I remember when that's what you called those horrible sticky traps you put by the door.
― pplains, Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:26 (seven years ago) link
I'm oct '80 so bang on the cusp of Gens X and Y, and I always felt like I noticed a difference in attitude, even among people just a little older or younger than me. I remember my older friends, when I was growing up, wearing their deadbeat badges with honour. Many of them were happy to live on the dole or to squat or were generally uninterested in careerism through a good chunk of their 20s. Getting a job was 'conforming', 'selling out'. There was a lot of concern about 'selling out' among these peeps, and in a way they've stuck to these values (despite finally getting jobs). Among people younger than me, I don't think this would have even been entertained. There were fewer development grants for artists etc, so any bohemian dreams of living off your creativity were quashed unless you could afford to go and work at a start-up in London. Careerism wasn't just an option, it was essential. The idea of signing-on wasn't a mark of cool, it was a mark of being a drain on state resources... This is obviously just applicable to a couple of narrow groups of people in commuter-belt UK, but still it's something I noticed quite strongly.
Incidentally, my own litmus test for UK Gen X / Millennials is the image that springs to mind if you hear the word 'terrorist'. Even today I still think of an Irish guy in a balaclava, so I guess I must be more Gen X than Millennial.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
I'm old enough to remember when the Simpsons were super controversial and edgy!
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Thursday, April 27, 2017 2:12 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol I was talking about pop culture stuff with my mom and she said, "When you were a kid we didn't let you watch South Park"! and I was like uh, mom, South Park came out when I was in high school and we didn't have cable. You're thinking of The Simpsons, which was never really that edgy, and I watched all the time a few years after it was deemed "edgy"
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
this was of course after I saw Book of Mormon with her and I realized I'm still not into musicals and definitely not ones that are 90% material recycled from South Park
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
<extremely psychoanalysis voice> I think of my mother, masturbating.
― why labour 'foot problems' since 2015? (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
this song is amazing... like, it's even more Algiers than Algiers. The Northern Soul thing is amplified but it threatens to be drowned under layers and layers of harsh noise. I fricking love it and it's easily better than anything off the first album (which is saying something)
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
oops. wrong thread
I think of my mother, masturbating.
wait who's jerkin' it in this scenario, you or yr mother
asking for a friend
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
When deep psychoanalysis voice is present, everyone masturbates.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
It's like musical chairs, but with enough chairs for everyone
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
'describe in single words only the good things that come to your mind about your mother, masturbating'
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Umc9ezAyJv0/maxresdefault.jpg
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
:'-D
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
millenials love their oxycontin
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/05/daily-chart-21
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
See, back in my day, we didn't have these cameraphones with a ruler app downloaded on it see...
http://i.imgur.com/GtWCpqE.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 3 June 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
this meme is real
― nice cage (m bison), Saturday, 3 June 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
dude with an uzi
― j., Saturday, 3 June 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
I have a boss that's right at the end of the baby boomers, awesome guy. Baby boomers are fine, but the older they are the worse they are and this guy is at the far part of the right end. I'm at the beginning of the millennials. I think a large part of the reason we work well together is that we neatly cut out the most garbage generation that's ever been: gen x.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
whatever
― pplains, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
What did gen x do that was so bad?
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
dressed cool, slacked
― j., Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:36 (six years ago) link
sold out, man
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:38 (six years ago) link
Hm
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:38 (six years ago) link
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/k-bigpic.jpg
― jmm, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
I feel like there is a split between older and younger millennials. Like a dramatic rapid shift in what it means to be a 21 year old from 2010 to now.
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
On another thread ryan said that everything has become political now, which feels right. Aesthetics/taste seems way more marginal in how people position themselves in the culture now. Maybe. Just spitballing.
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
millennials be spitballing
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:49 (six years ago) link
Old millennials.
Young millennials have better sense than that.
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
I'm "Generation XY Cusp" so I proudly embody the worst characteristics of both generations.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Sunday, 4 June 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
slacker narcissist
nice
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 June 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
― Treeship, Saturday, June 3, 2017
I'm under this impression as well, though I obviously have no way of proving it empirically. Although aesthetics is never devoid of politics, the two aren't one and the same. Simply glossing over the former as though it were mere window dressing is an existential mistake.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 June 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
The archetypal "hipster" would either ironically re-appropriate mass culture or reject it in favor of some underground "alternative" culture. In both cases, the goal was to carve a space for oneself outside the mainstream, which is political definitely but quietist as well.
Nowadays the zeitgeist is so loud people don't even try to pretend they can avoid it.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
tbh you would be amazed how good parents with young kids are at avoiding a lot of the zeitgeist that doesn't involve either tv that happens after their kids go to bed or headlines that are on whatever news site they check at work over lunch
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 01:01 (six years ago) link
I don't meet enough gen'xers that aren't reasonably pissed off by their day jobs. Most either cynical or apathetic about their work.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 10 June 2017 04:09 (six years ago) link
you own your own business, right? and stick around Texas despite itself. you really don't - you are responsible, determined and least of all "all about me" - I'm just saying it's demonstrable even if you leave out the self-awareness which is an instant DQ for anybody trying to belong to any stereotype
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 June 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
I embody 2009
― Treeship, Saturday, 10 June 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
I work for a big evil corp and actually enjoy my job too often
― mh, Saturday, 10 June 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Req588D.jpg
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 13 May 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
seems accurate
― cr.ht (crüt), Sunday, 13 May 2018 03:11 (six years ago) link
Eh, fair point. Whatever.
https://i.imgur.com/dw2ywqs.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 13 May 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
Boomers: actual phone callsXers: email threads millennials: slack gen z: discord
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 May 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
Folks... https://t.co/WU9JgfGwxo pic.twitter.com/pRAHrFIdBc— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) September 4, 2018
― sciatica, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 05:11 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/buvDZ5Z.jpg
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
* really good use of that King Crimson song
* i was at a house show over the weekend and this guy started talking about his taste in house music and how he liked old school stuff from when his parents were his age -- his parents were young enough to be my high school classmates.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 05:49 (five years ago) link
which got me thinking -- were baby boomers the first generation that really tried to socially/culturally integrate with younger generations -- or is it just another boomer myth? Like the stereotype of the aging gen-x hipster just seems like an update of the "weird old guy" at punk shows in the 90s?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 05:53 (five years ago) link
The weird old person has been hanging around at the the young people since ancient Mesopotamia, I’d guess
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
Wait what xp
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
were baby boomers the first generation that really tried to socially/culturally integrate with younger generations
there's also the flipside of that which is that so many of the touchstones of the boomer generation never went away - you can still go and see the rolling stones in concert, paul mccartney's still pumping out albums, music and film from the late sixties and early seventies are still forever being referenced in new art etc
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
speaking of younger generations, a couple of friends and I were wondering: were millennials the first generation to think (collectively, as much as a "generation" can think or exist really) the generation after them was unambiguously better in any single way? given that every single "the first generation to" complaint/theory is wrong, the answer has to be no, right?
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
Are men’s sperm counts really dropping that dramatically with no explanation? That is definitely a symptom of more things going wrong in public health
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
Btw i don’t think generation Z is better than me and ky fellow millennials.
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link