dang there are kids in high school who weren't alive on 9/11
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
I just bought two Wharton collections from Library of America and I think that book is included in the second one - can't wait!
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱),
that's where I read it. The Mother's Recompense is better.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 May 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
If The Bunner Sisters is in there, go straight to that one, wow.
Twilight Sleep not just bad but really different from the good stuff; to the point it was literally hard for me to get my head around the fact that the same person wrote it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 2 May 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
In good Wharton, by the way, generational differences are certainly an issue but I think the view from middle age is less "kids today are terrible let us explain to them how they should be" than "our time is done, we shall now graciously and regretfully fade into the expensive wallpaper"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 2 May 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Wharton's heroine in Summer is a teenage unwed mother
― Brad C., Monday, 2 May 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
i am totally Generation Wharton
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 2 May 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
Boy, Gen X's stock couldn't be much lower these days (b. 1968)...we truly are the Jan Brady of this bunch
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 2 May 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
i am seeing more and more pieces about how my generation's anxiousness and fragility is secretly manipulative, a way for us to get our way.
― Treeship, Monday, 2 May 2016 13:22 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Starting to believe this btw
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 2 May 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
lol
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 2 May 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
Boy, Gen X's stock couldn't be much lower these days
I dunno, our attitude is described as "conditional loyalty" which I think far the most sensible stance out of all those depicted
but then I would (b.1971, have purchased Zima)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 2 May 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
well at least you never boomed a baby
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 May 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
Time to drown my Gen X sorrows in OK Cola
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 2 May 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
had a millennial written Twilight Sleep she'd have called it Twilight: Sleep.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 May 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
i think of millenials as 'people who got fucked over economically and are really tight with their moms'gen x as...ted rall basically? there's some people in there who hate the carter administration because gas linesand boomers think they invented everything
I am poorly educated
― no one in particular (Abbott), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link
or......millenials unlock mountain dew badges through phone things...gen x hated marketing but the ads for mountain dew were a tongue-in-cheek mockery of how bad ads are...and boomers had mountain dew ads with an actual fucking hillbilly
― no one in particular (Abbott), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 04:45 (seven years ago) link
or......millenials make dank memes for their youngs tumblr gif thing...gen x got in flame wars on usenet...everyone before that your life is unfathomable bcz no internet
― no one in particular (Abbott), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 04:46 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_LmlFeNnM
― Zachary Taylor, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
i wish i was a racecar driver who enjoyed the undying loyalty of wanda. baby boomers had all the luck .
― Treeship, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 05:12 (seven years ago) link
A little history lesson for you millennials who might not be aware that a lot of the slang you use today originated from gen x-ers.
http://hoaxes.org/images/hoaxarchive/1992grungespeak01.jpg
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
my own personal marker for Millennials is that they can't have actual, living memories of the 80s.
― ryan, Monday, May 2, 2016 3:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what's the cutoff for millennials? i was born in '82 and i remember most things from age 2-3 on up pretty well
― Star Wars ate shiitake (latebloomer), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
idk, i think millennials were born in the mid-late 80s and came of age in the 00s and very early 10s. early 80s seems like a gray zone generationally. seems more like Gen X to me
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 01:08 (seven years ago) link
xpost Gen X is the Jan Brady of the bunch because they're the most underpopulated of the three by far
it used to be defined as mid-80s, newer defs stick it in some wobbly 1980-1985 beginning age
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
i'm a highlander
X gonna give it to ya
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
...gen x got in flame wars on usenet
lol yes this
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
It doesn't seem polite to vote for my own generation, but it doesn't seem right to vote against myself either. I think I will abstain. Yes, that's the ticket!
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
Typical generational apathy and indecision
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link
so, are we voting for favorite, or most hated?
