re: Generation X is sick of your bullshite

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.

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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.

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Gen X better be prepared to make some tough decisions or things will collapse under their watch

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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.

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What year(s) did you have to be born to be generation X?

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70's?

That nails it for me. I'm a first year Gen X person so, I have lived the dream.

Generation X sure sounds like a bunch of whiners....

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.

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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.

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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