Leader of the Pack was wretched -- trite lyrics and motoric rhythms, dated before its introduction. It seems like 1T sentiments (I got infatuated with someone Mommy and Daddy could only disapprove of, and they were right) at the end of their relevance.

No links or lyrics will be offered.

Originally Posted by Eric the Green

That's pretty low, I agree. In my relative opinion though, once the 3T hit, even lower lows were hit.


Millennials to both of us: ship out

I'd go with: there's a high probability that if a song is a pop song, it's bad. Just how high, I wouldn't care to estimate.

Or more like stop with the bs. But shipping out would not be that bad of an idea....

Originally Posted by Taramarie

Or more like stop with the bs. But shipping out would not be that bad of an idea....

I knew you might like it

Originally Posted by Eric the Green

I knew you might like it

hahaha thanks for the laugh. Been one hell of a day for me. Really I woudnt but sometimes the fighting and stagnation gets to me sometimes and at those times i wish a newer generation could come in and fix the issues. Make them go away. Particularly today.

Originally Posted by Eric the Green

Nihilist was just kidding.

I was more interested in another open forum, not a secret facebook site, when I asked you. Nihilist gave me some possibilities so I am looking into them. I had never been able to find any before, even using google. We'll see if these other sites are any good. One of them is so encumbered with rules that it attracts only a few very timid souls. Another has so many topics it's hard to find one to chew on. But I'm still looking. This forum is very wide ranging, and that's the good thing about it. Most sites are about hobbies.

Only partially kidding. The reasons he wasn't initially allowed in were the same reasons that you weren't allowed in. Taramarie nailed that similarity.
Why don't you start your own fb group? Suggested name: "Boomers 4 Bieber"

Originally Posted by pbrower2a

Anyone can take just about any religion, find what he wants to find in it, and use it for his own purposes. Heck, L. Ron Hubbard founded his own "Church of $cientology" for fun and profit (from selling devices that in their current incarnation resemble EZ-Bake ovens).

You forgot the "but are less useful" part in your last sentence PBR. I can use an EZ-Bake oven to make something to eat. Granted really really small things to eat, but that is an option if I'm looking for inefficiently baked treats.

Originally Posted by Taramarie

Or more like stop with the bs. But shipping out would not be that bad of an idea....

The BS is all Boomer. Xers do not have time for it now, didn't have time for it back in the day, and won't have time for it tomorrow. Hence why Rags said that X to Boom usually has to be "shut up".

Originally Posted by Kinser79

You forgot the "but are less useful" part in your last sentence PBR. I can use an EZ-Bake oven to make something to eat. Granted really really small things to eat, but that is an option if I'm looking for inefficiently baked treats.

But an e-meter makes an excellent device for swindling suckers! An EZ-Bake oven might 'only' bake cupcakes, cookies, etc.

Originally Posted by nihilist moron

Only partially kidding. The reasons he wasn't initially allowed in were the same reasons that you weren't allowed in. Taramarie nailed that similarity.

His ignore list was a lot longer than mine, I remember.

Why don't you start your own fb group? Suggested name: "Boomers 4 Bieber"

That might be a pretty small list, or at least I wouldn't know how to find such people.

I suppose I could link there to a TV show about his lickable abs without offending you. But I just don't think that is enough reason to motivate me to search for boomers 4 bieber. Nor the fact that most people here don't share my opinion of him. For sure, those who don't like him need to be desensitized to the fact that he's here and ain't goin' away.

Note to anyone who wants to respond to this post: that I didn't bring him up this time.

Originally Posted by pbrower2a

But an e-meter makes an excellent device for swindling suckers! An EZ-Bake oven might 'only' bake cupcakes, cookies, etc.

Scientology was something I dabbled in, so I know a lot about it. It has some very good techniques and ideas, including about how to "clear" yourself from reactive behavior. The e-meter is something like a lie detector mechanism. It means nothing without the psychological and spiritual processes they use in their "auditing." Unfortunately they are not only dogmatic and paranoid, but they charge an arm and a leg and then some for their services. And once you show an interest, they don't let you alone. Someone put me on their mailing list, or else got me from decades ago, and I couldn't get off it. I still get mail from them sometimes. Their positive and negative qualities were given to them mostly by the knowledge and personality of their leader, Mr. LRH, who claimed to be Gautama the Buddha reincarnate.

Originally Posted by Eric the Green

His ignore list was a lot longer than mine, I remember.

He sure liked talking about who was on his ignore list more than you do. Like anyone cared!

But I was thinking about this similarity that Taramarie noted:
"being frustrated that some people do not think this and that is common sense"
That's why I think you'd do great in a Bieber fan club group. Nobody to tell you that you're wrong, no frustrations or ignore lists. A safe space for everything Bieber!

