A Pause to say Thank You

[EddMarkStarr]

The past week has been brutal for me. A lot of younger social media types took out their anger on me as I represent boomers, the generation that has messed everything up and, so I'm told, needs to go away totally.

JUB is one of the online places I feel welcomed, and I want to thank all of you guys for being so kind to me.

Allow me to pause for a moment, catch my breath and share a video from a time when I was young, and the future seemed friendlier.


From: "Top of the Pops" - BBC - 1967

 

[Cormac135]

I hope you told them to fuck off, spineless twats on the net.

As you can see by the post count i also love Jub,

Here's an old song that i stumbled across yesterday.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Damn those whippersnappers!

 

[lockeroomguy]

I love JUB! This is the only place I can can be comfortable sharing my sexuality. As far as the the rest of the world knows, I'm a completely straight married male. Thank all you guys.

Great music choices too. Music is the one thing all of us boomers got completely right. 100 years from now no one will have heard of Justin Bieber, and they will still be hearing Beatles songs.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Never listen to the trolls. Never.

I don't fault the generation. There are good people in every category, every tribe, every age, every country.

We love you and wish you the best.

Hope we get to gather to eat fine food and wine again, either there or here, or in a new place.



- - - Updated - - -

Another fucking double post. Shitty software.

 

[me203]

Shitty software.

Indeed. The software regularly gives me a feeling it comes straight from software hell.

Although it may not be a problem much longer. The way things are going with my political commentary, I'll probably be persona non grata before much longer...

The sad thought...I could fade off all the forums and Facebook groups I'm on, and no one would ever miss me... At most, someone might see my user name, and say: "I'd forgotten about that asshole!"

 

[ChristianGianni]

JUB is the ONLY form of social media I belong to, Twatter & Fucbook & Instagasm have no interest for me whatsoever. I'm 27 and work alone takes up an average of 14 hours of my day. I don't know how most of these people have the time to devote to these platforms. Good luck to them if that's what gets them through their day, but it's not for me thanks.

**** EddMarkStarr I'm sorry you had to have shit like that thrown your way. I hope you reminded them that their parents, perhaps grandparents, are of your generation also, and if it wasn't for your generation todays whining Fuck-Tards wouldn't be here. Or just tell them to fuck off.

 

[Thad1527]

What did you DO?

I can't imagine evil from you. Hence my shock!

 

[ChrisGibson]

And maybe things are looking a little more bright and hopeful again.

 

[frankfrank]

Yeah, ageism is real...and it's ENTIRELY based on clueless people assuming things about other people.

Those who exhibit that, and make assumptions that "because he/she is old, he/she must have those asshole viewpoints" should turn around and look at people who are their peers. They will find the same asshole points of view among people their age. Maybe somewhat less prevalently so, but people of all ages DO have those same points of view or practices that they attribute only to people from another generation.

You have been kind to all of us, Edd. You are very welcome here. I'm sending you a cyber-hug (hey at least it's COVID-safe, lol) and my kindest thoughts.

 

[rareboy]

Their turn will come.

 

[Latimer]

I'm not interested in Facebook or Twitter, but I've been posting on Instagram for about a year, and have met interesting and friendly people there from all over the world (I've ended up with more contacts abroad than in the US.) including some often immensely talented architects, designers, artisans and artists. The talent I've seen has been humbling and inspiring in equal measure. I have about 1000 followers now, and follow about the same number, of varying ages. An architect I met through the site recently did some beautiful drawings for me, and I'm discussing a project with a carver in a small town in England. I've steered clear of participating in political discussions, although I've been a bystander to some rancorous comments recently over the legacy of Ataturk among some Turks I follow, and over responsibility for the blast in Beirut among some Lebanese, and have exchanged DMs over the Azeri invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh with a sweet-natured Armenian from Georgia now living in England. For my part, I primarily post art, architecture and history, and only a small amount of my work. Although English is--of course--the lingua franca, I try to keep a good amount of back-and-forth commentary going in French, Italian and Spanish, so I see it also as another source of language acquisition.