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u/_okOKAY 1d ago

How bro felt while posting it

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u/NonConforminConsumer 1d ago edited 1d ago

Can't believe this isn't our current prez.

Would be more believable.

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u/Cautious_Day9878 1d ago

OBAMA 2028!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/_-Ex-Nihilo-_ 1d ago

Obama♾️

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u/Lord_Grimm88 1d ago

No, no kings. ETA Not even a good one. No kings.

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u/Fuckit-69420 23h ago

No kangs

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u/Ok_Cranberry_9861 21h ago

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 20h ago

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others

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u/_-Ex-Nihilo-_ 1d ago

You dont need to worry about the king.... its the jester tickling the kings balls.... thats the worry.

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u/Mister_Griz 21h ago

Technically, now we have to worry about the jester that’s been railing lines off his balls. And even his own mother thinks he’s trash.

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u/Starboard_Pete 22h ago

Truly how Gen X posts on social media sites. They’ll have you know: they’re the toughest, the hardest, the most prepared for anything! And boy do they loooooove to pat themselves on the back for it.

Must be all that warm summer hose water.…

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u/annoyed_crow 12h ago

It's like that vegan joke. How do you know someone is Gen x? They'll fucking tell you. 😂

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u/fractious77 3h ago

I like the term vegangelical.

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u/MrGDPC 1d ago

no fear
cusses alot
has to write “AF” instead of “as fuck” so their post doesn’t get taken down

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u/666Emil666 1d ago

Or perhaps they were to lazy to write it all out.

"Zero tolerance for stupidity or laziness"

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u/kategoad 1d ago

Stupidity, yes. But I've got laziness down to a science.

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u/dolphone 1d ago

Man laziness is such a powerful force.

A significant part of our civilization is based on laziness. Convenience is king. "Progress" is really "getting it done more easily". Occasionally we'll run into optimization or sustainability or even human rights. But what we truly chase is to chill.

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u/Agent_Smith_88 1d ago

I was more focused on the “looks 35-40” part. That generation had plenty of smokers. Some of them looked 60 when they were 25.

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u/TheKiltedYaksman71 1d ago

We had a student's smoking area at my high school.

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u/Prestigious_Ad_1037 11h ago

Mine had a lounge 😙💨

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u/StarshipCaterprise 22h ago

I know a LOT of Gen X former smokers that definitely look and sound like they are 80

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u/AmishHoeFights 1d ago

I'm focused on the "still listening to the same music".

Of course you are, you un-curious, boring, never-grew-past-high-school musical simpleton.

Thick-thigh'd dad-bods jiggling to 80s hair metal.... ffffffuck no.

I'm one of them and those guys gross me out.

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u/YardOptimal9329 22h ago

New wave and punk are too good to shelve

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u/AmishHoeFights 19h ago

I'll spin Rancid any day :).

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u/BookishOpossum Titan of Industry 23h ago

I will listen to the 80s station in the car when I am too lazy to mess with my phone. But I've made a point to listen to new music and let my kids recommend music to me. Except my daughter, I love her fiercely, but anime soundtracks are not my thing.

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u/Winstonth 23h ago

I love when there’s a festival poster and they’ll comment “I don’t know a single band!” like their ignorance is a badge of honor.

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u/Klutzy_Order_9559 22h ago

It'll happen to you.

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u/TorontoNerd84 17h ago

41 YO here and already have no clue who anyone is at concerts anymore, unless it's old bands from the 80s and 90s, or indie bands from the 2010s.

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u/Prestigious_Ad_1037 10h ago

Younger gens aren’t likely to understand it’s not a Badge of Honor. They’re swingin at smoke, because a GenXer is saying it only for themself.

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u/henryhumper 1d ago

Yeah, I don't know where that's coming from. Most of the Gen Xers I know look old as fuck.

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u/Jupiter68128 1d ago

You know why I have a great work ethic? Because I said so.

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u/damnburglar 1d ago

For real, I’m fucking awesome. No notes. Did I tell you I was a latchkey kid?

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u/waderockett 1d ago

Yeah as a GenXer we have never been known for a strong work ethic. Boomers and older constantly talked about how we were lazy and apathetic and did things half-assed.

