I also drank from the hose but was unaware I could leverage it into a personality trait or cultural capital. Please note that I’m tougher than you in some way now
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Gen X could have built an identity around something cool like being the slacker generation (anti-hustle culture and anti-wage slavery) but instead someone decided our superiority was based on drinking shitty water.
they're gonna brag about being the last generation that went outside to play, because every generation until the end of time is gonna humiliate itself with Facebook-tier nostalgia bait about being the last generation that went outside to play.
That's probably it. "Oh I'm sorry you watched a space shuttle blow up on TV. I watched my entire nation collapse while going bankrupt from medical debt and student loans."
As a confessed Gen. X I wont claim to be tougher but I will say that the world felt a lot easier when I was young.
I'd probably add that with like four channels on TV and no interne, we were really unaware of how complicated things really were. The stuff my teenage daughter talks about now is so much more politically engaged than I was at her age. Ignorance is bliss or was.
Mine is all the stuff I got away with because of lack of security cameras. Also my friend and I would go to the airport and fake emotional reunions at arrival gates to see if we could get people to clap.
my elder millennial brag is basically just “i was on the internet as a teen in the 90s back when it was GOOD” and just completely ignoring the bad parts
We used words like Old, Man, and Murray as the backbone of a sense of humor that prevented us from getting laid until college, you use them as a punchline
The fact that someone could send you a link to a man showing you his entire rectum meant your Grandma couldn't go on there. Once she did she started getting involved in the teabag movement
I remember in like 1980ish stumbling on my dad's hustlers, and I was far too young to really understand what I was looking at, and 15 years later I'd see things on https://Rotten.com that made me feel the exact same way again - that whatever I was seeing was a grotesque distortion of normal behavior.
I was out of school for snow and was watching Rambo 2 when the Challenger exploded. So much less trauma than the rest of whatever generation I’m in. Oregon Trail Generation or something.
I once flew over the handlebars of my bike and into a cluster of nettles because I rounded a corner at very high speeds and an obese woman had blocked the bike lane. Is it possible to build an identity around this?
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It's not a brag. Really. Warm, nasty tasting water. Yay.
i mean same but i didn't take that and turn into a wannabe KKK pledge lmfaoooo
rednecks used to be cool, man.
mfers buying trucks worth $150,000 with their daddy's money and acting like they were self-made farmers, salt of the earth mfers.
I don’t give a fuck.
Your weakness sickens me.
we are not the same.
As a confessed Gen. X I wont claim to be tougher but I will say that the world felt a lot easier when I was young.