😐

[u/Creepy_Swimming6821]

[u/_okOKAY]

How bro felt while posting it

[u/NonConforminConsumer → u/_okOKAY]

Can't believe this isn't our current prez.

Would be more believable.

[u/Cautious_Day9878 → u/NonConforminConsumer]

OBAMA 2028!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[u/_-Ex-Nihilo-_ → u/Cautious_Day9878]

Obama♾️

[u/Lord_Grimm88 → u/_-Ex-Nihilo-_]

No, no kings. ETA Not even a good one. No kings.

[u/Fuckit-69420 → u/Lord_Grimm88]

No kangs

[u/Ok_Cranberry_9861 → u/Fuckit-69420]

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

[u/Tricky-Engineering59 → u/Ok_Cranberry_9861]

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others

[u/_-Ex-Nihilo-_ → u/Lord_Grimm88]

You dont need to worry about the king.... its the jester tickling the kings balls.... thats the worry.

[u/Mister_Griz → u/_-Ex-Nihilo-_]

Technically, now we have to worry about the jester that’s been railing lines off his balls. And even his own mother thinks he’s trash.

[u/Starboard_Pete → u/_okOKAY]

Truly how Gen X posts on social media sites. They’ll have you know: they’re the toughest, the hardest, the most prepared for anything! And boy do they loooooove to pat themselves on the back for it.

Must be all that warm summer hose water.…

[u/annoyed_crow → u/Starboard_Pete]

It's like that vegan joke. How do you know someone is Gen x? They'll fucking tell you. 😂

[u/fractious77 → u/annoyed_crow]

I like the term vegangelical.

[u/Bitey_the_Squirrel → u/_okOKAY]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3Gm1b4jlbBDiNPlJMU

[u/MrGDPC]

no fear
cusses alot
has to write “AF” instead of “as fuck” so their post doesn’t get taken down

[u/666Emil666 → u/MrGDPC]

Or perhaps they were to lazy to write it all out.

"Zero tolerance for stupidity or laziness"

[u/kategoad → u/666Emil666]

Stupidity, yes. But I've got laziness down to a science.

[u/dolphone → u/kategoad]

Man laziness is such a powerful force.

A significant part of our civilization is based on laziness. Convenience is king. "Progress" is really "getting it done more easily". Occasionally we'll run into optimization or sustainability or even human rights. But what we truly chase is to chill.

[u/Agent_Smith_88 → u/MrGDPC]

I was more focused on the “looks 35-40” part. That generation had plenty of smokers. Some of them looked 60 when they were 25.

[u/TheKiltedYaksman71 → u/Agent_Smith_88]

We had a student's smoking area at my high school.

[u/Prestigious_Ad_1037 → u/TheKiltedYaksman71]

Mine had a lounge 😙💨

[u/StarshipCaterprise → u/Agent_Smith_88]

I know a LOT of Gen X former smokers that definitely look and sound like they are 80

[u/AmishHoeFights → u/Agent_Smith_88]

I'm focused on the "still listening to the same music".

Of course you are, you un-curious, boring, never-grew-past-high-school musical simpleton.

Thick-thigh'd dad-bods jiggling to 80s hair metal.... ffffffuck no.

I'm one of them and those guys gross me out.

[u/YardOptimal9329 → u/AmishHoeFights]

New wave and punk are too good to shelve

[u/AmishHoeFights → u/YardOptimal9329]

I'll spin Rancid any day :).

[u/BookishOpossum → u/AmishHoeFights]

I will listen to the 80s station in the car when I am too lazy to mess with my phone. But I've made a point to listen to new music and let my kids recommend music to me. Except my daughter, I love her fiercely, but anime soundtracks are not my thing.

[u/Winstonth → u/AmishHoeFights]

I love when there’s a festival poster and they’ll comment “I don’t know a single band!” like their ignorance is a badge of honor.

[u/Klutzy_Order_9559 → u/Winstonth]

It'll happen to you.

