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30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves
Knowing history well is sort of a superpower. When you’re well-educated and skeptical, you’re less likely to fall prey to misinformation, weird gossip, and blatant propaganda. However, it’s a bit of a shock when somebody from a younger generation starts lecturing about historical events that you lived through.
Inspired by a post on X (formerly Twitter), some members of Generation X took to the eponymous r/GenX subreddit to share the times that younger people told them inaccurate things about historical events. Just because someone’s convinced that something’s true doesn’t make it so! Scroll down to see why overconfidence isn’t a good look when you’ve got your basic facts wrong.
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#1
I had someone tell me that AIDS wasn’t a big deal because well “they had d***s for that” 👀 I literally said to them I need you to shut up right now because you’re looking like the most stupid person in the planet right now. Pulled out old Google and showed them how many people died, why, and how horrid it was. Like I had friends who died. Complete A** Clown 🤡.
leendadll 1 year ago
Similar to OP, but as my friends were dying in 1989/90, a coworker told me that AIDS was a painless death. My response was not calm. I was a "fruit fly" and lost approx 30 friends, all in their 20s/30s, in less than 2 years.
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Deleted my previous comment because it came out wrong. Your coworker was an asshat, and I'm sorry you had to lose so many friends.
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Ece Cenker 1 year ago
Nowadays with the discussions about MPox going around, I read a comment somewhere that the disease was spread only by gay sex and so not to worry about it anyways. I immediately shut them down by reminding that this was thew view about AIDS back in the day and it wasted people's time and caused a lot of people to lose their lives! I cannot believe humanity could go and make the exact same mistake of misinformation about a disese again!!
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
My friend Thandi, whom I've known since she was born, died from it six years ago. Even with the d***s and everything - SHE STILL DIED. (She was SA'd by someone after moving back to Joburg but wouldn't talk about it.)
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Oh my, I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm sorry for what she had to endure for the rest of her life because some evil, sick, vile, ect excuse of a man decided to do what he was going to do to her, regardless. As a survivor of SA, I can't imagine having to later be diagnosed with AIDS and trying to survive that as well, she was one hell of a fighter/badass.
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Historyharlot93 1 year ago
It was just “that gay disease” and they deserved it. Until it jumped into the straight community. Then hell broke loose. I was 10 years old at the beginning of the 80s, and the terror was real. Nuclear war and AIDS were my childhood fears.
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Laughing otter 1 year ago
I lived in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS epidemic. At one point I went to a memorial service every weekend. Only one of my gay friends survived.
The Scout 1 year ago
To be fair, it has come down to a minor inconvenience as long as you live in a place where treatment is available. It is not even transmittable under medication any more.The problem back in the 80s and 90s was that all those d***s weren't invented yet. While the panic certainly went over board in some regards, AIDS was deadly, in most cases very quickly. It still is in places where people do not have access to medication (or are unable to afford those - this means you, USA...).
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 year ago
I moved to San Francisco in 1989 and it was still a very ravaged city. I lost many friends & clients over the course of my 10 years in the Bay Area, althought it had thankfully slowed down in the later 90s. My law office did pro bono (free) estate planning for those with HIV and/or AIDS b/c at that time there were no domestic partner laws allowing them to be in the hospital with their dying significant other. Some of the families of the dying, who had shunned them for years, would swoop in and take over the person's estate, leaving the long term partner with literally nothing. Not even a keepsake. It was horrendous and heartbreaking. My boss, Catherine, went to a lot of bedsides at SF General Hospital so the person could sign their POAs and Wills. Every year at the Gay Pride Parade, we would notice a marked reduction in members of Act Up! and other AIDS support groups. It was soooo sad. I miss Sean, Joey and Darryl so much. :( My ex-h and I did the AIDS Walkathon every year.
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#2
Yup. My favorite is when they are like: "What's your source? You have no proof!" and it's like: "I didn't read about this, I lived it.".
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
I worked with a Gen Z girl like this--always trying to tell me I was wrong about "historical" events she learned about in college. I'm like, "Kid, I know what really happened--I was THERE."
HolyDiver 1 year ago
Got into the same argument with my son. When I said I was there, he said 'so your trying to tell me my school is wrong?'... Yup. That's EXACTLY what I am telling you. He then said "You must have misremembered" smdh...
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Lew k 1 year ago
I always hear from my fellow younger blue collar workers how I am liberal because the media brainwashed me. Uh no I didn't start liberal and I don't watch the news. I'm liberal because I've been alive long enough to have lived through 4 republican and 2 democrat administration and my memory is longer than 5 minutes.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
If you've lived through 4 Republican presidential administrations, then you've lived through 3 Democratic presidential Administrations.
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CP 1 year ago (edited)
Human memory is notorious for being false. There was a study done after 9/11 where they interviewed people after to say what they were doing that day. Their stories changed a lot of the next 10 years. Your memories are influenced by all sorts of factors including other people's stories from that day,
Jacquie Carr 1 year ago
I know exactly where I was and I'm not American & have no ties to America. I couldn't list the whole day but when it was happening and for many hours after, I know where I was
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The Scout 1 year ago
To be fair, some events really would seem too crazy if printed in a book. But history IS crazy... I mean, inadvertedly opening up the Berlin wall by mistake by a tired and unprepared official? Having a 90 year old Queen starr in the initial videos for the London Olympics? Having something only visible under a microscope stop the world for years? Just because things are very unlikely, that does not mean they did not happen.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Oh, geez. I've had people (and not only white people, which is both a shock and a mystery) say to me that "things were better during apartheid". Me, who was born 26 years before it ended: "No."
David 1 year ago
As a generalized thing - It makes me giggle and sad when I see young people banging on about how easy Boomers had it and how we all got rich on easy money and that's why life is harder for them. I'm on state medical and driving a 22 year old vehicle because I can't afford a new one. I'm not homeless, but I'm also not riding that gravy train that some young people seem to think all boomers are riding. And neither are my boomer friends.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
On the whole, I eyeroll alongside you, but everyone's experience is subjective - two people can experience the same event in two different ways.
PFD 1 year ago
Not to mention that personal experience of larger events is *spectacularly* narrow. I've lived through all kinds of things where my personal and mediated experience was miles away from being representative, let alone objective truth (if there is such a thing).
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Insomniac 1 year ago
Oh, so much this. I've been an active feminist for 25-plus years. I've studied theorists from across the centuries. I've taken a degree in feminist literature. I have a half-done dissertation on sacred feminine mythologies (they differ according to culture) and how they've evolved. I know it all. The waves, the seventies sex wars, disability feminism, queer theory, Indigenous and Black womanism, all of it. But I need someone who wasn't even born when I was marching for my rights to tell me I'm wrong about everything and gender is a colonial construct that never existed in precolonial societies (WRONG - it existed in numerous manifestations) because they saw something on TikTok about it.
AgingBull 1 year ago
I don't know I think asking for source isn't a bad habit. Plus what you hear on the news at the time of an event isn't always accurate. News agencies might put out corrections to inaccurate information but the corrections are very quiet and in obscure places and just to prevent lawsuits.
Thanos'Fingers 1 year ago
You don't ask for a source from someone giving an anecdote. "I was there on January 6, I watched a guy in bull horns take a s**t on Pelosi's desk!" ... Do you have a source? Ya, me!
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MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago
I'd like to know what school teaches critical thinking. It was part of our English classes. Understanding what is fact and what is not - without being rude about it. Reserve judgement before you stick your head up your a$$.
#3
For me the most jarring thing is hearing people refer to records as "vinyls".
THEY'RE NOT CALLED VINYLS. THEY WERE NEVER CALLED VINYLS. CALLING RECORDS VINYLS IS LIKE CALLING CDS "PLASTICS". FFS, STOP THE MADNESS!!!
Records. They're called records. 12" records are also called LPs, short for Long Playing Records. 10" records are EPs, short for Extended Play Records, or 78s (if they are 78RPM). 7" records are 45s (because 45RPM) or singles.
GET OFF MY LAWN.
Jaymi Leigh 1 year ago
Yah I refer to my vinyl collection all the time. They were always called that.
Michal Pifko 1 year ago
This post is ridiculous. Records used to be made of shellac but after the 40s started to be made of PVC, so to differentiate them, they were called vinyl records, often shortened to just vinyl.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
Growing up in the 60s and 70s, I don't recall ever going to a vinyl store.
Pandarosa 1 year ago
More of a shellac vs vinyl thing, both are records but we started to say vinyl after the material changed in the 40s I believe? Probably still a bit regional tho as well.
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Sofia Carlson 1 year ago
Only after CD's came out. They were records before that, Always.
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Cthulhu Kitty 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure this is just a regional thing. Some places called them vinyls some records. Like pop and soda.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I heard them being referred to as "vinyls" starting in the 1970s and continuing until now.
Generation X refers to Americans who were born between 1965 and 1980. They’re the kids of the Silent Generation (who were born from 1928 to 1945) and Baby Boomers (born from 1946 to 1964).
Gen X precedes Generation Y (aka millennials, born from 1981 to 1996), Generation Z (aka Zoomers, born from 1997 to 2012), and Generation Alpha (born in the early 2010s to the mid-2020s).
Different researchers might suggest slightly different birth year ranges for each generation, so there’s a bit of disagreement here and there. For example, the moderators of the r/GenX subreddit argue that Generation X includes anyone born between 1961 and 1981, which is the broadest perspective on who might fit the bill.
#4
LOL my oldest kid told me how OJ Simpson may have not k*lled his ex wife and the matching DNA was likely his son Jasons. Listen here, I didn’t watch court TV for 6 weeks and read 20 books on the case to have you lecture me about a 10 second Tik Tok clip that “solved” the crime of the century!! You don’t even know who Kato is !!!
CP 1 year ago
When anyone says the person is innocent because the court found them that way, I always like to bring up OJ.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
In the Americal legal system, no one is ever found innocent, only not guilty, meaning there was insufficient proof of guilt. In the Scottish legal system there are three verdicts - innocent, guilty, and not proven. (The last one is said to mean "Don't do it again.)
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Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Thank you for reminding me that he's dead. Brightened my day for a minute.
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Jacob Ross 1 year ago
Don't speak to me of the old magics, witch. I was there when they were written! And by that I mean I have partied a bit with Kato Kaelin.
nine4t4 1 year ago (edited)
Kato was the Green Hornet's sidekick. The Jason theory has some substance. He would only have 1/2 OJs DNA, hence the inconclusive result. .He was a chef (weak, but the weapon was a knife. He has a history of violent crimes. He was VERY vocal about his anger at the breakup. The list goes on. The LAPD was so determined that it was OJ they botched the investigation and permitted an acquittal. That theory has been around for over 25 years, long before Tik Tok. I don't know but OJ could have been covering for his son. Edit: the glove might not have been his. But if he didn't do it he was guilty of covering for his son.
