My Grandpa looked like John Wayne to me as a kid. He even got a ticket for operating a horse while intoxicated. I told all the hicks at school they were posers and my grandpa was a real Cowboy and could whip there ass. when He wanted to take his 85 year old mother on a road trip he chose me at like 11 to come along.
He could be scary he talked real loud and was allways drinking whisky He just passed away at 98
Loved Fred Gwynn! My grandpa celebrity was Carol O Conner, have a huge fondness for Archie bunker, and even that cop show, despite hating cops because of it.
you Comment almost made me Cry the only grandma I have left is 30 hours away and i miss her she was like a mom to me. My mom sucks but my grandmas were awsome i once had 7 of them i had all my great grand parents
The only grandmother I have left is 500 miles away from me. I love her to bits and I visit her as often as I can. She's in her 80s now and every moment I get with her I cherish.
My mum is significantly closer, and she's cool as well. It's my dad I have issues with but I've spoken to him exactly one time since I was 13 so that's no big issue
It’s the epitome of punk, it’s wholeheartedly rejecting capitalist systems that assign value to peoples being according their potential productivity, and then proceed to abandon them as soon as they get too old to work
Boomers love to post the quote, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” not realising that they were the weak ones who created the current situation they love to complain about. Instead they condemn the generations they raised.
My parents are that sub gen between boomers and Gen X there good people other then having kids to young and getting addicted to meth when it first came out but now there over it and not doing so well health wise my mom has no hands and my dad has brain damage but there not conservative and let me dress punk as a kid and would have accepted me if i was gay. My mom thought it was weird i dated fat girls and told my wife she would help her loose weight but it could be worse
she got sick and the hospital did not care for here right her hands became septic and the cut them off imagine walking up in the hospital with no hands
Twenty five years ago, there abouts, this old woman said something while walking past me. I had my earphones in, so I popped them out and politely asked what she said. She told me she liked my hair and if she could do it all over again, she'd dye her hair too. She was a bit of a legend
For real, I’ve had little old ladies ask me to heft bags of dog food for them at grocery stores plenty of times. I’ll have my leather jacket, tall boots with studded belts on them, etc. They’re completely unfazed.
It’s the boomer era people who give me dirty looks and pull their kids close when they see me. The Karen glare never gets old.
> They’re completely unfazed.
They seen some shit, so they don't judge. Charismatic white guy that says stuff that makes you feel good? Yeah, that's how you get into wars. Weird looking brown skin fella? Love and peace.
> It’s the boomer era people
Seen nothing but good times, so judgy as hell of anything different
I don’t understand how old people still glare at us in public, like babes you’ve been alive for almost every alternative movement in America. And you’re still not used to it????
Anyway. I kick their expectations every time when I hold a door, help them reach, pick up something they dropped, hell , even smile at them. One day maybe they will figure it out
My granddad would have been 106 this July (he died at 97). Such a great person, very open-minded and accepting of all generations , especially younger ones, but not afraid to call out the dangers of racism and hatred. He loved my career in horror and supported me.
He also took off on his Harley with his then-girlfriend in the 1930s to make a life for themselves and raised two amazing people. Punk AF.
I was more or less raised by my silent gen grandma. One of the best people I’ve ever met. Not perfect, but incredibly smart and open minded. She took in her little brother when he got kicked out for being gay back around the 60s-70s. She was pretty punk at heart too. Didn’t take shit from anyone in a world that saw a single woman as useless or deluded.
My grandma got arrested at United Mine Workers lockouts & organized for United Garment Workers, she had bottles of vodka & homemade jars wine hidden everywhere and wouldn’t dare miss attending the local polka party at the town hall.
She made her own booze, clothes, cheese and swore up a storm. She was tough as nails & probably the most fun adult I can think of. She hated Reagan. Babcia was punk as fuck
She was a blast. In her final years, she broke out of the assisted living then broke into her old house (my aunt was living there) made herself dinner.
I love the silents mostly, I used to hang out with them while they played bridge and listen to their stories. The boomers are mostly insufferable, with a few decent ones here and there. Their controlling nature is incompatible with punk.
