This generational bullshit is all made up by marketing assholes. None of it is legit, it’s all a distraction from the class war we should all be waging.
I’m gen z and did this as well.
Stop pitting generations against each other.The whole generation thing gets so much funnier when you think how other countries exist.
Imagine you experience a military coup at age of 10 and flee to North Iraq with your family where you live for a few years until your Asylum status gets processed and come to US.
Because of how weird whole process is however you still have to stay in a migrant detention center for anywhere between 2 days to several months depending on your age and gender as they check your papers and luggage.
(It looks like this btw.)Then some highschool teacher calls you overgrown toddler because “your generation is too sissy to drink from a hose.”
Oof. Poignant. hope you’re safe these days.
sigh
Where’s the competitive spirit in today’s youth?
I’m gen z and I did this, this whole gen vs gen stuff is dumb imo.
I did this as a gen z kid after the new millennium. I did it with probably 40x contaminants than gen x ever had growing up. I apparently have a spoon weight in plastic in my brain by 25, let’s see if I can drink enough water that I can fit a Frisbee up there by 30. Lets speed run this shit
The water tasted like damp basement! Oddly enough, it was a kinda pleasant flavour.
Filters?we don’t need no steenkin filters
Every generation is tougher than the next, but ever generation is responsible for the next.
Lol acting like these older cunts have any responsibilities to themselves or to their children is funny
I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?
Depends where you live, where I am you might get typhoid by doing that
Was in Toronto in 60’s and 70’s.
There was a gen x?
Shush.
First rule about Gen X, we don’t remember about Gen X.
They’ll he defined as a generation thay never got to be in charge.
The youngest X-ers need colonoscopies, and the Boomers still fucking refuse to step back.
I was going to make a pithy comment about Obama but nope turns out he’s a boomer. Boomer ages are roughly Trump at the old end and Obama at the young end. So yeah y’all lost your chance at having a potus with kamala. The silent generation may manage another though, because somehow they took power and barely ceded any to the boomers.
Us millennials will get a solid decade or two of power and then you’ll see. You’ll all see! Who’s occupying wall street now?
Actually, Harris was the tail-end of boomers.
We also used to eat the first white snow of winter and rain water as it fell from the sky. Things were less (or more) polluted back then!
And we have to dodge bullets at school. What’s your fucking point, old timer?
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha
My school was 20 minutes from one of the most deadly school shooting in the early 2010s. I went to high school with survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. But gen z is too sensitive is all I hear. We are literally surviving a war that takes place in classrooms and cafeterias, in our developmental years. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
Hey us millennials had to do that too. Just not as often
That Boomers are to blame for almost all of the current state of affairs
Point is your too slow to dodge because you spend all your time on your ass watching tiktok.
-same
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a
ballbullet.
I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.
Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.
When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn’t really a thing either. That’s how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people’s houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I’m not saying that’s entirely a benefit, because it’s not, there’s definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.
You’ll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.
What you don’t know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It’s a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.
IMO, it’s not intended to be tribalism, it’s intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it. I’m sorry that you feel like you’re being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme.
When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
No, actually, I won’t. I’m in my 40s, not some kid. If your opinion is that future generations should have to struggle as much as you did or they’re somehow not as good, then a solid fuck you.
I don’t. No. Future generations can, will, and bluntly, should, have it easier. Often it’s not, because the challenges change, they don’t go away, which is the great tragedy of it all.
I guess I don’t understand what you meant by the part I quoted. Sorry for this misunderstanding.
Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
What kind of moron goes through life thinking “Every generation after mine is going to go through the exact same experiences as me!” - what made you think that? What sort of pompous, self-important shithead of a kid were you?
“The future will be just like today”
Were you dropped on your head or something?
Apparently the biggest challenge of the current generation is “don’t be a fascist.”
Seems like a multi generational issue. I mean, the current generation was taught by someone, and will teach someone the same.
Fascism is not the answer. As a question, the answer should be no.
The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I’m an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I’ve drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting.
100 percent!
Dumb kids of all generations drink from the garden hose.
The smart ones go inside and get it from the kitchen (or disconnect the hose and drink directly from the tap which tastes perfectly fine)
First number I remember as a kid was “Belmont 3 6316”. Can’t remember what it meant though.
Edit forgot an “
Sadly, I’ve had enough experience with phone systems that I do.
Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316
But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the “Belmont” area phone system in order to call it.
Neato. You triggered a memory. Be in the area. I rem now that it was B-2 E-3
Pretty sure that was from the 3 letters on each number key.
So the number was 233-6316
Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie. Honestly I’m glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle.
When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
No, actually, I won’t. I’m in my 40s, not some kid. If your opinion is that future generations should have to struggle as much as you did or they’re somehow not as good, then a solid fuck you.
Your quoted reply was from MystikIncarnate instead of PriorityMotif, and it looks like you’re reading hostility into their reply that I don’t think was intended. I believe the point was that every generation will have unique struggles, and it’s not intended to wish that each one should have to struggle exactly the same way or amount by pointing out some of those challenges.
Back in my day we had generational tribalism for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and we liked it.
My generation would go out and not come home until we’d killed an industry, just to take jobs from the generations that killed our chances of owning a home
I am late GenZ, we used to drink all day, every day from pumps on playgrounds and parks that were just unfiltered well water. Until they shut them down one by one. This was not a GenZ idea, this were Boomers and GenX trying to line their pockets with the “savings” these measures had.
Legends say that Boomers and GenX then complain about children not playing outside anymore.
If you blame GenZ or Alpha for how they have grown up in the society and environment you left them with it just reeks of the signature Boomer mentality to fuck everything up for everything but themselves and then blaming everyone else.
I still laugh about boomers bitching about participation trophies while being the ones handing them out
Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I’m here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It’s just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We’re not that goddamned tough. We weren’t slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.
I did used to drink stream water without a life straw or other filter…
My filter was the rain clouds.
I was also in the back country on the side of a mountain, so likely just a little animal dung and brain eating amoeba.
Did you say brain eating amoeba? I have to get some.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Just an extension of Boomer survivor bias arguments.
They also didnt use seat belts blah blah blah…