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
My ex-MIL was obsessed with the case and watched every minute. She swore (before she died) that OJ was covering for his kid and that he knew the DA wouldn't be able to convict him. If his son had been charged, the evidence (and the gloves) would have fit.
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Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
We were living in Germany at the time, and I remember my mom got off work, but made us stay in the car, not driving, just to listen to the OJ verdict via the military radio network.
monmichka77 1 year ago
"Crime of the Century" my tookus. Hardly the crime of the century. I hated that they called it that back then.
Id row 1 year ago
And back then, we didn't have alternate entertainment choices, like 150 different streaming packages. We had what was on regular cable tv and the ONLY thing that they played around the clock was the OJ stuff. Anyone around during that time knows every minute detail of that crime and trial even if they didn't seek out that info. There was no escaping it. It was everywhere.
#5
My son came home from High School one year and pulled out his phone so I could hear this great new Band.
Aerosmith....
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
My fave one was in 2001. Beautiful day was released by U2, first time hearing it and I went storming into my mums room to announce that this new band U2 and their stupid song ‘ beautiful day’ would not make them famous or liked 😂’ mum gave me the biggest eye roll with no words
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
As an Irish person I have frequently referred to their songs as stupid. 😅
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R Dennis 1 year ago
My stepkids used to complain because I played rock music all the time. One day the boys (early teens) came up to me and asked if I ever heard of Led Zeppelin. I had to remind then they complained about me playing it in the car. "Well, what about Black Sabbath?" I just looked at them like they were stupid and they got it... anytime they started liking the music I listened to, I changed genres telling them that that music was fine, but it came from ___ - I got them all the way back to Muddy Waters and Lead Belly.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Can't tell you how many times I've had to explain to my goddaughter's friends that "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" was NOT written specifically for the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, even though that's an actual plot point of the movie.
glowworm2 1 year ago
I actually had the reverse. It was playing in the car one day and I the 36 year old born in the late 80s, was shocked to learn that my father had never heard of it.
Load More Replies... Pandarosa 1 year ago
One of my favourite things is when someone discovers Prince and I show them the t-shirt I bought in 1992 when he toured Australia 🇦🇺
Boo 1 year ago
Thanks to all my older siblings (7 - 10 year age gap), I was never put in this position. I grew up with all the greats: Aerosmith, the Stones, the Beatles, Black Sabbath, Donna Summer, Abba etc. Best part of my childhood, tbh.
WFH Forever 1 year ago
I got the hand-me-downs. Capitol 45s with the yellow and orange labels of the Beatles singles etc.
Load More Replies... Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Teenage me brought home Tina Turner's Private Dancer album when it came out in the '80s. Mom said, "Oh she's good. When did you get into her?" I said, "How do you know anyone from MTV?"
Cat Chat 1 year ago
🙋♀️ I did the same thing in the 80s to my adult stepbrother by playing him this awesome band I thought he'd never heard of. It was Heart.
Danni 1 year ago
I remember when I was about 12 and ran home to tell my dad about this really cool mellow singer that "I had just discovered" called Donovan. He immediately took me to his record collection and pulled out his five Donovan albums. We had such a great afternoon! This one is sweet to me because you will always have that memory of listening to awesome music with your kid! I will forever cherish that afternoon (and many more that followed).
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
When I was around 11-13 years old, my grandmother was visiting (we were Americans living in Western Europe at the time). I came home one day super excited to tell her about this BRAND NEW song... then she started singing along with the song... HOW? I couldn't imagine my Grandmother knowing the lyrics to such a cool, new song. That is when I learned about remakes and remixes! The song was Cotton Eyed Joe and my grandma was a County Music fan LOL
#6
Or, being told you’re not an ally because you aren’t up to speed on pronouns, or what all the letters after LGBT mean, but you used to literally beat up a******s who messed with my gay friends.
R Dennis 1 year ago
People can downvote me all they want, but I think the need to specifically identify your sexual orientation and gender beyond what already exists is exhausting. Too many times, I come across kids trying to act as though they are a new gender or orientation... you aren't and stop making it your whole personality! Somewhere in what exists, everyone fits.
Alfey 1 year ago
Making it their whole personality is definitely a problem, but identifying what makes you you shouldn't be disregarded.
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Shark bait hoo haha 1 year ago
Doesn't LGBT mean lettuce, guacamole, bacon and tomatoes? (don't downvote me, it's a joke)
Sheena Gregory - Scott 1 year ago
I will not list every letter of the alphabet they think might relate, nor do I care what pronoun they want, I supported gay rights but this lot are just crazy, and divisive
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 year ago
Thisssss........I lived in SF and Marin County for 10 years from 89-99. I've done AIDS walkathons, gone to pride parades and parties, and had tons of LGBT friends. Honestly I think I had more LGBT friends than straight ones. It was often the joke that my ex and I were the token straight couple at parties!!! Or I guess the word is 'cisgender' now. I lost a lot of dear friends and clients to AIDS. Don't anyone dare tell me that I'm not an ally.
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Erik Olin 1 year ago
I remember someon telling me "It's not like Ellen (DeGeneres) has to worry about losing her job because she's gay." Ellen, who 20-odd years ago lost her job for being gay.
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
Idk all the details but I’m pretty sure Ellen lost her job for being a jerk, not for being gay.
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I have the attitude that I really really deep down don't give a s**t. You go do you. Stop yelling in my ear or getting in my way, it's annoying.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
have to explained to my friends all about the stonewall riots. That's why wee have pride day or month. Why is this not taught in schools all round the world.
Lew k 1 year ago
I agree. It's too much to try to keep up with. I don't encounter enough LGBT or otherwise people that it's something I'm constantly aware of. I'll call you whatever you like and have no problem with it but quit getting offended when i don't instictually know what pronoun you use 5 seconds after meeting you.
Lyoness 1 year ago
Personally I find just calling people by their name works.
Load More Replies... Susan Stead 1 year ago
I was talking to my kid (16) and their friend (17), both gay, about life in San Francisco in the 80s, and how impressive Dikes on Bikes were during the Pride parade. They were sooooo offended that I said "dikes." I had to explain to them that no, I wasn't calling them a slur, it was the club name they chose for themselves - they had it on their jackets and stuff. BTW folks like DOB were much braver at fighting the good fight than people today who view themselves as SJWs. It was risky putting yourself out there in the 80s, even in San Francisco!
UKGrandad 1 year ago (edited)
If you want to shock them, put on 'Good Morning Vietnam' and wait for Robin Williams to announce that "the Mississippi River broke through a protective dike today" and watch their faces as he goes into a flight of fancy about 'a large lady in comfortable shoes yelling "Stay away from the water"'.
Load More Replies...According to Statista, there were around 66 million members of Generation X living in the United States.
In 2021, their numbers dropped slightly to around 65.8 million Americans. It’s estimated that there will be around 63.9 million Gen Xers living in the US by 2028.
While it’s easy to assume that older generations ‘had it easy’ when it came to employment and buying property, it’s not all rosy for Generation X.
#7
I admit to getting tired about hearing how easy it was for me to get through college and such 25ish years ago. I also remember the 70s and 80s, and amazingly, my parents could not afford a giant house with one person working as a coffee shop attendant.
Every generation has some hardships, and today's young people have been screwed over in some ways, but they go way overboard with how easy it was for everyone before them.
I was there. I literally have social security tax records since I was 12, because I had to work. It was not some magical paradise.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Agree. Heck, i'd have loved to do moreto make things easier for subsequent generations, including my own son, but i was flat out just keeping my own head above water.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
They would be horrified if they saw how few possessions most of us had. One tv in the house and a landline phone.
R Dennis 1 year ago
Nah. I started delivering papers at 2am when I was 10 because we were poor... not broke, poor. Seven days a week, 365 days a year. I moved out at 16, had a full time job while going to school. I manage to from poor, to poverty, to broke, to middle-class, to comfortably middle-class. And I know for a fact, it is harder now than it was in the 80s/90s. I bought my first house and raised three stepkids making slightly better than minimum wage. They are older now and have their own successful lives. But they absolutely couldn't do now what I did. To think it's even comparable is delusional...
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
My husband and I did this too. From government assistance to slightly over middle class. Admittedly though, housing costs are WAY beyond what we had to deal with
Load More Replies... Robin 1 year ago
I think the issue here is that "luxury" items have reduced in cost, avocado being the classic example. While housing, phone electric ect have just kept going up and wages haven't. Don't get me wrong I have had jobs since I was 12 but I want the world to be easier for my kids. That would be the biggest win if each generation made life easier for the one that follows.
Id row 1 year ago
Yeah, I hate that bullsh*t, too. The roads were not paved with gold and people had to work their asses off. I sure did. I think that today's kids are just raised to think they're the next messiah and then when they hit adulthood, they're totally unprepared for anyone to say no to them. Then they cry and say how hard it is. Yeah, no kidding. It's *always* been hard.
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
It wasn't magical, but it was easier. I'm in my 40s and I can verify that even 15 years ago it was much cheaper to live. At least it was in small town America. Inflation is crazy and the disparity in the distribution of global wealth is at an all time high. Objectively speaking we have the worst American economy since the Great Depression.
#8
Imagine being a person who grew up in former soviet union listening to young people talk about the benefits of communism.
Edgar Rops 1 year ago
Or about an absolute bowl-clenching terror of it. Both are ridiculous. I'm from those parts of the world, I know.
robin aldrich 1 year ago
Well it's pretty Bowl clenching when any government "disappears" a citizen for disagreeing with them
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Verena 1 year ago
This absolutely depends on the location of these young people. In the US "communism" is frequently mixed up with " socialism". The concepts are very much different, so much that socialism is a common everyday concept of which huge parts are included in daily life in Europe (workers rights, affordable health care, free education and many more), whereas communism is banned in most parts.
Goth Vixen 1 year ago
I laughed hearing the Orange One saying Kamala is both a communist and a fascist, but I've seen too many examples of Americans being clueless about different political ideologies. The hatred for socialism is particularly ironic, when it comes from those who claim to be good christians.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
My family escaped it and I had no idea as a kid, they taught it in school one day and I went home super excited to tell my family about this cool concept called communism and why weren’t we al living like this (I was 9) 😂 I was sent to my room for the night w no explaination about what that moment even meant. It’s funny now
hwatinternation 1 year ago
You must've given them some serious whiplash with that comment. A mental flashbang, too.
