Biggest icons of your generation

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:13

Ok I'm bored again, and this place is fucking dead.

The death of Purnce has me thinking, who are the biggest icons in your lifetime/generation? Could be sports, Hollywood, Bollywood, porn, music songs, whatever. Don't have to like them, but simply are there "icons" in any arena whose popularity was so vast that it went beyond normal parameters.

I think for my generation (I'd say mid 30's to early 40's in current age) there are two that pretty clearly stand alone - MJ and MJ.

Whatcha got?

by **InTenSity** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:16

Kurt Cobain.
Tiger.
I was always horrible at pop culture.

by **Travis of the Cosmos** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:24

Biebs

by Herbie Green Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:25

Magic and Bird. And then f***ing Jordan

by Herbie Green Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:27

Oh yeah, and Jerry Garcia

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:28

InTenSity wrote:Kurt Cobain.
Tiger.
I was always horrible at pop culture.

Tiger is a pretty good one.

Not sure about Cobain but my opinion probably doesn't count because I was never really into music. I feel like he was only popular for kind of a short time before he offed himself, and even when alive he only appealed to a subset. Granite, he led an entire movement that basically completely fucked over my generation's college experience in certain regards, so maybe I'm just bitter. Where the fuck were yoga pants in the mid 90's? That shit is YOUR fault Cobain. Asshole.

by **CORNER BLITZ** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:36

Garth Brooks = county music for a while

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:41

Curry

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:42

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Curry

Come the fuck on.

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:43

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:
Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Curry

Come the fuck on.

What the fuck is the issue here he is going to be considered a great when it's all said done wbh.

Brady. Puke. Lebron. Puke.

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:44

Eminem? Fucking wbh asks and then doesn't like the answers.

by Herbie Green Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:46

Ronald Reagan

by **Travis of the Cosmos** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:47

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Eminem? Fucking wbh asks and then doesn't like the answers.

Biebs otpt. Biebs.

by **Travis of the Cosmos** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:47

Herbie Green wrote:Ronald Reagan

Overrated.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:47

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Curry is a bit premature. Waaay premature. He's insanely huge right now and rightfully so. But there has to be some kind of sustained excellence for him to become a generational-type icon.

Penny Hardaway was an icon otherwise.

by **xsanguine** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:47

Kurt Cobain
Michael Jordan
Tupac Shakur?

by Herbie Green Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:47

Beastie Boys

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:49

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:
Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Eminem? Fucking wbh asks and then doesn't like the answers.

Biebs otpt. Biebs.

Taylor Swift.

by Herbie Green Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:49

JWeibs

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:51

Giant Moose

by **xsanguine** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:51

Princess Diana

by **Travis of the Cosmos** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:55

That guy from the YouTube videos. What's his name?

Oh yeah, PSY.

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:56

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:That guy from the YouTube videos. What's his name?

Oh yeah, PSY.

Big Sean of Notre Dame?

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:58

Herbie Green wrote:JWeibs

by **Cameron** Thu 21 Apr 2016 - 23:59

Kobe, Jeter, Manning

by **xsanguine** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 0:06

Troy Aikman. Emmett Smith. B-b-b-b-Barry?

by **DWags** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 4:43

Mick Jäger
Jackie Jennedy
Ali

by **Turtleneck** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 6:08

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.

by **kingstonlake** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 7:39

Jim Jones
Charles Manson
Ted Bundy
That guy who ate black kids
Ted Kaszynski

by **Robert J Sakimano** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 7:39

early-mid 80's

so probably Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby (seriously).

by **steveschneider** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:02

Arnold Schwartzenegger
Madonna
Michael Jackson

Kurt Cobain tragic icon of our times

by **steveschneider** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:08

steveschneider wrote:Arnold Schwartzenegger
Madonna
Michael Jackson

Kurt Cobain tragic icon of our times

Actual it's early and wtf am I thinking?

Michael Jackson's life was pretty tragic as well.

by **Turtleneck** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:11

Surprised OTPT did not add gHost and Tanfan to his list.

by **DWags** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:36

Turtleneck wrote:Surprised OTPT did not add gHost and Tanfan to his list.

And Giant Moose.

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:39

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Giant Moose

For d wags dumbass who can't read.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:45

Connor McGregor

-OTPT

by **NigelUno** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:47

Turtleneck wrote:Surprised OTPT did not add gHost and Tanfan to his list.

And the lady on the $20.

by **DWags** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:47

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:
Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Giant Moose

For d wags dumbass who can't read.

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See OTPT, I just skim over the guys I dont' really read. Like you suggested everybody do for Moose. It works.

Anyway, did I miss Tanfan and Ghost?

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 8:56

DWags wrote:
Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

For d wags dumbass who can't read.

...OTPT....

by **Rocinante** Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 11:29

Robert J Sakimano wrote:early-mid 80's

so probably Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby (seriously).

Cosby was the shit. I just can't marry the guy I know he was now and the guy I thought he was then. His fall from grace was like a death to me. That guy was my stand-in dad growing up in a single parent home.

I hated finding that shit out.

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