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Im supposed to be mad about it? Or are you mad about it? Is that you in the picture? I’m confused. Did I do it wrong?
True, but also fun and growth involves risk.
We want to remove the kind of risk you don’t recover from, but a lot of folks seem to want to remove any risk that could possibly cause injury.
survivorship bias…
I still ride this. We let our weak die on purpose.
Bring back lawn darts!
Exactly. Back in my day we culled people with lead and asbestos. Nowadays any old random can stay alive and the world is crumbling!!! /s
Meh. They’re reintroducing mare dangerous play now because we went too far with safety.
Gen X here…. After arguing and having many disagreements with many many boomers over the years, we are not the same. While I have had similar disagreements with younger generations they are fundamentally different because we are old enough to see the mistakes the boomers made but young enough to see the world is very much different and that rampant capitalism and greed is often the blame. Case in point, student loans. I am all for all education should be free and things like crippling student debt should not be a thing. Every boomer I have talked to still thinks either education should be a privilege or that you should be able to put yourself through college and get a masters working at McDonalds or Walmart.
I don’t think they understand how demanding studying at university is. That shit is not like high school, where going to class was enough to get by.
Boomers think it was normal. Genx look back with “holy shit why was that allowed”
I’m an older millennial on the cusp of being GenX.
You guys definitely aren’t the same as Boomers. Some similarities, but not enough to be grouped in with them.
Some of us Gen Xers ended up more Boomer-like, and some ended up more Millennial-like.
My wife is slightly older (still Gen X but barely) and she definitely has more boomer qualities than me.
My girlfriend is solid Gen X and I’m Xennial on the Gen X side. We are both decent folks.
It’s almost as though huge masses of people can’t just be simplified into lettered groups like some kind of social media horoscope.
They don’t even think that though. If they wanted McDonald’s to pay enough for school, they wouldn’t aggressively oppose any attempt to raise the wage
Or more likely they think school still costs $1000 a semester which is what they paid for there kids (me included… since my parents were boomers) to attend college. Not the 80k it cost to send one of my kids through school. Want proof? Go ask any boomer what college costs now.
Lol ageism is great because we all eventually get some.
I like old people who argue that they didn’t wear seat belts, sat in the cargo area of a wagon and say heavy old cars are safer. It’s like we know better but because they did it it’s okay. Don’t they realize that you use the knowledge as the advantages you’ved learned in order to make live better?
These are the same people who constantly pull the ladder up behind them, so it fits. They were miserable, so now you have to be miserable.
“Back in the day we got beat by our father’s and thats how you knew he loved you, kids these days, smh”
Posting this in between my angry rants about “Breeders” ruining society over in /r/ChildFree.
Railing against windmills
I’m mid GenX, and frequently have to trot out the saying, “regulations are written in the blood of innocents” to people a lot more ignorant than I am. And I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Some are, most are not.
You can refer to those people as “not the sharpest knife on the tree”. You’ll get rewarded with a thoroughly confused look.
I’ve always been a fan of
Not the brightest brick in the box.
And, at last, it finally happened: we’ve been bundled with boomers. The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers. My back hurts.
Get used to it. No generation seems to understand that they too will grow old and be reviled by the next generations. It has ever been so.
Grandpa Simpson was always right about “It.” We once had “It”, then we lost “It”, and now we can’t even remember what “It” was.
***This response was helpfully generated by ChatKittytm my very old Orange Boomer Kitty Cat.
The oldest Millennials are about 43 right now, “over the hill” and it hurts, it hurts (mostly lower back and knees)
The forgotten generation, just lumped in with the old fuckers.
I don’t even think you’re being “bundled” per say. You’re just living long enough to take the generic “Old People Ruined Everything” flak that internet click-baiters loves to saturate younger people with. On the flip side, you’re now reaching the era in which every TV Show, radio program, and mega-mall marketing team thinks the 1980s was the peak of human civilization. So enjoy being sheep dipped in Reagan Era nostalgia for a decade or two.
My back hurts.
Back aching builds character, or so I’ve been told.
What’s scary is that some people are conflating what they see on stranger things with the real 80s. People over here definitely didn’t have the means to buy all that
What we see on Stranger Things is just advertisements for IP from the 1980s. Everything from Ghostbusters to Neverending Story to D&D is just a brand name. Hell, the centerpiece of Season 4 was a mega-mall.
It’s history through the eyes of Madison Avenue. Great if your goal is to recycle period kitche at obscene mark-ups. Which… in fairness… was the design philosophy of much of 1980s mass media.
I’ll rather live 13 years as a boomer than a life time as a zoomer.
Are you 13 yet?
I have always found evening time quite the gamechanger in the popular saying.
Gen X in the firing line. Bring it on mfs, I’ve survived far worse and now I’m pulling the ladder up.
I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024 by a greater margin than any other age group. Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024
All those polls are cucked anyway. You’re taking a national composite by age when the regional variants are overwhelming. More Florida and Texas Zoomers are voting for Trump than California and New York GenXers. The Gulf Coast suburbs are absolutely choked with people in their 30s and 40s brain-poisoned by decades of consumer slop and corporate culture. Age has far less to do with it than family politics, education/business environment, and media diet.
Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
Unfortunately, they still are. And the result is this deep reactionary clinging to the Clintons and Obamas as some kind of panacea for the modern moment.
Nobody ever really talks about Gen X.
There are no widespread positive opinions. Not really any negative ones either. They just kind of exist. Silently.
I have to say the Wall coming down was a crazy exciting thing to experience.
Now I’m sick and tired of living through once in a lifetime events. I’d love to go back to boring.
They experience neither highs nor lows so it makes sense
They experienced the beginning of the internet and computers becoming a main part of people’s lives
They experienced the height of the cold war and experienced genuine concern for nuclear armageddon
They experienced the end of the cold war and a few years of peace
They experienced the beginning of grunge, hip hop music, heavy metal, MTV , and the peak of Michael Jackson
They experienced 9/11, the dot com bubble burst, the housing crash of 2008, the pandemic of 2020
They lived under the thumb of the silent generation and the boomer generation dominating politics for their entire life (as we all still do today) so there voice was never really heard.