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Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago
Well, one of this issues is that a lot of the countries criticized as communist were actually dictatorships.
David Beaulieu 1 year ago
A lot like the issues with capitalism, theory and practice are very different, and both systems can be corrupted. The problem with communism is not the theory, it is how easy it is to corrupt. If humans truly cared about others as much as they did themselves communism would be great. Unfortunately people are selfish.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Winston Churchill purportedly said, "Democracy is the worst form of government ever invented, except for all the others." I've often felt that the correlary to that should be, "Capitalism is the worst economic system ever invented, except for all the others." At least here in the US, people like to talk about drawing a "Clear, Bright Line" between religion and government, but I really feel that both systems would function much better if we drew a Clear, Bright Line between government and economics.
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Mariotevez 1 year ago
This makes me cringe. As a gen-X from El Salvador. When my bright eyed college freshmen younger cousins fawn over socialism I ask them if their professors covered What Lenin did to Ukraine or Pol Pot to Cambodia...
alicia 1 year ago
They're probably talking about democratic socialism, which is prevalent and popular in the happiest, healthiest countries in the world.
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
My wife grew up in the Soviet Union and is always shocked when people feel nostalgic for it
Soy 1 year ago
Modern people in Russia feel nostalgic for it, because the current system is not very good either.
Load More Replies... R Dennis 1 year ago
I read an article by someone who grew up in Czechoslovakia and he was explaining how the rightwingers in the U.S. kept conflating socialism and socialism responsibility. His father had been arrested by the secret police for an off-hand complaint about something arbitrary (like the power going out) and someone had informed on him. So it isn't just younger people getting it wrong.
greenideas 1 year ago
All the effing time. Even here, I've had people try to tell me my lived experience. B***h, I cried myself to sleep from hunger, go back to your iPhone and lululemons.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Imagine complaining about young people not having a clue while confusing real world politics in the USSR with the theoretical ideals of communism. Maybe you'd like to tell us all how bad democracies are based on the last 20 years of US history?
#9
I most recently remember this in 2020, after the election, when Trump was still challenging the results. Even after Biden was declared the winner, I remember seeing posts on Twitter from Trump supporters saying things like *"Don't give up! Back in 2000 the liberal media spent a month calling Gore the winner and referring to him as President-Elect, until the Supreme Court declared Bush the rightful winner!"* And I was sitting there going, no, that's not what happened at all. How you are lying about something that was 20 years ago? This isn't ancient history?
Verena 1 year ago
It is fascinating to see how people of all generations spread "facts" by using the little computer in their picket, instead of using that little computer to effortlessly check the fact before spreading it. If yoz can google funny cat videos, you can google facts.
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
Because it doesn't matter anymore if something is true or not. Only thing that matters is that it works for your point of view and makes people angry.
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The Scout 1 year ago
Well, Gore actually WAS the winner not only by popular vote (which in the last decades usually went to the Dems), but in total, only the SCOTUS was of a different opinion, stopping the last recounts. A very questionable decision at that. They did not even declare Bush the winner, they just stopped the recounts on account of "a negative outcome seriously impacting Bush's ability to represent the office of the president of the United States, incompatible with the dignity of the office". That was a prime example of an election really being stolen.
MC Scott 1 year ago (edited)
Who else remembers learning the phrase “hanging chads”?
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Tamra 1 year ago
I don't feel this is a good example for the theme of this post. This is just an example of Trumpian delusion and dishonesty, which he and his supporters employ with vigorous regularity.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
When it comes to either side it is always a matter of the pot calling the kettle black
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David Martin 1 year ago
I will always love how, back when Trump was elected, his supporters were front and center to say "You may not like it, but he was elected, he's the president now, so like it or not you'll just have to accept it"...and then 2020 came, and that same group came forward to say "Wait, no, I don't agree with this, the election doesn't matter, Trump is still my president, don't tell us otherwise"
CP 1 year ago
The people they are parroting are lying on purpose to act like both sides are the same. This is a common tactic with today's Republican party. They can't defend their actions, so they try say the other side does it as well to normalize things that aren't normal.
Cody Greenwood 1 year ago
Yes! They employ projection very hard on the republican team
Load More Replies... robin aldrich 1 year ago
That was part of the "dangling Chad" scandal, was it not through, from Florida's antiquated voting system?
Upstaged75 1 year ago
It was hanging chads, not dangling. I remember it well but still have no idea WTF chads are. :)
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Jimichan 1 year ago
You might want to check your memory: "Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 2000, that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore." And, yes, that was about a month after the voting took place. I live in Florida and voted for Gore.
CP 1 year ago
Yes the Federal Government told a state how to run their elections. Totally normal! /s
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Jane Hower 1 year ago
So those counties that had move votes for Biden than people who lived there didn't happen?? LIKE HELL IT DIDN'T> THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s a risk that a large number of Americans from Gen X might run out of money in retirement. More so than members of the younger generations. Older Gen Xers are within a decade of retirement, while younger Baby Boomers are already in their early 60s.
How well someone will fare in retirement depends not just on their lifestyle, budgeting, and personal approach to savings and investments but also on the company they work at, along with any relevant pension plans.
#10
My dad got laid off twice in the early '80s, when I was a kid. It was a rough period for a lot of my relatives also. You never hear about that early-'80s recession anymore, people just go, 'Oh, everyone could buy a big house with just a high school degree.' There were a ton of homeless people in the '80s where I grew up also.
Tabitha 1 year ago
That “ton of homeless people” was the direct result of Reagan closing the mental hospitals. Where TF were these people, many of whom either had no family or had families that had given up on them, supposed to go? Was there a program where social workers would check up on them, to be sure they stayed on their meds? No. In fact, social services was already on the chopping block for funding. If you don’t hire enough social workers to keep up with the caseload of clients, problems that could be prevented end up slipping through the cracks. Additionally, many of those released before this hospitals were shuttered were never going to be able to handle working and paying bills, and should have stayed in a monitored facility. But instead, they were just pushed out onto the street.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
The 90s recession hit hard in Finland too. We'd been reliant on the trade with the Soviet Union and when it fell with a whole lot of chaos so did the trade. One I don't personally remember (too young at the time) was the 70s energy crisis times, but it wasn't fun I hear
alicia 1 year ago
Though true, the actual purchase price of the house was low (due to the high interest rates), and affordable due to wages actually being in line with cost of living. Once Reagan severely curtailed the rise of unions, you can see on graphs the wages stagnate while cost of living, housing, and CEO pay skyrocketed. This is why kids these days are complaining. Here are some numbers: With inflation adjustment, avg worker wages have risen only 18% since 1978, while CEO/executive pay has risen 1,460%. Median home price in 1978 was $42K. Today, $440,000. When adjusted backward for inflation homes equaled $199K (today dollars) in 1978, which is a 121% increase, while wages went up a mere 18%. Further, and really the bottom line, when fully adjusted for inflation, the "real wage"/purchasing power difference is only 8%, but housing has gone up 121%. The kids have a right to complain. This is insane.
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Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Yep. In the mid to late 80s my mom and I lived in subsidized housing and suddenly a couple former rich kid families moved in. Guess who wasn’t so snobby in high school anymore. That’s why you teach your kids to respect everyone no matter if they have more or less than you. Unfortunately they still acted snobby and denied they lived there. Wouldn’t take the bus, moms drove them to try to hide where they lived. It wasn’t a trashy place. It was actually clean, safe and well maintained. Still is from what I’ve seen.
Cookiejar 1 year ago
I’m from the Netherlands and remember a huge crash in house prices. People I knew went broke. Houses were just unavailable, just lik nowadays. We had the ‘krakers’, people who occupied vacated homes, just to have a place to live in. History keeps repeating itself…
Pan Narrans 1 year ago
Early 80ties with 12% interest rate on mortgages while becoming jobless. People couldn't move for a job because selling the house would bankrupt them.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
The homeless population skyrocketed when Regan defunded mental hospitals.
ThisIsMyDisplayName 1 year ago
In Britain it was the time of Thatcher decimating industry, destroying the shipyards, tearing apart mining communities - hearing millennials and Gen Z gush about how everyone back then was living the dream is.. quite something.
#11
I had a dude argue with me that there was absolutely no way the National Guard ever shot American college students… pft pft pft.
Papa 1 year ago
That reminds me of the young person who said here that the current generation is the only one who has been socially active. Apparently he or she had never heard of the 1960's.
MC Scott 1 year ago
Or abolitionists, or suffragettes, or union organizers during the 1920s and 30s . . .
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Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Yeah, I’ve taken people on tours of the site. Our schools took us there on field trips. I guess that would be illegal now because indoctrination of something critical thinking having a brain and making it your own decisions…
Pam 1 year ago
Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down Should have been gone long ago What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know?
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming. We're finally on our own.
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My parents graduated from college that year at another college in Ohio. Their graduation was cancelled because the incident at Kent State had just happened. They received their diplomas in the mail.
MC C 1 year ago
The thing that is so stupid about them arguing about this stuff is that they literally could google this in 5 seconds and find out if it's true, the entire reason why they are smug about their "knowledge" is "they grew up with the internet" yet they don't use it to fact check anything they just use it to look up cat memes and go into their echo chamber
The Queen Of France 1 year ago
Not to mention Buffalo Springfield. Stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look - what’s going down…
Bisha Moten 1 year ago
So, here's the interesting thing. The person is actually RIGHT. It comes down to a misunderstanding by folks, but the simple answer is, the state "national guard" and the federal "national guard" are two separate groups. State guard, so "Ohio National Guard" in this case, are controlled by the governors of their respective state They can be activated to the federal level if needed, but they're state controlled, so such activation takes a federal order from congress. The Federal National Guard, headquartered in Washington DC, falls under the federal control of the department of the army, and can be activated by their commanding general; without congressional control. So, yes, the State Guard shot people, but the federal national guard... did not.
#12
Missy Elliott at the Super Bowl and the young people posting about how she was trying to be Cardi B or some other current rapper. Lol, when I read those tweets I laughed so hard.
R F. 1 year ago
Listen to the lyrics of a relatively recent hit from the amazing Missy Elliot. She is OG. Not a copy. And since she’s old school, she’d probably beat the brakes off most of these new copycats not giving her her Flowers in a one on one. With words or with hands. “Please don't steal my style. I might cuss you out. What you doin' now?I did for a while” OR “ “I'll show you how I do it. Show you how it's done. Don't look for another Missy. 'Cause there'll be no 'nother one.”
