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Posted: 4/8/2020 5:52:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: lol @ all of the millennials trying to sneak into the Genx club. This is true. I know all kinds of people born in like 1990 who try to tell me they are Gen X. I'm like, you don't hate everybody, so no. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 5:55:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: .... Mothers and lengths of Ho Wheels track... Good times. For us, it was mom with a metal yard stick. You should see how bent up that thing is these days. Funny she still has it and shows us when we visit. Lol BTW, wood ones woukd just break. Lol |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 5:57:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/8/2020 5:57:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 8/2/1982 is the official cut off date  I can dig it. may of 82. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:01:29 PM EDT
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Gen X reporting and ready for not giving a fuck.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:01:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ve seen it cut off at 79, 80, 81 and even 84 as well as Millennials ending at 1995, 1997 and 2001. Depends on who you ask https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/459941/B69E21C8-8994-4F20-88E3-8EDCB1C88C5B_png-1357712.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/459941/B73B1095-32AD-4F68-A5F5-BC10F0205454_jpe-1357713.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/459941/FBAE8C56-3138-400A-BF11-3305DF23A672_jpe-1357714.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/459941/CE007528-D8D6-4F34-BA76-8AC07A902819_png-1357715.JPG WTF does that even mean? If you were born in 83 you're a XY Millennial? |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:02:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:03:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "Xennials" - micro-generation between 1977 and 1983 Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 1981 is Gen X, 1982 is millennial. "Xennials" - micro-generation between 1977 and 1983 AKA: The Oregon Trail Generation. There's a substantial difference between those who graduated high school before 2000 and those who graduated after in my observations. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:04:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X class of 69 1973 born, grew-up-in-the-great-80s-kid, checking in |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:05:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:06:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryLOL 
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:06:43 PM EDT
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1981 here
Just slid in.... 
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:07:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/91625368_10222825735935237_9004290234736705536_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_oc=AQn7C-ThSwLplES2otgiZDuTTVCMjhYGAjatxGY9X7f1mKo6hpmwRQ8R-PFLEChf4YQ&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=3e27cd62d6f9bd62d5f4fee63ffd31cb&oe=5EB25EA2 Fucking combat trained by He-Man, the A-team, GI Joe and the goddamn OG Transformers DAILY on large and small combat tactics. Also fully schooled on fighting corrupt authority by none other than the Duke boys who showed you other weapon tactics with bow and arrows. The rest of you generations are totally fucked when this shit kicks off. Yee-hawwwww!!!!! http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/f/f9/Dukes102-bow1.jpg/500px-Dukes102-bow1.jpg You left out surviving the Ninja wars of the 80s...and becoming trained silent assassins by watching Sho Kosugi movies. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:07:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: wrong son, so wrong 1979 is last of the best Gen 1980 is millennial all fucking day long. I was there and saw the divide first hand. it's plain as day. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 1981 is Gen X, 1982 is millennial. wrong son, so wrong 1979 is last of the best Gen 1980 is millennial all fucking day long. I was there and saw the divide first hand. it's plain as day. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:10:26 PM EDT
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It's all true.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:11:27 PM EDT
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I identify as Gen X, and you must respect that.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:13:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: According to Strauss and Howe, the two guys who invented the fucking generational theory, 1981 is Gen X. I'll break it down for the slower among us, a millennial turned 18 at the new millennium. The first to do that were those born in . 1982. Simple math, suckers. https://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gif Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: NFW 81 isn't part of Gen X. Voltron, GI Joe, performance being a 220hp Camaro. Mullets. Rat tails. Bowl cuts. According to Strauss and Howe, the two guys who invented the fucking generational theory, 1981 is Gen X. I'll break it down for the slower among us, a millennial turned 18 at the new millennium. The first to do that were those born in . 1982. Simple math, suckers. https://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gif But that "simple math" doesn't account for actual cultural phenomena. It just puts an arbitrary number on it just because of the year 2000. So it's bullshit. Total garbage. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:14:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The true best generation. '83 Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: "Xennials" - micro-generation between 1977 and 1983 The Oregon Trail generation. https://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif The true best generation. '83 +87 |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:14:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, puts this generation in the time-frame of 1965 to 1984 in order to satisfy the premise that Boomers, Xers, and Millennials "cover equal 20-year age spans". They're wrong. No freaking way someone in their '30s is Gen X. 1962-1976 is the correct answer. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:16:11 PM EDT
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Gen X had the best of both worlds: a fairly traditional childhood that bred self reliance and responsibility while still being comfortable with technology. This is a generality, as more rural kids still had the ability to run around.
