#gen x humor

[sassclassnass]

No doubt. 🎀

[brightlotusmoon]

"Where I grew up, punks, metal heads, hippies, and goths lived together in peace and harmony."

"But everything changed when the mainstream music nation attacked."

-found on Facebook

[dreamwatch]

I know younger Stranger Things fans really struggle with the idea that the kids parents have no clue what they’re up to for hours and hours every day and find it unrealistic but honestly… it was like that. I grew up in a huge city and still managed to bike miles from home, climbed though an old abandoned house, and a load of other shit I shouldn’t have been up to. My parents worked long hours so we were left to our own devices. I had a key, which I lost lots of times.

And look, our parents were not crazy about this, but they came from a generation that had very little and they wanted us to have more and that meant working long fucking hours in jobs they hated. It’s just how it was.

Also, please stop calling us boomers for fuck sake. Our parents were boomers!

[cashwhisperer]

[gummiiismiles]

One of my favorite past times is teaching my dad internet slang. Today, we’ve got:

• yassified, and subsequently “yas”

• slay queen

• bussin’

• spill the tea

• no cap

if you got any more, PLEASEE add them, me and dad wanna scar my brother with his use of internet slang HAJAHDJ

alternatively, my dad also shared some old gen-x slang, like:

• “ew, gag me with a spoon,” and

• you go girl

i will keep you updated as I remember more

[genx3791]

GenX will understand

[creepie-n-squirrel]

Today is the last day of Mercury Retrograde! Finally!

[nando161mando]

[its-all-down-hill]

[sassclassnass]

We were fucking wild. 🎀

[brightlotusmoon]

Gen x: the loser do nothing generation

Pfft, says you.

I mean, yeah, we did sit on our assess and get intoxicated every weekend, but what else were we supposed to do? Our parents weren't around and were too stressed to comfort us. The authority figures just saw us as trouble. I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me.

Apathy. Ennui. Our friends dying overseas in pointless military action. Our friends dying close to home because typical abled people didn't like how they lived.

The songs Illusion and Beloved by VNV Nation, dedicated to a Goth teen in the UK who was murdered literally just for being Goth. The murders of people who were different, on the edge, fringe, beyond, other, divergent.

A small generation growing smaller. The Offspring wrote songs about it.

We were losers who could do nothing. The government, the cops, they were never on our side. We lost. They made us stop caring enough about losing. And we did nothing.

So now it's time to rise up, and help the generation of our children take back what we lost.

I've got my lighter and my leather jacket. I smoke weed and I know things.

[travelinglowcarb]

Count me in!!

🙋‍♀️

[zaftigpink]

Shout out to my cohorts who cleaned up after our parent's key parties.

[danirouhq]

When the beat drops, you can't help but channel your inner Napoleon Dynamite.....Who else has those 'dance like nobody's watching' moments? Let's see your moves! 🕺💃

[cheshire-teeth]

[unpredictablestuff]

Your reminder that when Gen X was young we said "Life's a bitch and then you die" because we thought it was funny.