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Posted: 9/17/2023 12:21:09 AM EDT
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We were neighborhood vigilantes, when some older kids would steal friends bikes or attack their forts, we would stage surveillance of their homes and hideouts, find the missing items and raid their place! If they stashed it at a clubhouse we would go invade them with BB guns and it lay booby traps around their trails. Payback bitches. That’s the way it was, long before “Wolverines!”.
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Posted: 9/17/2023 12:22:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You haven’t lived until you’ve had a bottle rocket war … on horseback, Shit yeah! That hurts! Not the bottle rockets, getting thrown! |
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Posted: 9/17/2023 12:41:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This applies strongly to early millennials in podunk towns They remind me of our generation, but maybe a bit more respectful. |
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Posted: 9/17/2023 12:43:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. and I use that excuse every time I get a new phone, just hand it to one of them and boom, it works. |
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Posted: 9/17/2023 12:44:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/260285/711AA13C-4D01-44E1-A72A-990CB697BC3C_jpe-2956149.JPG This sums up Gen X to a tee in my opinion.  |
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Posted: 9/17/2023 12:46:10 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/17/2023 1:06:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Have you ever noticed that people will be as flexible as possible just to identify as Gen X. People never do that for millennials, boomers or Gen Z. Let that sink in. That's how you know what the master race is. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Gen-X as well, though I snuck in towards the end.  I smell a millennial...  People never do that for millennials, boomers or Gen Z. Let that sink in. That's how you know what the master race is. |
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Posted: 9/17/2023 1:35:03 AM EDT
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Born in 74 here.
I'm considered a shitty parent because I let my boys learn the hard way. I'm not raising kids. I'm raising adults. |
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Posted: 9/17/2023 1:39:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL wait 15 years. You'll be the new Boomers to the teenagers of Generation Alpha. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Gen-X as well, though I snuck in towards the end. I smell a millennial... People never do that for millennials, boomers or Gen Z. Let that sink in. That's how you know what the master race is. See that's our signature mark. We don't give a shit. Boomers and the rest do. Us? Fuck off, leave me alone and I'm good. See? Easy. |
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Posted: 9/17/2023 2:44:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/17/2023 3:14:51 AM EDT
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Mini high adventure trip, Michigan trip to the UP, short trip to Canada, hiking around a lot of the area and recall swimming in Lake Superior; paddling down Au Sable. Somehow, with a small troop of 2 Scoutmasters and 11 kids (and hauling canoes) made it in a Ford 1/2 ton truck with a topper (regular cab of course) and a Ford Tempo (both sticks) with only 8 seat belts (don't know if any were used). Late 1980's.
Scoutmasters, one was a boomer, other one of the silent generation. They made it happen back then, I didn't appreciate it, as I do now, at the time. |
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Posted: 9/17/2023 3:21:30 AM EDT
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Pulling change out of your ash tray and your buddies pockets to buy a couple gallons of gas at .99/gallon. Pure class of 85!
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Posted: 9/17/2023 6:14:06 AM EDT
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Not surprisingly, every generation thinks they're the best generation with the best childhood.
Also not surprisingly, every generation is wrong...except for Gen X. 
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Posted: 9/17/2023 11:27:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: '72 here. one of my greatest moments was hitting a ramp that was placed on a right-side up trashcan. I landed perfectly, but bent my BMX bike fork at almost a 90 degree angle. I rode it home like a low rider chopper. My dad looked at it and said "WHAT DID YOU DO?" Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/480138/bike-jumping-5_jpg-2956123.JPG 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.one of my greatest moments was hitting a ramp that was placed on a right-side up trashcan. I landed perfectly, but bent my BMX bike fork at almost a 90 degree angle. I rode it home like a low rider chopper. My dad looked at it and said "WHAT DID YOU DO?" One time, we had been out jumping ramps on our bikes as usual but we had to come in early to shower and eat because my parents were going out and the babysitter was coming over. Not 10 minutes after our parents left we were right back out jumping ramps. The babysitter was HOT AS HELL and 12 year old me was bound and determined to impress this girl. Set up 2 cement blocks and the plywood, went as fast as I could go... I landed with my left foot toe on the back side of the pedal roller and managed to rape a good 2-3 inch chunk of shin skin off on the pedal spikes, then proceeded to eat complete shit on the gnarly asphalt road. Lets just say the babysitter was not impressed at all with me bleeding all over the place on her watch. 
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Posted: 9/17/2023 12:54:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/17/2023 1:14:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:18:07 AM EDT
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Gen X is so awesome Elon Musk changed the name of Twitter to honor us.
