Baby Boomers, the greatest(?) genreation [sic]

[SUpersaiyajinjerkbag]

Baby boomer women are basket cases. I still don't see them as much different from later generations

[ricardin081]

baby boomers and vetarans sucks

[MrLotineGuy]

It is disgusting to insult an entire generation in this way. You should be ashamed of yourself.! Lots of baby boomers worked hard all their lives, paid their taxes, brought up children, taught them. Some people who happened to be baby boomers destroyed the world as we would like to see it, but many in your generation were also responsible. Debt was accumulated by irresponsible people of all generations. Educate yourself & put the blame where it really lies - with the banks & politicians.

[mussman717word]

I play music for a living, man. I can tell you that there was a huge evolutionary period of music from 1964-1967. Everything else I kind of agree with, but people like the Kennedys never would've gained publicity without the youth vote. Just something to think about.

[livnfree930]

@Hroark7 You're an ignorant fool.

[livnfree930]

@oldtuberunited Elvis was born in the thirties, Beatles were born during WWII, Bob Dylan was born about the same time. Neil Young was born after WWII ended so he is a baby boomer.

[livnfree930]

God, are you a dork! You can't think to say the men wanted to go home and have sex with their wives? You have to demonstrate the act with your finger and hand? Pretty crude and stupid! And by the way, you're full of shit on what you say. Get educated you dumb fool about what is responsible for the nation's ills. It hasn't got one thing to do with baby boomers! Can you say banking cartels, Corporate greed, and Illuminati?

[howtofoldsoup]

@livnfree930

A) Yes, I am a dork.

B) I'm not going to watch my video again, but I have a feeling that I was making a joke.

C) The last statement seems to be ignore the fact that this was a response to someone claiming that Boomers were responsible for greatness.

So what have we learned? You seem to have a chip on your shoulder regarding the nation's ills and don't understand my humor. I made this video 3 years ago, by the way. Remember: Context matters! Without it, you risk looking silly.

[fuzzywzhe]

@livnfree930 "Get educated you dumb fool about what is responsible for the nation's ills. It hasn't got one thing to do with baby boomers!"

Boomers currently run the nation, and the boomer voting block dominates who is elected.

But - none of it the boomer's fault.

OK. Sure.

[myvideos656]

This whole thing is hilarious to me. I've LOL'd a lot while watching these videos. I'm supposedly an x'er. I remember the "Greatest Generation" was always considered the WW2 generation. They lived thru 2 huge economic downturns while they were kids and came of age to fight 2 World Wars. I can't imagine the suffering. And yet they came out on top and gave you the opportunities you had. Boomers were always called the "me" generation. From what I've seen, that's appropriate. Silly, really.

[boogiefever1985]

It was the baby boomers that did it- they tried to make money out of absolutely everything. They were the ones that said hey let's get rid of bank staff and replace them with ATMs. Let's get rid of the young guy that helps old people take their groceries to the car. Let's stop sending people their airline ticket in the mail, we'll make them print it out themselves. Let's stop filling people's cars up with gas for them, let's fuckin make them do it themselves! Shit shit shit

[BEEBEE159]

Boomers are the biggest fuckups the world has ever known. I am 38 yrs. old; and my grandmother (the "Greatest Generation") was the last to represent a normal family. She was very thrifty and hard working. My grandparents had a successful marriage to the end. She retired in her 60's; and when she died at 87, she left real estate and other assets to her children. Each of her five children inherited over one million in real estate alone...To be continued...

[BEEBEE159]

BB's are idiots. Most of the stuff they were involved in was government manipulation (i.e. phsy-ops)...Hello? LSD mind control, rock-n-roll, the media, war, and the social revolution were all major government operations. These stupid people, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, turned this country on its ear and destroyed the American family. Now, as a result, we live under a totalitarian regime that is eroding our rights every day. FU Boomers!

[logicalthinker78]

Could the baby boomers possibly have flushed America down the toilet any more if they tried? Their self obsession pushed everything to the breaking point and they will go down in history as the generation who ruined everything. THANKS!

[fuzzywzhe]

Health Care passed!

JUST IN TIME to take care off all these stinking Baby Boomers who despite having control of the vote since Nixon, just managed to pass it now - that they need it.

And everybody else gets to pay for them, again.

Thanks "greatest generation"!

[fuzzywzhe]

Music.

John Lennon was born in 1940

Paul McCartney 1942

George Harrison 1943

Ringo Starr 1940

They were all from the Silent Generation.

I'm appalled at how the Boomers are running the government today too. Obama and Bush are both boomers. If you can name a SINGLE policy of Bush that Obama has overturned, I'll take back my statement that he's not a total fucking cocksucking pussy boomer. But he is.

[testodude]

Brokaw coined the term "Greatest Generation" in describing the one that won World War ii. That's not the baby boomers. That's the baby boomers' parents.

