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Anonymous Coward User ID: 82052140 United States 08/18/2022 11:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a GenXer.....lets see.....got tats, lots of drinking, yes drugs , no financial woes, no parenting, yes promiscuity...... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79044425 I grew up a latchkey kid cuz parents worked....BUT I attribute my success to being a latchkey kid.....I was self reliant at a very young age and moved out at 16......being self reliant and self confident goes a long way in life.....I retired at 50 comfortably.....its all good.... As the kids today would say , I was "Brave, Fierce, and Living my best life"......LOL.... Yes it helped many to grow up fast but there was nothing good about being left to fend for ourselves. Especially little kids. Many had to raise their siblings. The feminist movement did it’s job at destroying families and driving down wages as two entered the workforce and abandoned kids. It wasn’t normal. Now people see it as normal. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 79576961 United States 08/18/2022 11:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The tats, the drinking, the drugs, the financial woes, the bad parenting, the promiscuity, the over all trashiness. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79576961 It's like a generation that never grew up. The question is...was it because of bad parenting, lack of opportunity, overconsumption or just wanton and pervasive immorality? But, now, this generation is morphing towards extremism. I guess it's some kind of over-compensation or backlash for all the fuck ups they have made. Why can't this generation find a middle ground? A steady track? Yawl think people with honor and wisdoms are bad and aging poorly, you ain't seem nothing yet. generations AFTER "x" are the dummies going for covid, PC crap, LGBT and progressivism... so i dont know what you are on about. Exactly wtf is this all about Gen X here and you are full of shit. Trashiness? lol ok. Maybe I am on the end of the Gen X but I definitely disagree with everything you listed. We've already established that glp is loathe to criticize Gen X. So, not surprised. You didn't even make an argument, you just ranted. Classic Gen X. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80493625 United States 08/18/2022 11:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yawl think people with honor and wisdoms are bad and aging poorly, you ain't seem nothing yet. Just FYI, sote censord auto corrected 8 0 0 M @ R $ Now you know who runs this site and how highly they think of themselves They’re also gooissh Gooissh bloomiers run glp |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84031334 United States 08/18/2022 11:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | to answer the question: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77353212 some bad parenting....but i think it was more media influence than anything. glorified it was timing my 2 cents fixed it for ya |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77353212 United States 08/18/2022 11:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah Gaming is the problem right? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 84031154 Not 50 Years of ungrateful whiney millennials and Gen X watching the nightly news and listening to everything they said like a robot being programmed. What's more dangerous? Playing video games that cause you to think critically and make choices, strategize and react? Or stuffing your pie hole with Soy laced potato chips and sucking down booze whilst receiving your daily programming laying on your fatass. If you are joking then that is a hilarious spoof. If not...then it is unintentionally hilarious. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 82052140 United States 08/18/2022 11:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So stupid to think everyone born during certain years can be grouped to have the same traits and behaviors. Quoting: Secretizer No different than astrology where everybody born in the same month is supposed to be the same. No different than racist stereotypes where everybody with certain physical characteristics are supposed to be the same. The best thing to say about generalizations is that they are generally not accurate. Many had the same experiences. Not that they are the exact same. It just molds you. Many have the same traits. Upbringings music the whole vibe. Only the ones raised in your generation can actually understand you. |
Weisshaupt
