On 2/8/2019 at 3:14 PM, freefourur said:

Ketchup on spaghetti is sacrilege. 

 

Ketchup on spaghetti is actually really common in Japan and other Asian countries, so it’s not as weird for the girl making it since she’s obviously familiar with those cultures. 

 

Plus the recipe she’s making is from Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo, and Mama June ain’t no Millennial. 

 

Next.

On 2/8/2019 at 4:39 PM, eastvillagedon said:

this is an example of propaganda from the organic food industry. It's not like normal commercially available produce is filled with toxins that's going to make you grow two heads. ?

 

Ehhh....not sure if it's ONLY propaganda.  Non-organic foods are free to use hormones and pesticides at will and who knows what kind of soil they're growing in.  Organic foods are SUPPOSED to have different quality/standards.  I lived amongst many of Lake Side Produce's plots for several years and will 100% buy their organic produce over all others because I watched them farm it for some time.  Commercial produce can be sprayed, genetically modified, introduced to growth hormones.

 

So the main issue for me and why I buy organic over conventional is the reduced use of pesticides and attention to soil quality. Although, I'll take local over organic any day, even if it isn't necessarily grown to organic standards.

 

I'm cusp X/Y.

 

 

Edited February 10, 20196 yr by tklg
a word

12 hours ago, taestell said:

On a semi-related note, Cincinnati's "oldies" radio station is now playing songs from the late 1980s, and our "classic rock" station is now playing Korn and Green Day.

 

New York's oldies station, WCBS-FM, long ago threw baby boomers under the bus and now plays mainly stuff from the 80's and sometimes 70's--but never anything from the 60's, including the Beatles. I guess they figure everyone from that era is dead. 

7 minutes ago, tklg said:

 

Ehhh....not sure if it's ONLY propaganda.  Non-organic foods are free to use hormones and pesticides at will and who knows what kind of soil they're growing in.  Organic foods are SUPPOSED to have different quality/standards.  I lived amongst many of Lake Side Produce's plots for several years and will 100% buy their organic produce over all others because I watched them farm it for some time.  Commercial produce can be sprayed, genetically modified, introduced to growth hormones.

 

So the main issue for me and why I buy organic over conventional is the reduced use of pesticides and attention to soil quality. Although, I'll take local over organic any day, even if it isn't necessarily grown to organic standards.

 

I'm cusp X/Y.

 

 

Some small local farmers grow to organic standards but can't afford the certification.  But I also prefer local produce first but that is difficult in Cleveland in February. 

 

3 minutes ago, eastvillagedon said:

 

New York's oldies station, WCBS-FM, long ago threw baby boomers under the bus and now plays mainly stuff from the 80's and sometimes 70's--but never anything from the 60's, including the Beatles. I guess they figure everyone from that era is dead. 

I heard Pearl Jam on WNCX Classic Rock in Cleveland and instantly felt old.

Exactly.  Just because it isn't certified organic, doesn't mean it isn't organic.  Could just be they didn't pay for the certification.

 

These guys making it more possible to get local stuff in CLE!  http://www.evgoh.com/gcg/ Great example of worker owned cooperative as well ?

3 minutes ago, freefourur said:

I heard Pearl Jam on WNCX Classic Rock in Cleveland and instantly felt old.

 

The irony about WCBS is that all the disc jockeys are baby boomers. The one on the morning drive, Scott Shannon, is 71! He gets huge ratings, so every so often he'll slip in a 60's song just to spite the station management. A few years ago the station was sold, and the new owners wanted to make changes in the programming, which obviously meant updating the playlist. I remember when I first started listening to the station decades ago they played a lot of stuff from the 50's--Doo-Wop etc. While I used to mock that music myself (soo uncool) I gained an appreciation for it listening to a program that was on the Fordham University station once a week (it's no longer on) dedicated to this genre. A lot of those groups gave rise to the great girl groups of the 60's. What set doo-wop artists apart was that they could really sing--what a novelty in today's music?

12 hours ago, taestell said:

On a semi-related note, Cincinnati's "oldies" radio station is now playing songs from the late 1980s, and our "classic rock" station is now playing Korn and Green Day.