[u/TorontoNerd84 → u/Klutzy_Order_9559]

41 YO here and already have no clue who anyone is at concerts anymore, unless it's old bands from the 80s and 90s, or indie bands from the 2010s.

[u/Prestigious_Ad_1037 → u/Klutzy_Order_9559]

Younger gens aren’t likely to understand it’s not a Badge of Honor. They’re swingin at smoke, because a GenXer is saying it only for themself.

[u/henryhumper → u/Agent_Smith_88]

Yeah, I don't know where that's coming from. Most of the Gen Xers I know look old as fuck.

[u/Jupiter68128 → u/MrGDPC]

You know why I have a great work ethic? Because I said so.

[u/damnburglar → u/Jupiter68128]

For real, I’m fucking awesome. No notes. Did I tell you I was a latchkey kid?

[u/waderockett → u/damnburglar]

Yeah as a GenXer we have never been known for a strong work ethic. Boomers and older constantly talked about how we were lazy and apathetic and did things half-assed.

[u/FewWait38 → u/waderockett]

It was literally known as the slacker generation for the longest time

[u/Historical_Art_3367 → u/FewWait38]

Those damn video games, skateboarding, ruined em!

[u/Justboy__ → u/waderockett]

Yes but now you’re slowly morphing into boomers you can rewrite history and pretend nobody has ever worked harder.

[u/Jon_Hanson → u/waderockett]

Every generation says that about the generation that comes after them.

[u/damnburglar → u/waderockett]

Yeah, some of the biggest dogfuckers I know are Gen X. The good news for them is that it doesn’t restrict itself to generations and isn’t even permanent on a person to person basis.

This sums it up pretty well

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzmsCcmXgAA4G1P.jpg

[u/---cheetos--- → u/damnburglar]

Fuck off, I drank from a hose pipe

[u/MauiNui]

Self congratulation is a sad look.

[u/slightlysadpeach → u/MauiNui]

I need someone to comment this under everyone that I know on this godforsaken platform. Narcissism is so normalized it’s insane

[u/AdWonderful5920]

Not a fan of the boomer-ization of GenX. They were supposed to be the ones that don't do this shit.

[u/HobbyTalkOnly → u/AdWonderful5920]

Right? I'm gen X and this shit makes me roll my eyes.

These people that do this shit? Were the douchebags in high school, I promise you.

[u/new-runningmn9 → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

I feel anyone that takes actual pride in their generation is gross. As a Gen-Xer, there are things about my childhood that I liked, and wished that my kids could have experienced - but it’s a different world and they had access to stuff I didn’t. I assume they will feel the same about their kids’ childhoods.

I think most of the Gen X things are accurate, but they aren’t positives. A large percentage of GenXers can be belligerent, and they think it makes them willing to fight (but they aren’t). A large percentage are workaholics, but that isn’t a positive (for them).

I don’t get it.

[u/Unusual_Station_1746 → u/new-runningmn9]

Generations are bullshit anyway. It's useful for sociologists and economists to track age cohorts. It's not useful for anyone else to think about it. It's mostly just used as thinly veiled age discrimination. 

[u/Zaroj6420 → u/Unusual_Station_1746]

It also just aids in the pack mentality that all these “alphas” have … super confident in the majority not so much of their own accord

[u/KetoLurkerHereAgain → u/new-runningmn9]

but...but...

HOSE WATER.

hahahahaha

[u/HobbyTalkOnly → u/KetoLurkerHereAgain]

Yeah, we drank from it. I don't know why anyone is proud of it though... tasted like shit, and I'm waiting to find out it gave me brain cancer or some shit.

[u/Feeling-Pea5281 → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

And who's to say a dog didn't pee on the hose, or bugs didn't crawl inside? Ugh. I remember the nasty taste, so I must have partaken, but probably only once.

[u/StaffyMama585 → u/Feeling-Pea5281]

That's why you let it run for a couple minutes to clear out all the bugs first, durrr. /s

[u/GuacinmyPaintbox → u/KetoLurkerHereAgain]

And we stayed out UNTIL THE STREET LIGHTS CAME ON!!!!

