Age Distribution of SB Members
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All the intergenerational negativity I've seen on this board, with one exception,* has been old people shitting on young people. So it doesn't surprise me in the least that you, being a decent sort, have had no trouble getting along with the whippersnappers. I hope to meet you IRL someday.
*The lone exception I witnessed was one young poster years ago who asked about finding a liveaboard with fewer old people, because an old guy yelled at her once for hogging a lounger. I think the entire board was united against her, and she didn't stick around. I only wish the posts trashing millennials garnered the same response.
Well, duh. Hogging loungers, that's just unacceptable. Now if she wanted a liveaboard with fewer fat snoring grumbling old farts and more tanned sculpted underwear models, I'm sure we'd all sympathize.
GET OFF MY OCEAN!!
woodcarver
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It does take some effort, (and sometimes a thick skin), to ferret out some really great information available on SB. While the Pub provides a different type of entertainment for some of us, I have found that there are a great many "old guys" that do a fantastic job of passing on their knowledge garnered over decades of diving. And I'm greatly appreciative of that. Even when that "old guy" turns out to be younger than me (late 50s), or not an old "guy".
I've not seen what I would call young person bashing as much as an expectation for new divers to ask better worded questions. Which, of course, is difficult for a new diver still learning the lingo and who obviously doesn't know that split fins will kill you or that a BPW is the only proper device to carry your tank.
I think there are a lot of younger/newer divers that wander around reading, but not posting, in here. Those with a real desire to learn, usually, eventually, screw up the nerve to post. Hopefully there are more of them than this survey indicates.
I've not seen what I would call young person bashing as much as an expectation for new divers to ask better worded questions. Which, of course, is difficult for a new diver still learning the lingo and who obviously doesn't know that split fins will kill you or that a BPW is the only proper device to carry your tank.
I think there are a lot of younger/newer divers that wander around reading, but not posting, in here. Those with a real desire to learn, usually, eventually, screw up the nerve to post. Hopefully there are more of them than this survey indicates.
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I agree with you. And that's from a 65 year old "retired" DM who wears jacket BC and split fins..... I DO NOT have Spare Air.
urbaneve71
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Here's my 2 cents (I can hear everyone's sigh) ...I know that when I first joined the board I asked a question and received a snarky response, I snarked back in order to get an answer to my question. But then again I have very thick skin.
Same thing applies in the casino business..... veterans of the business tend to lose patience with new dealers,. But this is the advice I gave my staff.... We all started somewhere and that is the beginning, we all were green at some point and if you have a chance to pass on knowledge that is beneficial, then do it. Simple as that.
I see the generation gaps and the profound affect of it. I learned to accept that things are not as they were. I am 50 and kids today behave way different (WAY DIFFERENT) than I did in my 20's and 30's. Not better it worse just different. Society is different than it was when I was growing up. There are many things happening now that make me very mad and very sad but you can't fight an entire generation and expect it to change overnight. I still have a healthy respect for my elders because I was raised that way and I knew I could learn from them.
Same thing applies in the casino business..... veterans of the business tend to lose patience with new dealers,. But this is the advice I gave my staff.... We all started somewhere and that is the beginning, we all were green at some point and if you have a chance to pass on knowledge that is beneficial, then do it. Simple as that.
I see the generation gaps and the profound affect of it. I learned to accept that things are not as they were. I am 50 and kids today behave way different (WAY DIFFERENT) than I did in my 20's and 30's. Not better it worse just different. Society is different than it was when I was growing up. There are many things happening now that make me very mad and very sad but you can't fight an entire generation and expect it to change overnight. I still have a healthy respect for my elders because I was raised that way and I knew I could learn from them.
woodcarver
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This opinion was only worth 1.5 cents. Give it a few years and your opinion might get to be worth 2 cents.
I keep checking back in this thread to see if the COVID has flattened the curve (or maybe just shifted it....)
urbaneve71
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@woodcarver -- well.....at least you didn't call me old LOL
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