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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6246949
05/24/18 02:53 PM
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This whole thread has given me a smile...made my whole day really. I want to throw out a thought, I'm 30 and started mowing lawns when I was 12, built a trailer to pull behind my bike and away I went, been working ever since. I have certainly found my share of lazy folks from all age groups, and am guilty of calling some of the younger than me generation "snowflakes". But as a parent I realize that its my job to instill work ethic in my children and teach them right from wrong, so I scratch my head a little when I hear people labeling a generation as lazy or incompetent. My thoughts on this are why not look at the parents that helped guide then down that path...


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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6246965
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Boy Hobbs that is exactly what I been wanting to say. I can't talk to much my parent weren't to hard on me but they sure were soft on my sister, and it shows. She is 27 and lives with my parents with her boy friend. I know they are my parents but I sure don't pass up a chance to tell they how dumb they are for letting that crap go on. I am proud to say I am a self made man.

Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6246992
05/24/18 03:51 PM
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Remember how well the researchers and pollsters performed in 2016? (Hint - not well) Also - One Poll, the ones completing this per the video are based in London & Bristol....Don't have time to dig deeper but I reckon we could find one from them specifically declaring Hillary the winner in a landslide.

All that aside - Turn down that music! Get off my lawn! Kids these days got no respect!


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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Catch22] #6247068
05/24/18 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted By: Catch22
Well, it's 230 in the morning here and I can't sleep, RA is a horrible thing, so I've had a couple tottie's and would like to send out a message to the millennials and Gen Z here on Tman and hopefully beyond. Generational gap, has always been there. When I was 9 I was delivering papers and mowing lawns in the neighborhood. My old man on Saturday mornings would wake up before dawn and come to my room and smack me on the forehead to wake me to get my work done. I was no fool and already had planned my day but to him, if I wasn't up before dawn, I was slacking. Until I was 14, then when he slapped my forehead and I woke up and told him, I have my day planned and stop concerning yourself with it did he give me his big toothy grin and say, what took you so long. Turned out, years later, he knew and loved having coffee with me on those Saturday mourning's. Us baby boomers and Gen X, were raised to be workers, we were raised to love our Country, our Flag, and it felt right. But it wasn't till I had a experience with my Grandpa that I really realized how wonderful our Country was. Grandpa was born in 1917 and ended up in the 14th tank battalion 9th armored division called the Phantom 9 in WW2. He was such a pleasant man. He was kind, generous, loving, caring and so hard working. He was love to all of us, and we to him. I was the thorn in his side cause I was the only one out of all us kids that ask him about his service and he always, with such love, was able to avoid me on that subject matter. Until one day, after Mam'ma passed. I would drive 4 hours to have breakfast with him an after on this one day he went to the basement and was rambling around, I hollered down to see if he was ok, he came up in full uniform with a picture album under one arm, and saluted me with the other. I started crying and he said, boy, your the only one who has ask me about my service so today is your day, you can ask me what you want and I will answer. I realize this is very long so I will not go into detail about the episodes, bullets flying, grenades and prayer. But I will say that as one of my questions, I ask him, how did he get through it and be able to come home to be such a good man. He replied, I was to get on the queen mary to france and I came to the ramp and stopped. I knew what was going to happen, so I said to myself..... Once I board this ship, I am no longer Jake and he clicked his heels together. When he got back, he reversed it. If any of us were to even brush up against a greatest Gen person, we should consider ourselves blessed. My point, albeit long, is, us Baby boomers and Gen X are worried sick that the Millenials and GenZ don't get it. This USA, is the best Nation in the world and we want you to love our Nation, our Constitution, our Flag, our Anthem, our Sovereignty and our way of life. To our fault you have received more of an indoctrination than an education. We, in a lot of ways have failed you youngins, but see through the BS and rise. Our Nation is the last of the Mohicans for real freedom. Raise your heads and look up, The BS your being taught is playing out live for you here, and across the pond. Fall in love with us and our great Nation. Give us hope for our precious Grandbabies. USA! Embrace freedom!!


