Gen X is sick of your bullshit

footfootfoot · 10-22-2011, 09:22 AM

Mildly amusing essay at Gizmodo:
http://gizmodo.com/5851062/generatio...-your-bullshit

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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 fucked 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.

Aliantha · 10-22-2011, 08:04 PM

Nice...and true.

STFU gen Y and beyond!

jimhelm · 10-22-2011, 08:10 PM

Which gen am I?

ZenGum · 10-22-2011, 08:11 PM

I really need to get a place with a lawn so I can tell those damn whippersnappers to get off it.

Clodfobble · 10-22-2011, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by jimhelm

Which gen am I?

What year were you born in?

monster · 10-22-2011, 09:40 PM

1970

Undertoad · 10-22-2011, 09:51 PM

Gen X is roughly 1961-1981

Clodfobble · 10-22-2011, 09:54 PM

Yes. Depending on who you ask, the opening date is anywhere from 1960 to 1966, and the closing date is 1980 to 1982.

Technically I am Generation X, and my brother is Generation Y (aka the Millenials.) And given our personalities, this actually fits us.

zippyt · 10-22-2011, 10:47 PM

what about 1963 ??

Aliantha · 10-22-2011, 10:50 PM

That makes you nothing Zippy. Sorry.

zippyt · 10-22-2011, 11:03 PM

Gee thanks ,
I Always thought of my self as a Late Bloomer baby boomer

Undertoad · 10-22-2011, 11:15 PM

Yer an Xer... like me 1963

Trilby · 10-23-2011, 07:00 AM

I don't feel like an Xer. I feel like the shit end of the Booomers. 1964.

Undertoad · 10-23-2011, 07:45 AM

Which do you like better: the Beach Boys, or the Cure?

Trilby · 10-23-2011, 08:22 AM

The Cure.

but when I was 12 I DID own Endless Summer. I've never owned any Cure. (of course, I was married by the time I was 24, so...)

eta: I was a faithful reader of Creem and Crawdaddy magazine. Those were some awesome rags.

10-22-2011, 08:04 PM	#2
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Nice...and true. STFU gen Y and beyond! __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-22-2011, 08:10 PM	#3
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	Which gen am I? __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

10-22-2011, 08:11 PM	#4
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I really need to get a place with a lawn so I can tell those damn whippersnappers to get off it. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

10-22-2011, 09:40 PM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	1970 __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-22-2011, 09:54 PM	#8
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Yes. Depending on who you ask, the opening date is anywhere from 1960 to 1966, and the closing date is 1980 to 1982. Technically I am Generation X, and my brother is Generation Y (aka the Millenials.) And given our personalities, this actually fits us. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

10-22-2011, 09:51 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Gen X is roughly 1961-1981

10-22-2011, 10:47 PM	#9
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	what about 1963 ?? __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

10-22-2011, 10:50 PM	#10
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	That makes you nothing Zippy. Sorry. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-22-2011, 11:03 PM	#11
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Gee thanks , I Always thought of my self as a Late Bloomer baby boomer __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

10-22-2011, 11:15 PM	#12
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yer an Xer... like me 1963

10-23-2011, 07:00 AM	#13
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I don't feel like an Xer. I feel like the shit end of the Booomers. 1964. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-23-2011, 07:45 AM	#14
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Which do you like better: the Beach Boys, or the Cure?

10-23-2011, 08:22 AM	#15
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	The Cure. but when I was 12 I DID own Endless Summer. I've never owned any Cure. (of course, I was married by the time I was 24, so...) eta: I was a faithful reader of Creem and Crawdaddy magazine. Those were some awesome rags. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum Last edited by Trilby; 10-23-2011 at 08:27 AM.

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