohorts are entering either late 30s & early 40s. I would say that most of them are not into the club, drinking, partying scene anymore. It isn't my so much my opinion, as it is that i hear the "God, they still haven't grown up, yet" sentiment verbalized by my fellow cohorts when such behavior is witnessed.

I'm assuming that those in the 2nd wave will also become less interested in that scene as they approach their middle-age years. Some of it may be b/c of being married and having kids. The other might be that, in some cases, health issues start to show up around that time and that can provoke a change in lifestyle to occur.

So, I guess we'll see.

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Post#127 at 09-03-2007 02:35 PM by Steven McTowelie [at Cary, NC joined Jun 2002 #posts 535]
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Breakfast of Champions

This seems like a good thread to ask this question.

How many Gen-Xers out there still eat sugary cereals?

Personally, I had a bowl of Fruit Loops for breakfast today.







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Thumbs up

In my opinion, there is nothing better than a bowl of Wheat Chex with a heavy dose of sugar. I ate Froasted Flakes well into my thirties and as Tony the Tiger said " Theeeey're Great!".







Post#129 at 09-03-2007 06:35 PM by Child of Socrates [at Cybrarian from America's Dairyland, 1961 cohort joined Sep 2001 #posts 14,092]
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Quote Originally Posted by Steven McTowelie View Post
This seems like a good thread to ask this question.

How many Gen-Xers out there still eat sugary cereals?

Personally, I had a bowl of Fruit Loops for breakfast today.
Captain Crunch makes a nice dessert.







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I've always loved the taste of Cocoa Krispies because the the half bowl of chocolate milk you get once the cereal is gone.







Post#131 at 09-03-2007 07:05 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,275]
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Quote Originally Posted by Child of Socrates View Post
Captain Crunch makes a nice dessert.
I had a bowl of it this morning for breakfast... and another for brunch.
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Post#132 at 09-03-2007 11:02 PM by Bria67Xer [at Harrisburg, PA joined May 2007 #posts 339]
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Fruity Pebbles

Next to binge consumption of ice cream periodically......I have been known to binge on Fruity Pebbles. Love that chemically-laden, sugar-infused, partially hydrogenated, MSG laced stuff!!!

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Quote Originally Posted by Steven McTowelie View Post
How many Gen-Xers out there still eat sugary cereals?

Personally, I had a bowl of Fruit Loops for breakfast today.
Ahem...

Isn't it Froot Loops?

The only sugary cereal I ever really ate back then, and one I plan on continuing to consume (periodically) until I am in the ground.
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Post#134 at 09-04-2007 02:08 AM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,275]
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Back in '97 I dated a nutty vegetarian gal from Canada who had me positively hooked on The Captain's Peanut Butter Crunch.
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Post#135 at 09-04-2007 08:28 AM by Skabungus [at West Michigan joined Jun 2007 #posts 1,027]
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Smile Wetness from above

Sometimes, I just cant resist being the wet blanket.

I gave up on pop (soda for those not from Ohio or Michigan), sugared cerials, and all other junk food in high school. I liked them all, but because I was a wrestler, I had to watch my weight.

When I got into college I thought "yea! now I can have my Apple Jacks, Coke, Dr. Pepper and Dorittos agian!" It wasn't the same! I grew up on all that stuff and having taken a 3 year break from them, my body and, in particular my pallate, had detoxed from them. Now, they all taste too sweet, too plastic and too.........well too much. *sigh* I guess some things just aren't the same. Thank the gods this doesn't apply to sex which seems to be better if one abstains for a period of time.

For most of my adulthood ( and the entire life span of my 13 year old) "fruity flavors" in our food comes from the real thing mixed with some buckwheat honey and cinnimon, or real homemade granola with lots of currants, rasins, apples, apricots, walnuts and almonds. Mix it in with maple sugar or honey and its at least as potent as Froot Loops! A bowl of Dad's homemade granola has our 2.5 year old doing laps around the back yard for hours. Great stuff.

The desire for sweets is still there in all of us, its just that me and mine have opted for the cheaper, healtier alternatives........to stave off health issues that will be expensive in the 4T and to keep our kids healthy because we're obsessed with protecting them from the ills of society.

Were I to rejoin the ranks of the consumerist public, I'd have Apple Jacks (M, W, F) Coco Puffs (T TR) and Captain Crunch (S and S) for breakfast, Dr. Pepper with my lunchs and Cotton Club ginger ale with dinner.







Post#136 at 09-04-2007 12:27 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Quote Originally Posted by Justin '77 View Post
Ahem...

Isn't it Froot Loops?