"oldies'' used to be music from about 10 years prior; no reason the late '80s, 30 years ago, isn't ''classic rock'' by now and should have been about 20 years ago.  Groups like U2 have been around for 40 years!

Edited February 10, 20196 yr by Oxford19

Columbus had eleventy billion Oldies stations in the '80s. '50-'60s only

9 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

Columbus had eleventy billion Oldies stations in the '80s. '50-'60s only

I can attest to this. Now you cant find any 50-60' sh&t...maybe playing in nursing homes lol.  It will be weird when all of the residents in nursing homes will be Brittany's Heather's, Chad's and such.

 

Won't be too long before Moon Unit or Dweezil will fall and break a hip. 

15 hours ago, taestell said:

On a semi-related note, Cincinnati's "oldies" radio station is now playing songs from the late 1980s, and our "classic rock" station is now playing Korn and Green Day.

 

WDJO is a locally-owned radio station (apparently owned by the owner of Harley Davidson of Cincinnati) and plays 1950s-60s oldies.  I listen to it all of the time.  Almost zero commercials, and the commercials are for odd-ball stuff like an independent pharmacy in Covington and a bakery in North College Hill.  They recently started running a charity commercial for an orangutan sanctuary. 

 

They play stuff like this 24 hours per day:

 

and this:

 

 

and this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 10, 20196 yr by jmecklenborg

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/millennials-spend-more-3000-year-15854345

 

Quote

Millennials spend more than £3,000 a year on coffee, socialising, food and clothes, study finds

 

Wtf kind of garbage reporting is this?  "Grown adults spend ~$83/week to subsist and seek pockets of joy in the hellscape we've crafted for them" as if clothing and food are optional expenses now?

^^I loved the Name Game. I remember singing that on a bus to a field trip to the Cleveland Art Museum in the 5th grade. We were such dorks. And who can forget Melanie's infamous "Brand New Pair of Roller Skates" song??

 

 

 

LOL!

9 hours ago, KJP said:

LOL!

Lets be clear, Karen Delaney-St. Croix-Popeil-Walker-Finster is not Gen X.   Bombay Gin, yes, Gen X, no.

I bet that little kid is a Millennial. Anyway it's not important. Silent Generation is chill too, whereas Greatest was not. And wow did the Greatest and Boomers scream at each other!

If you grew up on a farm and were drafted into WWII, there's just no way you couldn't be completely appalled by hippies.  

 

Now the hangover from the Vietnam War is unknown.  It was like a dark cloud that loomed over my neighborhood.  There were injured guys all over the place.  

 

Every boy grew up in fear of becoming one of those guys.  That's why all of the whining on Twitter drives me nuts.  

That's why most people under 40 thinks Harleys are totally ridiculous. Like, "You want me to pay $30,000 for a bike that looks almost identical to a $300 1974 Honda CB350 while dressed up like a homeless, disabled, mentally-ill, alcoholic Vitenam vet?"

And I hear young people all the time saying that they won't even ride in a car older than 2009 because the safety features aren't modern enough. Good luck getting people who think like that to join the military.

3 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

And I hear young people all the time saying that they won't even ride in a car older than 2009 because the safety features aren't modern enough. Good luck getting people who think like that to join the military.

 

I am young (25-30 range) and have never once heard anyone +/- 10 years from me say anything even remotely similar to this. I drove a 2006 model up until just a few months ago. Never once did I have a fellow youngster complain about the safety features, or lack thereof. My wife still drives a 2007 model and she's never received a complaint either. In fact, most of my friends drove cars older than 2009 models up until recently when we started making enough money to upgrade. What kind of young people are you hanging around? The only people I've heard comment on safety features in cars are the over 40 crowd. 

Young people in car blog comments sections. I think they might be posting from areas with much higher rates of helicopter parenting than Ohio.

Edited October 25, 20195 yr by GCrites80s

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/asia/new-zealand-ok-boomer-trnd/index.html

 

New Zealand parliament member drops an "OK Boomer" while giving a speech on the Parliament floor.

