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Wawannabe

(5,641 posts)
Fri May 22, 2020, 03:45 PM May 2020

Generation X - gonna ride out Covid like no other generation

We the latch key kids.
No helicopter parents.
Agent orange running thru our veins....along with nicotine, alcohol, and thc!
Didn’t live with mommy and daddy till after 30 and would never want to!
Didn’t have tech to dumb us down as kids and young adults.

And we’ll watch it all burn down to the fucking ground and “dance with ourselves”!

Ready. Steady. Go!

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Generation X - gonna ride out Covid like no other generation (Original Post) Wawannabe May 2020 OP
I wish I could rec this a million times. Coventina May 2020 #1
Aww shucks Wawannabe May 2020 #2
Was born in 61 but in every way that counts I am a gen Xer. LiberalLoner May 2020 #3
Right on! Wawannabe May 2020 #4
Right? FirstLight May 2020 #5
We are the middle children of history..... NightWatcher May 2020 #6

Coventina

(27,084 posts)
1. I wish I could rec this a million times.
Fri May 22, 2020, 03:50 PM
May 2020

Social distancing?

Not a problem!

I can do 100 years of Solitude standing on my head!

No need for that pansy-ass social media!


Just give me a stereo, my stack of records, and a case of blank tapes and I'm entertained for months!

FirstLight

(13,357 posts)
5. Right?
Fri May 22, 2020, 07:41 PM
May 2020

We drank from the hose, probably chewed on lead paint, had playsets with no cushy padding underneath and burned in the hot metal...

And I totally agree on the social distancing. I realize lately I really hate humans... when I move from this town, I am going to go DEEPER into the woods and embrace my inner hermit
Ya, Gen X can easily say F-off! to the whole world.

Also, we were the first to grow up believing in imminent doom and apocalypse: Red Dawn, The Day After, Night of the Comet, just to name a few

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
6. We are the middle children of history.....
Fri May 22, 2020, 09:14 PM
May 2020

We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”


― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Yep, and we miss Blockbuster

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