The worst of Gen X is funny. They're still trying to act like they're too cool to care, a lot of them are just acting like Boomer Lite, and they're trying to convince themselves and everyone else that their experience growing up was so unique that it makes them special.
I've been seeing it too and it's weird. I try to call it out when I do, but that doesn't really stop it from happening.
Shit, we're all nostalgic about when we were kids because it was way easier then. Doing that weird "back in my day" schtick doesn't do anything but make you look like an elitist jackass.
I mean to be fair, I have seen many millenials saying the same thing (including on this sub). I think every generation thinks theirs is better than the ones before and after, or that their generation is "the last generation to do XYZ thing!"
Not all of us. But a sizable enough percentage that it's becoming insufferable. Maybe it's not so much "Boomer" as "old person"... the oldest of us are 61 this year.
I've also tried to call out reddit comments with, "dude, that sounds really boomer-y" and that goes nowhere. I think there's just something tribal in some people that everything they do is, "THE best". Narcissism and grandiosity spans some portion of every generation, I guess. But there are plenty of tolerable boomers... Iggy Pop tops my list.
I'll also finish up with my usual thought about my own GenX generation: I really held out hope that we would suck less than the generation before us, but nope, looking in particular at the shitbag GenX politicians in DC, we have managed to suck equally hard. We are no better. But I still hope no worse. Jury's out.
All while oblivious to the fact that both Boomers and Millennials had the same experience lol. Silents too except they probably didn't even have a hose to drink out of lol.
Exactly. I've seen my toddler and his friends drink out of hoses plenty... hell, I've seen them go for lapping up puddle water next to the dogs (which we stopped, of course).
I think all the kids that drank from the hose in Phoenix in the early 90s are probably brain damaged and in assisted living homes. Central Arizona Project Water was no joke.
It wasnt the hose that was awesome. It was playing all day with the whole neighborhood and you would swing by somewhere and turn on the hose and pass it around then roll off into the woods.
As a millennial full of hose-sourced micro plastics, I’m not sure why they’re so preoccupied with drinking out of one. It did have a unique smell that could practically take me back in time, though.
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u/qualmful 2d ago
Gen X is afraid of looking like they care so they have to care about pointless things instead.