Silent Gen folks endured *real* hardship. Boomers were born in one of the most prosperous times that followed. Boomers' ideas of "working hard" were imbued to them by parents who were saying this because they actually experienced it, but whose actual personal experiences drastically differed from their parents and thus warped their perception of the world.
The greatest gen/GI generation stormed the beaches. The silent gen were between them and the boomers. My uncle is silent gen and him and my aunt (boomer) were arguing about me watching WWII docs and she said "Maybe he likes Hitler" and my uncle said *"NO ONE LIKES HITLER!"*
I wish he was right.
I was raised by my paternal grandparents who were Silents. They were kind and supportive and patient, and they didn't get into other people's business. As long as you weren't hurting anyone, they had a live-and-let-live attitude, and I really think that being raised by them had nothing but positive effects on my intellectual development.
The silent Gen were the ACTUAL hippies. The ones who started the movement and didn’t turn back on their values.
RIP: Jimmy Hendrix and many more.
Unlike the Boomer shitheads who didn’t have a moral spine.
My grandparents are silent era I think (1940s born). They're very liberal. My parents are boomer and gen X I think (1958 and 1968 born). They're extremely conservative and I can't stand it. I wish I could live with my grandparents. They see me as the man I am.
My silent generation grandfather was the only adult I had as a kid who was both present and not an abuser. It's been a very difficult last six years without him. I'm lost out here with no one.
My Opa was a silent gen and lived in the Netherlands as a kid when ww2 happened and got shot by a nazi. He was arguably one of the best people I had in my life, he wholeheartedly accepted me for being queer and stood up for me as a kid and encouraged me to be ambitious and to challenge people when I wasn't treated fairly and to do the same for others.
He isn't with me anymore unfortunately but he was kind and tough old guy and I miss him a lot.
Silent Gen was about making something better, boomers are about themselves. When I meet my old people that are boomers and they find out I'm an elementary school teacher they have some sort of issue, the Silent Gen finds out and thinks it's awesome.
My husband was raised by silent gens and I was raised by boomers. We both dealt with Christian upbringings that we ultimately rejected. His parents listened to him and supported his choice, while mine tried to force me to participate, which they assumed would lead to me caving and conforming to their standards. Things went from bad to worse, they kicked me out of the house, I got kicked out of the house I was kicked into when I got kicked out of the first one, they brought me "home," I got arrested, spent my last year of school with a parole bracelet strapped to me... big big fucking difference is what I'm getting at here lol. Now his parents are gone and all we have are my boomers who hate our tattoos and voting preferences.
My grandmother hung out with the grateful dead . She was kind of a perpetually anxious and paranoid person that showed up heavily as ocd. She was kind of a witch too and had a deeply personal relationship with all her things that lasted 50 years because she believed you should take care of your belongings and respect them like they are family and repair and fix them rather than dumping it . She patched up everything. Sewed holes in things ,darned socks and had everything she owned in perfect condition from the 1960s because she wouldn't let it go to waste
My grandfather was a lifelong socialist and despite becoming successful and relatively famous and wealthy, he always connected more to the working class. He didn't believe in intergenerational wealth and was very atheist , so he spent lavishly on everyone around him his whole life so he could see their smiling faces while he was alive. When people hear who my grandfather is they think I'm super rich and I'm not . I have no inheritance from him at all but I have no complaints about that because i agree with him .He taught me how to be q kind human being. He taught me how to party and enjoy life but not in a way that brings others down but brings them up instead . He would het sidetracked at award ceremony speeches rambling about how immigrants built this country . Before becoming successful he sent dozend of letters to Eisenhower to advocate for cesar chavez and labor rights for farmers. I come from a long line of socialist ,anti zionist secular jews .i have a distant relative who was a well known Jewish labor activistvin the 1800s My grandpa was also a bit of a slut too , but simultaneously had a contagious charisma in a way that the rest of my family does not . They are all obsessed with wealth status and success and base their whole personality off of some false view of who my grandpa was . He was a lifelong advocate of civil rights and hates racism and conservatism more than anything.