You should drunk post on tman more often...they're better than your sober posts, LOL.

I made Gen X by one year thank God, lol. And agree with all you said here.


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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Tweed] #6247080
05/24/18 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted By: Tweed
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With the cost of rent now days I could see someone expecting the changing of lightbulbs being an included service. I keep trying to talk my wife into getting a rental property, we could probably pay that mortgage and our own house mortgage with the rent.


Especially in your neck of the woods! Those FIBS would pay a good price for a summer rental property. But....you'd have to change light bulbs for them.


I always get a laugh when people from Milwaukee use the term "FIB"...like they're somehow different.

Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247081
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Thank you Yote, but truth be told I wasn't drunk lol, just warm and cozy after a couple hot toddies. I would apologize for my "sober" post but I have to call things as I see them, so I can't. I will say, I am very concerned where the Gen Z will take us. I plan on living till I'm 107, so I'd like to keep my freedoms lol.


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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247103
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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Catch22] #6247185
05/24/18 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted By: Catch22
Thank you Yote, but truth be told I wasn't drunk lol, just warm and cozy after a couple hot toddies. I would apologize for my "sober" post but I have to call things as I see them, so I can't. I will say, I am very concerned where the Gen Z will take us. I plan on living till I'm 107, so I'd like to keep my freedoms lol.
I didn't know you drank till I saw your sober post! grin


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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Kre] #6247192
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Originally Posted By: Kre
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Especially in your neck of the woods! Those FIBS would pay a good price for a summer rental property. But....you'd have to change light bulbs for them.


I always get a laugh when people from Milwaukee use the term "FIB"...like they're somehow different.



Well....considering we're in the same state, economic engine, and have a sincere love and appreciation for the whole state...yeah I'd say we're different.

Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247204
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"Can millennials change a light bulb?"

I know my kids can..........plus run heavy machinery, cut and split wood, shingle their own roof, tap trees and boil down..............etc



Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247223
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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247226
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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247244
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Originally Posted By: Catch22
Thank you Yote, but truth be told I wasn't drunk lol, just warm and cozy after a couple hot toddies. I would apologize for my "sober" post but I have to call things as I see them, so I can't. I will say, I am very concerned where the Gen Z will take us. I plan on living till I'm 107, so I'd like to keep my freedoms lol.
I didn't know you drank till I saw your sober post! grin

Oh, ha ha ha lol. And BadgerTrapper97, great post!


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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247251
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I always look at myself as a baby boomer when in actuality I am a member of the silent generation(1944). No one ever mentions us because we are....well.. silent. I don't believe in stereotypes when it comes to generations. I know a lot of millennials who work their butts off. I think there is an alarming number of people who don't really want to get their hands dirty. I don't know how it is nation wide but here in Appleton Wisconsin there are "now hiring" and "help wanted" signs everywhere. The Technical College here has all sorts of money to spend on student aid for skills training (electrician, plumbers, welders etc) but not enough are applying. I'm not singling out any age group here but ...geeze.

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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247277
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My assistant at work is a millennial... one time a door lock set failed so the door couldn’t be opened, instead of him using the other door and taking the handle apart he asked google what to do in that situation..I don’t know what google told him but when I came to work the next day the door jamb was all marred up from the sawzall he used trying to cut the strike cry
Recently he told me he googled how to get the garbage cans apart that were stuck together.

Is this normal for millennials?!

Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247282
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Lots of useless people of all ages around.The further south you go the worse it gets.


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Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247298
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I’m an early baby boomer and I can change lots of different light bulbs but I sure can’t figure out computers.

Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247308
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Now that's funny canvasback 2. To be fair, though, I can't shoe a horse.

Re: Can millennials change a light bulb? [Re: Finster] #6247503
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