Originally Posted by Eric the Green

Scientology was something I dabbled in, so I know a lot about it. I has some very good techniques and ideas, including about how to "clear" yourself from reactive behavior. The e-meter is something like a lie detector mechanism. It means nothing without the psychological and spiritual processes they use in their "auditing." Unfortunately they are not only dogmatic and paranoid, but they charge an arm and a leg and then some for their services. And once you show an interest, they don't let you alone. Someone put me on their mailing list, or else got me from decades ago, and I couldn't get off it. I still get mail from them sometimes. Their positive and negative qualities were given to them mostly by the knowledge and personality of their leader, Mr. LRH, who claimed to be Gautama the Buddha reincarnate.

The problems with $cientology include:

1. Proprietary lore not to be tested by outsiders, but that must be accepted at face value
2. Cult-like, authoritarian control of membership
3. Aggressive litigiousness
4. Unconstrained greed
5. Hostility to alternatives in its area of activity
6. Difficulty of exit -- the door opens only one way


I know enough to not argue with them. They can make life miserable for anyone who confronts them.

It's a good thing that you 'only' dabbled with them. Maybe there is a little wisdom in Dianetics, but that is about as far as I would go.

Originally Posted by Taramarie

Or more like stop with the bs. But shipping out would not be that bad of an idea....

Xer's to Millies: Stop jacking with fucking Ishits!

Originally Posted by Eric the Green

Scientology was something I dabbled in, so I know a lot about it. I has some very good techniques and ideas

Oh for fuck's sake...

Originally Posted by Ragnarök_62

Xer's to Millies: Stop jacking with fucking Ishits!

excuse me? Want to say that in english because "ishits" makes no damned sense at all. Btw, I do not play around with iphones, ipads etc so you should direct that to someone who actually does, thank you.

Originally Posted by Odin

Oh for fuck's sake...

I know right? When i read that he dabbled in scientology i could not believe i was reading this.

Originally Posted by pbrower2a

The problems with $cientology include:

1. Proprietary lore not to be tested by outsiders, but that must be accepted at face value
2. Cult-like, authoritarian control of membership
3. Aggressive litigiousness
4. Unconstrained greed
5. Hostility to alternatives in its area of activity
6. Difficulty of exit -- the door opens only one way


I know enough to not argue with them. They can make life miserable for anyone who confronts them.

It's a good thing that you 'only' dabbled with them. Maybe there is a little wisdom in Dianetics, but that is about as far as I would go.

Yes, I didn't find it compatible, and I didn't go too far. You are right about its problems. Its cultish, aggressive, paranoid behavior and approach and its greed ruins a psychological/spiritual system that works pretty well for some people, and is used and adapted by practitioners outside the cult.

Actually, I found the Scientology books had more wisdom and were more interesting; Dianetics was primitive stuff by comparison, although it was an exciting book to read.

Originally Posted by Taramarie

I know right? When i read that he dabbled in scientology i could not believe i was reading this.

Believe it. In the early Awakening years it had quite a following and a boom in its popularity, along with many other techniques, cults and gurus.

Originally Posted by Eric the Green

Believe it. In the early Awakening years it had quite a following and a boom in its popularity, along with many other techniques, cults and gurus.

Boy they must have been gullible. I am glad i was not around back then to see that huge cult horseshit.

gen xers you have my condolences for having to see the older folk fall for that woo woo crap

Originally Posted by Taramarie

excuse me? Want to say that in english because "ishits" makes no damned sense at all. Btw, I do not play around with iphones, ipads etc so you should direct that to someone who actually does, thank you.

Oh, I do. That's a common thread of Milliedom where I live. Like @ work, that's a common habit. *Those* Millies are the ones jacking around them. Sorry, but multitaskin is hieighly ovehated. I don't speak "English". I speak US Southern dialect. So it's "y'all put them damn phones away, seence y'all are awwn tha clawck now."

Nothing wrong with playing around on your smart phone unless it becomes pathological.

Originally Posted by Ragnarök_62

Oh, I do. That's a common thread of Milliedom where I live. Like @ work, that's a common habit. *Those* Millies are the ones jacking around them. Sorry, but multitaskin is hieighly ovehated. I don't speak "English". I speak US Southern dialect. So it's "y'all put them damn phones away, seence y'all are awwn tha clawck now."

Yes i can clearly see you do not speak english. When you say jacking it sounds like they are stimulating themselves with their "ishits" as you call them. I can easily see some gen xers becoming like my grandpa. Not having a clue about the "I" gadgets and wanting to avoid them like the plague. Amazing some of you are already there. My grandpa has an excuse as he is 88.

Originally Posted by Odin

Nothing wrong with playing around on your smart phone unless it becomes pathological.

Funny enough, it is my mother who got me one. She is a boomer. I have no use for it and do not use it. However, my mother uses her smartphone obsessively.

I will just add I am glad at my job people there do not have such a superiority complex that they feel the need to trash on younger folk for what they do. The gen xers who do this should know better as they received the same shit treatment by boomers. You would think the gen xers who do this would be better than the boomers who trash their generation. Clearly they are not.