Fishing ethic

[Feathers and Fins]

Fin, that's a affel harsh opinion you disclosed, I'm a baby boomer and had my cases of desipline which included the belt but to lump all of us boomers to your analysis is far fetched on out of line.

Be kind and keep harsh opinions to yourself!

Please explain to me how I was Harsh in my opinion of Boomers. As I did say

Most if not all the Boomer I know taught their children the common morals ( Holding a door for a woman or elder, Yes Mam No sir etc, walking on the right side of an isle, Hat off inside and so on )

How is teaching their children things like that a harsh opinion? What is wrong with teaching kids to hold a door for a woman or address them with a Yes sir or No Maam or taking their hat off inside a bad thing? Please explain.

I then went on to say

I believe however the boomers children were the ones who have lost the "Social Graces" as they decided they would not enforce the harsh penalties and consequences for failures that their parents did. This has then past on to their children.

That would be my generation and from what I have seen from many my age it is the truth. But you say you are a boomer and my criticism was not of the Boomers but my generation. So I am failing to see how you can be offended by my opinion of my own generation.

Now Ness brought up

Baby boomer is generally 1945-ish to about 1960. Not just the output of the first couple pieces of tail soldiers got after returning from WWII.

I would disagree with the dates though it is said 1945 to 1964 to be specific on the Boomer "Generation" I will and always have used the definition of (Boomer) as described to me by one of my History teachers. As he put it "Boomers" "Were children that could be directly attributed to kids being born after the father returned from WW2 1945 to 1950 at most" I agree with his definition of that as the factor for the large spike in births during that period was due to the parent coming home. No different than a Hurricane knocking out power or more recently the east coast black out.

Though society tends to try and lump categories by generation for whatever reason (probably ease) the true "Boomers" were in that time because of a specific reason. Much like the generations before was called "The Greatest Generation" because of the sacrifice they made during WW2 again a specific age group for a specific event.

My Father, Mother and 2 Aunts and 2 Uncles fit in to that time frame and I would call them "Boomers" However 4 more Uncles and Aunts do not and there is clearly a difference in how they raised their kids though they had the same parents as either my mother or father. Social changes as they aged were much more forgiving and excuse based than based on accepting responsibility for your actions and the consequences that comes from your actions.

[Terrierman]

So when did it start?

Aristotle's kids generation.

[Terrierman]

What ever happened to the saying " if you don't have anything good to say say nothing at all.

I think that since this is a forum and people never are talking face to face that people talk to much smack. Be kind to each other and enjoy the great outdoors that God has blessed us with.

Whatever happened to the saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me"?

Never mind, it's doing fine....

[ness]

Now Ness brought up

I would disagree with the dates though it is said 1945 to 1964 to be specific on the Boomer "Generation" I will and always have used the definition of (Boomer) as described to me by one of my History teachers. As he put it "Boomers" "Were children that could be directly attributed to kids being born after the father returned from WW2 1945 to 1950 at most" I agree with his definition of that as the factor for the large spike in births during that period was due to the parent coming home. No different than a Hurricane knocking out power or more recently the east coast black out.

Though society tends to try and lump categories by generation for whatever reason (probably ease) the true "Boomers" were in that time because of a specific reason. Much like the generations before was called "The Greatest Generation" because of the sacrifice they made during WW2 again a specific age group for a specific event.

My Father, Mother and 2 Aunts and 2 Uncles fit in to that time frame and I would call them "Boomers" However 4 more Uncles and Aunts do not and there is clearly a difference in how they raised their kids though they had the same parents as either my mother or father. Social changes as they aged were much more forgiving and excuse based than based on accepting responsibility for your actions and the consequences that comes from your actions.

Yeah, it's open for discussion.

You make the 'boom' sound like the GIs came pouring down the gangplanks with their junk out, indiscriminately impregnating anything with a pony tail. I think the boom was brought on by the end of the war and the Drepression. People had been held back for nearly two decades. Now they were back to work, the economy was clipping along, and the pent up demand was unleashed driving things along faster. People felt good about bringing babies into the world again.

[Feathers and Fins]

Well Ness few women served overseas in ww2 none in combat to my knowledge. So ya I would say it was a fair assessment of the men coming home wanting to well you know, and the statistics prove it lol.

As to them holding back before hand. Birth Control was abstinence and that was not practiced all that much even during the depression and after the war yes economy was good and they were happy to be home and families glad they were home. It was a good time.

Oh and it was BEEHIVE hair due lol.

[straw hat]

I remember that hair style. Hopalong Cassidy, etc.... Sorry if I spelled your name wrong Mr. Cassidy!! lol

[ness]

Here, let's put this in a financial perspective using the Dow Industrials from 1/1930 to 1/1965:

From 1930 to 1940, Dow was down 49%. Would you be making whoopy? Then the war comes and by 1945 the Dow was up 8-1/2% from 1940. Better, but everybody was too busy to be making whoopy. War is over, the Dow starts climbing and keeps it up for the next 20 years, over 450%, and folks were making whoopy all along the way. Boom.