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greenbean
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| Registered on: | 2/2/2019 |
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Iran seems like they could be more stable. I guess we will see.
Even the Shaw was a dictator 50 years ago. At least he believed in modernizing the country.
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I think what we don’t understand is that some cultures don’t want democracy. We thought the Iraqis would welcome us in and it would be Shangri-La after we removed Sadaam. Turns out it was much worse. Some cultures want to be governed with an authoritarian hand. They respect power and absolute rule. That’s hard for us to understand as Americans.
re: Once Iran is liberated, it’ll be a great place to travel
Posted by greenbean on 3/2/26 at 10:40 am to hawgfaninc
Oh yeah, US regime change has worked out great in Afghanistan,Syria, Libya and Iraq. All those countries are worse now than when we got involved.
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A kid born in 1979 did not graduate in 1988
Sorry dudes, meant 98! Gen X ended with those born in 1980.
re: Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted by greenbean on 3/2/26 at 9:57 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Yea, people are confusing "born" and "grew up" If you are Gen X and were born in the late 60s or 70s, you spent at least high school in the 80s, if not more. Millenials were born in the 80s and mid-90s, but most were too young to remember the 80s much, except as very young children.
Yuup, the last Gen Xers graduated HS in 98.
re: Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted by greenbean on 3/2/26 at 9:33 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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quote:Your childhood isn’t markedly different than those of us growing up in the 80s.
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Gen X grew up in the 80s. At least partially.
If you have many memories of growing up in the 80s, you are most likely Gen X.
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Maybe I’m just a pussy
I've seen better watches in the Quad.
I'm 33% black, all from the waist down.
re: How to tell kids that it's time to put the family dog down?
Posted by greenbean on 2/27/26 at 5:41 pm to Projectpat
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Hear that, OP? Tell your 7 year old daughter to suck it up because Charlie might be dropping into your backyard any day now!
Dark times are coming my friend. True democracies usually have a 200-250 year life span. It won't be in my lifetime (I'm 60), but it may come to an end in my kid's lifetimes. I efforted to raise them hard, not as hard as I was raised, but I want them to be able to endure hard times without being too soft. You bluntly tell the child, the dog is old, when living things get old, they die. Don't dwell on it, move on. By the time that 7 year old is 50, she's going to see a lot of death and suffering.
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Navy
What if they’re not gay?
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On the other hand..... frick you. its hard losing a pet/family member and personally having to ruin the innocence of your child.
I understand, i was blessed to be raised by a hard man, many aren’t. Times have been very easy since WW2 and it’s made us soft. Now we have soft men who were raised by soft men.
Times are a coming when the easy times will end and it may be in our kid’s lifetimes. When times do get hard, it will be especially hard for soft people.
re: How to tell kids that it's time to put the family dog down?
Posted by greenbean on 2/27/26 at 11:19 am to StringedInstruments
How have we become this weak as a society?
Don’t make a huge deal of it, tell them the dog is no longer suffering.
Make a huge deal of it and you deprive them of the ability to compartmentalize, accept a loss and move it. Then when a close family member die it will crush them due to not being able to deal with grief.
Let thief natural resiliency develop.
Don’t make a huge deal of it, tell them the dog is no longer suffering.
Make a huge deal of it and you deprive them of the ability to compartmentalize, accept a loss and move it. Then when a close family member die it will crush them due to not being able to deal with grief.
Let thief natural resiliency develop.
For the ‘Sip, the Hewlett and Sherry murders on the coast, 1987.
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I was at a restaurant two weeks ago and while washing my hands, watch some guy walk out of the stall and right out the door.
Seen way too many Airmen, Soldiers and Jar Heads walk straight out of a latrine after taking a dump, in field conditions, without washing hands.
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I had a great-uncle at Iwo Jima, who spent a grand total of about six hours on the island. A Jap grenade shredded up his leg pretty bad, and was evacuated off the island. Even though he walked with a slight limp for the rest of his life, he said it was the luckiest thing that ever happened to him, because he got to spend the rest of the war in Guam and Hawaii "slapping nurses on the arse."
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My man!
re: Do you know of girls that are eager to marry so they can get on a baw's health insurance?
Posted by greenbean on 2/23/26 at 4:37 pm to bayouvette
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No but seen the absolute opposite. Not get married to stay on medicare
Medicaid, not medicare.
re: Just got a landline attachment for my garage squat rack
Posted by greenbean on 2/23/26 at 3:48 pm to Yeti_Chaser
Actually going to use some automotive jack stands that i already had (some some on Amazon advertised as landmine stands
re: What’s the longest Uber ride you have done?
Posted by greenbean on 2/23/26 at 3:46 pm to doublecutter
In before, “to your moms.”
re: Life after the ‘great resignation’: Incentives are dimming for workers to change jobs
Posted by greenbean on 2/23/26 at 1:57 pm to alphaandomega
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have worked at the same business since 1988.
1986 for me
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Downside to that is, we wouldnt have the information we do today. Therefore, the US govt would run us over even worse than they already do. We'd all be sheep and essentially prisoners by now.
Actually, I believe information is being used more today to manipulate us than ever. Although we live in an age where we should be getting smarter and more cynical, we're actually getting dumber and believe everything that aligns with the narrative we want to believe.
Each side is just as bad as the other.
Due to my job I knew much of the DOGE stuff was nothing but pure BS and told many people, no one believed me. Turns out I was 100% right, even that hasn't changed folk's minds, they'd believe it all over again.
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