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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:06:16 PM EDT
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Im Gen X.
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:16:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen Xers are gonna develop scoliosis from sucking their own dicks so much. I hacked your farcebook account, how much stretching beforehand?  
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:27:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As bad as Gen Z is reputed to supposedly be, I can say with 100% certainty that they are much more squared away than any Millennial I've met. My daughter impresses me with her take on the world |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:31:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My GenZ kid just got done with a 2 year college to become an electrician. He found a lady that has 200 customers that she sprays lawns for. Average is $150/lawn 4x per year. He's buying her business. Say what again... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. My GenZ kid just got done with a 2 year college to become an electrician. He found a lady that has 200 customers that she sprays lawns for. Average is $150/lawn 4x per year. He's buying her business. Say what again... And his cost is? $100 or more per lawn? |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:35:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As a GenX'r...I don't give a fuck what other generations think. They're all pussies. FPNI |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:35:53 PM EDT
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Analog childhood, digital adulthood. Modern devices don't befuddle us, but we remember what it was like to live in a world without them.
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:38:09 PM EDT
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I'm a Gen X. Grew up near Vandenberg AFB. We ducked & covered for many things. Taught me that the strongest, engineered item in the world was......
A school desk. 
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:38:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As a GenX'r...I don't give a fuck what other generations think. They're all pussies.  been hearing the doom and gloom BS since the early 70's and never bought into it,also grew up with a strong dislike for commies,hippies and the sierra club |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:43:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. Gen Z parents are millennials and gen x. I bet there's a verify distinguishable line between the kids who raised themselves and the kids with helicopter moms. either way, gen x were the kids of boomers and there's a straight line back to their horseshit causes everything you see around you. |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:44:00 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: FPNI Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: As a GenX'r...I don't give a fuck what other generations think. They're all pussies. FPNI |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:49:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’m GenX. We didn’t do duck & cover, that was boomers. We just had The Day After, AIDS, Iran hostages, Iran-Contra, jimmy carter, and the fall of the USSR. We had duck and cover. We also had tornado drills where you'd huddle in the hall way with a book over the back of your neck. I always wondered what would happen if a tornado actually truck our building and the roof got sucked off.... |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 1:52:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X here. The generational thing is overblown. Dumb fucks in every generation. I associate with those of a like mind, not what year they were born. 
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Posted: 4/30/2023 9:35:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hate to break it to you, but the Baby Boom went from 1946 to 1964. So you're a solid Boomer.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Technically I am a boomer but since I was born in '58 I am on the cusp of gen x. I experienced all of those things but my parents were definitely not hippies. They grew up poor farm kids. You are just a ray of sunshine!?? |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 9:55:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. Im GenX, my kids are Gen Alpha. 
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Posted: 4/30/2023 10:29:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm guessing early Gen-X did. I'm late Gen-X, and we never did that, at least not for nukes. We did do duck & cover drills for earthquakes, though (growing up in NorCal). Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Gen X didn't do duck and cover. That was boomer nonsense. I'm guessing early Gen-X did. I'm late Gen-X, and we never did that, at least not for nukes. We did do duck & cover drills for earthquakes, though (growing up in NorCal). Only a boomer would hide under a desk awaiting nuclear destruction. |
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Posted: 4/30/2023 11:22:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. Says every generation, ever, of the previous and next ones. *shrug* Watch out, we've got an edgelord over here |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 1:47:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Millennials are a mess. Speak for yourself. All the millennials I know have solid employment and own their own homes. Many are raising kids. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 5:41:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X didn't do duck and cover. That was boomer nonsense. We did when I was elementary school. No idea why, we would have been vaporized in seconds because of how close we were to NYC. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 5:49:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So you're gonna raise your ONE kid against the aggregate and say it somehow disproves the rule? Walk your ass into a HS or college and see what kind shit is being pumped out. Be thankful your kid is 3 standard deviations out most of the rest of them want a fucking participation trophy and $20/hr just for showing up. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My GenZ kid just got done with a 2 year college to become an electrician. He found a lady that has 200 customers that she sprays lawns for. Average is $150/lawn 4x per year. He's buying her business. Say what again... So you're gonna raise your ONE kid against the aggregate and say it somehow disproves the rule? Walk your ass into a HS or college and see what kind shit is being pumped out. Be thankful your kid is 3 standard deviations out most of the rest of them want a fucking participation trophy and $20/hr just for showing up.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 8:44:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh yes we did! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Gen X didn't do duck and cover. That was boomer nonsense. Oh yes we did! What year and what grade? What part of the country? I never did any that I can remember. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 9:04:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What year and what grade? What part of the country? I never did any that I can remember. For me it was mid 70's in IL (Chicago suburbs) and then '77-78 in southern CA, Orange County area. Can't recall exactly when it went away but I do remember it being a thing both here (I moved back to IL) and in CA when I first moved there as a kid. This was all elementary school, I was born in '69. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 9:57:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Speak for yourself. All the millennials I know have solid employment and own their own homes. Many are raising kids. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 10:12:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fine, I'll call your first random kid in rural SD and play my 18 year old intern we have here at work who is 2 weeks away from graduating: He just got his driver's license but his parents don't let him drive so his mom drops him off to work. I'm not sure why he wanted to work here as he can't do anything. He broke a band saw blade so I told him replace/fix what you break and the blades are in one of our cabinets in the back. 20min later the blade is off but he's sitting in a chair watching TikTok or YouTube. I'll also raise you a 21 year old we have who spent two weeks trying to figure out how to use our printer/fax/copier. She knows how to keep her hair pink though  Gen X's own shit parenting of just letting kids wander around kinda worked when smart phones didn't exist. You could only screw up in person but you still had to show up. Gen Z just phones it in. Someone else will handle that. Gen X gave their 9 year olds cell phones and left em alone like they were and now we have 15 years worth of kids who never grew up, got addicted to porn/onlyfans, and think virtue signaling on social media is life's most important calling. The vast majority of people even here in GD using their own kids is going to use data points in the top 1%. Gen Z is max ~5% capable adults. I'm 36. I see Gen X's shit parenting every day. I'll take one retired 65 year old man over 3 Gen Zers. Boomers get shit done. Zero fucking chance. Millennials are like the talented kid who is too cool to do work. Get on their ass or tie their performance to money and they'll produce. Most of Gen Z is worthless and it's from Gen X passing on their non-existent parenting. Ship me all the millennials you've got and I'll trade em for 2 of my Gen Zers. Who does the hiring in you place? Sounds like they really suck at their job. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 10:12:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I never had nuclear drills in any of my schools (I went to 9). Born in ‘68, graduated in ‘87. My parents did. They’re boomers. Born in ‘47 and ‘48. My teachers may have been liberal (I’m guessing?) but they kept politics out of the classroom. Even when they had a big union contract dispute when I was in high school, not only did the teachers vote not to go on strike, but when we asked them about what was going on, they said it wasn’t appropriate to discuss in school. The only time I heard a teacher express a political opinion was a Social Studies teacher who seemed really impressed with Reagan. Half my teachers were Korean and Vietnam war vets. My chemistry teacher was a WWII vet. That might have helped keep liberalism out of our classrooms. Here’s the kicker….I grew up in ultra-liberal Massachusetts. I think a lot of Gen X's influence came from the Greatest Generation, who by the 1980s had passed beyond trying to instill American ideals with their own kids. Being grandparents gave them a fresh start with a willing audience. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 11:35:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Isn't that the basic expectation? It's not an achievement to move out of the basement by 30. Hmm. How do you think things are trending these days? Young adult homeownership ages 20-34 has been in decline for the last two decades, was 32% in 2019... probably under 30% now. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 11:36:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think a lot of Gen X's influence came from the Greatest Generation, who by the 1980s had passed beyond trying to instill American ideals with their own kids. Being grandparents gave them a fresh start with a willing audience. Born in the 70s. My grandfather taught me how to fix stuff...tune a carburetor...I had worked with his construction company since 13. He refused to teach me to much and insisted I go to school. We got dumped on them every summer..as folks would travel etc Where I got my love of fishing. Got pounded into my head to work or live in a box/join the military. We were forced outdoors..little to any supervision..... It was full send Just the way it was.... |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 11:38:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. My two Gen Zs are red pilled as fck. One is in college (STEM) and the other is out and making some good bank working for a Utility Co. You don't know fuck about shit. LOL |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 12:14:42 PM EDT
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Is it still ok to say this thread is full of retards?
