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BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Many did, many didn't. But I am just baffled about it given the way we grew up.

But this is interesting:

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NYT writer says Dems are 'getting destroyed' as data show Gen Z 'most conservative' generation in decades

Ezra Klein suggested that Democratic assumptions about youth support have proven 'completely false' amid President Donald Trump's return to power…

…women.

"What's crazy is that if you look at people under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded. Eighteen-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics," Shor said…

…Democrats are getting destroyed now among young voters. I do think that, even as the idea of the rising demographic Democratic majority became a little discredited in 2016 and 2020, Democrats believed that these young voters were eventually going to save them," he said…

They thought that this was a last gasp of something and that if Donald Trump couldn't run up his numbers among seniors and you had Millennials and Gen Z really coming into voting power, that would be the end of this Republican Party. That is just completely false, and it might be the beginning of this Republican Party," Klein added.

"I have to admit, I was one of those liberals four years ago, and it seems I was wrong," Shor replied. "The future has a way of surprising us."

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyt-writer-says-dems-getting-destroyed-data-show-gen-z-most-conservative-generation-decades

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It is fascinating considering how Gen X'ers grew up that they would become the original helicopter parents. Hell, I was a little guilty of it myself. Nothing like the nuts today, but much more helicoptery than my parents were.

Thank you Ms Hawg! Loved it. Yep, I was a kid of the 50s and 60s and this pretty well nailed it. Thanks for the laughs. BTW- when the dog licked it, it did seem to heal faster!

aggiehawg said:

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Politics related because how much the world has changed...and not for the better. We are weaker. And here's why.



Look, I needed a break from all of the legal crap. Found her by accident. Hysterical but true observations. And she's Southern, which I am very partial to.

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Truth!

Isn't there some truth to letting the dog lick it. Antibodies in the saliva or something

Conversely when I got a severe burn by grabbing a glass that was in the fireplace my parents put butter on it

She nailed it.

The running around from dawn to dusk with no supervision, the injuries and how we dealt with them, the "wars", the metal slides, all of that was my childhood.

In Lake Jackson where I grew up, there was a park where they had a rocket slide. That thing stood about 30 feet, maybe higher. It was essentially a tall cage with a ladder inside to get to the metal slide about 20 feet up. My best memories of that slide was when I had gotten all big and was not using the "baby" ladder to get to the slide; nope, I was going to climb up there from the outside. Did that on many occasions. Never fell, never even slipped. Then burning my ass all the way down on that slide.

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She nailed it.

The running around from dawn to dusk with no supervision, the injuries and how we dealt with them, the "wars", the metal slides, all of that was my childhood.

In Lake Jackson where I grew up, there was a park where they had a rocket slide. That thing stood about 30 feet, maybe higher. It was essentially a tall cage with a ladder inside to get to the metal slide about 20 feet up. My best memories of that slide was when I had gotten all big and was not using the "baby" ladder to get to the slide; nope, I was going to climb up there from the outside. Did that on many occasions. Never fell, never even slipped. Then burning my ass all the way down on that slide.

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We had the exact same rocket slide in Paris,TX. You could easily get 2nd degree burns on that thing in the summer. Wouldn't trade those times for anything.

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I remember one night when us kids and my cousins wee at my my Granddad's lakehouse over the summer. My Dad and my brother who was about 15 at the time were in the single cab of the truck, while the rest of us were in the bed. Rural FM road. Storm blew up while on our way back. Big storm, really big storm. Sky was black, thunderstorms, large hail. And we are in the unprotected bed of a single cab truck. Already three there, not getting four more inside.

So we huddled up next to te back of the cab, pulled a cover from the bed over us and weathered the hail storm. But then when my brother turned off of the road to the red clay road, zero lights, no traffic, slipping and sliding and fishtailing, we were using the quilts as protection from the sides of the bed of the truck as we were being tossed around.

I was actually kind of laughing (because I was dumb and trusted my Dad and my brother would never be stupid enough to endanger us, yeah well. I was wrong on that.) My female cousins were freakin' losing their minds! Of course they flipped out over getting a splinter in their foot. While I would just sit sit down, present my foot to an adult, say, "Splnter!" and they would take it out and I would run back into the water.

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We made day trips as a kid to Galveston and rode all the way there and back in the bed of my dad's old single cab Ford truck with the stepside bed. Mom and Dad in front with my sister and I in the back with the old kids folding lawn chairs stood up against the back of the cab. There were a lot of stoplights between Houston and Galveston rolling down Highway 6. You would get arrested for doing something like that now.

I remember sticking my arm out to the side and letting the wind blow on it to cool down as it did get pretty hot during the summer. I don't even know if sunscreen was around back then, but we never used it once that I can remember. Somehow we survived.

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No one I knew had a rifle in their vehicle on HS.


We did go cow tipping and I taught them how to make hallucinogenic tea.

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We did have a few and I lived in a very suburban west Houston neighborhood.

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I feel like I was extremely blessed to grow up in the 70's and 80's. They were great times to be a kid.

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Me too.

BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Not all of us

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aggiehawg said:

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Politics related because how much the world has changed...and not for the better. We are weaker. And here's why.



