The fact the GenX has lived in both worlds with and without the technology is precisely why we are the best equipped generation to deal with what it has done to humanity.
But it’s also why they should be worried. We might hit the button just to see what happens and because we’ll be fine either way, along with the cockroaches and Twinkies.
Lmfao. I'm 48 and that's been my current take on our government. They're full of boomers in both parties doing 15 consecutive terms like it's a lifetime appointment because they absolutely refuse to give us the car keys until they're dead.
Vahalla awaits and its invitation does not come with an RSVP. In the meantime, we shall storm the corporate boardrooms, where the real power resides. As for political power, well...we are patient.
I was talking to a boomer friend of mine when we were on are way to bible study awhile back and I said I think it's time for my generation to take the helm and she replied are you sure there ready and I said yes .
@@tiffanygrever8092 lol. We're about 50 years old. I think it's safe to say we're "ready". My lord, these people have high self-esteem. My 70-something uncle is the same way. He calls us "kids" and I'm like "I get AARP mail, drop the kid crap."
OMG! I saw tire tracks on the corner of my lawn the other day! I was really angry for a minute I got over it quickly because I was born in 1967, but it still kind of bothers me.
I yelled and told the gardners how stupid they were. I was so mad. They drove over my yard to get to my next-door neighbors yard, when all they had to do was go to the ally!!! Stay off my lawn!!!
I am 58. I mow my lawn. weed whack it. Do it over and over again. Why. Because grass grows. You must not be a Gen'Xer. If grass marks upset you. I mean seriously does it get more petty than that?..
Thank you, Dadbod. THANK YOU, for acknowledging the most crushing pain a Gen-Xer could endure: spending hours on a beautiful sunny day -- not enjoying the freedom of youth by bike-riding with friends -- but by sitting next to one's cassette player with the radio playing. Kids these days. They will never know the experience of holding one's breath in anticipation before EVERY new song that played, hoping it would be the one you were waiting for, only to be met with disappointment repeatedly. Then, THEN, when your blessed song finally came on the radio, the DJ talked over the intro and blabbed through the outro... leaving you to tremble and stew in your anguished teenage rage that all your efforts were for naught. Of course, there were no social media outlets to reach for, to take out one's frustration by petulantly attacking people we'd never meet with hateful comments. No, we'd only have our younger brothers to use as a verbal kickball. Then, came the age-old question we all struggled with: "Do I accept this tainted version of my song as it is, or do I repeat this entire exercise tomorrow, wasting another five hours of my youth (youth that I will only fully appreciate decades in the future while waxing nostalgic on a RUclips comment section), hoping for a better outcome?" This was the universal pain that bound all Gen-Xers, regardless of clique or class. We were all equals in The Defeat of Mixtape Tune Capturing.
The greatest of all existential pain! Thank you, fellow Xer. Now, instead of waiting next to the boombox, I waste my time lost in RUclips nostalgia. Thank you for helping me know I’m not alone. 😂
We are the generation that refuses to age. Oh, we may look older on the outside, but inside, we are still living in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Our music and memories keep us young.
"We're next in line for the throne." No, we're not. They will find a way to skip us the way that always do. But, in a way, that's fine because we can just control things from behind the scenes the way we always do. It's always better to be the man behind the curtain than the wizard out front.
@@graywolf4206 The oldest Gen Xers are turning 59 this year. We are, almost, at retirement age. We are being skipped over. I say whatever cause we can't be blamed for the SHTF if we weren't ever in control.
Many of us also laid the groundwork for the tech that so many of them enjoy today. Seems like they do go crazy after less than a day without it. What we gave, we could also take away.
They say they're not scared yet take away their money and they freak out. Say there's no toilet paper no grids water food gas electronics communications cars banks and they'll find out they are not only scared but they are terrified of reality as they're not in reality. It's unfortunate. They also say they're in control yet an earthquake happens and they find out they're not. They could have the largest kingdom there is yet an earthquake happens and it's destroyed and they have nothing. It's best to stay rooted in reality.
My mother retired from the local nursing home and she told me of a guy who played metal all the time and he wore rock shirts and flannel. You're about 5 years too late
It’s what I’ve been telling people for the last couple years. We now occupy the upper rungs of corporations, many politicians, military leaders and bureaucracy. We have ownership of a large percentage of the smaller and mid-sized businesses. We’re no longer the middle level leaders (well, the younger GenX are), and the last of the boomers are almost at legal retirement age (they still have 59-61 year olds). Get ready younger generations. They have ignored us for years while insulting Boomers, telling them to hurry up and go so they can be in charge. They forgot about GenX!
@@1776Jan Nope. We are just in the last couple years entering all the leadership positions of the world. Many of us are about to be there. Over half of us are still upper rungs of middle management or its equivalent. It’s going to take a lot to fix what has been broken. Previous generations didn’t break it overnight. In any case, Millennials forgot about us while bitching about Boomers. The joke is on them.
@NOLAgamer55 gone be fun to watch a millennial or Gen Z walk into a job interview...only to discover the dottering Boomer has been replaced by a Gen Xer who tells them "you can take this job or not, I don't care because shit will get done anyway". Because there's also an out of work Gen Xer, who will be perfect for the position who just left the interview (successful)
This is the fun time when we can sit down and look at the younger generation losing their mind thinking they know it all and the internet get shut off and their world crumbles 😂😂
Right before everything shut down in 2020 and the rabid hoarding of paper supplies had just begun, a millennial in my office seriously asked me what's going to happen if we can't buy toilet paper, whatever will we use. I stared at him for a moment, waiting for him to tell me he was joking. He was not. He was seriously concerned about what could possibly replace toilet paper. When I suggested that a history book might help give him ideas, that people have been dealing with bathroom needs for thousands of years before modern plumbing, and even in modern times, he told me that his toilet would immediately clog up if he tried flushing washcloths down it.
@@tracymw im a truck driver and ive seriously NEVER hauled so many loads of toilet paper in my life! Still dont know why shit tickets were the item everybody hoarded. Im mean...toilet paper?
I heard a man singing his soul out to a Soundgarden song at the pump next to me, volume cranked. What looked to me like a little old man got out… I checked my reflection. Yes, he and I look an awful lot alike.
Gen X from '72 here. Didn't get into Soundgarden until my early 20's & "Black Hole Sun" & I still want to come at 50yrs old today Tues 7-18-23. Had to buy it on cassettes because...no RUclips in the 90's.
