Possibly, but Bigfoot is still the undisputed champion.
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You’re an inspiration, truly. 
Changed my mind and went with thew strawberry daiquiri instead. It seemed more suited to morning drinking. I’m saving the piña coladas for after work tonight.
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Perhaps for getting caught in the rain? Eh? Eh?!?!?!
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Along with the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti.
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My son-in-law and daughter had shared some meme “Millenials going through their second ‘once-in-a-generation’ financial crisis.” I bust out laughing. Everyone alive (EDIT: as an aware adult) right now has gone through those two, and anyone older has gone through more.
Now the Silent Generation, they went through a true ‘once-in-a-generation’ crisis. My grandmother had life-long habits developed out of the extreme necessity of that time.
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While true, the Great Recession hit before most of us Millenials had built up sufficient savings, and it hurt us pretty badly. The current one is also shaping up to be even worse. 
Which hinges on the assumption all prior generations had big savings. About the only ones likely to have a cushion were the Boomers who enjoyed the post-WWII economic growth. (And that’s only a portion of the Boomer generation.)
The Forgotten Generation (Gen-X) went through a recession in the 90s and the Savings and Loan crisis in the 80s, as well as Black Monday (1987). Some are old enough to have gone through the 80s recession and the 70s energy crises. (I was a kid, but I remember odd and even gas lines - alternating days based on license plate numbers, and the prices were crazy.)
Basically, it’s a very me-centric view - where the stuff the speaker has lived through are always going to be bigger and badder. (And it’s the flip side of “walked through the snow uphill both ways” where it was always bigger and badder in the past.)
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Oh yea, I remember those as well.
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I guess it’s a good thing Alvie is unholy specced because I’m still plagued!
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Hallo, Lounge!
I’ve been practicing forum social distancing, though that’s mostly due to having low energy from actual social distancing. However, I’m happy to report that I have leveled a vulpera to 110 for heritage armor, and I’ve fallen in love with leveling mistweaver monk. The latter is probably my new project to level up!
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I’m ambivalent when it comes to these sorts of comparisons.
I’m a boomer, born shortly after New Year 1951.
I could say “how many from your high school graduating class were drafted and killed?” or
“have you personally gone through fifteen layoffs?” or
“sure nice retirement plans and medical insurance back then, until the corporations used the bankruptcy courts to take them away”.
And I did walk to school through the snow uphill both ways dag nabbit !
However
There’s a reason that most of the panhandlers, porch pirates, and homeless drug addicts in my neighborhood are Millenials. They started their working life during a major recession, after most blue collar jobs had been off shored, after the unions had been killed via “right to work” laws, after most jobs remaining, at least around this part of the country, no longer offered traditional pensions or health care even if you could find a job. Even the more privileged one third of the population who went to college came into the workforce during a major recession and started out with unprecedented debt.
And nobody can say what anyone’s future holds regardless of when or where they were born.
Every generation that ever was or ever will be has the potential to live a good life, but every generation that ever was or ever will be also always has, and will, face struggles, and setbacks, and tragedies.
Life is good, but it isn’t fair.
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Very well said.
On a more uplifting note, saw this on BBC:
Well worth a watch, and a good reminder that “this too shall pass”.
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LOL, was going to jump into WOW Classic now that work is done … but I get off at 3PM PDT and the release of the Nightmare dragons is announced to be at 3PM PDT. I do NOT want to deal with that crush of people trying to log in.
Couple hours of zombie killing in 7dtd Ravenhearst it is. Just have to practice good social distancing from them so I don’t get infected. 
And we still lubs you!
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We have a small Asian market here in a medium size city on the west side of Charlotte, N.C. that has limited items, The closest Asian Supermarket that has everything (And is not dirty but clean) is on the East side of Charlotte about a 45 minute drive away that has everything you can imagine.
I wish I had the $$$ and could open a Asian Supermarket somewhere near here and Charlotte as I think it would do some good business.
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Think I am going to crock pot a pork roast tomorrow and make some pulled pork. Wife wants some fat steak fries with it, so we shall do that as well. Yummay
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I’ve got a bottle of “Serralles” DONQ GOLD, Puerto Rican Rum that I brought back in 2007 while I was working there and still haven’t broke the seal.
I think I will wait for the economy to reopen have a small party and crack it open along with my favorite half gallon of “Makers Mark” and celebrate.
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How many here that qualify for the stimulus money gotten theirs here in the US?
Neither of the 3 in my household have gotten theirs.
Mine was deposited yesterday morning, and was promptly chewed up by cc bills. 
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The direct deposit ones are showing up, ours showed up today.
The paper checks apparently will be a couple weeks.
A relative of mine, who divorced last year, had the full amount deposited in his x wife’s account because they had filed jointly in 2018.
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