I feel like the Y and Z generations have been shafted by helicopter parents and ever increasing nanny state intervention. They were in many ways robbed of their childhoods. I do see a lot of the younger kids in my AO getting a more relaxed, traditional parenting style. They are outside riding bikes, have dirt/mini bikes, gather in roaming herds and are largely unsupervised. So there is hope! |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:16:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They're wrong. No freaking way someone in their '30s is Gen X. 1962-1976 is the correct answer. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, puts this generation in the time-frame of 1965 to 1984 in order to satisfy the premise that Boomers, Xers, and Millennials "cover equal 20-year age spans". They're wrong. No freaking way someone in their '30s is Gen X. 1962-1976 is the correct answer. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:18:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: But that "simple math" doesn't account for actual cultural phenomena. It just puts an arbitrary number on it just because of the year 2000. So it's bullshit. Total garbage. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:20:19 PM EDT
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Oregon Trail generation, checking in. Too young to really be GenX, too old to be a millennial.
Im 40, and I feel like I'm too young to really be GenX. I was 10 years old at the end of the 80s. I sort of agree that if you weren't a teenager at some point in the 80s, you're probably not GenX. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:22:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:22:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They're wrong. No freaking way someone in their '30s is Gen X. 1962-1976 is the correct answer. So I was born in 1962. Can I be classified as a Boomer or Gen X? It would be awesome to pick one or the other based on the argument.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:22:40 PM EDT
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there's a significant split within Gen X (BTW i've always heard 65 to 81) as the earlier cohorts associate with wild teenage years, etc (80's) where the older ones grew up in the 90's (more black culture on TV, music, etc) and much more parental involvement
A lot of older Gen X (myself included) have younger silent generation parents (29 to 45) and our values tend to be more of theirs (be seen and not heard). Where the split happens (75?) it's mostly boomer parents (self awareness and all that shit) and the boomers keep getting further along (i.e a boomer born in 45 is WAY different than a boomer born in 64) |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:23:11 PM EDT
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The 80s were awesome. As a matter of fact up until y2k things were pretty cool. Sometime after that things started to darken.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:26:15 PM EDT
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If you shit up a meme thread debating whether the Gen X cutoff is '79, or '84 then you're not Gen X; you're automatically a Boomer.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:27:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you shit up a meme thread debating whether the Gen X cutoff is '79, or '84 then you're not Gen X; you're automatically a Boomer.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:27:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was in high school in the 80s  https://media.tenor.com/images/8800e974d31612154979a134d9408dd6/tenor.gif
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:28:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: But that "simple math" doesn't account for actual cultural phenomena. It just puts an arbitrary number on it just because of the year 2000. So it's bullshit. Total garbage. Millennial. It's the name of the generation. Came of age at the new millennium. 1982+ |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:28:22 PM EDT
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Gen X'er checking in...
Ass whippin' with Hot Wheel tracks Drank from the hose Played outside until the street lights came on No bike helmets No seat belts Realistic toy guns Steel playground equipment over concrete Eating whatever was put in front of you (or starving) Great time to be a kid.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:35:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X'er checking in... Ass whippin' with Hot Wheel tracks Drank from the hose Played outside until the street lights came on No bike helmets No seat belts Realistic toy guns Steel playground equipment over concrete Eating whatever was put in front of you (or starving) Great time to be a kid. Yes, yes it was. Don't forget a time in music that was truly innovative. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:36:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X'er checking in... Ass whippin' with Hot Wheel tracks Drank from the hose Played outside until the street lights came on No bike helmets No seat belts Realistic toy guns Steel playground equipment over concrete Eating whatever was put in front of you (or starving) Great time to be a kid. Amen! |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:37:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So I was born in 1962. Can I be classified as a Boomer or Gen X? It would be awesome to pick one or the other based on the argument. More info is needed before determining. 1. Did you watch MTV? 2. Did you stop wearing bell bottoms in the late '70s, or continue wearing them well into the '80s? 3. Did you vote for Carter or Reagan? |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:37:19 PM EDT
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Gen Xer who played "guns" all over the neighborhood. The biggest argument was which group of kids had to be the Russians.
