Common sense? In the Cold War?

There were nukes and the communists!

Every generation gets a negative stereotype/characteristic and is heralded as worse than the last. Excuse me while I look at my certificate for coming 54th in a poetry competition when I was 7 to make me feel better. It may even give me some more inspiration for my novel (clearly a Nobel prize winner in the works, my Mum said so).

-adds *impatience* to the list of short comings this generation needs to deal with.

Purge the majority of the generation, condemn the good ones because there are so many bad ones? It's a lot like the teacher in school who punishes the entire class because of 2-3 kids. Completely unfair and biased. I don't see a total societal collapse imminent because of Generation Y, jobs are still being filled. I see no immenent demise. Not to mention all this generaiton concept is so full of [censored]. The human mind is maleable, generations are a convenient way for corporations to sell or try and sell things. People put too much emphasis on the generation, and not the individual. It's a form of ageism. Generations are very loose, and your only defined by them if you choose. What are you telling Gen-Y now? Instead of positive reinforcment, your going the negative route. If you focus too much on the negative it defines them more than their good traits. Uh oh, your a free loading Gen-Y. According to your own arguments, you should be as mentally incapable of the rest of us. So now I'll go and communicate like I should be. How stupid knowing how to write stuff.

arrr durrrrrrrr neeeed foood, beeeg fooor fuuud. HOW I WREITEEEEEEEE WARDSSS!? *falls asleep because is apparently lazy* GIVE ME JOB NAAAOOO!!!!

Accurate enough? I personally think its a good thing that companies have to shut the [censored] up and play ball on a social rights level. They've been able to squash individual rights a little too easily in the past. We're seeing it now, corporations afraid of a society as interconencted as gen-y.

Also as an aside, I've noticed whenever someone brings up emotions with me they're on the losing side of the debate. They have no FACTS, so they begin to whine at me. All the time.

Yeah lets just go from one extreme to another. Or we could pick a time when people werent dying from plauge and wars werent such a big deal, yet at the same time, people had common sense, thouse who acked it, were laughed at.

Personally I wouldnt mind things from the 50s to the 90s. You dont have armies killing and [censored] you for giggles, and everyone wasnt suing everyone due to their refusal to accept responsability for their actions.

until i started my current job i have never had good relations with people my age, all my friends previously have been much younger than me. I am finding i like it when my new friends (that are my age) know what i am talking about when i reference 90's rock as well as classic rock, movies too.

I cant spek for everyone in my generation. But I have accepted that I will live a mundane life, with some depression sprinkled here and there. Doing a job I will hate becuase I need too, until I die.

Her bio just SCREAMS hipster >_>

I think that's part of the reason I like talking to people my age (21) or older. I make a pop culture joke to someone 17 and 7 times out of 10 they dont get it. I can't be that far apart from them in culture gap am I?

Societal collapse, herp derp words, "facts" in capslock despite having none, you aren't able to hold an even keel discussion are ya? All I see is excessive sensitivity (emo was highly prevalent in Gen Y) and an amazing amount of straw man embellishments to completely mangle what's being said to make it easier for yourself to argue. Cool with me.

Okay well your clearly not up to a debate, so this is where it ends. Don't try and keep pushing either because your debating worse than me Mr. Hypocrite. By that, I mean not at all. Well I guess you proved your point about our generation they're too vain glorious to finish a simple debate. You've lost and won in the exact same post and probably have no idea why. Not going to reply anymore because I won't get any posts worthy of my time.

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Oh the irony, it hurts so much. It's worse than I imagined. Your a self fulfilling prophesy of your own fears on generation y, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu8DJnR9zNw#t=0m13s That's so precious.