I’m the little old lady version cranking up Sound Garden in my car, lol. To me, the 90’s music was a spectacular revisit of my boomer coming of age, 60’s music! I got a new lease on life in my 40’s in the 90’s, listening to grunge with my genX friends!
that's because well they would follow their stupid WEF UN and WHO and CDC and FDA leaders and forget about their families and throw us and their boomer grandparents under the bus by that I mean we would be wards in homes financial exploitation buried in a potters field if we do not stop them now that is our future if we are not stern with them about our voting rights and our freedoms they want us to give up hands off youngins
Yeah, us Xers would either go fishing, play with fire, break out the board games or whack each other with sticks randomly all day long until someone finally said OW! We are easily entertained. 😅
1966 checking in. One of my best friends was a Viet Vet he told me once to never get in a fight with an old man. "They have survived more things than you have, have nothing to lose and will CHEAT...and win," Now I am that old man. Where is that Neil Young cassette...
I'm 46. The father of one of my close childhood friends once told me "youth and agility are no match for old age and treachery." The older I get, the better I understand what he meant.
It's all coming full circle. As we are now the old people, the new parents will be farming their kids out to us at every opportunity. And I say we take them, so we can raise them the way our silent generation grandparents raised so many of us. We will create the second best gen, GenXJr.
Our greatness status depends entirely on what we do with the kids of today. Gen Z is ultra important and it is paramount that we leave our problems with the boomers to the boomers and not take anything out on Gen Z. We leave them the hell out of it in our minds and give them the help they desperately need. They need guidance badly and we need to be cool about the way we do it. There is no other generation that could possibly come up with a creative solution like we can while also being awesome about it. The boomers were the "Can we do it?" generation...and we were the first ever "should we do it?" generation. We were the societal brakes to their over-indulgence that would and still could kill us all. When the Eastern Block Nations were all in full force...they were quoted as saying about Americans "We will sell them the rope from which they hang" and the boomers rushed to that reality almost as fast as that sentence came out of the mouth. It's time for us to show everybody why we are so damn cool...and that starts with giving the kids of today the straight up truth about how we aren't going to be perfect but we will be the absolute best people to come to when you're sick of the world lying to you for power, influence and profit. The current Boomer powers that be do NOT want us in the conversation...so I say we just give them what they want. We just take action like we've always done and don't give them the conversation...because we all know how much they LOVE to talk about doing the hardcore work instead of doing the hardcore work. We all know what to do without a conversation so just get to it.
My kids are GenXJr. My oldest son is already farming his kids out to me, and you best believe this Gigi is raising those kids the right way. My son knows the deal. His wife... she's figuring it out. She'll either survive it or she won't. 😂
@@JB-su3eq SIGH...another person with no clue what a "boomer" actually is. The baby boomers are in their SEVENTIES now. For the most part they aren't really in charge of anything. Gen X took the reins nearly a decade ago. Only a handful of boomers are still in high places of political or financial power, and look at them - fossils like Biden and Mcconnel. The only boomers you really have to worry about are lunatics like George Soros, who is on the high end of boomer-ism...he's almost a depression baby, and he's got more influence than every 70-something in Washington combined.
Shut it down, shut it all down. No internet. No cell phones. No cable TV with 500 channels of CRAP. Let's shut it all down. Just for a month, to level out the playing field.
In less than a day without power, every nuclear plant would be melting down. That would end all life on Earth other than, maybe, cockroaches. So go right ahead, you should be fine! 😂
To be honest I never thought I would make to this age so I'm a little unprepared for life as an older person.😂 Yes terrified and super excited at the same time.
Amen. We have waited. We have watched. We have learned. And now we are coming for the throne, and you cannot stop us. And we are bringing freedom with us...
Huh? People have different definitions of the word “freedom.” I bet even within Gen X you’ll find differences of what constitutes freedom. If you’re talking politically, Gen Xers don’t all agree on the same things. How will we really be different from the Boomers in power now?
Oh my goodness, thank you. I haven't giggled so hard in a while. I already have been that person that people look at and say (when I am not around unless they know I like them,) What the actual heck is with her? I will say, when I was younger, I was a meeker sort. But as I leveled up every year, I started caring less. Finding the feral that's escaped her willing cages.
I love your videos but can you turn up the volume a little.. We are the new old people.. Some of our hearing isn't quite what it used to be.. #ProudGenXer
It would be fun to just "turn off" the internet for a day. Just to see the folks who don't know how to live without it react. Brings a smile to my face, just thinking about it.
A day hell get rid of it see who they come crying to, what do we do, what do we do, give them a 🏈🏀 or 🎣 a 🚲 tell them to go outside they'd be like where are we. In your yard.
Any other X'ers wishing it would all go dark? You know, all the tech stuff gets EMP'd into dust. I would get a coffee and watch all the Gen Zeros run around like headless chickens and god forbid they may have to look up when they walk.
the power to yell at, insult, and threatin phisical violence with out fear of repercussion because "He's just an old guy" can't wait for the day HAHAHAHA by the power of grey skull.
This is one of my favorite videos you've done. I would love to see one similar to this one. The amount of hidden and not so hidden comedy with a serious undertone was awesome. I've posted this everywhere lol.
I agree with you on all you just said. I was one of many to be the first to use computers before they were released to the public in the US at a military testing school as a child. So could we shutdown the world web? Of course we can now will we do it to save humanity as we know it. They do say Gen X is extreme generation so I say there is a high chance we may do just that. 😆
When Covid hit, I got a message from my eldest. "What forest are we meeting you at" I admit I was slightly confused so I asked her to elaborate. This was her response. "You are the only person I know who can walk into a forest for six months and come out without losing weight". 😅 Gen Z should be worried 🤣🤣
Being in the diesel industry since the 80’s and working around what would’ve looked like a shop full of drunken sailors all those years has kept my trolling skills at black belt level. It’s amazing how words alone can make younger generations lip quiver
As an elder millenial, I too remember some of the feral ways. The idea of turning all the screens off is, indeed, tempting. But at this point, in order to vanquish them utterly, we would have to give up electrification as well.
Same for me here. It's so hard to not give up technology like staring at youtube or searching Google. With all this information at our fingertips tips I don't take advantage of it, but not I get to consumed by the vast power of it. It's hard but I do want to go back when using the internet was a treat to look forward too than a necessity.
@@jkseraphim4 You do realize you can, all you need to do is stop. Go outside, walk in the sunlight. Make it a treat! As a researcher _before_ the internet, I have the mindset the internet is the greatest boon to humanity ever made. All of our collective wisdom, accomplishments, & history all in one easily accessible place- my phone. Just because the majority of us have turned it into our collective septic tank doesn't make the technology bad. The last thing anyone should want is to turn it off for everyone. And turning off the grid would quite literally kill not only humanity, but all life on Earth. 'Cause when the nuclear power plants all melt down...
