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
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.
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
BPA and phthalates in plastics, according to the article
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:03 (five years ago) link
and boy did they
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
i feel the boomers should be split into two generations. my parents were born in the early sixties and i don't associate them with any of that stuff.
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
they're not big pop culture people in any case, but if anything the 80s and 90s were their era. when they were my age, it was already the early 90s.
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
your parents are generation x
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
or possibly "generation jones"
Technically they are boomers, as the cut off is 64. Mt mom was the youngest of seven so she does seem knowledgeable about the whole “boomer experience,” although she somewhat despises that era (vietnam/counterculture) which she says “destroyed her family.”
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link