What I Have Learned in This Forum Today: Generation X is Getting Screwed

[ScreamingMeemie]

No one is pandering to US.



Have a wonderful afternoon DU.

[Paulie]

1. I'm ready to be pandered at!

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Me too... I am at peace with my decision to vote for whomever the Dem nom is,

but I totally would love for her/him to love me.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Not gonna happen

We were only important enough for a letter - they couldn't even give us an entire word.

This X bullshit! No love for X - except back in the 90's and that's why I walk from the kitchen to the bathroom and forget why I went in there after slamming back a few glasses of water flavored tap water.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Just forget your own priorities and adopt those of people who were your age 40 years ago.

They know best what challenges you face and what you should do to overcome them.






For the sarcasm impaired >>------->

[jeff47]

4. Yeah...that's such a new occurrence.

It's fun being the generation so unimportant that no marketers bothered to name us.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. You noticed that too!

An oldie but a goodie


Generation X Is Sick Of Your Bullshit

http://gizmodo.com/5851062/generation-x-is-sick-of-your-bullshit

The first generation to do worse than its parents? Please. Been there. Generation X was told that so many times that it can't even read those words without hearing Winona Ryder's voice in its heads. Or maybe it's Ethan Hawke's. Possibly Bridget Fonda's. Generation X is getting older, and can't remember those movies so well anymore. In retrospect, maybe they weren't very good to begin with.

But Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.) Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.

Generation X wasn't surprised. Generation X kind of expected it.

But that's okay. Generation X is used to being ignored, stuffed between two much larger, much more vocal, demographics. But whatever! Generation X is self-sufficient. It was a latchkey child. Its parents were too busy fulfilling their own personal ambitions to notice any of its trophies-which were admittedly few and far between because they were only awarded for victories, not participation.

In fairness, Generation X could use a better spokesperson. Barack Obama is just a little too senior to count among its own, and it has debts older than Mark Zuckerberg. Generation X hasn't had a real voice since Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, Tupac was murdered, Jeff Mangum went crazy, David Foster Wallace hung himself, Jeff Buckley drowned, River Phoenix overdosed, Elliott Smith stabbed himself (twice) in the heart, Axl got fat.

ScreamingMeemie - Stay strong and hang tight with the cynicism!

I totally expected it! Totally.

[pengu]

15. That's hilarious

Perfect, even.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. It's a good one to read

When you realize that X is like that Bill on Capitol Hill.

[Blue_Adept]

23. +1

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. It's perfect!

[TwilightGardener]

6. Forgotten once again!

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. Second verse, same as the first.

[herding cats]

7. There's a reason GenX is called The Forgotten Generation

Everyone forgot about them what with their being sandwiched between the two MUCH larger Boomer, and Millennial generations.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. We are getting squooshed.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. You had your chance.

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. I was busy rocking out to the Pogues.

[Baitball Blogger]

42. Time well spent,

I'm sure.

[pengu]

10. So, the usual?

[treestar]

11. I am starting to see we are allowing the Bernie people to cause divineness

At least some of them are Republicans and probably laughing at this new generational divisiveness they have set in motion.

[kydo]

12. We never fit in!

Too young to be a boomer too old to be a millennial. Damn I am developing a resentment, better make an appointment with my therapist. But then I am a slacker so I'll just think about doing it tomorrow.

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. Right there with you.

[Paulie]

13. We made the Millenials. So we're just trouble makers.

[JustAnotherGen]

20. I didn't make one!

Don't put this on me!

[Paulie]

22. In general !!!

But it takes a village!!!

[JustAnotherGen]

24. Lady Town's Exit point

Is cloooooossssed. For deliveries!

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. I bookended the generation, and for that, I'm sorry.

One in the first decade, one near the second.

But they have excellent taste in music.

[JustAnotherGen]

43. I bet they do!

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Since you put it that way...

[Rocky the Leprechaun]

14. Yeah it's the Millennials vs Boomers.

We Gen-X'ers get the shaft, but I currently side with Bernie.

[intheflow]

16. This is why we're also referred to as the wedgie generation!

Wait. That's the wedge generation. It's just feels like we're getting wedgies from the Boomers and the Millennials.

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. Hahahahaha

I like it

[emmadoggy]

17. Same shit, different day.

[hootinholler]

18. Here ya go!

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. Love it!

Still keep the cam up in my background on bad days.

[Avalux]

21. This one is with my millenial daughters! I am proud of them!

[Odin2005]

25. DAMN SLACKERS ALL OF YOU!

[PowerToThePeople]

26. GenX has lived through the whole ordeal.

We were the first to feel the blade of reagan/dlc-onomics. We were the first to take out large loans for education for jobs that never materialized or were marginalized soon after we finished our discipline specific studies.

Many other later generations experienced the same, but we were first in line for our own execution.

[aidbo]

27. For around 4 decades now.

[d_r]

28. You ever notice

Boomers and Melli Niels are both lame as all hell?

[PyaarRevolution]

29. Consider myself a Gen X'er.

Though according to the decade numbers I'm one of the oldest Millennials out there. I reject that label. Attitudewise, I just feel more like a Gen X'er.
I'm not a pessimist but more a Cynic so I avoid the pitfalls an unbridled Optimist walks into.

[valerief]

30. That's freakin' hilarious!

[Armstead]

31. Well that gives you the freedom to choose who you want without preconceptions, I guess

[marmar]

38. Agreed.

We're out of sight, out of mind. ..... Let's all put on our flannel and meet in a coffee house!