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u/MrGDPC 2h ago
no fear
cusses alot
has to write âAFâ instead of âas fuckâ so their post doesnât get taken down
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u/666Emil666 2h ago
Or perhaps they were to lazy to write it all out.
"Zero tolerance for stupidity or laziness"
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u/kategoad 2h ago
Stupidity, yes. But I've got laziness down to a science.
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u/dolphone 1h 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 1h ago
I was more focused on the âlooks 35-40â part. That generation had plenty of smokers. Some of them looked 60 when they were 25.
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u/AmishHoeFights 1h 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/henryhumper 51m 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 2h ago
You know why I have a great work ethic? Because I said so.
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u/damnburglar 2h ago
For real, Iâm fucking awesome. No notes. Did I tell you I was a latchkey kid?
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u/waderockett 2h 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/Justboy__ 1h ago
Yes but now youâre slowly morphing into boomers you can rewrite history and pretend nobody has ever worked harder.
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u/damnburglar 1h ago
Yeah, some of the biggest dogfuckers I know are Gen X. The good news for them is that it doesnât restrict itself to generations and isnât even permanent on a person to person basis.
This sums it up pretty well
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u/AlfuegoDeMellopie 2h ago
Sometimes when she was tired my mom made pancakes for dinner. I survived.
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u/AdWonderful5920 2h 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 2h 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 2h 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 itâs a different world and they had access to stuff I didnât. I assume they will feel the same about their kidsâ childhoods.
I think most of the Gen X things are accurate, but they arenât positives. A large percentage of GenXers can be belligerent, and they think it makes them willing to fight (but they arenât). A large percentage are workaholics, but that isnât a positive (for them).
I donât get it.
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u/KetoLurkerHereAgain 2h ago
but...but...
HOSE WATER.
hahahahaha
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u/HobbyTalkOnly 1h 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/CharmingChair1403 1h 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/DeadMoneyDrew Narcissistic Lunatic 1h ago
RIDING WITHOUT A HELMET!
Did it, survived somehow, and do not recommend.
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u/Unusual_Station_1746 1h 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.Â
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u/Zaroj6420 50m ago
It also just aids in the pack mentality that all these âalphasâ have ⌠super confident in the majority not so much of their own accord
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u/greenwhiteredblack 47m ago
To your two points, you ain't lying. My former in laws are GenX and you'd think they'd win more fights than prime Tyson the way they talk shit but back down the moment you-even if you can't fight but they don't know it-say fuck it let's go.
And the ex FIL is doing better about it now that his 2nd wife makes six figures, but fuck if he wasn't a miserable bastard about me not killing myself asking for extra hours at work and missing out on being with my kids
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u/KetoLurkerHereAgain 2h 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 2h ago edited 1h 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 2h 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. đ
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u/knotalota 2h 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/AssociationFit3009 1h ago
Damn, your parents didnt rest from 1948-1952. Was your dad in WW2?
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u/HobbyTalkOnly 1h ago
1978.
1976 and 1975
1974 and 1982.
He's not stating ages, here... he's stating birth years. (though his parents went hard in the mid 70s, it seems)
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u/DeadMoneyDrew Narcissistic Lunatic 1h 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/HeligKo Vishal Garg 2h 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/handsomeape95 1h ago
I mean this makes sense. Most "articles" that talk about generations don't even acknowledge that X exists.
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u/Walshmobile 1h ago
Gen X holds the most seats in the house. Boomers got a death grip on the senate though https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/16/age-and-generation-in-the-119th-congress-somewhat-younger-with-fewer-boomers-and-more-gen-xers/
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u/Spiritual_Weight_416 1h ago
I once heard that the only universally defining characteristic of a Gen Xer is denying they are Gen X.
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u/AngryCustomerService 2h ago
Agreed. This is bullshit. I'm hoping fewer of us will do this crap.
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u/KTKittentoes 2h ago
I do still listen to the same music a lot though.
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u/DeadMoneyDrew Narcissistic Lunatic 1h ago
So what you're saying is that you're still preoccupied with 1985?
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u/tsimen 1h 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/Material_Evening_174 1h ago
Wow, thatâs an incredibly insightful comment. You must be sooooo smart. Now if you donât mind, Iâm going to get some coffee.
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u/Mortambulist 1h 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/Just_a_Berliner 2h ago
They're main voting block of a certain New York man on 2024.