Just me, Happy Flower 1 year ago
When I saw her come out I started screaming! My husband had no clue I was a huge Missy fan!
CNN reports that 45% of American households risk falling short financially if they retire at 65 years old. The number rises to 54% for people who would retire at 62.
“The shift from defined-benefit pensions to defined-contribution plans left Baby Boomers and Gen X with less time to accumulate savings,” researchers from Morningstar’s Center for Retirement and Policy Studies pointed out that there is a retirement crisis.
#13
A younger Millennial once insisted to me that we dial 911 for emergencies in honor of the victims of 9/11.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago (edited)
FFS. Rescue 911 was a tv show from 1989 to 1996 that dramatized actual calls
WorkAholic1 1 year ago
hahaha! Tell that younger Millennial to go to https://www.911.gov. It tells about the history of 911. "The first call to 911 was placed in February of 1968." That's a bit before the 9/11 victims of 2001! And, before that first call, folks needed to dial a local 7-digit phone number to reach police, fire or emergency services.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Well, 'we' don't. In Australia, the number is 000. In the UK, it's 999.
Danish Susanne 1 year ago (edited)
There are usually some really smart folks in any population of size.
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#14
I've had people tell me I'm making up the nuclear bomb drills we did in elementary school in the 80s.
leendadll 1 year ago
As a So Californian, they paid off - duck & cover is now the preferred response to earthquakes!
robin aldrich 1 year ago
Yeah but we had actual thick wood desks to duck under!! not that that's going to save us but look at the new desks, for crying out loud!!!
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Virgil Blue 1 year ago
Growing up in Europe the suggesion that hiding under a table would save you from a nuke seemed crazy to me. Maybe if you are waaaay off from the blast?
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Same with the idea that ducking and covering under your desk—-those all in one desks with a small 1’ square of 1/2” thick plywood (e.g. pressed sawdust) that was too small for the average notebook—-was going to save you when the ceiling collapsed in an earthquake. Especially if your classroom was on an upper floor. I went to high school in So Cal, and that struck me as ludicrous. Then again I’m 63, and as a child on the East Coast in elementary school back in the sixties and early seventies, we still had the nuke drills. We lined up, single file, in the school basement. But there were so many students, we were lined up all the way up the stairs and out of the basement. Still single file. No one thought to try having multiple lines so everyone would fit in the basement, even though we’d still be incinerated because a basement won’t protect you. Those drills were all for show, so the school district—-the same people who were, even back then, trying to cut out PE, music, and other great programs because they cost money—-could look like they gave a fat rat’s a*s.
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MushroomHead22 1 year ago
and kids today are practicing hiding from active shooters... how can they even question what happened back then when it hasn't really changed.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
In the 80s?! In the 50s and 60sthere might have been an honest belief that balling up in hallways, away from glass windows, might be useful if you were 20 miles away from the bombs we had back then. I thought that by the 80s only complete morons would think it was going to matter.
Edgar Rops 1 year ago
Or anything from cold war era. Both sides of the line. Although in our (former USSR) case, it's being told that it was worse than it actually was
Scott mati 1 year ago
I went to high school in the late 70’s and we did not have nuclear drills. That was something I learned about history back in the 50’s.
#15
I heard a younger coworker complain that NIN ruined Johnny Cash’s 'Hurt.'
OrangeStripey Hat 1 year ago
Trent Reznor was to have said that he was born to write Hurt but Johnny Cash was born to sing it.
Michelle C 1 year ago
LMAO! I had someone try to argue that with me that NIN wasn't the original artist and I walked away...The one that's really getting on my nerves now is "Fast Car"...it existed way before that country dude sang it!
Nicky Shrimps 1 year ago
Their duet at the Grammy's was EPIC! Tracy kills it every time and Luke is so respectful.
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OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
TIL too... Now I have to go and hear the NIN version
Load More Replies... Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago (edited)
This is when I know I'm getting too old; when the younger generation thinks Johnny Cash was the original for the song Hurt (in his defense, NIN stated that his version was really good/what they meant for this song; same goes for The Sound of Silence- Simon and Garfunkel stated that Disturbed recorded the song the way they imagined it to be)
Biytemii 1 year ago
I loved sound of silence and Simon and garfunkel had their cd but I was a disturbed fan from day one and when they came out with their version of sounds of silence I was in awe... it was amazing I like it by both bands but disturbed did something woth it that made it even more amazing than the original
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Foffy Skrimshaw 1 year ago
You can really thank Rick Rubin he is the one that convinced Cash to sing Hurt. Cash was hesitant at first, because he didn't like some of the lyrics. But finally gave in after Trent and Rubin agreed he could change the lyrics from Crown of s**t to Crown of thorns
Willem Andries Oosterhof 1 year ago
Just like the Beatles had no business ruining Joe Cocker's With a little helf from my friends.
#16
Close, close friend of mine was killed in Iraq (w me there). At the funeral, his son accepted the flag the military presents to the next of kin. The photo became really famous. Had a Gen Zer tell the picture was staged by the military as military propaganda (without realizing how dumb the thought of the military spreading pictures of crying 7-year-olds in an attempt to improve their image, is). I tried showing them pictures, etc to show the family is real. She responded by saying I was one of "those".
Jeremy James 1 year ago (edited)
I must be one of "those." I was in a car with a friend of a friend who was trying to convince everyone that the Sandy Hook tragedy was staged. Bro, I worked with the sister of one of the victims. I covered shifts so she could attend the funeral. She was definitely real and not some kind of "crisis actor" or "plant."
robin aldrich 1 year ago (edited)
Imagine what that person would think of the Vietnam War veterans.. which was in my lifetime or name any other War
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
I understand not believing everything you hear/ see; I understand questioning initial news reports/news reports by certain media; I understand having differing opinions; I DO NOT understand willful ignorance when the resources to educate oneself are so readily available.
DutchPanda 1 year ago
Stop putting effort to explain to people who refuse to believe anything other than the TikTok "truth", would that be false info.
Vinnie 1 year ago
I sometimes respond online, knowing full well that I won't convince the commenter that they're wrong. I do it for the folks who are on the fence and the ones who need support.
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27RatsStackedInATrenchcoat 1 year ago
As someone who is Gen Z, I apologize on behalf of all of us for the stupidity on this list. I can assure you we are not all like this.
#17
“In 1986 you could work part time at a yogurt shop in LaJolla, CA and afford a 3 bedroom home on the ocean”
No. Parts of this country have always been super expensive to live in.
Robert Benson 1 year ago
There is nothing that is "clearly hyperbole" anymore :( I used to think the flat-earther people were just having fun...
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If you watch any of the house-buying shows you could be forgiven for thinking this is still true. "Today's buyers are Linda and Mark. Linda is a stay-at-home mom to their four kids: Mark runs online yoga courses for guinea pigs. Their budget is $3.5 million".
Fussy1 1 year ago
Was the pandemic the reason the guinea pigs moved to online yoga or was it the astronomical gas prices and lack of parking at the studio?
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When I moved to San Francisco in 1989, we landed a two bedroom apt w/ off street parking, laundry in the building and skylights for $800 a month. We were both making about $7/an hour in 40 hr/wk jobs. We were able to afford rent, food, utilities, car insurance & Dead shows. Once I started working for the law firm I was getting regular raises to $15/hr which was big money in the early 90s. My ex also had regular raises to about $10/hr. We were able to buy a 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhouse in Marin County in 1994. Now that region is absolutely unaffordable.
Peggy McKeon 1 year ago
Yeah but Dead shows were but tickets were $15. Jerry shows at the keystone cost $3-4
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It's not the same thing but in the later 60s we had a duplex apartment by the beach in Santa Cruz. We were rather poor - stepdad on disability. Little boy me could walk down to the beach and peer into the tidepools and see all kinds of cool sea anemone, star fish, sun stars and so on. These days that is likely pretty expensive real estate.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
In 1986, you could afford a one bedroom apartment working full time for minimum wage. Today, not so much
Analyn Lahr 1 year ago
La Jolla? Ha, ha, ha, ha, HA. La Jolla is one of the rich towns. Unless things have changed in the 18 years since I moved out of San Diego County.
#18
The most common one I see is from younger writers proclaiming that "The entire country was up in arms about [insert major event]"...
I was there, the reality is that most of the country didn't really care either way, but a few hundred protestors made a lot of noise.
Nora12 1 year ago
Although this is true for all historical events. As a generation X child I remember interviewing an elderly couple about their experience in the Great Depression and they were both like “our families were fine, it didn’t really affect us” Just because an event is a big event in history, doesn’t mean it affected everyone who lived at that time.
Tabitha 1 year ago
It really depended on where you lived, and what your parent(s) did for a living. A cop or firefighter would always have a job, while a stockbroker or factory worker probably wouldn’t. Plus, the people who were poor already ended u9 the worst off. When you have nothing, and the economy tanks, companies go out of business, and there’s 25% unemployment, you end up losing the little, or the nothing, you had and just starve on the street.
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
It's because 'some people were up in arms' lacks drama. It's exactly the same with things like 'Comedian tells joke: faces backlash' when all that happened is a few people whined on Twitter, or the way that 'Celeb does something: the internet can't handle it' means that a few people commented on it. Exaggeration for dramatic effect.
R F. 1 year ago
I live in the Texas Hill Country. We never closed our store. I know no one who died. Know plenty of people who got sick. While I watched Youtube videos of people on balconies singing and what not, our store sold pool chemicals and hot tubs without a hitch. Actually some of our best years since everyone was buying hot tubs with their extra “vacation money” they couldn’t take anywhere. Guess that’s why our area is full of out state new residents. BTW…they drive like s**t.
Jane Hower 1 year ago
Same with 1776, the war of independence from England. Only 1/3 of the population then realy wanted it - 1/3 wanted to stay with England and 1/3 didn't care either way.
Bill Grazier 1 year ago
Not only did it happen. It happened twice in the same month. 2 students were [unalived] and 11 injured at Jackson State University ,an HBCU in Mississippi, on May 15, 1970 (less than 2 weeks after Kent State)
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
It wasn't "the whole country" but there were a lot of Anti Donald Trump rallies here in the UK in 2018. In my city alone there were over 10,000 protesters marching against him coming over here. It was a really huge thing, even people who couldn't attend supported them. I've still got the sign I made - "Excrete The Elite and Dump The Trump". I attended the one here because of him wanting to build a golf course on protected land, a nature reserve and for other reasons. That Protest March though was one heck of a day...
