Zoomer/Millennial cuspers are going to be known as the Instagram Still Had A Linear Timeline Generation.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
most discussion of generations is just simplistic bullshit, so i don't mind having mine left out
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
yeah I like lots of alt ish
― maffew12, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
afaict the most enduring feature of my gen x membership is my continued complete distrust/disgust at advertising and sales and being sold to and selling myself
other than that, my more positive attributes have been attributed to/absorbed by millennials so i no longer exist
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
considering that they've retconned Gen X to include people born in like 1978? ... yeah, it's bullshit
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
someone born in 1978 is definitely not a millennial tho
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
I thought it was the other way, I always knew X to end around '81-2 and then the millennials started creeping back and absorbing us.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
gen xers = boomers with a smaller house and like 50% more likely to know how to access the contents of a zip file
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Generations should last for ~5 years now, with the speed of technology and economic bubbles.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
I vaguely identify with whichever generation is sandwiched between X and millennials.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
lol my gen x signifiers are like: everything is just going to keep on decaying and getting stupider, I'm never going to become a "real adult" like my parents, and I still wear ironic t-shirts
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
boomers pay for winrar
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, October 18, 2019 11:59 AM (two minutes ago)
If you look at the Gen X generational studies books that came out in the 90s, the tail end of Gen X was 1976 (maybe 1977). 1978 on were "Gen Y"
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
Must be nice to be able to afford that on top of everything else.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
As a X/Y cusper, the experiences of friends 5-6 years older and people 5-6 years younger are wildly different from my direct peers in terms of how the Internet shaped us but we got out of young adulthood before digital cameras could document every stupid moment of your young life.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
we watched the space shuttle explode in school, because Christa McAuliffe was gonna be the first teacher in space! ... later the "what color were Christa McAuliffe's eyes? ... Blue!" joke got repurposed for Kurt Cobain
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
someone write all this down
― maffew12, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Our jokes were about 'the last thing that went through his mind'
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Major generational difference there.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
no boomers i know used Napster
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
one blue left, and one blue right!! har de har har!
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
I still remember the day of that launch so vividly. So many of us kids watched those astronauts die on live TV, it was crazy!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
McCauliffe, Henson, and Cobain were like the pivotal gen x deaths afaict.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I still have the Challenger explosion newspaper somewhere.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
though we just saw a long shot of a thing exploding that we cognitively knew had people in it -- we didn't actually see the death. It kinda set things up for the 1st Gulf War, which was a lot of satellite images and explosions, but the visceral aspect of the death wasn't shown to us. .... It contrasted with the Boomer's experience of seeing the Vietnam body bags on TV. ... not to get all Baudrillard on this thread
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
dunno about Henson -- I think Reagan getting shot and not dying was more pivotal
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
Michael Jackson catching on fire in the Pepsi commercial had me way more shook than Reagan getting capped .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
not to get all Baudrillard on this thread
no no no, please do
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
i was pretty upset when john lennon was killedi was a preschool beatles freak and between him dying and reagan getting elected i was super bummed
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
Ian Bogost tweets about this a lot
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
If not Henson than perhaps Hooper.
Someone should really do an updated 'We Didn't Start the Fire' for the gen x set.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
uh, we had It's the End of the World As We Know It?
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
I thought Michael Jackson's hair fire in the Pepsi commercial was funny. Reagan surviving ... was not a happy ending imo.
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
I don't know what sort of podunk schools y'all went to but the primary McAuliffe joke was "how did they know what brand of shampoo she used? they found her head and shoulders on a beach".
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
I went to a very podunk school
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
we did square dancing in P.E.the school was surrounded by grazing land for horses and cows and some goatsto get there, you would drive past the egg ranch, and depending on the winds, sometimes the egg ranch smell wafted towards the school
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
My childhood joke collection is spotty because I went to a dozen different podunk schools (couldn't stop knifing teachers)
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
We did square dancing in PE too!
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
xps nice
back before millennials got rid of all smells because they are 'highly sensitive'
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
for the record, here's how Pew Research defines the generations
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FT_19.01.17_generations_2019.png?resize=640,347
we had square dancing in PE
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
My second high school is surrounded by cornfields for at least like a mile in every direction.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
considering that they've retconned Gen X to include people born in like 1978? ... yeah, it's bullshit― sarahell, Friday, October 18, 2019 11:58 AM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinksomeone born in 1978 is definitely not a millennial tho― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, October 18, 2019 11:58 AM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― sarahell, Friday, October 18, 2019 11:58 AM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, October 18, 2019 11:58 AM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was born in '78. Def don't feel like I belong with the millenials. But Gen X felt like my older sisters' generation. Doesn't matter tho cause I agree w/mookie for most part that generations are BS and too much is made of them as a legit sociological thing.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
be we can all agree the boomers are the worst
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
We also had tanbark and dangerous playgrounds and played dodgeball
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
Square dancing in grade school. But in high school the boys didn't have to do it. The girls square danced with each other. Would pass by them doing it in a hallway when leaving lunchroom, and they looked absolutely fucking miserable.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
They split PE by gender starting in junior high
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
we played Smear the Queer :-/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 October 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
I remember the four deaths of Kurt Cobain, Ayrton Senna, John Smith and my cousin all coming quite close to each-other in 1994.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 October 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
Playground at my grade school was soooo dangerous. They removed it cause multiple kids split their heads open. The worst part was a sort of jungle gym composed of 2 halves of a big metal sphere 10 feet in the air; the upper half was to the left, the lower half to the right, with metal ladders going up to the top of each. So the convex half you'd slip off of and tumble to the earth. The concave half you'd slip trying to get out of and slide back to the middle of it, where a ladder hole was. Apparently boomers gave all school and playground design contracts to sadists.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 October 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
That stuff built character
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
anyway
strong gen x 76 urban wite guy has more or less in common with a weak gen x 78 urban black guy than a strong gen x 76 rural wite chick?
i just need to know before i finalise this card game im developing, thx
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
misread that as "unban"
― sarahell, Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
if we are gonna just repeat the same arguments over and over again, we could always go back to who should be unbanned or why not
― sarahell, Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
Do we ban Strong X or Weak X?
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
Generation X began on the day Malcolm X was assassinated and ended on the day Los Angekes by X was released.
― pplains, Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
every gen xer remembers where they were when they heard about the film jfk
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
I am my own generation and it is better than yours ✌︎('ω'✌︎ )
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 17 November 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
i always thought stomp and stammer guy was a youngish boomer but i guess he could be gen x? when i was like 13 or 14 i had an under-the-table part time job at the b00k n00k on buf0rd h1ghw4y, where he was like the music section guy....but my sense of how old "old" people were was probably pretty distorted
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 November 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
sheesh you really dont want them hunting u down for that back tax eh
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 November 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link
xp i actually don't know for sure whether he's an old gen xer or a young boomer but i'm guessing he was born sometime in the 60s
― 💠 (crüt), Sunday, 17 November 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
xpost hahahahahaha
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 November 2019 05:51 (four years ago) link
how gen x is this? i saw the chunklet guy front an mc5 cover band halloween night. i wore earplugs.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 17 November 2019 07:22 (four years ago) link
idk how "gen x" that is, but it does remind me of when we repeatedly argued about "what and who is a hipster"
― sarahell, Sunday, 17 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
RIP Carles
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 17 November 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
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― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
Better than Girls of Grunge I guess
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
eXcite, eXpose and eXhilerate!
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link