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Gen X, the meh generation

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[–] Cyclist 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hose water was awesome!

[–] teh_bishop 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What other type of water was there? Turn it on let it flush and drink!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Uhh excuse me. There was also watergun water. Stream water. Bath water...

[–] this_1_is_mine 3 points 9 months ago

Who's steam you drinking?....

[–] Kaput 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Water from a rinced off Windex spray bottle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hey don't forget the water barrel. If you dunk the bottle down deep under the scum on top, that's some good, cold water!

[–] VubDapple 21 points 9 months ago

Gen X here. What made us uniquely who we were is that we were the first generation to know that the boomers were full of shit. It was a loss of innocence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

I’m technically a millennial (right on the cut off) and I was also raised on these, but instead people keep blaming me for everything.

[–] sagrotan 12 points 9 months ago

And MTV. It's interesting to observe how little is relevant anymore what we grew up with. And it's getting faster and faster. Social media in it's current form will die too in the next 10 years or so. Memes will prevail, though. They have to.

[–] Thunderbird4 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

[–] mojofrododojo 2 points 9 months ago

damn right! written by my favorite author, Grand Mal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Damn right!

[–] WidowsFavoriteSon 2 points 9 months ago

Nobody cares.

[–] unreachable 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

neglect

because boomer (too much) enjoying their life?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Less helicopter parenting.

GenX were allowed to be latchkey kids and roam free. Later generations got weird about parenting and safety.

[–] Kaput 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gen x IS the later generation raising their kids super protectively. And we don't even know why it turned that way.

[–] TheDoozer 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because journalism started becoming fear bait. They raised ratings by making people scared to be outside, or think if they let their eyes off their kids for a second, they'll be taken (even though it's far more likely they'll be killed in a car accident, or abused by someone they know).

Media did it.

[–] psycho_driver 1 points 8 months ago

There are something like 60 child abductions per year in the United States that aren't family related.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There were a few kidnappings.

That is why Mom used to tell me not to get kidnapped.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Did you listen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Shit, sorry, yes. A bit traumatized, if I am honest. You just get used to avoiding kidnappers. Never questioning why.

Not kidnapped though. So, I have that going for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It hasn't been 24 hours yet, we still might be able to save them!

E. Oh phew they're safe!

[–] greyhathero 3 points 9 months ago

I read this as piercings and safety. Still tracks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Pretty much. As much as they could without the kids bugging them and they still complained about raising kids.

[–] Tylerdurdon 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hell, GenX is called boomers by their kids.

[–] stoly 1 points 9 months ago

That’s because boomers are old now so they can’t see what they were really like.

[–] stoly 2 points 9 months ago

Boomers simply didn’t invest in the next generation. We were expected to do everything ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm gen z but hose water was the best

[–] pjwestin 1 points 9 months ago

Because of the formatting I read this as, "Raised on hose, water, and neglect."