what do you consider "younger" crowd?
Posted By: Emily Ayn on 2009-01-18
In Reply to: I'm noticing a trend with younger women.. - MTinMT
I'm 28 in two weeks and don't know how to do that stuff ... I admit it! I never learned. Home ec for us in high school was just FOOD. it wasn't sewing or anything like that. plus apparently me and my 2 sisters were spoiled, my mom never made us learn that, although she did teach my older sister quilting, and they are both very good at it. My mom also just started teaching me how to knit this past summer.
I didn't stick with it although I would have liked to (i work too much haha)
THe hard thing is is that stuff really doesn't interest me you know? and if it is not a "necessary" skill I think we just don't feel the need to possess it, if that makes sense.
I mean, I would have loved to make my own clothes and stuff, but i dont have the drive for that!
just thought I would put the perspective from "our" side
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what do you consider "younger" crowd?
I'm 28 in two weeks and don't know how to do that stuff ... I admit it! I never learned. Home ec for us in high school was just FOOD. it wasn't sewing or anything like that. plus apparently me and my 2 sisters were spoiled, my mom never made us learn that, although she did teach my older sister quilting, and they are both very good at it. My mom also just started teaching me how to knit this past summer.
I didn't stick with it although I would have liked to (i work too much haha)
THe hard thing is is that stuff really doesn't interest me you know? and if it is not a "necessary" skill I think we just don't feel the need to possess it, if that makes sense.
I mean, I would have loved to make my own clothes and stuff, but i dont have the drive for that!
Send the over 60 crowd to war....
 Maybe this should be on the politics board but it's funny on any board......
Drafting Guys over 60
----this is so Funny & obviously written by a Former MARINE-----
New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.
For starters:
Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, 'I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.
If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training. I can hear the Drill Sgt. In the 'New army' now, 'Get down and give me ... er .. One.'
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten cowards terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see right now is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.
If nothing else, put us on border patrol....we will have it secured the first night!
Share this with your senior friends. It's purposely in big type so you can read it..........
I definitely did not follow the crowd - sm
I was basically a "good" girl though, though had a secret side only my friends knew about. Had my own sense of style totally different than everyone else, I looked pretty good then, (early 80s, graduated in 1983), lots of purple and feathers. Was mainly an A student, Art teacher's pet, principal's pet, in marching band (baton twirler), starting at 15 drank beer when I could (rarely), at 16 smoked pot a couple times a month, more when I was senior but not much more, never bought it myself - had 3 BFs, we all drank/smoked pot, though one did it much more than the rest of us, she was a straight A student too. Was never an "addict" and never tried anything stronger than pot, saw the damage the harder drugs did on others and had no desire to screw myself up or fry my brain, did NOT have sex in HS though 2 of my friends did starting at 15- both were drunk their first time, had enough drama with them to not want to do that until I was ready and sure I'd use birth control. I had a good time, parent's never knew of the things I had been up to, was very good at keeping it all under wraps.
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