To put the Gen X vs. Y thing to bed

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
08/04/2014 at 16:23 • Filed to: None

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If you're too young to remember where you were when the Challenger exploded, Gen Y.

That should close that discussion neatly.

DISCUSSION (43)

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:25

Then I'm gen Y

Sn210 > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:25

awwww man, does that mean I'm a millennial?

FKA-RacecaR > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:26

Great determiner. I remember where I was when it happened.

Oh, and hi. I decided to come back. My life was boring without posting to Oppo.

505Turbeaux > Sn210
08/04/2014 at 16:26

yep, guess so!

CAR_IS_MI > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:29

I remember it clear as day.

It was dark, and I was surrounded by this weird fluid.

I was a lot smaller then though. Like microscopic almost... but I was growing.

So which one am I?..

desertdog5051 > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:29

Holy crap! That was 28 years ago? Okay, what do you have to remember to be a Gen X?

505Turbeaux > CAR_IS_MI
08/04/2014 at 16:30

damn tough one there

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:31

01/28/1986. I was born on 1991.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:31

Fuck that, I'm born in '81, I can't remember where I was January the 28th in '86 simply because I'm from northern Europe and the challenger stuff was never really that big of a deal here.

Conan > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:32

I'm glad I've been re-Xed. I was in class watching.

505Turbeaux > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
08/04/2014 at 16:32

yeah, should have qualified that as to us 'Muricans only

Jayhawk Jake > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:33

I just want to say, as a 'millenial' a lot of the crap about not having jobs and all that is really unfair to pin on us. It's not our fault the Gen Xers totally borked the economy before we became self sufficient adults

EL_ULY > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:33

YOU CALLIN ME A MILLENNIAL BOY!?

FUCK THAT SHIT!

there has to be an in between of X and Y. I am 100% opposite of a pinch millennial de cagada.

505Turbeaux > desertdog5051
08/04/2014 at 16:34

um, not having hippy parents maybe

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:34

Do I get bonus points for getting the date right? :P

505Turbeaux > Jayhawk Jake
08/04/2014 at 16:36

I don't know us X'ers borked it, that might be from the cats of a fatter nature. I would say that was a long time coming. I don't feed into the crap people say about millenials anyways

505Turbeaux > EL_ULY
08/04/2014 at 16:37

???

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Jayhawk Jake
08/04/2014 at 16:37

As someone trying to become a self-sufficient adult and taking a look at the economy today:

Shiiiiit.

505Turbeaux > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
08/04/2014 at 16:38

yes, but we don't know if you googled it :)

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Conan
08/04/2014 at 16:41

yup. Third grade for me.

Conan > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
08/04/2014 at 16:42

You have me by a year but all our 2nd grade eyes were on it too.

Redd, the RX-7 that could > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:44

Looks like I'm Gen Y then.

Textured Soy Protein > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:45

I was born September '82, remember the Challenger explosion, and am not really Gen X.

Jayhawk Jake > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/04/2014 at 16:50

When I started college the attitude was 'be an engineer, the world always needs engineers, you're guaranteed a job!'

By junior year it looked bleak at best. When I graduated I think about half my class actually had jobs waiting, if that. It's starting to improve I think, but it's still pretty bad.

RallyWrench > CAR_IS_MI
08/04/2014 at 16:53

You, sir, are Gen Y Number One. Unfortunately, that means that skinny jeans are your fault. Sorry man. ;)

Bandit > 505Turbeaux
08/04/2014 at 16:56

Well you see, I was born in 96 which is the disputed cutoff year between millennials and current gen. I tend to associate with the mellennials because I'd rather not be in the generation that can't remember 9/11 and that doesn't look up from their phone.

CAR_IS_MI > RallyWrench
08/04/2014 at 16:57

F that noise. I never worn, nor never will wear skinny jeans. The thighs don't fit past my calfs. I could curl some of these skinny jean wearing punks.

Can I disown my generation? PLEASE????

RallyWrench > CAR_IS_MI
08/04/2014 at 17:21

Ok, ok. We'll let it slide. I won't hold you accountable for that. But you must answer these questions three, WITHOUT THE GOOGLES:

WHAT are the spoken lines during the breaks in Van Halens's "Hot For Teacher"?

WHAT was you favorite color truck in the Ivan Stewart Off Road arcade game?