The only sugary cereal I ever really ate back then, and one I plan on continuing to consume (periodically) until I am in the ground.
Can you get it in Russia?
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Post#137 at 09-04-2007 07:26 PM by Neisha '67 [at joined Jul 2001 #posts 2,227]
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Here are two interesting editorials on Judd Apatow in my local paper today. I consider Apatow to be someone who could practically have been invented by S&H.

One is by Ellen Goodman, a lefty Boomer. She uses Apatow as an example of a trend she bemoans. Apparently, we Xers, whom she praises as having been raised on "Free to Be You and Me" and with both genders heavily involved in parenting, are bringing back too much "boy culture."

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/edi...ss_of_boyhood/

The other is by conservo Xer columnist Rich Lowry, who apparently loves Apatow and finds him to be simulataneously crude, right-wing, and respectful of women:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...jEwMDhkOWM3OTI=

What neither one of them gets yet is that, for Xers "family values," isn't some sort of culture wars political statement, it's just how to raise kids. Oh, and the whole "boy" thing is just kinda funny, not a big knock on feminism.







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Quote Originally Posted by Neisha '67 View Post
Here are two interesting editorials on Judd Apatow in my local paper today. I consider Apatow to be someone who could practically have been invented by S&H.

One is by Ellen Goodman, a lefty Boomer. She uses Apatow as an example of a trend she bemoans. Apparently, we Xers, whom she praises as having been raised on "Free to Be You and Me" and with both genders heavily involved in parenting, are bringing back too much "boy culture."

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/edi...ss_of_boyhood/

The other is by conservo Xer columnist Rich Lowry, who apparently loves Apatow and finds him to be simulataneously crude, right-wing, and respectful of women:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...jEwMDhkOWM3OTI=

What neither one of them gets yet is that, for Xers "family values," isn't some sort of culture wars political statement, it's just how to raise kids. Oh, and the whole "boy" thing is just kinda funny, not a big knock on feminism.
I'm going to throw up.







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Quote Originally Posted by The Rani View Post
I like that guy's movies because I think they're honest. Like, what most guys are thinking but usually don't say because it's not PC.

The problem, I think, is that some people don't get the irony and take that stuff seriously. Like impressionable (read: can't think for themselves) little Millies. Then we end up with a whole gen of horny little sexists that we gotta deal with, but really in a way it's our own fault.
I'm not sure it's that bad. It's one thing to say something with a bunch of friends, it's another thing to actually do it. However, enough talk can blur the distinction line, as has happened with my "follower" leech brother.







Post#140 at 09-05-2007 11:32 AM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Quote Originally Posted by Neisha '67 View Post
Here are two interesting editorials on Judd Apatow in my local paper today. I consider Apatow to be someone who could practically have been invented by S&H.

One is by Ellen Goodman, a lefty Boomer. She uses Apatow as an example of a trend she bemoans. Apparently, we Xers, whom she praises as having been raised on "Free to Be You and Me" and with both genders heavily involved in parenting, are bringing back too much "boy culture."

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/edi...ss_of_boyhood/

The other is by conservo Xer columnist Rich Lowry, who apparently loves Apatow and finds him to be simulataneously crude, right-wing, and respectful of women:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...jEwMDhkOWM3OTI=

What neither one of them gets yet is that, for Xers "family values," isn't some sort of culture wars political statement, it's just how to raise kids. Oh, and the whole "boy" thing is just kinda funny, not a big knock on feminism.
Sorry to get nitpicky, but Ellen Goodman is a Silent. Graduated from college in 1963, immediately married. Later divorced and remarried.

Her daughter was born in 1968, so that makes her a parent of an Xer.
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Quote Originally Posted by The Wonkette View Post
Sorry to get nitpicky, but Ellen Goodman is a Silent. Graduated from college in 1963, immediately married. Later divorced and remarried.

Her daughter was born in 1968, so that makes her a parent of an Xer.
Ahh! Now that explains a lot. She's always on us Xers for not being, well, nice.

Interesting that the culture warriors here are a Silent feminist and an Xer Dartmouth Review style conservative.







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Quote Originally Posted by The Rani View Post
I like that guy's movies because I think they're honest. Like, what most guys are thinking but usually don't say because it's not PC.

The problem, I think, is that some people don't get the irony and take that stuff seriously. Like impressionable (read: can't think for themselves) little Millies. Then we end up with a whole gen of horny little sexists that we gotta deal with, but really in a way it's our own fault.
Yeah, I think that's what happened to the Lost Gen too, except that it was Silent and Boomer women (and the more sensitive Silent and enlightened Boomer guys -- think Meatloaf from "All in the Family") who bore the brunt of GI machismo.