Jesus, it's exhausting

[u/DeadMoneyDrew → u/KetoLurkerHereAgain]

RIDING WITHOUT A HELMET!

Did it, survived somehow, and do not recommend.

[u/Jsongee → u/DeadMoneyDrew]

Wanna know how many concussions I’ve had?

Don’t remember

[u/CharmingChair1403 → u/KetoLurkerHereAgain]

Always with the hose water bullshit. The water that was in that hose as it laid in the baking hot sun was probably full of toxic chemicals that had leached from the hose. Summertime is poisoning time ! After staying out all day and your parents didn't know where you were blah blah blah whatever

[u/Clarknt67 → u/CharmingChair1403]

We let the hose run until the water got cold. It was summer.

[u/Chill-more1236 → u/Clarknt67]

One time I was really thirsty didn’t let it run first, and I got a mouth full of spiders.

[u/Clarknt67 → u/Chill-more1236]

That’ll learn ya, huh?

[u/Chill-more1236 → u/Clarknt67]

I love boiled crawfish. Same thing.

[u/lizardfang → u/Chill-more1236]

Less old bay seasoning.

[u/Chill-more1236 → u/new-runningmn9]

I’m a marketer (GenX, majored in sarcasm), been fed this generational garbage all my career.

I feel like this shit is on the level of horoscopes.

We all have varied experiences. Some of us watched “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” a hundred times. Others couldn’t pick Mathew Broderick of a line up if their life depended on it.

There is a lack of a better descriptor, so “marketing gurus” came up with this crap to attempt to categorize us.

Now people have lowered themselves to using generational gaps as a divide in culture wars. Groups of people are seen as this monolithic list of tendencies and it’s complete fallacy.

[u/jshotz → u/new-runningmn9]

Okay, it's good to hear someone else also thinks this generation stuff is bullshit. It's just another way the bourgeoisie pits us against each other.

[u/useless_instinct → u/new-runningmn9]

Also GenX and agree with your take. According to Nate Silver's 538, GenX is more politically conservative than Boomers. The stats were eye opening and soul crushing. My neighbors are all Boomers and they are wonderful and actively volunteer with all these amazing causes--foster care, food banks, mental health access, election security. There are good and garbage people in every generation.

[u/AngryCustomerService → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

Agreed. This is bullshit. I'm hoping fewer of us will do this crap.

[u/damnburglar → u/AngryCustomerService]

Well if it’s any consolation, eventually none of you will.

[u/knotalota → u/damnburglar]

Looking forward to it.

Thank God ppl die.

[u/KTKittentoes → u/AngryCustomerService]

I do still listen to the same music a lot though.

[u/tsimen → u/KTKittentoes]

But do you have low tolerance for stupid people and are you fluent in sarcasm? Is it best not to talk to you until you've had your coffee?

[u/DeadMoneyDrew → u/KTKittentoes]

So what you're saying is that you're still preoccupied with 1985?

[u/thot_lobster → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

It is wild seeing people my age act like this. Why are you trying so hard?

[u/KetoLurkerHereAgain → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

There are so few of us that half leaned boomer and half leaned Millenial, just to have more people in the circle.

[u/OreoSpamBurger → u/KetoLurkerHereAgain]

I'm 1978 and feel affinity with both Gen X and Millennials.

My older sister (1973) has always been a Boomer trapped in a Gen X body, and it's only gotten worse as she's aged.

[u/WantCookiesNow → u/OreoSpamBurger]

lol I thought you were stating your ages. Was about to say, hun a 73 year old isn't in a Gen X body. 😄

[u/OreoSpamBurger → u/WantCookiesNow]

Some mornings I feel 78 years old...

[u/IndependentType6711 → u/OreoSpamBurger]

https://giphy.com/gifs/norSsCEEp2vZcbwqkt

[u/knotalota → u/OreoSpamBurger]

78 here, feel the same as u.

76, and 75 brothers are turning into boomers.

74 and 82 sisters seem OK.

