Gen X is sick of your bullshit
Mildly amusing essay at Gizmodo:
http://gizmodo.com/5851062/generation-x-is-sick-of-your-bullshit
But Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.) Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.
Generation X wasn't surprised. Generation X kind of expected it.
Nice...and true.
STFU gen Y and beyond!
I really need to get a place with a lawn so I can tell those damn whippersnappers to get off it.
Which gen am I?
What year were you born in?
Gen X is roughly 1961-1981
Yes. Depending on who you ask, the opening date is anywhere from 1960 to 1966, and the closing date is 1980 to 1982.
Technically I am Generation X, and my brother is Generation Y (aka the Millenials.) And given our personalities, this actually fits us.
That makes you nothing Zippy. Sorry. ;)
Gee thanks ,
I Always thought of my self as a Late Bloomer baby boomer
Yer an Xer... like me 1963
I don't feel like an Xer. I feel like the shit end of the Booomers. 1964.
Which do you like better: the Beach Boys, or the Cure?
The Cure.
but when I was 12 I DID own Endless Summer. I've never owned any Cure. (of course, I was married by the time I was 24, so...)
eta: I was a faithful reader of Creem and Crawdaddy magazine. Those were some awesome rags.
I'm on the Boomer/Gen X cusp. I'm a tweener. Our music came from the late 70's - Fleetwood Mac
Talking Heads, Boston, Journey, Kansas, Springsteen, Billy Joel, The Bee Bees - Saturday Night Fever, Jackson Brown, Cheap Trick, The Cars, Commodores, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers. And Disco.
Apparently, as I was born in '72, that puts me slap bang into Generation X. 'The Me Generation'
Snap Dani.
I never felt like one though. Comes from starting work at 16.
I was already 30 by the time I was legal drinking age.
I never really got to be part of the E generation either, or experience Madchester, Cool Brittania, living for the weekend.
Too worried about getting arrested, getting up for work, how I was going to get home. And how my finace would react, because he was anti-drug and a teetotaller.
I can't really complain. I did have what I wanted when I was in my early twenties. I just wasn't happy.
The Cure.
It was a trick question. If you're familiar with the Cure enough to say one way or the other, you're a GenXer.
Oh I totally felt like a Generation Xer at the time.
I thought Gen Y was the 'me generation'.
I think they both get called that. 'Me Generation' was originally coined for the GenXers, but has been subsequently applied to the GenYers.
We've also been called the boomerang generation, because so many people ended up back in their parent homes in their 20s and 30s (myself included :p)
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Oh and you Gen Y sooks, harden up. Terrorism? Pah! You're afraid some loonie is going to stage an attack and kill maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand people, with a tiny chance you or someone you know might be one of them. Pfft. Back in MY day, kiddo, we lived with the constant fear of near-instant global nuclear annihilation. That's right, five minutes from go to stop, 3 billion killed in the first wave, the rest dying horribly over the next six months, end of civilisation, Earth uninhabitable.
All this with an onion tied to my belt, mind you.
[/grandpa rant]
We live in the midwest. We're more worried about our generators....
Oh and you Gen Y sooks, harden up. Terrorism? Pah! You're afraid some loonie is going to stage an attack and kill maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand people, with a tiny chance you or someone you know might be one of them. Pfft. Back in MY day, kiddo, we lived with the constant fear of near-instant global nuclear annihilation. That's right, five minutes from go to stop, 3 billion killed in the first wave, the rest dying horribly over the next six months, end of civilisation, Earth uninhabitable.
All this with an onion tied to my belt, mind you.
[/grandpa rant]
I remember that, and the survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day.
Gen Y would think
Threads was lame. But then they didn't get sat down to watch it by a teacher who explained this was what would really happen when the bomb dropped. When.
Also they didn't grow up on a diet of truly horrible Public Information Films like
The Finishing Line or
Apaches.
No wonder some of Gen X are at heart nihilists.
Sadly, the older Gen Xers are reproducing and therefore bringing up a generation of nihilists-without-a-cause.
Blame the parents.
Always.
:p:
BTW - check out the above films if you have a time. It would be a serious time commitment to watch all three - I'd recommend Finishing Line, but Threads is the most seminal. I don't think shock tactics worked, but they are a reasonable reminder of how children were treated when I was a child.
No wonder some of Gen X are at heart nihilists.
No, Donnie, those Gen Xers are cowards. /lebowskireference/
Blame the parents.
Always.
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
:D
They don't mean to but they do...
The most scary thing I recall being taught / scared witless by were the aids awareness ads.
After posting this I watched Threads again.
First time in years.
It was still extremely creepy - I'd forgotten how it drew you into individual characters' lives. But almost as much as that it was a snapshot of my childhood. Eighties cars and attitudes, casual sexism and snobbery. I have a tendency to think things haven't changed much, because the change happened slowly all around me. Simple things like old cars and telephones and pubs really bring it home.
And no, I didn't watch Life on Mars :)
You didn't?
You really should. It's bloody marvellous!
I have limited television time, living with the 'rents.
And although I fare pretty well on the internet, I have to be able to cede control at a moment's request.
Committing to a whole series is tricky. I can manage when motivated (Dr Who, Psychoville, Torchwood etc) but even a critically acclaimed drama series isn't enough of a draw for me given my limited time frame*
I do like Philip Glenister though. Of course. Completely my type.
Prefer him gingery and a bit gone to seed of course. And he could be rounder.
* Luckily the 'rents loved Sherlock. So I get to indulge freely in that next year.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and the lovely Mark Gatiss. Why wouldn't you?
You'd have liked him in Hidden then :P
After posting this I watched Threads again.
First time in years.
It was still extremely creepy - I'd forgotten how it drew you into individual characters' lives. But almost as much as that it was a snapshot of my childhood. Eighties cars and attitudes, casual sexism and snobbery. I have a tendency to think things haven't changed much, because the change happened slowly all around me. Simple things like old cars and telephones and pubs really bring it home.
And no, I didn't watch Life on Mars :)
I also watched.
Horrid. It took me a couple days to make my way through it. I found it very upsetting. Agonizing. I kept waiting for the time to accelerate. The anticipation was very unpleasant.
I can't really say thanks, only that I'm glad it's over.
::shivers::
I've always regarded Threads as one of the better post-nuke films, much more thoughtful and less scene-chewing than The Day After, but more broadly drawn than Testament.
I looked for that movie on Amazon (I had never heard of it) but the only one I could find was DVD format but not US/Canada DVD format. I don't know what that means.
I'd love to see it though.
it likely means that the dvd was produced for display on tvs that use the PAL format, unlike domestic/North American televisions which use the NTSC format.
If you have the time and the bandwidth, you can stream it via youtube from the link Sundae posted. It runs just under two hours, though it feels much longer.
DVDs have different regions. It's an intellectual property rights issue rather than a screen resolution issue.
Edit: If you google your particular DVD player, you may find that there is a cheat code that you can use to play DVDs from a different region. For example, on my old Magnavox DVD player, if you push the number 1 on the remote four times, it will play DVDs from all regions. Or so I've been told. I've never had a need to try it.
Dammit. Two weeks ago I was a Boomer, now you're telling me a Gen-Xer, and previously I was happily part of the generation without a designation.
Which do you like better: the Beach Boys, or the Cure?
Which do you like better: the Beach Boys, or the Cure?
Trick question don't answer!
Boomers are the disease Gen X is The Cure.
And Gen Y is the side effect