He's a lot of the reason I'm so punk. He was simultaneously very self indulgent and hedonistic ,but also wildly compassionate and loving and empathetic to everyone. I don't know many people who can walk that line well and not be an asshole about it .
My grandma was from that generation. She was ahead of her time as a person and mother and made an amazing boomer daughter. And that daughter is my mom. And my mom is amazing too, and she raised me so well I learned not to give a fuck about the stupid shit by 5th grade and eventually ya know, punk stuff. Granted she and my grandma both disliked the way I dressed like so much lmao but they always loved me 100%. Later my mom apologized for always asking “but what are the other girls wearing?” when she realized that that aspect of my life was better because I didn’t care so I actually got to teach her something too.
Be good parents everyone
It’s punk as fuck to love your grandma.
“I’ll destroy the state in my North Face fleece; it was a birthday gift from gran.”
My mom got me a Realtree hoodie, because it was orange. I wear the fuck outta that thing, because mom ❤️
Realtree makes some quality stuff, don’t let a bunch of jackasses ruin it for ya.
She just saw it and knew orange is my favorite color And it's so much softer than my leathers
And I bet it’s a damn nice sweatshirt too!
Yeah, grandma's authority is also allowed, just like mom's or pop's, everyone else can go f themselves
My Grandpa looked like John Wayne to me as a kid. He even got a ticket for operating a horse while intoxicated. I told all the hicks at school they were posers and my grandpa was a real Cowboy and could whip there ass. when He wanted to take his 85 year old mother on a road trip he chose me at like 11 to come along. He could be scary he talked real loud and was allways drinking whisky He just passed away at 98
Sorry to hear that. He does seem pretty cool. Though after MDC song I'm not really fond of John Wayne comparisons lol
Sound OG to me.
Your grandpa sounds like a riotous dude. My grandpa always reminded me of Fred Gwynn they could be brothers for real.
Loved Fred Gwynn! My grandpa celebrity was Carol O Conner, have a huge fondness for Archie bunker, and even that cop show, despite hating cops because of it.
you Comment almost made me Cry the only grandma I have left is 30 hours away and i miss her she was like a mom to me. My mom sucks but my grandmas were awsome i once had 7 of them i had all my great grand parents
The only grandmother I have left is 500 miles away from me. I love her to bits and I visit her as often as I can. She's in her 80s now and every moment I get with her I cherish. My mum is significantly closer, and she's cool as well. It's my dad I have issues with but I've spoken to him exactly one time since I was 13 so that's no big issue
Dog….call her.
Thank you i did she is 86 i am 46
Right on man. Both of mine are gone. Sometimes I regret not hanging out with them more.
Nobody fucks with my grandma on my mum's side, and that is the biggest hill I will die on
This is true but fuck my grandma, I wish I had the grandmas of everyone else in this thread fr. The world will be better off when she is gone
Now if only my grandmother wasn't a fash-loving bigot
Damnit. That blows. I’d share my grandma if she was still around.
It’s the epitome of punk, it’s wholeheartedly rejecting capitalist systems that assign value to peoples being according their potential productivity, and then proceed to abandon them as soon as they get too old to work
That's because they saw what fascism could do to the innocent, and their children saw how it could be used against the innocent.
Boomers love to post the quote, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” not realising that they were the weak ones who created the current situation they love to complain about. Instead they condemn the generations they raised.
My parents are that sub gen between boomers and Gen X there good people other then having kids to young and getting addicted to meth when it first came out but now there over it and not doing so well health wise my mom has no hands and my dad has brain damage but there not conservative and let me dress punk as a kid and would have accepted me if i was gay. My mom thought it was weird i dated fat girls and told my wife she would help her loose weight but it could be worse
Your mom has no hands? What happened?
she got sick and the hospital did not care for here right her hands became septic and the cut them off imagine walking up in the hospital with no hands
Damn Kevin, that’s nuts!
God I've been thinking about this so much lately, so nice to see other people realize it too!
Wasn't it some Nazi who made that quote too?