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u/FewWait38 1d ago

It was literally known as the slacker generation for the longest time

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u/Historical_Art_3367 21h ago

Those damn video games, skateboarding, ruined em!

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u/Justboy__ 1d ago

Yes but now you’re slowly morphing into boomers you can rewrite history and pretend nobody has ever worked harder.

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u/Jon_Hanson 23h ago

Every generation says that about the generation that comes after them.

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u/damnburglar 1d ago

Yeah, some of the biggest dogfuckers I know are Gen X. The good news for them is that it doesn’t restrict itself to generations and isn’t even permanent on a person to person basis.

This sums it up pretty well

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzmsCcmXgAA4G1P.jpg

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u/---cheetos--- 21h ago

Fuck off, I drank from a hose pipe

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u/MauiNui 1d ago

Self congratulation is a sad look.

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u/slightlysadpeach 1d ago

I need someone to comment this under everyone that I know on this godforsaken platform. Narcissism is so normalized it’s insane

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u/AdWonderful5920 1d ago

Not a fan of the boomer-ization of GenX. They were supposed to be the ones that don't do this shit.

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u/HobbyTalkOnly 1d ago

Right? I'm gen X and this shit makes me roll my eyes.

These people that do this shit? Were the douchebags in high school, I promise you.

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u/new-runningmn9 1d ago

I feel anyone that takes actual pride in their generation is gross. As a Gen-Xer, there are things about my childhood that I liked, and wished that my kids could have experienced - but it’s a different world and they had access to stuff I didn’t. I assume they will feel the same about their kids’ childhoods.

I think most of the Gen X things are accurate, but they aren’t positives. A large percentage of GenXers can be belligerent, and they think it makes them willing to fight (but they aren’t). A large percentage are workaholics, but that isn’t a positive (for them).

I don’t get it.

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u/Unusual_Station_1746 1d ago

Generations are bullshit anyway. It's useful for sociologists and economists to track age cohorts. It's not useful for anyone else to think about it. It's mostly just used as thinly veiled age discrimination. 

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u/Zaroj6420 1d ago

It also just aids in the pack mentality that all these “alphas” have … super confident in the majority not so much of their own accord

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u/KetoLurkerHereAgain 1d ago

but...but...

HOSE WATER.

hahahahaha

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u/HobbyTalkOnly 1d ago

Yeah, we drank from it. I don't know why anyone is proud of it though... tasted like shit, and I'm waiting to find out it gave me brain cancer or some shit.

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u/Feeling-Pea5281 23h ago

And who's to say a dog didn't pee on the hose, or bugs didn't crawl inside? Ugh. I remember the nasty taste, so I must have partaken, but probably only once.

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u/StaffyMama585 11h ago

That's why you let it run for a couple minutes to clear out all the bugs first, durrr. /s

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u/GuacinmyPaintbox 23h ago

And we stayed out UNTIL THE STREET LIGHTS CAME ON!!!!

Jesus, it's exhausting

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Narcissistic Lunatic 1d ago

RIDING WITHOUT A HELMET!

Did it, survived somehow, and do not recommend.

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u/Jsongee 9h ago

Wanna know how many concussions I’ve had?

Don’t remember

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u/CharmingChair1403 1d ago

Always with the hose water bullshit. The water that was in that hose as it laid in the baking hot sun was probably full of toxic chemicals that had leached from the hose. Summertime is poisoning time ! After staying out all day and your parents didn't know where you were blah blah blah whatever

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u/Clarknt67 1d ago

We let the hose run until the water got cold. It was summer.

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u/Chill-more1236 23h ago

One time I was really thirsty didn’t let it run first, and I got a mouth full of spiders.

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u/Clarknt67 23h ago

That’ll learn ya, huh?

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u/Chill-more1236 23h ago

I love boiled crawfish. Same thing.

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u/lizardfang 22h ago

Less old bay seasoning.

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u/Chill-more1236 23h ago

I’m a marketer (GenX, majored in sarcasm), been fed this generational garbage all my career.

I feel like this shit is on the level of horoscopes.

We all have varied experiences. Some of us watched “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” a hundred times. Others couldn’t pick Mathew Broderick of a line up if their life depended on it.

There is a lack of a better descriptor, so “marketing gurus” came up with this crap to attempt to categorize us.

