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Jan 14, 2024 7:30 PM
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
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Sebastopol
I am in this picture and I like it.
blissfire
Why is this so incredibly accurate š We just looked around, decided fuck yeah, 30ish was a pretty awesome age and set down roots there forever /contented nesting noises
Sebastopol
My guess? The movies&music were just too good to move on from.
BrokenAnimal
As a Gen-X'er, can confirm. We grew up fast and then stopped.
Merdock
You guys have been staying the same age? I've been Benjamin Buttoning this shit. I was age 50 at age 10, 30 at 30, and I can only imagine what Ill be at 50
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Probably fifty again. Although, Benjamin Button was a timeless classic. Very moving. Great suggestion for a movie night.
BastardMan1977
Fuck yes! š¤
sethb1978
Kicking ass and putting the year of our birth in our username!!!!!
BastardMan1977
https://imgur.com/GB49SCZ.gif
zalurker
Hey. The 80s was a weird decade. One of the first things we were taught was that we could die gruesome deaths in a nuclear fire at any moment. After that, nothing phased us.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Still Ready! Hashtag, Be Prepared
zalurker
Don't laugh. My one friend in London bought some last year. Just in case.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Iām not laughing. This is my supply, i have three bottles. Enough everyone in my home for one month. Or if help is coming, enough for my family and our neighbours for 3 days.
bigk001
plus, every movie was about underage high school kids trying to have sex... not that i';m complaining... just... interesting...
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Well, what were you trying to do in high school?
zalurker
Trying to figure out how to download that playboy centerfold over a 56k line while trying to convince my parents I needed a 40mb hard drive.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Line by line load timesā¦ i will never forget that.
zalurker
And just as it gets nipply, someone picks up the damn phone.
DrLOAC
As late 40ās Gen Xār I have a question. Why did I have to teach my dad about technology when I was a kid and now have to teach my Gen Z kids about technology. Are we the only generation who can get a printer to print?
SoulfireUK
Yes
blissfire
That would kind of make sense, actually. We're the ones who primarily needed a printer to print. Our parents did it analog with typewriters, our kids mostly do it digital, emailing pdfs and often skipping hard copies all together. Though maybe their teachers still require print outs.
ManOCheese
Mid 40s here. I have to teach people my age about technology. People aren't good at tech.
dmex
Mid 30s, same, I think it's just who do know and those that don't... but I do wonder how they will learn with the levels of abstraction we have, but probably someone said the same thing about me.
snotrocketscience
We learned computers when they were still new and complex enough that we had to learn how to troubleshoot.
moosemaimer
When computers first came out they were like industrial steam engines, you needed 15 engineers to make them run. For a few years, computers were like puzzle boxes where as long as you pushed all the right buttons it would work. Now they're like trying to have a conversation with a Furby.
bigk001
Well, as a 47-year-old, I'll tell you the truth: you're just a sucker & people are using you. Stay away from people & read old comic books & play Nintendo like I did today. Nintendo loves you.
keenidiot
My father, who can assemble machines and build fences and wire a house. Could never figure out the red, yellow, white plugs went into the red, yellow, white holes. Years later he explained he could never figure it out because if he did, he'd be setting the stuff up instead of me.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
bigk001
(AND I'm Canadian, too, so you know I'm honest & right.... Cold outside. Stay inside, away from people & cold, eat junk food, play play play.
bigk001
then take a break & browse imgur laugh at US Republicans & eat leftover Little Caesars pizza. Just like me. Everyone should be more like me. Duh. ...nobody listens...
thehappyrunner
Gen Y here(30), and we're still with you on tech. It does feel like we've lost some critical repair knowledge somewhere along the way, but I see that coming back. I always had the "I'm broke, so I have to figure out how to fix it" motivator.
potatorat45
This. So much this. Everything I have I had to build or repair. My first car was "you can have it if you can fix it and drive it home".
thehappyrunner
I got a motorcycle one time that a friend of a friend had wrecked. My car had just broken down, I had very little money, and this guy gave it to me for free with a "If you can make it run, you can have it". Money's no longer an issue, but I'll still fix things until there's just absolutely no making them work. I'm also a big EV person and my one concern is that they feel very high risk to repair. I can't imagine messing with something with a 60Kwh battery that could discharge.
potatorat45
ah, it's not that bad. Just gotta keep a clean workspace and plan your exit routes, just like working on a nitro-fueled supercharged topfueler. Dirty, cluttered, tools-all-over workspaces need not apply when it comes to EV's.
gtollie
Thereās Millennials š¤·āāļø
bigk001
because kids today are lazy. (sound familiar?) but, a lot don't even want to get their driver's licenses... they want to live online.
