This generational bullshit is all made up by marketing assholes. None of it is legit, it’s all a distraction from the class war we should all be waging.
There was a gen x?
They’ll he defined as a generation thay never got to be in charge.
The youngest X-ers need colonoscopies, and the Boomers still fucking refuse to step back.
I was going to make a pithy comment about Obama but nope turns out he’s a boomer. Boomer ages are roughly Trump at the old end and Obama at the young end. So yeah y’all lost your chance at having a potus with kamala. The silent generation may manage another though, because somehow they took power and barely ceded any to the boomers.
Us millennials will get a solid decade or two of power and then you’ll see. You’ll all see! Who’s occupying wall street now?
If I were to take power, I’d just give a speech about all the wonderful things in the world, and how we could all have them.
But most people consistently voted to screw each other over, so now everyone is getting replaced by AI.
Actually, Harris was the tail-end of boomers.
Hold your hats because Gen X gonna be in charge eventually.
Shush.
First rule about Gen X, we don’t remember about Gen X.
Mmmmmmm metal and water perfect combo.
I can taste this.
The water tasted like damp basement! Oddly enough, it was a kinda pleasant flavour.
I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.
Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie. Honestly I’m glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle.
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Your quoted reply was from MystikIncarnate instead of PriorityMotif, and it looks like you’re reading hostility into their reply that I don’t think was intended. I believe the point was that every generation will have unique struggles, and it’s not intended to wish that each one should have to struggle exactly the same way or amount by pointing out some of those challenges.
Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.
When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn’t really a thing either. That’s how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people’s houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I’m not saying that’s entirely a benefit, because it’s not, there’s definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.
You’ll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.
What you don’t know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It’s a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.
IMO, it’s not intended to be tribalism, it’s intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it. I’m sorry that you feel like you’re being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme.
When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
No, actually, I won’t. I’m in my 40s, not some kid. If your opinion is that future generations should have to struggle as much as you did or they’re somehow not as good, then a solid fuck you.
I don’t. No. Future generations can, will, and bluntly, should, have it easier. Often it’s not, because the challenges change, they don’t go away, which is the great tragedy of it all.
I guess I don’t understand what you meant by the part I quoted. Sorry for this misunderstanding.
how do you manage to read that in. that’s your narrative.
The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I’m an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I’ve drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting.
100 percent!
Dumb kids of all generations drink from the garden hose.
The smart ones go inside and get it from the kitchen (or disconnect the hose and drink directly from the tap which tastes perfectly fine)
It wasn’t that we never went in to get a drink. The problem was all your friends were outside. If you went in the house you run the risk of getting a chore or task to do. By the time you get back your friends may have moved on somewhere else. With no way to contact them you’d have to search the streets. And if you couldn’t find them again, you would be alone for a few hours. Drinking from the hose happened, but not as common as these memes suggest. At least for me.
I get you. I mostly didn’t either, I’m also an “elder” millennial. I grew up in a relatively small city. The city water from the garden hose was fine, for the most part. I don’t remember any specific instance where I drank it though.
That’s an issue specific to this statement from OP. I was trying to speak more generally, but setting that aside, I think the garden hose thing was a boomer/post boomer thing more than Gen X/millennial. … Back then, from what I understand, it wasn’t uncommon to send the kids outside to play and lock them out there… Probably so the parents can go fuck or at least get a moment of peace and quiet from their fuck trophies.
I don’t really know, since I wasn’t alive then, and I don’t know that I care enough to look into it any more than I already have.
Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
What kind of moron goes through life thinking “Every generation after mine is going to go through the exact same experiences as me!” - what made you think that? What sort of pompous, self-important shithead of a kid were you?
“The future will be just like today”
Were you dropped on your head or something?
Apparently the biggest challenge of the current generation is “don’t be a fascist.”
Seems like a multi generational issue. I mean, the current generation was taught by someone, and will teach someone the same.
Fascism is not the answer. As a question, the answer should be no.
First number I remember as a kid was “Belmont 3 6316”. Can’t remember what it meant though.
Edit forgot an “
Sadly, I’ve had enough experience with phone systems that I do.
Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316
But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the “Belmont” area phone system in order to call it.
Neato. You triggered a memory. Be in the area. I rem now that it was B-2 E-3
Pretty sure that was from the 3 letters on each number key.
So the number was 233-6316
Back in my day we had generational tribalism for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and we liked it.
My generation would go out and not come home until we’d killed an industry, just to take jobs from the generations that killed our chances of owning a home
I did this as a gen z kid after the new millennium. I did it with probably 40x contaminants than gen x ever had growing up. I apparently have a spoon weight in plastic in my brain by 25, let’s see if I can drink enough water that I can fit a Frisbee up there by 30. Lets speed run this shit
Fairly sure my parents told me I tried to drink from the toilet.
Every generation is tougher than the next, but ever generation is responsible for the next.
Lol acting like these older cunts have any responsibilities to themselves or to their children is funny
Generation Proxmox?
I read that as Generation Prolapse
lol, I hadn’t even realized that.
Dude is really pushing that left wrist accessorizing to unnatural boundaries.
Ok am I just getting old? Seems like memes are just missing words now. OP’s was too.
Mines not a meme, just a screenshot of some Gen x cringe content. you didn’t miss anything
I’m gen z and I did this, this whole gen vs gen stuff is dumb imo.
Just another way to divide the working class.
I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?
Depends where you live, where I am you might get typhoid by doing that
Was in Toronto in 60’s and 70’s.
Have a sip of water that’s been solar heating in a rubber garden hose for a pavlovian blast from the past!
We just ran the water a bit
Mmmm tasty microplastics
Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I’m here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It’s just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We’re not that goddamned tough. We weren’t slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.
I did used to drink stream water without a life straw or other filter…
My filter was the rain clouds.
I was also in the back country on the side of a mountain, so likely just a little animal dung and brain eating amoeba.
Did you say brain eating amoeba? I have to get some.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Yeah, drinking from the hose was a lot less problematic than just breathing the air, which was full of tetraethyl lead.
And we have to dodge bullets at school. What’s your fucking point, old timer?
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha
My school was 20 minutes from one of the most deadly school shooting in the early 2010s. I went to high school with survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. But gen z is too sensitive is all I hear. We are literally surviving a war that takes place in classrooms and cafeterias, in our developmental years. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
We had nuclear bomb drills. Go to a cinder block corridor in the middle of the building. Sit on the floor with your pelvis pressed against the wall behind you. Curl up in a ball with your arms covering your head. Keep your eyes closed so you don’t go blind from the flash. The world is going to end, the world is going to end, the world is about to end. Okay, now go back to class!
Hey us millennials had to do that too. Just not as often
Point is your too slow to dodge because you spend all your time on your ass watching tiktok.
-same
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a
ballbullet.
That Boomers are to blame for almost all of the current state of affairs
GenX have higher amounts of brain damage from lead poisoning, and earlier this year Trump saw a spike in support from GenX:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-gen-x-polls-2099640
Filters?we don’t need no steenkin filters
