Dan Speerin's Twixters vs. 60 Minutes' Millennials

Twixters takes on Morley Safer's ridiculous 60 minutes report on our generation that they have dubbed "Millennials". Twixters is a new satirical comedy series about our generation premiering on Bite TV 11.27.07

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• twixters
• twixterstv
• 60
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• comedy
• satire
• quarterlife
• millennials
• spoof
• parody
• funny

[negresssongstress]

I am a Twixter, ( b.1984) and I enjoy some of my generation's qualities. We are NOT fucking dumb, we are fucking practical!! We don't care what older people think of us, and we don't necessarily accept their values. We don't have this blind faith that the System is going to be there forever to support us. We are cynical... which is good! Why work 12 hour days just for the "privilege" of living on your own? Money for it's own sake? I throw out YOUR "American Dream". There is no happiness there!!!

[cynicallytested]

@negresssongstress I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions of our generation, that we live at home or reject "hard work" because of laziness or apathy - you hit it on the head, it's about watching our parents buy into a system that later in life left them high and dry, it's also about crippling education costs which make it quite hard to start your own life. These systems and blueprints of life need to be reevaluated for our generation.

[xxmortimerxx]

I just needed to vent. I was born in this generation but my parents raised me like their parents raised them. If I was rude I got caned. Straighten my ass up real good real quick.

CONGRATS to all you guys/gals out there that are my age and proving this 60mins segment wrong.

But the reason this segment exist, is because there is a lot of truth to this.

[wh33lz4]

fuck 60 minutes. don't generalize my generation and try to tell people how me, and many others included, live our lives just because some pieces of shit out there make you think that you have the power to. Good shit twixters

[95briannanicole]

i hell no, they did not diss mr. rogers

[jamespatricklee]

Jobs? The Military is always hiring.......Just saying. Great Job great benefits and lots of travel. I did it for 20 years. Started when I was 18 and retired at 38. Now working another job.

[shakedownstreet48]

This is so true these people are such assholes i wqant to kick the crap out of most of them.

[rhoads83j]

What's that Ronald McDonald motherfucker doing interrupting my 60 minutes?

[agentwoofy]

Our generation doesn't know the value of hard work? Try working a fucking job that only pays minimum wage! you know what you get after 6 months of working a minimum wage job gets you? You get to eat, pay rent, pay car insurance, pay for gas to get to work, and then... YOUR FUCKING BROKE! So, exactly what is the new generation supposed to do? The only option I see is going to school to find a career that 1) you enjoy 2) pays what your worth FYI minimum wage = $400/wk take home.

[jack0lantern665]

my first hour teacher saw this 60 minutes BS and now he hates our class. he sais we are a bunch of lazy, stuck up, pampas narcissists.

im glad to know im not the only one mad about this old guy

[PrinceG28]

This sounds like updated slavery !!!

[timfmr]

@cynicallytested Could nor agree more!!!!!!

[dynamicmaxwell120]

The 60 minute was all marketing and no real research was done. Use real experts like Neil Howe and the research done by the Pew Research Center. The Gen Y Guy has it all wrong too, because most millennials hate to be called Gen Y.

[charlesdarwin321]

I've spent the last year living at home with no job and car, meditating, watching movies, and reading. Going back to school soon.

Now the question is, would I have been better off working a shitty job and being miserable to make a small amount of money which would go to student loans anyways, or seek a personal fulfillment and understanding which will last me a life time?