“MOM!!!!!!
You shrunk my flannel shirt I wore to my first nirvana concert!”

I still remember using mimeograph machines in school.

“totally gnarly”

Uhhh. The radio guy's sayin I only have to pay about 1/2 my rent.

"talk to the hand"

LMAO!

😎🦫

Kirsten, I promise, just the tip, I swear.

😜🦫

Do these Sperry Top Sider shoes make my feet look wide?

No, it’s not pink!...it’s called salmon colored.

F a g s

😂🦫

Kirsten's response, "take a chill pill".

I’m buying a rad 30-06

Sonic Youth rules!!

"word"

Creedmore is a lazer

Mom, can you pick me up Strawberry vape juice?

We didn’t have vape then...Cloves were smoked as cigarettes sometimes.

🦫

Boomer.

DAD!!!

Turn the TV down, they can hear it on the space station.

"eat my shorts"

Things Gen x says , I don't want too !
But why ?
But I want it !
Fugk the law !
Somebody call the cops , he broke my nose !
🤣
Then there is the funny looking doodads they take a big drag on and blow a huge cloud of smoke out .
Two things come to mind , so you're telling me this is healthier than cigarettes ?
2nd thing is , I remember a time when a big bellow of smoke would raise eyebrows .
Kenneth

PC for the transgenders

Totally!

Comfortable.

As in, "I'm not comfortable having this conversation."

Or maybe that's the y generation. I can't keep them straight.

"That's too stressful", which is used for anything remotely connected to that dreaded "manual labor".

I guess I am an Xer born in Feb of 65. Ten years ago they listed 65 as being the last year of the baby boom.

Anyway I have evolved to being an Xer and can say most of the sayings y’all talking about came into vogue in the Y generation.

"Oh yes, that is sweeeeeeet!"

Rad

Your probably right , like Paul , I can't keep them straight either , just a lot of the younger people .
But as I have said before , this shoe doesn't fit all .
Kenneth

Yah. We’re not that young anymore. Don’t see many 50 year old guys sucking on vape pens.

Whooaaahhh


Stifler’s mom

“Hella”

“Sick”

Mom, can you buy me a pack of cigarettes?

Dad, can I have 10 bucks.

Face!

"gag me with a spoon"

Yup

You know you’re an old dumbass boomer when you think Gen X’rs are younger than Millennials

Hey I just spilled 5 gallons of paint on your deck, but if you go out to dinner with me I won't sue ya............

pwned

“okay, whatever”

“Well meemaw, might be time to put you in a home if you don’t stop shîtting in the neighbor’s front yard”

"Cha-ching!"

"You have authoritarian tendencies"

“Nana, I realize that Pogo online gambling stimulates your synapsis with all the exciting blinkie lights, but youre flat broke. How about some Donald Duck cartoons? “

“ Researchers and popular media typically use birth years around 1965 to 1980 to define Generation Xers, although some sources use birth years beginning as early as 1960 and ending somewhere from 1977 to 1985”

So these people are 55-40 yrs old.

We don’t typically vape; that’s Gen Y.

We got screwed (and simultaneously spoiled) by Boomers’ spending.

Grunge spoke forth our nihilistic cynicism about the world.

Rad, gnarly, awesome.

“Dad take your pills, I don’t need you having another mini-stroke and foucking up my opening day sittin in the ER while you drool into a wash cloth”

That porn is taking forever to download on the AOL dial up internet

"I started taking Ritalin when I was 5 years old."

''I wish I wuz black''

Funny and true. The flomax crowd is nothing if not stupid.

Exactly, anyone after us genXers is a millennial (graduated 2000 or later hence the term millennial) meaning gen x ended with people born after 1981 respectively. Boomers are born to anyone old enough to have fought in WW2 so 1940's to mid 60's approximately when there was a baby boom following the war. Some have broken it down further into X-enial Y,Z etc. But those aren't universally recognized.
Boomers think anyone born after them is a millennial and needs a safe space when gen X is the last who grew up with asswhoopings, fighting on the playground, chores at home etc. Millennials are the ones who are typically man bun wearing participation trophy winning safe space needing whiners. I have met exceptions though to every group.

Great thread, interesting to see the responses

“Look at what the boomers allowed to happen to this great country...”

