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On a serious note, I posted this on my page a while back after a discussion on here regarding Gen X.  This is my take on it:

I had a discussion recently regarding "Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials. The discussion seemed to hinge on how Gen X is somewhat of an enigma in ideological, societal, and political terms. Being Gen X, I will explain it to everyone.

Gen X is the forgotten generation. We are a small group population-wise. We were raised by the boomers and largely sold the "American dream."

You were expected to go to college if you wanted to have any life (trades were looked down on.) Our media fed us a steady diet of middle-class comfort and high-class glitz.

We went to college-- or in many cases-- off to trades against the wishes of guidance counselors. We started clawing our way into the job market-- FULLY expecting to do better than our fathers. After all, the American Dream we were sold was that the child is a progression to a higher rung than the previous generation.

We did well for a while. The economy of the late 90s was good. What we didn't realize is that we were in a boom cycle largely built on speculation.

It didn't last. We found ourselves saddled with student loan debt and a lot of hard work to do. We realized that a lot of what was sold to us was simply not the case.

We could have gone down the road of feeling we were owed something. But we didn't. We were instilled from birth with the work-ethic of our fathers. We just felt that we kinda got screwed with how things turned out.

Then, as a whole, we put our noses to the grindstone and started trying to make lemonade out of lemons.

But what you got also was a generation that really doesn't want to hear any more advice from anyone. They just want to be left the hell alone.

We abandoned the power ballads of the heavy metal bands and settled into our Nirvana-esque nihilism. We understand that it ain't going to be like we envisioned it to be. We are going to have to scrape and claw our way to anything we get. No one is going to have some magic secret that solves all the problems that we have or society has. We don't respect pipe dreams.

Because of all of that, we are critical of and have disdain for anyone selling anything- whether that be an idea, a service, a product, or themselves. Naturally, politicians and the political process are completely distrusted.

We just want to be left alone. In that vein, we leave everyone else alone. And we get PISSED when someone can't respect the deal we are offering.

Now, we are in our mid-to-late 40s. We are finally starting to see some rewards for decades of blood, sweat, and tears. Many of us (except me, I have an 8 year old) are seeing our children going out into the world, taking that financial burden off of us. It is time to start breathing easier for once.

But no... now we are seeing an entire crop of politicians violating the "deal" we tried to establish: Leave me the hell alone and we will leave you the hell alone.

We see an entire generation of young people that now believes that we OWE them things that we worked to get on our own.

We are nihilists. All of us are in some way. We made peace with that reality. And how dare anyone demand things that we realized wasn't for us-- but expect us to pay for it for them when we have only begun to be able to do ANYTHING for ourselves.

We are seeing "Leave me the hell alone, and I will leave you the hell alone" violated with impunity.

The problem is that we are a small generation. We do not have the political power to fight it or stop it. Again, we have a reason for our nihilism.

I often wonder if the "boog" movement is more of a gen X thing than it is younger generations. We know we can't fight you at the ballot box. We know our voices will NEVER be heard. We know that "leave me the hell alone, and I will leave you the hell alone" is being violated. And we have little recourse-- except that we aren't going to keep playing this game.

We are the "walk away" generation. "Just leave us the hell alone. You can do all the shit you want, just leave me out of it, or I am out of here."

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WTF was the name of the shitty knife store in every mall?
Sold all that D&D bullshit, fake Rambo knives,  and all that ninja shit..

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Still my favorite:
Attached File

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I made a thread about that but GD wasn’t interested https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/459941/2BDE5468-F6EB-4CEB-8E2F-7976A2B91D29_jpe-1357856.JPG

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On a serious note, I posted this on my page a while back after a discussion on here regarding Gen X.  This is my take on it:

I had a discussion recently regarding "Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials. The discussion seemed to hinge on how Gen X is somewhat of an enigma in ideological, societal, and political terms. Being Gen X, I will explain it to everyone.

Gen X is the forgotten generation. We are a small group population-wise. We were raised by the boomers and largely sold the "American dream."