Nimitz 1 year ago
That's actually one of the problems I have with my boomer parents. They didn't get upset or involved with anything during major events. They didn't protest, they didn't knock on doors, they didn't engage in voter participation, volunteer, or do anything at all to help society. They just did what they wanted when they wanted and didn't in any way prepare for the consequences of their actions. They didn't set aside a penny to help their kids start their lives, or even teach their kids about sex and d***s. They never did f**k all besides show up for work 40 hrs a week. And they say they worked hard. B***h please
David Beaulieu 1 year ago
If it made it to the national news it was a big deal. Everyone saw it.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago (edited)
Or the news spent 3 days not talking about literally anything else while the rest of us found something else to do than watch tv.
#19
Just the other day some young person tried to passionately tell me that “shout” by tears for fears was actually written and performed by depeche mode. I was so embarrassed for them. They were so sure they were right. Bless their heart.
Dave Walters 1 year ago
The first 7 inch single I ever bought. Note I didn't call it vinyl. All these years later I live a few houses away from the drummer on this song.
Wolf princess quinn 1 year ago
Are you the yogurt shop worker in lajolla who bought that 3 bedroom on the coast?
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Greg Baughman 1 year ago
Yeah... I heard a younger DJ working at an 80's club say "INKS" (referring to INXS)... then they got very defensive when I pointed out to her that it was pronounced "In Excess". She said "Well, that's your opinion!" I responded "I was DJing 80s music when it was NEW."
Celestial Phalanx 1 year ago
But Depeche Mode DO have a song called Shout, released in 1981, 3 years before Tears for Fears released a completely different song of the same name.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago (edited)
🎶Shout, shout, let it all out. These are the things we can do without.”🎶 You’re welcome for the earworm
Christopher Crockett 1 year ago
That's only because they didn't know that Disturbed wrote and performed it first [Edit: forgot to insert sarcastic eye roll]
RabidChild 1 year ago
oh yeah My son and I have had many of these types of convos. He was home for an entire month recently (can't wait til he gets another leave!) and I made him turn to Google at least 3 times to prove original artists of songs. Mom knows her s**t, don't question.
TFFFan328 1 year ago
OMG...I hear this alot! So disappointing... yes, I am a huge fan (my user name :)) it is even on my license plates on my car. However, I do also like Depeche Mode, but I can definitely tell the difference between Roland Orzabal's and Curt Smith's voices and Dave Gahan! Course, I have been around since before both of those bands started, so, I have a bit of an advantage!
#20
Slenderman is the one that really baffles me. Kids are all "It's real" or treat it like it's as old as Bloody Mary or something, meanwhile I'm like "I helped invent Slenderman on the Something Awful forums when I was in my 30s."
My own children were terrified of Slenderman when they were younger, and I told them "You know why he has really long fingers? Because a forum Goon called WIIWW suggested it. I know that cause WIIWW is me.".
Mingey 1 year ago
Look at the issues that dam Slenderman created!!!! Google it!! Quicksand was a better fear, it kept people out of water and river banks etc😂😂😂
ScarletRos 1 year ago
Quicksand was a major fear for 80s and 90s kids, myself included. I blame that heartbreaking scene from ‘Neverending Story’.
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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
To be fair, I don't think anyone on those forums doing the equivalent of telling each other stories around a campfire could have predicted somebody would think they're real
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The author of the book that inspired Jaws has long since regretted this, as the reaction to great white sharks changed drastically/ negatively
🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 1 year ago (edited)
I was "there" when Slenderman was created on Something Awful forums. A goon "invented" it. And it's now so cringe to see the stupid (anx explainable) most terrifying ghost ecounters videos on YouTube where someone has caught Slenderman on their potato phone. Like for real, it was done by a goon on SA, stop this nonsense.
Joshua David 1 year ago
I always find it crazy when watching paranormal shows and they say things like "if enough people think about it and fear it, that can create it and make it real...now watch this video...blah blah." If thats the case then how come there aren't Freddys and Jasons walking around?
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
I had heard of Slenderman but I thought it was from a movie or something. Had no idea of the background story or the attempted murder. It's not a thing in Spain.
Memaw Mitch 1 year ago
My 6yo granddaughter is absolutely terrified of Slenderman. She refuses to walk near trees because he's in there. Thanks dude!
Lee Banks 1 year ago
I helped write that! 2006, yes? It was fun as heck, but I felt terrible when that girl got killed over it.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
That girl was hurt by two very sick girls, no matter what their illness imprinted on. Slenderman didn't attack her, they did.
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#21
I was chaperoning my daughter’s trip to Washington DC. The Millennial tour guide said he was going to take the kids to see the Challenger Space Shuttle.
Christopher Crockett 1 year ago
I really hope someone politely but firmly corrected that guide.
B 1 year ago
Watched this explode in my English class in HIghschool. They turned off the TV and wheeled it out of the room
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
I was watching it live from the parking lot where I worked. We all were staring up into that blue, blue sky and cheering it on when it exploded. It felt like the entire world went silent for just a few seconds and then we all started sobbing. I will never forget that moment.
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
If the memorial has any of the wreckage it's a small token amount and not well publicized. Some wreckage has been displayed at the Kennedy Space Center, but that's not part of any Washington DC tour what with being abut 850 miles away.
Load More Replies... MushroomHead22 1 year ago
maybe he meant replica. i mean it must be tedious to say replica all the time.
Kerry Fletcher 1 year ago
The only shuttle on display in Washington is Discovery. Enterprise is in New York, Atlantis is at KSC and Endeavour is in California. The remains of the hull of Challenger and the window frame from Columbia are on display at KSC visitors centre.
#22
A few years back, in an open office, I was quietly listening to music and singing along (my desk was far away from all others so I wasn't being rude), when a much younger coworker came up and asked how I knew the words to 'the song' already, since it just released two days ago by a popular young artist. I said that I had been singing the original for decades. They laughed and said, "No, really?". I repeated the answer and they said I was wrong because that was a new song by 'popular young artist'. I said "No, the song was written and performed by 'washed up, once popular old artist'. They reiterated that I was wrong. I looked it up online and showed them. Their response: " 'Washed up, once popular old artist' must have covered it from 'popular young artist'. She wouldn't even admit that that was a problem, unless one of them was a time traveller, because she refused to admit that she was wrong or that she liked an "OLD" song.
Edit: Sorry guys, I can remember the conversation clearly but I can't dredge up whatever song it was from the depths of my swiss cheese memory.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
I remember when my daughter was dancing and singing 🎶You spin me right round, baby....🎶 and I told her I was dancing to those same lyrics when I was her age. She didn't believe me.
Funhog 1 year ago
...🎶 right 'round. Like a vinyl, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round. 🎶 /s
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Celestial Phalanx 1 year ago
Many years ago, standing in a queue in the local Spar, "Baby Can i Hold You" by Tracy Chapman came on the overhead radio. A young woman in front of me turned to her friend and said "i wish people would stop stealing Boyzone's songs". Hilarious stuff.
HolyDiver 1 year ago
My favorite is how nice Post Malone was to help make an old guy named 'Ozzy' famous.
Shark bait hoo haha 1 year ago
When Suicide Squad was in the theaters, my son and I went to go see it. I was singing along with the music and he was floored at how I learned the songs so quickly since the movie had been out like a couple of days. I had to show him when we got home that the songs were older than he was. I showed him the records I had of the songs, most in 12" format too. He was blown away!
nine4t4 1 year ago
I had the reverse happen. At work most of us are 50-60 so I play 80's New Wave. Talk Talk It's my life was playing. A uni kid is singing along. "How do you know this by heart. Your parents?" No Gwen Stefani sings it. that version was also older than the student. Where did I leave my walker and bifocals?
David Frost 1 year ago
Was it maybe when Kurt Cobain covered David Bowies 'The Man Who Sold The World'? Because I remember the same thing with my much younger brother!
Amanda Young 1 year ago
This is hilarious. I've known about Jelly Roll for 20 years damn near and all the rest of the world is just now catching up lol
robin aldrich 1 year ago
She'd be even more surprised , as I have been, to find out some of the songs in the 60s and '70s, even '80s ...were remakes of even older songs as far back as the 50s...from other genres...
The Shark 1 year ago
I recently overheard my neighbors kids playing some game outside called "Around the World" while singing the Daft Punk song from back when... These kids were grade school age. Kinda interesting how children's games evolve over time. 🤔 Wish I knew what the game was all about 😂
#23
Can confirm. I was very young but can still clearly remember watching the touchdown on the moon, the first steps, the placing of the American flag…. the whole thing. Even at that young age it was emotional for me. My deep southern home town got to watch some of the truly enormous parts be transported verrrrry slowly on huge trucks right past our house. My dad took photos. They had been manufactured at a nearby site. Before the launch we drove all the way to the launch site and those enormous pieces of equipment we’d seen were now in place. He showed the photos to a NASA guide, the guide recognized the giant parts immediately and enthusiastically pointed them out to us. It was an incredibly cool moment.
Another historic moment was the horrific Challenger disaster. Everyone in the country was so excited and proud for the teacher, Christa McAuliffe, from Concord, New Hampshire, who was selected for and had trained to become a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L. On the day of the launch the whole world ….. including her husband, children, family, friends, her school, and all her students…. were excitedly watching the broadcast live as the Space Shuttle went up….. and exploded just 1 minute 13 seconds after launch. Unbelievably, they didn’t cut the live feed immediately. It was horrible watching the shuttle disintegrate and fall, knowing there was no possibility of survivors. Just…. horrible.
And one more moment: September 11. We had 2 daughters in basic training at the time, right at the point of graduation. My husband and I both watched live feeds as the planes slammed into those 2 towers. We sobbed as we watched the towers collapse, forever burying those still within them. We watched thousands of people out of their minds with grief, desperately wandering the streets, posting photos and notes, searching for their loved ones.
And through it all, we were totally paralyzed with the fear of absolutely knowing that our two barely 18 year old little girls were going to be caught up in whatever this had been.
All this is to say: Look around and know your audience. If they’re a good bit older than you, you might want to hold up on the faux passion about 9/11….. because many of us lived that s**t and will never get it out of our heads.
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
I watched it live in the sky above me. It is seared into my gray matter.