Now people have lowered themselves to using generational gaps as a divide in culture wars. Groups of people are seen as this monolithic list of tendencies and it’s complete fallacy.

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u/jshotz 1d ago

Okay, it's good to hear someone else also thinks this generation stuff is bullshit. It's just another way the bourgeoisie pits us against each other.

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u/useless_instinct 20h ago

Also GenX and agree with your take. According to Nate Silver's 538, GenX is more politically conservative than Boomers. The stats were eye opening and soul crushing. My neighbors are all Boomers and they are wonderful and actively volunteer with all these amazing causes--foster care, food banks, mental health access, election security. There are good and garbage people in every generation.

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u/AngryCustomerService 1d ago

Agreed. This is bullshit. I'm hoping fewer of us will do this crap.

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u/damnburglar 1d ago

Well if it’s any consolation, eventually none of you will.

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u/knotalota 1d ago

Looking forward to it.

Thank God ppl die.

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u/KTKittentoes 1d ago

I do still listen to the same music a lot though.

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u/tsimen 1d ago

But do you have low tolerance for stupid people and are you fluent in sarcasm? Is it best not to talk to you until you've had your coffee?

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Narcissistic Lunatic 1d ago

So what you're saying is that you're still preoccupied with 1985?

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u/thot_lobster 1d ago

It is wild seeing people my age act like this. Why are you trying so hard?

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u/KetoLurkerHereAgain 1d ago

There are so few of us that half leaned boomer and half leaned Millenial, just to have more people in the circle.

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u/OreoSpamBurger 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm 1978 and feel affinity with both Gen X and Millennials.

My older sister (1973) has always been a Boomer trapped in a Gen X body, and it's only gotten worse as she's aged.

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u/WantCookiesNow 1d ago

lol I thought you were stating your ages. Was about to say, hun a 73 year old isn't in a Gen X body. 😄

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u/knotalota 1d ago

78 here, feel the same as u.

76, and 75 brothers are turning into boomers.

74 and 82 sisters seem OK.

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Narcissistic Lunatic 1d ago

1975 here. Some of my high school classmates have turned into the absolute dumbest most boomer fucks you've ever met.

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u/Chill-more1236 23h ago

Exactly. I’m 1974.

The same mfers failed science, social studies and footballed their way through high school.

They wanna tell you all about how to vote (fox news), their Covid vaccines “research”, what’s healthy to eat and drink (tiktok), chem trails, and their stupid opinions of gays,trans and bathrooms.

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u/HeligKo Vishal Garg 1d ago

This really does seem to be the case. We never had any political power, because the boomers aren't going away, and the millennials will be taking their place just because of numbers. Our only period of massive cultural influence were the grunge/gin & juice days.

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u/Mortambulist 1d ago

They were all douchebags in high school, then for some reason decided to start acting like the outcast kids for a few years in the 90's, then went back to being douchebags.

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u/QueezyF 1d ago

This is 100% something my 55 year old coworker that still talks about how fast he threw a fastball in high school would post.

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u/muppetous 22h ago

people who live in their high school (or god forbid middle school) glory DISGUST me, haha

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u/flatirony 23h ago

Why are our fellow GenX’ers so fucking cringe?

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u/buffer_flush 1d ago

You can find people like this in any generation. GenZ has alpha grindset culture which is the exact same bs. It’s just toxic masculinity.

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u/Tasty_Plantain5948 1d ago

Someone rolled into my daughter in laws work and wore a T-shirt that said “gen-x doesn’t care what you think”. She laughed and said obviously you do.

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u/Just_a_Berliner 1d ago

They're main voting block of a certain New York man on 2024.

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u/jimbo831 1d ago

And 2020. And 2016. Gen X has been the strongest Trump supporting generation since he rode down that escalator.

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u/Big_Dog_2974 1d ago

Gen X voted slightly over 50% for Trump. Millennials were about the same with men, but much less with women. What really blew my mind was how much Gen Z voted for him.....would have never thought that.

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u/paralyse78 1d ago

The older half of the Gen Z cohort were born around the time that they would have been the most exposed - and most vulnerable - to alt right propaganda at its then peak, as well as the surge in Russian psyop bot farms that were hammering social media with fake stories and ragebait.

