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re: Gen x experience - lost forever.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:36 pm to Dandaman
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:36 pm to Dandaman
Yep..
What is left to experience after our time in the sun....
Permanence
Shallowness
Isolation
Risk Aversion
Tribalism
Psych issues
The internet is a human relationship destruction tool. I am so glad I am a child of the 70's...it was magical.
What is left to experience after our time in the sun....
Permanence
Shallowness
Isolation
Risk Aversion
Tribalism
Psych issues
The internet is a human relationship destruction tool. I am so glad I am a child of the 70's...it was magical.
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Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:40 pm to Dandaman
It was also very boring and lonely at times. When you were alone, you were alone alone. If you weren’t with your friends, you had one chance to try to find them. If they didn’t answer the phone, that was it you were out of luck. I can remember many boring weekend days when I was at home by myself wondering where everybody was. The 80’s are romanticized, and yes they were great. But man, they could also be very boring and lonely.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:45 pm to Dandaman
This evening I taught my son how to catch lightning bugs, he caught several, but they were escaping from his hand before he could show mommy. So I got an old pickle jar to follow him around and put them in. We ended up with two in the jar. They have already been released.
They don't make pickle jars like they used to. Can't get the pickle smell out of the jar because of the seal on the lid that is rubberized and impossible to remove, and probably illegal to remove in the state of California. That rubberized/plasticized seal soaks up all the pickle smell and you can wash and scrub all you want, that pickle jar will always smell like pickles because of that seal.
There's my gen-X rant of the day.
They don't make pickle jars like they used to. Can't get the pickle smell out of the jar because of the seal on the lid that is rubberized and impossible to remove, and probably illegal to remove in the state of California. That rubberized/plasticized seal soaks up all the pickle smell and you can wash and scrub all you want, that pickle jar will always smell like pickles because of that seal.
There's my gen-X rant of the day.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:00 pm to Dandaman
Up at dawn out on our bikes until older and we had ATV’s.
Stopping at someone’s house for a snack and some water.
Hunting alone by the age of 8
We were our parents remotes
Stopping at someone’s house for a snack and some water.
Hunting alone by the age of 8
We were our parents remotes
Posted on 7/1/25 at 1:21 am to Dandaman
But we gained an exponential amount of productivity, which ironically creates more time to be disconnected, which of course is different than what the OP describes as Boredom (which implies a lack of enthusiasm).
I’m smack dab in the middle of Gen X. If I want to be disconnected I can put my phone on do not disturb or even, turn it off!
I can listen to 60 pre-selected songs without having to buy 60 albums, store 60 large volume records or lose sound quality over time.
I can now take this extra time to ruminate on a subject that I am curious about and quickly and efficiently gain a deeper understanding by finding information in seconds vs hours.
I can create in hours content which used to take days.
I still hand write my phone number on business cards when appropriate. I don’t want to have distance from my children, and sure as heck enjoy the peace of mind that comes with digital photography.
We still find things by chance, like this post. We just can cover 10x the content.
I envy my children and their future children.
I’m smack dab in the middle of Gen X. If I want to be disconnected I can put my phone on do not disturb or even, turn it off!
I can listen to 60 pre-selected songs without having to buy 60 albums, store 60 large volume records or lose sound quality over time.
I can now take this extra time to ruminate on a subject that I am curious about and quickly and efficiently gain a deeper understanding by finding information in seconds vs hours.
I can create in hours content which used to take days.
I still hand write my phone number on business cards when appropriate. I don’t want to have distance from my children, and sure as heck enjoy the peace of mind that comes with digital photography.
We still find things by chance, like this post. We just can cover 10x the content.
I envy my children and their future children.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 7:26 am to HeadCall
quote:
Just curious what’s so great about the generation? Why are y’all proud?
yea they talk a lot of shite about how great they are but haven't done jack shite to help this country. They let the boomers rule until their graves then millennials are now passing them up in positions of power.
I'm sure some of them will come back with "we don't care about politics, just leave us alone" and that thinking is why there generation will be a forgotten one
Posted on 7/1/25 at 7:43 am to CAD703X
Ahhhhh! I still remember the smell of the library in Welsh!