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Learner Panda 1 year ago
Here in the UK I watched the twin towers tragedy unfold. For a moment (because I didn't realise the truth of it) I thought it was a movie, or a preview. Even now there is a sense of unreality that humans could do this to others.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I was packing up to go to University and yup, like yourself, even now it was such an unreal... Surreal? Horrific day... Usually there'd be a lot of chatter and noise on the train but it was so eerily quiet that day.
Load More Replies... Cat Chat 1 year ago
Every generation has their own "I'll never forget where I was" events. These were ours (although I wasn't quite yet born for the moon landing...1972 baby).
zovjraar me 1 year ago
9/11 was surreal. we never watched news much, being in our 20's, but we were glued to CNN for weeks after that happened.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
OP: "My husband and I both watched live feeds as the planes slammed into those 2 towers." No, you didn't. NOBODY watched live feed of the first plane hitting the tower because there was no live feed of that happening. Why would there be? Nobody knew it was going to happen: no news reporters or outside broadcast teams were filming at the WTC that morning until AFTER the first collision, and even then, until the second collision they were working on the theory that a light aircraft had accidentally hit the tower. The only film footage that exists of the first collision comes from CCTV cameras that was gathered hours after the event.
Kate C 1 year ago
My boss and I were supposed to meet with some guys from Cantor Fitzgerald on 9/11 at their office. We both just decided the night before that we did not want to go, we had never canceled a meeting like that before. Several of my friends and colleagues died on that day, including the guys we were supposed to meet. I have a friend that is always spouting MAGA cr*p, I usually just ignore her because I have always believed in the right to an individual to have an opinion, but when she started saying the US government was behind 9/11 and it was all staged and planned and "not that many people died", I told her I would never speak to her again if she ever repeated sh*t like that in front of me.
Christopher Crockett 1 year ago
There is a video out there that shows some young "reporter" hassling Buzz Aldrin about the faked moon landings. Mr. Aldrin is trying to walk away and the guy won't leave him alone, so Buzz finally punches him in the face. The guy is just looking in shock, and I'm thinking to myself that he's lucky he met up with 90 year old Buzz Aldrin instead of 30 year old Buzz Aldrin. The sheer stupidity of which humans are capable saddens and disappoints me.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
I heard that when they approached Stanley Kubrick to direct and produce the fake landing he agreed but later came back and told them that due to technical complications involving the special effects they would have to film it on location
Load More Replies... meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
I can't forget watching it live and seeing the other plane coming but wondering why the news reporters didn't see it or any of the live cameras didn't see it coming from further away and track it. Somehow, we saw it but they didn't. You can watch it now on Youtube, I have not found one live news report where the reporters even reacted to that plane or saw it. Nobody saw it coming, they say it was an explosion before they say it was a plane. It's f*****g weird.
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
I’ll never forget when one of the newscasters asked their reporter what was that strange debris falling off the building, and his choked reply that it wasn’t debris. He couldn’t say the words that people were jumping to their deaths….
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#24
I'm the daughter of WW2 Vets. (My parents born 1922,had me at 45yrs) Australian. My uncle also KIA over Germany 1942.
I grew up knowing many WW2 vets. Some had been POWs of Japanese. Tortured by them. I always took a keen interest and asked lots of questions and learned heaps off my parents & these people.
My parents taught us a LOT about how it was in those years. What they knew when, the states of minds of people at that time, details about living during that period and the politics of the time.
Both my parents well educated, intelligent people. Not prone to "flights of fancy" or stretching truth etc etc etc.
And as a result of my parents I have studied, read and learned about WW2 era extensively. I believe I am somewhat of minor "expert" of sorts. I know a LOT more then the average punter, from books but also from 1st hand accounts.
So when 25 year olds try to tell me "how it was during WW2"!! I get very freakin annoyed. They will argue about things they know nothing about. It's infuriating.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
My grandparents used to take in orphaned children during WWII, all of them orphaned because of the war. My dad said there were always 4-6 random kids living in the house at any given time.
Manana Man 1 year ago
When i was still pretty young I worked at a family-owned business. The owners were Polish Jews. He had been in a concentration camp in WW2. He never talked about it except one time. He always wore long sleeved shirts, but this one time he rolled it up and showed us the number tattooed on his arm. Then he told us the story of how he had barely escaped the gas chambers. When people today claim none of that happened it makes me angry.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago (edited)
My grandpa and his brothers fled and were in hiding (being Jewish in Nazi Germany) but his sister and daughter (my aunt, not mom) were caught and went to a concentration camp. His sister didn't make it and his daughter only grew up to 145cm because of starvation
Dave Walters 1 year ago
God bless - anyone who lived through World War II, and I mean anyone constituted the greatest generation this world has ever or will ever see. In memory of Grandad, Pvt George Frederick Kettle, 2nd btn, Cheshire Regiment. Veteran of the North Africa Campaign, Operation Torch, Operation Overlord (first wave), Operation Market Garden, Burma etc, etc. Lived a long and happy life.
Sue User 1 year ago
I have video of my grandmother and mother talking about what it was like to live near London during the Blitzkriege. Mom: So then we moved from Dagnam to Upminster. Me:why? Mom: The Germans were landing in the field near the house. Crazy stuff.
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
My British mom told us about playing in bombed out buildings, oranges only at Christmas and never tasting butter or chocolate until she was 10 when rationing ended in 1954. She married my GI dad and came to America. She absolutely cannot relate to American women who grew up in the 1950s. The difference in prosperity still floors her.
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Chris Sprucefield 1 year ago
These things, or how I or someone is "appropriating" something and they decide to get pissed off or lecture me on my own heritage and culture, and how I appropriated my own culture and ancestry.. If you are not part of it, do not ever be an activist talking over the head and lecturing the real thing...
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Right? Don't you just want to slap them and scream "Read a f*cking book!"
#25
Someone was explaining how we had to invade Iraq to find the people who did 9/11. It was just too much for me to even try.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
The US invaded Iraq because George W Bush wanted to establish his legacy as "The War President". This is not speculation, he actually referred to himself that way.
Mary Kelly 1 year ago
yes, and everyone pretended that we didn't know that there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq or that it was a transparent attempt for bush jr. to get back at sadam over his dad's failure to do so during the gulf war....
meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
this is how they got on at the time, though, WMDs - 9/11 - the Muslims must be murdered or they'll take us over and you will wake up one day and be forced to wear a burka unless we go commit war crimes
Libstak 1 year ago
Mine was my nephew and his wife who visited while I was watching a 9/11 documentary in about 2016....they had no idea it even happened, either of them, they are both over 30 today, so about 7 when it happened. That's Fine, we all did t talk about it around kids back then BUT they had 12 years of schooling and it never came up? It never crossed their paths on social media when Osama was killed, Nothing?
Bubba Jones 1 year ago
Good thing it had nothing to do with Saudi Arabia since we get so much oil from them, huh?
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
I mean, that was one of the "go to" republican explanation for why the US had to invade iraq back in 2003.
Cydney Golden 1 year ago
All those non existent weapons of mass destruction bc Cheney profited from Halliburton.
#26
In the same vein - I was chaperoning a trip to Disney and one of the teens confidenty told me The Haunted Mansion ride was based on the movie with Eddie Murphy. She was wondering why Eddie Murphy didn’t appear in the ride. The other Gen Xer I was with explained the ride came first, like Pirates of the Carribean.
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
I remember when Tarzan's Treehouse was The Swiss Family Robinson treehouse; apparently newer renovations are reverting it back to the original theme.
A girl 1 year ago
The set for Mike and Molly is the reworked set from Roseanne
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TeenieMeanie 1 year ago
The Carson Mansion in Eureka, CA was the inspiration for The Haunted Mansion
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
The one with Eddie Murphy will always be my favourite
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Peeka_Mimi 10 months ago (edited)
Went to Disney in 1978 at the age of 5 and I vividly remember The Haunted Mansion and Space Mountain.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Right? Hello? This was built LONG before Eddie Murphy was even born and the movie series of "Pitrates of the Caribbean" were inspired by this ride. You f*cking MORON.
robin aldrich 1 year ago
Oh my gish!! you shouldn't have mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean... I'm sure that brought up a whole nother argument!!!
#27
One thing I’ve found interesting from younger generations recently was the idea that Boomers have always been old and have always been in power politically. Like I’ve heard people talk about events in the 70s and 80s under the assumption that it was the Boomers who controlled everything (or even back to the 60s). Even something like Watergate was supposedly with Boomers in charge. When in reality it was the World War II Greatest Generation like Reagan (and Silents) who dominated politically from the 60s until the 90s (and there were a ton of politicians from those generations that stuck around forever).
Bill Clinton’s win in 1992 was the start of Boomer political power really and it wasn’t until the 00s that they began to truly dominate the Senate. However in the 70s and 80s, Boomers were mostly in their twenties and thirties (or even teens in the 70s). But younger Millenials and Gen Z, barely know about the long dominance of the World War II Generation…they controlled the presidency from JFK to the first Bush, that’s 32 years of the presidency. Younger people today seem to think Baby Boomers were always old and probably never even really knew their great grandparents from the Greatest Gen. Hell, I remember relatives from the Lost Generation born in the 19th century that were still alive when I was a kid in the 80s who remembered World War I. But today all old people have been grouped as “Boomers”.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
The idea that you can neatly pigeon-hole people into arbitrary fifteen- to 25-year "generations" is ludicrous.
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
I don't know about the US but in the UK the baby boomers were being blamed for all sorts of stuff by the older generation, with their disregard for authority and not upholding established standards, e.g. ways of teaching in schools, in the '70s and '80s. Now they're being blamed for everything by the younger generation.
Phil Green 1 year ago
In light of the OP's post, dare I say that certain "millenials" and "Generation Z don't know the derivation of the term "Boomer"? Baby boom, when there was a sudden surge in the birth rate in the 50s and early 60s.
AuntyE 1 year ago
And now they use it as an insult instead of a description
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Montanavanna 1 year ago
I think that shows they have no idea what the term boomer even refers to, historically speaking.
#28
This guy told me I must not actually be Gen X because if I was, I would know that straight guys didn’t buy Milli Vanilli. Crazy
cogadh 1 year ago
I don't care who or what you were, we ALL jammed to "Girl You Know It's True" right up until we learned the truth, and still jammed after because it was a good song, regardless of who really sang it.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
We just pretended to not like it. Because how dare they lip sync
Load More Replies... PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
Didn’t buy them what? Believe them? Chocolates? It’s astounding 😂
#29
I keep getting lectured on how awesome socialism is and how the socialist country I grew up in wasn't really socialist.