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Posted: 5/1/2023 12:25:03 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X here. The generational thing is overblown. Dumb fucks in every generation. I associate with those of a like mind, not what year they were born. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 12:29:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think a lot of Gen X's influence came from the Greatest Generation, who by the 1980s had passed beyond trying to instill American ideals with their own kids. Being grandparents gave them a fresh start with a willing audience. Gen X by far has more in common with their grandparents than parents. Boomers have been in charge since Clinton and they have fucked this country with so much spending. Fucking Boomers. 
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Posted: 5/1/2023 12:46:03 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 4:20:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen Z are the Kids of Millennials. Most of Gen X's kids are long out of High School. Our kids are doing pretty awesome. um... you sure about that? The oldest Millenials are 42, and most people wait until 26 years old (average) to have their first kid. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 4:21:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X by far has more in common with their grandparents than parents. Boomers have been in charge since Clinton and they have fucked this country with so much spending. Fucking Boomers. Gen X has more debt and more student debt than millennials, even though they went to college when it was cheaper and have had more time to pay it down. So reality doesn't match your supposition. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 4:24:52 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As a GenX'r...I don't give a fuck what other generations think. They're all pussies. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 5:43:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: um... you sure about that? The oldest Millenials are 42, and most people wait until 26 years old (average) to have their first kid. It gets blurry. Some millenials were raised by Gen-X, some Gen-Z were raised by millenials. It all depends on where in their generation the parents fall (early or late) and how long they waited to have kids. I'm early-ish (1969) Gen-X and my kids are Gen-Z, born in late '99, I was 30. I had several friends who had kids in the early 90s and a couple who had them real early in the late 80's. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 6:23:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ahh...good ole "acid rain"... the rain we somehow could all play in, but for some reason was "killing everything"...even at age 10 it sounded retarded.... Now imagine how full of shit 20 different genders, open borders, cataclysmic global warming, and the covid pandemic will sound to gen z in another 10 years; when they are told to pay for all of it. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 6:27:10 PM EDT
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I like to tell my kids about all the environmental gloom and doom pushed on me when I was their age. Also I find it funny how paper bags are now the environmental choice. When I was a kid the plastic bags were saving the trees.
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Posted: 5/1/2023 6:27:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And his cost is? $100 or more per lawn? Probably under half that, depending on what is applied and the size of the lawn. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 7:22:55 PM EDT
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THIS!
Much of our peace of mind comes from accepting and making the best of an unfair world. Much of our contentment comes from acknowledging our failings and accepting others for who they are instead of cruelly holding them to some impossible moral standard. |
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Posted: 5/1/2023 9:44:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is it still ok to say this thread is full of retards? Yes, yes it is. I do know one thing Gen X had was the ability to go out a play unsupervised. It was encouraged (i.e. go out and play and don't come back till the street lights turn on). My parents had no idea where I was or what I was doing in the summer since I was about 8 years old. They were fine with it, and I was too. I walked home from school since kindergarten, even when it rained, and had to cross a busy street with no crosswalk. |
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Posted: 5/2/2023 5:30:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, yes it is. I do know one thing Gen X had was the ability to go out a play unsupervised. It was encouraged (i.e. go out and play and don't come back till the street lights turn on). My parents had no idea where I was or what I was doing in the summer since I was about 8 years old. They were fine with it, and I was too. I walked home from school since kindergarten, even when it rained, and had to cross a busy street with no crosswalk. And now social media / 24-7 news cycle has made us all paranoid. Crime rates are down from that period, but paranoia is sky-high.  Attached FileAlso (almost) everyone has a cell phone now, so you can't really compare the eras anymore. They are just different. |
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Posted: 5/2/2023 5:39:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X here. The generational thing is overblown. Dumb fucks in every generation. I associate with those of a like mind, not what year they were born. Absolutely. I was born right between the boomers and generation X and don't want to be associated with either. My kids are both responsible adults. One is computer engineer working for a defense contractor and the other owns one LLC operating a financial app, while part owner of an industrial start-up |
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