I'm happy we're the new old people. Just one day closer to the sweet relief of death. :) (The cool thing about Gen X is that they will read this and not suddenly have an irresistible urge to think they have to notify a crisis counselor that someone on the internet is in distress.)
We are truly the last generation who has listening skills. We couldn’t talk back to our parents, couldn’t talk back to our teachers, couldn’t talk back to the radio, there was no comment section on the FM dial. We were listeners. This generation can hardly even imagine I mean -the very idear!
Love it. So much of what you say I remember doing as a kid. Now here’s a thought: Since our boomer parents are so reluctant to retire or cede control over anything, when they do “hand us the keys” do they realize that we are ready, but not really all that interested in keeping them for too long? Our own retirement is not long away and once our kids are launched I think we will collectively call it a day and only work if we really need or want to. Wonder if the next generation knows how much is coming their way in the next decade.
I'm one of the older GenX and just retired "early", although I still worked for 47 years since I started when I was 10. Y'all have fun running things, and good luck, seriously. I'm going to just continue doing whatever the hell I want to.
I am a proud grandma and I say bring it on! Seniors citizens gone wild.😈See what we are capable of doing to all the “younger” generations. I don’t look or feel my “gen-x”age. We gen-x folk have some life skills that have been asleep. Be careful!😂😂😂
I'm sure you lived your life when you were young and had a blast, I know I did. I always had the philosophy that when I'm on my death bed I want to look back and go "That was fun!!" rather than worry about what I missed out on. I might be slower and less active now, and am content to sit in my garden and take my dogs for a walk, but 30 or 40 years ago I was an absolute terror with the fearlessness of youth. I always laugh at kids who think because I'm older I'm an old fossil who knows nothing. Honey, I was swinging from a pole in a gay nightclub and dancing in a cage for tips at your age to pay my way through college. I did things that would make your eyes pop!! I'm just glad mobile phones and the internet weren't a thing then, there is no evidence 😂
Yep, we grew up in the age BEFORE the Internet. Yet we learned how to use it, what a steep learning curve that was for me. That is mind blowing, we can cope in both worlds. 😊
They still won't listen to us. They didn't when we were younger and now that we're older it's the same thing. But I'm happy in life with a great husband and a wonderful life. We tell stories about our younger days
We threw lawn darts at one another for fun and climbed trees. We punched each other in the arms when we spotted a Volkswagen bug. We also waited 20 minutes for a picture to download from the web while playing Doom.
I took a lawn dart to the face and shook it off back in the day. My buddy threw one up, I was picking mine up out of the ground, and he says "Heads up!". I looked up, and it nailed me on the bridge of my nose. Metal tip, too. Just a scratch on my nose, and that was it.
Because of the time you were raised when things get bad and we go into Civil War you're the ones we will have to depend on. My son was a Gen X and if our so-called Healthcare System had cared for him he would still be here today.
I am a Gen-xer but I was born an old grumpy bastard and just got bigger. My friends and I would watch the 70s show they said I was just like Red. Even my kids agree
I'm 47, turning 48 soon. I feel SO OLD as a Gen Xer born in the mid-later 1970s. The people I used to think of as "kids" born in 1986 are already complaining about being 37 and being old farts themselves. How the hell did all this happen? And so fast? It seems like yesterday it was still the 90s or maybe the first half of the 2000s and we are still so young. I miss the days when the older people talked about stuff I didn't know about from the 1950s, 60s or most of the 70s. Now I'm the one talking about 20, 30 or 40 years ago, only now it's not about Elvis, the JFK assasination, Vietnam War or Richard Nixon/Watergate,......no, now I'm talking about the damn 80s or what I was doing in 1999, 2003. What the hell.
I know I’m getting old being a gen x when I see kids with low hanging pants and I’m furious, being called “sir” and I loath most young people! Keep doing what you are doing “sir” and making my day! Cheers
at least you could make mixed tapes. i recall getting so very excited over 8 tracks as you would have to be glued by the radio just to wait to *listen" to a song. learning all the lyrics back then was a true commitment to your favorites. we also learned an album at a time. we had to save up our allowances forever to buy an album. the thrill of unwrapping that new purchase...
I've been saying this to my kids for a while now. My husband retires soon. Gen Xer with time and a bit more resources than he had as a kid. It will be something for the books.
This is hilarious. I’m a Gen X electrical engineer ( I’m not THAT cool, I didn’t pull it off till I was almost 40) and often ponder semi-seriously what it would take to EMP or otherwise fry the worlds electronics all at once…. It HAS to be all at once and get EVERYTHING. Like the end of fight club I want all digital records to be permanently lost…
I am a Millennial 40 years old and feeling like I am in my 30s. I was taught to be patient in life all the time. No matter what obstacles comes a head.
I’m thinking millennials will storm right past us for the throne. And As long as they leave me alone I’m ok with that, don’t want to be in charge of anything anyway. The world can keep on ignoring us, it’s the status quo after all.
We grew up with movies that glorified martial arts, shooting guns, and blowing stuff up. Rambo isn't an action film, it's a documentary about a single Gen X'er. There are millions of us. Prepared to be spanked and put in time out as we rebuild this world and make it how it should have been.
Boomer here. My son is a GenXer. I am very proud of him. I raised him to be a critical thinker, a gentleman, and a kind human being. With that foundation he has made great choices in his life. When he was a teenager, he wanted to take a Korean martial art, Hapkido, I happily paid for his classes. He was never violent, and only had to use his skill to protect himself once. We have great communication and are still very close. I like this generation too bad you don’t like mine, you may be missing out. There are a-holes in every generation.
@@hellhound1389 Stephen King books were a must for me as well. Pet Cemetery was one of the first scary movies besides Nightmare on Elm Street that I watched.
@@ithiriaderitan1745 oh wow I didn’t know that! Not sure if it’s still around in schools here. I’m from New England and it was in schools when we were growing up.
My little sister doesn't believe that her brother(my step brother) and I used to have broken off broom handles that we used in the woods to play "war" with. Just beat each other ruthless. Never squealing to our parents or we'd both be in trouble. This was when she was still in a play pen. I still have some of those scars that recall as fondly as i do my tattoos.
We have watched the insanity of our society unfold before us for long enough good sir. We have earned the crown, and we deserve to rule... #ourdaycometh #dontstopbeingawesomesir
I am technically a millennial ( born 85) but I grew up with the gen X experience ( no tech, mix tapes from the radio, rotary phones, going out on your bike in the morning and not coming home until it was getting dark, non stop fighting at school)..