You were expected to go to college if you wanted to have any life (trades were looked down on.) Our media fed us a steady diet of middle-class comfort and high-class glitz.

We went to college-- or in many cases-- off to trades against the wishes of guidance counselors. We started clawing our way into the job market-- FULLY expecting to do better than our fathers. After all, the American Dream we were sold was that the child is a progression to a higher rung than the previous generation.

We did well for a while. The economy of the late 90s was good. What we didn't realize is that we were in a boom cycle largely built on speculation.

It didn't last. We found ourselves saddled with student loan debt and a lot of hard work to do. We realized that a lot of what was sold to us was simply not the case.

We could have gone down the road of feeling we were owed something. But we didn't. We were instilled from birth with the work-ethic of our fathers. We just felt that we kinda got screwed with how things turned out.

Then, as a whole, we put our noses to the grindstone and started trying to make lemonade out of lemons.

But what you got also was a generation that really doesn't want to hear any more advice from anyone. They just want to be left the hell alone.

We abandoned the power ballads of the heavy metal bands and settled into our Nirvana-esque nihilism. We understand that it ain't going to be like we envisioned it to be. We are going to have to scrape and claw our way to anything we get. No one is going to have some magic secret that solves all the problems that we have or society has. We don't respect pipe dreams.

Because of all of that, we are critical of and have disdain for anyone selling anything- whether that be an idea, a service, a product, or themselves. Naturally, politicians and the political process are completely distrusted.

We just want to be left alone. In that vein, we leave everyone else alone. And we get PISSED when someone can't respect the deal we are offering.

Now, we are in our mid-to-late 40s. We are finally starting to see some rewards for decades of blood, sweat, and tears. Many of us (except me, I have an 8 year old) are seeing our children going out into the world, taking that financial burden off of us. It is time to start breathing easier for once.

But no... now we are seeing an entire crop of politicians violating the "deal" we tried to establish: Leave me the hell alone and we will leave you the hell alone.

We see an entire generation of young people that now believes that we OWE them things that we worked to get on our own.

We are nihilists. All of us are in some way. We made peace with that reality. And how dare anyone demand things that we realized wasn't for us-- but expect us to pay for it for them when we have only begun to be able to do ANYTHING for ourselves.

We are seeing "Leave me the hell alone, and I will leave you the hell alone" violated with impunity.

The problem is that we are a small generation. We do not have the political power to fight it or stop it. Again, we have a reason for our nihilism.

I often wonder if the "boog" movement is more of a gen X thing than it is younger generations. We know we can't fight you at the ballot box. We know our voices will NEVER be heard. We know that "leave me the hell alone, and I will leave you the hell alone" is being violated. And we have little recourse-- except that we aren't going to keep playing this game.

We are the "walk away" generation. "Just leave us the hell alone. You can do all the shit you want, just leave me out of it, or I am out of here."

Quoted:On the other hand, I did have an NES, and died of dysentery more than a few times on the old Apple IIe at school.  

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Bare concrete under the monkey bars at school.
Mothers and lengths of Ho Wheels track were a lethal combination.
Action movies.
Jungle bush giving way to landing strips.
BMX bikes.
So long as I was home before the street lights came on no one cared wheat I had done all day.
Arcades.
Hanging out at the mall.
Hair metal and grunge.

Good times.

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I was in that fucking thread... I had the Stephen Hayes instructional books Vol 1 & 3, plus “Ninja Secrets of Invisibility”

What I learned from those books has stayed with me for life.

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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

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Yep. '78 here. I don't care what anyone says. When I wasn't working on a construction site for my Dad I was running around the neighborhood with a 5" hunting knife on my belt in the late 80's. I had free roam of several miles including the James River as long as I didn't cross the main 4 lane road.

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What was that show on NBC where the old man carried the briefcase for of throwing stars?

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WTF was the name of the shitty knife store in every mall?
Sold all that D&D bullshit, fake Rambo knives,  and all that ninja shit..