GroovyCrowley
Your dad came in touch with it too late and for gen z it is everywhere since they spawned so they take it for granted. We grew with it.
RemuZZZ
Paper is so 2010.
DM777
Gen X here: Apathy has taken me. But the younger gens give me hope, don't let them beat it out of you. You peeps make a difference and that's why they are trying so hard.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Every journey starts with one step. Take your firstā¦ help make things better.
IamAlbertPotato
53 here, still wanna get high and go to dance parties
32FGWolfhound
Same here
8FootedAlgaeEater
Go. I've done it in my late 40s and it's still fun as hell.
IamAlbertPotato
We don't get many in my town. I had tickets to Fatboy Slim last year but it was an outdoor venue and we had three days of torrential rain so it was cancelled. I was gutted.
GutenTagHerrFraulein
Reporting for duty
TheNihilistsParadoxicalWashingMachine
We should make a club. For breakfast. Or something. And then we can all ignore it exists, not turn up and just lurk somewhere in the neighborhood instead listening to our latest music vibe.
TheHolyFatman
Can confirm: my body is 50, my mind keeps telling me that I'm 25 and keeps wondering why I show up to that fucking job everyday, the work sucks, man.
Mockingbirb
As a Gen Xer, can confirm!
anoldiebutagoodie
Am 54. Can confirm..... I am actually 34....with a 33 year old daughter.....
xovoxovox
When we get blamed for all the ills of the world by some generation yet to come like boomers and we shrug it off with a collective "Meh."
JustAnOldLurker
Ih8thisSoMuch
The only thing about being generation x that gives me any sense of pride whatsoever is that for over a decade they made this big pile of hugely successful movies about "us" (most of us were NOT represented in or by a single one of these silly boomer films) Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller, Fast Times, et al - and we went right back to being utterly invisible. I also liked that we saw our hypocrite hippie sell-out parents and decided to not even really try. I can respect a committed nihilist.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Ah, so you feel pride? Are you sure you are gen-x?
DALLASLAVOWNER
its not pride, its just a sensation from my secret stash of Jolt cola and Pepsi Clear
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Ah, you pride-less and caffeinated. Yes, you are a gen-x.
bigboneded
I resent that. I'm turning 50 in March, and I'm still 10.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Itās your absolute right to resent it
Scaper1812
As a Gen-X'er, yep. Hit 30 and just stopped aging mentally. 45 now and still feel like I'm 30, although my back and knees would disagree.
TwiceK
"we drank from a garden hose and smoked cigarettes after playing with our toys!"
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
woozle
wylkyn
Don't blow it for us, man. Nobody mentions us.
StellarJay77
Well we're not really laying low, but you really don't don't want to mess with the OG generation who defines FAFO. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM6xCDDJx/
anitamargarita
The first rule of Gen X is we don't talk about Gen X
E4r3nd1l
Except for Fred Durst who contractually has to...
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
TheGodEmperorOfChaos
CaptainDiddleFartingAround
I didn't ask to be born.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
And yet
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DVSBSTrD
Thanks for Bush!
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Oh, that was before most of us friendā¦
CaptainHyperbole
You guys have a way of outing yourselves, I think itās related to your suppressed anger issues.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
My anger issues arenāt suppressed. Would you like to learn about them?
CaptainHyperbole
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
strapontin
Y'all laying low is part of the reason we're in this mess! All hail apathy!! ( /s, sorta...)
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
We have been working to dismantle the patriarchy since before you were bornā¦ step up and help out. We donāt need armchair activists. Either get in the streets or dismantle the system from within. Just donāt blame us while vlogging about it.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Ah, youāre probably one of usā¦ but never had time to pay attention. Never too late to start paying attention. Start with the news, then watch where you are spending your money. I pay very close attention to who gets my money.
Dissipo
Don't be a Paul...
kathlTvVillain
Or Karen !
youreathing
We feel neither highs nor lows.
zenmaster11
As a gen xāer this is so accurate. Whatever
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Whatever, indeed!!
ChefDavid22
What's that like?
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
I think it's absolutely perfect. No steep falls, no hard climbs out of the hole? What do you want more?