On 2/20/2019 at 1:54 PM, eastvillagedon said:

^^I loved the Name Game. I remember singing that on a bus to a field trip to the Cleveland Art Museum in the 5th grade. We were such dorks. And who can forget Melanie's infamous "Brand New Pair of Roller Skates" song??

 

 

 

Who doesn't instantly think of the movie "Boogie Nights" when they hear this song?

On 10/25/2019 at 12:30 PM, GCrites80s said:

Young people in car blog comments sections. I think they might be posting from areas with much higher rates of helicopter parenting than Ohio.

 

Or they are a highly self-selected sample. I've lived in several states and never heard ANYONE be worried about riding in an older car. 

 

We need to stop basing our opinions of popular opinion based on what we read online, whether it is twitter, urbanohio, comments sections, what have you. This is not picking on you, I've been guilty of it too. But so many people post here about how "x group believes this" or "y group believes that" when none of us have actually heard members of those groups espouse those views in real life. There are posters on this board (you're not one of them) that have based their entire view of political parties, of generations, of people who live in other states, of other countries, etc. based on what they read on twitter from a small handful of people in that group. It's kind of insane.

Boomer tensions have been on the rise lately across the internet

Just now, Boxtruffles said:

Boomer tensions have been on the rise lately across the internet

 

The anti-Boomer stuff applies to the reckless boomers who can't shut up.  There are plenty of reasonable people from that generation who never, ever post on the internet.  

 

 

 

7 minutes ago, Boxtruffles said:

Boomer tensions have been on the rise lately across the internet

 

Damn, your generation must really suck if *three other generations* are just relentlessly mocking you.  Simultaneously.  

Edited November 7, 20195 yr by DarkandStormy

I grew up knowing lots of Silents and they think Boomers are just plain silly.

Dumb generalizations about entire groups of people based on age alone are just, well...dumb.

Almost all of the "timeless" Christmas songs are from Baby Boomers' childhoods.

5 minutes ago, taestell said:

Almost all of the "timeless" Christmas songs are from Baby Boomers' childhoods.

LOL .This is so true. Every year when I tune into the station that plays nothing but Christmas music  I feel like I'm 10 years old again. Okay, no comments? --this year it started even before Thanksgiving. Hmm, this was missing from the list (1967)

 

 

15 minutes ago, taestell said:

Almost all of the "timeless" Christmas songs are from Baby Boomers' childhoods.

 

Didn't Mariah Carey's song hit No. 1 this year?

The battlefield of music is one upon which the War on Christmas has been wildly successful.

All of those songs were written and arranged by guys who could actually write songs.  They understood pedal tones, modal shifts, tritone substitutions, etc.  

Ok, here's ASCAP's updated list for 2018, instead of 2000-2009.  https://www.ascap.com/press/2018/11/11-29-holiday-songs-2018

 

Notables that differ from the above chart:

1) "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (1994)

7) "Last Christmas" (1984)

22) "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" (1995)

23) "Underneath the Tree" (2013)

24) "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (1984)

25) "Wonderful Christmastime" (1979)

"Last Christmas" (1984) received almost no airplay in the U.S. until about 2012-2013. It was big in Europe though.

On 11/7/2019 at 6:27 PM, Toddguy said:

Dumb generalizations about entire groups of people based on age alone are just, well...dumb.

 

Like racism, sexism, homophobia and other "predjucies" and "biases".....Humm

 

 

 

On 11/7/2019 at 1:00 PM, jmecklenborg said:

 

The anti-Boomer stuff applies to the reckless boomers who can't shut up.  There are plenty of reasonable people from that generation who never, ever post on the internet.  

 

 

 

there are plenty of unreasonable ones who never post too, they just take it out on their family instead

I realize from time to time the older generations need education in order to stay in the loop.

 

The youngest generation, younger than millennials, is gen Z. or zoomers, for short. this calls to mind both their somewhat frantic nature and their partial boomer-like tendencies in a few areas.

One subset of zoomers is the doomers. These are the ones who believe they are doomed due to a combination of factors, including climate change, the political landscape, general or specific social hostility, increased competition for scarce prospects, spending too much time inside, social media, mass shootings, increased security, etc.

