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re: Gen x experience - lost forever.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 1:31 pm to zippyputt
Posted on 6/30/25 at 1:31 pm to zippyputt
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Playing outside, with no gadgets is a lost art!
I think the kids still have it innately buried in their imaginations somewhere. My kids are always buried in lego sets, tablets, nintendo switch, etc and are always complaining about being bored. However, last weekend we were cleaning out the garage and storage room and the kids decided to come outside as well. They ended up playing around in the front yard with the water hose for probably 2-3 hours. We heard nothing but laughter...no fighting or complaining about the heat.
The kids can still do it...we just have to give them a nudge.
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Posted on 6/30/25 at 1:41 pm to Dandaman
Another "Good Ol' Days" thread. You know when Gen X was growing up the old people talked about how "you kids" missed out on a simpler life. It's a syndrome that afflicts everyone at some point in their lives.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 2:17 pm to Dandaman
Back in the day when someone came in with a light bulb stuck up their colon and the entire unit was in awe. Nowadays, that's just taken for granted. Sads
Posted on 6/30/25 at 3:15 pm to Dandaman
Readers Digest or National Geographic were lifesavers when taking a dump before the invention of the smartphone.
Imagine how boring taking a dump was in the old days…
That or it was terrifying going out to the outhouse in the middle of the night.
Imagine how boring taking a dump was in the old days…
That or it was terrifying going out to the outhouse in the middle of the night.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 3:33 pm to Dandaman
What I want to know is if older generations hate technology so much, then why do they use them? Every old person I know has iphones, Ipad, some even use ChatGPT, all are on FB, some on insta.
Wouldn't it make sense if they disliked these things, then they not be on them? But they are. You are your actions. They must like these things to some degree, but they use them, then complain about them. Just don't use them if you complain about them. Aside from work where you have to.
Wouldn't it make sense if they disliked these things, then they not be on them? But they are. You are your actions. They must like these things to some degree, but they use them, then complain about them. Just don't use them if you complain about them. Aside from work where you have to.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 6/30/25 at 3:34 pm to Dandaman
"We Used to Wait" - Arcade Fire
quote:
I used to write
I used to write letters
I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain
But by the time we met
By the time we met
The times had already changed
So I never wrote a letter
I never took my true heart
I never wrote it down
So when the lights cut out
I was lost standing in the wilderness downtown
Now our lives are changing fast
Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last
Hope that something pure can last
It seems strange
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
But what's stranger still
Is how something so small can keep you alive
We used to wait
We used to waste hours just walkin' around
We used to wait
All those wasted lives in the wilderness downtown
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:27 pm to AlterDWI
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It also made you get off your arse & do something & meet people. I remember being forced to stay in your room felt like being on death row. There was a random Friday night in high school where no one had called & asked to hang out or go to a party. Felt like an existential crisis at 16 years old.
This is very true. Friday nights were the Big Event every week. If you didn't already have solid meet-up plans by late afternoon you might be stuck sitting at home wondering what everyone was doing and just hoping someone dropped by or spending your night driving from house to house and meet-up spot to party spot trying to find out where everyone was.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:28 pm to Dandaman
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Generation X — born roughly between 1965 and 1980 — stands as a bridge between the analog past and the digital present, and in that crossing, they’ve lost more than just time. They’ve lost a kind of living that was tactile, unpredictable, and deeply personal.
I am technically the last of the Boomers but can appreciate everything in the OP and I still do.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:47 pm to GetmorewithLes
I can remember the frustration of driving around drunk on weekends back in the 80’s trying to figure out which house or bar your friends were at. Seems like you would arrive where you had heard that they were going but they had slipped out to another place just a few minutes before. And I wonder if teens still drive around on the weekends drinking Budweiser ponies and chunking eggs at people anymore?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 6:15 pm to ScopeCreep
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Stuff like this makes me wonder how y’all created a generation of blue-haired queer-identifying weirdos who cannot cope with modern society.
That’s funny right there!
Posted on 6/30/25 at 6:18 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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wonder if teens still drive around on the weekends drinking Budweiser ponies and chunking eggs at people anymore?
It’d be cooler if they did!
Posted on 6/30/25 at 6:40 pm to Ruston Trombone
Yep, from about mid July to the start of school , it felt that life was in slow motion. I was usually ready to go back school to see friends and start watching college football by early August.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 6:50 pm to Dandaman
I was just talking to my FIL about this exact thing the other day.
Hot take…there will be a non-majority, but significant, subset of gen Z who will seek out and live an analog life in the future. They won’t be able to go full analog, but will separate their digital workplaces from analog home lives. They’re well aware of what poison social media is, seek human connections, and listened closely to their parents and grandparents about a lost, simpler world they would like to recreate.
Hot take…there will be a non-majority, but significant, subset of gen Z who will seek out and live an analog life in the future. They won’t be able to go full analog, but will separate their digital workplaces from analog home lives. They’re well aware of what poison social media is, seek human connections, and listened closely to their parents and grandparents about a lost, simpler world they would like to recreate.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 6:53 pm to Yeti_Chaser
Yep, we don't complain, we just go out and do the thing.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 6:56 pm to Dandaman
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They lost the richness of boredom. Days spent lying in the grass staring at clouds or flipping through a dog-eared magazine. The unstructured afternoons that gave birth to creativity, imagination, and the kind of conversations that sprawled into the night, unbroken by screens.
Yeah, that's not a generational loss. It's called becoming a fricking adult and getting a job.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:15 pm to Dandaman
Proud Gen X'er. The last great generation.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:20 pm to Lexis Dad
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Proud Gen X'er. The last great generation.
I don’t normally engage in generational debates because they’re pretty fricking dumb, but what exactly did the Gen Xers accomplish?
Y’all didn’t invent the internet, didn’t fight in any big wars, pretty much just coasted through the 80’s and 90’s economic boom that was created by the boomers.
Just curious what’s so great about the generation? Why are y’all proud?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:25 pm to White Bear
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Some gay arse shite dude.
You would know about the gay.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:33 pm to Ruston Trombone
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It’s easy to romanticize now when you’re not the one who has to spend half your day every day just waiting around for something.
During the summers by 9AM everyone was outside.. Or at someone's house whose parents were at work. I had to check in at 11:30. Ate lunch and around 1 everyone meet up again doing shite we were not supposed to be doing... Between 4 and 5 people would go home depending on what time their parents got home from work. At least 2 or 3 times a week the adults in the neighborhood (not all but a good bit) would be up around 6:00-6:30.. After everyone ate dinner... And just talk.. some drinking.. talking about whatever until the sun went down.
If something was going on and there was nothing to do you went inside, played Nintendo, watched repeats of sports center.. If things got really boring you prank called someone, etc
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