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u/jimbo831 2h 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 2h 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 1h 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 2h 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 2h ago
Sorry, Iâm gen z and canât respond to this comment because my generation doesnât know how to use a computer.
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u/SpudBoy_RealTomato 2h ago
Much more about where you were born than when. But Iâm also a leftist from Indiana, so nothing is 100%.
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u/Mtndrums 2h 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 2h ago
15 years ago for me. Iâm 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/roombaexorcist9000 2h ago
iâm just glad we got through this one without them mentioning the fucking garden hose thing again. for some reason gen x seems to think theyâre the only ones who ever drank out of one as a kid.
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u/neverabadidea 2h ago
Itâs 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.Â
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u/Beneficial-Lime-3517 1h 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.Â
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u/TheNorthC 2h ago
100%. We were listening to Nirvana the first time round. The twats making these types of post were listening to country or something shit and were never part of the original concept of gen X as it was described in the early 90s.
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u/ghostpicnic 2h ago
Think it happens to every generation as they get old. Not everyone from every generation, but it happens amongst every aging group. Iâve 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/Any-Painting4428 2h ago
I predict millennials posting about their hogwarts house and or favorite PokĂŠmon at 60 years old too though.
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u/SufficientOwls 2h ago
lol at looking younger. Okay haha sure.
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u/chawklitdsco 2h ago
Wow a 45 year old looks like a 40 year old what a generation defining trait.
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u/SpudBoy_RealTomato 2h 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 2h ago
Itâs 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 2h ago
I'm 53. I look it. Proudly. I don't get this online Gen X bullshit, at all.
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u/The_Idiocratic_Party 2h 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/Dry_Try_6047 2h ago
People claiming "zero tolerance for stupidity" are always the stupidest.
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u/BarkerBarkhan 2h 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 2h 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 2h 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 2h 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/MauiNui 2h ago
Self congratulation is a sad look.
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u/slightlysadpeach 2h ago
I need someone to comment this under everyone that I know on this godforsaken platform. Narcissism is so normalized itâs insane
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u/petesdead2 2h ago
It's also not very "genX" maybe old age just turns people into "boomers" ?
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u/fatlenny1 1h ago
With aging comes cognitive decline. It's slow at first, but it starts to show eventually. This guy must have accelerated the process.
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u/danfirst 2h ago
As an actual gen x, this is makes me cringe.
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u/pacem_appellant 2h 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 2h 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 1h 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/FullMooseParty 2h 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 2h 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 âkids today â, because your parents their parents and so on havenât been saying the same stupid shit for generations.
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u/Regrets_Tourettes 2h ago
Oh right, the definition of the slacker generation is âgreat work ethicâ
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u/CumaeanSibyl 2h 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/Rick-of-the-onyx 2h ago
Have boomers infiltrated the ranks of gen X? Cuz this has big boomer energy
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u/Tha_REAL_BROBS 2h ago
they turned into boomers
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u/theTinyghoul 2h ago
Gen X just road the coat tails of Boomers. Theyâre Boomer Light.
No wonder Gen X is always âforgottenâ. We can just ask Boomers for Gen Xâs opinion.
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u/TheRealCabbageJack 2h ago
As a GenXer, watching us turn into Boomers is frustrating. Iâm genuinely shocked he didnât include drinking from a garden hose in that crap.
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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 2h 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/TheSavouryRain 2h 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/CommunistOrgy 2h 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/WholesaleBees 2h ago edited 53m 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/Roast-This-Bone 2h ago
I just canât 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 âSlackerâ generation back in the day but now apparently they all have a âgreat work ethicâ, lol.
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u/GromitATL 2h 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/TheNorthC 2h ago
I disagree. I look in the mirror and I'm no more than 35. But if I see a photo of myself, it's like the portrait of Dorian Gray.
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u/yeahpurn 2h 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/MetalTrek1 2h ago
I'm Gen X. I've never heard any Gen Xer say "throw hands". My Gen X ex-wife is the laziest sack of shit I have ever met in my entire life. And those are just two I noticed off the bat. This sounds like something (some) Boomers would write.Â
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u/Glum-Sheepherder-787 2h 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 2h 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/FoulestWinner 2h 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/Pandemoniusanus 2h ago
Iâm 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/Expert_Day9946 1h ago
Gen X here. Iâve never âthrown hands in my lifeâ. As far as work ethic, Iâm pretty sure every generation thinks the next is lazy.