Poor boomers. Still whining and bitching. Lmao

Hear that first in 81 or 82...might actually be an Xer saying

I find it interesting that X-ers are seldom a topic of conversation. They’re caught between the Boomer “Get off my lawn” and the Millenial “This lawn isn’t environmentally responsible”.

Interesting indeed...

Half of what was said here isn’t Gen X. Lots of confusion

You older guys should be thankful for Gen X. We aren’t the bunch of lib hippies that screwed things up and we’re not a bunch of crybaby millennials that lived home in the basement until we were 35. We’re basically holding things together and we’ll be the ones leading the charge against the Libs when they finally push for the switch to the United Socialist States of America

"Face"
True genx will know that one lol

And this is very true

I'm a super proud X'er . We are the children of Reagan and the generation who are dealing with stupidity that the hippies that ran things and are still in positions of authority started . But we are not basement dwellers . Probably the last generation who come from real W.A.S.P. America . Get your generations straight or shut the [bleep] up . Totally Awesome dude !!!! Now GFY .

Most Gen X folks I know have some form of depression. Life never turned out the way they were told it would between MTV and Oprah.

Speak for yourself. Lmao.

And The View.

Lol!.

I will agree that Gen-X has more than its fair share of medicated people. I disagree with the concept, but there it is...

Hey, as long as you keep my Social Security checks coming , you good.


Lol.

Gag me with a spoon!

Yea, but you will be riding a bicycle. One of the flags of courage that I hear from Gen X'ers is they don't like to drive

Yep

Nope that’s gen Y

Skateboarding is not a crime.

Instead of making a list...

Damn kids these days...

Boomers in doubt, watch “The breakfast club” , Fast times at ridgemont high” and pull up the “we are the world” video on YouTube. Pretty much explains it all.
If you say you didn’t use mousse or hairspray when you were 16 you’re lying.

Ha troof

I'm not a "dumdass boomer".

I just don't GAF.

https://play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/do-you-know-these-common-gen-x-phrases

Latch Key Kids.

" OK boomer..."

Best bread and butter sandwiches ever made.

🦫

"I guess both political parties are corrupt beyond recognition."

"I don't care what you paid for that old Winchester Model 70, gramps. $250 is the most I'll pay. If you don't like it, call Tom Selleck and get a reverse mortgage to pay for your meds."

I'm kind of on the tail end of the boomer gen, born 1961.

In USMC boot camp, the DI's called us the 'Pepsi generation'.

Gen X's version of BLM riots

Miss lynn’s a bitch

LMAO...AGAIN!

Butter on saltines.

Hahaha. True.

BTW, "They all look the same".

Ohhh, Here we go.

Lol.

And a destitute, Canadian govt housing bitch at that, lifetime of bad decisions and no man to take care of her
lol

Some sayings transcend generations

LOL

LOL, Ok Boomer

Watched that movie every time I came home on leave lol, probably saw it more than any other movie in my life. "The Brat Pack"

Used a little mousse, not a lot.

#LayneStaleyleftustoosoon

That's a Valley Girl saying out of Commie Cali in the 80's, nothing to do with GenXer's.

“My dick is too big.”

At all.

You're such a poser.

Fixed

Let’s meet at the mall

I just bought this 1/8 of weed for $20

Gen X today at work.....

"I'm okay carrying ol' boomer but I wish he'd at least pick up his feet so I don't have to drag him into retirement"

"Dad, can I borrow some of your tools"

(I say that a lot, knowing I don't because he does).

What generation came up with..I'd like to build the world a home,,,and furnish it with love,,,with apple trees and honey bees,,,and snow white turtle dove,,,??
It makes otherwise normal people want to kill, maim, torture and perform African grade atrocities.

"That's bogus"! 80''s Valley Girls were a very distasteful part of gen X. 😄

Gen X is the last of the corporal punishment education system and the "physically disciplined."

My son was acting like an idiot one day.

"You know what happened to me when I did something like that? I got kicked. Want me to kick you?"

No.

"Then knock it off".

I didnt get reasoned statements, warnings or a choice. I suspect most Boomers didnt either!
Thats Gen X.

Boomers.

They fuggin drink Coke...

“Yes I can operate a manual transmission.”

They had hair down there. Manicured.

Everything after GenX finds the raw gunshot wound attractive.

