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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:02:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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 Same. I'm 49 and my youngest is 7, oldest is 13.  There was a wasted decade in there where I got a lot of partying out of my system. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:02:41 PM EDT
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This hits home. WTF.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:08:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL, the pic in the OP is of Judd Nelson who was born in 1959 and is thus a...Boomer. That's what is so funny about Gen Xers and their love for the Breakfast Club: most of the cast were young Boomers. 2 Xers, 2 too old by 3 years and 1 too old by 6 years. So you’re saying we should be shocked a movies about teenagers we watched while teenagers doesn’t have ACTUAL teenagers for actors? 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:09:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Smoked my first cigarette around 8-9  About the same here. Forced by my mother and neighbor lady to smoke a cigar because her grandson was playing with it and because I was hanging with him. His older sister was the first tits, ass, and beaver that I got to play with. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:13:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:19:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: For the life of me, I can't recall mothers feeding us lunches in groups. I do remember circling the wagons at 7/11 and eating candy like Nerds, Big League Chew, etc. I also remember the "no one is coming to save us" mentality. We were like a little SF unit. Foraging for water and cardboard (for breakdancing), masters of stealth when trespassing, booby traps errrrrwhere, problem solving when 15 miles away from home (broken bones, broken bike chains, flat tires), defensive tactics against older groups, scouting neighborhood swimming pools within a 20 mile radius for females and somehow amassing a reasonable Playboy "intel" collection that was kept guarded and hidden in the woods. My son just turned 13 and he is in awe of the above paragraph. Yep, natural born sappers |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:24:44 PM EDT
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this thread reminds me that I need to get my prostate checked....
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:34:44 PM EDT
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Quoted: Truer words never been spoken. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/562792/IMG_2935_jpeg-2956056.JPG 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:41:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ...I also remember the "no one is coming to save us" mentality... Can you guys imagine the "Holy fucking shit!" response if there had been a way to call your mom or dad at work and ask to be bailed out of whatever fuckery you had managed to get yourself into? Fuck that noise, my old man only had so much patience. Once that wore (60sec into the first phone call) my ass would've been grass. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:42:23 PM EDT
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Born class of 1973 checking in.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:43:13 PM EDT
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I’ll be 50 in a couple months.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:48:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL, the pic in the OP is of Judd Nelson who was born in 1959 and is thus a...Boomer. That's what is so funny about Gen Xers and their love for the Breakfast Club: most of the cast were young Boomers. Well ackshully.... Sorry your childhood sucked 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:52:44 PM EDT
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Boomer here.
My oldest son was born in '78. We bought a VHS camera when he was a toddler and have a great visual record of his childhood. Recently we had the tapes transferred to modern storage and we showed the recordings to our grandkids. They could not believe the things that their Dad were allowed to get away with they could never do. For instance, we lived a semi rural area and at age 10 bought him a ATV and he would take off with in the morning with his buddies and not come back until dark. When we asked what he did all day he would answer "nothing". I'm glad I did not know. Doing all kinds of daring things that he would not let his kids do now. For instance, one of the tapes had him and one of his buddies having a war with shooting blunt tipped arrows at one another. Shooting at each others with a BB gun. Surfing in the road on a skateboard being pulled behind an ATV. We would go and pick up members of his baseball team for a practice or game and they all would ride in the bed of a truck. That was the last generation to grow up living as a free Americans. Of course that was nothing compared to what we did back in the 1950s. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:55:38 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 Jealousy ….. you has it  - |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:57:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen "X'- the ONLY generation that figured out how to set the clock on a VCR... People born 2010 and after: "Daddy, wht's a VCR?"
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Posted: 9/16/2023 7:57:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What’s a vcr? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 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... What’s a vcr? Same thing as a record, cassette tape, cd …. and napster 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:01:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I smell a millennial...  Quote HistoryQuoted: 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: 9/16/2023 8:04:31 PM 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.Boomers (1946-1964) did all that too. Plus, we played real tackle football in someone’s backyard without pads, helmets, or mouth guards. None of that tickle-touch bullshit like the kids do today.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:14:53 PM EDT
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Shit you can’t do as kids now.
Me at 3 months  Attached FileMaybe 9 or 10 here-  Attached FileNot a life jacket in sight  Attached FileCan’t have a lion for a pet anymore either. My mom and Eli about 1977  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:19:24 PM EDT
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Something that is PLASTERED in college dorms now that we NEVER saw.
Chicks wanted to get down.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:20:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:26:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Shit you can’t do as kids now. Me at 3 monthshttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/141911/IMG_7531_jpeg-2956375.JPG Maybe 9 or 10 here-https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/141911/IMG_7535_jpeg-2956385.JPG Not a life jacket in sighthttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/141911/IMG_7537_jpeg-2956382.JPG Can’t have a lion for a pet anymore either. My mom and Eli about 1977https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/141911/IMG_7539_jpeg-2956383.JPG Kids that lived up the street from me Dad worked at the Cincinnati zoo and brought a pair of lion cubs home one time . I remember running and one taking me down ...them things smelled . |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:31:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:34:11 PM EDT
[#24]
God bless you sir, for speaking truth,
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:38:46 PM EDT
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Seems to make sense.
