GenX

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X got a taste of actual work and fun in college. Before it got ruined.

The real declined stared with MADD - mothers against drunk driving, raising drinking age and AIDS.

All college fun started to end at the end of the 1970s and was completely ruined by 2001. Due to above reasons

I started college in 1980 and drinking age was 18 I went to Stonybrook which still was very hippie like. We had like 10 bars on campus and two clubs, hall parties every Thursday through Saturday. Beer, jungle Juice vodka at hall parties were FREE as paid out of student activity fee. Our on campus Bars stayed open till 4 am. No one dated as we all hook up.

But that all started to end around 1982. Raising drinking age to 21 and tough DWI laws really overnight killed a lot of fun. Plus computers then tech ruined a lot.

Imagine today if my Hall threw our 1980 Jungle/Juice Lude Toga Party. Yes we have huge garbage cans full of koolaid and vodka and everyone got a quelude. And smoking legal too so smoking pot all mixed in. I recall I was DJ ing rappers delight with Mike at one point. And some girl tripping on LSD. Yet at Stonybrook 1980 parties like that were common.

My nephew went to stony Brook 40 years later and I rather be in a Soviet prison camp

You can't be Gen-X. I am and I was 6 when you started college.

My point was Gen X got a taste of a real childhood and college experience, it was already winding down. I say the parties slowed down for good with Y2K. Literally news years Eve 1999 was end of life.

I have college aged kids and they and their friends so boring. I recall once at 19 we decided at 3am on a Friday we should go to the Hamptons after clubbing we grabbed our stuff which was 300 miles away and drove there hung over and drunk. Passed out on beach and woke up partied hard, ended up going to Neptunes Beach club, Bordy Barn, CPIs, Ed’s Bay Pub, Hampton bay diner and dockers and drove home on Sunday evening. We would hang out and crap happened. I must of had 60 beers, shots and we hit a house party. Gen X that spirit still alive a bit more. Amazing we did not all die. Two years later we did it for skiing! I must have slept in 100 different beds and couches in some years. We were always out.

Sad that Gen x or milenials so boring. I recall my first job we used to do spring break together or go skiing together was like a frat house. But that was ruined too. No fun at work allowed.

Now kids have virtual fun on tic toc and watch Netflix

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X got a taste of actual work and fun in college. Before it got ruined.

The real declined stared with MADD - mothers against drunk driving, raising drinking age and AIDS.

All college fun started to end at the end of the 1970s and was completely ruined by 2001. Due to above reasons

I started college in 1980 and drinking age was 18 I went to Stonybrook which still was very hippie like. We had like 10 bars on campus and two clubs, hall parties every Thursday through Saturday. Beer, jungle Juice vodka at hall parties were FREE as paid out of student activity fee. Our on campus Bars stayed open till 4 am. No one dated as we all hook up.

But that all started to end around 1982. Raising drinking age to 21 and tough DWI laws really overnight killed a lot of fun. Plus computers then tech ruined a lot.

Imagine today if my Hall threw our 1980 Jungle/Juice Lude Toga Party. Yes we have huge garbage cans full of koolaid and vodka and everyone got a quelude. And smoking legal too so smoking pot all mixed in. I recall I was DJ ing rappers delight with Mike at one point. And some girl tripping on LSD. Yet at Stonybrook 1980 parties like that were common.

My nephew went to stony Brook 40 years later and I rather be in a Soviet prison camp

You can't be Gen-X. I am and I was 6 when you started college.

My point was Gen X got a taste of a real childhood and college experience, it was already winding down. I say the parties slowed down for good with Y2K. Literally news years Eve 1999 was end of life.

I have college aged kids and they and their friends so boring. I recall once at 19 we decided at 3am on a Friday we should go to the Hamptons after clubbing we grabbed our stuff which was 300 miles away and drove there hung over and drunk. Passed out on beach and woke up partied hard, ended up going to Neptunes Beach club, Bordy Barn, CPIs, Ed’s Bay Pub, Hampton bay diner and dockers and drove home on Sunday evening. We would hang out and crap happened. I must of had 60 beers, shots and we hit a house party. Gen X that spirit still alive a bit more. Amazing we did not all die. Two years later we did it for skiing! I must have slept in 100 different beds and couches in some years. We were always out.