......... "Pepsi Generation" ? Doesn't that date back to the early 1970's ? Were they still using that term when you were in boot camp? I was born in 1950, so I'm a Boomer, and I can recall that term being used in 1971 in the Corps by a Master Gunnery Sgt., ( E-8 ) on guys like me; a 21 yr. old Lance Corporal at the time.

I think some are confusing millennials with Gen X. Most of Gen X are Reagan kids.

“I have kids.”

"You go, girl".

I’m sure you’re sterile.

My (almost) 16 year old will say that before he gets his license.

Gen X was probably the last generation for a bunch of things from what I remember. Last generation where most kids got their ass smacked for doing something stupid. The last to remember when there were no participation trophies. The last to have a majority of stay at home Moms. The last to remember when a guy filled your tank with gas and asked if you wanted leaded or unleaded. The last to remember when nobody wore a seat belt. The last to remember there was a bomb shelter in the basement of the church because Communism was bad. The last to remember when there were no cell phones or Internet. The last to remember everything was written in English because this is America. Last to remember reciting the pledge of allegiance every day in every grade school. The last to remember hand writing everything in school. The last to remember when you would play for hours at night until your parents yelled at you to come home, because you has 3 channels of black and white on TV and no video games. The last to remember that when you disrespected an adult neighbor, school teacher, coach or police officer, there was going to be Hell to pay when you got home. Last to remember when people who weren't either men or women were freaks. Probably forgetting a bunch...

All of the above.

The best was cigarettes.

My grandma would send me to Holiday with ten bucks and a note.

My uncle sent me to the bar across his shop to get em out of the machine.

The little [bleep] got his own jet airplane, the little [bleep] he's a millionaire.....

We'd go to little league, the whole team, in a toppered pickup.

Lots of fights, pro wrestling hijinks.

Letting adults know the stupid [bleep] you did, others did, involved ass beatings.

Avoid adults (Boomers).

Yeah forgot about smoking everywhere. Although, I'm actually glad that's gone.

Last generation to remember no bicycle helmets.

Last to remember that paying for drinking water sounded stupid.

Bullshiet. Valley Girls were indeed very distasteful but they were no part of GenX. They were but a blip on a timeline. Get your Boomerass facts striaght.

Squidge is a f a g.

Last generation to remember when saying f a g was okay, outside of the campfire

"Old school" insult. Lol 😆

Squidge translates to [bleep] somewhere on the planet...

Commie F A G

Today its okay to be a commie.
Its okay to be a faaaag.

Being a faaaaag in a commie country, no dice.

Any faaaagggs insulted in a presently free country that votes commie, this is your last refuge.

Since you vote D/commie and all....

You know what we did with our battle scarred, psychopathic, war veterans that put overzealous police officers in their place?

We revered them:

I personally know a lot of great Americans that are 25-30 years of age. I also knew a bunch of the "greatest generation" that weren't worth killing. All this age defining stuff is bullshit.

WOLVERINES!

This

And this

I’m gen x

Still dont trust the soviets and yes I wear a digital Casio watch

Apparently,

thanks

I dont trust Boomers.

YMMV

I was fond of calling people I disliked or didn’t approve of “gay wads”.

Still do

Goosey...your a gay wad

Man...that takes me back. Good times

I remember when the men drove iroc cameros and the women gave it up in the back seat of iroc cameros

You would probably be happier if you didn't know so many people

I'm pretty sure a Chicago Boomer is the same as a Hot Springs Millennial.

Millennials are gay

My son is a Millennial. He has an Eagle and an American Flag tatooed on his upper right arm. He's never been in the military but he is a true American and I'd love to see you say that to his face.

Millennial's aren't bad if they were raised right.

We played smear the queer, and rhymed the original version of Eeny Meeny Miny Moe

Buddy got one for his 16th birthday. 6 mos later he got nailed doing 105mph in a 15mph through a city park we cut through to get to Taco Bell when we skipped school lunch.

Parents sold the car and he didn’t get license back til he was 18.

played smear the queer many a time.. Rub some dirt on it. No MRI's , just x rays when the bone popped out of the skin. lol

ETA if you were just saying that a GenXer would say this, I get it. If you're a GenXer and saying it my comment stands.

Knowing is half the battle.