Quoted:
On a serious note, I posted this on my page a while back after a discussion on here regarding Gen X.  This is my take on it:

I had a discussion recently regarding "Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials. The discussion seemed to hinge on how Gen X is somewhat of an enigma in ideological, societal, and political terms. Being Gen X, I will explain it to everyone.

Gen X is the forgotten generation. We are a small group population-wise. We were raised by the boomers and largely sold the "American dream."

You were expected to go to college if you wanted to have any life (trades were looked down on.) Our media fed us a steady diet of middle-class comfort and high-class glitz.

We went to college-- or in many cases-- off to trades against the wishes of guidance counselors. We started clawing our way into the job market-- FULLY expecting to do better than our fathers. After all, the American Dream we were sold was that the child is a progression to a higher rung than the previous generation.

We did well for a while. The economy of the late 90s was good. What we didn't realize is that we were in a boom cycle largely built on speculation.

It didn't last. We found ourselves saddled with student loan debt and a lot of hard work to do. We realized that a lot of what was sold to us was simply not the case.

We could have gone down the road of feeling we were owed something. But we didn't. We were instilled from birth with the work-ethic of our fathers. We just felt that we kinda got screwed with how things turned out.

Then, as a whole, we put our noses to the grindstone and started trying to make lemonade out of lemons.

But what you got also was a generation that really doesn't want to hear any more advice from anyone. They just want to be left the hell alone.

We abandoned the power ballads of the heavy metal bands and settled into our Nirvana-esque nihilism. We understand that it ain't going to be like we envisioned it to be. We are going to have to scrape and claw our way to anything we get. No one is going to have some magic secret that solves all the problems that we have or society has. We don't respect pipe dreams.

Because of all of that, we are critical of and have disdain for anyone selling anything- whether that be an idea, a service, a product, or themselves. Naturally, politicians and the political process are completely distrusted.

We just want to be left alone. In that vein, we leave everyone else alone. And we get PISSED when someone can't respect the deal we are offering.

Now, we are in our mid-to-late 40s. We are finally starting to see some rewards for decades of blood, sweat, and tears. Many of us (except me, I have an 8 year old) are seeing our children going out into the world, taking that financial burden off of us. It is time to start breathing easier for once.

But no... now we are seeing an entire crop of politicians violating the "deal" we tried to establish: Leave me the hell alone and we will leave you the hell alone.

We see an entire generation of young people that now believes that we OWE them things that we worked to get on our own.

We are nihilists. All of us are in some way. We made peace with that reality. And how dare anyone demand things that we realized wasn't for us-- but expect us to pay for it for them when we have only begun to be able to do ANYTHING for ourselves.

We are seeing "Leave me the hell alone, and I will leave you the hell alone" violated with impunity.

The problem is that we are a small generation. We do not have the political power to fight it or stop it. Again, we have a reason for our nihilism.

I often wonder if the "boog" movement is more of a gen X thing than it is younger generations. We know we can't fight you at the ballot box. We know our voices will NEVER be heard. We know that "leave me the hell alone, and I will leave you the hell alone" is being violated. And we have little recourse-- except that we aren't going to keep playing this game.

We are the "walk away" generation. "Just leave us the hell alone. You can do all the shit you want, just leave me out of it, or I am out of here."

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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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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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Gen X class of 69

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Wrong.

I have nothing in common with someone born in 1990 and later.

I didn't have computer until I was 17 years old.

I didn't have a cellphone until I was 19.

I spent most of my childhood playing outside, exploring, and building stuff or breaking stuff.

I grew up on He-Man, Transformers, and Reagan as President.

WTF are you babbling about?

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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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On a serious note, I posted this on my page a while back after a discussion on here regarding Gen X.  This is my take on it:

I had a discussion recently regarding "Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials. The discussion seemed to hinge on how Gen X is somewhat of an enigma in ideological, societal, and political terms. Being Gen X, I will explain it to everyone.

Gen X is the forgotten generation. We are a small group population-wise. We were raised by the boomers and largely sold the "American dream."

You were expected to go to college if you wanted to have any life (trades were looked down on.) Our media fed us a steady diet of middle-class comfort and high-class glitz.

