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Who let Gen X off the hook?

submitted by iSnark to GEN_X_Pub_n_Grill 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:10:20 ago (+5/-1)     (iv.nboeck.de)

https://iv.nboeck.de/watch?v=bAj429U_Ez8



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[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 04:57:34 ago (+0/-0)

Identity politics. Divide & conquer.

[ - ] inaminit -1 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 04:14:02 ago (+0/-1)

Having to take a bath on a saturday was the pits.

[ - ] iSnark [op] -1 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 04:31:23 ago (+0/-1)

Yeah that sucked, until I was old enough the take showers.

[ - ] ItsOk2bArian -1 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:22:40 ago (+0/-1)

I'm here Huckleberry

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:44:27 ago (+2/-1)

Oh, wahh fucking wahh, latchkey kids. My father was born in 1935 and was a latchkey kid. So many generations think this was a new experience for them. Fuck them, and fuck everyone who feels sorry for themselves thinking their experience is new. I didn't learn about my dad's younger adolescence and teens until decades later, because he never talked about it, mostly because he didn't think it was that extraordinary and didn't need to be discussed. It just wasn't that important. Mind you, this was in the 40s and early 50s, and my grandmother didn't have a TV until 1960, well after my dad moved out.

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:50:42 ago (+1/-0)

You were a garbage pail kid!

[ - ] Moravian 4 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:36:20 ago (+4/-0)

Because who has the balls to do anything about it?

[ - ] lord_nougat 9 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:29:14 ago (+10/-1)

I found us innocent of all charges.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 7 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:30:34 ago (+7/-0)

Considering what we did and went through, I'm surprised there are so many of us still around!

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 7 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:56:26 ago (+7/-0)

I shoulda been dead 42 times but I'm like a cockroach with feelings and bad urge to shitpost.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 5 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 01:02:03 ago (+5/-0)

The Guardian Angels of us GenX'ers seriously need a vacation!

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 19:43:12 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 19:47:00 ago (+0/-0)

I think your Angel is playing for the wrong team...

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 19:48:13 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] lord_nougat 5 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:49:40 ago (+5/-0)

Fucking seriously.

I have no excuse for surviving all my own idiotic follies!

[ - ] iSnark [op] 7 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:54:09 ago (+7/-0)

I mean c'mon, We PLAYED with a quarter stick of dynamite, unsupervised, and NO ONE gave a shit! We had bottle rocket wars, where the objective was to nail the Son-of-a-Bitch (your friend) with a molten hot projectile across a ravine or other chasm! Safety Glasses: NOPE!

[ - ] ItsOk2bArian 4 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:20:42 ago (+5/-1)

I still have scars from Roman candles. My cousin has a line through his beard on the right cheek where hair can't grow because I bounced one of his cheek in a fire fight 25 years ago

[ - ] iSnark [op] 2 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:28:25 ago (+3/-1)

GOOD TIMES...

This must seem so foreign to anyone born after Gen X, BUT FUCK, we thought we were BULLET PROOF! We had most every situation under control! I think we grew up during the Greatest time ever! We got ourselves in to trouble, and we learned how to get ourselves out of it! it certainly helped, that times were no so jacked up as they are now!

[ - ] deleted 2 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:12:25 ago (+2/-0)

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[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:18:42 ago (+1/-1)

You had more fun than I did! Thermite? Solidox? What Military base did you live next to?

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:51:08 ago (+1/-1)

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[ - ] iSnark [op] 2 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:58:59 ago (+2/-0)

Would have loved to hung out with you & the boys back in the day! You guys would've been right up our alley!

[ - ] Belfuro 2 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:26:30 ago (+2/-0)

We would fire rockets at each other.
Singing at guy fawkes was normal.

We would fire monkey apples at ourselves.
Take apart a bike pump for the tube.
Tape the thumb from a dishwashing glove on one end.
Op slingshot.

From the age of seven, I'd eat breakfast, grab my army men, had bike will travel.
Came home when it got dark.

Gen x was the last generation. We lived across the golden ages end and know intimately what was taken from us

[ - ] iSnark [op] 4 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:40:27 ago (+4/-0)

B-I-N-G-fucking_O!

Same! Ate breakfast, Busted ass to get the chores done, got on bike, not seen for 10 hours+, Riding home in the dark! Parents didn't even get out of bed to check on us when we got in...

We were the last generation to experience unadulterated freedom! We didn't have computers, but we were smart, inventive, & resourceful! I pitied the way my kids generation grew up! I wish they could have experienced my childhood!

[ - ] Belfuro 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 16:23:43 ago (+1/-0)

We had it so good in so many ways.

Fuck I loved my banana 3 speed bike and later a BMX.

Do much nostalgia I wish I could revisit.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 19:22:28 ago (+1/-0)

I managed to hold on to my old Banana-seat Schwinn bike. Someday; I'll restore it.

[ - ] Belfuro 2 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 19:30:26 ago (+2/-0)

Now I'm jealous.

I moved around a lot. Each time more and more items were given away or lost.

Now I get nerds for collecting memorabilia.

My first car, a 1975 mk3 Cortina bought for $800 when I was 16.

I did it up and sold it to pay for my first marriage wedding rings for $3000

$30,000 to buy it back today. Ugggh

[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 19:41:44 ago (+1/-0)

30 Grand, WOW!


A little nostalgia for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina

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[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 19:36:51 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Sector2 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 03:12:26 ago (+2/-1)

We did all that before the first gen x existed. And we got a whole box of 72 for $4.99 and loved it. Only blew my thumb off one time too! (they reattached it)

Kill zone for one in a fresh cow pie was around 30 feet.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 03:19:35 ago (+1/-0)

Your generation was, no doubt, influential in forming who we became!

[ - ] inaminit 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 04:09:12 ago (+1/-0)

never had bb gun fights?

[ - ] deleted 1 point 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 10:47:48 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 04:17:50 ago (+0/-0)

Oh Yeah, had one similar to this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Crosman-Pumpmaster-760-177-Pellet-and-4-5mm-BB-Air-Rifle-Brown-760B/9222897

Because BB's weren't painful enough... Need Pellets!

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 6 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:17:19 ago (+7/-1)

We're independent and awesome and our movies and music was awesome.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 2 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 00:50:14 ago (+2/-0)

Damn Right they were! Our music & Movies will be in the Smithsonian Institute one day!

[ - ] Belfuro 2 points 1.3 yearsMar 14, 2024 02:27:23 ago (+2/-0)

Fucking 80s and 90s music is still op.