my dad’s boomer version of “adulting” jokes was probably his insistence that he’s still working on figuring out what he wants to be when he grows upnow that he’s transitioning into retirement, he’ll perhaps have the time to work on that
― mh, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
DId boomer dad's have adulting jokes? I always thought they were more on the Al Bundy, giving up on life at age 40 angle.
― Yerac, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
I never see any of this on Instagram bc I don’t follow these people. It’s pretty easy to avoid!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
I don't have an instagram account but every so often I like to watch the short vids of pasta being made.
― Yerac, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
I never see influencers or spon con or famous ppl bc that’s not why I’m there. It makes me sad to see people sorted into slots like wine mommy and insta mommy and any unnecessarily pigeonholed group. I guess that’s what they’re putting out there. Glad I don’t have to see it, with the exception of Kristi’s bday photo shoot.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
afaict "adulting" jokes/comments at least among my peers are m/l a sort of ironic comment on the distance between what adult life looked like when we were kids versus what's attainable and/or desirable to us now. since so few mid-30s ppl in my circles have kids, own homes, or have job security, very little of their lives look like their parents' lives in the 1980s. so when something does, like getting a car or buying a durable large appliance, it sorta stands out. but i might be misreading it or coming from a very narrow area.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
since so few mid-30s ppl in my circles have kids, own homes, or have job security, very little of their lives look like their parents' lives in the 1980s
this was the case w me in my mid-30s too. It hasn't been like the 80s since the uh 90s
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
That’s not much different from my experience as a person at the tail end of gen x except there were a few marrieds w kids. Not that many.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
Everyone has been more or less screwed since the boomers. Might as well all stick together instead of subcategorizing each other to death.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
gen xers are junior baby boomers stop playing
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
always confused about where our lines would split, catholics vs tiger cubs vs furious tattoo artists maybe
uk? thatcherites vs blairites vs corbynites? seems neat enough.
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
Douglas Coupland designed some very mediocre furniture. Although I liked his mod table.
― Yerac, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
much of silicon valley can probably be blamed on gen x, but zuck's a millennial
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
yeah sorry I normally frown on dumb hair-splitting / narcissism of small differences between microgenerations. anyway i imagine that as a pre-hashtag cohort, gen x would have gotten this kind of sentiment across in a different way. maybe like a really wordy, snarky t-shirt with distressed typewriter font or something? i was a kid, idk.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
all of you will be baby boomers when your time comes
― Dan S, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link
Something about "being a kid at heart" that tolls throughout the Millennials and the Boomers. So many 40somethings in 80s commercials, can't believe they're wearing a SUIT and TIE, hearing the distant call of the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'" echoing from somewhere past the conference room windows...
― pplains
i'm a kid at heart because my crippling childhood trauma prevented me from ever reaching emotional maturity
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
"Rose bud..."
https://i.imgur.com/CvHnx7Y.gif
https://i.imgur.com/2jKqZX3.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:06 (five years ago) link
Lol
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
feel like a lot of the people living in a house with their spouse and 2.5 kids aren’t the ilx posting typeexcept pplains — i see you there!!
― mh, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
haha xp
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
“all the gen x people were there”
― calstars, Friday, 2 August 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
aka the olds
― calstars, Friday, 2 August 2019 01:12 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fbIa0i8.jpg?1
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
that's a good one
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
i wish zoomers existed in 2016 when i made this poll. they're the best ones.
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
they seem to have more of a generational consciousness than the millennials, who always seemed vaguely embarrassed or defensive about being millennials. i wonder if this is a positive -- like can it be channeled the way class consciousness can into meaningful political action?
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
iirc the class of 2000 started getting promoted as such when they were like kindergartners so maybe the drumbeat of millennial zeitgeistery wore those kids down
― j., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
also newspaper editors liked to torture us for sport in the early 2010s, commissioning all those op-eds wondering why we weren't buying houses during the worst job market in a generation
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
best is still the horrifying amount of sex we were having, until we suddenly weren't having enough
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
classic. zoomers are getting ahead of this by going on the offensive right away.
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
millennials could never really bring themselves to disparage a whole older generation. we recoiled from generalizations and lacked a revolutionary consciousness.
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
we were just like a massive punching bag essentially
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
I think you all kinda enjoyed it.
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
yr like the Cindy Brady of generations
― sarahell, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:33 (four years ago) link
it's over though now. the zoomers are the ones to watch.
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 03:40 (four years ago) link
poor perverse bulb
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
I don't buy the wonderful zoomer narrative. Plenty of them would volunteer to be the foot soldiers of the Fourth Reich if a Twitch streamer told them to.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 05:44 (four years ago) link
can it be channeled the way class consciousness can into meaningful political action?
climate change is rendering generational divides unusually material but nothing like as material as class. don't mind the occasional deployment of generational consciousness for the sake of gretaist rhetoric but soon of course the boomers will be gone and here we will all still be, not on the same side.
"ok boomer" otoh i must confess i have been waiting for my whole life. too old now to indulge in it myself but god bless.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 08:33 (four years ago) link
if all the zoomers agreed to not get any tattoos they could effortlessly tag and outdate the millennials
― estela, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 09:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12
When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America's wealth, compared to millennials' 3% share today, according to recent Fed data.
some of us are like 40 i thought. and we own a measly THREE percent of the nation's wealth?
― treeship., Wednesday, 11 December 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12🕸_ When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America's wealth, compared to millennials' 3% share today, according to recent Fed data. _some of us are like 40 i thought. and we own a measly THREE percent of the nation's wealth?
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
millennials (born between 1981 and 1996)
hey buddy, we're a youthful 38 over here!
― a u.s. government department (mh), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Gen Z is better than all of us. The end.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
too early to tell
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
Expect disappointment.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
Zoomers are going to find a way to elect Pewdiepie President.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
No way. I work with Gen Z kids every day, and they are definitely conscientious and committed in a way I haven’t seen before.
― rb (soda), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
i have limited contact with kids so I'm probably basing my somewhat negative judgement of gen z on seeing stoned teenage boys calling each other fags on the bus recently and them seeming basically identical to the youth of my day 20 years ago
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
soda OTM
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
gen z is v queer
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link