The Big Cat

Found the guy with no friends.

A healthy Revis/Gilmore guarantees the Bills four wins next year: the AFC South opponents. There are no QB/WR combos in that entire division that could move the ball an inch against a secondary that looks like that.

*cough cough* mandatory year or two of service to your country *cough cough* dig ditches, teach immigrants english, do data entry for government offices, plant trees

Exactly. When I was 18, I was light years from answering that question. I'm 30, pretty much still am.

If/when I have a kid of my own to discuss this with, I'm sure things will have changed quite a bit. But for his/her sake AND for mine, I think an appropriate conversation is one that ensures he/she is deliberate about what they plan to achieve in college. Quite frankly, I'm very grateful to have received a bona fide college experience. But I'll be damned if my kid takes on heaps of debt to have it for him/herself. Just not worth it, as great as it was.

Right, but as the student loan debt bubble bursts, then with it the dollars available for students, then with those the institutions that rely on them.

Oh, I've never complained about job shortages. But wage stagnation and crippling student debt, these are definitely crushing people my age. I don't care how much money people make, and I don't to turn this into an income inequality debate, but I did think this was a pretty cool illustration: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/01/22/377470959/how-much-more-or-less-would-you-make-if-we-rolled-back-inequality?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150122 To your point: I think it's becoming more and more clear that the next bubble to burst will be the higher ed bubble. Is it safe to say that colleges may soon start to go out of business? It's just not worth the debt anymore, and it's only getting worse.

Haha, so why was I led to believe that the participation trophy was born in 1988!?

I'm genuinely curious why you think it makes any sense at all that the dads who handed out participation trophies now hate all the kids they have to hire...because they grew up receiving participation trophies. I'm just zeroing in on that very specific point because the whole notion of a participation trophy has become short hand for millennial bashing, so I'm addressing it head on.

"People still find our product entertaining. Our media contracts outpace others by an exponential magnitude. We have obscene amounts of money. Any questions?"

As already stated, the very VERY oldest X'ers are. If we're going to be that loose, being of 1984, I could try and squeak into the X'ers, too. But, by most accounts, I'm a Millenial. But Millenial technically stretches into the early 2000's. And, Jesus, if you were born in 2002, the year I graduated high school, you came (or are coming up) WILDLY different than me, thanks almost entirely to the mobile/internet age, which is all they've ever known.

Is it telling that you didn't even attempt to refute what he said? I'll just leave this right here: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/old-economy-steven

Does the 'quote' function just simply elude you? Or is this an ongoing act of defiance?

Beat ya by a minute, holmes.

Watkins, Wood and Gordon. Gordon being the eldest at 23. Folks, we could a lot worse. And if even an inkling of what he writes is true...we could do A LOT worse.

Do we believe him? Do we believe he wrote this himself? Do you read this and wish the Bills would take a chance on him? https://medium.com/the-cauldron/an-open-letter-to-charles-barkley-co-cb5c4e64cf3

Well, you know, despising young workers because we grew up getting participation trophies from the same people now deriding the act...it's, uh, I guess what you'd call...hypocrisy? Yeah, except the little monsters you've been raising are all allergic to gluten. So thanks for that.

Takes one to know one.

Diora Baird. Google image search. You're welcome.

Again, the proper, the reasonable and the correct ( ) way to phrase that would have been: I prefer Skynrd to the Allman Brothers for Southern Rock. Skynyrds great, don't get me wrong. But Duane Allman...I mean...well, anyways.

I had a similar experience working in a meat packing freezer when a guy told me The Beatles suck. To that point, we were discussing music. Once he said that, the conversation was over.

Yes. This. Thank you.

Wait what?

I'm a millenial. The only generation more insufferable than us? The one that raised us. Way to be, Boomers. Sorry X'ers. You're sandwiched between some real gems.

Whew: http://goo.gl/lQ9dMQ Probably under, as the crow flies.