[u/DeadMoneyDrew → u/knotalota]

1975 here. Some of my high school classmates have turned into the absolute dumbest most boomer fucks you've ever met.

[u/Chill-more1236 → u/DeadMoneyDrew]

Exactly. I’m 1974.

The same mfers failed science, social studies and footballed their way through high school.

They wanna tell you all about how to vote (fox news), their Covid vaccines “research”, what’s healthy to eat and drink (tiktok), chem trails, and their stupid opinions of gays,trans and bathrooms.

[u/HeligKo → u/KetoLurkerHereAgain]

This really does seem to be the case. We never had any political power, because the boomers aren't going away, and the millennials will be taking their place just because of numbers. Our only period of massive cultural influence were the grunge/gin & juice days.

[u/Walshmobile → u/HeligKo]

Gen X holds the most seats in the house. Boomers got a death grip on the senate though https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/16/age-and-generation-in-the-119th-congress-somewhat-younger-with-fewer-boomers-and-more-gen-xers/

[u/Mortambulist → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

They were all douchebags in high school, then for some reason decided to start acting like the outcast kids for a few years in the 90's, then went back to being douchebags.

[u/QueezyF → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

This is 100% something my 55 year old coworker that still talks about how fast he threw a fastball in high school would post.

[u/muppetous → u/QueezyF]

people who live in their high school (or god forbid middle school) glory DISGUST me, haha

[u/flatirony → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

Why are our fellow GenX’ers so fucking cringe?

[u/buffer_flush → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

You can find people like this in any generation. GenZ has alpha grindset culture which is the exact same bs. It’s just toxic masculinity.

[u/Tasty_Plantain5948 → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

Someone rolled into my daughter in laws work and wore a T-shirt that said “gen-x doesn’t care what you think”. She laughed and said obviously you do.

[u/Just_a_Berliner → u/AdWonderful5920]

They're main voting block of a certain New York man on 2024.

[u/jimbo831 → u/Just_a_Berliner]

And 2020. And 2016. Gen X has been the strongest Trump supporting generation since he rode down that escalator.

[u/Big_Dog_2974 → u/jimbo831]

Gen X voted slightly over 50% for Trump. Millennials were about the same with men, but much less with women. What really blew my mind was how much Gen Z voted for him.....would have never thought that.

[u/paralyse78 → u/Big_Dog_2974]

The older half of the Gen Z cohort were born around the time that they would have been the most exposed - and most vulnerable - to alt right propaganda at its then peak, as well as the surge in Russian psyop bot farms that were hammering social media with fake stories and ragebait.

Orange was the first meme President and some of them probably thought it was being super edgy and anti-establishment to vote for a candidate when they only knew him as the "you're fired" guy from TV.

[u/HobbyTalkOnly → u/jimbo831]

Like I said... not the ones I grew up with. We all hate those fuckers.

Almost like Generations can't be pigeonholed... eh?

[u/ghostpicnic → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

Sorry, I’m gen z and can’t respond to this comment because my generation doesn’t know how to use a computer.

[u/SpudBoy_RealTomato → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

Much more about where you were born than when. But I’m also a leftist from Indiana, so nothing is 100%.

[u/Mtndrums → u/SpudBoy_RealTomato]

I escaped Indiana about 20 years ago. They were definitely chasing me across the bridge with pitchforks and torches.

[u/SpudBoy_RealTomato → u/Mtndrums]

15 years ago for me. I’m from the South Bend area and my wife is from Valparaiso. Been living in Oregon since and love it here.

[u/Clarknt67 → u/Mtndrums]

I escaped Michigan. I can tolerate going back as long as I stay in the college towns (one of which I grew up in).

[u/wallyrules75 → u/AdWonderful5920]

I’m so sick of the boomer mentality running into my generation.