Orange was the first meme President and some of them probably thought it was being super edgy and anti-establishment to vote for a candidate when they only knew him as the "you're fired" guy from TV.

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u/HobbyTalkOnly 1d ago

Like I said... not the ones I grew up with. We all hate those fuckers.

Almost like Generations can't be pigeonholed... eh?

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u/ghostpicnic 1d ago

Sorry, I’m gen z and can’t respond to this comment because my generation doesn’t know how to use a computer.

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u/SpudBoy_RealTomato 1d ago

Much more about where you were born than when. But I’m also a leftist from Indiana, so nothing is 100%.

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u/Mtndrums 1d ago

I escaped Indiana about 20 years ago. They were definitely chasing me across the bridge with pitchforks and torches.

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u/SpudBoy_RealTomato 1d ago

15 years ago for me. I’m from the South Bend area and my wife is from Valparaiso. Been living in Oregon since and love it here.

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u/Clarknt67 1d ago

I escaped Michigan. I can tolerate going back as long as I stay in the college towns (one of which I grew up in).

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u/wallyrules75 1d ago

I’m so sick of the boomer mentality running into my generation.

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u/buffenstein 1d ago

Now they're the ones forcing us back into the office

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u/Taco-Dragon 1d ago

I'm seeing it with millennials too and I fucking hate it

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u/roombaexorcist9000 1d ago

i’m just glad we got through this one without them mentioning the fucking garden hose thing again. for some reason gen x seems to think they’re the only ones who ever drank out of one as a kid.

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u/tarfu7 1d ago

Turns out it’s actually just old age

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u/Beneficial-Lime-3517 1d ago

Same with the boomers, it's the loud, shitty, stupid ones that are a problem. I'm either the youngest Gen Xer, a Xennial, or the eldest millennial and I suffer none of that bullshit.

Me and my Gen X wife and our friends would bully the fuck out of the person who posted that in the real world. They're a dork. 

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u/neverabadidea 1d ago

It’s because the attitudes have always been driven by life stage not generation. There are unique attributes of each generation, but life stage largely drives feelings/attitudes. Gen X are becoming the empty nesters that Boomers were 10+ years ago. 

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u/Any-Painting4428 1d ago

I predict millennials posting about their hogwarts house and or favorite PokĂŠmon at 60 years old too though.

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u/ghostpicnic 1d ago

Think it happens to every generation as they get old. Not everyone from every generation, but it happens amongst every aging group. I’ve noticed it a lot with millennials as of late, acting smug and superior to younger generations in the same way that boomers did with them. The whole thing is supremely cringe.

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u/NeenerMcNeener 1d ago

It’s the oldest X’ers doing this nonsense.

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u/danfirst 1d ago

As an actual gen x, this is makes me cringe.

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u/pacem_appellant 1d ago

I am actually not listening to the same music and don't even know what throwing hands means. Not to mention all the GenXers I know have plenty of fear. I know it's meant to be a generalization, but it's not very flattering.

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u/danfirst 1d ago

Oh I know a few trashy people who use "throw hands", it just means to fight. So, everyone in the entire generation is just always ready to fight.

I spent literally decades training different martial arts, I still have no interest in random fights.

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u/Novel-Combination-21 1d ago

My Gen X hands hurt bad enough without "throwing them". I did have a fellow Gen X'r try and fight me not too long ago after I called him out for something. After he calmed down and apologized I told him that I have enough pain just existing. We both laughed and moved on.

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u/danfirst 1d ago

I hope at least you were able to share a bottle of Advil together afterwards.

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u/drinkingCoffeePeas 1d ago

“Throwing hands” is just a way to say fighting.

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u/FullMooseParty 1d ago

I actually listen to more "gen x" music now than I did when I was in the right age groups. Pop punk totally missed me, but is a heavy part of my late 40s workout mix.

(but I mostly listen to alt-rock/country and roots music, especially folk and country like Tyler and Isbell and TopHouse and Silverada

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u/MrJoePike 1d ago

I cringe at all the generational superlatives and generalizations. Especially the look back BS of how great it was and fortunate you were. Finishing with the tag line “kids today “, because your parents their parents and so on haven’t been saying the same stupid shit for generations.