User ID: 80494230 United States 08/18/2022 11:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The tats, the drinking, the drugs, the financial woes, the bad parenting, the promiscuity, the over all trashiness. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79576961 It's like a generation that never grew up. The question is...was it because of bad parenting, lack of opportunity, overconsumption or just wanton and pervasive immorality? But, now, this generation is morphing towards extremism. I guess it's some kind of over-compensation or backlash for all the fuck ups they have made. Why can't this generation find a middle ground? A steady track? Yawl think people with honor and wisdoms are bad and aging poorly, you ain't seem nothing yet. I don't have tats. None of my Gen X friends have tats. Most have been married 2 decades or more and all are financially stable. Maybe its not the generation but the peolpe you hang out with? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77353212 United States 08/18/2022 11:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | to answer the question: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77353212 some bad parenting....but i think it was more media influence than anything. glorified it was timing my 2 cents fixed it for ya I think there is some merit there. 50's TV was not as much a frontal assault on society as was late 80's and on....but it did get people hooked and the result was parents of gen xers letting TV raise their children because they trusted it. When you throw in that a lot of gen x kids were becoming casualties of single parent homes and the parent had to work...the TV became very powerful. Good point |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 79576961 United States 08/18/2022 11:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a GenXer.....lets see.....got tats, lots of drinking, yes drugs , no financial woes, no parenting, yes promiscuity...... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79044425 I grew up a latchkey kid cuz parents worked....BUT I attribute my success to being a latchkey kid.....I was self reliant at a very young age and moved out at 16......being self reliant and self confident goes a long way in life.....I retired at 50 comfortably.....its all good.... As the kids today would say , I was "Brave, Fierce, and Living my best life"......LOL.... Yes it helped many to grow up fast but there was nothing good about being left to fend for ourselves. Especially little kids. Many had to raise their siblings. The feminist movement did it’s job at destroying families and driving down wages as two entered the workforce and abandoned kids. It wasn’t normal. Now people see it as normal. I absolutely do think this is why we half of us tend to over parent (helicopter) these zoomers and younger. To over compensate from traimatic childhood experiences. The other half is just strung out, addicted, dialed out, whatever Millennials don't overparent quite as much because their parents are older 8 00 m@rs who were slightly more involved and around. But they are still neglectful as they have their faces in phones, etc. |
SugarSand
User ID: 77504359 United States 08/18/2022 11:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Compared to our own parents on the whole, the ones who haven't checked out are good providers and decent parents. I'm the only one of my peers with no tattoos. I don't know what they were thinking ... except we're a pretty cynical lot - and generally libertarian. We're generally slackers, too. That part was true then and now. Not much of a point to doing much of anything. Not too much to get excited about, etc. When the shit hits the fan and the end is just nigh, will you cry out to Heaven? Will you lie down and die? Not me, my dear one - THIS IS MY SACRED LIFE - to no one nor no thing I'll surrender. For how does one know where when dead she will go, or if sweet Mother Earth he'll remember? - Sug |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77353212 United States 08/18/2022 11:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So stupid to think everyone born during certain years can be grouped to have the same traits and behaviors. Quoting: Secretizer No different than astrology where everybody born in the same month is supposed to be the same. No different than racist stereotypes where everybody with certain physical characteristics are supposed to be the same. The best thing to say about generalizations is that they are generally not accurate. I wish more people adhered to this line of thought. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 82052140 United States 08/18/2022 11:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Frustration and dismay is not hate. Legit questions need to be asked. If we are unwilling to even define what's wrong, how can we fix anything? This site has dissected 8 00 m@rs and millennials to death. But it's quick to give my generation, Gen X, a pass. Yet when I look around, there's a shit ton of problems created or perpetuated by Gen X. That is because their parents and society in general abandoned them. They weren’t raised properly. A lot of movies that came out in the 70s were about demon kids. Kids were hated then. You may well be correct. In my opinion, yes. But... At some point, you have to stop blaming others. Their parents aren't responsible for any choices the kids made after leaving their house. My parents suuuuucked. But my choices are mine. Of course we all have choices but many spend their adult lives consciously or unconsciously dealing with what happened to them as children. Many die before they ever resolve it. It’s a huge problem. It makes choices for us and we aren’t even aware of it. Not making excuses. Just being real. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 79576961 United States 08/18/2022 11:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah Gaming is the problem right? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 84031154 Not 50 Years of ungrateful whiney millennials and Gen X watching the nightly news and listening to everything they said like a robot being programmed. What's more dangerous? Playing video games that cause you to think critically and make choices, strategize and react? Or stuffing your pie hole with Soy laced potato chips and sucking down booze whilst receiving your daily programming laying on your fatass. If you are joking then that is a hilarious spoof. If not...then it is unintentionally hilarious. |