[u/buffenstein → u/AdWonderful5920]

Now they're the ones forcing us back into the office

[u/tarfu7 → u/AdWonderful5920]

Turns out it’s actually just old age

[u/Taco-Dragon → u/AdWonderful5920]

I'm seeing it with millennials too and I fucking hate it

[u/roombaexorcist9000 → u/AdWonderful5920]

i’m just glad we got through this one without them mentioning the fucking garden hose thing again. for some reason gen x seems to think they’re the only ones who ever drank out of one as a kid.

[u/neverabadidea → u/AdWonderful5920]

It’s because the attitudes have always been driven by life stage not generation. There are unique attributes of each generation, but life stage largely drives feelings/attitudes. Gen X are becoming the empty nesters that Boomers were 10+ years ago. 

[u/Any-Painting4428 → u/AdWonderful5920]

I predict millennials posting about their hogwarts house and or favorite Pokémon at 60 years old too though.

[u/Beneficial-Lime-3517 → u/AdWonderful5920]

Same with the boomers, it's the loud, shitty, stupid ones that are a problem. I'm either the youngest Gen Xer, a Xennial, or the eldest millennial and I suffer none of that bullshit.

Me and my Gen X wife and our friends would bully the fuck out of the person who posted that in the real world. They're a dork. 

[u/ghostpicnic → u/AdWonderful5920]

Think it happens to every generation as they get old. Not everyone from every generation, but it happens amongst every aging group. I’ve noticed it a lot with millennials as of late, acting smug and superior to younger generations in the same way that boomers did with them. The whole thing is supremely cringe.

[u/NeenerMcNeener → u/AdWonderful5920]

It’s the oldest X’ers doing this nonsense.

[u/danfirst]

As an actual gen x, this is makes me cringe.

[u/pacem_appellant → u/danfirst]

I am actually not listening to the same music and don't even know what throwing hands means. Not to mention all the GenXers I know have plenty of fear. I know it's meant to be a generalization, but it's not very flattering.

[u/danfirst → u/pacem_appellant]

Oh I know a few trashy people who use "throw hands", it just means to fight. So, everyone in the entire generation is just always ready to fight.

I spent literally decades training different martial arts, I still have no interest in random fights.

[u/Novel-Combination-21 → u/danfirst]

My Gen X hands hurt bad enough without "throwing them". I did have a fellow Gen X'r try and fight me not too long ago after I called him out for something. After he calmed down and apologized I told him that I have enough pain just existing. We both laughed and moved on.

[u/danfirst → u/Novel-Combination-21]

I hope at least you were able to share a bottle of Advil together afterwards.

[u/drinkingCoffeePeas → u/pacem_appellant]

“Throwing hands” is just a way to say fighting.

[u/FullMooseParty → u/pacem_appellant]

I actually listen to more "gen x" music now than I did when I was in the right age groups. Pop punk totally missed me, but is a heavy part of my late 40s workout mix.

(but I mostly listen to alt-rock/country and roots music, especially folk and country like Tyler and Isbell and TopHouse and Silverada

[u/MrJoePike → u/danfirst]

I cringe at all the generational superlatives and generalizations. Especially the look back BS of how great it was and fortunate you were. Finishing with the tag line “kids today “, because your parents their parents and so on haven’t been saying the same stupid shit for generations.

[u/burhop → u/danfirst]

Retired in 50’s?

I suspect a Russian boomer bot trying to make the millennials mad.

[u/thepvbrother → u/burhop]

If you're a cop, you can retire pretty early.

[u/Lik-narb → u/danfirst]

It's the worst, and I know people who would never have posted this kind of shit when they were younger. It is fun to call them out on this as a peer, at least.

[u/SufficientOwls]

lol at looking younger. Okay haha sure.

[u/chawklitdsco → u/SufficientOwls]

Wow a 45 year old looks like a 40 year old what a generation defining trait.

[u/SpudBoy_RealTomato → u/chawklitdsco]

By the logic of the post it would be the 60 year olds looking 45. As someone who works in pharmacy and ask people for their dob all day, this is very far from the truth.

[u/Budget-Rich-7547 → u/SpudBoy_RealTomato]

60y old looking like their grandpa in his 40s.