Zephirod
we just are
youreathing
Meh
WellJimmyCrackedCorn
Xanax
kathlTvVillain
šš
zenmaster11
BenderRodriguezz
[Donald Sutherland pointing menacingly]
Find the gif yourself
HorrorMango
woozle
Robotbutts
itsallaboutthecones
Nah, we see you, we have beef with you too it's just we don't have the resources to fight a two front war with you and the boomers. (I'm just kidding of course. Although my genx boss can really be insufferable and in some ways worse than the best boomers that I know.)
woozle
my Gen-Xer wife and I were both reared similarly (Boomer parents). We're both very "lay low and keep us of that shit". We created the Millennials and got revenge on our parents. muahaha
woozle
...*out of that
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
I, personally, am raising an alpha.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Ultimately, we have been battling the boomers longer than you. We donāt want your respect, but maybe step up while i take a quick nap.
BlindGardener
You guys 'battled the boomers' by voting republican more heavily than they did.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
I can promise you, not one single person I know voted republican
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
but I see that you are blind, so I understand that you likely can also not read.
HorrorMango
What is this respect you speak of....
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
I donāt actually know the meaning of this word.
CaptSheffield
(OP) gods, I wish I would live long enough to hear what future generations are gonna say about you guys. Not all of us boomers are the enemy you know.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Relax grandpaā¦ this post isnāt even about you. Itās about how ge-x-ers are eternally 30ā¦. Just like a boomer to make everything about themā¦
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
lol, just kidding dad, i will see you next Sunday at Sarahās piano recital. Sheās excited to see you and grandma.
GenXHippie
Weāve been waiting for you guys to help us take the Boomers down. They didnāt have enough of us to be effective. We needed backup.
lurkerthatoccationallywantstocomment
And enough boomers dying off before we lose our democracy. Sad but true
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
MAN9000
We have some Gen Z friends who tell us that all politicians are the same. I'm like, yeah, unless you look at what they are saying, doing and voting for!
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
itsallaboutthecones
Well shit, could have done a better job telling us! I'll be honest, it seems a lot of GenXers that I know are pushing the same Boomer cash grab bullshit just in flip flops and with a little less racism. Or they are barely scrapping by. Not a whole lot of in between but that's one man's experience.
GenXHippie
Itās true, you can easily find those of us who bought into their bullshit. Weāre still out here though, trying to fight.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Many of us have covertly entered the work world to dismantle the patriarchy brick by brick from within. It takes time and we are tired. But folks need to step up to support us in these rollsā¦
feanoreldar
Viva la revolution
umbrellamaker
Millennials, not allowed to leave our 20s despite pushing 40
cissychandler
I came back to comment that youāre right. Millennials were robbed by the banking collapse of ā07-09 from the rites of passage many of us before you took for granted.
umbrellamaker
And we're just constantly infantilized. Media still talks about us like we're twenty without realizing they're actually talking about Gen z.
buttcreambandit
I think millennials stayed at like 25. But have massive problems
HaroldTheCleverSheep
As a millennial...I have mad respect for a lot of you.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
The feeling is mutual
HaroldTheCleverSheep
Longevity my friend!
EMHPicardo
kathlTvVillain
So will you be some day, hopefully. ā”
FrozenInCarbonite
implosion3
LadyNetrex
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Iām thirty
Eramik
I'm 29.... and a few months.....191.... 191 months...
FatBastardVegetarian
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Ish
Eomund521
So I'm older than you.... Shit
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Thirty till i die
PixelSprite64
Alzeido
Hello Thirty, Im Dad
ortayus
I'm 45-irty.
nslatz22
Have a dwink.
crimpitdown9001
Look at your license again... are you really?
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
No
BobbyDeanWillicker
I'm 37 I'm not old! (Win upvotes by guessing the reference)
SuperfluousMeh
Vanarath
Well, I can't just call you 'Man'.
DexterDouglas
You could say Dennis.
SuperfluousMeh
ShotgunBetty
ahh cripes, the street lamps are on, gotta head home
ZeRootOfAllEvil
The orange ones that flicker as they come on?
bikardi10
I'm just worried once the boomers are gone everybody will turn on us.....
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Maybe
AnastasiaM007
This is true. I'm 56, but dayum. All the under 30s complain endlessly about their aches and pains. I move better than half of them.
bigk001
good. you're lucky!
OrThatsWhatTheySayAnyway
Now and again I wonder how all the microplastics accumulating in our tissues since the womb and throughout development will take their toll on our bodies longterm. Perhaps a general shit state of health is it.
fivefrozenfishfingers
Strangely accurate
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Ah, youāve found my sister. An elder Gen-X. She is also 30.
drunkbs
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
OnlyByMoonlight
Yup. Left home in the morning and took care of myself all day. Just had to be home once the street lights came on.
