differences between boomers and gen x so marginal that there's no point in putting both in?
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, October 18, 2019 12:24 PM
lol yeah my parents and I have so much in common
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
lol jim
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
Respect to jim, that's how you lob a grenade into a discussion.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
Generation Xers too consumed by their BBSes, their Crash Bandicoot, their Dishwalla
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Boomers used to call us Gen Xers "lazy" "entitled" etc., but they seem to be labelling Millennials those things now.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
I guess the old farts can only concentrate on unfairly criticising one generation at a time.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
In my day, we couldn't just pick up a 'celled phone' and use the 'Tweeter' to insult the younger generation. We used to have a take a bus down to the Kinko's and print out another hundred copies of our zine to drop off at the anarchist bookstore.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
They had to move on because:
Boomer: "When I was a kid I didn't have Facebook or cell phones"
Xer: "Bitch, neither did I."
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Xpost Goddammit
xxp - damn, i remember when Kinko's was 24 hours ... actually, the coolest were the ppl that had shitty bullshit corporate temp office jobs that would just use their copiers for free.
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
though when I was in high school, my crush worked at Kinko's ...
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
a couple years back, I got to meet and hang with one of the people that started/wrote/edited Processed World magazine
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
They also think Millennials are 15-20 years old.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
haha there are more of us than u
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
that will be all, x'ers
― maffew12, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
― flappy bird, Friday, October 18, 2019 11:49 AM (fifty seconds ago)
And that's pretty awesome for us, we got into better colleges and got more scholarship money than u millenials because there were so few of us
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
Get off my lawn, you overly-confident whippersnappers.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
Where my Oregon Trail Generation peeps at
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
they died of dysentery iirc?
― sarahell, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
the "x" is for xp, right? oh no, xp, xp, I can't keep up!
― maffew12, Friday, 18 October 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
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
yesterday a friends 14 year old daughter was telling me about karens (had never heard the term before).in her world they are basically pushy mums who get their kids involved in every after school club etc.
― mark e, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Twenty-somethings I speak to all say that big Karen energy is wanting to speak to a manager, having highlights on a Rachel from Friends hairstyle variant they haven’t abandoned since the show was on broadcast, and calling other women ‘hunni’ on FB.
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
That, and she's an anti-vaxxer.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
xp crut:https://www.chunklet.com/ ?
― sarahell, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
And in ref to the Gen-X subdivision -- this thread could serve as a demarcation line:
Here we post radio-slick, ultracompressed Modern Rock singles 1987-1990 w/ huge gated drums & lots of chorus! (youtube thread)
A few weeks ago I was arguing on fb w/a friend born in the mid-60s about when the Cure stopped being good in response to another friend who was born in the mid-60s earnestly trying to feel the love for the Disintegration album. Anyway, the latter friend just died a couple days ago.
― sarahell, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
xp not speaking for crut but I assumed he meant https://stompandstammer.com/
― Brad C., Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
is there a non-US version of this generational warfare or
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 November 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
"...Second Reality?
(I didn't see Jesus on Es but I did grab the mod from aminet and then steal the breakbeat sample from it)
― a passing spacecadet"
of course, second reality rocked my world, fucking purple motion d00d
"basically white dudes who think their misogyny, homophobia, and racism means they’re sticking it to the establishment and thinking independently
― esempio (crüt)"
look i grew up on, like, fucking answer me! and bill hicks, i'm not going to say gen x is blameless. some of us have grown and learned since that time and some of us, well, still listen to whatever the fuck jim goad is saying these days.
"is there a non-US version of this generational warfare or
― deems of internment (darraghmac)"
it probably involves acid house deems?
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
sarahell - I know the band chunklet but am not familiar with the zine - I’m talking about st0mp and st4mm3r
― esempio (crüt), Saturday, 16 November 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
chunklet is generally better known in gen-x circles tbh
― sarahell, Saturday, 16 November 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
Wow, I'd never even heard of that site (stomp etc.) before today. I read three articles (Charlie's Angels movie review, Taylor Swift album review, Orwells album review) quickly and will never be back.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 16 November 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
ive never heard of it either and went to it after unpersons ref to see how anything current could sound so boring. I landed on a scots and beck splash page and the anachronistic whiplash severed my head from my body
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
Josefa at 10:41 16 Nov 19I think of 1965-1975 as Strong-X, 1961-1964 and 1976-1980 as Weak-X, or transitional gens if you prefer. As a Strong-Xer I do notice stereotypical Millennial traits creeping in with that '76-'80 cohort, and I don't relate to them as much as I do the pre-'76ers as a rule.eh I mean this just points out the silliness of this, I was born in 74 and definitely relate a hell of a lot more to my friends from HS and my own sister who were born in 76 than I do someone born in 65I think there are mini generations, basically ppl that were like 2/3 years older than you in HS and to ppl that were 2/3 years younger
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
Is there any way to avoid repeating arguments about what years generations start and stop?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 November 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
not that I know of
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 November 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
No
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 16 November 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
ILX is pretty much repeat the same argument over and over again on most topics.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 16 November 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
I mean everybody in the world does that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 November 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
even truthbombs are long forgotten when the Thread that gave them birth comes again
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 16 November 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
aw nice gonna go read wheel of time again now
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 November 2019 23:56 (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