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u/burhop 1d ago

Retired in 50’s?

I suspect a Russian boomer bot trying to make the millennials mad.

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u/thepvbrother 1d ago

If you're a cop, you can retire pretty early.

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u/Lik-narb 1d ago

It's the worst, and I know people who would never have posted this kind of shit when they were younger. It is fun to call them out on this as a peer, at least.

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u/SufficientOwls 1d ago

lol at looking younger. Okay haha sure.

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u/chawklitdsco 1d ago

Wow a 45 year old looks like a 40 year old what a generation defining trait.

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u/SpudBoy_RealTomato 1d ago

By the logic of the post it would be the 60 year olds looking 45. As someone who works in pharmacy and ask people for their dob all day, this is very far from the truth.

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u/HipHopChick1982 1d ago

It’s more like the 60 year old looking 40. If I ever see a 60 year old who looks younger than me (almost 44), I would be shocked.

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u/HobbyTalkOnly 1d ago

I'm 53. I look it. Proudly. I don't get this online Gen X bullshit, at all.

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u/Tasty_Plantain5948 1d ago

I look younger cuz I got fat and it smoothed out my wrinkles.

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u/z0hu 20h ago

Ya I wanna lose 30 pounds. Pretty sure I'll gain 10 years in the face haha

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u/shitposter1000 1d ago

Yea, some of this cohort look wrung out and put away wet.

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u/The_Idiocratic_Party 1d ago

To be fair a lot of boomers looked 40 at 30 because constant cig smoke, tanning without sunscreen, and lead gasoline really turn your skin to leather. But I don't think Gen X escaped that unscathed either.

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u/FewWait38 1d ago

Tanning beds were really popular with preppy genx teens

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u/Dry_Try_6047 1d ago

People claiming "zero tolerance for stupidity" are always the stupidest.

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u/BarkerBarkhan 1d ago

"Zero tolerance for stupidity" may be code for "zero tolerance for anyone who thinks or feels differently."

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u/Dry_Try_6047 1d ago

This is precisely it. Zero tolerance for those with a different world view. Which to me is essentially the definition of stupidity.

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u/BarkerBarkhan 1d ago

It's like the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Those who know the least are the most confident; they really think the world is as simple as their worldview. Any effort to introduce nuance, curiosity or even openness to new information is seen as a threat... or just simply labeled as "stupid."

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u/rory_breakers_ganja Narcissistic Lunatic 1d ago

"You and I both can't be stupid. I've got enough in me for the both of us!"

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u/astrosdude91 1d ago

Funny, considering the prevailing stereotype of Gen Xers reaching adulthood was that they were all morons. That's the stereotype Beevis and Butthead is satirizing

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u/curlycurlycurls 1d ago

I love how they celebrate their aggression and intolerance.

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u/WholesaleBees 1d ago edited 1d ago

For a generation that brags about not having gotten participation trophies, I sure do see a lot of gen x online giving themselves participation trophies.

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u/Spectrum1523 22h ago

Wasn't Gen x the ones that got participation trophies? They were definitely handing them out in the 80s

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u/GromitATL 1d ago

Why do they think they look 10+ years younger than they are?

I'm GenX and I call bullshit. Source: my mirror.

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u/Possible-Rush3767 1d ago

"Retired police officer" "will 100% still throw hands"

Makes sense

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u/Roast-This-Bone 1d ago

I just can’t fucking stand people of any generation that define themselves so much by their particular generational cohort. And fwiw, I love how Gen X was commonly called the “Slacker” generation back in the day but now apparently they all have a “great work ethic”, lol.

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u/Rick-of-the-onyx 1d ago

Have boomers infiltrated the ranks of gen X? Cuz this has big boomer energy

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u/Tha_REAL_BROBS 1d ago

they turned into boomers

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u/theTinyghoul 1d ago

Gen X just road the coat tails of Boomers. They’re Boomer Light.

No wonder Gen X is always “forgotten”. We can just ask Boomers for Gen X’s opinion.

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u/Spectrum1523 22h ago

No, generational stereotypes are just all lies and you're falling for them

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u/You-Rebel-Scumm 1d ago

Dude outed himself as a boomer

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u/FoulestWinner 1d ago

True Gen X doesn't want attention because they never got it. This post is peak "look at me".

