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I’m mid GenX, and frequently have to trot out the saying, “regulations are written in the blood of innocents” to people a lot more ignorant than I am. And I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
You can refer to those people as “not the sharpest knife on the tree”. You’ll get rewarded with a thoroughly confused look.
gonna guess that OP is gen z because they’re attacking gen x.
as a gen x resident, I’d like to tell you to fuck off but I just don’t care about you enough to do anything more than this comment.
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I was born at the tail end of Gen X but we were definitely getting up to some crazy stuff.
It was a normal afternoon to take our bikes off the highest jumps we could build in the middle of the road, constructed from the neighborhood wood pile. When a car came speeding through we’d yell out “car” and quickly move our stuff to the side. We used skateboards on vertical ramps built from whatever, and roller skates on shoddy pavement. Our playgrounds were made of reflective metal hotter than lava attached to towers that seemed to reach 20 ft above the ground.
We built dangerous tree houses with rusty scrap in the ravine behind the neighborhood, next to place where the neighborhood’s older kids were surely taking all the drugs and hiding from their D.A.R.E. officers.
I used to load my sisters in the back of a red radio flyer wagon and we’d all ride down the neighborhood’s steepest hill, occasionally tipping at high speed and then sliding the rest of the way down likely removing several layers of skin and rolls of gauze from my mom’s medical kit in the process.
In primary school, I don’t think there was ever a moment without at least one kid on crutches or with a limb in a cast.
While it did harden us up, and provided some amazing memories, just about everyone I know who was a kid at that time knows of some kid who died while digging a tunnel, or got hit by a car, or spent half of his early teenage years in a cast, or who always seemed to have a finger splint.
Somehow through all of this we moved from thinking this is normal childhood stuff to blaming anyone and everyone by way of lawsuits.
There was nothing “safe” about that time. The debate seems to hinge on whether a dangerous childhood results in better adapted adults, perhaps by culling a few unlucky kids who hadn’t learned their own limits, and who know how to be creative in the absence of almost any artificial or algorithmic stimuli.
You can do all of that on Roblox from the safety of your toilet nowadays.
The future is now.
just mind all the pedophiles and human traffickers.
older millennials next in line for intergenerational hate
Who? Us avocado toast swilling, quiet quitting, not consumery enough losers who still live with our parents?
I know, right?
For a while it looked like everyone was just going to stick with calling the older folks boomers and the younger folks millenials, but I guess some intelligence leaked through into the “futile generational hate” machine.
Is every generation working to make things better than it was? No! Clearly the old folks don’t want the young ones to have anything good, otherwise the world wouldn’t have any problems by now!
Just give yourself some more years, time for life experiences, and to be shocked and apalled when you learn how hard it can be to coordinate a group of people who all want the same outcomes to a concentrated cooperative effective course of action. Hell, how hard it can be to get them to even agree on the same path to the desired outcome.
Only older, we gen z already blame milennials for everything wrong with the world.
I’ll rather live 13 years as a boomer than a life time as a zoomer.
we hate boomers more than you do
this is the first meme i’ve seen mention gen x at all and no, we are not like boomers, they all said that “we used to drink out of a hose” bullshit to us too… helmet and seatbelt laws started with x
seriously fuck you, and fuck boomers.
you know why congress is all geriatric? that’s because they know how bad gen x wants to burn everything down and they won’t let them take the wheel….
now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.
now zoomers are all voting for trump and becoming nazis. Lump zoomers and boomers together but not us.
Speaking of factually wrong things… There was a larger portion of Gen X voters for Trump than there were Zoomers… by a large margin.
In fact, Trumps biggest demographic in the last two elections was ages 50-64. But sure, you’re totally the good guys and it’s the young people who are the cause of all your problems. Totally not proving the exact point you’re arguing against.
Gen X is very closely following a lot of the same patterns boomers did including being much better off financially. Your rugged individualism is classic boomer too.
wait! i’ve seen this pattern before:
rugged individualism
meaningless cliché that doesn’t even slightly apply to this scenario.
lot of the same patterns boomers did
baseless, vague condemnation
being much better off financially
absolutely made up stats….
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OK, zoomer… you’re much closer to boomers than gen x or millennials, and it fucking hurts me. I really had hope for your generation but you’re all out there saluting hitler and shitEmotional overreaction is another boomer-esque tell. By the by I was born in 81.
TIL I’m much better of financially when I’m one missed check away from homeless, have one car and zero “toys” like boats or trucks or whatever. You can go fuck yourself by the way.
Edit: old used car, it’s not even nice. Fucker.
You are all people, eh? Must be tiring.
ok zoomer…
Back at ya sweetheart.
Leave Gen X out of your generational sputterings
Or what, you’ll act moody, disconnected, and do nothing? I’d add sit in the corner to the list but we all know your knees can’t take sitting on the floor anymore.
“Could you possibly be referring to the harsh light of reality”
… maybe
I’ve always thought the boomer/millennial whining was people of the exact same personality being insufferable to each other, just throwing down inane stereotypes while being emotionally immature and unable to be decent people.
