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Posted: 9/16/2023 3:15:19 PM EDT

Truer words never been spoken.

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Posted: 9/16/2023 3:20:07 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2023 3:22:21 PM EDT

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Gen "X"- had to help our parents with the computer printer AND help our children with the computer printer.

Gen "X'- the ONLY generation that figured out how to set the clock on a VCR...

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:22:57 PM EDT

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Born ‘71. I agree.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:24:02 PM EDT

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Yep, and now my body aches everywhere from doing dumb shit.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:24:57 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2023 3:30:55 PM EDT

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I am amazed we survived given all the things they have banned now “for the children”.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:31:48 PM EDT

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'71 also, and I was 10 at 10. Maybe still 10.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:34:11 PM EDT

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Smoked my first cigarette around 8-9

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:34:25 PM EDT

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I said 'Yo Ahab, you got my doobage' to one of the kids that works for me yesterday. I think he thinks I was having a stroke.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:39:35 PM EDT

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My young kids are so jealous (I'm an old dad) and want to be Gen X so bad.

I would tell them about the days of bumper sliding home from school. Can't do that anymore. Hell, cars don't even have real bumpers.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:41:03 PM EDT

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I remember programming the VCR to record on a schedule. My parents thought I was conjuring a devil spirit or something.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:42:25 PM EDT

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Pretty much.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:42:27 PM EDT

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Gen X master race checking in.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:43:38 PM EDT

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My young kids are so jealous (I'm an old dad) and want to be Gen X so bad.

I would tell them about the days of bumper sliding home from school. Can't do that anymore. Hell, cars don't even have real bumpers.

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I'm sure that'll be my kids also. All my kids friends parents are younger than me by at least 10 years. One of my kids teachers thought I was grandpa. I don't look that old and I'm only early 40s. Or I guess maybe I do? I'm

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:43:55 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2023 3:44:09 PM EDT

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Yes lol so true

Agree with Op's meme

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:44:56 PM EDT

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Best year.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:45:01 PM EDT

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Bragging about no childhood and never growing up simultaneously?

Peak Gen X circle jerk

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:45:09 PM EDT

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This applies strongly to early millennials in podunk towns

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:45:39 PM EDT

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50. Feel like 20. Body says otherwise sometimes.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:49:34 PM EDT

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I'm a Boomer but just missed Gen-X by 3 years so I grew up like Gen-X. I have the best of both Gens !

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:50:12 PM EDT

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Born in 68....going in for neck surgery soon, out of work for 3 months recovering, sucks getting older

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:52:12 PM EDT

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GenX childhood snapshot: Bought aerial fireworks and ammunition unsupervised over the counter in grade school with money earned from my job.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:52:40 PM EDT

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Gen X here and IDGAF about this thread

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:53:27 PM EDT

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Gen "X"- had to help our parents with the computer printer AND help our children with the computer printer.

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Proud millennial here.

Never had an issue with VCR features.

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:54:12 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2023 3:55:31 PM EDT

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Gen "X"- had to help our parents with the computer printer AND help our children with the computer printer.

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What’s a vcr?

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:56:43 PM EDT

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BB is Neo-Maxi Zoomdweebie

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:57:08 PM EDT

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We'll just keep on keepin' on with nary a single fuck to give what you think about it. '72 checkin' in

Posted: 9/16/2023 3:57:55 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:00:02 PM EDT

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The worst things about VCRs is that old houses all had switched sockets.

So the fuckers would reset every time you turned the lights in the room on and off.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:00:09 PM EDT

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1972.

Grew up a true 80s child, graduated high school 1990.

Life was great growing up.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:02:23 PM EDT

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'74 up in this mutha!

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:03:38 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:03:38 PM EDT

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Gen "X"- had to help our parents with the computer printer AND help our children with the computer printer.

Gen "X'- the ONLY generation that figured out how to set the clock on a VCR...

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Boomers could and did figure out the printer and the VCR clock. We just didn't like it and if we could get a kid to do it by acting dumb that was the preferred option.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:04:20 PM EDT

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Ya load up; ya party.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:05:11 PM EDT

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Not my photo but have the scars none the less.

We werent living unless we were hurdling ourselves from every janky piece of plywood ramp in the neighborhood from sunup to sundown, or out in the woods playing war games.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:10:01 PM EDT

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Gen-X as well, though I snuck in towards the end.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:10:44 PM EDT

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I smell a millennial...

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:16:56 PM EDT

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I remember programming the VCR to record on a schedule. My parents thought I was conjuring a devil spirit or something.

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'71 model here

Our VCR had a remote control.....with a cord lol.

TV was a manual but we only had NBC and CBS so a remote wasn't needed.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:18:12 PM EDT

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I'm old gen X age 56

Most 18 - 23 year olds would have an aneurysm if they had to live like I did from about 85-90 ...
No cell phone
No social media
Telephone attached to the wall
Use a physical map to travel

I'm glad I lived it.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:19:30 PM EDT

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Best year.

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Agreed!!

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:20:02 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:24:00 PM EDT

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I'm a Boomer but just missed Gen-X by 3 years so I grew up like Gen-X. I have the best of both Gens !

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Same here, late 1963.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:25:29 PM EDT

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Later Xer here, I wish I'd been born at least a few years earlier though since the older members of Gen X clearly had it better.

Posted: 9/16/2023 4:25:49 PM EDT

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GenX childhood snapshot: Bought aerial fireworks and ammunition unsupervised over the counter in grade school with money earned from my job.

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I remember scrounging change to buy a box of 22. Old lady with cig always said "don't shoot nobody" as she passed them over