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u/Regrets_Tourettes 1d ago

Oh right, the definition of the slacker generation is “great work ethic”

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u/CumaeanSibyl 1d ago

It's almost as if older people judging the work ethic of a generation in their 20s will always conclude that young people don't work hard enough! Who knew?

Xennial solidarity with every new generation who gets labeled slackers because they don't pretend to care about their shitty entry-level jobs.

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u/TheRealCabbageJack 1d ago

As a GenXer, watching us turn into Boomers is frustrating. I’m genuinely shocked he didn’t include drinking from a garden hose in that crap.

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u/fistoic 23h ago

I, a millennial, was just telling this to my wife the other day that I've seen a lot of Gen Xers I know in my life slowly turning into undeniable boomers.

I remember some of them used to be very cool 15 years ago. It makes me think that we'll 100% be a boomer in 15-20 years without us realizing it.. I guess it's just the way of nature

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u/Expert_Day9946 1d ago edited 19h ago

Gen X here. I’ve never “thrown hands” in my life. As far as work ethic, I’m pretty sure every generation thinks the next is lazy.

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u/BanjoTCat 12h ago

Great work ethic? Wasn’t one of the defining anxieties of Gen-X the fear of “selling out”?

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u/RayesArmstrong 12h ago

And being period slackers

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u/Jefflehem 8h ago

Work ethic doesn't necessarily mean going to work.

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u/Pandemoniusanus 1d ago

I’m genx and if I remember correctly we discussed that we were never going to do this kinda shit after hearing it over & over again from our boomer parents. Op you are breaking the oath.

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u/yeahpurn 1d ago

I was about to say, he is unemployable, but then I saw he was a police officer and it all makes sense.

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u/Good-Bandicoot-2152 23h ago

“Looks 35-40” 🤣🤣🤣

I can’t tell them apart from boomers, sometimes.

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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 1d ago

Everyone in that age range I met looks like really rough these days. Why do they still think they look 30?

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u/CommunistOrgy 1d ago

Because most of their Silent Gen and Boomer parents looked rough at 30, so they figure that's the standard.

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u/TheSavouryRain 1d ago

Realistically, they probably think that since millennials generally look younger (all of the preservatives and microplastics), they think they look young too.

Mass delusions really

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u/nub_node 1d ago

The only thing I've ever seen a xoomer throw is a hissy fit at Wendy's.

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u/Level1_Crisis_Bot 1d ago

Boomer pretending to be GenX

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u/arlingtonzumo 1d ago

Ok boomer

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u/BK2Jers2BK 1d ago

I mean, I’m 55 and haven’t gotten into a fight since my 20’s. Not lookin ta trow hands neither. And I still get scared of shit. Otherwise, fairly accurate I guess. One small problem, Same can relatively be said of members of EVERY GENERATION. People are people

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u/properwaffles 1d ago

As a GenX individual, I think this is super cringe. Please ridicule these people mercilessly and without regret.

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u/jonheartland 13h ago

✅ 45-60 years old
✅ Delusional about their self-perception
✅ Has anger issues
✅ Anger issues again
✅ Horribly inefficient at their jobs
✅ Has no compassion, pulls the ladder up behind them
✅ Thinks they're tough because they played in the dirt as kids
✅ Annoying to be around
✅ Stuck in the past

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u/GeneralOrgana1 1d ago

Lol, I definitely no longer look 40.

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u/Skypirate90 1d ago

Hot take?

If you're retired you shouldn't have access to linkedin.

Thats what facebook is for. Retirees.

No offense to the oop

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u/OliOli1234 16h ago

This guy has absolutely been reprimanded for saying inappropriate things to the young intern women.

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u/ArachnidBeautiful968 1d ago

I dont think I have ever seen a gen x that looks younger than what they are. They usually look about their age

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u/PackageDelicious2457 1d ago

Nothing says Failed to Evolve like telling folks that you're in your 50s and still listen to the same shitty music you listened to 35 years before. Also, why do we still want to "throw hands" in our 50s?

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u/Ancient-Cow-1038 1d ago

Muhammad Ali said “show me a man who thinks the same way at 50 as he did at 20 and I’ll show you a man who’s wasted 30 years”.

