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Generation X is sick of your bullshite
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:07 am
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:07 am
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Generation X is sick of your bullshite.
The first generation to do worse than its parents? Please. Been there. Generation X was told that so many times that it can't even read those words without hearing Winona Ryder's voice in its heads. Or maybe it's Ethan Hawke's. Possibly Bridget Fonda's. Generation X is getting older, and can't remember those movies so well anymore. In retrospect, maybe they weren't very good to begin with.
But Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.) Generation X is used to being fricked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.
Generation X wasn't surprised. Generation X kind of expected it.
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Generation X is beyond all that bullshite now. It quit smoking and doing coke a long time ago. It has blood pressure issues and is heavier than it would like to be. It might still take some ecstasy, if it knew where to get some. But probably not. Generation X has to be up really early tomorrow morning.
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Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute. Can you just do that, okay? It knows that you are so very special and so very numerous, but can you just leave it alone? Just for a little bit? Just long enough to sneak one last fricking cigarette? No?
Whatever. It's cool.
Generation X is used to disappointments. Generation X knows you didn't even read the whole thing. It doesn't want or expect your reblogs; it picked the wrong platform.
Generation X should have posted this to LiveJournal.
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Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:12 am to Jim Rockford
Ha. That's pretty damn accurate and funny. Leave me alone and keep your hand off my wallet. Gen X #1!!!!
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:13 am to Jim Rockford
Reality Bites was a good flick.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:14 am to Jim Rockford
Yep.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:14 am to Jim Rockford
Truth
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:17 am to TigerWise
I'm not very good at the generation names, but isn't the current crop of whiners the offspring of Gen X?
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:21 am to jmcwhrter
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I'm not very good at the generation names, but isn't the current crop of whiners the offspring of Gen X?
A lot of them are the youngest offspring of Boomers. Most Gen Xer offspring is still in High School or younger.
Eta: My son is a senior this year but I had children fairly young for a Gen Xer.
This post was edited on 5/13/16 at 6:24 am
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:22 am to Jim Rockford
Lots of truth in that diatribe. It is sort of odd to me that they're the forgotten generation of the last 75 years, apparently.
Every generational conversation seemingly devolves into Boomers hating Millennials, Millennials hating Boomers, and both worshipping the Greatest Generation.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:24 am to jmcwhrter
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I'm not very good at the generation names, but isn't the current crop of whiners the offspring of Gen X?
Most of them are the offspring of the tail end of the Boomer cohort. OTOH it gets really mixed up. It's not out of the realm of possiblity for a millenial to have an X parent or even one of the WWII generation, if their father was a baller who married a trophy wife late in life.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:25 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:31 am to BOSCEAUX
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Reality Bites was a good flick.
literally and actually.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:36 am to Jim Rockford
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It's not out of the realm of possibility for a millennial to have an X parent or even one of the WWII generation,
for example, my maternal grandfather was born at the turn of the century, and I could--biologically speaking--have great grandkids (and non-trashy speaking legit have grandkids). yet, i have a brother who just turned 27. i don't know what's going on.
But--in any-event--that GenX monologue pretty much encapsulates my attitude. I'm close to prototypical GenX.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:38 am to Jim Rockford
Spot on. That guy must be inside my head.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:39 am to BOSCEAUX
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A lot of them are the youngest offspring of Boomers. Most Gen Xer offspring is still in High School or younger.
Isn't Gen Z the offspring of Gen X? Or has it been defined yet?
I believe Gen Z are current Jr. High and High Schoolers, possibly some college underclassmen.
People talk about how Millennials largely don't remember a world without the Internet and mobile phones (even the early iterations) but think about this -- Gen Z largely doesn't remember a world without social media, where everyone is a public figure and subject to instant fame or shame.
I graduated from college 10 years ago next May, and feel like I was in college at the perfect time. Everyone had a flip phone so you were connected and could organize stuff or meet up with people with ease, but the cameras on them were terrible so you didn't have to worry as much about being photographed doing something ridiculous and it being preserved digitally forever. Facebook launched my sophomore year but was still in its infancy for the entirety of my college career, so you didn't have to worry about ruining your life by saying/doing something stupid and being publicly shamed. The concept of being a SJW was pretty foreign, and people weren't just rushing to fit in in some way. Everyone had a phone, but the thought of being heads down or addicted to it was laughable, because you couldn't really do anything on them, and texting was hard.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:51 am to Jim Rockford
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Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone
Spot on
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:53 am to Jim Rockford
that is all..I am going to take a nap on the couch.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:54 am to Jim Rockford
Of all websites to posts this, it's gawker. What a bunch of babies.
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:55 am to Jim Rockford
Dude is right on the money. 
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:57 am to Jim Rockford
quote:buy I actually did for once
Generation X knows you didn't even read the whole thing
Posted on 5/13/16 at 6:57 am to Jim Rockford
Sums it up both eloquently and perfectly. Have an UV.
Gen X - The Gen without a voice to bitch.
Gen X - The Gen without a voice to bitch.
This post was edited on 5/13/16 at 7:07 am
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