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
China isn't Socialist. It's Communist, like the Soviet Union was. We covered all of this in History classes (UK). Deleted this chart (SD instead of S, sorry) Appropriate description in next post.
P Peitsch 1 year ago
Democratic scialism and socialism are two different concepts. Yeah, I did my research, before asking....
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Alex Martin 1 year ago
We'll never know if communism as an economic system works. It has always been intertwined with authoritarian governments who use economics as one more way to control their citizens. A true communist state would be a true Democracy or an elected Republic with competitive elections. I don't think humans are ready for that yet.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
In a small scale with everyone being volunteers, sure. Scaling up, you're going to get people who do not want to be part of it, so they have to be forced, forcing participation requires authoritarianism. A true democracy or elected republic can't be communist, as communism in the utopic description has no government - after the revolution is complete, the temporary government is meant to dissolve itself.
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I am old enough to have seen the socialist countries in Europe fall apart, so that my high school atlas went to useless. The main problem we discussed in school back then (Western Europe): They were communist countries, but called themselves socialistic.
P Peitsch 1 year ago
I am old enough to live in one, in fact old enough to be on the streets, when there were fights to overthrow that system. "Socialist" was in the country's name, "Communist" was in the ruler party's name. In fact was a copy-paste of the north-korean system.
Load More Replies... nine4t4 1 year ago
China isn't really communist either. On paper it is. Russia collapsed, China learned to fold capitalism into a communist ideology, screw democracy get rich. In the 1980s China was as poor as ussr. Since 2000 China has used more concrete than the USA did in the whole 20th century. In a few decades they went from everyone on bicycles to making 2.5 times more cars and trucks than the USA. That's probably why kids think communism works. North Korea is a more accurate example of communism.
GPawesomeness 1 year ago
Because it will work out just fine when WE do it, your country just didn't know what they were doing.....🙄🤔
Joe Smith 1 year ago (edited)
Perspecitve, perspective, perspective. Its all relative. China is Communist, not socialist, or else it wouldn't have such a powerful avant-garde ruling/politiburo class. It also colludes pretty well with capitalist influences, which have helped make China a superpower. We live in a gray world, not a black and white one. Such binaries are dangerous.
Sofia Carlson 1 year ago
Even Hillary Clinton said that the reason socialism hasn't worked is because they didn't have the right dictator.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Living under Franco was no picnic either. There's nothing wrong with socialism if it is applied properly. Its the totalitarianism, genocidal leaders that make any system bad. What normally make a system fail is the corruption and nepotism.
#30
Listening to people say they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary because of their completely bogus interpretations of events during Bill C’s presidency. Not fun.
CK 1 year ago
I don't think this is an age thing. There are people who were old enough to pay attention to Bill Clinton's presidency if they wanted to who firmly believe that Bill and Hillary are both serial killers who work together.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)
Hillary was called corrupt by the right-wing media. I always found that hilarious, as the person she ran against was (and still is) one of the most corrupt people in American history, first as a businessman, then as "president" and now again as a businessman.
R Dennis 1 year ago
My stepson was one of them. "Why don't you like her?" "I just don't!" Never able to articulate why but helped get a dullard elected...
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
If Hillary had the charisma that Bill had she'd have taken at least 60% of the vote, but a lot of people find her unlikable. The ones that are morons think that's a good reason to not vote or to vote against her.
B Jean the Jelly Bean 1 year ago
Bogus or not, how does one conflate Bill's presidency with voting for Hillary? 🙄
Jane Hower 1 year ago
The Clinton 'kill record' is TRUE - the list is amazing and the 'causes' of death so odd and unreal!!!
Rhonda Danielson 1 year ago
Hilary Clinton-Whitewater, Travelgate, Healthgate and physically assaulting one of her aides because she did not like what the woman was telling her.
#31
YES! Younger people, kids, and most people in general now, have super easy, fast access to information, right or wrong. They usually don't ask people who've actually lived through it, they just swipe and click and choose the information that is more shocking or in line with whatever ideas they already have about the event.
It's a bit disconcerting. Once that feeling passes, I get annoyed.
Familie Schmidt 1 year ago
I'd love to agree, but on the other hand I am a German who grew up with her grandparents who lived through the Hitler era. They recounted bascially 99% good things and a lot of s**t from the US and the rest of Europe. So there's that.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago (edited)
So.... were they Nazis and the 1% bad was the rounding up and wholesale enslavement and slaughter of people?
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Montanavanna 1 year ago
I remember learning about many cool things because of encyclopedias. I would be looking for information on one topic and cut to a few hours letter and I was learning about something unrelated to my original inquiry. I really think this helped me to critically think and make connections.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
I remember looking forward to the annual supplement as well
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Jon Stuart 1 year ago
Maybe if it was so good you shouldn't of murdered so many other countries people? WTF
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
My current favorite phrase: Willful Ignorance or someone is being willfully ignorant
#32
Young people idealizing the 70s is a real weird one.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
The seventies were wonderful because I was a kid with zero responsibilities and school only taught things I already knew.
Mike F 1 year ago
And people weren't typically overtly hateful. People didn't avoid interaction with one another due to differences of opinion. You could sit across the dinner table from someone you didn't agree with and still have a civil meal. It's not just politics, but other things as well. Folks seem to have forgotten how to disagree without becoming venomous.
Load More Replies... titansterritory 1 year ago
I grew in the 70's as a child. I will gladly transport back to the 70's and live that life all over again. Compared to 2024, the 70's were heaven.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
A young lady said to me that she was having a 1970s party, because, the 70s were 'such a cool time'. I laughed, and said, no, they were tragically trashy, and i know, because i was there.
hwatinternation 1 year ago
I like *some* decor, and that's also where it stops for me lol
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Awkward lady 1 year ago
Economically, the 70's weren't great, especially in the UK. There was a lot of unemployment, and lots of power cuts because of the unions going on strike. Rats everywhere because the rubbish wasn't collected for weeks. There was no money around.
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 year ago
I loved the 70s. Kindergarten through the beginning of 10th grade.
#33
A thirtysomething (?) accused me (48) of being a twentysomething pretending to be Gen X because I said the style of a photo was more 1970s than 1980s. I did not have the words or motivation to argue.
Pheebs 1 year ago
Lol. On the topic of photography - I occasionally see posts here on BP by young photographers claiming to have “invented a new technique”, or are popularizing some “obscure” thing. I usually end up giggling as I remember learning said things 2001-03 when I was doing my photography degree (just before film died). I love to see some of the old stuff get rediscovered, but I still find it funny. More often than not they’re either film-based things that got lost with the digital age, or got replaced by photoshop.
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
I saw a video of a girl (young woman) recently stating that she had invented a flat taco... It's a tostada!!! or another girl discovering shorts sewn into/under a skirt... Skorts!!! man when did I get this old???
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OMG yes. I teach middle school and have had this happen. Kids arguing with me and I’m like “See this little crack in the floorboard? I was literally standing on it RIGHT HERE while watching this happen LIVE on TV.”.
Amanda Young 1 year ago
Omg the song "Where were you when the world stopped turning" by Alan Jackson. I will never, ever forget where I was. Much like you I was in school as well, but high school. Was pregnant with my oldest (yeah I know judge all you want IDC) , waddling to math class.
Scotira 1 year ago (edited)
I was working as a car painter at the time and I remember hearing on the radio of the big "accident" in NY after the first plane flew into the first tower. I remember telling my apprentice: how the frack can one miss that big a$$ building??? After the second plane flew into the other tower we were both glued to the radio. And I said that was no accident! One can be an accident but two? No way! Yeah not short after it was confirmed to be an attack. (This was in Switzerland btw) Edit: also, why judge that you had your first young? Nobodies business however you now maybe get to be a young grandma 😁
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Or how much better athletes are today. have had some turds on /r/nba tell me that Michael Jordan would just be average today. Shaq can't shoot. The 1980s lakers would not be competitive today.
Papa 1 year ago
I remember reading that Michael Jordan was asked in an interview if he thought his Bulls team from back in the 1980's could beat the best current NBA teams. He replied that he thought so, but it would be close. He was asked why it would be close, and he replied something like "Well, we're all quite a bit older now."
Miki 1 year ago (edited)
I've heard the exact same joke but with polish footballer from the 70s :D
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Baseball is Life 1 year ago
MJ is the GOAT...he would run circles around a lot of the guys in the NBA now
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
i think between 4 major sports in NA (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey) basketball would be the sport where athletes of any generation could play, the ball maybe changed, but overall its the same sport. baseball is similar, but with some equipment changes. football has had equipment get better overtime to help prevent injuries, dudes are also much larger now than they used to be. hockey has added the most equipment, players have gotten faster, and shots have gotten harder over the years...... if you took the best of the best from the 80s and put them up against the best of the best today, basketball would be even steven, baseball would be close but leaning on todays teams, football today would destroy football back then, and hockey would outplay the players of the past (more stamina)...
SnootWaggling Fox 1 year ago
They changed the rules of the game since then so it's not a fair comparison
Ian Webling 1 year ago
Among the youth of India, the eleven greatest cricketers of all time are whomever is in the current Test team.
Joe G 1 year ago
the current nba is so bad, they couldnt handle playing in the 80s or 90s. these babies cant even play 2 games in a row.
Pollywog 1 year ago
One quarter (being generous) with the Bad Boy Pistons and LeBron would be taken out on a stretcher. They don't realize how bad they and other teams beat him up and the lengths taken to try to stop him from scoring.
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Because of the Batman movie that came out - kids were asking ‘what was Nirvana like?’ and ‘Kurt cobain k*lled himself - that was messed up’🤦🤦🤦
I try to give context that my understanding is that while people focus on d**g problems - Kurt cobain had actual chronic health issues. Living with that and a demanding life can be torture on mental health.
I think I didn’t want these kids to be like ‘he was emo and did d***s so he k*lled himself’.
SleepSycho 1 year ago
He had terrible stomach pain from some sort of condition which is a lot of the reason he did heroin for some sort of relief. The guttural growl in his songs was an expression of his physical agony as much as it was emotional expressiveness.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago (edited)
From what I can remember, he had scoliosis, which was exacerbated by him playing the guitar left-handed (he was ambidextrous).
#37
- the HIV epidemic
- 9/11
- **the Iraq war** OMG younger people are insufferable with their Iraq war takes
- the 2000 election.
martin734 1 year ago
Many people under 40 still don't realise there were two Iraq wars. My dad was a Royal Navy helicopter pilot who served in the Gulf War in 1990/1991.
