UP WITH GRUPS by ADAM STERNBERGH
New parents are some of the most irritating people in your face. From their cozy red socks to their hats with the floppy ears, they seem totally devoid of any sense of adulthood and have blended into their offspring the same way people with weird dogs eventually look like them.
UP WITH GRUPS by ADAM STERNBERGH
New parents are some of the most irritating people in your face. From their cozy red socks to their hats with the floppy ears, they seem totally devoid of any sense of adulthood and have blended into their offspring the same way people with weird dogs eventually look like them. The only thing worse than a new parent is a new parent from New York. Now you have to add a layer of cool and self-indulgence to these fucking wimps making them so intolerably annoying you want to extend the limit of abortions to up to 37 years after the child is born. The only drawback with this flawless skewering of the baby class is Sternbergh holds back way too much and occasionally shows empathy for the fuckers. Gross.
PULL QUOTE: “And there’s no shame, when your kid’s watching a show, and you don’t like it, in telling him it sucks.”
god…take two of the worst kinds of people (wannabe hipster yuppies and parents), combine, get shit that might even be worse than boomers.
well, maybe not that bad.
If Streetcarnage really wants to help us break free of grupitude, you should link to some articles about the fastest way to learn business Chinese or how to profit from the sub-prime meltdown.
All the streetboners just make me want to hang out in bars.
I remember this article, and yes, it was awesome. New Yorkers are self-obsessed enough. Once they get a spawn, it gets even more annoying. Like they invented procreation and lil’ Jackson or Dakota is the 2nd coming.
Can anyone tell me how it is that simply taking part in contemporary culture makes a person a hipster
I’m pretty sure I saw a picture of Gavin at an M.I.A. show. Isn’t he a hundred years old? Why do Gavin and his spawn get a pass?
Thanks for bringing this article up – further proof that ‘generation x’ is just a bunch of nitwit lay-abouts. And nirvana sucks.
Everyone is white in this article, magazine, and city.
Do you tell your kid that you have 0 unique ideas?
didn’t they used to call this a “mid-life crisis”
This generation is going to make the boomers look like an army of selfless martyrs! Narcissistic, self-indulgent, immature, hypocritical prats. The artificial ease and unthinking privilege of postwar consumer society has only escalated since the 50s, and needless to say so have its effects. So here come the spoilt brats 3.0, kill em all!
enter rap music
this stuff doesnt make any sense or mean anything.
its not real or relevant: anyone under 60 should not be using the word ‘generation’. anyone who does has got the wwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooonnnnnngggggggggg idea.
most people are dicks regardless of what year you’re born in.
Wow; my parents gave me a mohawk when I was 3. They did the whole thing with the music that should have been mine. They behaved like children. I’m now 24. They’ve basically grown up, and I’ve learned my lesson from them. Don’t do that.
But, to clarify, some of the musical suggestions were pretty brilliant and I’ve been able to skip a lot of the newer “indie” business.
Hey, I read this right after reading the “The end is near” article. Isn’t this what you [indirectly] talked about with the funny drawings of people over the years where you argue that things have gotten better? The last drawing of the happy person in “comfy clothes” and “with all his shots” looks like a grup to me. I’m guessing you’ve already realized this and recognize that with “Western progress” inevitably also comes shit like this. I guess, in the end, annoying embarrassing “feelings” Dad is a step up from repressed alcoholic “I don’t know how to love” previous generation Dad. Which is what I think Sternbergh is saying at the end. I just checked and this post is old but whatever.