Nucks
User ID: 83982711 Canada 08/18/2022 11:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We've already established that glp is loathe to criticize Gen X. So, not surprised. You didn't even make an argument, you just ranted. Classic Gen X. LOL what argument is there to be made? I disagree entirely. Why do I need to justify why I think the OP is wrong...huge generalizations...Gen X spans 15 years. I am nowhere near the headspace of someone who could be 15 years apart in age. How stupid to assume an entire generation is the same. lol Religion has no place in golf... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 79576961 United States 08/18/2022 11:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79576961 Frustration and dismay is not hate. Legit questions need to be asked. If we are unwilling to even define what's wrong, how can we fix anything? This site has dissected 8 00 m@rs and millennials to death. But it's quick to give my generation, Gen X, a pass. Yet when I look around, there's a shit ton of problems created or perpetuated by Gen X. That is because their parents and society in general abandoned them. They weren’t raised properly. A lot of movies that came out in the 70s were about demon kids. Kids were hated then. You may well be correct. In my opinion, yes. But... At some point, you have to stop blaming others. Their parents aren't responsible for any choices the kids made after leaving their house. My parents suuuuucked. But my choices are mine. Of course we all have choices but many spend their adult lives consciously or unconsciously dealing with what happened to them as children. Many die before they ever resolve it. It’s a huge problem. It makes choices for us and we aren’t even aware of it. Not making excuses. Just being real. Fair point. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79044425 United States 08/18/2022 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a GenXer.....lets see.....got tats, lots of drinking, yes drugs , no financial woes, no parenting, yes promiscuity...... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79044425 I grew up a latchkey kid cuz parents worked....BUT I attribute my success to being a latchkey kid.....I was self reliant at a very young age and moved out at 16......being self reliant and self confident goes a long way in life.....I retired at 50 comfortably.....its all good.... As the kids today would say , I was "Brave, Fierce, and Living my best life"......LOL.... Yes it helped many to grow up fast but there was nothing good about being left to fend for ourselves. Especially little kids. Many had to raise their siblings. The feminist movement did it’s job at destroying families and driving down wages as two entered the workforce and abandoned kids. It wasn’t normal. Now people see it as normal. My story might be different being an immigrant......both parents working was not a choice......my siblings did well in life too....they used each other for support and get along well to this day....I on the other hand paid a price for being self reliant......I made no bonds with my siblings and we are basically acquaintances ......I didn't realize it was a problem til my wife told me that I was the most "self contained" person she ever known.....asking for help or sharing is hard for me..... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84031369 08/18/2022 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The tats, the drinking, the drugs, the financial woes, the bad parenting, the promiscuity, the over all trashiness. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79576961 It's like a generation that never grew up. The question is...was it because of bad parenting, lack of opportunity, overconsumption or just wanton and pervasive immorality? But, now, this generation is morphing towards extremism. I guess it's some kind of over-compensation or backlash for all the fuck ups they have made. Why can't this generation find a middle ground? A steady track? Yawl think people with honor and wisdoms are bad and aging poorly, you ain't seem nothing yet. Lol You clearly have a self center few of all GenX. I can't relate to anything you've said here. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 79576961 United States 08/18/2022 11:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | to answer the question: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77353212 some bad parenting....but i think it was more media influence than anything. glorified it was timing my 2 cents fixed it for ya I think there is some merit there. 50's TV was not as much a frontal assault on society as was late 80's and on....but it did get people hooked and the result was parents of gen xers letting TV raise their children because they trusted it. When you throw in that a lot of gen x kids were becoming casualties of single parent homes and the parent had to work...the TV became very powerful. Good point Really great point. Our parents had no idea what was influencing us. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77353212 United States 08/18/2022 11:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes it helped many to grow up fast but there was nothing good about being left to fend for ourselves. Especially little kids. Many had to raise their siblings. The feminist movement did it’s job at destroying families and driving down wages as two entered the workforce and abandoned kids. It wasn’t normal. Now people see it as normal. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 82052140 More coherent insight. As far as mainstream middle class america goes, this was the first generation to see widespread failure of the family unit. I totally remember how shocking it would be to hear that so and so's parents were splitting up. Now it's practically expected. But there was no road map for how to move through that shit in the 80's and 90's. It certainly soured my outlook on the "benefits of society' as it felt like falling through the cracks in many ways. I could say it nurtured some bitterness and apathy in me that took some years to heal. |
Countryboyseein
User ID: 84031350 United States 08/18/2022 11:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So stupid to think everyone born during certain years can be grouped to have the same traits and behaviors. Quoting: Secretizer No different than astrology where everybody born in the same month is supposed to be the same. No different than racist stereotypes where everybody with certain physical characteristics are supposed to be the same. The best thing to say about generalizations is that they are generally not accurate. Thank you for using your brain. This is one of a few thoughtful responses in this whole thread |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84013488 United States 08/18/2022 11:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think there is some merit there. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77353212 50's TV was not as much a frontal assault on society as was late 80's and on....but it did get people hooked and the result was parents of gen xers letting TV raise their children because they trusted it. When you throw in that a lot of gen x kids were becoming casualties of single parent homes and the parent had to work...the TV became very powerful. Good point It was very common in the 60's and 70's for B@@mers and their families to gather around the Brand New and Affordable Television after Family Dinner for the Nightly World News and Evening Programming. It was a huge deal. The Gen X kids of 80's and 90's watched movies, not television programs. Blockbuster and VCRs became hugely popular and inexpensive. The rest of the time the Gen X kids were outside playing, while the B@@mer parents kept watching TV. You think a B@@mer allowed their Gen X kid to control the TV and Remote Controller. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 79576961 United States 08/18/2022 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We've already established that glp is loathe to criticize Gen X. So, not surprised. You didn't even make an argument, you just ranted. Classic Gen X. Quoting: Nucks LOL what argument is there to be made? I disagree entirely. Why do I need to justify why I think the OP is wrong...huge generalizations...Gen X spans 15 years. I am nowhere near the headspace of someone who could be 15 years apart in age. How stupid to assume an entire generation is the same. lol So if we go through ur posts there would be zero posts bashing b 88m@rs or millennials? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 79576961 United States 08/18/2022 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think there is some merit there. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77353212 50's TV was not as much a frontal assault on society as was late 80's and on....but it did get people hooked and the result was parents of gen xers letting TV raise their children because they trusted it. When you throw in that a lot of gen x kids were becoming casualties of single parent homes and the parent had to work...the TV became very powerful. Good point It was very common in the 60's and 70's for B@@mers and their families to gather around the Brand New and Affordable Television after Family Dinner for the Nightly World News and Evening Programming. It was a huge deal. The Gen X kids of 80's and 90's watched movies, not television programs. Blockbuster and VCRs became hugely popular and inexpensive. The rest of the time the Gen X kids were outside playing, while the B@@mer parents kept watching TV. You think a B@@mer allowed their Gen X kid to control the TV and Remote Controller. Gen X was raised with MTV. I know my parents had no idea what we were watching. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 82033850 United States 08/18/2022 11:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think there is some merit there. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77353212 50's TV was not as much a frontal assault on society as was late 80's and on....but it did get people hooked and the result was parents of gen xers letting TV raise their children because they trusted it. When you throw in that a lot of gen x kids were becoming casualties of single parent homes and the parent had to work...the TV became very powerful. Good point It was very common in the 60's and 70's for B@@mers and their families to gather around the Brand New and Affordable Television after Family Dinner for the Nightly World News and Evening Programming. It was a huge deal. The Gen X kids of 80's and 90's watched movies, not television programs. Blockbuster and VCRs became hugely popular and inexpensive. The rest of the time the Gen X kids were outside playing, while the B@@mer parents kept watching TV. You think a B@@mer allowed their Gen X kid to control the TV and Remote Controller. Gen X was raised with MTV. I know my parents had no idea what we were watching. I'm a millennial and I wasn't allowed to watch MTV until I was 18. |