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:22:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Smoked my first cigarette around 8-9  My dad gave me my first cigarette at about that age. We were fishing and the smoke kept the mosquitoes in check. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:28:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: GenX childhood snapshot: Bought aerial fireworks and ammunition unsupervised over the counter in grade school with money earned from my job. Rogued crops for money at an early age to purchase plastic models, shotguns shells, .22LR and BB's. Glued BBs to the end of shotgun shells on the primer, and taped the plastic sprue from the model to the sides of the shells for stabilizing fins. They make great self righting hand grenades on the local roads for BB gun fights. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:31:45 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:33:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My best friend and I had the following: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/picture_499_blowup_jpg-2956252.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/img_3336_blowup_jpg-2956254.JPG We used to argue every day about which bike was better. Dumb argument. GT by a mile (I rocked a light purple Dyno Comp with white rimes and tires).Not mine, but similar to this, except white rims instead of mags.  Edit, found the exact color/frame. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:35:11 AM EDT
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OG of the OG-est. 1965.
It was amazing.  |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:38:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. That was a miserable pain in the ass. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:40:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not surprisingly, every generation thinks they're the best generation with the best childhood. Also not surprisingly, every generation is wrong...except for Gen X.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:41:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/480138/bike-jumping-5_jpg-2956123.JPG 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.Yep We did the same thing brother Countless good memories from those days |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 8:47:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And you could use the water hose for entertainment. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55995/IMG_4599_jpeg-2956437.JPG I get pissed off because my wife is constantly buying stupid, cheap blow-up sprinkler type crap to entertain the kids in the summer. They only last a year or so, and just take up a bunch of room. Best water entertainment systems:  
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Posted: 9/18/2023 9:17:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 9/18/2023 9:39:38 AM EDT
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My junior/senior years were basically River's Edge.
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Posted: 9/18/2023 9:54:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bragging about no childhood and never growing up simultaneously? Peak Gen X circle jerk Go sit in the corner and color. You’ll understand when we retire. 
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:02:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: '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. Haha. YOU were the remote control as far as your parents were concerned. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:07:07 AM EDT
[#31]
Bring back lawn darts
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:23:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X & Millennial childhoods weren’t that much different. I'm going to disagree. I'm Gen X. Almost none of us grew up with household internet. Most of the Millennials did. That makes a huge difference. We played outside. Seeing a pussy was a huge deal because we couldn't look at thousands of them on the computer. We couldn't search on the internet how to do something, we figured it out ourselves. We learned to be resourceful. The internet and 9/11 are turning points. There is a stark contrast to life before and after. The younger of the millennials don't know life before those things. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:33:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm going to disagree. I'm Gen X. Almost none of us grew up with household internet. Most of the Millennials did. That makes a huge difference. We played outside. Seeing a pussy was a huge deal because we couldn't look at thousands of them on the computer. We couldn't search on the internet how to do something, we figured it out ourselves. We learned to be resourceful. The internet and 9/11 are turning points. There is a stark contrast to life before and after. The younger of the millennials don't know life before those things. Agreed (and no internet means no email) The other item was lack of cell phones....not just smart phones, but cell phones of any kind. We had CORDLESS phones (remember those). Sometimes you could pick up your neighbors conversation....or would get static when the vacuum was on. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:36:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Best year.
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:46:19 AM EDT
[#35]
Quoted: Truer words never been spoken. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/562792/IMG_2935_jpeg-2956056.JPG 
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:49:09 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:49:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Agreed (and no internet means no email) The other item was lack of cell phones....not just smart phones, but cell phones of any kind. We had CORDLESS phones (remember those). Sometimes you could pick up your neighbors conversation....or would get static when the vacuum was on. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'm going to disagree. I'm Gen X. Almost none of us grew up with household internet. Most of the Millennials did. That makes a huge difference. We played outside. Seeing a pussy was a huge deal because we couldn't look at thousands of them on the computer. We couldn't search on the internet how to do something, we figured it out ourselves. We learned to be resourceful. The internet and 9/11 are turning points. There is a stark contrast to life before and after. The younger of the millennials don't know life before those things. Agreed (and no internet means no email) The other item was lack of cell phones....not just smart phones, but cell phones of any kind. We had CORDLESS phones (remember those). Sometimes you could pick up your neighbors conversation....or would get static when the vacuum was on. Ah, yes. I didn't mention that. Mom used to drop us off at the mall and told us where to meet her and at what time. We actually had to wear watches. I didn't have internet in my house or a cell phone until a couple years after I graduated college. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:52:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Born ‘71. I agree. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:53:30 AM EDT
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First movie I saw at the DRIVE IN was First Blood. Cultural references included: Red Dawn '84, Uncommon Valor, Goonies, Back to the Future, Conan, Missing In Action, etc. High school when Reagan was a real President. One telephone in the house (kitchen wall, rotary dial, lllloooonnnnnggggg kinked cord you pulled somewhere for privacy). One TV in the house (console type with the "click knobs). Eventually we had a VHS with the pop-up door on top, and added a "vhs rewinder" from a yard sale a few years later. Heck, we added central heat and air in '81.