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
same thing, in this case..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
I read a really bad late novel by Edith Wharton (Twilight Sleep, 1927) which is 100% on the theme of "this younger generation of people is feckless and useless, what will a world in their incapable hands be like"
It's actually the other way round in some of Henry Green's post war novels: like, here we are (the younger generation) having to struggle all the hours God sends, doing crappy office jobs, having to put up with rationing etc when you lot (the older generation) got to enjoy yourselves drinking and dancing and having sex with one another in the 20s and 30s.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
as a millennial I'd like to officially disavow the generation that refers to Larry Graham as "Drake's uncle"
http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/16/drakes-uncle-leads-tributes-at-prince-memorial-service-in-minneapolis/
― ejemplo (crüt), Monday, 16 May 2016 12:06 (seven years ago) link
everybody check out this song it is PERFECT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
i tried to sit through it, had to turn audio off quick, then i tried just reading it, and i skimmed and got to the participation trophy line and i was just reminded how fucked up capitalism is for the 15th time today
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
who is micah tyler and why is he cloning himself so much and also why does he wear so many hats
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
i don't know but people keep posting it on facebook. a group of 3-4 people keep posting parody videos about millennials and the guy who hates vegans and people who do yoga
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
some ppl just hella thirsty for the approval of their shitty elders man
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 22 May 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 31 July 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 1 August 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Lines up with board demographics.
― Jeff, Monday, 1 August 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
haha eff baby boomers
― Treeship, Monday, 1 August 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
Hey! I resemble that remark!
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 1 August 2016 05:09 (seven years ago) link
Some days, I just like to sit back and watch my generation march briskly into oblivion. We are gonna the meanest and the crankiest. Can't wait.
http://i.imgur.com/TZihEZg.png
― pplains, Saturday, 10 September 2016 02:15 (seven years ago) link
millennials do love their boycotting too much. that said i'll bet the dude in the band cheryl mentioned probably sucks and deserves it.
― Treeship, Saturday, 10 September 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
I don't know how Snapchat is supposed to work. The last new band I got into was Spoon. But damn, watching the Pokemon Go explosion fire up my peers like it was Elvis shaking his pelvis on Milton Berle made me realize that sun has already set on the Generation Xpire.
― pplains, Saturday, 10 September 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
intimate sing-a-long with a bunch of washed up gen-x'ers sounds like an ok time, or more likely, a slice of hell on earth
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Saturday, 10 September 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
Depends on how much molly is there.
― pplains, Saturday, 10 September 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
i feel older than the people who are younger than me
― Treeship, Saturday, 10 September 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
I think at least one of my parents listens to the college rock satellite radio station or the "alternative" one that is a weird cross section of the 90s through present. It's confusing. I don't think my dad knows any artists and definitely doesn't buy any music anymore. I got him a Bluetooth speaker and then walked him through installing the satellite radio app on his phone.
My mom is really into Fallout Boy or something like that?!?
Baby boomers are weird
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Saturday, 10 September 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
my parents are resolute dorks they don't even try to feign an interest in indie culture
― Treeship, Saturday, 10 September 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
my gen z students think millennials are old. we're "cheugy."
― treeship., Friday, 10 November 2023 15:03 (five months ago) link
ok boomer
― rob, Friday, 10 November 2023 15:04 (five months ago) link
it's true we are cheugy
― c u (crüt), Friday, 10 November 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
they still love lana del rey though. some millennials are for all time.
― treeship., Friday, 10 November 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
millennials are old. we had our chance and we blew it on craft beer and justin timberlake. now all we have left is a future US president and I hope the zoomers are savvier with them than we were with obama.
― Left, Friday, 10 November 2023 15:12 (five months ago) link
This one always makes me laughhttps://imgur.com/ypBhMIW
― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:12 (four months ago) link
Rizz named word of the year 2023 by Oxford University Presshttps://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67602699
― o. nate, Monday, 4 December 2023 15:13 (four months ago) link
ugh i dont know how to do images
https://i.imgur.com/ypBhMIW.jpg
― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:14 (four months ago) link
"y'all worried about the wrong houses" kills me every time
― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:15 (four months ago) link