I’m disappointed in our generation. I used to have a lot more hope for us. A lot of us came of age with John Hughes and others telling our stories, exposing our propensity for adhering to boring and sometimes brutally limiting social constructs. We were all in the library during detention in The Breakfast Club, in some form or combination of those characters. We saw how shitty we could be to each other and to ourselves. As we entered adulthood, bands like Nirvana were expressing our frustration with those and other social dictums. It was more than just pop music. Or at least it seemed so at the time. Now we are slowly or maybe not so slowly turning into Boomer-Lite. We are the “best” generation and we had the “better” experiences as kids, and now we’re alternately boasting while shaming the younger generations. They used to call US the generation with reduced prospects, the first to not expect to do as well as our parents. Now the younger generations have all but given up on the hope of ever owning a home and of course we shame them for their coffee drinks, their phones (which we have also) and their purple hair, forgetting where we came from and never having really learned a thing (and ignoring that our generation indeed has a retirement crisis looming). I’m not any more worried about our generation being “in power” than I am the current older folks being in power. Because we, very sadly, probably won’t be any better.
We Gen X's carry the stories of our parents and grandparents , and further back from that if we were lucky enough - Gen X 's we challenge the 'normal' , we have solid grounding , and now seen the rise of technology like the industrial age - taking jobs. We have always seen the big picture, and we watch , we listen and we look ..... we just have to stay strong and be brave for the future.
Here's a more sobering thought - imagine a world where we are plunged BACK into times before the internet and high tech life, Would a millennial or Gen Z survive without our old smelly cranky wild asses there to show them the way??? We are too stubborn to grow old and die silently, and too violent to sit aside and let them take over, but what they don't understand yet is that if that future came to be, we would be gods to them because we still know how to live without all that crap like the internet, and GPS, maps, and still know how to talk to others without social anxiety
I freaked my son out a couple weeks ago. Handed him a Paper map and asked him to get us to a location. the sheer look of confusion and terror in his eyes was priceless.
The fact the GenX has lived in both worlds with and without the technology is precisely why we are the best equipped generation to deal with what it has done to humanity.
But it’s also why they should be worried. We might hit the button just to see what happens and because we’ll be fine either way, along with the cockroaches and Twinkies.
@@TheBaumcm
Sacrifices have to be made.
Absolutely! Survivors!
AMEN!!!!!! 🙌🏻
Lmfao. I'm 48 and that's been my current take on our government. They're full of boomers in both parties doing 15 consecutive terms like it's a lifetime appointment because they absolutely refuse to give us the car keys until they're dead.
Vahalla awaits and its invitation does not come with an RSVP. In the meantime, we shall storm the corporate boardrooms, where the real power resides. As for political power, well...we are patient.
I was talking to a boomer friend of mine when we were on are way to bible study awhile back and I said I think it's time for my generation to take the helm and she replied are you sure there ready and I said yes .
@@tiffanygrever8092 lol. We're about 50 years old. I think it's safe to say we're "ready". My lord, these people have high self-esteem. My 70-something uncle is the same way. He calls us "kids" and I'm like "I get AARP mail, drop the kid crap."
@@tiffanygrever8092 Maybe learn to spell before claiming you’re ready to take over the world.
Boomers are the ones that started the destruction of the a USA
If we plan this right, us and our grandkids can have a blast tormenting our children for decades.
I already do and I'm only in my 40s
Ahhh yes, sweet, sweet revenge 😅
😂😂😂😂😂
Brilliant.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
“Terrified and excited “ that’s how we spent our childhoods trying to entertain ourselves.
And now it’s Gen x raised kids who are terrifing and entitled
@@doctorjames4245 - YEP . . . Should’ve known that was coming-
At almost 60 , i now understand the meaning of GET OFF MY LAWN ,
Oh Dude! You're playing with fire. That's why I'm installing a water cannon.
Right ! ! ! 😂
OMG! I saw tire tracks on the corner of my lawn the other day! I was really angry for a minute I got over it quickly because I was born in 1967, but it still kind of bothers me.
I yelled and told the gardners how stupid they were. I was so mad. They drove over my yard to get to my next-door neighbors yard, when all they had to do was go to the ally!!! Stay off my lawn!!!
I am 58. I mow my lawn. weed whack it. Do it over and over again. Why. Because grass grows. You must not be a Gen'Xer. If grass marks upset you. I mean seriously does it get more petty than that?..
Thank you, Dadbod. THANK YOU, for acknowledging the most crushing pain a Gen-Xer could endure: spending hours on a beautiful sunny day -- not enjoying the freedom of youth by bike-riding with friends -- but by sitting next to one's cassette player with the radio playing. Kids these days. They will never know the experience of holding one's breath in anticipation before EVERY new song that played, hoping it would be the one you were waiting for, only to be met with disappointment repeatedly.
Then, THEN, when your blessed song finally came on the radio, the DJ talked over the intro and blabbed through the outro... leaving you to tremble and stew in your anguished teenage rage that all your efforts were for naught. Of course, there were no social media outlets to reach for, to take out one's frustration by petulantly attacking people we'd never meet with hateful comments. No, we'd only have our younger brothers to use as a verbal kickball.
Then, came the age-old question we all struggled with: "Do I accept this tainted version of my song as it is, or do I repeat this entire exercise tomorrow, wasting another five hours of my youth (youth that I will only fully appreciate decades in the future while waxing nostalgic on a RUclips comment section), hoping for a better outcome?" This was the universal pain that bound all Gen-Xers, regardless of clique or class. We were all equals in The Defeat of Mixtape Tune Capturing.
The greatest of all existential pain!
Thank you, fellow Xer. Now, instead of waiting next to the boombox, I waste my time lost in RUclips nostalgia. Thank you for helping me know I’m not alone. 😂
There were the futile attempts of calling in to request too. Which, like most of Gen-X’s existence, were ignored.
@@k.stacey7389 And we called our friends to request the same song from the same DJ. Who ignored us all.
😂😂🤣😭💪🏽
Amen Brothers and Sisters. Amen. 😂
We are the generation that refuses to age. Oh, we may look older on the outside, but inside, we are still living in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Our music and memories keep us young.
I was just thinking this the other day. GenX is the first generation to be in our late 20's by age 10 and are still there today!
Amen. Just because the body ages doesn't mean the mind has to.
"We're next in line for the throne." No, we're not. They will find a way to skip us the way that always do. But, in a way, that's fine because we can just control things from behind the scenes the way we always do. It's always better to be the man behind the curtain than the wizard out front.
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Notice we haven't had a GenX president yet?