 

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=Doomer

 

 

On 12/17/2019 at 4:57 PM, DarkandStormy said:

Didn't Mariah Carey's song hit No. 1 this year?

 

There was a great episode of the Today, Explained podcast that went into why this happened. Basically, back when the charts were more based on music sales, a song/album sale would only be measured once, when the record, CD, tape, or even MP3 was sold. Even if every person in America owned Mariah's Christmas CD and pulled it out every year and listened to it on Christmas day, there was no way of measuring that, so it wouldn't make the charts again. But now that streams are counted, an older song can make it back onto the charts if people simply start listening to it again. It sounds obvious when you say it, but it is a major fundamental shift in how we think about how "popular music" is measured. Even YouTube streams are now considered, so if the "Rick Rolling" phenomenon were to happen today, it's possible that "Never Gonna Give You Up" would make its way back onto the charts for that reason alone.

^That actuall happened in the analog days with Benny Mardones' "Into the Night". It charted both in 1980 and 1989.

5 hours ago, taestell said:

 

There was a great episode of the Today, Explained podcast that went into why this happened. Basically, back when the charts were more based on music sales, a song/album sale would only be measured once, when the record, CD, tape, or even MP3 was sold. Even if every person in America owned Mariah's Christmas CD and pulled it out every year and listened to it on Christmas day, there was no way of measuring that, so it wouldn't make the charts again. But now that streams are counted, an older song can make it back onto the charts if people simply start listening to it again. It sounds obvious when you say it, but it is a major fundamental shift in how we think about how "popular music" is measured. Even YouTube streams are now considered, so if the "Rick Rolling" phenomenon were to happen today, it's possible that "Never Gonna Give You Up" would make its way back onto the charts for that reason alone.

 

Incidentally I just bought a used CD of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited today because I got sick of the way stuff sounds coming off my computer.  I listened to it while cleaning my house tonight.  That album is 55 years old and smokes anything that has appeared in the last 10 years.  It makes everything going on right now (including the defenders of what is going on now) look really, really stupid. 

 

You can listen to the good stuff all of the time now, for free.  But people, when left to their own devices, listen to arguably worse stuff than they did under the monoculture. 

 

 

On 12/30/2019 at 9:08 PM, Cavalier Attitude said:

there are plenty of unreasonable ones who never post too, they just take it out on their family instead

Old people have never been able to shut up since the begining of time!  Theyre always right, they want their way, and people younger then them are stupid.  Its not a generation thing, its an old person thing.  It makes me laugh that people think theyre "30 years old" is so much different then their parents "30 year old".  You can say that with any age group. 

8 minutes ago, Jenny said:

Old people have never been able to shut up since the begining of time!  Theyre always right, they want their way, and people younger then them are stupid.  Its not a generation thing, its an old person thing.  It makes me laugh that people think theyre "30 years old" is so much different then their parents "30 year old".  You can say that with any age group. 

Honestly it's not them who bother me since they're not long for this world, it's the young sociopaths who are the scary ones.

As a Millennial Dad, I thought this was an interesting article....

 

Dads now spend 3 times as much time with their kids than previous generations

 

Millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%.

 

Research shows millennial dads have more egalitarian beliefs about childcare, and are striving to see more even distribution of parenting duties in their own households. The numbers prove things aren't perfect—many dads admit things aren't yet even in their homes (mom still does more)— but one recent study found modern dads devote 30 more minutes to daily household chores than their own fathers did, and they're spending more time with their kids than previous generations.

 

https://www.mother.ly/news/millennial-dads-spend-more-time-with-their-kids?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

Edited January 6, 20205 yr by cincydave8

On 12/31/2019 at 9:14 PM, Jenny said:

Old people have never been able to shut up since the begining of time!  Theyre always right, they want their way, and people younger then them are stupid.  Its not a generation thing, its an old person thing.  It makes me laugh that people think theyre "30 years old" is so much different then their parents "30 year old".  You can say that with any age group. 

 

The difference is that they've already been you and you're going to become them and there's nothing you can do to stop from becoming them.