[thejobloshow]

You lost me at penis and vagina. You're odd.

[sapher2020]

the greatest generation at fucking our country over is more like it!!!

[Mayortwilleger]

Boomers were the first generation to NOT work and sacrifice to ensure the next generation had a better life. They sabotaged life for the next generation by importing millions of people from third world countries to force down labour costs purely to increase their retirement investments. That's on top of lazy parenting and driving big v8's chewing through finite oil reserves as fast they could. God I hate em.

[RubiconJohn]

the baby boomers single handedly destroyed the environment, adopeted materialism as the new religion and spawned a hopeless and helpless generation due to their absent parenting. im not saying they did all this on purpose. im just saying.

[ITHEREONETHATHASNT]

Baby boomers are leaving their children in MASSIVE debt protecting their pensions by handing more and more debt to their children. They will be the first generation to hand a worse economy then they were born into to their children. Thanx guys!

[avidalocan]

For people who think the whole Generation Game is founded on bad logic, if that were the case then you wouldn't be able to see too many differences between someone born in 1971 compared to 1970 or 1972 right? Well I can see many difference there. So imagine how many are between 1947 and 1971. Also it's a well-known Buddhist teaching that we are all conditioned beings, when we are not Englightened. The time you grew up in plays a huge role in that conditioning. Of course, some people transcend it

[avidalocan]

It seems to me as a GenX that the boomers era did not encourage thought. That is extremely annoying for people at the butt end of that. Retards is a really good word for them. Brain on autopilot, with a lot of software glitches in it.

Also they are the rudest pricks imaginable. I've never seen anyone with more disrespect for younger people than these arrogrant pompous jerks.

[qehlion95]

Absolutely right! Baby boomers accuse GenX'ers of being lazy. Maybe GenX'ers look at the baby boomers and how easy they had things and realize if the baby boomers didn't have to work hard, why should we!

The only thing GenX'ers don't do that Baby boomers did very well is protest. Baby boomers kicked up a stink when things didn't go their way and they got a better life. GenX'ers don't protest anything and apathy is at an all time high. However boomers didnt think of the world they would leave us

[KazumaR1]

As a Generation Y'er, I am very annoyed that my generation has to clean up the shit the Boomer's caused but somebody has to do it. The Gen X'ers have the ball now so I hope you guys don't fuck up.

[Scanlonam]

Translation: You only mentioned Bush and Clinton because you probably don't know who Tom Hayden is. Well you can Google him now!!

[Scanlonam]

I personally have a very strong beef with the whole "Generation Game". The idea that you can conclude much about somebody by the year they were born in is to me wildly overhyped.

Sure labels like "Baby Boomer", "Gen-X", "Silent", or what have you, might be useful for estimating how many kindergarten teachers will be needing in the coming few decades or how many college graduates you can expect in 20 years.

But when you say that Bush, Tom Hayden, and Clinton must all be cut from the same cloth?

[JCJ77]

Bush/Clinton Ivy League, draft dodging, morally corrupt, drugies. Yep same cloth looks like. The date thing is a red herring- the culture that is created by a generation is definable by the events that took place during their time.

[macada]

very nice commentary!

[67675656565655656565]

cant wait till all the babyboomers die there just nothing but a strain on the economy

[Ken9284]

Baby Boomers were freakin' morons. You idiots were mostly on drugs or supporting war much like the one today. Woodstock was a drug infested orgy. You Boomers make me sick. You are all greedy little piss pots who raised a generations of sociopaths. Thanks for ruining the country you cock suckers!

[Scanlonam]

This whole game of trashing the Baby Boomers is nonsense. But above all the whole "generation" game is nonsense.

[howtofoldsoup]

My video wasn't meant to trash anyone, just respondng to Fringe who sang their praises and mis-attributed the generations of others.

[TheCareertalk]

@Scanlonam Hahahaha. Shhhhhhh.

[millennians]

About sexual depictions and demonstrations...

I always tell my wife, in a 'grown-up' way, that she has always been enough to make a mature man change diapers, including his own...

I enjoyed your views a great deal, as well.

[AmbientMusic]

Oh Yes Brother, the Boomers. Look at the wonderful legacy they left us with. Look Indeed! Then they stuck US with the Damn Bill!

[AmbientMusic]

boomerdeathcounter(dot)com

[JohnR22926]

Yes, we're on the same page here. Technically the baby boom ran from about 1942-1964. IMO a subset of this group called the Woodstock Generation (which came of age during the late 60s/early 70s), is the primary problem. They're the ones who became ideologically extreme and cannot get past the hatreds that formed during that era.

[Ken9284]

Any generation that would vote for Jimmy Carter is a problm. But yes the 'woodstock' crowd are the ones that angered me the most.

PS: What did the greatst generation in the US do wrong?

They gave birth to the 60's.

[okayplayer82]

At least they gave us the Civil Rights Movement.