Every age group has people like that, of course. I just get tired of having to watch it play out constantly online. So just shut the fuck up and do some good in the world. Instead of griping about people, show us something inspirational that you’ve done. Be the example of what you want other people to be.
10/10 gottem
Yeah, but then you’ll complain that no one pays attention to you.
No we won’t. Now git of mah lern
Ok, Boomer
Stop acting like boomers.
as soon as the zoomers put away their swastikas and crypto scams.
Seriously this. We have too many boomers as-is. Knock that shit off. You’re ruining everything for future generations with your selfishness.
Edit: Yeah sure, just downvote and hide. Typical Gen X behavior.
Accept these downvotes with pride.
Genx has a deeply seated victim complex.
Someone was saying the generations slipped over politically but they actual hold 41% of house seats, that’s more than boomers and almost three times millennials at 15%.
Less represented on the senate (28%) but still second place behind boomers (61%).
It was clear over a decade ago that genx would not be better than the boomers.
As a GenX (xennial actually), no… GenX needs to start being held accountable for the all the shit going on in this world. They are not above reproach, and it’s high time we all call them out on their narcissistic bullshit.
“Narcissistic bullshit” is intergenerational. In fact, it has nothing to do with age. So you’re going to hold Gen X “accountable”…? Geezus fuck off. Go hold the pre-WWII generation accountable, or 19nth Century people, or the Roman Empire era folks… This whole generational gripe-fest that some of you espouse is just aimless trendy nonsense. I don’t respect it.
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It’s exact opposite of a trend. The younger generations criticizing the older ones for not living up to their responsibilities has been just as much a constant throughout human history as the older generations criticizing the younger ones for being lazy by their parents’ definition.
The world sucks, as usual, and by now Gen X are old enough to be in charge. It’s sensible to call them out, just like in a decade or two it’ll be sensible to call out the Millennials for the same thing.
“Old enough to be in charge” is not the same as “in charge.”
Clinton, Bush 2, Obama and Trump are all Boomers. Biden is Silent Generation.
Gen X is smaller than Boomers and Millennials. We have always known we were going to be passed over in governmental power dynamics.
First paragraph: yeah!
Second paragraph negates the first. You want change? Go for it. Yelling at old people ain’t gonna get you any changes. You gotta do it yourself. I remember in college, a long time ago, people in my age group lobbing the exact same complaints how grandma and grandpa didn’t make the world better for them. They complained, yet didn’t put much effort to changing anything, particularly in voter turnout. But if you look at the creeping tide of history, you’ll find things ever so slowly getting better in a bunch of different ways. The newer generations are never handed a utopia, but are certainly welcome to work at creating one.Blaming old people is a defining trait of the young. When young, and I remember blaming my parents for bringing me into this world that didn’t give me the things I wanted easily.
Maturing as an adult means taking responsibility for yourself, and doing the things you can do to improve your situation.
Of course one can keep blaming old people for everything until you’re old enough to be blamed, if that’s your jam.
Yeah that was natural selection working as intended
Gen X? just happy we got a mention
GenX who act like this get kicked out of the generation and are forced to join the boomers.
The first half of Generation X sucked, the latter half are more like millennials
Which one gave us MTV and which one made MTV suck?
Actually both of those were boomers. The original format was created by a baby boomer and the Real World was too. Gen X just watched MTV growing up.
To be clear, MTV/VH1 were created by one ot the Beatles. Definitely boomer gen.
We also watched it fall apart while we were growing up.
I remember when M2 debuted with the idea that it would just play music videos, you know … like MTV used to.
I didn’t mind when MTV stopped playing music; Rob & Big, Viva la Bam, and Pimp my Ride were very entertaining and helped define my latter teenage years. The day MTV2 just became just MTV with rearranged timeslots was the beginning of the end. And now MTV is just The Ridiculousness Network now. It’s practically the only thing they air these days.
Boomers and probably gen x, ironically enough. All the founders with given DoBs are either the silent gen or boomers and the guy who was head of programming during the sixteen and pregnant era is either gen x or aging very differently from the rest of us
I’m just shocked someone remembered we exist…
…and a little bit annoyed tbh…Get out of here with that Gen X shit. I jumped my bike and skateboard off so much shit as a kid. I still huck my meat off cliffs on my snowboard. Gen X is def not Boomer.
Whatever.
Exactly.
Two words: lawn darts.
We should still have lawn darts. The risk should just be accepted. It’s different I think than like household cleaners that look like a jug of Koolaid for example.
The jug of Fabuloso under the sink is calling my name.
I’m not joking. Fabuloso looks delicious!!! This is why it needs warnings and labels. That someone can’t comprehend falling weapons from the sky is different than discernment of coloured liquids.
Some days I interact with some people that make me bemoan all of the safety guides that have allowed the idiots to breed enough that I now have the misfortune to interact with them.
Then there are other days where a safety rule/guide/regulation has stopped me from doing something monumentally stupid and fatal that reminds me that those safety regulations are written in blood and that sometimes I’ll be that idiot in someone else’s mind. It’s humbling and comforting in an absurdist way.
All the rules are written in blood.