Posted on 7/1/25 at 7:53 am to AwgustaDawg
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hell in my house if you waited til Price is Right came on some damned adult would have a list of shite for you to do you couldn't complete with a crew of thirty just like you in a year....wasn't any watching of TV during the day...now around 3 when WTBS started with the reruns of the Monsters and the like the adults would be tired and not as sharp so they might forget you were around and handy to have around to do the shite they didn't want to do...but at 9 am they were well rested, full of coffee and idiotic ideas about how a kid ought to spend his day in the summer...so you had to be gone while they were getting up.
I feel every bit if this. I tell my kids what it was like, and it’s never riding bikes or playing. It was getting up at 5:30 eating this huge breakfast and going outside to hoe the garden, then pick vegetables, or mow or weedeat (actually remember my grandpa buying the first one called a Green Machine and it hardly worked). If you evened got a break it’s right about the time As The World Turns came on. Then back to manual labor till 5.
Then my parents came home and I had to do chores for them. Repeat. Summer was nothing but work.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:24 am to Midtiger farm
I am not sure if we were(are) a great generation or not. I believe the point was that we were fortunate enough to experience things that future generations have not. These experiences came because we had to be creative because there was not so much technology to distract us or do for us.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:30 am to Ranger Call
quote:
I think that was his point. The boredom was the journey. Boredom, as it was once told to me, is laziness of the mind...If you don't want to be bored, CREATE.
Create dirt clod wars
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:32 am to HeadSlash
Trees don't climb themselves, sonny. 
As my grandfather once told me.
As my grandfather once told me.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 5:49 pm to Dandaman
quote:The difference between the two ends of Gen X are even more than other generations and that 1980 cutoff is legit when you look at the rise of the internet age. I was just talking to a friend about this. (I'm a younger Gen X and he's on the older side of it.) I'm thankful not to be born a decade later but sure would have loved to go through college in the mid-80s. It was the last hurrah before the woke mob starting sprouting on campus in the early 90s. It was also before the greek system was taken over by pussies.
Generation X — born roughly between 1965 and 1980 — stands as a bridge between the analog past and the digital present, and in that crossing, they’ve lost more than just time. They’ve lost a kind of living that was tactile, unpredictable, and deeply personal.
quote:I always yearn for the days of leaving the house in the morning, coming home long enough to eat lunch & supper, and then not coming home for the night until dusk. Now the closest I come is sitting outside enjoying the sounds of nature while smoking a cigar and drinking Coke out of a styrofoam cup.
They lost the richness of boredom. Days spent lying in the grass staring at clouds or flipping through a dog-eared magazine. The unstructured afternoons that gave birth to creativity, imagination, and the kind of conversations that sprawled into the night, unbroken by screens.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:09 pm to OKBoomerSooner
15 years ago I unplugged.
In 2020, I mandated, I'm in the 80's.
Life is grand the older you get.
ETA I do feel sorry for people post Blink-182
In 2020, I mandated, I'm in the 80's.
Life is grand the older you get.
ETA I do feel sorry for people post Blink-182
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:42 pm to Dandaman
1980 is more millennial than it is Gen X.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:51 pm to Lou Loomis
quote:damn baw, did you not own a bike?
When you were alone, you were alone alone. If you weren’t with your friends, you had one chance to try to find them. If they didn’t answer the phone, that was it you were out of luck. I can remember many boring weekend days when I was at home by myself wondering where everybody was. The 80’s are romanticized, and yes they were great. But man, they could also be very boring and lonely
Maybe I was wired different but I could entertain myself for days. If nothing else I would jam a few army men in my backpack and go find a cool dirt hill somewhere and spend hours creating battles.
Come to think of it, even as an adult I prefer the company of myself over other people. I've never once felt bored.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 9:00 pm to CAD703X
quote:
damn baw, did you not own a bike?
Maybe I was wired different but I could entertain myself for days. If nothing else I would jam a few army men in my backpack and go find a cool dirt hill somewhere and spend hours creating battles.
Come to think of it, even as an adult I prefer the company of myself over other people. I've never once felt bored.
It could also be an only-child thing. I don't hardly ever recall being alone-alone as he said, because there was at least my little brother I could hang out with.
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