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FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Born in 72 and the SAT test hadn’t been messed with yet

In that case me either.

Born '67 in that strange gap between Boomer and GenX. Get told "OK Boomer" nonetheless.

Red 5 standing by.

Gen X here.

Who will be the first Gen Xer in the white house?
1. Nikki Haley
2. Marco Rubio
3. Ted Cruz
4. Andrew Yang
5. Other?

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Also I get the impression Wookie might be a tad younger, but he’s so jaded it’s like he stepped out of a mid 80’s movie. So he’s Gen X through and through no matter date of birth.

I wonder if the Gen X thing is the overwhelming tie that binds on the regular posters on this forum.

Lol. '83. Having an ass hole as a father didn't help much with being jaded. He was probably one of the last of that breed for my age as a father. I'm obviously borderline millennial with these arbitrary age groups. I have peers that were spoiled fucks that had no accountability for anything their entire childhood. And I was mostly spoiled, so that's saying something.

I was the kid that would throw away the "participation ribbon" because I didn't win. Fuck that shit. Trophy or bust. Always thought that stuff was more embarrassing than rewarding. When I was 6-7 years old thats about the time it started creeping in. Obviously probably different in different parts of the country.

My wife and I are older souls I think. We tend to hang with 40-50 year olds. There are a few younger 30ish people. But youngest is probably 31-33 at this point. And they're older souls themselves.

WookieMan says

And they're older souls themselves.

Mentally I've been about 60 since I was 20

WookieMan says

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Also I get the impression Wookie might be a tad younger, but he’s so jaded it’s like he stepped out of a mid 80’s movie. So he’s Gen X through and through no matter date of birth.

I wonder if the Gen X thing is the overwhelming tie that binds on the regular posters on this forum.

Lol. '83. Having an ass hole as a father didn't help much with being jaded. He was probably one of the last of that breed for my age as a father. I'm obviously borderline millennial with these arbitrary age groups. I have peers that were spoiled fucks that had no accountability for anything their entire childhood. And I was mostly spoiled, so that's saying something.

I was the kid that would throw away the "participation ribbon" because I didn't win. Fuck that shit. Trophy or bust. Always thought that stuff was more embarrassing than rewarding. When I was 6-7 years old thats ...

www.youtube.com/embed/nB337cFlIoo

Automan Empire says

Born '67 in that strange gap between Boomer and GenX. Get told "OK Boomer" nonetheless.

Get that shit too although born almost a decade later.

I say "OK, Permateen" in response. REALLY pisses them off because they're well aware of their arrested development.

About 1/4 of the Millennials, esp. born 87-94, are seriously fucked up. Yuppie's children.

With regards to SAT, MENSA hasn't accepted a score for twenty-plus years as a qualification for membership.

SAT: Yes (if you took the SAT before or on 1/31/1994). If taken prior to '74, the requirement is 1300. If taken between then and '94, the requirement is 1250. However, scores after 1/31/1994 are not accepted for membership. After 1994, SAT was considered an achievement test that one could study for.

Interestingly, GRE is still accepted even today with a high enough score.

krc says

With regards to SAT, MENSA hasn't accepted a score for twenty-plus years as a qualification for membership.

SAT: Yes (if you took the SAT before or on 1/31/1994). If taken prior to '74, the requirement is 1300. If taken between then and '94, the requirement is 1250. However, scores after 1/31/1994 are not accepted for membership. After 1994, SAT was considered an achievement test that one could study for.

Interestingly, GRE is still accepted even today with a high enough score.

I guess I’m not exactly a genius but I’m still proud of my 1220 in 1989. I was a terrible student and graduated with a 2.4 hs gpa. Actually got forced out of my honors classes in my jr year. But I didn’t study for the SAT. No prep, nothing. And it was fun watching some of the nerds scramble for their 1150 or whatever. Actually the only reason I got straight into state college as you needed at least 1200 when your gpa was that low(unless you were black or Hispanic).

One of my friends was an even worse student and got a 1280 so he got into the engineering school(from which he never made it past his sophomore year).

I’m still hella bitter about that!


RC2006 says

RC2006 says

Dude that sucks. Reminds me of getting a 'Team Schwinn BMX bike' instead of the mongoose or redline that I'd asked for. Turned out it wasn't a bad bike though and I got a lot of compliments. Plus it was cool being the only kid who had one.

Automan Empire says

Born '67 in that strange gap between Boomer and GenX. Get told "OK Boomer" nonetheless.

I don't look 55, so I never get that.

Mine was blue. First thing I did was replace that seat with plastic. Then the handlebars. Came with front brakes too, I dunno about this picture. I guess that's a 78 where mine was an 80 or 81.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Gen X guys are lucky; they dumbed down the SAT for them.

yeah lucky to get into expensive schools and major debt for nothing

just_passing_through says

Mine was blue. First thing I did was replace that seat with plastic. Then the handlebars. Came with front brakes too, I dunno about this picture. I guess that's a 78 where mine was an 80 or 81.

This is what we used to ride...The Stingray with the banana seat

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

I’m still hella bitter about that!

Did you have the uncles that would buy you accessories for the GI Joe Battleship or some Star Wars action play set, knowing damn well you didn't have the play set?

komputodo says

This is what we used to ride...The Stingray with the banana seat

Yup, me too! Age 5 though 1977. Stingray with a banana seat. Mine was red. That was my 1st upgrade bike.

