Leave Gen X out of your generational sputterings
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Or what, you'll act moody, disconnected, and do nothing? I'd add sit in the corner to the list but we all know your knees can't take sitting on the floor anymore.
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I’ve always thought the boomer/millennial whining was people of the exact same personality being insufferable to each other, just throwing down inane stereotypes while being emotionally immature and unable to be decent people.
Every age group has people like that, of course. I just get tired of having to watch it play out constantly online. So just shut the fuck up and do some good in the world. Instead of griping about people, show us something inspirational that you’ve done. Be the example of what you want other people to be.
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Yeah, but then you'll complain that no one pays attention to you.
No we won't. Now git of mah lern
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Gen X? just happy we got a mention
GenX who act like this get kicked out of the generation and are forced to join the boomers.
The first half of Generation X sucked, the latter half are more like millennials
Which one gave us MTV and which one made MTV suck?
Actually both of those were boomers. The original format was created by a baby boomer and the Real World was too. Gen X just watched MTV growing up.
We also watched it fall apart while we were growing up.
I remember when M2 debuted with the idea that it would just play music videos, you know ... like MTV used to.
I didn't mind when MTV stopped playing music; Rob & Big, Viva la Bam, and Pimp my Ride were very entertaining and helped define my latter teenage years. The day MTV2 just became just MTV with rearranged timeslots was the beginning of the end. And now MTV is just The Ridiculousness Network now. It's practically the only thing they air these days.
To be clear, MTV/VH1 were created by one ot the Beatles. Definitely boomer gen.
Boomers and probably gen x, ironically enough. All the founders with given DoBs are either the silent gen or boomers and the guy who was head of programming during the sixteen and pregnant era is either gen x or aging very differently from the rest of us
older millennials next in line for intergenerational hate
I know, right?
For a while it looked like everyone was just going to stick with calling the older folks boomers and the younger folks millenials, but I guess some intelligence leaked through into the "futile generational hate" machine.
Is every generation working to make things better than it was? No! Clearly the old folks don't want the young ones to have anything good, otherwise the world wouldn't have any problems by now!
Just give yourself some more years, time for life experiences, and to be shocked and apalled when you learn how hard it can be to coordinate a group of people who all want the same outcomes to a concentrated cooperative effective course of action. Hell, how hard it can be to get them to even agree on the same path to the desired outcome.
Who? Us avocado toast swilling, quiet quitting, not consumery enough losers who still live with our parents?
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I’m just shocked someone remembered we exist…
~…and~ ~a~ ~little~ ~bit~ ~annoyed~ ~tbh…~
we hate boomers more than you do
this is the first meme i’ve seen mention gen x at all and no, we are not like boomers, they all said that “we used to drink out of a hose” bullshit to us too… helmet and seatbelt laws started with x
seriously fuck you, and fuck boomers.
you know why congress is all geriatric? that’s because they know how bad gen x wants to burn everything down and they won’t let them take the wheel….
now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.
now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.
Speaking of factually wrong things... There was a larger portion of Gen X voters for Trump than there were Zoomers... by a large margin.
In fact, Trumps biggest demographic in the last two elections was ages 50-64. But sure, you're totally the good guys and it's the young people who are the cause of all your problems. Totally not proving the exact point you're arguing against.
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Get out of here with that Gen X shit. I jumped my bike and skateboard off so much shit as a kid. I still huck my meat off cliffs on my snowboard. Gen X is def not Boomer.
Some days I interact with some people that make me bemoan all of the safety guides that have allowed the idiots to breed enough that I now have the misfortune to interact with them.
Then there are other days where a safety rule/guide/regulation has stopped me from doing something monumentally stupid and fatal that reminds me that those safety regulations are written in blood and that sometimes I'll be that idiot in someone else's mind. It's humbling and comforting in an absurdist way.
I was born at the tail end of Gen X but we were definitely getting up to some crazy stuff.
It was a normal afternoon to take our bikes off the highest jumps we could build in the middle of the road, constructed from the neighborhood wood pile. When a car came speeding through we'd yell out "car" and quickly move our stuff to the side. We used skateboards on vertical ramps built from whatever, and roller skates on shoddy pavement. Our playgrounds were made of reflective metal hotter than lava attached to towers that seemed to reach 20 ft above the ground.
We built dangerous tree houses with rusty scrap in the ravine behind the neighborhood, next to place where the neighborhood's older kids were surely taking all the drugs and hiding from their D.A.R.E. officers.
I used to load my sisters in the back of a red radio flyer wagon and we'd all ride down the neighborhood's steepest hill, occasionally tipping at high speed and then sliding the rest of the way down likely removing several layers of skin and rolls of gauze from my mom's medical kit in the process.
In primary school, I don't think there was ever a moment without at least one kid on crutches or with a limb in a cast.
While it did harden us up, and provided some amazing memories, just about everyone I know who was a kid at that time knows of some kid who died while digging a tunnel, or got hit by a car, or spent half of his early teenage years in a cast, or who always seemed to have a finger splint.
Somehow through all of this we moved from thinking this is normal childhood stuff to blaming anyone and everyone by way of lawsuits.
There was nothing "safe" about that time. The debate seems to hinge on whether a dangerous childhood results in better adapted adults, perhaps by culling a few unlucky kids who hadn't learned their own limits, and who know how to be creative in the absence of almost any artificial or algorithmic stimuli.
You can do all of that on Roblox from the safety of your toilet nowadays.
The future is now.
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I’m mid GenX, and frequently have to trot out the saying, “regulations are written in the blood of innocents” to people a lot more ignorant than I am. And I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
All the rules are written in blood.
Two words: lawn darts.
We should still have lawn darts. The risk should just be accepted. It's different I think than like household cleaners that look like a jug of Koolaid for example.
The jug of Fabuloso under the sink is calling my name.
I'm not joking. Fabuloso looks delicious!!! This is why it needs warnings and labels. That someone can't comprehend falling weapons from the sky is different than discernment of coloured liquids.
Very accurate.
Innocent question, are gen X more right than left? My brothers is Gen X and its hard for me to think of the generation that was obsessed with MTV and watched Beavis ans But head and South Park be constantly attacked would veer right. I remember my brother playing "rape me" by Nirvanna and audibly the teachers freaking the fuck out. But my brother is conservative now so what do I know.
People in general tend to veer toward conservatism as they age, have kids, and accumulate wealth. Many of those Boomers who were hippies in the '60s became yuppies in the 80s and voted for Trump in recent years.
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LOL. So true.
-Gen Xer
They weren't the brightest of the bunch though.
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