worst generation

so i suppose this generational determinism is yet another boomer inanity -- by extrapolating from their own provenance in the immediate postwar, they force the young into procrustean categories even where no demographically epochal event exists

^^^

literally everybody who believes in "generations" is an idiot, fuck you Gertrude Stein

what did gertrude stein ever do to deserve underrated aerosmith bootlegs?

This, I'm guessing?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation

yeah shouldn't lose sight of that. it's like astrology but a tiny bit more legitimate xp

o i know, but she was a doll, really

http://www.observer.com/files/2011/07/3165786-220x300.jpg

apparently the american govt takes generations p seriously and floats a "report" around telling employees how to deal with ppl of different ages based on generational characteristics.

aero OTM

the american govt takes generations p seriously and floats a "report" around telling employees how to deal with ppl of different ages based on generational characteristics.

This is for real?

well there is some actualy importance w/r/t demographic bubbles and there is some evidence for political loyalties sticking so there's not 'nothing' but it is kinda funny how like 10 people in paris were 'an entire generation of americans'

the greatest generation: dead, perhaps in need of burial
silent generation: poor bowel control, buy vinyl chairs
boomers: remember to trim benefits and pensions before they retire
generation x: probably stoned, keep and eye on bathroom breaks
millenials: thank god for reduced expectations
generation z: they are the future, kill them now

addendum: AN eye, ffs

This is for real?

gf worked for NIH last summer and found a copy in the office. seriously looked like it was copied off wikipedia, boiled down to shit like "gen xers are grumpy and irritable so be gentle with them" etc

Govt employee advice for generational dealings
Greatest Generation: Archie Bunker poster in yr office, racist jokes
Silent Generation: offer them free oranges to get them onside
Boomers: have a ready supply of quaaludes, mention woodstock & Reagan
Gen Xers: wear a flannel shirt, drink a slurpee and talk about Scooby Doo, act bored
Millennials: participatory gold stars at all times
generation z: message them through FB

i mean it is true that at particular times in history particular things happen to people who are of a particular age, like for instance most of them die in a war, or someone tells them about weed; it's not totally insane to assume that these things have describable cultural implications; it's just necessarily reductive, but since it at least tries to engage w/ history it's more interesting to talk about than most of the other busybusybusy ways humans invent to earnestly categorize each other (i myself am an ENFP, or something).

yeah, i think one of the useful things that generational categories do is to clearly demonstrate their own arbitrariness and limitations

I'm part of the Pepsi generation but I hate Pepsi and this really fucks with my spiritual development

the pepsi generation commercials came out just as i was learning what "generation x" meant and i seriously thought my generation was called generation pepsi

irl lols

http://i.colnect.net/images/f/458/577/75-PEPSI-Generation-NeXt.jpg

icon of a generation
http://www.geektechnique.org/images/644.jpg

Which generation is this?

http://whitsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/crystalpep.jpg

Or this?

http://archives.starbulletin.com/96/06/04/business/pepsi.gif

(Crystal pepsi was OK, btw. Pepsi Kona was butt)

did crystal pepsi just taste like pepsi?

with crystal meth in it

the 90s were weird

^ had forgotten all about the clear beverage craze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yom--bK-zn0

like anyone is spending a lot of time imagining "how good this tastes"

remember Crystal Gravy?

http://www.hulu.com/watch/291086/saturday-night-live-crystal-gravy

crystal waters was way more popular than all of the above at the time

re "right now" - god, i hated that song so much

right now, michael is thinking about a SOLO project

right now, ed's got his hands full

the generational divide splits those who remember life before "100% Pure Love" and "Gypsy Woman."

Based on this model, baby boom years for other countries regarded for having a baby boom are as follows:

Ireland 1946–1982

lol Catholics

Crystal Pepsi, iirc, tasted a little like flat 7-Up. Which was not totally unlike:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/archive/2008/11/1_123125_2152319_2180454_2204595_081126_drink_zima.jpg

okay if my generation was any carbonated beverage it would have to have been this, surely

http://www.travelnotes.de/computer/bilder/jolt.jpg

it's SO gen-x to sniff at contenderizer's list of gen-x traits...lemme guess, you're grad students too! awwwwww...

goddamn it alfred

http://youtu.be/zQX2q6WCrbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQX2q6WCrbE&ob=av2e

wow I had always assumed that crystal pepsi was regular pepsi just clear

that it was just another 7-upy soda is disappointing, what's the point of that

I had no idea kona pepsi was a thing

wtf

srsly who told gen Xers they had good ideas?? xp

if our generation designed crystal pepsi it would be way better, also probably an app

made with real crystals too I bet

Dark Crystal Pepsi for gen x nostalgia

^^^^^^^^^^^^

Crystal Skeksi

Crystal Meth Pepsi

do u gen X'ers think of Obama as one someone from your generation? i've always thought of him as more of a minor boomer to clinton's boomer major but he was born in 1961, so on the threshold for sure