Knowing history well is sort of a superpower. When you’re well-educated and skeptical, you’re less likely to fall prey to misinformation, weird gossip, and blatant propaganda. However, it’s a bit of a shock when somebody from a youngergenerationstarts lecturing about historical events that you lived through.
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I had someone tell me that AIDS wasn’t a big deal because well “they had d*s for that” 👀 I literally said to them I need you to shut up right now because you’re looking like the most stupid person in the planet right now. Pulled out old Google and showed them how many people died, why, and how horrid it was. Like I had friends who died. Complete A Clown 🤡.
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Yup. My favorite is when they are like: “What’s your source? You have no proof!” and it’s like: “I didn’t read about this, I lived it.”.
For me the most jarring thing is hearing people refer to records as “vinyls”.THEY’RE NOT CALLED VINYLS. THEY WERE NEVER CALLED VINYLS. CALLING RECORDS VINYLS IS LIKE CALLING CDS “PLASTICS”. FFS, STOP THE MADNESS!!!Records. They’re called records. 12" records are also called LPs, short for Long Playing Records. 10" records are EPs, short for Extended Play Records, or 78s (if they are 78RPM). 7" records are 45s (because 45RPM) or singles.GET OFF MY LAWN.
Gen X precedes Generation Y (akamillennials, born from 1981 to 1996), Generation Z (aka Zoomers, born from 1997 to 2012), and Generation Alpha (born in the early 2010s to the mid-2020s).
Different researchers might suggest slightly different birth year ranges for each generation, so there’s a bit of disagreement here and there. For example, the moderators of the r/GenX subreddit argue that Generation X includes anyone born between 1961 and 1981, which is the broadest perspective on who might fit the bill.
My son came home from High School one year and pulled out his phone so I could hear this great new Band.Aerosmith….
Or, being told you’re not an ally because you aren’t up to speed on pronouns, or what all the letters after LGBT mean, but you used to literally beat up a******s who messed with my gay friends.
According to Statista, there were around 66 million members of Generation X living in the United States.
While it’s easy to assume that older generations ‘had it easy’ when it came to employment and buying property, it’s not all rosy for Generation X.
I admit to getting tired about hearing how easy it was for me to get through college and such 25ish years ago. I also remember the 70s and 80s, and amazingly, my parents could not afford a giant house with one person working as a coffee shop attendant.Every generation has some hardships, and today’s young people have been screwed over in some ways, but they go way overboard with how easy it was for everyone before them.I was there. I literally have social security tax records since I was 12, because I had to work. It was not some magical paradise.
Imagine being a person who grew up in former soviet union listening to young people talk about the benefits of communism.
I most recently remember this in 2020, after the election, when Trump was still challenging the results. Even after Biden was declared the winner, I remember seeing posts on Twitter from Trump supporters saying things like “Don’t give up! Back in 2000 the liberal media spent a month calling Gore the winner and referring to him as President-Elect, until the Supreme Court declared Bush the rightful winner!" And I was sitting there going, no, that’s not what happened at all. How you are lying about something that was 20 years ago? This isn’t ancient history?
How well someone will fare in retirement depends not just on their lifestyle, budgeting, and personal approach to savings and investments but also on the company they work at, along with any relevant pension plans.
My dad got laid off twice in the early ’80s, when I was a kid. It was a rough period for a lot of my relatives also. You never hear about that early-’80s recession anymore, people just go, ‘Oh, everyone could buy a big house with just a high school degree.’ There were a ton of homeless people in the ’80s where I grew up also.
I had a dude argue with me that there was absolutely no way the National Guard ever shot American college students… pft pft pft.
Missy Elliott at the Super Bowl and the young people posting about how she was trying to be Cardi B or some other current rapper. Lol, when I read those tweets I laughed so hard.
CNN reportsthat 45% of American households risk falling short financially if they retire at 65 years old. The number rises to 54% for people who would retire at 62.
A younger Millennial once insisted to me that we dial 911 for emergencies in honor of the victims of 9/11.
I’ve had people tell me I’m making up the nuclear bomb drills we did in elementary school in the 80s.
I heard a younger coworker complain that NIN ruined Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt.’
“In 1986 you could work part time at a yogurt shop in LaJolla, CA and afford a 3 bedroom home on the ocean”No. Parts of this country have always been super expensive to live in.
The most common one I see is from younger writers proclaiming that “The entire country was up in arms about [insert major event]”…I was there, the reality is that most of the country didn’t really care either way, but a few hundred protestors made a lot of noise.
Slenderman is the one that really baffles me. Kids are all “It’s real” or treat it like it’s as old as Bloody Mary or something, meanwhile I’m like “I helped invent Slenderman on the Something Awful forums when I was in my 30s.“My own children were terrified of Slenderman when they were younger, and I told them “You know why he has really long fingers? Because a forum Goon called WIIWW suggested it. I know that cause WIIWW is me.”.
I was chaperoning my daughter’s trip to Washington DC. The Millennial tour guide said he was going to take the kids to see the Challenger Space Shuttle.
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Someone was explaining how we had to invade Iraq to find the people who did 9/11. It was just too much for me to even try.
In the same vein - I was chaperoning a trip to Disney and one of the teens confidenty told me The Haunted Mansion ride was based on the movie with Eddie Murphy. She was wondering why Eddie Murphy didn’t appear in the ride. The other Gen Xer I was with explained the ride came first, like Pirates of the Carribean.
This guy told me I must not actually be Gen X because if I was, I would know that straight guys didn’t buy Milli Vanilli. Crazy
I keep getting lectured on how awesome socialism is and how the socialist country I grew up in wasn’t really socialist.
Listening to people say they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary because of their completely bogus interpretations of events during Bill C’s presidency. Not fun.
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YES! Younger people, kids, and most people in general now, have super easy, fast access to information, right or wrong. They usually don’t ask people who’ve actually lived through it, they just swipe and click and choose the information that is more shocking or in line with whatever ideas they already have about the event.It’s a bit disconcerting. Once that feeling passes, I get annoyed.
Young people idealizing the 70s is a real weird one.
A thirtysomething (?) accused me (48) of being a twentysomething pretending to be Gen X because I said the style of a photo was more 1970s than 1980s. I did not have the words or motivation to argue.
Or how much better athletes are today. have had some turds on /r/nba tell me that Michael Jordan would just be average today. Shaq can’t shoot. The 1980s lakers would not be competitive today.
Because of the Batman movie that came out - kids were asking ‘what was Nirvana like?’ and ‘Kurt cobain klled himself - that was messed up’🤦🤦🤦I try to give context that my understanding is that while people focus on dg problems - Kurt cobain had actual chronic health issues. Living with that and a demanding life can be torture on mental health.I think I didn’t want these kids to be like ‘he was emo and did ds so he k*lled himself’.
- the HIV epidemic- 9/11- the Iraq war OMG younger people are insufferable with their Iraq war takes- the 2000 election.
Yeah, definitely. It’s like “hol-up Junior.” I personally remember how that went down, and you’re full of s**t.
Woodstock ‘99.
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