Gen X is sick of your bullshit - Page 2

Pico and ME · 10-23-2011, 10:43 AM

I'm on the Boomer/Gen X cusp. I'm a tweener. Our music came from the late 70's - Fleetwood Mac
Talking Heads, Boston, Journey, Kansas, Springsteen, Billy Joel, The Bee Bees - Saturday Night Fever, Jackson Brown, Cheap Trick, The Cars, Commodores, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers. And Disco.

DanaC · 10-23-2011, 10:58 AM

Apparently, as I was born in '72, that puts me slap bang into Generation X. 'The Me Generation'

Sundae · 10-23-2011, 12:03 PM

Snap Dani.
I never felt like one though. Comes from starting work at 16.
I was already 30 by the time I was legal drinking age.

I never really got to be part of the E generation either, or experience Madchester, Cool Brittania, living for the weekend.
Too worried about getting arrested, getting up for work, how I was going to get home. And how my finace would react, because he was anti-drug and a teetotaller.

I can't really complain. I did have what I wanted when I was in my early twenties. I just wasn't happy.

Undertoad · 10-23-2011, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

The Cure.

It was a trick question. If you're familiar with the Cure enough to say one way or the other, you're a GenXer.

DanaC · 10-23-2011, 06:55 PM

Oh I totally felt like a Generation Xer at the time.

Aliantha · 10-23-2011, 06:57 PM

I thought Gen Y was the 'me generation'.

DanaC · 10-23-2011, 07:03 PM

I think they both get called that. 'Me Generation' was originally coined for the GenXers, but has been subsequently applied to the GenYers.

We've also been called the boomerang generation, because so many people ended up back in their parent homes in their 20s and 30s (myself included :p)

footfootfoot · 10-24-2011, 11:46 AM

DanaC · 10-24-2011, 02:38 PM

ZenGum · 10-24-2011, 11:10 PM

Oh and you Gen Y sooks, harden up. Terrorism? Pah! You're afraid some loonie is going to stage an attack and kill maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand people, with a tiny chance you or someone you know might be one of them. Pfft. Back in MY day, kiddo, we lived with the constant fear of near-instant global nuclear annihilation. That's right, five minutes from go to stop, 3 billion killed in the first wave, the rest dying horribly over the next six months, end of civilisation, Earth uninhabitable.

All this with an onion tied to my belt, mind you.

[/grandpa rant]

monster · 10-24-2011, 11:16 PM

We live in the midwest. We're more worried about our generators....

HungLikeJesus · 10-25-2011, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Oh and you Gen Y sooks, harden up. Terrorism? Pah! You're afraid some loonie is going to stage an attack and kill maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand people, with a tiny chance you or someone you know might be one of them. Pfft. Back in MY day, kiddo, we lived with the constant fear of near-instant global nuclear annihilation. That's right, five minutes from go to stop, 3 billion killed in the first wave, the rest dying horribly over the next six months, end of civilisation, Earth uninhabitable.

All this with an onion tied to my belt, mind you.

[/grandpa rant]

I remember that, and the survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day.

Sundae · 10-26-2011, 06:01 AM

Gen Y would think Threads was lame. But then they didn't get sat down to watch it by a teacher who explained this was what would really happen when the bomb dropped. When.

Also they didn't grow up on a diet of truly horrible Public Information Films like The Finishing Line or Apaches.

No wonder some of Gen X are at heart nihilists.
Sadly, the older Gen Xers are reproducing and therefore bringing up a generation of nihilists-without-a-cause.

Blame the parents.
Always.

BTW - check out the above films if you have a time. It would be a serious time commitment to watch all three - I'd recommend Finishing Line, but Threads is the most seminal. I don't think shock tactics worked, but they are a reasonable reminder of how children were treated when I was a child.

Trilby · 10-26-2011, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

No wonder some of Gen X are at heart nihilists.

No, Donnie, those Gen Xers are cowards. /lebowskireference/

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Originally Posted by Sundae

Blame the parents.
Always.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

DanaC · 10-26-2011, 12:47 PM

They don't mean to but they do...

The most scary thing I recall being taught / scared witless by were the aids awareness ads.

10-23-2011, 10:43 AM	#16
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	I'm on the Boomer/Gen X cusp. I'm a tweener. Our music came from the late 70's - Fleetwood Mac Talking Heads, Boston, Journey, Kansas, Springsteen, Billy Joel, The Bee Bees - Saturday Night Fever, Jackson Brown, Cheap Trick, The Cars, Commodores, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers. And Disco. __________________ Jesse LaGreca in 2012 “Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Science without humanity, Knowledge without character, Politics without principle, Commerce without morality, Worship without sacrifice.” – Mahatma Gandhi

10-23-2011, 12:03 PM	#18
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Snap Dani. I never felt like one though. Comes from starting work at 16. I was already 30 by the time I was legal drinking age. I never really got to be part of the E generation either, or experience Madchester, Cool Brittania, living for the weekend. Too worried about getting arrested, getting up for work, how I was going to get home. And how my finace would react, because he was anti-drug and a teetotaller. I can't really complain. I did have what I wanted when I was in my early twenties. I just wasn't happy. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

10-23-2011, 06:57 PM	#21
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I thought Gen Y was the 'me generation'. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-24-2011, 11:46 AM	#23
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	__________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

10-24-2011, 11:10 PM	#25
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Oh and you Gen Y sooks, harden up. Terrorism? Pah! You're afraid some loonie is going to stage an attack and kill maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand people, with a tiny chance you or someone you know might be one of them. Pfft. Back in MY day, kiddo, we lived with the constant fear of near-instant global nuclear annihilation. That's right, five minutes from go to stop, 3 billion killed in the first wave, the rest dying horribly over the next six months, end of civilisation, Earth uninhabitable. All this with an onion tied to my belt, mind you. [/grandpa rant] __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

10-24-2011, 11:16 PM	#26
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	We live in the midwest. We're more worried about our generators.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-26-2011, 06:01 AM	#28
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Gen Y would think Threads was lame. But then they didn't get sat down to watch it by a teacher who explained this was what would really happen when the bomb dropped. When. Also they didn't grow up on a diet of truly horrible Public Information Films like The Finishing Line or Apaches. No wonder some of Gen X are at heart nihilists. Sadly, the older Gen Xers are reproducing and therefore bringing up a generation of nihilists-without-a-cause. Blame the parents. Always. BTW - check out the above films if you have a time. It would be a serious time commitment to watch all three - I'd recommend Finishing Line, but Threads is the most seminal. I don't think shock tactics worked, but they are a reasonable reminder of how children were treated when I was a child. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac Last edited by Sundae; 10-26-2011 at 06:08 AM.

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