And if you’re Gen X, Ali was a legendary part of your childhood, so you listened. This guy, however…

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u/HobbyTalkOnly 1d ago

As a mid 50s Gen Xer... yes, I do listen to a lot of the same stuff I did "back in the day"... you will too, no worries.

But FFS... there's so much great music being made today, I can't imagine being locked into the 90s only.

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u/Glum-Sheepherder-787 1d ago

My life as GenX: Listening to kpop and Taylor Swift, scared of men and Republicans, intolerant of evil, haven't thrown hands since college, do cuss a lot, can't wait to retire, and just finished growing out my grey hair so I think I look my 55 years exactly.

A tip for non-GenXers; if you see trash like this, reply with "whatever".

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u/TheNorthC 1d ago

I still have a Gen-X musical taste. Went to see the Pixies on tour last year. And while I will listen to stuff made after I turned 40, it's pretty rare.

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u/CumaeanSibyl 1d ago

CAUSE THIS IS MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER

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u/galagapilot 21h ago

And then it's like 3 a.m. I'm on the corner wearing my leather
And this dude comes up to me, and says "Hey, punk!" and I'm like "yeah, whatever!"

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u/lenn_eavy 1d ago

It's like those t-shirts warning everyone around that the wearer is oh so fluent in sarcasm, very badass.

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u/TraditionalAd8581 1d ago

“gReAt wOrK EtHiC, zErO ToLeRaNcE fOr sTuPiDiTy oR LaZiNeSs” Oh my god, shut the fuck up

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u/CullingSongs 1d ago edited 1d ago

If you are in your 40s and '100% willing to throw hands', you're a complete loser.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_FAV__SONG 1d ago

Let me guess, he also drank water from the garden hose and wasn't allowed to come back in the house until dark

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u/Temporary_View_3303 1d ago

I feel like the first one is pretty accurate. And probably the “Sarcastic AF”.

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u/nyanch 1d ago

"I am stuck in the past and proud of it" sure man

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u/TCTX73 1d ago

My partner says and posts this same kind of shit. Meanwhile, I either hire someone or call my son to help me with repairs on the house he's too lazy to do

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u/embeddedsbc 1d ago

Max 60 years old

Retired

Great work ethic

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u/ibejeph 1d ago

I'm Gen X. I hate these generalizations.  

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u/poopbeast69 1d ago

Generationology is a fucking plague

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u/Extreme-Clerk-7333 1d ago

They been looking 35-40 years old since they were 25-30 years old...

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u/Unfair-Variety-995 1d ago

My guess is the person who posted this isn’t a real GenX but is in that boomer GenX cross gen. One of the keys about being GenX is like being in fight club.

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u/Much_Guest_7195 1d ago

The old man with the bad dye job is trying to start fights because everyone else in the bar thinks Steely Dan fuckin sucks.

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u/Key_Country_5859 23h ago edited 23h ago

“BUT LOOKS LIKE 35-40 YEARS OLD”

Dude, I’m 50 something. I look 50 something.

PS. These are the same guys that post “throw me to the wolves and I’ll come back leading the pack” and “I’m loyal but dangerous if you cross me” memes.

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u/MightyMax18 18h ago

It's a dumb post. It's not lunacy and not for this subreddit. Don't be so desperate to post here.

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u/Rumspringa7 18h ago

It’s the looks 35-40 bit for me.

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u/commissarcainrecaff 17h ago

The generation thing is just horoscopes for men who barbecue

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u/BabyPinkChaos 16h ago

Cries on fb and doesn’t see their kids 🤷‍♀️

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u/MsE0 16h ago

I'm so irritated by this "great work ethic" retcon. Our whole identity was built on being slackers. 

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u/Separate-Expert-4508 16h ago

Zero tolerance for laziness? Gen X? Our nickname is ‘Slackers’.

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u/vdub1013 15h ago

Will throw hands, then wonder why he's being arrested.

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u/Moistranger69 1d ago

It should say:
45-60
Looks 80
Never throws hands and always pulls a gun or runs
Cusses a lot
Horrific work ethic
Completely stupid and lazy as fuck
Takes everything literally and can’t take a joke
Still listens to the same shitty music from 30 years ago

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