We have been "waiting" for our turn for decades already
@@graywolf4206 The oldest Gen Xers are turning 59 this year. We are, almost, at retirement age. We are being skipped over. I say whatever cause we can't be blamed for the SHTF if we weren't ever in control.
They don't skip us we choose not to participate!
Why is it that when I hear a Mellinials or Gen Z claim they're not afraid of Gen X. I immediately hear Yoda, "You will be, you will be." 😂😂😂😂😂
Many of us also laid the groundwork for the tech that so many of them enjoy today. Seems like they do go crazy after less than a day without it.
What we gave, we could also take away.
One of the greatest things I've ever read. Well done sir!
They say they're not scared yet take away their money and they freak out. Say there's no toilet paper no grids water food gas electronics communications cars banks and they'll find out they are not only scared but they are terrified of reality as they're not in reality. It's unfortunate. They also say they're in control yet an earthquake happens and they find out they're not. They could have the largest kingdom there is yet an earthquake happens and it's destroyed and they have nothing. It's best to stay rooted in reality.
Wait until our wrath is unleashed on them. Right now,we are focusing on ourselves.
Then, I further question their intelligence.
You realize it won't be long before Guns and Roses, Bon Jovi, and AC/DC will be played in the nursing homes.
My mother retired from the local nursing home and she told me of a guy who played metal all the time and he wore rock shirts and flannel. You're about 5 years too late
@@punkinhoot I hope not, I really don't like that song...lol
Admittedly, we've always been the ones who know how to turn off all the devices. Just ask any Gen-X heavy IT department.
Yeah, most of them are big boys...
Skylink needs to go offline. Lol
Wait a sec. I'm not old, I'm only.... Oh crap!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not old - "matured". Lol
I'm right there too.
@@kimberleyslauenwhite9004 Aged liked milk!
"CLASSIC"... like a classic car, endured the years and are worth more than what you paid.
😮😅
@@gregorykiernan7849 oh yeah, I like that one! 😃
It’s what I’ve been telling people for the last couple years. We now occupy the upper rungs of corporations, many politicians, military leaders and bureaucracy. We have ownership of a large percentage of the smaller and mid-sized businesses. We’re no longer the middle level leaders (well, the younger GenX are), and the last of the boomers are almost at legal retirement age (they still have 59-61 year olds).
Get ready younger generations. They have ignored us for years while insulting Boomers, telling them to hurry up and go so they can be in charge. They forgot about GenX!
AMENT & AMENT. We are going to amaze them 😅😂
So you are saying we are the generation ruining the world right now?
@@1776Jan Nope. We are just in the last couple years entering all the leadership positions of the world. Many of us are about to be there. Over half of us are still upper rungs of middle management or its equivalent. It’s going to take a lot to fix what has been broken. Previous generations didn’t break it overnight. In any case, Millennials forgot about us while bitching about Boomers. The joke is on them.
@NOLAgamer55 gone be fun to watch a millennial or Gen Z walk into a job interview...only to discover the dottering Boomer has been replaced by a Gen Xer who tells them "you can take this job or not, I don't care because shit will get done anyway". Because there's also an out of work Gen Xer, who will be perfect for the position who just left the interview (successful)
@@shaunaholmes6561 Spot on! I like it.
This is the fun time when we can sit down and look at the younger generation losing their mind thinking they know it all and the internet get shut off and their world crumbles 😂😂
That truely NEEDS to happen! And we Gen X would sit on our porches and watch the glorious sh!tshow take place. Hell, i'll even break out the smoker!
Right before everything shut down in 2020 and the rabid hoarding of paper supplies had just begun, a millennial in my office seriously asked me what's going to happen if we can't buy toilet paper, whatever will we use. I stared at him for a moment, waiting for him to tell me he was joking. He was not. He was seriously concerned about what could possibly replace toilet paper. When I suggested that a history book might help give him ideas, that people have been dealing with bathroom needs for thousands of years before modern plumbing, and even in modern times, he told me that his toilet would immediately clog up if he tried flushing washcloths down it.
@@tracymw im a truck driver and ive seriously NEVER hauled so many loads of toilet paper in my life! Still dont know why shit tickets were the item everybody hoarded. Im mean...toilet paper?
😂
Can we just completely shut off the internet.
Just for a day
🤣
OMG the chaos that would ensue.
Loosing or losing?
I heard a man singing his soul out to a Soundgarden song at the pump next to me, volume cranked. What looked to me like a little old man got out…
I checked my reflection. Yes, he and I look an awful lot alike.
Gen X from '72 here.
Didn't get into Soundgarden until my early 20's & "Black Hole Sun" & I still want to come at 50yrs old today Tues 7-18-23. Had to buy it on cassettes because...no RUclips in the 90's.
Rusty Cage is a great driving song, but it makes me want to break things.
@@xczechr Johnny Cash sure did that song some justice. Love both versions.
That little old man was ME! But I you're more likely to hear me belting out Audioslave these days! 😊
I’m the little old lady version cranking up Sound Garden in my car, lol. To me, the 90’s music was a spectacular revisit of my boomer coming of age, 60’s music! I got a new lease on life in my 40’s in the 90’s, listening to grunge with my genX friends!
Kids today would shit their pants if an EMP hit. We'd just shrug and go about business as usual.
Right. Welcome to 1980’s the time of our lives…
that's because well they would follow their stupid WEF UN and WHO and CDC and FDA leaders and forget about their families and throw us and their boomer grandparents under the bus by that I mean we would be wards in homes financial exploitation buried in a potters field if we do not stop them now that is our future if we are not stern with them about our voting rights and our freedoms they want us to give up hands off youngins
Yeah, us Xers would either go fishing, play with fire, break out the board games or whack each other with sticks randomly all day long until someone finally said OW! We are easily entertained. 😅
We would be relieved probably.
I think we'd love it😂
1966 checking in. One of my best friends was a Viet Vet he told me once to never get in a fight with an old man. "They have survived more things than you have, have nothing to lose and will CHEAT...and win," Now I am that old man. Where is that Neil Young cassette...
I'm 46. The father of one of my close childhood friends once told me "youth and agility are no match for old age and treachery." The older I get, the better I understand what he meant.
1951 here… I’ve got that Neil Young cassette tape if u can’t find yours
It's all coming full circle. As we are now the old people, the new parents will be farming their kids out to us at every opportunity. And I say we take them, so we can raise them the way our silent generation grandparents raised so many of us. We will create the second best gen, GenXJr.