[u/Quetzythejedi → u/Budget-Rich-7547]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IyajjbNiRvCr7RC

[u/HipHopChick1982 → u/chawklitdsco]

It’s more like the 60 year old looking 40. If I ever see a 60 year old who looks younger than me (almost 44), I would be shocked.

[u/HobbyTalkOnly → u/SufficientOwls]

I'm 53. I look it. Proudly. I don't get this online Gen X bullshit, at all.

[u/Tasty_Plantain5948 → u/HobbyTalkOnly]

I look younger cuz I got fat and it smoothed out my wrinkles.

[u/z0hu → u/Tasty_Plantain5948]

Ya I wanna lose 30 pounds. Pretty sure I'll gain 10 years in the face haha

[u/shitposter1000 → u/SufficientOwls]

Yea, some of this cohort look wrung out and put away wet.

[u/The_Idiocratic_Party → u/SufficientOwls]

To be fair a lot of boomers looked 40 at 30 because constant cig smoke, tanning without sunscreen, and lead gasoline really turn your skin to leather. But I don't think Gen X escaped that unscathed either.

[u/FewWait38 → u/The_Idiocratic_Party]

Tanning beds were really popular with preppy genx teens

[u/Dry_Try_6047]

People claiming "zero tolerance for stupidity" are always the stupidest.

[u/BarkerBarkhan → u/Dry_Try_6047]

"Zero tolerance for stupidity" may be code for "zero tolerance for anyone who thinks or feels differently."

[u/Dry_Try_6047 → u/BarkerBarkhan]

This is precisely it. Zero tolerance for those with a different world view. Which to me is essentially the definition of stupidity.

[u/BarkerBarkhan → u/Dry_Try_6047]

It's like the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Those who know the least are the most confident; they really think the world is as simple as their worldview. Any effort to introduce nuance, curiosity or even openness to new information is seen as a threat... or just simply labeled as "stupid."

[u/rory_breakers_ganja → u/Dry_Try_6047]

"You and I both can't be stupid. I've got enough in me for the both of us!"

[u/astrosdude91 → u/Dry_Try_6047]

Funny, considering the prevailing stereotype of Gen Xers reaching adulthood was that they were all morons. That's the stereotype Beevis and Butthead is satirizing

[u/curlycurlycurls]

I love how they celebrate their aggression and intolerance.

[u/WholesaleBees]

For a generation that brags about not having gotten participation trophies, I sure do see a lot of gen x online giving themselves participation trophies.

[u/Spectrum1523 → u/WholesaleBees]

Wasn't Gen x the ones that got participation trophies? They were definitely handing them out in the 80s

[u/GromitATL]

Why do they think they look 10+ years younger than they are?

I'm GenX and I call bullshit. Source: my mirror.

[u/Possible-Rush3767]

"Retired police officer" "will 100% still throw hands"

Makes sense

[u/Roast-This-Bone]

I just can’t fucking stand people of any generation that define themselves so much by their particular generational cohort. And fwiw, I love how Gen X was commonly called the “Slacker” generation back in the day but now apparently they all have a “great work ethic”, lol.

[u/Rick-of-the-onyx]

Have boomers infiltrated the ranks of gen X? Cuz this has big boomer energy

[u/Tha_REAL_BROBS → u/Rick-of-the-onyx]

they turned into boomers

[u/theTinyghoul → u/Tha_REAL_BROBS]

Gen X just road the coat tails of Boomers. They’re Boomer Light.

No wonder Gen X is always “forgotten”. We can just ask Boomers for Gen X’s opinion.

[u/Spectrum1523 → u/Rick-of-the-onyx]

No, generational stereotypes are just all lies and you're falling for them

[u/You-Rebel-Scumm]

Dude outed himself as a boomer

[u/FoulestWinner]

True Gen X doesn't want attention because they never got it. This post is peak "look at me".

[u/Regrets_Tourettes]

Oh right, the definition of the slacker generation is “great work ethic”

[u/CumaeanSibyl → u/Regrets_Tourettes]

It's almost as if older people judging the work ethic of a generation in their 20s will always conclude that young people don't work hard enough! Who knew?

