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Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:38 pm to BOHICAMAN
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You know what else is different?
We had to take responsibility for our actions.
Our parents didn't go to school, bitching out the teachers if we got in trouble.
They told the school to discipline us and then we got disciplined at home too.
But on the flip side, Gen X are actually the parents that now coddle their kids to extremes....
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:39 pm to Joshjrn
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Your childhood isn’t markedly different than those of us growing up in the 80s. We just didn’t turn into the cynical apathetic count that you Xers did
Xennials: too feral to be Millennial and too optimistic to be Gen X.
We are the "Daywalkers": we got all of the strengths of both, yet none of the weaknesses.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:41 pm to magildachunks
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Xennials: too feral to be Millennial and too optimistic to be Gen X.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:43 pm to RoyalWe
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What's funny is that Tiger Droppings reminds me a lot of old school dial-up C-Net BBS sites because they were local. You'd have to wait until the phone line was open to log-in so one user online at a time. I used to run a local system called the Asylum. Good times.
I only logged in to a few of those. Fortunately, I was able to use a university dial in service that had multiple connections. If you couldn't get in on one, it would automatically dial the next number is series.
800-555-1000
800-555-1001
800-555-1002
etc.
I don't know how many dial in lines they actually had because they always would connect on the 1st or 2nd try. But most of my use was in the university computer lab where they had a hard line with no dial in required. It was all Telnet, Gopher and FTP back in those days.
This explains it pretty well.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:53 pm to BOHICAMAN
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Do you have kids?
Two of them. I have no idea where they are right now.
I consciously tried to give my kids the level of autonomy and anonymity I had as an 80s teenager/college student. I never knew where they were and trusted them to make good choices.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:54 pm to CAD703X
1980 isn’t Gen X. It’s millennial.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:55 pm to Paul Allen
Paul what year is it
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:02 pm to Paul Allen
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1980 isn’t Gen X. It’s millennial.
Wrong.
1981 is the first year of "millennial" generation
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:19 pm to BOHICAMAN
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You know what else is different? Parents didn’t spy on their kids every moment with Life360 like a bunch of psychopaths.
I would have loved this as a kid…I had to come up with elaborate lies about what I did and where I went, you know how easy it would have been just to leave a phone at a friend’s house and my parents never question me about my whereabouts?
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:31 pm to cgrand
quote:we did
I’m pretty certain we got the best of the 70s and the 80s…which means we got the best there ever was
quote:bicentennial EVERYTHING
I vividly remember the bicentennial
kitchen glasses, flags, bicentennial quarters and at my house we had BICENTENNIAL POOL STICKS 
those were the shite
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:38 pm to CAD703X
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:42 pm to CAD703X
So emotionally durable that they start threads like these flattering themselves
What happened to y’all’s kids btw?
What happened to y’all’s kids btw?
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:43 pm to cgrand
we had these exact ones. i think a 6 pack
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:48 pm to bad93ex
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6-8 weeks shipping was the norm for all of the cool stuff.
That scene in Christmas Story where he finally gets his secret decoder ring hit pretty hard for me.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:00 pm to Lonnie Utah
I count myself lucky that I was old enough when personal computing happened and have seen the evolution over the decades. Many cannot truly appreciate it because they weren't engaged in it.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:04 pm to RoyalWe
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I count myself lucky that I was old enough when personal computing happened and have seen the evolution over the decades. Many cannot truly appreciate it because they weren't engaged in it.
This is exactly the point I've been trying to make.
But I'll just concede to the superior millennials that they're right because they read about it somewhere...
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:05 pm to CAD703X
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bicentennial EVERYTHING kitchen glasses, flags, bicentennial quarters and at my house we had BICENTENNIAL POOL STICKS
We still have one of these at my house.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:06 pm to OKBoomerSooner
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So emotionally durable that they start threads like these flattering themselves What happened to y’all’s kids btw?
My kids turned out great. I also didn’t hover over them like scared sissies.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:10 pm to magildachunks
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We are the "Daywalkers": we got all of the strengths of both, yet none of the weaknesses.
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