1. Beer
Well yeah, beer is ok, but ales rock. At least that’s what I’ve found as I’ve reached my rather advanced age.
2. J. Crew
Cant’ say I ever shopped there.
Well WalMart and Amazon are still around, Target too.
4. Motorcycles
Yeah I was reading how Harley Davidson is heading for the skids. I think part of it is the love of the internal combustion engine is fading. Even in cars it’s been so automated and computerized – the cars actually tell you when to do things like change oil, etc.
5. Diamonds
Well that’s because of DeBeers and the whole blood diamond. I’ll buy man made diamonds – you know, take a lump of carbon and heat and compress it.
6. Golf
Alas, something I never got into was golf. Couldn’t see the point of whacking a tiny little ball around the green.
7. Bar soap
Well yeah – even this old codger has switched to liquid soaps.
Football in general for me has always been boring. So ymmv.
9. Lunch
Now lunch – that’s a necessity. Millennials just don’t know it yet.
10. McDonalds
Agreed – they lost their way a long time ago. And now McDonald’s is trying to make up for lost time.
11. Vacations
Well that’s because corporate interests have beaten the union guaranteed notion of time off out of the current generation.
12. Napkins
Well yeah – paper towels work just fine.
13. Cars
When a car is $20,000 or more you can see why. Ten you have things like Zipcar, Uber, Lyft etc.
14. Crowdfunding
I’m not so sure on this one.
15. Wine
If only they haven’t been taught which wines are good, which are so-so and I’ll let you in on a secret – a 750ml bottle is about $10. And sometimes for that price you’ll find a fantastic bottle of wine, sometimes an OK bottle. You have to find out what you like.
Well yeah I find screw tops highly suspicious.
17. The Toyota Scion
Well Scion missed the mark. They had intended the Xa and Xb to appeal to youth, but instead it appealed to septagenarians because it was easy to get in and out of. This is what happens when you let your marketing division and accounting division have control.
18. Fabric softener
This one doesn’t make sense to me. They want their clothes to have static cling and feel rough on their skin?
19. Marriage
Think about it – more than half of marriages aren’t successful. And the kids from those unions are now our millennials. So that explains it.
20. The McWrap
The reason being they couldn’t sell them. Look, as I said earlier they lost it a couple decades ago.
21. Handshakes
Yeah fist bumps pretty much fixed that.
22. The Canadian tourism industry
I’ve been to Canada – looks very much like the U.S. And there are some sights that are worth a visit. But with the bureaucracy over crossing international borders was put in place, it’s too much of a hassle.
23. Light yogurt
24. Gambling
I’d hope better understand of mathematics and statistics are responsible for that.
25. Hotels
Well yeah – connectivity is key.
26. Relationships
Well because they were part of the wreckage of the until death thing in marriage.
27. Marmalade
Oh jelly, jam, marmalade is awesome.
28. Running
I believe it was Oscar Wilde who said “Why stand when you can sit, why sit when you can lounge about.” or some such.
29. Cereal
Maybe not cereal – I went away from it some time ago. Some nuts, yogurt etc. Eggs etc.
Aging is part of the genetic lottery and there’s not much you can do to change that although CRISPR/CAS9 holds some promise.
We rarely eat at places like this ourselves. Look, I’ve embraced home cooked meals. They’re in many cases less expensive too.
32. Focus groups
Well – it’s just the technology that changed everything.
33. Travel marketing
I did a few months with a travel place that catered to the over 50 crowd. They can pretty much afford the travel, kids can’t.
34. Working
Well they were brought up as special little snowflakes. That’s a big deal.
35. Credit
Yeah credit is a losers game. Save, budget and then it’s easier for you. Learn the patience and wait for the good stuff.
36. Trees
This one boggles the mind. I went the opposite way – electronic books rock.
Well see answers on cars and credit and you have the answer.
38. America
I don’t think they’re killing America. Old white men are killing America.
Well because we’ve never had true democracy. We’ve had a representative republic since the founding of the United States.
40. Home Depot
Well they are owned by a bigoted family. So that might explain it.
41. Self-pity
Well yeah – doesn’t surprise me. My parents generation got the most, I got squat.
42. The 2016 presidential election
Well being that the Democratic party wants to play bait and switch, and the Republicans are for the most part assholes, who the hell wants to vote for any of them? See my answer about old white men.
43. Consumerism
Ahem, their elders did that. I strongly support fix and not dispose.
44. Suits
Suits – here’s what I know. Put a suit on and you can pretty much get away with anything.
45. Dinner dates
Well yeah – this one doesn’t surprise me at all>
46. Movies
Actually Hollywood is killing the movie business. There hasn’t been a movie worth paying for this year so far.
47. Sex
Well this is sort of similar to the wine thing. They don’t know what to do.
48. Gyms
With increasing evidence saying that dietary sugar is responsible for most of the ills we suffer you can see why.
49. Serendipity
Serendipity will always exist. Millennials just haven’t the life experience yet.
50. Loyalty programs
Well yeah cheapest rooms rule.
Perhaps because companies haven’t been loyal to their employees for some time.
52. Taking risks
Risk is a funny thing. We’re all pretty much risk averse.
53. Patriotism
Of course jingoistic patriotism is fading.
54. Cruises
Being captive on a boat isn’t generally my cup of tea.
55. Applebee’s
Lots of repeats on this list.
56. Fashion
Oh child, lots of us don’t get fashion.
57. Hangout sitcoms
Because they’ve not had the experience themselves.
58. The Big Mac
See answers on McDonalds.
59. Stilettos
See fashion.
60. Romance
Most generations don’t have romance down.
This one reeks of extreme horse shit. Let them have a kid or three and see how they feel about the 9 to 5.
62. The NFL
Well this goes along with the college football thing. Boring.
Yeah well 401(K) is pretty much a ponzi scheme.
64. The Olympics
Yeah – who wants to deal with the hassles to be honest.
65. Brunch
Again, it’s because they haven’t learned about it yet.
The EU has been doomed from the start.
67. Baby names
Well the special snowflakes want their spawn to be even more special.
68. Banks
Well since the 1970’s banks have gotten increasingly greedy. So this make sense.
69. Oil
Well only driving when one has to has changed things. It accounts for the price of oil below $50 per barrel for almost a year now. And it’s not going to get any better as the price of electric vehicles comes down.
70. Everything
This one is just a catch all. Much of this is horse shit anyways.
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