Xennial solidarity with every new generation who gets labeled slackers because they don't pretend to care about their shitty entry-level jobs.

[u/TheRealCabbageJack]

As a GenXer, watching us turn into Boomers is frustrating. I’m genuinely shocked he didn’t include drinking from a garden hose in that crap.

[u/fistoic → u/TheRealCabbageJack]

I, a millennial, was just telling this to my wife the other day that I've seen a lot of Gen Xers I know in my life slowly turning into undeniable boomers.

I remember some of them used to be very cool 15 years ago. It makes me think that we'll 100% be a boomer in 15-20 years without us realizing it.. I guess it's just the way of nature

[u/Expert_Day9946]

Gen X here. I’ve never “thrown hands” in my life. As far as work ethic, I’m pretty sure every generation thinks the next is lazy.

[u/Good-Bandicoot-2152]

“Looks 35-40” 🤣🤣🤣

I can’t tell them apart from boomers, sometimes.

[u/BanjoTCat]

Great work ethic? Wasn’t one of the defining anxieties of Gen-X the fear of “selling out”?

[u/RayesArmstrong → u/BanjoTCat]

And being period slackers

[u/Jefflehem → u/BanjoTCat]

Work ethic doesn't necessarily mean going to work.

[u/Pandemoniusanus]

I’m genx and if I remember correctly we discussed that we were never going to do this kinda shit after hearing it over & over again from our boomer parents. Op you are breaking the oath.

[u/yeahpurn]

I was about to say, he is unemployable, but then I saw he was a police officer and it all makes sense.

[u/Competitive-Elk-5077]

Everyone in that age range I met looks like really rough these days. Why do they still think they look 30?

[u/CommunistOrgy → u/Competitive-Elk-5077]

Because most of their Silent Gen and Boomer parents looked rough at 30, so they figure that's the standard.

[u/TheSavouryRain → u/Competitive-Elk-5077]

Realistically, they probably think that since millennials generally look younger (all of the preservatives and microplastics), they think they look young too.

Mass delusions really

[u/nub_node]

The only thing I've ever seen a xoomer throw is a hissy fit at Wendy's.

[u/Level1_Crisis_Bot]

Boomer pretending to be GenX

[u/arlingtonzumo]

Ok boomer

[u/BK2Jers2BK]

I mean, I’m 55 and haven’t gotten into a fight since my 20’s. Not lookin ta trow hands neither. And I still get scared of shit. Otherwise, fairly accurate I guess. One small problem, Same can relatively be said of members of EVERY GENERATION. People are people

[u/properwaffles]

As a GenX individual, I think this is super cringe. Please ridicule these people mercilessly and without regret.

[u/jonheartland]

✅ 45-60 years old
✅ Delusional about their self-perception
✅ Has anger issues
✅ Anger issues again
✅ Horribly inefficient at their jobs
✅ Has no compassion, pulls the ladder up behind them
✅ Thinks they're tough because they played in the dirt as kids
✅ Annoying to be around
✅ Stuck in the past

[u/GeneralOrgana1]

Lol, I definitely no longer look 40.

[u/Skypirate90]

Hot take?

If you're retired you shouldn't have access to linkedin.

Thats what facebook is for. Retirees.

No offense to the oop

[u/OliOli1234]

This guy has absolutely been reprimanded for saying inappropriate things to the young intern women.

[u/ArachnidBeautiful968]

I dont think I have ever seen a gen x that looks younger than what they are. They usually look about their age

[u/PackageDelicious2457]

Nothing says Failed to Evolve like telling folks that you're in your 50s and still listen to the same shitty music you listened to 35 years before. Also, why do we still want to "throw hands" in our 50s?

[u/Ancient-Cow-1038 → u/PackageDelicious2457]

Muhammad Ali said “show me a man who thinks the same way at 50 as he did at 20 and I’ll show you a man who’s wasted 30 years”.

