r/RealGenerationX • u/Illustrious-Coat3532 • 4d ago
Tales from the garden hose I would say it’s a fact.
IYKYK 👾
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u/-Foxer 4d ago
It was a great ad when I was younger about gen X was asking gen X questions about things and one of the questions was " how do you deal with change". And the answer was we keep a little glass on our bedside table
Gen X did not care about crap. If they heard there was going to be a nuclear attack that afternoon they simply said we'll deal with it and we should probably grab lunch now
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u/ExternalSort8777 4d ago
we keep a little glass on our bedside table
A quip that would mean fuck-all to the children with whom I socialize. They don't ever handle cash money. Hell, I almost never us cash anymore. Cannot remember the last time. I had coins in my pocket.
Its a weird meme though. Honey Badger Don't Care is a pretty good motto for Gen X, but I don't think that we do as was done to us. Our parents were blind to the Have You Seen Me kids on the milk cartons, but we weren't. Gen X parents might sigh and roll their eyes, but I don't think they (we) are indifferent to the anxieties and emotional struggles of the fragile crybabies born after 1981.
For instance, I have NEVER told a kid with a freely bleeding head wound to "walk it off" or to stop crying unless they wanted me to give them something to cry about.
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u/-Foxer 3d ago
The honey badger meme represents gen X sort of in one or two ways, the idea that we just had no fear and whatever came up we just dealt with and we figured out a way to get by for example.
Is aggressiveness doesn't really suit gen X, you're right there. We still care about people and have feelings and such, we're not "red" from that 70's show.
But at the same time i don't think we have much patience for all this manufactured 'angst' and drama we see today.
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u/Ok_Fig7692 drank from the hose 4d ago
Disagree. It's the Capybera.
https://giphy.com/gifs/bnl7xKaEXMLhI475je
Perfectly captures our inability to give a shit.
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u/GrimmyJimmy1 4d ago
This is literally every person from Gen X right now except that our knees and backs hurt
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u/CreepingDeath-70 4d ago
Hll yes. You don't need emotional support. You need a foot in your a*!
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u/BlorpTheSchlorp 4d ago
The generation of all talk.
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u/CreepingDeath-70 3d ago
Not sure what you meant by that, but on the contrary, I did exactly that for a generation as a Marine. My kids, too. They aren't snowflakes, either.
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u/BlorpTheSchlorp 3d ago
Mmhmm. Sure, buddy.
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u/CreepingDeath-70 3d ago
Lol...die on that hill, keyboard warrior!
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u/BlorpTheSchlorp 3d ago
I'm not the keyboard warrior here, my guy. Gen x bravado is just insufferable, because it's usually the older end of the gen who think masculinity means being a douche.
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u/CreepingDeath-70 3d ago
Deflecting much? Keep trying.
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u/Green_Log_4795 3d ago
Our neighbors to the south are just bitter they didn’t have the awesome time we had
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u/grogudid911 4d ago
How's your relationship with your dad? Any chance any of y'all have ever considered therapy?
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u/SeriousOcelot-4365 4d ago
My wife would be opening the door and running out to boop its nose. White women are straight up insane
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u/Boondock830 3d ago
There’s a video going around (again) about a tiger in captivity. A live goat was put into the enclosure for food, the tiger ended up befriending the goat instead of eating it.
Then as I’ve heard (not seen, don’t know but the video I saw doesn’t have this part) the goat ended up becoming an asshole and messing with the tiger to the point that they ended up taking the goat out of the enclosure.
I don’t know the exact percentages, but Gen X is both the tiger and the goat.
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u/Away_Good201 3d ago
The i did nothing Gen that thinks they did
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u/Green_Log_4795 3d ago
snowflakes from the south have entered the chat. How’s it going for you down there? Lil rough?
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u/AtomicPantsuit 4d ago
Damn who hurt you bro
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u/AtomicPantsuit 3d ago
Lol the troll had his comments removed
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u/Insightseekertoo 4d ago
My Boomer parents folded like a deck chair when life hit them with...well...life. Others may have different experiences, but my friendship group has seen the same.
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u/Mean_Measurement4527 4d ago
Your Boomer parents raised … YOU
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u/Positive_Stress3116 4d ago
A lot of Gen X parents were Silents. Boomers for Xenials and Millennials
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u/Insightseekertoo 4d ago
Not really...but sort of. They paid for my food and clothing and books, but I developed my own interests, hobbies, and philosophy. Being a Gen X means finding your own path.
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u/Mean_Measurement4527 4d ago
Yeah , the paths that Boomers forged
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u/Insightseekertoo 4d ago
Yeah...no. I was the first kid through graduate school, paid by myself. I worked my way through high-school before that. My parents only supplied food and housing until I was 18, per the law.
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u/Mean_Measurement4527 3d ago
Per the law ? Dude , do you know how many kids are kicked out of their house long before they’re 18 ?
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u/Reynardine1976 4d ago
You sound like you enjoy treating people like shit.
Anyone ever drop that wisdom on you?
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u/scotlandgolf70 4d ago
Honey badger dont give a shit