Gen X - Saving The World

[Jeffreauxdawg]

The forgotten generation. Latchkey kids. As millennials and boomers spent the last few years blaming each other for their woes, we knew the truth... They both suck.

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We have been waiting for the apocalypse caused by the commies since 1983 when The Day After Tommorow made us all **** our Dukes of Hazard jammies. See, we knew our whole lives what to do when the **** hits the fan.. you veg out on the couch until it all blows by.

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For all of you boomers and zoomers. Here are some of the ways Gen X'ers have been training for social distancing since the 1980's:

In early elementary school we came home to find a key under an ash tray on the back porch to get inside. We fed ourselves a Hungry Man tv dinner and played pong on the Atari for hours until one of our divorced parents came home.

A few years later we entertained ourselves by watching videos on MTV for hours on end without ever taking a break, cause nothing was on demand and there were no guides... But you had to see that Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right video again.

We made mix tapes by spending entire weekends listening to FM radio on our boombox that had to be in your lap so you could smash the record and play buttons at the same time at that perfect moment when the dj quit talking and the beat was kicking in.

We don't need restaurants or frequent grocery store trips. We survived a decade on canned food, frozen meals, and our own geniuses like substituting a fruit roll up for the jelly on a PB&J when we ran out of Smucker's.

We played clue by ourselves... And battleship... And I have to think we invented Uno.

We got our exercise in when the Nintendo Power Pad came out. We trained to become gold medal sprinters and tripple jumpers... With our hands of course.

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Gen X invented social distancing... This is our time to shine. Any other examples?

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[jethreauxdawg]

That’s gold, Jerry.

 

[msstate7]

Nice, wasn't a pong guy though... played pitfall, combat, and qbert on Atari.

 

[Apoplectic_Objurgator]

Nice, wasn't a pong guy though... played pitfall, combat, and qbert on Atari.

Raised on space invaders - got the thumb arthritis to prove it

 

[seshomoru]

The mixed tape off the radio take me back..

We still had arcade games, too. I wore out Street Fighter II (Vega was my go to) and Ninja Gaiden. The back half of GenX also was also entering prime video game age when the Sega Genesis came out. Double Dragon was it, man.

Can't forget RBI Baseball, Blades of Steel, and Double Dribble on the NES for the GenX sports fans.

 

[My Bru]

We still had arcade games, too. I wore out Street Fighter II (Vega was my go to) and Ninja Gaiden. The back half of GenX also was also entering prime video game age when the Sega Genesis came out. Double Dragon was it, man.

Can't forget RBI Baseball, Blades of Steel, and Double Dribble on the NES for the GenX sports fans.

Super Nintendo vs. Sega Genesis was the pinnacle

 

[Southern Law Dawg]

Yo Xoomer,

In the current crisis, Millenials are of the same mind as you. Keep in mind we are 26-40 years old this year. We're not children. It's the boomers who think they're untouchable and Gen Z who are too nihilistic to care about their wellbeing while we're screaming at our parents and you're screaming at our kids to stay the **** inside.

 

[1msucub]

We still had arcade games, too. I wore out Street Fighter II (Vega was my go to) and Ninja Gaiden. The back half of GenX also was also entering prime video game age when the Sega Genesis came out. Double Dragon was it, man.

Can't forget RBI Baseball, Blades of Steel, and Double Dribble on the NES for the GenX sports fans.

Double Dribble’s halftime show is unrivaled in the annals of live entertainment.

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

as a mid 30s millennial, you and I are not that different.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

Yo Xoomer,

In the current crisis, Millenials are of the same mind as you. Keep in mind we are 26-40 years old this year. We're not children. It's the boomers who think they're untouchable and Gen Z who are too nihilistic to care about their wellbeing while we're screaming at our parents and you're screaming at our kids to stay the **** inside.

We all know millennials are doing okay at social distancing so far. You love those safe spaces. But are you built for the long haul? Can you spend hours on end playing this, when there is not a lock down?

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I kid. I was not saying anything about millennials breaking the rules, just more of how everything is always about you. For the last 3-5 years millennials and boomers have hogged the spotlight with your spats. Now...