I agree. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:43:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: GI Joe's - the real ones, not the micro wanna be's. Tonka trucks made out of steel, not plastic. |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:43:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Born ‘71. I agree. facts. '72 |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:46:42 PM EDT
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For 50 I decided to finally get a Harley and a motorcycle endorsement. It’s been on the list of things to do only for the last 35 year.
Bought my first Harley and rode the Dyna to the MSF course. The next year I added an Ultra. I’d like to add something else to the 2 wheel list of garage options in the near future too. It’s a good thing I waited, I’d have killed myself long ago as a younger me. Had to mature first.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:55:51 PM EDT
[#29]
We were the last generation allowed to have a childhood and adolescence.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:58:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And when you got thirsty you found the closest garden hose to get a drink. kids these days wont even drink a glass of water from the kitchen sink tap. And you could use the water hose for entertainment.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 8:59:20 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 9:00:25 PM EDT
[#32]
Helmet? Nah, I’m going to ride down this steep hill on my skateboard. I’m sure no cars will come out of that side street because I’m invincible.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 9:01:42 PM EDT
[#33]
Proud Gen Xer checking in.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 9:03:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:  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?" |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 9:03:51 PM EDT
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This is the way.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 9:15:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 9:16:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ll grab some pics when I go to the barn here in a bit. My grandmother called me about 15yrs ago and asked if I still wanted my old mini-bike  I had no idea it still existed, I had no idea what to do with it but I went and got it. I went to Harbor Freight and got a new engine, double the HP it used to have, used to be 3.5hp, bought a 6.5. Got new clutch, chain, tires and put it all together. The throttle was wonky so I reached under my right leg and grabbed the governor to WFO  Got headshake, it pitched me over the front and I broke my left orbital bone as well as the rest of my face and the bike landed on top of me for good measure. I haven’t been on it since  Dang! I’m glad you didn’t die. But, that’s exactly how that story was supposed to go. Lol |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 9:22:02 PM EDT
[#38]
there are so many hot 50 year old women these days it's not even funny
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Posted: 9/16/2023 10:33:58 PM 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: 9/16/2023 10:38:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1973. Gen X is best Gen. Right with ya! |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 10:42:54 PM EDT
[#41]
Gen X!!! We jumped a row of garbage cans on our bikes!!
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Posted: 9/16/2023 10:54:10 PM EDT
[#42]
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a bottle rocket war … on horseback,
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Posted: 9/16/2023 11:04:42 PM EDT
[#43]
'67 Model, graduated HS in '86... wouldn't trade my childhood for the modern equivalent at any price.
- Would walk to the 7-11 to buy my mom's smokes at 7 years old and buy candy with the change. - Original latch-key kids fending for ourselves most of the time as both parents worked. - McDonald's was a treat instead of a food group. - Creature Feature on channel 44 every Saturday afternoon. - I grew up on the Florida beaches, girls were ht/wt proportional and well tanned. (tan lines and tastefully trimmed) - Watched Star Wars in the theater when it was first released. - Watched the first Shuttle launches live from the beach, hell, watched many of the Apollo shots as well. - Real muscle cars were not cost prohibitive. - Bottle rockets, bb guns, pine cone fights, go-karts, mini-bikes, PB&J |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 11:10:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/16/2023 11:11:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen X master race checking in. True! |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 11:20:56 PM EDT
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Went a a camping trip a big group of my buddies and their families. My oldest kid (23 yo daughter) and her boyfriend decided to come and join us on the 2nd night. She had a great time and told my wife that she couldn't believe all our friends were cooler than hers. I laughed my balls off. I have been telling her and her brothers that for years
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Posted: 9/16/2023 11:24:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Smoked my first cigarette around 8-9 LOL Same or close to it. Parents use to make us kids to pick up smokes for them. We snuck one and smoked it lol |
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Posted: 9/16/2023 11:25:36 PM 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.So true. 
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Posted: 9/16/2023 11:27:02 PM EDT
[#49]
I think I'm the oldest Gen X member on Arfcom (born April 1965). I'm glad to have made it this far.
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Posted: 9/16/2023 11:31:43 PM EDT
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Colorado was one of the weird states that changed their drinking age laws late. (1987 for 3.2 Beer)
I went from being able to get legally tanked on convenience store pisswater to having to drink illegally again. It was somewhat satisfying to know we drank sooo much they had to change the laws. I also caught that time you could mail order ecstasy legally in Texas. I was 17 *edit* Why did you think they called us Gen X? It's not like boomers were Gen W. |
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