Had it been up to you conservatives, we black would still be under jim crow.

[Ken9284]

Jim Crowe law was abolished by all who had common sense. If you honestly think all Conservatives were for slavery then you need a reality check.

Jim Crowe law's kept black people out of equality to any middle class settings. It was abolished in the VERY early 60's. So tell me how US conservatives would've kept Jim Crowe laws alive?

[JCJ77]

Babyboomer conservatives maybe. But the 'you conservatives' you are talking to are totally different people and it isn't fair to paint us all with that.

[1940semochild]

@okayplayer82

I'm black too but you are incorrect. It wasn't "Conservatives" who instituted Jin Crow (and slavery for that matter). It was Democrats...

And like he said "The Civil Rights Movement" dates further than the 1960s. By saying TCRM was a 60s movement, you're eliminating progress made in the 1st half of the 20th century and 19th.

[tzarBHD]

You know what pisses me off the most, it's that those assholes are always complaining about young people, but, the thing is that it's their fault!They're so selfish and uneducated that they can't notice it.

[tzarBHD]

Because of baby boomers...

[JohnR22926]

I wasn't aware the baby boomers were calling themselves the greatest generation. How typical. IMO they were easily the worst generation ever. Petulent, self indulgent, and egotistical. IMO the bitter political partisan divide we have today is due primarily to the hatreds that came out the 60's and the boomers' inability to move beyond the dorm room fights of the 60's. IMO the nation will not be able to truly heal and reduce the partisanship until the boomers are dead and buried.

[67675656565655656565]

The babyboomers are the geration who had the party and the younger generations are the ones who had to clean up the mess after the party.

[67675656565655656565]

the babyboomers had everything served 2 them on a silverplatter. So they have nothing 2 winge about. Are by far the most lukiest generations.

[howtofoldsoup]

Nope. None of them were. Neil Young would have been the closest, being born in November of 1945, but the others are way off.

[trippymyth]

i like all geneartions ... you're so sexy mr foldedsoup ... your so intelligent ... i agree with the whole tv thing ... it made ppl more aware of what was going on and it didnt cause a revolution but a REACTION .... baby boomers = reactive

[67genxer]

screw baby boomers,what the fuck happened to this generation since the 60s.they became bad presidents, ruined american companies, bought toyotas and hondas,dodged the draft, complained about their shares not making enough, worried about their health care and retirement. just the same as everyone else, huh big deal. you let me down and all of us. long live Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell

[howtofoldsoup]

You didn't create history. Howard Dean "created" history when he signed that law into effect. You were merely a beneficiary. That's like me taking credit for presidential tax breaks, because I didn't pay as much in taxes.

[howtofoldsoup]

While I may be obese, I'm not lazy. The date range was given by Fringe, you have a problem with it, take it up with her.

[abhitron]

I've never understood the rift between Gen X and the Boomers. Do you feel that your gen was mostly affected by the shortcomings of what the Boomers advocated? Like you got the shitty end of the stick? BTW I'm not attacking you, I'm just curious.

[howtofoldsoup]

In my case, it's not a rift particularly with the boomers. I thought Fringe was overstating their role, and was a little too proud about something compeletely circumstantial. Now GenX'ers are TRULY great, but I guess I'll have to make a vid. ;)

[rn4him2000]

Are you narcissistic, hum?? or do you just like to talk. lol!!!!

[nicanicamad]

Your hands are dry--better get out the lube gun! How old are you? What part of the country do you live in?

[freetaught]

Hey Soup! Not to undermine the contributions of your generation but let's consider what my gen has given!

Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton,Google(oh yeah got you on the ropes),South Park and lets not forget the "Rock the Vote" campaign,we had T-shirts and everything.OK we didn't do much,we gave you Google though!

[LiLRichRedneck18]

you remind of my History teacher "which is not a bad thing pretty good thing" WOW now you did that finger thing lmao!! NICE!!

[TheOptimisticSkeptic]

Yes please, thank you. :p

[TheOptimisticSkeptic]

Oh my god, Oh jesus look what you, Oh damn you made me say God and Jesus with your .... penisy goodness!!! comment. lol

[howtofoldsoup]

Locusts? Little harsh, but I could see why. The population boom caused society to adapt. Adapt or be eliminated. Blaming the Boomers for this would be like blaming the rabbits in your country for their population growth and the subsequent damage.

[Fringe111]

You make some very good points. No your not picking any fights. It's hard to put a 30 year span into a ten minute video. JFK, Matin Luther King, and RFK were born before us yes, but their message is what we embraced. Your video was so thought provoking that I may address these points in another video. Thank you. And yes your right, the Karl Rove's are also boomers.

As I said, it's hard to jam 30 years into 10 minutes.

[erjal]

you make much more sense

i love your

"THERE MIGHT BE KIDS WATCHING " hehe goodone**