But when the wrong word goes in the right ear, I know you've been lying to me.
#GenX
"Mr Salt said the number of Australians aged 85-plus was expected to rise from 534,000 in 2021 to more than 2 million by 2071."
The 85+ group in 2071 will be #GenX, the smallest birth cohort since 1945. So, this prediction only makes sense with greatly increased longevity
"I'm crazy? When I went to your schools? I went to your churches? I went to your institutional learning facilities?"
#monsterdon Boomer parents, leaving their Children at home. I laugh in #GenX. They didn't give a flying crap about anyone but themselves. Kids were pets. LOL.
Record, play, and pause buttons all pushed in, finger hovering over the pause button waiting for the DJ to quit babbling… #GenX #F8
Today I convinced an 8 year old to love the 90s.
I was at a small outdoor market in a place called Moyie Springs. This booth was selling stuff and I bought stickers and a bead bracelet.
An 8 year old boy was helping. Somehow the topic came up, and I said the 90s was the best decade and I was really glad to have been there. The best music, the best clothes. The kid said 90s clothes were weird. I said they seemed to be making a comeback, that I'd seen some new TV shows with those fashions again. I was wearing corduroy and DM boots and a thrift logo T with a collared shirt over that, and said that I was still stuck in the 90s that's how cool it was. His boomer adult and I talked about her time some, the 60s, and I said we were trying to be the 60s in the 90s. He asked how old I was and I said 50.
The conversation moved on as I shopped, and then I heard the kid say to no one in particular: I wish I'd lived in the 90s!
😂
Per a meme I just saw, I think the real shared #GenX trauma was the taste of warm water from a translucent plastic water pistol
#GenZer tries to dub #GenX 'the worst #generation.' Then a #millennial steps in.
My late #genx #genx80s #eldermillennial nostalgists: Do you remember viscerally generic Safeway sodas?
To this day I have a sense memory of their "GRAPE" having more bite than metal and more (grape drink) bite than seems possible.
I remember their lemon-lime green drink being profoundly refreshing compared to (I guess) 7-Up.
Does anyone else remember this #Soda
There was no bringing-in-counselors-to-talk-about-this, it was just, *boom*, oops, let's pretend that didn't happen.
I think this reinforced the general trend of #GenX kids being taught to bury their feelings and never show weakness, so by the time we got to September 11th it was like, ok, this again, just keep going you're not allowed to have feelings.
It's not that we're unfeeling, we're just numb from too many tragedies too close together?
Ok I need my #GenX people to tell me if I explained this wrong: talking to the younger folks who ask "well what was your generational trauma?"
My answer is the #Challenger disaster. We spent a whole year watching videos from #NASA about Christa McAuliffe and her space journey, and then watched her and 6 other people get vaporized on live TV, and... then never talked about it again?
They literally wheeled the TV back out of the room and moved on to Social Studies.
I'm old enough to remember that when you were under 20 years old and obese, they just called you "Husky".
#GenX #Boomers
#AgingGratefully
#GenX is waking up from their hangover.
We're fucking coming for you GOP.
Ya know how, sometimes, you need your reading glasses so that you can fix your reading glasses?
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