I was like, welp I'm going to ride my motorcycle to the wine store and go home and do exactly what I want with no interference from anyone, which is get drunk and smoke cigarettes.
This the most Gen-X response ever. Love it. #realitybites
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Is this Karen thing a goodfellas reference?
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
no
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
I've gotten called Karen, Cathy, Mary etc. because they are so similar to my name and people forget and I just respond to them anyway.
I do feel like 'Karens' have crossed several generations, though.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it was a top 20 name from 1941 to 1971.
― jaymc, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
always makes me think of that “shes changing her name from kitty to karen” line in that cake song which seems pretty uber genx
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
i meant that the personality of a Karen crosses many generations.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
The fucking list of accomplishments in this Kelly cartoon...
https://scontent.fewr1-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/72653164_10219100541960219_7641078189195788288_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQlA6fRQ7rl2acZ1eN5S1tZqsKJe0lhrlZXeirn5_Rj_Rd6vIh5KzyLCWjWeUM0Gsvo&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-5.fna&oh=96d2f9a300e3fc18af3cbaaba8e5446b&oe=5E89311A
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
omg "Kennedy Assassination"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
I am beside myself
"Space Shuttle Challenger" I can't breathe help
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
poll
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
the only thing in parenthese is skinny jeans?
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
"not starting the fire"
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
STILL NOT AT THE PUB
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
ah, I see now.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
Some day you'll be old like me, but there'll never be a day where I'm as dumb as you.
"In the morning I shall be sober."
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
karen!I LOVE YOU!!!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
The Voluptuous Horror of Being Called Karen
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
not a karen; the world
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
Rhonda?
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
accomplishing stuff is dumb. I just want to be shot out into space
― brimstead, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
- karen
was “bye Felicia” a thing before like 2 years ago? I didn’t even recognize what is was from until I had it explained to me. And I saw Friday like 20 times growing up. Were people “bye felicia-ing” each other in the 90s/00s? Sorry in advance.
― brimstead, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
I always put the bye felicia takeoff around the time of Vine.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
If you ever owned a global hypercolour shirt then you are a gen Xer. There must be something crazy toxic in those because they seem to have been strangely resistant to being revived (also they were terrible).
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
yeah the bye felicia thing is def an internet-specific meme - it was not a thing in the 90s/00s
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
im pretty sure that’s british only, its right in the spelling
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
Nah that was briefly a thing in the US
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
🤔
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
it was a different time back then, we thought it was important for your clothes to tell other people how much you were sweating
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
it was spelled hypercolor. and it was an american company. it was huge for a few years in the cusp of the 80s and 90s. i had a t-shirt as a young kid
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
There are SHadOW ShiFteR shirts now.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 November 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/cxWNJfS.jpg
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 15 November 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
I had a hyper colour Red Nose Day T-shirt. It stopped working (?) long before I stopped wearing it.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 15 November 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
TS: Je suis Karen vs. We are all Karens now
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
This thread is much more fun than the “yo yo yo breakdancing ilxors in their thirties” one.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 November 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
I’m much more chill at 40 than I was at 30
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 16 November 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
"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"""
I was born in 1976, and I always thought of Generation X as being ten years older than me, and American. They all had goatee beards and disliked working in an office. I like to think they were killed off by the dot.com boom, which made working in an office hip again. It pleases me to imagine fifty-something, sixty-something members of the Generation X race cycling around in the rain with Ocado delivery boxes on their backs. They had the opportunity to to work in an office and rejected it. Life in 2019 must be a paradise for them.
I think it's complicated by the fact that movies usually have actors who are older than the people they portray, so for example I have a mental image of Eric Stoltz as an archetypal Generation X person, but he was born in 1961, which makes him a member of the Blank Generation. Steve Buscemi was born in 1957, but he was always on the upper end of Generation X - he was Generation X's Yoda, its elder mentor figure.
Was David Lynch Generation X? He was born in 1946, during the baby boom, the same year as John Waters, and Oliver Stone, but he appealed to the Generation X market. Oliver Stone came across as someone who wanted to be Generation X but was not.
Steve Buscemi was 16 when Picasso died, which makes me wonder if the acid test is whether you coexisted with Pablo Picasso. I think the reason Generation X is overlooked today is that there are two Generation Xes - there's the media creation, which is overlooked because it is a dated relic of the 1990s, and the actual generation, who aren't really linked by anything. Also a lot of people in the media are of that generation, and from their point of view Generation X traits are "normal" and thus not worth writing about.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
It pleases me to imagine fifty-something, sixty-something members of the Generation X race cycling around in the rain with Ocado delivery boxes on their backs. They had the opportunity to to work in an office and rejected it. Life in 2019 must be a paradise for them.you seem like an asshole
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
bernie sanders is "silent generation" which nobody ever talks about maybe bc they're so silent
― esempio (crüt), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
feel like there's been some interesting semantic drift on karen, which has gone from "white lady who will call the cops whenever she sees a black person" to "old person who will tell you to not litter". i'm very definitely the latter.
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
I am mostly conscious of the silent generation because my in-laws belong to it
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
One kind of demarcation is having come into pop consciousness during punk and its immediate aftermath. After ~1975 you may still nominally be gen x but will have had a different and arguably less vital set of formative cultural experiences.
Down the line that's the difference between being 11 and 16 when acid house is kicking off.
― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits)
i'm going to guess you were born before 1975
when i was 16 i was listening to led zeppelin tapes and using a computer. i don't think what age i was when acid house kicked off made a lot of difference in my life, except insofar as acid house affected the demoscene.
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
...and it's not like i knew anyone who had an amiga so i never even saw "Jesus on E's"
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
But acid house / rave was driven by people who also would have been old enough to pick up on punk to some extent, more so than people who were 12 in 1987.
Not saying it's simply causal. But also it seems like if your first pop era starts after 1983 that's quite different to the period before.
― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits), Saturday, 16 November 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
People who lived in places where punk and acid house never “kicked off” don’t belong to any demographic
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 November 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
I always site Gen X people as born between 1961 (Douglas Coupland’s birth year) and 1979/80 (Thatcher/Reagan administrations begin).
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
I mean I grew up in suburban New Jersey. No, I didn't hear any punk rock, my parents wouldn't let me stay up late enough to watch Quincy. When I was 12 I was listening to "License to Ill" and "Raising Hell", if you want to argue my generation's cultural experiences are different and "arguably less vital" than yours be my guest. Nobody will listen to you, but given that we're both Generation X we're well used to that by now, aren't we?
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link