Prank phone calls. Forgot about that til now. No cell, no caller ID. Damn we used to play some funny [bleep] on teachers, parents we didn’t like etc...

she was a piece of arse

*69

Anyone remember that?

https://www.ebay.com/p/1500072938?iid=164622199984

Was it *67? Damn I’m getting old

And this is what I get for growing up in a time warp country assed area of the USA. I’m like 5 years too young to be a GenXer but I remember all of this with the exception of the black and white tv. I even had a sweet mullet until I was like 7, my childhood hairstyles were a mirror of whatever Sonny Crockett on Miami Vice was wearing.

I remember getting bitched at by my parents for calling information to get phone numbers lol

How hot is it? Call the bank for time and temp.

Yep I remember *69. Seems like it added a buck to the bill, or maybe that was calling information. I still have a landline, and my cell is a flip phone. It will be as long as they make one.

Gen x ers always had video games for the record and black and white TVs were not common...they were around but not common.

I remember microwave ovens...don’t see those around much anymore

Beta max...remember those?

I thought everyone had a microwave

I still wear a gen x watch...good times

Not in their oven they dont

Actually...that says it all. It's pretty well written, but it really reads..."me, me, me. me.".

"DUDE!!!!!!!!"

Still use it!

Gawd how some of the boomers would get pissed when you called them that.

Great thread, good times!

Okay, I had pong I could play on my 13 inch black and white TV. That got old in like 10 minutes.

Good times...

Microwave and microwave oven is same thing is it not?

I got to watch whatever cartoons I wanted on Saturday mornings, but then I could watch one hour of tv a week. Was this anyone else's favorite?

I think Gen X'er's are also the only people that understand these type of threads are made in good fun.

Seems to be

Pansexual

👍

I'm very proud to say that I have no idea what that means.

A microwave is a stand alone unit that uses magic to cook things

A microwave oven is a regular oven with a microwave setting built in. Two units in one...like a tv with a vcr built in

I guess I've never seen a microwave oven.

Me either.

Me neither, also not sure what a xenophobe is. No need for new words. Folks should figure out what old ones mean.

We had a double oven when I was young. Never a microwave oven.

Winner, winner....

We're on a mission from God....

What gave you THAT idea

This is so true ↑↑↑↑↑




Your record is broken. We didn't always have video games and B&W TV's were still common, mainly small 13-15" size.
Betamax....maybe if your family was very well off. We didn't see cable TV in out neighborhood until 1983 and didn't get a VCR until 1986
So you don't see microwaves much anymore? Do you work at company? Not sure I've ever been in a break/lunch room without a microwave since the late 80's.

Put down the drink and re-read my posts slowly. Lol. I’m setting one down to type so cheers

A microwave and a microwave oven are different things. Microwaves are common...microwave ovens are long gone. Home video games came out in the 70s. Not rare in the 80s...hell I had friends who had full in arcade games in their house!

As for Beta Max...well the Bundy’s (married with children) has a beta max and all it meant was never being able to rent movies.

Good trips down memory lane

Ok did some quick research...seems some people refer to a microwave as a microwave “oven”.

I’m referring to a microwave/oven combo


Haven’t seen a microwave-oven combo in years.

Also televisions that were built into cabinets...which would break and then get a stand alone Japanese TV set on top of the broken vintage American unit unit

Also recall when satellite tv meant a satellite in your yard the size of a car and it picked up porn in foreign languages.

Speaking of porn I remember when snappers still had hair

That’s a hairy clam.

Look Jerky, I dont need to talk to you.

Niiiice beaver.

Thanks...I just had it stuffed

i have an amana microwave oven at my camp. never used the microwave. afraid it might fry my nuts

That would be a satellite RECEIVER (or dish) in your yard.

And before NAG2 you could receive lots of porn as well as all channels offered by dish with just a small dish and a Pansat (or similar).

And yes I remember when snappers still had a mound of hair.

It actually says "I remember, I remember, I remember."

The "me" part is an invention from someone who either didnt have any friends growing up in X, or a disgruntled Boomer...

Arent you retired?

Yep, still using when I went through in 1979.

Some need their assy nipples rubbed and step on some piss clams....

Not rxactly. I'm retired from being a cop in the ghetto. Now I have another job and a small business.

Same here!

