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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:36:12 PM EDT
[#1]
bicentennial better than millennial
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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:38:06 PM EDT
[#2]
1973.
Gen X is best Gen. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:38:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:39:45 PM EDT
[#4]
‘75 here…
Gen X is best Gen. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:43:52 PM EDT
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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 |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:48:47 PM EDT
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Quoted: Truer words never been spoken. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/562792/IMG_2935_jpeg-2956056.JPG 100% true! Nobody I know thinks I act like a 49yr. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:50:15 PM EDT
[#7]
1970 . Ride all day and be miles from home .
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Posted: 9/16/2023 4:52:08 PM EDT
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Quoted: Born ‘71. I agree. Quoted: '71 also, and I was 10 at 10. Maybe still 10. Quoted: Best year.  '71 member checking in 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:00:35 PM EDT
[#9]
I'm old enough to remember ONTV.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:01:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:02:05 PM EDT
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Quoted: Truer words never been spoken. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/562792/IMG_2935_jpeg-2956056.JPG Haha, so true! |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:02:12 PM EDT
[#12]
Serious question...
How did we eat during the summers? All I remember is leaving on my BMX bike in the morning, staying out all day loaded down with Ukraine drone level explosives and coming home as it got dark. Is that why none of us were fat? Breakfast and dinner only? |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:02:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:05:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:06:03 PM EDT
[#15]
So when millennials turn 50, they’ll feel 20?
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:06:37 PM EDT
[#16]
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... Electrical tape and scissors. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:07:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Serious question... How did we eat during the summers? All I remember is leaving on my BMX bike in the morning, staying out all day loaded down with Ukraine drone level explosives and coming home as it got dark. Is that why none of us were fat? Breakfast and dinner only? Truth! But Mom made those 2 meals pretty hearty for sure! I do remember if we were at whoevers house, their mom making us all some balogna and cheese or grilled cheese sammies. 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:07:53 PM EDT
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Gen X master race checking in. Agree with OP.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:07:56 PM EDT
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My brothers and I survived our 1980 model Honda ATC 70 and our lack of adult supervision. Now my 18 year old son has bought himself an 06’ XL1200c sportster… my anxiety and my midlife crisis has been activated.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:08:57 PM EDT
[#20]
1976 checking in bitches!
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:09:50 PM EDT
[#21]
Born in ‘68. First BMX in 1978. Paper route in the snow, caddy at age 14. Made enough money to pay cash for an Atari and games.
Spent my summers on Long Beach Island. Shucking clams for a restaurant and catching Killies(minnows for fluke) for a bait shop. I swear my favorite Time to be alive was age 13. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:10:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:11:58 PM EDT
[#23]
30-06 cases stuffed full of black powder with a fire cracker fuse stuck in it.
Crimped the case mouths closed with pliers. Quality entertainment for a 10 year old. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:12:38 PM EDT
[#24]
Born in ‘76. That meme is correct.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:13:09 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Truth! But Mom made those 2 meals pretty hearty for sure! I do remember if we were at whoevers house, their mom making us all some balogna and cheese or grilled cheese sammies. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Serious question... How did we eat during the summers? All I remember is leaving on my BMX bike in the morning, staying out all day loaded down with Ukraine drone level explosives and coming home as it got dark. Is that why none of us were fat? Breakfast and dinner only? Truth! But Mom made those 2 meals pretty hearty for sure! I do remember if we were at whoevers house, their mom making us all some balogna and cheese or grilled cheese sammies. Then you'd go back out after supper . " Don't go too far and come home when the street lights come on " |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:13:36 PM EDT
[#26]
1971 checking in. Jumping fire on our bikes and sneaking liquor out of the neighbor kids liquor cabinets.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:16:40 PM EDT
[#27]
Smells like cigarettes and tiger balm in here.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:21:17 PM EDT
[#28]
Gen X here.
Riding in the back of a pick up truck to little league practice/games. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:21:24 PM EDT
[#29]
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... Truer words have never been spoken. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:23:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:23:39 PM EDT
[#31]
We must have grown up in the same town, aevery. Damn. Day of the summer.
