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TiggerCCW UK 09-23-2010 07:18 AM

I'm feeling my age at the minute :mad: New term has started at the uni where I manage the bars and this years crop of freshers weren't even born when I started working bars :(

Rockwolf66 09-23-2010 07:57 PM

1981 here and it seems that the kids who come into work are dumb as mud these days.

pmulcahy11b 09-23-2010 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockwolf66 (Post 25747)
1981 here and it seems that the kids who come into work are dumb as mud these days.

I don't think our kids are any dumber than kids of any era -- they're just poorly-educated and have less of a work ethic. They also seem, to me, to be more fatalistic than earlier generations -- and they might have a good reason to be so.

helbent4 10-07-2010 05:56 PM

Group,

Born in '68, ran "Kalisz" in summer of '84.

Not too long ago I was in a T2K game set in England (sort of "Going Home" Lite) and mentioned because it was a rear area it wasn't like we were in the "Fulda Gap" or anything... the GM (who was in the US Army) didn't know what that meant.

Tony

Rockwolf66 10-08-2010 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by helbent4 (Post 26010)
Group,

Born in '68, ran "Kalisz" in summer of '84.

Not too long ago I was in a T2K game set in England (sort of "Going Home" Lite) and mentioned because it was a rear area it wasn't like we were in the "Fulda Gap" or anything... the GM (who was in the US Army) didn't know what that meant.

Tony

Can I have the army guy. I'm currently dealing with a former marine corporal who claims to have been running all over mogadishu, working as Marine Intelligence directly under the NSA. Somehow I don't think that the marines would need to risk trained intelligence people on the ground or FAST members as bodyguards when your average jarhead could do the job described just as well.

helbent4 10-15-2010 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockwolf66 (Post 26035)
Can I have the army guy. I'm currently dealing with a former marine corporal who claims to have been running all over mogadishu, working as Marine Intelligence directly under the NSA. Somehow I don't think that the marines would need to risk trained intelligence people on the ground or FAST members as bodyguards when your average jarhead could do the job described just as well.

Rockwolf,

Possibly they sent him all around so he'd be out of the hair of the other Marines who were doing real stuff?

At any rate the GM was my friend Eric "BigeHauser", who is a good guy and usually sharp as a tack (for a young whipper-snapper). I guess he was just having an off-day.

Tony

dragoon500ly 11-27-2010 06:57 AM

July 1959 here....

"Active Duty since JC was a Corp!"

Panther Al 12-01-2010 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b (Post 25749)
I don't think our kids are any dumber than kids of any era -- they're just poorly-educated and have less of a work ethic. They also seem, to me, to be more fatalistic than earlier generations -- and they might have a good reason to be so.

If not poorly educated they tend to be a little on the know it all side: Only person in my area interested in playing T2K falls into the "Arrogance matched only by Ignorance" category. Made the mistake of mentioning I was a tanker and he went off on how great it was that we had autoloaders in the abrams. He was convinced that since saw it on the internet my experiences with the M1 was clearly because they was keeping it a secret from us.

Sigh.

What can ya do?

helbent4 12-03-2010 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Panther Al (Post 27914)
If not poorly educated they tend to be a little on the know it all side.

Panther,

Dude, like that didn't describe us all at a young age!

Tony

dragoon500ly 12-07-2010 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Panther Al (Post 27914)
If not poorly educated they tend to be a little on the know it all side: Only person in my area interested in playing T2K falls into the "Arrogance matched only by Ignorance" category. Made the mistake of mentioning I was a tanker and he went off on how great it was that we had autoloaders in the abrams. He was convinced that since saw it on the internet my experiences with the M1 was clearly because they was keeping it a secret from us.

Sigh.

What can ya do?

There was a reporter down in Ft Hood who reported that the M-1 used "ground-breaking radar" as part of its fire-control system. Funny, I still can't find any mention of it in the manuals and I must say that the radar dish is very well camouflaged! Either that or the reporter mistook a Hoffman for the radar....

Targan 03-27-2011 07:19 AM

Bumping this to give new members the opportunity to contribute.

ArmySGT. 08-28-2011 01:08 PM

1971

Seems I am in good company.

Sanjuro 11-04-2011 11:34 AM

1967.
I could say I haven't had sex siince 2005- but it's only 2335 now!

Olefin 04-22-2012 09:25 PM

1965 here

Oh and by the way - my birthday is July 18 - nice touch considering its also the start of the game as well

Medic 04-22-2012 11:23 PM

1979. Last (good) batch before the '80ies' decadence. :D

Graebarde 06-12-2012 12:40 PM

And your STILL all a bunch of pups!!!!:D

M-Type 06-25-2012 02:06 PM

I had to drop in my vote to be the elephant in the room...go post 1990!

or more specifically, 1993 :cool:

I just enjoy the older things...

Muti 09-01-2013 11:28 AM

August 1986

Lundgren 10-31-2013 02:26 PM

December 1971.

Wolf sword 07-20-2014 08:16 PM

Dec of 1969

Ancestor 04-06-2015 09:44 PM

1972

Draq 04-07-2015 04:38 PM

Dec 1988

LT. Ox 07-10-2015 04:12 PM

Me or the Graebarde?
 
09-30-48 Class of '66

monkeyofficeboy 08-29-2018 07:45 AM

1981 for me, and have been playing since the early 1990s.

WallShadow 08-29-2018 12:15 PM

1957--the year the US planned to fight a nuclear war with the Soviet Union--see Operation Dropshot, which formed a huge part of our defense and foreign policy for decades.

Also the year that Operation Plumbob set off 29 nuclear tests, many in the atmosphere (if you ever wondered why I'm a little bit _off_, keep this in mind).

Also the year the Rooskies sent up that Sputnik thingie. I was born half-past Sputnik and quarter-to Vanguard)

AND part of the IGY (International Geophysical Year) which lasted about a year and a half. Celebrated in song by Steely Dan's Don Fagen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogYgHlNnqo

And, most importantly(to me):D--I was born.

Rolando 03-20-2023 08:36 PM

september 1975


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