Look, I needed a break from all of the legal crap. Found her by accident. Hysterical but true observations. And she's Southern, which I am very partial to.

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Truth!

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And entertaining. Thanks for sharing!

annie88 said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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No one I knew had a rifle in their vehicle on HS.


We did go cow tipping and I taught them how to make hallucinogenic tea.

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We did have a few and I lived in a very suburban west Houston neighborhood.

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We did as well, and I lived in a north Houston middle to upper middle class suburb. Not a single school shooting in my years there in the 70s.

Also, a good proportion of my class didn't go on to college, but did vocational work. It was a time before every suburban high school kid was expected to go to college. Probably should revert back to that way considering what exposing so many of the past few generations to the leftist indoctrination centers have done.

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Gen-X has officially entered into the old ass stage of talking about "back in my day."

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"When I was your age, we didn't have Instagram. We didn't even have cell phones. If you wanted to take pictures, you had to use a big bulky camera. And then you'd have to walk 40 miles uphill in the snow to Walgreens to take your film cartridge to be developed, and wait overnight to find out that your vacation pictures sucked."

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Gen-X has officially entered into the old ass stage of talking about "back in my day."

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I miss the music. Remember the music?

aggiehawg said:

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Politics related because how much the world has changed...and not for the better. We are weaker. And here's why.



Look, I needed a break from all of the legal crap. Found her by accident. Hysterical but true observations. And she's Southern, which I am very partial to.

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LOL, brought back a lot of memories.
Me & Rocky playing army in the pits dug to build basements, with water in the bottom. My mother counted 96 mosquito bites on my back. Don't know how we survived as a pack of wild 10 - 12 year olds on the loose in the neighborhood.

Okay, this for the Boomers, such as myself.

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I am starting to wonder if Gen X is the Cynical generation.

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Starting to? Of course we are. Highly independent too. I've had two bosses in my career tell me I was the epitome of a generation X. And I said thank you with a big smile both times.

We are also good at the technology because we went from basically very little through the whole evolution of it mostly self-taught, at least with me. I'm really glad we know what it was like to live before cell phones and Internet.

No I'm not one of the stupid ones that helicopter their kids. I'd still can't understand that from our generation, and most of the people I grew up with and family aren't like this, but I do see it.

And it baffles the hell out of me. We were not raised like that. We were raised with values and expectations, punishments and boundaries, but never coddled like that.

BTW, I still don't like to work in groups.

BTKAG97 said:

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aggiehawg said:

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BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Yeah, what happened there?

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Murder Mystery TV Shows?

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I'm going with milk carton missing children alerts. I don't think they were around in the 60s, but I def remember them in the 80s

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BTW, I still don't like to work in groups.

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Amen to that. You and I are exactly the same vintage. There are a lot of studies pro and con the working in groups thing.

I didn't see this mentioned. Anyone else run after the Ice Cream truck screaming for him to stop?

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I didn't see this mentioned. Anyone else run after the Ice Cream truck screaming for him to stop?

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Sounds familiar.

As far as the helicopter parents. I shared why I think they exist, the news is basically any horror story they can dig up making people think its everywhere



I'm 55 with an 8 year old though, so I'm a generation or two off from the parents of my kids friends.

I've been trying to get the parents 2 houses down to just let the kids go knock on each other's door. Nope, we gotta text...can your kid come out and play. Com'on!

Bear with me on this one. Worth it.



I am watching many of these, curating.

Thank you Hawg! Sent this to my brother and he enjoyed it as much as I did.

Cures:

• Infected sore - wrap in bacon fat
• Anything up to and including a gunshot wound - Monkey Blood (Merthiolate)
• Step on a nail - tetanus shot and then soak your foot in castor oil
• Sunburn - break off a piece of aloe and rub it on it - still do this
• Wasp sting - tobacco juice

Man the 70's/80's were such a time to be a kid.

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As far as the helicopter parents. I shared why I think they exist, the news is basically any horror story they can dig up making people think its everywhere



I'm 55 with an 8 year old though, so I'm a generation or two off from the parents of my kids friends.

I've been trying to get the parents 2 houses down to just let the kids go knock on each other's door. Nope, we gotta text...can your kid come out and play. Com'on!

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It's a miracle, the kid next door walked 2 houses down and knocked on the door to see if our kid could play!

jamey said:

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jamey said:

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As far as the helicopter parents. I shared why I think they exist, the news is basically any horror story they can dig up making people think its everywhere



I'm 55 with an 8 year old though, so I'm a generation or two off from the parents of my kids friends.

I've been trying to get the parents 2 houses down to just let the kids go knock on each other's door. Nope, we gotta text...can your kid come out and play. Com'on!

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It's a miracle, the kid next door walked 2 houses down and knocked on the door to see if our kid could play!

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My Dad (Class of '48) was just a Big Kid. That was even his CB handle back in the day. So the neighborhood kids (when I was in HS) would come to the door to ask if my Dad, "could come out to play?" He always did.

I remember when he turned 50. His birthday was in the summer and we were at my Grandad's lakehouse. (I was in college by that point.) Day before his 50th, he was out waterskiing and goofing around with us. (and goofing around with my older brother, my older sister and her husband involved Honda 100s and playing chase at night through the woods. Yeah, we were dumb.)

