This is not The Haters Club You're Looking For discussion
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I hate how PBS rolls out the outstanding programming during pledge drives
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I hate it, too, but for different reasons.It's like the first time I heard the Who or something on an oldies station.
PBS is so clearly patronizing boomers with its pledge drive programming. "Yes, the music of your youth is an Important Cultural Artifact now."
I don't know what's worse, seeing Joni Mitchell on PBS or Dennis Hopper in a retirement commercial.
(Okay, not Joni, she gets in on merit, but the rest of it.)
Embalm me now.
omg... Dennis Hopper in retirement commercial... I was just talking to my dad about that!! We were discussing how you can tell who is in power by pop culture references... and we decided that commercial is the official flare going up to say that Boomers are now IN CHARGE.So... you know... at least we know who to blame. Heh.
Yep. Follow the money. (Also, technically, I'm just a little too young to be of that group, but I relate.)
My dad says that technically Boomers span from just after WWII until 1965. I am the leading edge of Gen X... and my older sister is the tail end of the Boomers... so I would guess you are still technically part of the Boomers. Unless you have some other label to slap on that I haven't heard of yet, being in the belly of NYC where most of this stuff gets coined.
Yes Sarah...someday for me too. I've wanted one of those mugs for a long time, almost as much as I've wanted a tote.They're just so good at guilt. I feel like they can see me watching (or listening) and they know I've never contributed and they're all shaking their heads at me.
That really bugs me too. I hate it when I watch some really great music or great anything else on PBS, and all of a sudden the pledge drive starts. I feel like I have been duped, snookered, had. It makes me so mad when that happens.
You down with OPB (Yeah you know me)Who's down with OPB (Every last homie)
You down with OPB (Yeah you know me)
Who's down with OPB (All the homies)
That's how I want to hear the serious newsfolk getting funky!
HATE the radio pledge drives. And I do give them money. I have two messenger bags and I've broken at least four mugs. No guilt; it's just incredibly annoying. No, Charissa, no other label; I've just seen it defined otherwise. If those are the years, then I'm guilty.
The Silent Generation = 1925 - 1945http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_G...
Baby Boomers = 1946 - 1964
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boo...
Generation Jones = 1954 - 1964 (maybe this is you Howard)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generati...
Generation X or Thirteenth Generation = 1965 - 1975 (arguably)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generati...
Generation Y = 1976 - 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generati...
I guess that would be me. I never heard that term before. Interesting.(Gen Jones, not knuckleheaded Chrome Domer.)
Yeah, I hadn't seen that term before either... I love Wikipedia! Do you relate to what they say about that Generation... "the unrequited craving felt by this generation of unfulfilled expectations" ?I would love to see a book which looked at each different Generation, compared and contrasted, with interviews and essays, pictures... I think that would make a great coffee table book and reference work.
No, I don't think any unrequited cravings I might or might not feel are generational, particularly. But, then, who would want to acknowledge that their inchoate longings were demographically determined?
That does sound like it could be a good book, though.
inchoate... now you're talking dirty to me.
"OPP I thought?"Donald, the song is OPP, but when I saw Sarah's post about the free OPB mug you could get with a $50 pledge, the song got stuck in my head.
That whole Gen Y thing gets me riled up. I REFUSE to be considered Gen Y just because I was born in '78! Ick. I'd much rather prescribe to the "High school class of 2000" theory of the Gen Y cutoff. I FEEL Gen X. We have a bond. Generation X treats me well and invites me over for drinks. And sometimes we wake up together, hungover, and craving waffles and hash browns...
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Until--
"Wasn't that a great performance? Would you like to keep seeing great music? Become a member now"
Ugh! On top of being irritated by the interruption (can't they just put a crawl on the screen?) I suddenly feel like shit. Like I'm stealing from them if I don't donate.