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re: Generation X is sick of your bullshite
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:16 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:16 am to Jim Rockford
I'm trans-generation since I identify with generation x more than this millenial bullshite I'm grouped in with.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:23 am to Jim Rockford
I always thought I was an X, born in 81. But apparently I'm a Y or a millennial. Oh well
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:25 am to windshieldman
Gen X. Born in 1967. OP is pretty accurate, although I was fortunate to have fallen into an age range that never was called to military duty.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:29 am to SlowFlowPro
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Gen X better be prepared to make some tough decisions or things will collapse under their watch
They'll just commit suicide like the rest of their ideals
This post was edited on 5/13/16 at 8:30 am
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:30 am to Jim Rockford
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Generation X is self-sufficient. It was a latchkey child. Its parents were too busy fulfilling their own personal ambitions to notice any of its trophies-which were admittedly few and far between because they were only awarded for victories, not participation.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:32 am to Jim Rockford
Amen.
And also, great references to Reality Bites AND Singles
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:34 am to SlowFlowPro
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Gen X better be prepared to make some tough decisions or things will collapse under their watch
There aren't enough of us to overcome the stupidity of the Boomer/Mill alliance. We are just here to slog on in quiet desperation.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:34 am to Jim Rockford
What year(s) did you have to be born to be generation X?
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:38 am to cfish140
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What year(s) did you have to be born to be generation X?
70's?
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:44 am to Feral
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Isn't Gen Z the offspring of Gen X? Or has it been defined yet?
Here's what is going around academic circles as of late - a potential reclassification
Generation X: Born between Civil Rights Act and Reagan's re-election in 1984.
Completely in their 30s by now. Did some crazy shite but have settled down and don't like the direction the country is going.
Generation Y/Millennials: Born between 1985 and 9/11. (Mostly Children of Boomers)
Most of this crew is in college or have just graduated college. Could also be called Generation Me, because they have been snowflakes all their life.
Generation Z: Born between 9/11 and the end of Obama's second term. (Mostly Children of Gen X)
The very beginning of Gen Z is reaching high school. Have pretty much had a smartphone in their hand all their life. That doesnt make them "tech savvy."
Potential Upcoming Generation: The Lost Generation
Millennials aren't having children as early as Gen X and Boomers, this could be a very small generation.
This post was edited on 5/13/16 at 8:50 am
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:44 am to Jim Rockford
That nails it for me. I'm a first year Gen X person so, I have lived the dream.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:45 am to SlowFlowPro
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Gen X better be prepared to make some tough decisions or things will collapse under their watch
We know what needs to be done....might just have a beer and watch the world burn.
Tough decisions.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:46 am to Jim Rockford
Generation X sure sounds like a bunch of whiners....
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:48 am to lsunurse
quote:That is just such a weird thought process to me Who gives a shite what the rest of people around your age is doing? Do you losers really take pride in your generation? Me personally, I hope every other person in my generation is a giant shithead. Makes it easier for me to stay ahead
I'm so thankful I'm a Gen X'r
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:50 am to lsupride87
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Me personally, I hope every other person in my generation is a giant shithead.
Well they are....if you were born in 87.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:50 am to lsupride87
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Generation X sure sounds like a bunch of whiners....
We didn't need safe spaces.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:52 am to Paul Allen
Born in 67, and I feel really lucky to have grown up in the 80's the best decade since the 50's in my opinion.
Great music, great movies, the fashions were hit or miss, there was a standing rule that PG movies were guaranteed to show you at least one set of bare titties (Tanya Roberts in Beastmaster FTW!), we ate pizza pockets, chicken nuggets, and caffeine and sugar laden real coke. We could roam the streets, play grounds, and woods of our neighborhoods with reckless abandon, until the streetlights came on. In Louisiana the drinking age was still 18 so the back half of our senior year a lot of us started to be able to go to college bars and buy beer for our buddies at the Circle K. Bruce Jenner was still a national hero, Mr. T was a badass, and everyone wanted a time traveling Delorean. Our president, Ronaldus Maximus, was sworn in to office and the piece of shite scum Iranian cowards immediately freed the American hostages that they had held for 444 days under President MilqueToast Carter. The economy began to boom and our parents could afford to take us to Disney World.
I'm sitting here at work feeling nostalgic as I listen to The Cure - Head on the Door album, getting fired up about my closest friends from BR coming to Houston in a few hours to go see The Cure tomorrow night in concert. Robert Smith may look a little long in the tooth, and a 7:30 start time for the show ensures that at least one of my friends and definitely my wife will be yawning and bitching about how late it is when they're done, but the rest of us will drag them out for one more drink.
Fellow Gen Xers, we had it all, and I think we knew it. Lord knows we do now.
Great music, great movies, the fashions were hit or miss, there was a standing rule that PG movies were guaranteed to show you at least one set of bare titties (Tanya Roberts in Beastmaster FTW!), we ate pizza pockets, chicken nuggets, and caffeine and sugar laden real coke. We could roam the streets, play grounds, and woods of our neighborhoods with reckless abandon, until the streetlights came on. In Louisiana the drinking age was still 18 so the back half of our senior year a lot of us started to be able to go to college bars and buy beer for our buddies at the Circle K. Bruce Jenner was still a national hero, Mr. T was a badass, and everyone wanted a time traveling Delorean. Our president, Ronaldus Maximus, was sworn in to office and the piece of shite scum Iranian cowards immediately freed the American hostages that they had held for 444 days under President MilqueToast Carter. The economy began to boom and our parents could afford to take us to Disney World.
I'm sitting here at work feeling nostalgic as I listen to The Cure - Head on the Door album, getting fired up about my closest friends from BR coming to Houston in a few hours to go see The Cure tomorrow night in concert. Robert Smith may look a little long in the tooth, and a 7:30 start time for the show ensures that at least one of my friends and definitely my wife will be yawning and bitching about how late it is when they're done, but the rest of us will drag them out for one more drink.
Fellow Gen Xers, we had it all, and I think we knew it. Lord knows we do now.
This post was edited on 5/13/16 at 8:55 am
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:54 am to windshieldman
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thought I was an X, born in 81. But apparently I'm a Y or a millennial. Oh well
82 here. This is a terrible distinction. I don't see how you can group together people that grew up without internet with people that have never known life without it. I got my first cell phone as a freshman in college. I didn't have a computer my first year in college. I have a very different outlook on life than a kids that's had an iPhone since they were a child.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 8:57 am to anc
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Here's what is going around academic circles as of late - a potential reclassification Generation X: Born between Civil Rights Act and Reagan's re-election in 1984. Completely in their 30s by now. Did some crazy shite but have settled down and don't like the direction the country is going. Generation Y/Millennials: Born between 1985 and 9/11. (Mostly Children of Boomers) Most of this crew is in college or have just graduated college. Could also be called Generation Me, because they have been snowflakes all their life.
I can agree with this...I was born in 1980 and I have seen lists that lump us in with millennial's born in 1995.
I did not even see a web page until I was 16, our school got one computer in the lab with the internet that we had to share.
I did not know anyone that had the internet in there house until I was 18, slow arse America Online
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