Social Science Generation X

[NSWCROW]

 

[Jobe Watson]

'Stop sending men to die' = 'stop letting business operate (or something)'

Baby Boomers were the biggest supporters of the Iraq War.

Typical hypocritical boomer mentality. Boomers need to remember that there was a time when they were young and cool and did everything they now criticise.

 

[mouncey2franklin]

Baby Boomers were the biggest supporters of the Iraq War.

Are there any stats to support this? Genuinely interested to know.

By the way, I didn't say anyhting about the Iraq War. You mentioned Vietnam protests and pretended it was similar to 'climate protests'.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Middle-aged Shawn Michaels and Triple H doing going-through-the-motions D-Generation X decade after the first time. Gee, wonder why WWE's audience ****ed off. Bet they always abbreviated to DX to mask the age.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Are there any stats to support this? Genuinely interested to know.

By the way, I didn't say anyhting about the Iraq War. You mentioned Vietnam protests and pretended it was similar to 'climate protests'.

Baby Boomers top supporters of war in Iraq

And it isn't like people are protesting about nothing. They're protesting because they believe climate change has and will lead to deaths.

 

[mouncey2franklin]

Baby Boomers top supporters of war in Iraq

Thanks for the link, but there's no link to the poll in there, unless I'm missing something.

Three points on a poll could be within the margin of error.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

mouncey2franklin's 30yo turning 50 shtick gets old fast.

 

[ioppolo]

Gen Xers raised the millennials so they're both to blame. Baby Boomers raised th Gen Xers. They all ****ed up along the line

 

[PoppedCorn]

Boomers have been saying this to millennials for years, though.

"The world is going to heck. Back in my day, we didn't have these LGBTQ snowflakes getting offended at everything. Maybe these people should get a job and buy a house for $50,000 like I did, instead of wasting all their money on smashed avocado on toast. Millennials are so lazy!"

Boomers are without question the worst generation.

Worse than the I'm offended by everything generation while they sit there on their phone tweeting and instagraming about how they are saving the planet while wearing cotton ass cheap Chinese made clothes not even looking for a job because they're not a slave to the grind but happy to draw a dole check every week

Yup X are just the worst

 

[Macpotata]

Generation FY


**** YOU

 

[Scotland]

Every generation is the same to some degree. Your priorities and attitudes change based on your own life experience.

When I was a kid my grandparents were in their 70s and 80s, now the first of the boomers (the offspring of my grandparents' generation) are into their 70s. It's hardly surprising that someone who was 20 and rocking out to Led Zeppelin in 1969 isn't the same person 50 years later. Hell I know people in their 20s that aren't the same people they were 5 or 10 years ago.

What I will give a 70 old boomer credit for is that they lived through and are old enough to remember the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s so when some impressionable first year uni student with a Che Guevara t-shirt says 'we should do this thing that didn't work in an era I wasn't alive in' people who were around do actually have some perspective.

Where boomers differ is the period of history they were born into. The latter half of the 20th century was prosperity central in the Western world and the opportunities were massive. Rebuilding world after WWII, zero fox given or expected to be given about damage to the environment etc. So many people I've met just don't get this. You can still build a great life don't get me wrong, but that once in a lifetime period is done and dusted.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Fancy preaching about acceptance and tolerance of all backgrounds and then hating on an entire group of people born over a 17 year period.

 

[kickazz]

I honestly dunno what I am ....... THEN i was told im a "straddler" like i kind of belong in either/or category and we are special.

You might be a Xennial.

Xennials - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Jobe Watson]

Fancy preaching about acceptance and tolerance of all backgrounds and then hating on an entire group of people born over a 17 year period.

On the flip side, fancy calling an entire generation of young people "Generation Snowflake" and then getting triggered about a meme that makes fun of you for being old.

 

[edgie]

• Gen X was born between 1965 - 1979 and are currently between 40-54 years old.
• Gen Y, or Millennials, were born between 1980 and 1994. They are currently between 25-39 years old.

I strongly, strongly dispute that last one. There's a decade between me and my brother and it feels like it.

As technology advances changed culture, the time between 'generations' began to speed a lot. Then there's definitely a difference between me and people ten years younger too.


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[ioppolo]

I watched Freaky Friday last night, a movie released in 2003. The culture shift is huge. Teen culture especially.