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User ID: 83982711 Canada 08/18/2022 11:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Generation Latchkey. Millennials and zoomers are worse what do u think about them? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72454426 Honestly the boomers were the only ones who had a good ride GenX got scrood hard Gen X was the LAST great generation....we grew up without computers, our video games required going outside to an arcade and putting a quarter in the machine. We were the last generation that was still able to WALK HOME from school without a FEAR of being abducted. We were the last generation that could play outside until sundown, and we didn't need a helmet. We climbed trees, jumped home-made ramps with our bikes and we could always count on mom to have lunch and dinner waiting for us when we came home after a summer day of adventure. Our exposure to sex was finding a "Playboy" magazine in the trash....we giggled and were innocently embarrassed at what we saw. Little girls played with barbies and little boys played with Tonka trucks. Evil Kanevil and Steve Austin, the bionic and Giant Robot were our Gods and we could always count on The Dukes of Hazard, Ponch and John from Chips to save the day. High school was great! No mass shootings or murders for us...we'd only have to worry about getting caught chewing gum or downing a packet of Pop Rocks, lol. Yeah.... one hundo! totally agree...grew up in the 80's and high school in the early 90's. I think there are obviously great people in all generations. Stereotypes do exist though for a reason of course...just hate to full on labelling of entire generations. Religion has no place in golf... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77353212 United States 08/18/2022 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It was very common in the 60's and 70's for B@@mers and their families to gather around the Brand New and Affordable Television after Family Dinner for the Nightly World News and Evening Programming. It was a huge deal. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 84013488 The Gen X kids of 80's and 90's watched movies, not television programs. Blockbuster and VCRs became hugely popular and inexpensive. The rest of the time the Gen X kids were outside playing, while the B@@mer parents kept watching TV. You think a B@@mer allowed their Gen X kid to control the TV and Remote Controller. I grew up in the Gen x era....and I, and my siblings, were left alone with the TV most of the time because we wound up in a single working parent household before we were teens. Latch key. The generalizations are part of the conversation but we have to acknowledge that they don't actually conform to reality as much they distort it. But regardless, movies were/are just an extension, in many ways, of spreading the identity influencing affect of mass media. Especially the movies of that era....the popular ones. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84013488 United States 08/18/2022 12:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think there is some merit there. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77353212 50's TV was not as much a frontal assault on society as was late 80's and on....but it did get people hooked and the result was parents of gen xers letting TV raise their children because they trusted it. When you throw in that a lot of gen x kids were becoming casualties of single parent homes and the parent had to work...the TV became very powerful. Good point It was very common in the 60's and 70's for B@@mers and their families to gather around the Brand New and Affordable Television after Family Dinner for the Nightly World News and Evening Programming. It was a huge deal. The Gen X kids of 80's and 90's watched movies, not television programs. Blockbuster and VCRs became hugely popular and inexpensive. The rest of the time the Gen X kids were outside playing, while the B@@mer parents kept watching TV. You think a B@@mer allowed their Gen X kid to control the TV and Remote Controller. Gen X was raised with MTV. I know my parents had no idea what we were watching. I'm a millennial and I wasn't allowed to watch MTV until I was 18. I am Gen X, and we did not have MTV in our town until 1994. By that time, I was graduating and making my own memories. Never watched MTV, as did much of the city population. Expect kids with humongous satellite dish in their front year. Most Gen X kids were outside playing while B@@Mer parents had control of TV. |