LouBashery
Good times, good times.
BeesechurgerProductions
I'm mean I'm 25 and this was my childhood. I feel like childhood experience is more directly influenced by where you grew up and stuff like economic status than just what arbitrary year you were born.
rudejohn
Maybe. But in my same town where I grew up, in the same neighborhood, with the same economic status, the kids all need to be driven to play dates, even when they're 12, and they ticket parents for kids unattended riding their bikes on streets the cops determine are too busy. Wasn't that way 1960-2005 or so in that same neighborhood.
Richter12x2
The ones who didn't make it were culled.
MarleafChef
Then immortalized on the side of milk.
FrozenCoast
Unsolved mysteries.
loopdesigns
Latch key kids unite!
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
Yes, unite at the tennis court at sundown. Bring eggs and toilet paperā¦
blissfire
Ah, the analog shit we got up to. I once tossed an egg straight into an open window. The room was full of older teenagers, who proceeded to chase us for blocks until we scattered and hid in the backyards and living rooms of total strangers like guerilla soldiers in urban warfare. Thought we were gonna be murdered
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
I recall similar shenanigans
101Medic
We used to throw pinecones at cars from the creek. And there were rock fights, out of season firecrackers, sneaking out at night to go do dumb shit, climbing on top of the school...good times, and a probable reason behind most of my aches and pains.
IamtheAIyoushouldfear
Holy moly, all my 20s I felt about 35, now 43 feeling about 35. I always thought I was born in the wrong decade.
chonkygoodness
Turned 47 ths month and I am fitter now than I was at 35 or even 30. Don't feel old at all.
bigk001
as a fellow 47er, good for you! :)
bigk001
well, i'm 47 & spent today playing Nintendo & reading comics & watching the A-Team marathon on TV...
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
I ordered the original Magnum PI series to watch on DVD while using my exercise machine. itās a bow flex max pro. All of this makes me sound old.
TheOneAndOnlyButtStabber
I think we all would feel like we are born in the right generation if the world wasn't the way it was. We evolved but society hardly has
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
No one has evolved. But yes, the fabric of society is frayingā¦
dontblamemeivotedforkotos
Hey youāre a fellow in between one. Too old to be Millennial to young to be X. Had a land line at 18. I see you
blissfire
Man, I was so cool to get my own land line for my 16th birthday.
forsteri80
I am also 43 now and identify way more with X. Mostly because I grew up without the Internet and I feel like that's really the best dividing line.
blissfire
I'd say that's right on, with internet access being the deciding factor. I'm 43 as well, and identify more with millennials because when I was in school I was the first person out of anyone I knew to have the internet at home. /unironic 14k dialup noises
dontblamemeivotedforkotos
Well yeah, still though we have no generation. Maybe the Star Wars generation. People born between 77-82
SabineRaven
I'm 43, and a coworker tries to convince me I'm Gen X but I feel more like a millennial. He's 6 months younger than me, but he's definitely Gen X, which is so strange! The dates of demarcation are not black and white, def a gray area! š
blissfire
I've heard it called the Oregon Trail generation, after the first computer game most kids ever played. That decade or so where kids had to learn to use a card catalogue AND a library computer system because it was always a toss up as to whether a place was still analog or had gone digital, so you had to know both.
dontblamemeivotedforkotos
I like it, remember micro pish (spelling).
Ymris
I'm 49, and we had a modem in the house when I was born... I identify more with younger millennials of all things >.<
forsteri80
That's wild, man. I didn't even use the Internet at all until 8th grade. It wasn't until about 10th grade we had it in our house.
Ymris
I mean, it wasn't internet in those days, it was for the dummy terminal to connect to the university main frame... but it was still full of the screams of dying robots
ontheotherone
Some say there is a microgeneration called Xennial š¤·š»āāļø
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
This is, in fact, a thingā¦ Xennials are considered to be a micro-generation born roughly between the late 1970s and early 1980s. They share characteristics of both the preceding Gen X and succeeding Millennial generations.
FriendlyLongTimeLurkingCanadian
The term āXennialsā was popularized by Sarah Stankorb and Jed Oelbaum in their 2014 article for GOOD magazine titled āHere Is When Each Generation Begins and Ends, According to Facts.ā They used the term to describe a group of people who donāt quite fit into the commonly defined categories of either Gen X or Millennials. However, itās important to note that the concept of micro-generations, including Xennials, is not universally accepted and can vary in definition.