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:39:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WTF does that even mean? If you were born in 83 you're a XY Millennial? Different researchers have different methodologies. My personal thought is Baby Boomers we’re born when babies were booming 4 million a year which didn’t happen again until Millennials discounting 2000-2009 since up to 400,000 births a year were to illegals dropping once the recession forced them back to Mexico. The lowest number of births after WW2 was 1973-1979 so anybody born after 1964 the last year 4 million babies were born before nose diving until when Millennials 4 million a year came along crossed matched against were you in your formative coming of age years; teenagers being a prime example would be Gen X. My parents divorced when I was 6 and I was a latch key kid while my Mom pursued being a Hollywood actress and working 2 jobs during the week and weekends. Rarely saw her until she married a wealthy connected Los Angeles power player when I was 14. I was working 20 hours a week at age 12 as a landscaper for a condominium complex and 35 hours a week my senior year {nights and weekends} working for a gas station. Latch key kids, that’s not something other generations would be familiar with |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:40:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: More info is needed before determining. 1. Did you watch MTV? Yes 2. Did you stop wearing bell bottoms in the late '70s, or continue wearing them well into the '80s? Yes I stopped by the 80's 3. Did you vote for Carter or Reagan? Why does that matter? |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:41:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "Xennials" - micro-generation between 1977 and 1983 Lol, 80 here. I feel like I should have been this age in the 60s though my tastes are old school
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:41:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You left out surviving the Ninja wars of the 80s...and becoming trained silent assassins by watching Sho Kosugi movies. I made a thread about that but GD wasn’t interested   Attached File |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:42:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: #3 was the most important question, boomer. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:43:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: #3 was the most important question, boomer. I honestly can't remember? |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:43:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So I was born in 1962. Can I be classified as a Boomer or Gen X? It would be awesome to pick one or the other based on the argument. The guy who wrote the first book about being Gen X said 1962 but he’s a Canadian |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:44:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I honestly can't remember? lol...I'll give you a pass and say you're a Genx'r. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:45:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: there's a significant split within Gen X (BTW i've always heard 65 to 81) as the earlier cohorts associate with wild teenage years, etc (80's) where the older ones grew up in the 90's (more black culture on TV, music, etc) and much more parental involvement A lot of older Gen X (myself included) have younger silent generation parents (29 to 45) and our values tend to be more of theirs (be seen and not heard). Where the split happens (75?) it's mostly boomer parents (self awareness and all that shit) and the boomers keep getting further along (i.e a boomer born in 45 is WAY different than a boomer born in 64) 1945-1954 were Vietnam draft age. After 1973 the military went all volunteer and “combat” operations ended in Southeast Asia |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:45:24 PM EDT
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No stupid food allergies.
No zero tolerance at schools (we were actually encouraged to solve our own problems. With violence in the case of bullies) Fucking hair metal! No pads or helmets to ride bikes and skateboards. We survived. We all though very highly of our country and our freedom and beat the shit out of any sissy who dared to speak against it. Our dads snuck us beers. We didn't think we were special and unique snowflakes who deserved a trophy for waking up that morning. We actually felt the need to work hard and practice in we were to EARN one. Ninja weapons were super popular and you could buy them out of magazines. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:47:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Me too. Getting drunk at high school parties and wandering home to watch Miami Vice 
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:51:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No stupid food allergies. No zero tolerance at schools (we were actually encouraged to solve our own problems. With violence in the case of bullies) Fucking hair metal! No pads or helmets to ride bikes and skateboards. We survived. We all though very highly of our country and our freedom and beat the shit out of any sissy who dared to speak against it. Our dads snuck us beers. We didn't think we were special and unique snowflakes who deserved a trophy for waking up that morning. We actually felt the need to work hard and practice in we were to EARN one. Ninja weapons were super popular and you could buy them out of magazines.  Cobra kai (episode 2) - Miguel’s first training |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:51:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/91625368_10222825735935237_9004290234736705536_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_oc=AQn7C-ThSwLplES2otgiZDuTTVCMjhYGAjatxGY9X7f1mKo6hpmwRQ8R-PFLEChf4YQ&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=3e27cd62d6f9bd62d5f4fee63ffd31cb&oe=5EB25EA2 Fucking combat trained by He-Man, the A-team, GI Joe and the goddamn OG Transformers DAILY on large and small combat tactics. Also fully schooled on fighting corrupt authority by none other than the Duke boys who showed you other weapon tactics with bow and arrows. The rest of you generations are totally fucked when this shit kicks off. Yee-hawwwww!!!!! http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/f/f9/Dukes102-bow1.jpg/500px-Dukes102-bow1.jpg  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 6:54:37 PM EDT
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Gen X here, if you were not at least around 16 by 1984 you missed the 80s
At least the best part. |
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