Our greatness status depends entirely on what we do with the kids of today. Gen Z is ultra important and it is paramount that we leave our problems with the boomers to the boomers and not take anything out on Gen Z. We leave them the hell out of it in our minds and give them the help they desperately need. They need guidance badly and we need to be cool about the way we do it. There is no other generation that could possibly come up with a creative solution like we can while also being awesome about it. The boomers were the "Can we do it?" generation...and we were the first ever "should we do it?" generation. We were the societal brakes to their over-indulgence that would and still could kill us all. When the Eastern Block Nations were all in full force...they were quoted as saying about Americans "We will sell them the rope from which they hang" and the boomers rushed to that reality almost as fast as that sentence came out of the mouth. It's time for us to show everybody why we are so damn cool...and that starts with giving the kids of today the straight up truth about how we aren't going to be perfect but we will be the absolute best people to come to when you're sick of the world lying to you for power, influence and profit. The current Boomer powers that be do NOT want us in the conversation...so I say we just give them what they want. We just take action like we've always done and don't give them the conversation...because we all know how much they LOVE to talk about doing the hardcore work instead of doing the hardcore work. We all know what to do without a conversation so just get to it.
My kids are GenXJr. My oldest son is already farming his kids out to me, and you best believe this Gigi is raising those kids the right way. My son knows the deal. His wife... she's figuring it out. She'll either survive it or she won't. 😂
@@JB-su3eq SIGH...another person with no clue what a "boomer" actually is. The baby boomers are in their SEVENTIES now. For the most part they aren't really in charge of anything. Gen X took the reins nearly a decade ago. Only a handful of boomers are still in high places of political or financial power, and look at them - fossils like Biden and Mcconnel. The only boomers you really have to worry about are lunatics like George Soros, who is on the high end of boomer-ism...he's almost a depression baby, and he's got more influence than every 70-something in Washington combined.
Gen X Jr.
Yes very insightful.
Turn of the times...❤
I love this plan...BWAHHAHAHAHA!! ❤
I'm a Vietnam combat veteran, and a proud Boomer. We are the really old folks. You guys are our kids.
We’re gaining on you though.😉 You’ll be missed to help us hold this World together. Just lost my Vietnam Vet friend. Man, was he another breed.
@@lifenotbills I remember my dad as a WWII disabled veteran - he died in 1996.
Each generation has it's thing, I guess.
Bless you... Thank You for the kind words and for your service.
59 year old here, All I have to say to these young pups... getcha popcorn ready! 😂
Shut it down, shut it all down.
No internet.
No cell phones.
No cable TV with 500 channels of CRAP.
Let's shut it all down.
Just for a month, to level out the playing field.
In less than a day without power, every nuclear plant would be melting down. That would end all life on Earth other than, maybe, cockroaches. So go right ahead, you should be fine! 😂
To be honest I never thought I would make to this age so I'm a little unprepared for life as an older person.😂 Yes terrified and super excited at the same time.
Agreed! 30 wasn't a shock, it was a pleasant surprise. Now in my late 40's I feel like Louis and Clark charting out a great unknown land! 😂
Amen.
We have waited. We have watched. We have learned. And now we are coming for the throne, and you cannot stop us.
And we are bringing freedom with us...
Huh? People have different definitions of the word “freedom.” I bet even within Gen X you’ll find differences of what constitutes freedom. If you’re talking politically, Gen Xers don’t all agree on the same things. How will we really be different from the Boomers in power now?
Well, it's like Darth Vader said back when I was in a theater as a kid "Now I am the MASTER!"
😏😈Ahhhhhhh,
What would we do w/o Darth Vader?
Oh my goodness, thank you. I haven't giggled so hard in a while. I already have been that person that people look at and say (when I am not around unless they know I like them,) What the actual heck is with her? I will say, when I was younger, I was a meeker sort. But as I leveled up every year, I started caring less. Finding the feral that's escaped her willing cages.
Just hit 45 and realized that grim reality myself. And what you said is truth!! Gen x proud!
I love your videos but can you turn up the volume a little.. We are the new old people.. Some of our hearing isn't quite what it used to be..
#ProudGenXer
Gen-X plays to annihilate not to receive a participation metals.
We play to win. Second is 1st loser.
It would be fun to just "turn off" the internet for a day. Just to see the folks who don't know how to live without it react. Brings a smile to my face, just thinking about it.
I still have a huge book collection!
A day hell get rid of it see who they come crying to, what do we do, what do we do, give them a 🏈🏀 or 🎣 a 🚲 tell them to go outside they'd be like where are we. In your yard.
Maybe I'd actually get some writing done. Thank you for the opportunity.
I look forward to a world run by gen x's
I already do... I am the owner of a very successful landscaping business. My wife is the head nurse at a doctors office
It’s going to be awesome.
Any other X'ers wishing it would all go dark? You know, all the tech stuff gets EMP'd into dust. I would get a coffee and watch all the Gen Zeros run around like headless chickens and god forbid they may have to look up when they walk.
Totally! News is always trying to scare us with blackouts & such…and I’m like…bring it on!!
Night vision goggles are ready.
the power to yell at, insult, and threatin phisical violence with out fear of repercussion because "He's just an old guy" can't wait for the day HAHAHAHA by the power of grey skull.
I HAVE THE POWER!!!
EMP works better than Congress passing a bill to regulate Tik Tok.
This is one of my favorite videos you've done. I would love to see one similar to this one. The amount of hidden and not so hidden comedy with a serious undertone was awesome. I've posted this everywhere lol.
Yup! Going on my FB wall now. 😎👍
This is hilarious!!! I turn 51 in September and everything you said is absolutely true!
I agree with you on all you just said. I was one of many to be the first to use computers before they were released to the public in the US at a military testing school as a child. So could we shutdown the world web? Of course we can now will we do it to save humanity as we know it. They do say Gen X is extreme generation so I say there is a high chance we may do just that. 😆
My wife just asked me why I’m grinning so devilish right now.
When Covid hit, I got a message from my eldest.
"What forest are we meeting you at"
I admit I was slightly confused so I asked her to elaborate.
This was her response.
"You are the only person I know who can walk into a forest for six months and come out without losing weight". 😅
Gen Z should be worried 🤣🤣
So much intelligent thought here.
Being in the diesel industry since the 80’s and working around what would’ve looked like a shop full of drunken sailors all those years has kept my trolling skills at black belt level. It’s amazing how words alone can make younger generations lip quiver
These days I look at trees and say to kids “see that, I climbed that to crazy heights with no care of how I’d get down”
@@punkinhoot oh hell yea! Those were the times
We were part cat that way.
Talk about Feral.