On his birthday, after breakfast, we were saying, "Dad? You coming with us down to the lake?" He replied, "No, I'm too old." (Now in his defense, I was on the back of minibike when we wiped out in the sand the night before and I was thrown clear over his back and splayed out in front of the bike, so his ribs might have been hurt because he went into the handlebars, but at that moment, my brother, who had an Eddie Murphy type distinctive laugh, did so. Dad's head whipped around from the sound, looked bac at me, I said, "Go GET HIM!" And Dad took off after my brother at top speed. Remember, Honda 100s, basically minibikes.)

So back to the day of his 50th and he pronounced himself as "too old." My brother and I looked at each, bro gestured to me so I asked, "Wait did your warranty just expire or something?" I was the only (youngest of three) that could joke with my Dad like that.) Dad looked at me over his glasses, one of those you-just-irritated-me looks. Then he looked to my brother, smiled at me, looked back at my brother and said, "Get the boat in, fill it up. I'll be down directly."

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Or Mercurochrome actually mercury. Which we also had in thermometers.

Who else played long distance lawn darts? Bottle rocket fights. Dirt clod wars. Climbed to the upper parts of huge trees.

I sometimes scan through google earth and track some of our paths that lasted most of the day to be home in time for dinner.

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Who else played long distance lawn darts? Bottle rocket fights. Dirt clod wars. Climbed to the upper parts of huge trees.

I sometimes scan through google earth and track some of our paths that lasted most of the day to be home in time for dinner.

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Lawn darts? Here! Slippery Slide? ETA: Slip N Slide) Here! (Bruised hips for weeks.)

Water Wiggle? That kept beating you in the head with the metal spigot? Here! But that helped The Hubs learned how to grab that LDH. LOL.

The ones that I really see helicopter right now are 41-45 that had their first kid after 35. Usually some conception intervention was used. They are all convinced they had horrible childhoods, every mental ailment under the sun, so they try to outdo each other to create "the perfect childhood" for their kids. Really if you were in middle school or high school during 9/11 and the subsequent ME war.

The younger parents don't pay any attention to their kids whatsoever - I predict young Gen Alpha will be very conservative and crave a very traditional family structure once they are adults. I like to say these parents are so checked out they never checked in, you can't even argue with them because they don't even engage about their kid.

The older parents - currently 45-55 - are obsessed with their kids being the best. They want their kid to be number 1. None of this participation trophy bull***** But at the same time they are going to take whatever weird niche their kid has and exploit the hell out of that.

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The ones that I really see helicopter right now are 41-45 that had their first kid after 35. Usually some conception intervention was used. They are all convinced they had horrible childhoods, every mental ailment under the sun, so they try to outdo each other to create "the perfect childhood" for their kids. Really if you were in middle school or high school during 9/11 and the subsequent ME war.

The younger parents don't pay any attention to their kids whatsoever - I predict young Gen Alpha will be very conservative and crave a very traditional family structure once they are adults. I like to say these parents are so checked out they never checked in, you can't even argue with them because they don't even engage about their kid.

The older parents - currently 45-55 - are obsessed with their kids being the best. They want their kid to be number 1. None of this participation trophy bull***** But at the same time they are going to take whatever weird niche their kid has and exploit the hell out of that.

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NVM

My favorite way to travel as a kid was to sit on top of the spare tire of an old Chevy pickup while holding onto the headache rack. The second favorite way was to sit on top of the cab, facing backwards, with our legs under the horizontal pipe of the headache rack. Dad would drive about 8 miles, mostly on gravel roads, from town to the farm or oil lease.

Here is a pic of the type of pickup, minus the headache rack.

aggiehawg said:

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Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

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Who else played long distance lawn darts? Bottle rocket fights. Dirt clod wars. Climbed to the upper parts of huge trees.

I sometimes scan through google earth and track some of our paths that lasted most of the day to be home in time for dinner.

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Lawn darts? Here! Slippery Slide? ETA: Slip N Slide) Here! (Bruised hips for weeks.)

Water Wiggle? That kept beating you in the head with the metal spigot? Here! But that helped The Hubs learned how to grab that LDH. LOL.

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In early elementary we use to stand in a circle, about 5 to 10 of us and we'd all throw Dart board darts straight up, then we'd all run to whatever we deemed a safe perimeter

Eventually one kid ended up with a dart sticking out of his head. So we all ran off and acted like we were not part of it


No permanent damage. He got a ship to Dartmouth

Anyone else's school have bomb drills?

We watched a VHS of some old newsreel about the danger of being bombed and then practiced getting under our desks for protections

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Anyone else's school have bomb drills?

We watched a VHS of some old newsreel about the danger of being bombed and then practiced getting under our desks for protections

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Yeah, I rememeber the get under your desk because the Russian commies are dropping nuke drills, back in the 1970s. That was elementary school


We also.had pencil fights, trying to break the other persons pencil, thst were sold in a random assortment of NFL team logos


I rememeber the Stealers were analogous to the Russians in my 2nd grade mind. Black and yellow, pure evil