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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 132 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] diykeyboards@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago

My gen x ass was coming to post this exact thing. Well done.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Me: I wanna jump off a bridge

My biological mother: Want me to drive you there?

💀

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 60 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Where's Gen X?

Oh right. Forgotten.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 29 points 5 months ago

As my mother would say, "Whatever."

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

The true forgotten generation. But Gen X are eating popcorn while the rest are having generation war.

Edit: lol at people who are downvoting and taking my comment seriously. It's a jab at Gen X not being mentioned at all in mainstream discourse of generation fight amongst boomers, millenials and zoomers. I don't know what nerves I have hit but I am owning it.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

False.

I am eating peanut butter pretzels.

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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

X marks the spot, still looking though.

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[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 56 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I made a millennial joke in front of my coworkers after a two month break. (They have said waaaay worse). Anyway they HR’d me and I almost got a free vacation to the grippy sock hotel. Now I keep my mouth shut. They’ll never see it coming! Assholes.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What was the joke and what are they not going to see coming?

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That end is a bit ominous, you alright?

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 53 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Generation self defined by apathy and nihilism gets overlooked?

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Generation "Mentions not getting mentioned any time people talk about generations"

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Generation bitches and whines about being ignored while being the largest voting bloc behind the return of fascism

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just wish most gen x were actually disaffected and alienated and not just constantly demanding relevance. You were a latchkey kid and you have better references than us, get over it.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Meh. Whatever.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Right here, right now. Watching the world wake from history.

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[–] Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Every generation thinks they invented dark and surreal humor and without fail people who should know better act likes its some new and unique thing... it's more of an anomaly IMHO if a generation doesn't do this.

[–] MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but instead of joking about suicide like a normal person, boomers write confusingly veiled songs about it and pretend they're family friendly.

Looking at you, David Bowie! Space Oddity isn't for children!

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Boomers' jokes about hating their spouse is thinly veiled suicidality jokes. Like, they're giving big "I did everything I was meant to and I hate my life" energy

[–] MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I guess so, but blaming your sadness on someone you promised to love is a dick move if they never did anything wrong, and most wives never did anything wrong

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 12 points 5 months ago

Dark humor comes and goes in cultural waves, it seems.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 23 points 5 months ago

Gen X: "First time?" meme.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Its not like most of us care we are not mentioned in the same place these losers are.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly the point of GenX, please keep ignoring us. It's why we dress in black.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that the reason? I just prefer not to wear light colors that get visibly dirty so easily.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

We have talked too long. Back to the batcave.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

And this is why we don't

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just gonna put on my plaid shirt and strum mournfully on a guitar now.

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure their leading cause of death is suicide, just like the millennials. Although millennials are going to be getting old enough soon that heart problems will probably take over at some point.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago
[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Hey, blame Kurt Cobain about why Gen X takes it too seriously. You also can't joke with them about using too much heroin without a diatribe about Kate Moss and Anthony Kiedis

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Fuck Andy Dick with a rusty spoon

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

X'er here. Fair.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Gen X, the least worst generation

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean the statistically most pro-Trump generation, more so than even boomers?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the one that bitches and whines when everything isn't about them?

Pay no attention to that behavioral correlation.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh IDK…makes us seem inconsequential. For some awful reason my gen were the top trump voters. Somehow that slid under the radar.

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