@@noahpartic7586 Agreed! We we’re definitely a different breed than the rest
What do you mean, _used to?_ At 58, I still do! 😉
We also would stay up all night watching the local news to see if we had a snow day and wishing we went to Ichabod Crane Central School District.
As an elder millenial, I too remember some of the feral ways. The idea of turning all the screens off is, indeed, tempting. But at this point, in order to vanquish them utterly, we would have to give up electrification as well.
Same for me here. It's so hard to not give up technology like staring at youtube or searching Google. With all this information at our fingertips tips I don't take advantage of it, but not I get to consumed by the vast power of it.
It's hard but I do want to go back when using the internet was a treat to look forward too than a necessity.
@@jkseraphim4 You do realize you can, all you need to do is stop. Go outside, walk in the sunlight. Make it a treat! As a researcher _before_ the internet, I have the mindset the internet is the greatest boon to humanity ever made. All of our collective wisdom, accomplishments, & history all in one easily accessible place- my phone. Just because the majority of us have turned it into our collective septic tank doesn't make the technology bad. The last thing anyone should want is to turn it off for everyone. And turning off the grid would quite literally kill not only humanity, but all life on Earth. 'Cause when the nuclear power plants all melt down...
I'm happy we're the new old people. Just one day closer to the sweet relief of death. :)
(The cool thing about Gen X is that they will read this and not suddenly have an irresistible urge to think they have to notify a crisis counselor that someone on the internet is in distress.)
and you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking...
😂😂
We are truly the last generation who has listening skills. We couldn’t talk back to our parents, couldn’t talk back to our teachers, couldn’t talk back to the radio, there was no comment section on the FM dial. We were listeners. This generation can hardly even imagine I mean -the very idear!
Love it. So much of what you say I remember doing as a kid. Now here’s a thought: Since our boomer parents are so reluctant to retire or cede control over anything, when they do “hand us the keys” do they realize that we are ready, but not really all that interested in keeping them for too long? Our own retirement is not long away and once our kids are launched I think we will collectively call it a day and only work if we really need or want to. Wonder if the next generation knows how much is coming their way in the next decade.
I'm one of the older GenX and just retired "early", although I still worked for 47 years since I started when I was 10. Y'all have fun running things, and good luck, seriously. I'm going to just continue doing whatever the hell I want to.
I am a proud grandma and I say bring it on! Seniors citizens gone wild.😈See what we are capable of doing to all the “younger” generations. I don’t look or feel my “gen-x”age. We gen-x folk have some life skills that have been asleep. Be careful!😂😂😂
I'm sure you lived your life when you were young and had a blast, I know I did. I always had the philosophy that when I'm on my death bed I want to look back and go "That was fun!!" rather than worry about what I missed out on. I might be slower and less active now, and am content to sit in my garden and take my dogs for a walk, but 30 or 40 years ago I was an absolute terror with the fearlessness of youth. I always laugh at kids who think because I'm older I'm an old fossil who knows nothing. Honey, I was swinging from a pole in a gay nightclub and dancing in a cage for tips at your age to pay my way through college. I did things that would make your eyes pop!! I'm just glad mobile phones and the internet weren't a thing then, there is no evidence 😂
Don't wake the sleeping giant. That's all.😂
Waiting all day for a favorite song to come on the radio to add to our mixed tape, only for the DJ to ruin it. 🤣💯❤️
Yep, we grew up in the age BEFORE the Internet. Yet we learned how to use it, what a steep learning curve that was for me. That is mind blowing, we can cope in both worlds. 😊
As one Gen-X vet to the Dadbod Veteran.... These videos make my day.... and it's SO FUCKING TRUE.
As we grew up, our lives were one calamity after another. I really miss calamity.
I felt the DJ remark deep in my soul.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Is it finally happening? Alright! I'm on-board. Where do I sign up?
Think of what we can do!! 😂😂😂
They still won't listen to us. They didn't when we were younger and now that we're older it's the same thing. But I'm happy in life with a great husband and a wonderful life. We tell stories about our younger days
Turn em all off! 😂 I honestly can’t wait 😜
We threw lawn darts at one another for fun and climbed trees. We punched each other in the arms when we spotted a Volkswagen bug. We also waited 20 minutes for a picture to download from the web while playing Doom.
My favorite was the game who can hit the softest. I always lost but huge bruises my friends had for days gave smiles
Pussies, we used to throw Red Bellied Black Snakes.
I took a lawn dart to the face and shook it off back in the day. My buddy threw one up, I was picking mine up out of the ground, and he says "Heads up!". I looked up, and it nailed me on the bridge of my nose. Metal tip, too. Just a scratch on my nose, and that was it.
Because of the time you were raised when things get bad and we go into Civil War you're the ones we will have to depend on. My son was a Gen X and if our so-called Healthcare System had cared for him he would still be here today.
I admit to being an old bastard, first off dude!!
It gives me Diplomatic immunity 🤣🤣💥🇬🇧
I am a Gen-xer but I was born an old grumpy bastard and just got bigger. My friends and I would watch the 70s show they said I was just like Red. Even my kids agree
I'm 47, turning 48 soon. I feel SO OLD as a Gen Xer born in the mid-later 1970s. The people I used to think of as "kids" born in 1986 are already complaining about being 37 and being old farts themselves. How the hell did all this happen? And so fast? It seems like yesterday it was still the 90s or maybe the first half of the 2000s and we are still so young. I miss the days when the older people talked about stuff I didn't know about from the 1950s, 60s or most of the 70s. Now I'm the one talking about 20, 30 or 40 years ago, only now it's not about Elvis, the JFK assasination, Vietnam War or Richard Nixon/Watergate,......no, now I'm talking about the damn 80s or what I was doing in 1999, 2003. What the hell.
Time marches on.
As a _58_ year old X'er, I second your comments and raise you a decade. I finally understand my parents! 😮
FACTS!!!! ‘79 here! Love your channel!!!!
Let’s do it. It’s time we put things right. Shut it all down and reboot it back to the 80’s and 90’s. Let the weak be weeded out.
I know I’m getting old being a gen x when I see kids with low hanging pants and I’m furious, being called “sir” and I loath most young people!
Keep doing what you are doing “sir” and making my day!
Cheers
We'd wait by the radio all day for that one song to put on a mixed tape. Facts🤙
The corporate heads at my company already have a hard time dealing with me. 16 yrs working for them, 15 to go. Poor things
LET'S BE CLEAR.
The ones with the buttons will be the ones who were too chicken to skateboard off the roof into the dry pool.
at least you could make mixed tapes. i recall getting so very excited over 8 tracks as you would have to be glued by the radio just to wait to *listen" to a song. learning all the lyrics back then was a true commitment to your favorites. we also learned an album at a time. we had to save up our allowances forever to buy an album. the thrill of unwrapping that new purchase...
