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Quoted: 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. View Quote My daughter impresses me with her take on the world |
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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... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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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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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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Quoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. View Quote 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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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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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Quoted: Hate to break it to you, but the Baby Boom went from 1946 to 1964. So you're a solid Boomer. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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Quoted: 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). View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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Quoted: 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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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Quoted: What year and what grade? What part of the country? I never did any that I can remember. View Quote 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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Quoted: 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. View Quote Who does the hiring in you place? Sounds like they really suck at their job. |
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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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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Quoted: Isn't that the basic expectation? It's not an achievement to move out of the basement by 30. View Quote 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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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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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Quoted: Gen Z are the kids of Gen X therefore Gen X has the shittiest parenting known to all of humanity. View Quote 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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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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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Quoted: um... you sure about that? The oldest Millenials are 42, and most people wait until 26 years old (average) to have their first kid. View Quote 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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Quoted: 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.... View Quote 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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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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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. View Quote |
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Quoted: Is it still ok to say this thread is full of retards? View Quote 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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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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 File Also (almost) everyone has a cell phone now, so you can't really compare the eras anymore. They are just different. |
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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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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