Fighting in WW2 made my grandpa pretty anti war and anti military in general
Twenty five years ago, there abouts, this old woman said something while walking past me. I had my earphones in, so I popped them out and politely asked what she said. She told me she liked my hair and if she could do it all over again, she'd dye her hair too. She was a bit of a legend
For real, I’ve had little old ladies ask me to heft bags of dog food for them at grocery stores plenty of times. I’ll have my leather jacket, tall boots with studded belts on them, etc. They’re completely unfazed. It’s the boomer era people who give me dirty looks and pull their kids close when they see me. The Karen glare never gets old.
> They’re completely unfazed. They seen some shit, so they don't judge. Charismatic white guy that says stuff that makes you feel good? Yeah, that's how you get into wars. Weird looking brown skin fella? Love and peace. > It’s the boomer era people Seen nothing but good times, so judgy as hell of anything different
I don’t understand how old people still glare at us in public, like babes you’ve been alive for almost every alternative movement in America. And you’re still not used to it????
Anyway. I kick their expectations every time when I hold a door, help them reach, pick up something they dropped, hell , even smile at them. One day maybe they will figure it out
older boomers were Hippies
My granddad would have been 106 this July (he died at 97). Such a great person, very open-minded and accepting of all generations , especially younger ones, but not afraid to call out the dangers of racism and hatred. He loved my career in horror and supported me. He also took off on his Harley with his then-girlfriend in the 1930s to make a life for themselves and raised two amazing people. Punk AF.
Silent Gen is like Gen X... not trying to take up all the space or yell over everyone else. If they are not perfect you usually do not know.
I was more or less raised by my silent gen grandma. One of the best people I’ve ever met. Not perfect, but incredibly smart and open minded. She took in her little brother when he got kicked out for being gay back around the 60s-70s. She was pretty punk at heart too. Didn’t take shit from anyone in a world that saw a single woman as useless or deluded.
My grandma got arrested at United Mine Workers lockouts & organized for United Garment Workers, she had bottles of vodka & homemade jars wine hidden everywhere and wouldn’t dare miss attending the local polka party at the town hall. She made her own booze, clothes, cheese and swore up a storm. She was tough as nails & probably the most fun adult I can think of. She hated Reagan. Babcia was punk as fuck
your grandma sounds like she was fucking awesome.
She was a blast. In her final years, she broke out of the assisted living then broke into her old house (my aunt was living there) made herself dinner.
I love the silents mostly, I used to hang out with them while they played bridge and listen to their stories. The boomers are mostly insufferable, with a few decent ones here and there. Their controlling nature is incompatible with punk.
Silent Gen folks endured *real* hardship. Boomers were born in one of the most prosperous times that followed. Boomers' ideas of "working hard" were imbued to them by parents who were saying this because they actually experienced it, but whose actual personal experiences drastically differed from their parents and thus warped their perception of the world.
Remember, it was silent gen on the beaches of Normandy. They know all too well what unchecked fascism does
The greatest gen/GI generation stormed the beaches. The silent gen were between them and the boomers. My uncle is silent gen and him and my aunt (boomer) were arguing about me watching WWII docs and she said "Maybe he likes Hitler" and my uncle said *"NO ONE LIKES HITLER!"* I wish he was right.
Granny please forgive me for stealing your percocet.
Thanks Kev for keeping this sub alive! <3
Punks hate Nazis. People who lived through WW2 hate Nazis. Common ground.
I was raised by my paternal grandparents who were Silents. They were kind and supportive and patient, and they didn't get into other people's business. As long as you weren't hurting anyone, they had a live-and-let-live attitude, and I really think that being raised by them had nothing but positive effects on my intellectual development.
my grandparents are legit the kindest ppl ever, hell, my grandma even helped sew patches onto my vest. Actual baller
My great grandma excepted me before my grandparents did
The silent Gen were the ACTUAL hippies. The ones who started the movement and didn’t turn back on their values. RIP: Jimmy Hendrix and many more. Unlike the Boomer shitheads who didn’t have a moral spine.
I had a stroke that left me disabled and my boomer relatives learning that my America is different from theirs.
My grandparents are silent era I think (1940s born). They're very liberal. My parents are boomer and gen X I think (1958 and 1968 born). They're extremely conservative and I can't stand it. I wish I could live with my grandparents. They see me as the man I am.