Great channel!! Great generation my friend. Nobody like us. Generation X 💪🏼 this is a national treasure people.
I've been saying this to my kids for a while now. My husband retires soon. Gen Xer with time and a bit more resources than he had as a kid. It will be something for the books.
This is hilarious. I’m a Gen X electrical engineer ( I’m not THAT cool, I didn’t pull it off till I was almost 40) and often ponder semi-seriously what it would take to EMP or otherwise fry the worlds electronics all at once….
It HAS to be all at once and get EVERYTHING. Like the end of fight club I want all digital records to be permanently lost…
I am a Millennial 40 years old and feeling like I am in my 30s. I was taught to be patient in life all the time. No matter what obstacles comes a head.
Great videos, some like this one are very quiet even at full volume. Turn it up, you have great things to say.
I'm 61 and I have experience everything , with and without teknologi. I remember too that we could fight every day and still being friends 😊
I’m thinking millennials will storm right past us for the throne. And As long as they leave me alone I’m ok with that, don’t want to be in charge of anything anyway. The world can keep on ignoring us, it’s the status quo after all.
We grew up with movies that glorified martial arts, shooting guns, and blowing stuff up. Rambo isn't an action film, it's a documentary about a single Gen X'er. There are millions of us. Prepared to be spanked and put in time out as we rebuild this world and make it how it should have been.
Many of my coworkers freak out when I tell them how I prepare leftovers. I don’t use a microwave I reheat using the stove and oven
Boomer here. My son is a GenXer. I am very proud of him. I raised him to be a critical thinker, a gentleman, and a kind human being. With that foundation he has made great choices in his life. When he was a teenager, he wanted to take a Korean martial art, Hapkido, I happily paid for his classes. He was never violent, and only had to use his skill to protect himself once. We have great communication and are still very close. I like this generation too bad you don’t like mine, you may be missing out. There are a-holes in every generation.
I mean we did grow up reading Lord of the Flies.😂
@@zach464 yes! All such great books. I agree, who knows if these are even part of curriculum these days but I’m glad we got to read them at that age.
Hated the books as much as the movies. I instead grew up on Stephen King
@@hellhound1389 Stephen King books were a must for me as well. Pet Cemetery was one of the first scary movies besides Nightmare on Elm Street that I watched.
@@be-twixt not sure about other parts of North America, but LoTF is banned in alot of schools in Canada now as "too violent"
@@ithiriaderitan1745 oh wow I didn’t know that! Not sure if it’s still around in schools here. I’m from New England and it was in schools when we were growing up.
I see teens or kids at the store or on the street and I truly feel bad for them.
They wander around like lemmings staring at their phones and bumping into you. It’s sad.
You got me with the DJ. 😎.
My little sister doesn't believe that her brother(my step brother) and I used to have broken off broom handles that we used in the woods to play "war" with. Just beat each other ruthless. Never squealing to our parents or we'd both be in trouble. This was when she was still in a play pen. I still have some of those scars that recall as fondly as i do my tattoos.
Welcome to old age Xers!
Signed by a living Boomer 😂😂😂😂😂
That made me laugh. Yes, we can shut it all down. And we won't miss it. But, I woke up saying the Hail Mary this morning...
Let the games begin
I have been struggling with this since 40 coupled with a medical retirement from service but the first lines rang like a bell we are next in line
Yes I can't wait. I think the Boomers feel the need to please others because they were raised to be proper. We do what we think needs doing.
I know, I know. Our "traumatic" childhoods of going outside to play, get all that fresh air and exercise. It made us who we are today.
We have watched the insanity of our society unfold before us for long enough good sir. We have earned the crown, and we deserve to rule...
#ourdaycometh
#dontstopbeingawesomesir
I am technically a millennial ( born 85) but I grew up with the gen X experience ( no tech, mix tapes from the radio, rotary phones, going out on your bike in the morning and not coming home until it was getting dark, non stop fighting at school)..
Every time I forget my mobile phone when I leave the house I celebrate as a victory. I don't want the damn thing to being with.
Preach my brother preach!!!
I’m disappointed in our generation. I used to have a lot more hope for us. A lot of us came of age with John Hughes and others telling our stories, exposing our propensity for adhering to boring and sometimes brutally limiting social constructs. We were all in the library during detention in The Breakfast Club, in some form or combination of those characters. We saw how shitty we could be to each other and to ourselves. As we entered adulthood, bands like Nirvana were expressing our frustration with those and other social dictums. It was more than just pop music. Or at least it seemed so at the time. Now we are slowly or maybe not so slowly turning into Boomer-Lite. We are the “best” generation and we had the “better” experiences as kids, and now we’re alternately boasting while shaming the younger generations. They used to call US the generation with reduced prospects, the first to not expect to do as well as our parents. Now the younger generations have all but given up on the hope of ever owning a home and of course we shame them for their coffee drinks, their phones (which we have also) and their purple hair, forgetting where we came from and never having really learned a thing (and ignoring that our generation indeed has a retirement crisis looming). I’m not any more worried about our generation being “in power” than I am the current older folks being in power. Because we, very sadly, probably won’t be any better.
God, you really know how to put us all in our places, don't you? I am simultaneously shamed and depressed! 😅
🤘I nodded so much it looked like head banging & random maniacal laugher
We Gen X's carry the stories of our parents and grandparents , and further back from that if we were lucky enough - Gen X 's we challenge the 'normal' , we have solid grounding , and now seen the rise of technology like the industrial age - taking jobs. We have always seen the big picture, and we watch , we listen and we look ..... we just have to stay strong and be brave for the future.
I’ve been waiting on this moment.
I can't believe we turned out this way, having been raised by the generation that were the hippies from Woodstock.
I'm a 70's kid, drinking my kool-aid and riding my bike around town w/friends....now we're soon to be "the elderly!!" WTF!!
Here's a more sobering thought - imagine a world where we are plunged BACK into times before the internet and high tech life, Would a millennial or Gen Z survive without our old smelly cranky wild asses there to show them the way??? We are too stubborn to grow old and die silently, and too violent to sit aside and let them take over, but what they don't understand yet is that if that future came to be, we would be gods to them because we still know how to live without all that crap like the internet, and GPS, maps, and still know how to talk to others without social anxiety
I freaked my son out a couple weeks ago. Handed him a Paper map and asked him to get us to a location. the sheer look of confusion and terror in his eyes was priceless.
lol you evil lil shit@@ithiriaderitan1745
Being a boomer and retired, I leave it all up to you kids!😊