My aunt and uncle had that couch

Still makes me crack up after all these years thanks for this I do my best Sol Rosenberg and my boys die.

And long distance was expensive as schitt! I can remember well up into the 90s, long distance was nothing to take screw around with. You said Hi and Bye and got the hell off the phone.

Everyone’s Aunt and Uncle had that couch.

Dude . . .

I've logged over 3 million miles since 1993 and currently drive 2250 miles per week, plus an 80-mile round trip commute each workday.

F u c k yer bicycle.

I have a about 3 of those

The roofing one and homo firing boiled potatoes up his rectum with a tennis ball machine. lol

The adam sandler ones used to be pretty funny too.

City kids.

WINNER!

Laffin.

Yessir. From 5th grade on every teacher in our school had a paddle hanging on the wall above their desk.

It was a big dare to get a swat from Mr Rossi. He was 6'4" and beefed (remember that one?), but actually a nice guy. You really had to push him. Fuggin paddle had holes drilled in it.

Our bus driver would paddle your ass right then-there. Then usually if you needed a paddling, you’d get kicked off the bus for a few days.

Had a lady principal so she always called the shop teacher or o e of the coaches. The shop teacher had this customized plank also with air holes in it. 😃

My aunt and uncle had that couch an a matching chair and hassock. My dog puked in the chair once. You couldn't really tell, until my cousin sat in it . . .

Used to do this thing to scam the phone company...would call my parents collect and when it “said state your name” I’d say ride...and they would know I needed a ride from wherever I was and they wouldn’t accept the call...so it was free.

Damn that takes me back. Got my first Casio G shock watch in 87 and my first Swiss Army knife about the same time. Still wear a g shock square and carry a Swiss Army knife every day. Makes me happy

Paper route . . .

I bought my first deer rifle with my paper route money. Damn I hated delivering those Sunday morning papers full of ads and the low budget TV Guides.

Fast forward 10 years and waking up Sunday morning with a pocketful of bar napkins with names and phones numbers and trying to remember which one was which and which one was hottest and calling a landline later to start a conversation and try to plan a date or hookup.

Why wouldn't you seal the deal the night before with the hot one.

I wonder what all those ladies thought after giving you their number then watch you go to the next lady to get hers.

Interesting strategy.

Out having fun in the “bar district” and bar hopping from place to place.

I knew what you meant, I was a sailor. Sounds like you'd be spending all your time scouting rather than hunting doing that. Maybe you had a lot more free time than I did back in the day. like I said, interesting strategy is all.

I bought my first rifle with paper route money, a Winchester 9422 XTR, I still have it.

"Can we go rent a VCR?"

"Can I borrow the Chevette?"

and

"I have $2.00 for gas."

"Wanna go drag main?"

“Did you rewind this?”

Don't forget dual cassette recorders....

"Cassette tape"

"Mix tape"

"Walkman"

"Farah Fawcett poster"

"Party line (shared telephone line)"

The telephone that hung on the kitchen wall with a cord that could reach 20 feet but was always tangled into a giant knot.

Wow, what a difference! Blockbuster Video! Wow!

Riding down the highway in the bed of the pickup. Putting the aluminum cap on for long trips. My brother and I rode the whole 7 hour trip to the beach back there when we were kids, with no window to the cab. I guess Boomers knew what they were doing sometimes.

Taking shotguns to school in your car so you could go hunting right after school.

Shop class with no girls allowed.

I had a taxidermy class in high school. Imagine how that would go over today.

A lot of people hated high school, I had the time of my life. If I could go back in time, it'd be '85, '86, '87.

Grew up in Northern Vt. Very Rural 28 in my senior class.

During deer season would bring my rifle in and leave it with the principal and pick it up after school and go hunting.


Lefty

Growing up in Utah they used to close school a couple of days for the opener of the deer hunt. It was like a state holiday.

Same here. Wasn’t that hard. Hanging out with friends all day. No real worries. Not a bad gig. 86-89 though.

“Be kind; rewind”

"Back in the day, that buck would've been a trophy."

Mom,please don`t wash clothes when I am trying to sleep.

Let's go to the arcade.

Suck it!

Jesse hasn't aged well.

Boombox. Sanyo M9923. Got one just like it. Christmas 1978

Buncha slack jawed fa ggots around here.🤣