Members of the Everybody Gets a Medal Generation (born 1986-present): what time do you wake up in the morning?

old 87 wrote:

Born in 87. I won third play in a spelling bee against a single competitor. There was no 2nd place winner, which is how I won third. :-)

Regarding your hard-won third; I believe you may have meant to write: "I won third PLACE in a spelling bee."

You helpless millennial kids! Now we have to listen to Lolo whine because she has no ass or boobs or a gold medal.

And the young college graduate down at the recycling center can't even count out change properly when I turn in my cans.

noneoftheabove wrote:

9 AM... Luxury...We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. And we were happy to do it.

N U got a medal 4 that, didn't u??

A medal? ya' mean metal as in the metal ending of the belt from when Dad would thrash us. Those er' the good old days

Born in 1970 and I would sleep in til 9:30 or later if I could every day. I've always been a late sleeper and never outgrew it. It is rare that I get to sleep in til 11 or 12 on weekends anymore but that was routine up until just a few years ago. I never had much of an issue staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning. My sleep cycle has always been off by a few hours.

noneoftheabove wrote:

9 AM... Luxury...We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. And we were happy to do it.

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

sweet I don't make the cuts, I was born in 84. But because I am almost in the same category, I wake up 5:30 Mon-Fri to run for an hour and by 7:30 on Sat and Sun.

I can't believe so many people are bragging about what huge idiots they are. You all deserve a fcking medal! For biggest moran.

Nobody gives a shit if you work 70 hrs a week and get up at 4am and walk 30 miles to work. Nobody gives a shit. All you get is a finishers medal and a kick in the ass.

Here lies part of the source of winning medals for anything. Season 6 of South Park (2002) is the culprit.

Starting at 1:00:

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/153512/intero-rectogestion

For those who are afraid to watch anything South Park (naughty language), it goes like.

TV Announcer: The surgeon general's response Has made americans change their eating habits almost instantly.

Kyle (to Cartman): It is stupid and immature! So you got people to crap out their mouths, what do you want? A freaking medal?

TV Announcer: The mayor of South Park has announced that For first discovering this healthy way of eating, Young citizen eric cartman will be given a freaking medal!

Back in my day, I woke up at 3 in the morning to walk 30 miles barefoot( we couldn;t afford shoes) over broken glass with Nazis shooting over our head and kamikaze planes dive-bombing all around us just to get a drink of water.

Then, I would walk back to work for 36 hours a day in a coal mine while I was abused and shot at.

Yeah, fvck all ya youngsters

voice of reason wrote:

Can we please all agree to stop these stupid posts about generations? They are beyond lame.

Thanks guys.

Said the guy from the participation trophy gen

About an hour before I have to be at work. This varies greatly throughout the year, so any time between 5:30 and 8:00. On days where I have nothing to do, I usually wake up around 9:00 but will stay in bed until 9:30-10:00.

Born in 1967. Flexible schedule, so I make my own schedule. I can work from home or from my office. I'm rarely out of bed before 8 AM, it just depends if I have somewhere to be.

I'll sleep in a bit on the weekends if I have the chance, but all of these people in Portland insist on getting up and running in the morning, so if I want to have people to run with I get sucked into that. I'm an evening runner most of the year.

I rarely ever go to bed before 11PM. Just not wired for morning, but I'll do it if I have somewhere to be.

By the way, I think that this whole "everyone's a winner" mentality is bullsh*t.

It teaches people to champion mediocrity.

I think that all races should have a no t-shirt AND a no medal option. I'd rather save $20 on my entry fee and you can keep your t shirt and medal. They should be optional for every race.

Born 1950. I need to wake up at 6:00 for work, but I get up at 5:00 so that I have an hour to disparage people before heading in.

Born 1995. I don't wake up for work because I don't work, but I always stay up until 3:00 a.m. so that I can disparage old people on letsrun before going to sleep.

Eric Cartman is a millennial, conceived in 1992. It is interesting that the creators of South Park foresaw "get a medal for anything" back in 2002.

E. Cartman wrote:

Here lies part of the source of winning medals for anything. Season 6 of South Park (2002) is the culprit.

Starting at 1:00:

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/153512/intero-rectogestion

For those who are afraid to watch anything South Park (naughty language), it goes like.

TV Announcer: The surgeon general's response Has made americans change their eating habits almost instantly.

Kyle (to Cartman): It is stupid and immature! So you got people to crap out their mouths, what do you want? A freaking medal?

TV Announcer: The mayor of South Park has announced that For first discovering this healthy way of eating, Young citizen eric cartman will be given a freaking medal!

dfgdh wrote:

Back in my day, I woke up at 3 in the morning to walk 30 miles barefoot( we couldn;t afford shoes) over broken glass with Nazis shooting over our head and kamikaze planes dive-bombing all around us just to get a drink of water.

Then, I would walk back to work for 36 hours a day in a coal mine while I was abused and shot at.

Yeah, fvck all ya youngsters

I was up at 330am for a 20 miler on Omaha beach on D-day. Shots were fired from both sides as I had to keep a 5 minute pace...or else. Or else I wouldn't have maintained enough momentum to jump over the land mines which were just never ending.

But even I had it good compared to my wife, who was out boogie boarding at the time.

What kind of challenges has anyone born after 86 ever had to face? Nothing! You get nothing!

I'm glad that after "the greatest generation," our country began producing people who are smart enough to think up better ways to fight wars than flooding a beach with more bodies than the enemy can shoot. I'd rather be smart enough to kill an enemy with a weapon controlled from the safety of a stateside base than brave enough to run into gunfire.

If the greatest generation was so great, why didn't they come up with the technology and tactics necessary to kill Hitler with a single, small covert operation?

This is one of the dumber threads I've ever seen. First, young people have been famous late sleepers long before this generation. I was born in 1969 and while I got up at 5 a.m. for years to deliver the Washington Post back in the day, once I had stopped that by age 16, I always slept late and that was the norm. Second, everybody, whether young or old, gets a medal for every road race now. Third, who is giving out the medals to everybody for everything? Hint, hint: It is not the children.