MoMcB 1 year ago
My ex husband served in the second Gulf war, in the Royal Artillery. Between that and Bosnia, he got really bad PTSD.
Load More Replies... Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
While the movies A Place for Annie and Philadelphia are just that, movies, they were 2 very great films about the realities of AIDS in the 80's/90's and what people had to (still do) endure to get treatment, and/or at the very least, to be treated as a human being.
#38
Like how to pronounce “gif.” We pronounced it “jiff” in 1988, or at least within my circle of nerds. Now I’m told reasons why I’m wrong. I don’t actually care how anyone says it, just don’t come at me with your post-2000 logic saying I’m wrong when I have precedence. And let’s be honest, that person trying to correct me is only saying “giff” because that’s how they first heard it and how *their* friends say it, which is totally fine by me.
Phobrek 1 year ago
I've pronounced it with the hard G since the late 80s, everyone I knew did as well. I never heard of "jiff" until the 00's with articles about the dev saying it was so, and ignored him.
R Dennis 1 year ago
Same. And I was online when it was a 1200bit/s BBS. When they came out, we always used the hard G... joke: something, something peanut butter. (Don't remember it, but it was why we didn't use the soft G)
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Rinso The Red 1 year ago
Screw that guy. The "g" stands for "graphics", do you pronounce is "jraphics"?
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Jeremy James 1 year ago
I used to pronounce it "jiff" until someone pointed out to me that it stands for "Graphics interchange Format," and the word "graphics" is pronounced with a hard. "g." It made sense, so I switched.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
It's an acronym so I can pronounce it any way I want. Dictionaries support both - /ɡɪf/ /dʒɪf/
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
The developer says it is pronounced with a "j" sound like the "g" in "giraffe".
David 1 year ago
I had similar thoughts recently when I saw someone correcting and saying, "It's called breaking, not break dancing". Well sonny, that may be the popular term being pushed now, but it's been breakdancing for many decades. It was called breakdancing when I was watching street buskers perform it before you were born". I honestly don't care that the term has/is changing. Just that some folks get "uppity" about it.
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
Both are OK, but since it's first part is Graphic I use that. Easier to remember too.
#39
Yeah, definitely. It's like "hol-up Junior." I **personally** remember how that went down, and **you're** full of s**t.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
"Calm down, Sparky." "Don't get your panties in bunch, Gladys". "Lighten up, Frances". I use all of these on a regular basis.
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
I personally like "don't get your panties in a bunch!" LOL
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Tim Douglass 1 year ago
As a young boomer I've been really surprised a few times when I've learned that what I remember experiencing was not, in fact, what was really going on. Personal experience is not always as good as the history written after the fact.
#40
Woodstock '99.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
The documentary Trainwreck will tell you all you need to know about Woodstock '99
my name 1 year ago
There's another one on HBO max too. Both documentaries are great.
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Alex Boyd 1 year ago (edited)
I take a bit of comfort in knowing that The Youth Of Today will one day--fairly soon, in the scheme of things--hear some crummy teenager refer to the COVID lockdowns as history, and immediately feel *ancient*.
CP 1 year ago
And they too will then make fun of the youngins who act like Covid wasn't anything. And the cycle will continue.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 1 year ago
Conspiracies! I was a huge X-Files fan and listener of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell since the mid-90s. I was there, Gandalf. I was there when the crazy people made up the b******t. Clearly schizophrenic people in the full throes of hallucination telling stories on late night AM radio. And that was it. Ethically questionable entertainment outlets for the mentally disturbed. It's amazing to see how far some of that nonsense has gone, and terrifying. And then to hear people repeat those theories as though they're some age old truth? Nah, man. I was there when it was invented, and Donald Trump had already run for president once. Not so long ago as we like to think.
Kerry Fletcher 1 year ago
Oh man. The first time I heard him was driving home from seeing the Sixth Sense. The movie creeped me out and he was talk about ghost stories. Didn't know that at the time I joined mid show. Scared the heck out of me and I drove home with the interior light on, doors locked and windows up.
Load More Replies... StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Admittedly, I do get confused with all these (insert letter) Gens. Like, what time period are Boomers, for example? X?? .... and is 'Y' my 14yr old granddaughter? I'm in my mid 60s, so what do they call me? The only one I know is 'Millennials', lol. Back in the day, we'd just say "I was born in the 60s", lol. So much easier than these current labels.
MoMcB 1 year ago
You're a Boomer. Same as me, born in 1964, but I identify more with Gen X experience.
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DelvianBlue 1 year ago
I remember last year when one of my students tried to tell me that 9/11 is just a conspiracy by the government and didn't really happen. I was like "kid, I watched the entire thing unfold on TV. It definitely occurred."
Kathy Richardson 1 year ago
Let me say that when my boys were in middle and high school in the early 2000's, I ended up joining the History Book club because they were barely taught any history in school. I was flabbergasted at the amount they did not know/had never heard of, and my boys were straight A students. So yeah, these younger generation will get their misinformation from the internet.
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
I've had young office workers refuse to believe me when I tell them what it was like before computers and email. Yes, we typed documents on a typewriter, and if your boss decided to make changes, you typed the whole page (or more) over again. If you wanted to send a memo to all staff, you typed it out on a piece of paper, made a pile of copies and walked around distributing them to everyone's desk. More than one young person has said, "No way! Nobody would go through all that work!"
Ivy 1 year ago
The craziest thing about this post is how unwilling people are to admit they’re wrong and would rather continue digging a deeper, more embarrassing hole for themselves. If someone fact checks something I said with information I didn’t know… I admit I was wrong and move on. Simple as that. I’d rather not etch myself into their memory as the idiot who kept idiot-ing.
doredde 1 year ago
I find it a bit irritating how everyone seems so obsessed with being part of a certain "generation". 25 year old colleauge of mine talking about the 18year old kids, as if seven years make SUCH a huge difference. I know that trends, tastes and that change much faster now (or at least it feels like this). I was teached that a generation defines the age "gap"or level between parents and their children (25-30 or more years now maybe). Referring to your birthyear and the culture, country in which you were raised in etc. seems much more adequate for me to say something about you. Gen X (my "generation") spans from born in 1965 - 1980. I´m sure that I (born 1966) had a totally different upbringing and so on, than someone born 15 years later. Especially as a woman!
Angela C 1 year ago
Seven years definitely does make a difference. Most of the people I hang out with are at least 5 years younger than me and when they talk about their high school experience it's in many ways so different than mine was
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Marcus Lynch 1 year ago
Imagine having to tell someone that Winston Churchill and Alfred Hitchcock were not the same person and that neither one of them played The Penguin in the Batman movie. So sad...
Alex Boyd 1 year ago (edited)
I take a bit of comfort in knowing that The Youth Of Today will one day--fairly soon, in the scheme of things--hear some crummy teenager refer to the COVID lockdowns as history, and immediately feel *ancient*.
CP 1 year ago
And they too will then make fun of the youngins who act like Covid wasn't anything. And the cycle will continue.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 1 year ago
Conspiracies! I was a huge X-Files fan and listener of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell since the mid-90s. I was there, Gandalf. I was there when the crazy people made up the b******t. Clearly schizophrenic people in the full throes of hallucination telling stories on late night AM radio. And that was it. Ethically questionable entertainment outlets for the mentally disturbed. It's amazing to see how far some of that nonsense has gone, and terrifying. And then to hear people repeat those theories as though they're some age old truth? Nah, man. I was there when it was invented, and Donald Trump had already run for president once. Not so long ago as we like to think.
Kerry Fletcher 1 year ago
Oh man. The first time I heard him was driving home from seeing the Sixth Sense. The movie creeped me out and he was talk about ghost stories. Didn't know that at the time I joined mid show. Scared the heck out of me and I drove home with the interior light on, doors locked and windows up.
Load More Replies... StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Admittedly, I do get confused with all these (insert letter) Gens. Like, what time period are Boomers, for example? X?? .... and is 'Y' my 14yr old granddaughter? I'm in my mid 60s, so what do they call me? The only one I know is 'Millennials', lol. Back in the day, we'd just say "I was born in the 60s", lol. So much easier than these current labels.
MoMcB 1 year ago
You're a Boomer. Same as me, born in 1964, but I identify more with Gen X experience.
Load More Replies... DelvianBlue 1 year ago
I remember last year when one of my students tried to tell me that 9/11 is just a conspiracy by the government and didn't really happen. I was like "kid, I watched the entire thing unfold on TV. It definitely occurred."
Kathy Richardson 1 year ago
Let me say that when my boys were in middle and high school in the early 2000's, I ended up joining the History Book club because they were barely taught any history in school. I was flabbergasted at the amount they did not know/had never heard of, and my boys were straight A students. So yeah, these younger generation will get their misinformation from the internet.
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
I've had young office workers refuse to believe me when I tell them what it was like before computers and email. Yes, we typed documents on a typewriter, and if your boss decided to make changes, you typed the whole page (or more) over again. If you wanted to send a memo to all staff, you typed it out on a piece of paper, made a pile of copies and walked around distributing them to everyone's desk. More than one young person has said, "No way! Nobody would go through all that work!"
Ivy 1 year ago
The craziest thing about this post is how unwilling people are to admit they’re wrong and would rather continue digging a deeper, more embarrassing hole for themselves. If someone fact checks something I said with information I didn’t know… I admit I was wrong and move on. Simple as that. I’d rather not etch myself into their memory as the idiot who kept idiot-ing.
doredde 1 year ago
I find it a bit irritating how everyone seems so obsessed with being part of a certain "generation". 25 year old colleauge of mine talking about the 18year old kids, as if seven years make SUCH a huge difference. I know that trends, tastes and that change much faster now (or at least it feels like this). I was teached that a generation defines the age "gap"or level between parents and their children (25-30 or more years now maybe). Referring to your birthyear and the culture, country in which you were raised in etc. seems much more adequate for me to say something about you. Gen X (my "generation") spans from born in 1965 - 1980. I´m sure that I (born 1966) had a totally different upbringing and so on, than someone born 15 years later. Especially as a woman!
Angela C 1 year ago
Seven years definitely does make a difference. Most of the people I hang out with are at least 5 years younger than me and when they talk about their high school experience it's in many ways so different than mine was
Load More Replies... Marcus Lynch 1 year ago
Imagine having to tell someone that Winston Churchill and Alfred Hitchcock were not the same person and that neither one of them played The Penguin in the Batman movie. So sad...
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