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[Xenomorph]

Fun fact... the tv movie "The Day After" about nuclear war in 1983 debuted with a 42 rating. For comparison, that's about what the Superbowl usually does.

 

[Xenomorph]

For anybody who enjoyed this.. I highly recommend reading Ernest Cline's Ready Player One.

You can watch the movie afterwards.. but read the book first.

I come in every afternoon right now and ask my older two how classes were on Ludus today.

 

[dawgman42]

One of the most terrifying movies I ever saw. I also never realized until about a year ago that about two months prior to the movie's release on ABC that similar initiating events almost really happened.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

as a mid 30s millennial, you and I are not that different.

If you remember watching the Challenger explode on TV at school, used a dime to call home to get a ride from the pool in the summer, had a pager (clear blue plastic), and owned a portable record player at some point, we will let you in the club. But only if you do the truffle shuffle before you come inside.

 

[Xenomorph]

I'll be damned.. the whole thing is on YT:

 

[Drebin]

 

[Southern Law Dawg]

If you remember watching the Challenger explode on TV at school, used a dime to call home to get a ride from the pool in the summer, had a pager (clear blue plastic), and owned a portable record player at some point, we will let you in the club. But only if you do the truffle shuffle before you come inside.

Man, I can't wait to gatekeep older Gen Z's like this.

"If you remember watching 9/11 on TV at school, called collect and used the state your name part to spit out your message to get a ride home from after school sports, owned a flip phone at some point, and had CDs, we will let you into the club - but only if you do the Macarena before you come inside"

 

[Center Z]

Double Dribble’s halftime show is unrivaled in the annals of live entertainment.

 

[Xenomorph]

Awe....

 

[Tin Cup Cowboy]

We got our exercise in when the Nintendo Power Pad came out. We trained to become gold medal sprinters and tripple jumpers... With our hands of course.

This is a fact, it was impossible to play the Power Pad by running on it, also don't forget R.O.B.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

Man, I can't wait to gatekeep older Gen Z's like this.

You just don't understand, I am not a gatekeeper..

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[$altyDawg]

Here are some of the ways Gen X'ers have been training for social distancing since the 1980's:

As a Gen X'r and introvert, I've been social distancing for about 30 years now.

 

[Drebin]

We still had arcade games, too. I wore out Street Fighter II (Vega was my go to) and Ninja Gaiden. The back half of GenX also was also entering prime video game age when the Sega Genesis came out. Double Dragon was it, man.

Can't forget RBI Baseball, Blades of Steel, and Double Dribble on the NES for the GenX sports fans.

Double dribble was great. There was that one spot on the floor....free throw line extended, behind the three point line, right on top of the board nail....when you shot it from there, it went in EVERY TIME.

 

[garddog]

You just don't understand, I am not a gatekeeper.
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Must be the Keymaster then!

 

[sandwolf.sixpack]

Man, I can't wait to gatekeep older Gen Z's like this.

"If you remember watching 9/11 on TV at school, called collect and used the state your name part to spit out your message to get a ride home from after school sports, owned a flip phone at some point, and had CDs, we will let you into the club - but only if you do the Macarena before you come inside"

Haha, perfect.

 

[mcdawg22]

Double Dribble’s halftime show is unrivaled in the annals of live entertainment.

I’m pretty sure Boston’s mascot would not be allowed in today’s society. He was always trying to grab ***.
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[BlueRidgeMtns]

If you remember watching the Challenger explode on TV at school, used a dime to call home to get a ride from the pool in the summer, had a pager (clear blue plastic), and owned a portable record player at some point, we will let you in the club. But only if you do the truffle shuffle before you come inside.

my fantasy football team was the truffle shuffle for several years... and my pool didn't have a pay phone, so I just had to hope to god my mom didn't forget to pick me up.

Otherwise, you're older than me and maybe I don't want to be in your club.

 

[seshomoru]

I was built for this.

It's like my Hulk in Endgame moment. As an introvert with some significant social anxiety, this is the most calm and relaxed I've been in years. I can keep my door shut at work. Don't go in grocery stores. No birthday parties for kids in my son's daycare where I have to make small talk with people I barely know. Now still having two incomes coming in helps a lot with that as well, but I'm in a pretty good place mentally.