I did not have a "Sting Ray" but a very similar design that included a T-Handle 5 speed shifter mounted on the top tube. Bought it with money from selling TV Guides. Everyone back then rode bikes everywhere, and we all had jumped ramps and ditches. And if you were taking your kid sister someplace, she rode on the handlebars. Everywhere there was a ball field or any other place kids would gather, there was a pile of bikes outside. Inner tubes back then were not as good as they are today, so we all had the tire patch kits and knew how to use them, as well as putting a chain back on the sprocket.

komputodo says

This is what we used to ride...The Stingray with the banana seat

We had an older kid down the street that either went to the Army or College, and bequeathed us, me and my brothers his Schwinn Stingray with the banana seat, but it also had extended forks, and was converted into a Chopper. When you made wide turns, the forks would flip around the back of the bike and you would go flying. I got big gash on my chin, and my face hit the pavement. The next morning to me and my brothers' astonishment, we found the forks had been hack sawed. My Dad blamed it on "The Jigs", and for some reason we believed him.
"The Jigs musta come in the middle of the night and did it!"

Ha your dad sounds like a character TPB. I think over my childhood I must have had 4 or 5 bikes stolen by Beans.

RC2006 says

Ha your dad sounds like a character TPB. I think over my childhood I must have had 4 or 5 bikes stolen by Beans.

We all knew the old man did it, but we didn't dare call him out on it, or we would have gotten our heads knocked in.

Tenpoundbass says

"The Jigs musta come in the middle of the night and did it!"

Jigs were "shifty" back in the day. You had to keep an eye on them...

You were really cool if you also had the sissy bar

I'm I gen X if I grew up watching some of these shows?

www.youtube.com/embed/-ofc-p8ZSjc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA1NT4I0s34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4C7vSByMM

I was born at the end of the baby boom from parents who were WW2 babies, but I was raised by the greatest generation, my grandparents. When I was born Kennedy was president our coins were real silver and we were at the height of the cold war.

Did all you gen X-ers get whooped by your parents when you were kids? I think they outlawed the paddle in school around the same time I graduated high school.

I got spanked by parents and grandparents, I was lucky to have all 4 until I was a teenager.

Since this has showed up multiple times, fine - I'm generation X. Born in 1971. The year of the Nixon Shock. And since somebody brought up a cartoon intro:


original link

This was on Canadian television, as I grew up on the border of Canada.

I think this site draws people from what we expected and the devastation we are observing. The rules have been ENTIRELY changed in our lifetime. I expected a bunch of people to go to jail in 2008 for the mortgage fraud because of the Savings and Loan Scandal. Our generation is witnessing the development of a criminal hierarchy.

In 1980 if there was somebody like Hillary Clinton, our government would have put that asshole in jail. No longer. We once had a real justice system and it evaporated in the 1990s. I feel very badly for the next generation.

We also made the internet, this was a good thing, but we trusted corporations that betrayed us. We will really try to fix this before we die. My purpose was to give you unlimited access to information, unlimited access to other cultures - to know our respective governments lie and to understand their viewpoints. This was my mission and a mission of many. It seems to have failed, but I'm not dead yet. It seems to be a continual war. I'm basically an atheist, but there really seems to be a force between good and evil.

There's a real fight there, we need to educate the younger generation. There is an absolute responsibility beyond our lifetime to ensure a better future for those that come after us. Our previous generations did it, we must as well. This is an absolute obligation.

I was born 1980. What I can remember is that no parents were watching us past age 7. By age 8, we were all over town on our own. The fire company rang a siren in town for lunch and one for dinner. Somewhere along the line, the idea of not looking after your kid even in your backyard is frowned upon. I've purposely raised my kids with minimal screen time and kick them out of the house with little supervision. My 8 year old son is old school to the core. We got him a vinyl record player and gave him all these records from the 60s from our parents collections. He loves it. HisI friends all got ipads. We gave him our NES and SNES. I got him a power drill, bits, and a set of screwdrivers/wrenches. He sits around in the basement building crap all day.

I'm a Baby Boomer.

richwicks says

Hillary Clinton

If she becomes secretary of anything outside of the prison law library there is no justice!

richwicks says

We also made the internet,

Sorry. Al Gore was a boomer.

MAGA says

Shout out if you still have teeth!

Space Ghost!

Onvacation says

richwicks says

We also made the internet,

Sorry. Al Gore was a boomer.

Haha, I remember that, and the Internet isn't like a series of tubes.

Nearly all of the development of the internet was done by generation X. The reason Silicon Valley exists, is that we had to congregate to build the basics of the communication system. HP is often credited with this area being created, but it was the development of communication that actually made it.

The bad news is there's a bunch of Internet central oligarchs that have seized control of it, the good news is that the Internet was made purposely to be decentralized to survive a nuclear attack. There is so much available that has been forgotten that can be revived. On a $70 raspberry pi (that includes case, power supply and board) I have the power of a mainframe in college where 10,000 students made use of it - simultaneously. People have absolutely no idea what sort of computing power is available to them.

It's not that difficult to make a server for a home, but the problem with doing this is that not only unfettered, encrypted and uncontrolled information be made available, ALL information can be made available. Censorship is justifiable to some extent, content that very few people would object to being censored. Next stage is absolutely no censorship.

Sorry world, I'm doing it.

Onvacation says

richwicks says

Hillary Clinton

If she becomes secretary of anything outside of the prison law library there is no justice!

You still believe in justice at this point?

The FBI lied to the FISA courts to try to remove an elected president then destroyed evidence by wiping all their phones. Our government is nothing but a criminal syndicate.

richwicks says

Nearly all of the development of the internet was done by generation X.

I thought ARPANET started in 1969?

Dang smart little Xers.

DARPA created the protocols and the basis for it. If you liked a text-only interface to anything, that's where their input ended. Gen-X would be the group that created nearly everything on top of that, app servers, E-commerce systems, search engines, etc.

Shoulders of giants, and all that.