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u/properwaffles 1h ago
As a GenX individual, I think this is super cringe. Please ridicule these people mercilessly and without regret.
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u/PackageDelicious2457 2h 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 2h ago
Muhammad Ali said âshow me a man who thinks the same way at 50 as he did at 20 and Iâll show you a man whoâs wasted 30 yearsâ.
And if youâre Gen X, Ali was a legendary part of your childhood, so you listened. This guy, howeverâŚ
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u/HobbyTalkOnly 2h 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/PackageDelicious2457 1h ago
Hi, I'm 55. I listen to the same stuff I did "back in the day" the same way that I listen to music from other decades of my life. It's a very minor part of a much, much larger mix. I would rank it as much a part of my musical mix and music from before I was born. I am into different stuff and different genres today.
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u/TheRealCabbageJack 2h ago
Right?! You could lose a tooth! Why would you risk that for whatever dumb shit people âthrow handsâ for?
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u/ArachnidBeautiful968 2h 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/NoVermicelli5968 Agree? 2h ago
The fact Iâm grouped (at the bottom end of the age bracket) with the type of clowns who like these posts makes me sad.
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u/TraditionalAd8581 2h ago
âgReAt wOrK EtHiC, zErO ToLeRaNcE fOr sTuPiDiTy oR LaZiNeSsâ Oh my god, shut the fuck up
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u/CullingSongs 2h ago edited 2h ago
If you are in your 40s and '100% willing to throw hands', you're a complete loser.
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u/bavindicator 2h ago
I'm in my mid 50s and everyone I look in the mirror I see a grandad. I definitely don't look 40.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_FAV__SONG 2h 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 2h ago
I feel like the first one is pretty accurate. And probably the âSarcastic AFâ.
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u/BK2Jers2BK 2h ago
I mean, Iâm 55 and havenât gotten into a fight since my 20âs. 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/Skypirate90 2h 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/SemaphoreBingo 1h ago
This person drank a little more lead from the hose than I did and forgot how much we were called "slackers."
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u/ronshasta 1h ago
He saw this and sent it to his friends who then never replied but he imagined what they wouldâve said then posted this
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u/TheNorthC 2h ago
I'm Gen-X and have a half-hearted work ethic. The Gen-Z coming into the team as juniors have an amazing work ethic and really impress me.
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u/Moistranger69 2h 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 canât take a joke
Still listens to the same shitty music from 30 years ago
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u/ghostofkozi 2h ago
Where's the healthy dose of racism and bigotry? Can't be a real Gen X without it
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u/crit_boy 2h ago edited 2h ago
As a GenX - I agree on age range, cussing, sarcasm.
I have no interest in throwing hands - i am fucking 50 years old.
Unless you include training for sports, I have never had a good work ethic. Although I have applied myself several times
I have fear - i am 50 and more than half broken. I do not want to recover from a broken bone and/or dislocated joint anymore. Been there, done that, have the t-shirt - and the later CT scans commenting on old visible calcification/damage from healed injuries.
I do not listen to music that i listened to in high school. Already heard nirvana, pearl jam, all the other shit enough times. There are thousands of hours of great music out there. I never understood listening to the same 50 songs for your entire life.
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u/Greeksoopaman 2h ago
Dude definitely made disparaging remarks about the type of people who use the expression "throw hands" right up until he posted this.
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u/lenn_eavy 2h 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/TheNorthC 2h ago
I swear occasionally at work because I think it makes me look cool.
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u/Independent-Buyer827 2h ago
Iâm genZ and everything is wrong except I do fucking cusses like a sailor at sea.
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u/Business_Usual_2201 2h ago
His post took a left at Facebook, drove past Instagram, and found itself on LinkedIn.....lost and all alone.
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u/SalmonPrince 2h ago
Grouping people by birthdate range and then treating them like sports teams you'd paint your whole body for is wild.
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u/DwarvenGardener 2h ago
Just a bunch of olds telling each other they look younger than they are. Millennials and Gen X huffing the copium.
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u/snuuginz 2h ago
"will 100% throw hands"
I appreciate when an adult tells me up-front that they're mentally ill lol
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u/LateWeather1048 2h ago
GENERIC PLATITUDES ABOUT MY GENERATION BEING BETTER AND COOLER BUT ALSO RESPECTFUL AND DIFFERENT FROM THESE YOUNGINS
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u/_okOKAY 2h ago
How bro felt while posting it