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

Ok, i laughed at that one

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

Madden on super nintendo, if you create a player you had to assign their attributes by going through drills. running the 40 was done by hitting A and B back and forth. The trick was using a pen to slide back and forth over the buttons.

4.2 40yd dash every time.

 

[SirBarksalot]

Wait..if you watched 9/11 at school are you a Gen Xer? I watched getting ready for work.

 

[NTDawg]

I guess I'm on the older end of Gen X. Before those video games we had the hand held football game and other sports but my favorite was the classic football. I was a pro at avoiding those little defensive dots. I played that for hours at a time

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Sesh, we could be brothers.
My office door stays closed. Spend the day playing my Texas Instruments console, figuring out how to deal with our new paperless policies. Watched an old episode of Wonder Woman until in became borderline NSFW and loaded my files in the Trapper Keeper and went home. Passed by the grocery store and saw the line to get in. Smiled, kept going. Got home, popped a miller high life, opened my deep freeze to gaze at its full bounty, grinned, closed it, went to the backyard to watch the birds. Played wiffleball with the son, showed him how to make that ball sing and dance. No worries.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Sorry about that. Accidentally fat-fingered a downvote.

I understand. I’m also introverted with a good bit of social anxiety. I dislike small talk too.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I've told my kids many times that I'm glad I grew up when I did. 2 things, among many, that stand out:

1) As a child of bike riding age I had no restrictions on where I could ride, just be home before the streetlights kicked on. Pretty sure I've set some world 22" bike speed records busting it to get home when I was far away and heard that dreaded click come from an overhead streetlight because I had lost track of time.

2) I explained to my college kids why my experience was better. Land line phone with an answering machine and it was expensive to call home with long distance charges. Net result, I rarely had to check in with parents. Mine kids are tethered to their cell phones/tracking devices. Yes, I know some parents who track their kids in college, like actively, all the time. I can't imagine. The only way I knew mine were still enrolled is I kept getting bills from MSU...

 

[Dawgbite]

Bicycles lost their appeal when they lost the Banana Seat. A piece of plywood and a concrete block made a takeoff ramp worthy of Evil Kneivel. Lived on a pretty good hill facing a big ditch along the highway, we would get a used tractor tire from the shop and take turns getting inside while somebody pushed it down the hill. We had to judge traffic pretty good because a good push would cross the ditch and cross the highway. A five strand barbed wire fence would stop you on the other side. Dad would tell us to stop stretching the wire on the fence but he never made us stop.

 

[Shmuley]

All day neighborhood pick-up baseball games the whole summer. Smear the ***** or tackle football after school. Building, jumping and busting *** on homemade plywood bike ramps. Shooting BB guns at squirrels and birds. Hearing my Dad's 140 decibel whistle that said, "Get yo *** to the house, boy." Riding bikes behind the mosquito man back when they were putting out **** that actually worked and somehow smelled captivating. Couldn't see **** and loved it.

 

[$altyDawg]

Smear the *****

Oh my...Does context matter?***

 

[She Mate Me]

If you remember watching the Challenger explode on TV at school, used a dime to call home to get a ride from the pool in the summer, had a pager (clear blue plastic), and owned a portable record player at some point, we will let you in the club. But only if you do the truffle shuffle before you come inside.

Present...

Bueller...

Bueller........

BUELLER..................

 

[mcdawg22]

Yeah I’m kind of happy my daughter and the neighborhood kids still do these things. We have whiffleball and kickball games. We ride bikes. Play nerf wars and laser tag. They spend a lot of time on the screen, but so did I from PAC Man to Pitfall to Super Mario to Legend of Zelda to Tecmo Bowl to Mortal Kombat to NCAA Gamebreaker and so on. I miss Mississippi lightning bugs though, we don’t have a lot in the panhandle. But we still lay on the trampoline at night finding constellations, only difference is the SkyView app tells us what they are. I do get a kick out of people that complain about their kids and too much screen time, but post on here 30 times a day.