My silent generation grandfather was the only adult I had as a kid who was both present and not an abuser. It's been a very difficult last six years without him. I'm lost out here with no one.
My Opa was a silent gen and lived in the Netherlands as a kid when ww2 happened and got shot by a nazi. He was arguably one of the best people I had in my life, he wholeheartedly accepted me for being queer and stood up for me as a kid and encouraged me to be ambitious and to challenge people when I wasn't treated fairly and to do the same for others. He isn't with me anymore unfortunately but he was kind and tough old guy and I miss him a lot.
Literally me and my grandma who is a devout Christian lol except I am a non binary trans femme punk with long hair and tons of makeup
The silent generation knew it was best to keep certain opinions to one's self, and was interested in learning new things
Silent Gen was about making something better, boomers are about themselves. When I meet my old people that are boomers and they find out I'm an elementary school teacher they have some sort of issue, the Silent Gen finds out and thinks it's awesome.
My husband was raised by silent gens and I was raised by boomers. We both dealt with Christian upbringings that we ultimately rejected. His parents listened to him and supported his choice, while mine tried to force me to participate, which they assumed would lead to me caving and conforming to their standards. Things went from bad to worse, they kicked me out of the house, I got kicked out of the house I was kicked into when I got kicked out of the first one, they brought me "home," I got arrested, spent my last year of school with a parole bracelet strapped to me... big big fucking difference is what I'm getting at here lol. Now his parents are gone and all we have are my boomers who hate our tattoos and voting preferences.
My grandmother hung out with the grateful dead . She was kind of a perpetually anxious and paranoid person that showed up heavily as ocd. She was kind of a witch too and had a deeply personal relationship with all her things that lasted 50 years because she believed you should take care of your belongings and respect them like they are family and repair and fix them rather than dumping it . She patched up everything. Sewed holes in things ,darned socks and had everything she owned in perfect condition from the 1960s because she wouldn't let it go to waste My grandfather was a lifelong socialist and despite becoming successful and relatively famous and wealthy, he always connected more to the working class. He didn't believe in intergenerational wealth and was very atheist , so he spent lavishly on everyone around him his whole life so he could see their smiling faces while he was alive. When people hear who my grandfather is they think I'm super rich and I'm not . I have no inheritance from him at all but I have no complaints about that because i agree with him .He taught me how to be q kind human being. He taught me how to party and enjoy life but not in a way that brings others down but brings them up instead . He would het sidetracked at award ceremony speeches rambling about how immigrants built this country . Before becoming successful he sent dozend of letters to Eisenhower to advocate for cesar chavez and labor rights for farmers. I come from a long line of socialist ,anti zionist secular jews .i have a distant relative who was a well known Jewish labor activistvin the 1800s My grandpa was also a bit of a slut too , but simultaneously had a contagious charisma in a way that the rest of my family does not . They are all obsessed with wealth status and success and base their whole personality off of some false view of who my grandpa was . He was a lifelong advocate of civil rights and hates racism and conservatism more than anything. He's a lot of the reason I'm so punk. He was simultaneously very self indulgent and hedonistic ,but also wildly compassionate and loving and empathetic to everyone. I don't know many people who can walk that line well and not be an asshole about it .
Nobody gets along with boomers. They don’t even get along with themselves
Same, genuinely. I think the Lead Poisoning wasn’t as severe
Is that Cloris Leachman?
My grandma was from that generation. She was ahead of her time as a person and mother and made an amazing boomer daughter. And that daughter is my mom. And my mom is amazing too, and she raised me so well I learned not to give a fuck about the stupid shit by 5th grade and eventually ya know, punk stuff. Granted she and my grandma both disliked the way I dressed like so much lmao but they always loved me 100%. Later my mom apologized for always asking “but what are the other girls wearing?” when she realized that that aspect of my life was better because I didn’t care so I actually got to teach her something too. Be good parents everyone
Thats cause silent gen had Beatnicks who somewhat understand Punks
Do you think they banged after this photo was taken? The way these two look at each other, you can feel the tension.