Gun shows were filled with vets that valued America, and didn't really care about rules because they had discernment. They could tell if you were a "hood" (you all remember that term) or "clean cut" kid. Age didn't matter. How much respect and character you exhibited / demonstrated was the measuring stick. Bought / assembled my first AR15 in '84. Bought my first handgun, a 1911 mixmaster, later that year. The following year I upgraded to a Colt CAR15 and Colt Officer's model. Life was good. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 10:57:11 AM EDT
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My first car, bought in 1989, was a '82 Mazda RX7 because it looked like Crocket's Spider on Miami Vice
.IT HAD A FACTORY 8-TRACK PLAYER! 
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:00:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: First movie I saw at the DRIVE IN was First Blood. That was the first movie we ever rented on our new VHS player. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:01:40 AM EDT
[#42]
BB gun wars. Supposedly "no more than three pumps" on the powerful ones. Nobody listened.
All day you'd hear "CRACK" then somebody yelp. I clearly remember a fat kid running home screaming hysterically with a BB stuck in his meaty forehead. And everybody stayed friends. No cops, no lawsuits. Amazing. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:03:45 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:06:15 AM EDT
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Arent most of you the parents on Gen Z? Pretty sure that generations performance negates all of your positive accomplishments.
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:07:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X had Star Wars, the USSR and we graduated high school in the 80s. Millennials grew up with Harry Potter, internet porn on demand and cell phones. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'm a millennial. I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s and early 00s. Gen X & Millennial childhoods weren't that much different. Every time there's one of these threads with Gen X reliving their childhood and how it was so much different and better than everybody else it's pretty much identical to my experience growing up. -teachers paddled kids in class -played on huge metal jungle gyms -rode down the highway in the bed of trucks -rode dirt bikes and go carts without helmets -rode bicycles into town without adults -parents locked us outside to play during the day -collected baseball cards -played with gi joes and cap guns -played Super Nintendo -used VCRs -carried a pocket knife to school -daily fist fights on the playground -pizza hut stained glass lights, red cups and book club -smoking sections in all restaurants -sneaking away with dad's PlayBoy magazine -watching scrambled porn on box set TVs late at night Y'all act like there's a 50 year gap between Gen X and Millenials. Lol Gen X had Star Wars, the USSR and we graduated high school in the 80s. Millennials grew up with Harry Potter, internet porn on demand and cell phones. Born in 83. Never read Harry Potter, movies came out, i believe, in 2001ish, I graduated in 01. Didn't have a cell phone and remember the long wait just to get the nipples to show up on 56K. 81-84ish Millennial's are damn near close to Gen X vs my BIL 1992 Millennial. Edit: though we are both Millennial's, My BIL and I have almost nothing in common. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:07:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Proud millennial here. Never had an issue with VCR features. Because they had simplified them by the time you got old enough to use one. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:07:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We were neighborhood vigilantes, when some older kids would steal friends bikes or attack their forts, we would stage surveillance of their homes and hideouts, find the missing items and raid their place! If they stashed it at a clubhouse we would go invade them with BB guns and it lay booby traps around their trails. Payback bitches. That’s the way it was, long before “Wolverines!”. Nice! |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:08:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No childhood? We were set loose from the house to play in the morning and our only instructions were to be home by dark. We went to waterparks like Action Park that were the most dangerous and fun places in the world. We rode our bikes and skateboards without helmets and still managed to survive the experience. Best childhood ever. Born in 73. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Bragging about no childhood and never growing up simultaneously? Peak Gen X circle jerk No childhood? We were set loose from the house to play in the morning and our only instructions were to be home by dark. We went to waterparks like Action Park that were the most dangerous and fun places in the world. We rode our bikes and skateboards without helmets and still managed to survive the experience. Best childhood ever. Born in 73. My wife is fascinated by Action Park. Also known as "Traction Park" and "Class Action Park". She's always finding YouTube videos with old footage for us to watch. That place sounds like awesome. Crewed mostly by high school kids who were often drunk and would get in fights with the customers. And who would take the governors off the go karts and drive them on the local roads (again often while drunk. In high school). Sounds like my kind of place. Sorry I didn't grow up anywhere near there. |
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:12:15 AM EDT
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I just love these Gen X threads. Who do you think raised the millennials and Gen zed? Gen X people love to brag that we are so much better than the boomers, who, if you’ve done any reading, you will know, they were the original “me generation.” That was literally their nickname before they were called the boomers because they were a bunch of selfish prick so only cared about themselves. Gen ex people also like to complain about millennials and gen Z. Is there some secret generation hidden in there somewhere that parented the millennials and gen Z? Because I’m pretty sure that Gen X is primarily responsible for all of these gender confused, spoiled little twat’s running around, causing all of the worlds problems these days.
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Posted: 9/18/2023 11:12:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1972. Grew up a true 80s child, graduated high school 1990. Life was great growing up. Not so different in age from you. Life was great growing up. And also being a young adult in the 90s. Would have been cooler with Internet and a smart phone, though. Best of both worlds. |
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