Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[tomydoom]

… if Grandpa fought in Europe then you might be old.

I resemble that remark.

 

[McG]

I resemble that remark.

I mean, the typical war vet grandpa trope on TV today seems to reference Vietnam. But if you were to produce a new sitcom about a 30-something couple with young school aged kids, then the kids would be COVID babies while the parents would have been born early to mid ninties, and Grandpa would be a Gulf War vet ... and that Gulf War vet might have had a grandpa who fought at Normandy.

 

[ytz]

I mean, the typical war vet grandpa trope on TV today seems to reference Vietnam. But if you were to produce a new sitcom about a 30-something couple with young school aged kids, then the kids would be COVID babies while the parents would have been born early to mid ninties, and Grandpa would be a Gulf War vet ... and that Gulf War vet might have had a grandpa who fought at Normandy.

If the Gulf War Vet was 30 in 1990, it's more likely their own dad was a WWII vet. It's mostly millennials (80s and early 90s) and late Gen X (70s) who had veteran grandparents.

 

[AmmoTech90]

There's the odd gen x born in the 70s, like me, with a WWII vet parent. Dad joined at 18, did Italy and Europe, hade me at 48.
Probably thought kids would never end...

 

[McG]

If the Gulf War Vet was 30 in 1990, it's more likely their own dad was a WWII vet. It's mostly millennials (80s and early 90s) and late Gen X (70s) who had veteran grandparents.

Nah. The Gulf War vet’s parents were born in the late thirties. They were in public school when Pearl Harbour was bombed … Grandpa will talk about it in the third episode of season 2.