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Bitchplease.  I can type circles around some GenZ thumbing twat.  

My typing classes in school where split between typewriters and computers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PBtEPiPlrQ

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I sucked at typing until I went into the business world.  Microsoft Natural keyboard all day.  

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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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I grew up wearing Toughskins with the iron on patches over the holes in the knees, I feel your pain.

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LOL at all of the people born in 1980 that are Gen X. You ain't Gen X if you were 10 in 1990.

"I identify with 1980s culture." You were 9

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I YOLO’d the fuck out of the 80s, bro!

Mostly pushing my little 50 back home so I could get more gas. If that bastard had an odometer it would have been impressive to see...

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/30587/42EED900-C096-4475-94FA-86BB934EAD6C-1359093.jpg

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I YOLO'd the fuck out of the 80s, bro!

Mostly pushing my little 50 back home so I could get more gas. If that bastard had an odometer it would have been impressive to see...

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/30587/42EED900-C096-4475-94FA-86BB934EAD6C-1359093.jpg

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Must say I really dig all this retro synth stuff that's out now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ruvzfXQoE

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Long as I've got my pictures out, I'm pretty sure this is my kick ass awesome disk shooting pistol

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/30587/118121C8-D40B-46FB-A78A-180EEEB024F3-1359612.jpg

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Not a meme but all my gen X friends can't type for shit.

Gen X = boomers

https://media1.tenor.com/images/63a4afee7d28caa61c821bddaa1e6fa3/tenor.gif

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I can type fairly well but I took a class as a Sophomore elective.  Only elective my mom told me she would like me to take, and got to say it has served me well over the years.  Can even type pretty good while talking to someone and not looking at what I am typing either.

Ticks my wife off.  

1970 checking in.  

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This thread makes it obvious some of you have never suffered the shame of your parents buying you Gobots because you were too poor for Transformers.

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That's because we learned to type on the old manual typewriters and rested our fingers on the keys. Doesn't work very well with the super sensitive keyboards today.

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This thread makes it obvious some of you have never suffered the shame of your parents buying you Gobots because you were too poor for Transformers.

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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?