But I drove my BMX in the snow and on frozen lakes just to up my scar and bruise count. As far as eating, we were always pretty close to someone’s house, where their mother would serve us lemonade, and some peanut butter and jelly or tuna fish sandwich. No one ever complained or turned up their nose. They just ate whatever was served. Quote HistoryQuoted: Serious question... How did we eat during the summers? All I remember is leaving on my BMX bike in the morning, staying out all day loaded down with Ukraine drone level explosives and coming home as it got dark. Is that why none of us were fat? Breakfast and dinner only? |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:27:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:27:51 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Serious question... How did we eat during the summers? All I remember is leaving on my BMX bike in the morning, staying out all day loaded down with Ukraine drone level explosives and coming home as it got dark. Is that why none of us were fat? Breakfast and dinner only? Well I don’t know about you but I headed out with the neighborhood crew and if we got hungry we went to BK. Got free cups of water, packets of lemon and sugar, and had free lemonade. If we were lucky we dumpster dived and found the scratch off give away cards that had been redeemed for burgers and just handed them to the cashier and got burgers and lemonade. Of course all we had to do was stop in anyone’s house and we would have food for the asking but we had to know how to survive in case of SHTF and we were on our own. Also we could go clean up the parking lot of the local bowling alley, a couple bags of trash bought us a soda, and a slice of pizza and a round of bowling in the middle of the day. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:27:53 PM EDT
[#34]
Happy to be Gen X (born in '69).
We rode in the back of pickups, had BB gun wars, camped out in the woods just for the heck of it, only played video games when it was dark or stormy outside (and even then not that much), drove cars on the road at 12 years old and tractors on the farm at eight. We played pickup basketball on evenings and weekends and knew where all the good pickup football games were. We made cabins and tree houses and tried taming squirrels. We jumped our BMX bikes until they or we broke, and when everything got fixed, we'd make the jumps higher. That's what we did and we're still here. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:28:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Serious question... How did we eat during the summers? All I remember is leaving on my BMX bike in the morning, staying out all day loaded down with Ukraine drone level explosives and coming home as it got dark. Is that why none of us were fat? Breakfast and dinner only? Depends on how wealthy you were. Remember, GenX started cooking at 7...but I remember snacking on a lot of syrup sandwiches. (Bread and syrup). Or maybe a fried bologna, spam, or grilled cheese I made myself. Some folks ate mayo sandwiches or BLT's. One thing I remember vividly is baking my own cakes. Not with cake mix, but with recipes from a big ass Betty Croker cookbook. Back in the day, we always had "staples". (Flour, sugar, eggs, hopefully milk, salt, vanilla, baking soda, lard/crisco, stuff like that). I was in third or fourth grade when I started making "ez cinnamon roles". Take a tube of biscuits, separate them, and roll them in melted butter, then roll them in cinnamon/sugar...and bake as normal. This is before the days of overpriced tube cinnamon roles. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:30:27 PM EDT
[#36]
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: 9/16/2023 5:31:18 PM EDT
[#37]
Yep.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:31:19 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I am amazed we survived given all the things they have banned now “for the children”. The good 'ol days... ...we were just talking (a few minutes ago) about riding in the pickup bed for short/long/whatever trips and also sitting on the tailgate |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:32:07 PM EDT
[#39]
Pretty much
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:32:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember programming the VCR to record on a schedule. My parents thought I was conjuring a devil spirit or something. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Gen "X'- the ONLY generation that figured out how to set the clock on a VCR... I remember programming the VCR to record on a schedule. My parents thought I was conjuring a devil spirit or something. Got an extensive Schwarzenegger collection on VHS... ...but no VCR 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:33:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bragging about no childhood and never growing up simultaneously? Peak Gen X circle jerk Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Truer words never been spoken. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/562792/IMG_2935_jpeg-2956056.JPG Bragging about no childhood and never growing up simultaneously? Peak Gen X circle jerk lol... |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:33:02 PM EDT
[#42]
'72 checking in. I know the joy of sitting on the tailgate dragging my toe on a dirt road.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:33:53 PM EDT
[#43]
There is no possible way for a child to have more fun than we did in that generation. We had the best
Of the old and new. Playing in the woods catching crayfish in the afternoon and duck hunt at night.. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:35:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:38:27 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryI still have that same Mini-Bike 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:38:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:39:07 PM 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. Stuffed them in my pants to go through the x-ray and then put them in the carry on bag once past security. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:39:18 PM EDT
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Last generation of feral children
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:40:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 5:41:23 PM EDT
[#50]
I remember pong, and in late 70s rotary phones and remote controls with a cord hooking it to the device
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