We went to college-- or in many cases-- off to trades against the wishes of guidance counselors. We started clawing our way into the job market-- FULLY expecting to do better than our fathers. After all, the American Dream we were sold was that the child is a progression to a higher rung than the previous generation.

We did well for a while. The economy of the late 90s was good. What we didn't realize is that we were in a boom cycle largely built on speculation.

It didn't last. We found ourselves saddled with student loan debt and a lot of hard work to do. We realized that a lot of what was sold to us was simply not the case.

We could have gone down the road of feeling we were owed something. But we didn't. We were instilled from birth with the work-ethic of our fathers. We just felt that we kinda got screwed with how things turned out.

Then, as a whole, we put our noses to the grindstone and started trying to make lemonade out of lemons.

But what you got also was a generation that really doesn't want to hear any more advice from anyone. They just want to be left the hell alone.

We abandoned the power ballads of the heavy metal bands and settled into our Nirvana-esque nihilism. We understand that it ain't going to be like we envisioned it to be. We are going to have to scrape and claw our way to anything we get. No one is going to have some magic secret that solves all the problems that we have or society has. We don't respect pipe dreams.

Because of all of that, we are critical of and have disdain for anyone selling anything- whether that be an idea, a service, a product, or themselves. Naturally, politicians and the political process are completely distrusted.

We just want to be left alone. In that vein, we leave everyone else alone. And we get PISSED when someone can't respect the deal we are offering.

Now, we are in our mid-to-late 40s. We are finally starting to see some rewards for decades of blood, sweat, and tears. Many of us (except me, I have an 8 year old) are seeing our children going out into the world, taking that financial burden off of us. It is time to start breathing easier for once.

But no... now we are seeing an entire crop of politicians violating the "deal" we tried to establish: Leave me the hell alone and we will leave you the hell alone.

We see an entire generation of young people that now believes that we OWE them things that we worked to get on our own.

We are nihilists. All of us are in some way. We made peace with that reality. And how dare anyone demand things that we realized wasn't for us-- but expect us to pay for it for them when we have only begun to be able to do ANYTHING for ourselves.

We are seeing "Leave me the hell alone, and I will leave you the hell alone" violated with impunity.

The problem is that we are a small generation. We do not have the political power to fight it or stop it. Again, we have a reason for our nihilism.

I often wonder if the "boog" movement is more of a gen X thing than it is younger generations. We know we can't fight you at the ballot box. We know our voices will NEVER be heard. We know that "leave me the hell alone, and I will leave you the hell alone" is being violated. And we have little recourse-- except that we aren't going to keep playing this game.

We are the "walk away" generation. "Just leave us the hell alone. You can do all the shit you want, just leave me out of it, or I am out of here."

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Excaliber?

Born 71, Graduated 89

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"Xennials" - micro-generation between 1977 and 1983

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Remember having a B/W Tv
Summers were spent fishing at the creek or fooling around in the woods with BB guns or building forts.
If you wanted something,  you had to work to earn it, not just given to you.
Evel Knievel,  SWAT, GI Joe, Adam-12

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WTF was the name of the shitty knife store in every mall?
Sold all that D&D bullshit, fake Rambo knives,  and all that ninja shit..

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I dunno if there was every really a chain .
It just seemed like every mall had a shop run by an Asian family that sold that shit ( to anyone no matter how young LOL)

Ours was called Asian Treasures , see another member here said the one he when to was called Eastern Arts

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A Millennial once asked me if we had porn on the Internet in the "old days."

I explained how we would log into a service provider using our dial up analog lines and find alt.binaries on a Usenet server. After downloading all the text files associated with a specific picture, we would use UUDecode to convert the text files back to a graphic. Opening it, you'd finally see what you got, which was usually a shitty flatbed scan from a Playboy.

He just looked at me with his mouth open.  

Kids these days don't know how easy they got it.  

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WTF was the name of the shitty knife store in every mall?
Sold all that D&D bullshit, fake Rambo knives,  and all that ninja shit..

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Didn't we establish in an old thread that you are technically a Millennial?