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Quote Originally Posted by MichaelEaston View Post
I'm going to throw up.
How come??







Post#144 at 09-06-2007 11:26 AM by Brian Beecher [at Downers Grove, IL joined Sep 2001 #posts 2,937]
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Who are social conservatives?

Who are the social conservatives, and what is meant by the term? On the surface one would think that they are those who want to preserve the values of Mom and apple pie. Do they also want to return us to pre-civil rights era thinking, back to the days when anyone who has sex outside of marriage wears a scarlet letter? Will never happen, IMO.

Ironically, when we were a more so-called conservative nation, individually owned stores were still common and the corporates didn't have anywhere near the stranglehold as they do today. So here conservative can be a misnomer.

When the yuppies first appeared on the scene in the mid-80's that bunch was described as being socially liberal and fiscally conservative. This was probably a misnomer as well, as it was they who ushered in an era of conspicuous consumption. Aren't true fiscal conservatives those who believe the old adage to "save for a rainy day?"







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Quote Originally Posted by The Rani View Post
Hee hee ... you mean Meathead? Meatloaf is the singer dude.

I know, old age makes things confusing.

Yeah, what she said. D'Oh!

Maybe I should stick with the Xers Turning 40 thread . . .







Post#146 at 09-12-2007 11:32 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,275]
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Quote Originally Posted by Brian Beecher View Post
Who are the social conservatives, and what is meant by the term? On the surface one would think that they are those who want to preserve the values of Mom and apple pie. Do they also want to return us to pre-civil rights era thinking, back to the days when anyone who has sex outside of marriage wears a scarlet letter? Will never happen, IMO.

Ironically, when we were a more so-called conservative nation, individually owned stores were still common and the corporates didn't have anywhere near the stranglehold as they do today. So here conservative can be a misnomer.

When the yuppies first appeared on the scene in the mid-80's that bunch was described as being socially liberal and fiscally conservative. This was probably a misnomer as well, as it was they who ushered in an era of conspicuous consumption. Aren't true fiscal conservatives those who believe the old adage to "save for a rainy day?"
I am to a large degree both a social and fiscal conservative... and needless to say I don't want to return to "pre-civil-rights-era thinking".

While I laud today's progressive outlook of people being free to choose friends and significant others of different shades and religions, I do not like the so-called "multiculturalist" mentality that many social liberals have... of group membership trumping individuality. Such causes people to focus on differences over similarities, which undermines the very "peace, love and happiness" they claim to stand for.

In sexual matters... well, I do it, and so do lots of others. I'd rather not have my nose rubbed in what should be a private domain, though. Nowadays, it seems that if you don't advertise your sexuality in some way, you are considered weak. That attitude I'd like to see Go Away.

Is "fiscal conservatism" a misnomer? Perhaps. I think of it as not spending what you don't have, lest you rue the day when a bill you cannot pay comes due.

On a societal level, spending money on social programs intended to provide a temporary safety net is a good thing... by preventing people from becoming destitute, you enable them to pay the money back in the form of taxes when they're on their feet again. Throwing good money after bad on the other hand, as in the old welfare system where people were encouraged not to work, was a lose-lose proposition for everyone involved.

On a personal level, being fiscally conservative means buying a Mustang rather than a BMW when you need money to upgrade your home, rather than using your equity ATM to pay for the work.

So what, then, am I quite liberal about? It always comes back to corporations, and the government's responsibility to keep the power that comes with great wealth in check. The type of "fiscal conservative" who believes business owners have no responsibility to anyone else but themselves and short-term profits... not their Nation, employees, customers, or even the long-term investments of their shareholders... need to be cut down to size in very short order. These people forget, at their own peril as well as ours, that if were not for the aforementioned they would neither BE in business, nor wealthy.
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Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59 View Post
Back in '97 I dated a nutty vegetarian gal from Canada who had me positively hooked on The Captain's Peanut Butter Crunch.
Whatever happened to "Boo Berry"? That was my favorite.
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Quote Originally Posted by Zarathustra View Post
Whatever happened to "Boo Berry"? That was my favorite.
Kevin is a nutty kinda guy, not a fruity guy.

At the icecream parlor, he orders pistachio or butter pecan, while I order the coffee/chocolate confection.
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Quote Originally Posted by The Wonkette View Post
... At the ice cream parlor, (Kevin) orders pistachio or butter pecan, while I order the coffee/chocolate confection.
I love pistachio and butter pecan, too. I'm also more than willing to eat those coffee/chocolate concoctions, though the nutty flavors are still my favorites.

I once was nearly banished from a family event for bringing the wrong (i.e. did not contain chocolate) ice cream, so those of us in the nut-centric world need to remain vigilant.
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