WHAT is Iran-Contra in 140 characters or less?

I keed, I keed. You're ok, because Oppo.

CAR_IS_MI > RallyWrench
08/04/2014 at 17:35

1. Who is Van Halen? If its not Little Wayne I want nothing to do with it.

2. What is Ivan Stweart Off road? what are you like 90? its called FORZA...

3. Iran-Contra is only 10 characters as is so its already 140 characters or less.

...

(You can hate me now. But I wont stop now)

sketchcat > Jayhawk Jake
08/04/2014 at 18:06

Shots fired!

do your homework skippy.

Gen X took it square in the azz when the economy tanked, we were decimated when the houses we had just bought became worthless overnight. the collective numbers of real estate equity loss and how it crushed our net worth sits squarely on the shoulders of "X". Boomers lost more based on gross numbers, however that IS NOT the same as the % of net worth hit we took.

50% of five bucks really screws your lunch plans as compared to a Boomer losing 50% of his $20.

you have to dig for any economic gems like that in the mainstream news but anybody who knows macro econ knows it guaranteed us a lesser fate than our parents ( this has been old news since we were in our twenties). Its taken too long for mainstream media to admit that, it only been rolled out as and attached to the millenials because after all...THE CHILDREN!

"y" and millenials, good luck. Dont ask us X for much, we never had the political power to do anything by nature of our %-tage of the US population, all were doing is treading water and trying to survive. Too many scared old boomers in front of us holding up our prospects, and economically desperate y's and millennials nipping at our heels.

I look at my kids and honestly get depressed.

I was working on my MBA during the crisis, My econ profs were having nervous outbreaks daily, back then. We students all were, because we were newly smart enough to understand the nightmare that was unfolding in front of us, we pondered not knowing at all like most people.

sketchcat > RallyWrench
08/04/2014 at 18:13

1. amonst otheres... " i got my pencil!" oh yeah! gimme somehting to write on!"

2. didnt play it.

3. Ollie North spills the beans, guns and money between iran, the CIA, and a central american drug cartel. its pretty hazy, But it was Ronnie ray-guns regime and he didn't remember.

T5Killer > Conan
08/04/2014 at 18:26

1st grade for me.

Conan > T5Killer
08/04/2014 at 18:30

I'm glad he helped us re X ourselves. It sounds like some racing term.

T5Killer > Jayhawk Jake
08/04/2014 at 19:20

Don't blame the X'ers. Alot of us lost our homes in this mess. I was enlisted in the US Army when the economy tanked. I lost my 1st house because my renter that was renting from me lost her job(The house was in my home town while I was stationed across the country.) I couldn't find another renter and attempted to sell it before foreclosure. I wasn't successful.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > RallyWrench
08/04/2014 at 22:22

I like the way the line runs up the backs of her stockings....

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > Jayhawk Jake
08/04/2014 at 22:25

GenXers borked the economy? What are you smokin'? It was the Boomers.

Except for Vietnam (and I admit that one was a biggie) those greedy mother fuckers got what they wanted out of government at every turn. I just said over the weekend to a Boomer that they will gladly ruin the entire economy if it means they get all of that social security and the thankless bitch replied 'well we EARNED it!' So, yes, yes she will wreck everyone else's economy to get what's 'hers.' Xers and Millienials are in this shit together.

JEM > CAR_IS_MI
08/05/2014 at 11:01

As someone from Gen X that nearly drowned in the baggy clothes phase...

Thank you very much for skinny jeans. First time in my life my pants fit.

CAR_IS_MI > JEM
08/05/2014 at 11:02

Eat some food and hit the gym...

Mike_Smith > 505Turbeaux
08/05/2014 at 14:51

X. I was in high school, watching the launch on TV.

Mike_Smith > Jayhawk Jake
08/05/2014 at 14:54

And how did we X'ers "totally bork the economy", exactly?

ZiptieMcBumper > 505Turbeaux
08/05/2014 at 23:24

Sitting in the school library, 1st grade.

Fuck that day.

ZiptieMcBumper > Jayhawk Jake
08/05/2014 at 23:38

Um, you have a lot to learn about economics if you're pinning that on Gen X.

505Turbeaux > ZiptieMcBumper
08/06/2014 at 07:36

no doubt