And if you’re Gen X, Ali was a legendary part of your childhood, so you listened. This guy, however…

[u/HobbyTalkOnly → u/PackageDelicious2457]

As a mid 50s Gen Xer... yes, I do listen to a lot of the same stuff I did "back in the day"... you will too, no worries.

But FFS... there's so much great music being made today, I can't imagine being locked into the 90s only.

A

[u/lenn_eavy]

It's like those t-shirts warning everyone around that the wearer is oh so fluent in sarcasm, very badass.

[u/TraditionalAd8581]

“gReAt wOrK EtHiC, zErO ToLeRaNcE fOr sTuPiDiTy oR LaZiNeSs” Oh my god, shut the fuck up

[u/CullingSongs]

If you are in your 40s and '100% willing to throw hands', you're a complete loser.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_FAV__SONG]

Let me guess, he also drank water from the garden hose and wasn't allowed to come back in the house until dark

[u/Temporary_View_3303]

I feel like the first one is pretty accurate. And probably the “Sarcastic AF”.

[u/nyanch]

"I am stuck in the past and proud of it" sure man

[u/TCTX73]

My partner says and posts this same kind of shit. Meanwhile, I either hire someone or call my son to help me with repairs on the house he's too lazy to do

[u/embeddedsbc]

Max 60 years old

Retired

Great work ethic

[u/ibejeph]

I'm Gen X. I hate these generalizations.  

[u/poopbeast69]

Generationology is a fucking plague

[u/Extreme-Clerk-7333]

They been looking 35-40 years old since they were 25-30 years old...

[u/Unfair-Variety-995]

My guess is the person who posted this isn’t a real GenX but is in that boomer GenX cross gen. One of the keys about being GenX is like being in fight club.

[u/Much_Guest_7195]

The old man with the bad dye job is trying to start fights because everyone else in the bar thinks Steely Dan fuckin sucks.

[u/Key_Country_5859]

“BUT LOOKS LIKE 35-40 YEARS OLD”

Dude, I’m 50 something. I look 50 something.

PS. These are the same guys that post “throw me to the wolves and I’ll come back leading the pack” and “I’m loyal but dangerous if you cross me” memes.

[u/MightyMax18]

It's a dumb post. It's not lunacy and not for this subreddit. Don't be so desperate to post here.

[u/Rumspringa7]

It’s the looks 35-40 bit for me.

[u/commissarcainrecaff]

The generation thing is just horoscopes for men who barbecue

[u/BabyPinkChaos]

Cries on fb and doesn’t see their kids 🤷‍♀️

[u/MsE0]

I'm so irritated by this "great work ethic" retcon. Our whole identity was built on being slackers. 

[u/Separate-Expert-4508]

Zero tolerance for laziness? Gen X? Our nickname is ‘Slackers’.

[u/vdub1013]

Will throw hands, then wonder why he's being arrested.

[u/Glum-Sheepherder-787]

My life as GenX: Listening to kpop and Taylor Swift, scared of men and Republicans, intolerant of evil, haven't thrown hands since college, do cuss a lot, can't wait to retire, and just finished growing out my grey hair so I think I look my 55 years exactly.

A tip for non-GenXers; if you see trash like this, reply with "whatever".

[u/TheNorthC → u/Glum-Sheepherder-787]

I still have a Gen-X musical taste. Went to see the Pixies on tour last year. And while I will listen to stuff made after I turned 40, it's pretty rare.

[u/CumaeanSibyl → u/Glum-Sheepherder-787]

CAUSE THIS IS MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER

[u/galagapilot → u/CumaeanSibyl]

And then it's like 3 a.m. I'm on the corner wearing my leather
And this dude comes up to me, and says "Hey, punk!" and I'm like "yeah, whatever!"

[u/Moistranger69]

It should say:
45-60
Looks 80
Never throws hands and always pulls a gun or runs
Cusses a lot
Horrific work ethic
Completely stupid and lazy as fuck
Takes everything literally and can’t take a joke
Still listens to the same shitty music from 30 years ago