 

[PT Bar None]

Lazy
Entitled
Too big for your boots
Wants to start where we finished
Lazy
Stupid
Smartarse

All things my young Gen X self was called repeatedly by boomers, pre-boomers and greatest generation members. Was a general topic of conversation at most family gatherings amongst the adults. How useless we all were. I'm pretty sure the boomers experimenting with free love, drugs and rock and roool music copped plenty from their elders. Wasn't that the base premise for most British sitcoms in the late 60's / early 70's?

Labelling an entire generation as this or that is what is really lazy and stupid. I remember back when 'entitled millennials' was gaining momentum working with a few 20 year-olds in tech. The were some of of the hardest working, balanced and caring people I've ever had the privilege of knowing. They remain dear friends.

I don't reckon the traditional media is helping. Every now and then, typically when there's a queue for the coffee machine, I'll flick through the HUN. Recently, every time I've done this the front page story has been something negative about young people (crime rates, cost of policing protests, etc.)

Yeah, I know I said lazy twice. They really liked that one. Still get called it. From people who haven't needed to have a job since the late '70's

 

[ioppolo]

We are only lazy because we don't work 50 plus hours over six days anymore.

 

[PoppedCorn]

I strongly, strongly dispute that last one. There's a decade between me and my brother and it feels like it.

As technology advances changed culture, the time between 'generations' began to speed a lot. Then there's definitely a difference between me and people ten years younger too.


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Just quoting the internet
Not sure who came up with it but that's Wikipedia

 

[Gough]

Lazy
Entitled
Too big for your boots
Wants to start we we finished
Lazy
Stupid
Smartarse

All things my young Gen X self was called repeatedly by boomers, pre-boomers and greatest generation members. Was a general topic of conversation at most family gatherings amongst the adults. How useless we all were. I'm pretty sure the boomers experimenting with free love, drugs and rock and roool music copped plenty from their elders. Wasn't that the base premise for most British sitcoms in the late 60's / early 70's?

Labelling an entire generation as this or that is what is really lazy and stupid. I remember back when 'entitled millennials' was gaining momentum working with a few 20 year-olds in tech. The were some of of the hardest working, balanced and caring people I've ever had the privilege of knowing. They remain dear friends.

I don't reckon the traditional media is helping. Every now and then, typically when there's a queue for the coffee machine, I'll flick through the HUN. Recently, every time I've done this the front page story has been something negative about young people (crime rates, cost of policing protests, etc.)

Yeah, I know I said lazy twice. They really liked that one. Still get called it. From people who haven't needed to have a job since the late '70's

Scott Morrison is our first Gen X PM and he fits that bill perfectly.

 

[edgie]

I would barter a 'millennial' from where I am probably has more in common with people of older generations from the cities than their own generation from the cities.

So many things go in to forming a person and a culture.

Generation wars are stupid.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Generation wars are stupid.

Right wing trash media kraken need people distracted from the rich vs non-rich war.

 

[edgie]

Right wing trash media kraken need people distracted the rich vs non-rich war.

I agree with half of that but carn mate, the Ok Boomer shit that really kicked it off is entirely left wing driven.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

I agree with half of that but carn mate, the Ok Boomer shit that really kicked it off is entirely left wing driven.

I don't know https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ok-boomer?full=1

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

I strongly, strongly dispute that last one. There's a decade between me and my brother and it feels like it.

As technology advances changed culture, the time between 'generations' began to speed a lot. Then there's definitely a difference between me and people ten years younger too.


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Yeah, when you realise that by the strict definition, someone born in 1980 has more in common with someone born in 1994, rather than someone born in 1979, you see that in some ways it needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

I'm gen Y and I never heard of gen Y when I was growing up. Gen X was a thing, usually people complaining about spoilt rock stars and professional athletes.

There's some merit to it (how the major events and innovations in your formative years shape how you think), but I think it would work better if it applied to an age demographic, rather than when someone was born. In other words you move from being Gen X, Gen Y and whatever comes next as you go from being a teenager, to your mid 20s, to your 30s and on, so you're not as quickly lumped in with someone who was in their last year of university when you were starting primary school. It's either that or the age range should be narrowed significantly and allow for overlap.