Sad that Gen x or milenials so boring. I recall my first job we used to do spring break together or go skiing together was like a frat house. But that was ruined too. No fun at work allowed.

Now kids have virtual fun on tic toc and watch Netflix

The NPR interview mentioned earlier discusses this: as external risks went down (drinking, sex, drugs), internal risks increased (anxiety, suicide, self harm) . Teenage brains are not equipped to be be as mature as they need to be in our current society. It causes a disconnect that they can’t handle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The contraceptive pill?

So the Boomers invented the Pill when they were teens? Don’t think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The contraceptive pill?

So the Boomers invented the Pill when they were teens? Don’t think so.

It is incredibly facile to be so wedded to arbitrary generational categories created for broad brush analysis of societal changes over times …

There are many more meaningful ways to establish identity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X got a taste of actual work and fun in college. Before it got ruined.

The real declined stared with MADD - mothers against drunk driving, raising drinking age and AIDS.

All college fun started to end at the end of the 1970s and was completely ruined by 2001. Due to above reasons

I started college in 1980 and drinking age was 18 I went to Stonybrook which still was very hippie like. We had like 10 bars on campus and two clubs, hall parties every Thursday through Saturday. Beer, jungle Juice vodka at hall parties were FREE as paid out of student activity fee. Our on campus Bars stayed open till 4 am. No one dated as we all hook up.

But that all started to end around 1982. Raising drinking age to 21 and tough DWI laws really overnight killed a lot of fun. Plus computers then tech ruined a lot.

Imagine today if my Hall threw our 1980 Jungle/Juice Lude Toga Party. Yes we have huge garbage cans full of koolaid and vodka and everyone got a quelude. And smoking legal too so smoking pot all mixed in. I recall I was DJ ing rappers delight with Mike at one point. And some girl tripping on LSD. Yet at Stonybrook 1980 parties like that were common.

My nephew went to stony Brook 40 years later and I rather be in a Soviet prison camp

You can't be Gen-X. I am and I was 6 when you started college.

My point was Gen X got a taste of a real childhood and college experience, it was already winding down. I say the parties slowed down for good with Y2K. Literally news years Eve 1999 was end of life.

I have college aged kids and they and their friends so boring. I recall once at 19 we decided at 3am on a Friday we should go to the Hamptons after clubbing we grabbed our stuff which was 300 miles away and drove there hung over and drunk. Passed out on beach and woke up partied hard, ended up going to Neptunes Beach club, Bordy Barn, CPIs, Ed’s Bay Pub, Hampton bay diner and dockers and drove home on Sunday evening. We would hang out and crap happened. I must of had 60 beers, shots and we hit a house party. Gen X that spirit still alive a bit more. Amazing we did not all die. Two years later we did it for skiing! I must have slept in 100 different beds and couches in some years. We were always out.

Sad that Gen x or milenials so boring. I recall my first job we used to do spring break together or go skiing together was like a frat house. But that was ruined too. No fun at work allowed.

Now kids have virtual fun on tic toc and watch Netflix

There is some truth re: kids living through SM and not experiencing it in today's time. But, you're romanticizing the GenX experience a bit. I had the same experiences as you did: spring break, toga parties, beach houses, sleeping on floors, etc. But, there was a lot of ugliness to that as well. Lots of my friends had pregnancy scares, got STDs, ended up in the hospital with alcohol-related injuries. People found them selves assaulted or in other scary situations. Drunk driving. A friend of a friend was put in prison -so much for college!- for drunk driving and killing someone (he drove for someone "less drunk than he was" and killed a passenger). I look back and to think it's amazing I came out unscathed. And thus, that's why some of the pushback (you may call it a buzz kill) came from.

There is a middle ground between complete debauchery and zoning out on SM. Kids today just haven't found it, sadly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X got a taste of actual work and fun in college. Before it got ruined.

The real declined stared with MADD - mothers against drunk driving, raising drinking age and AIDS.

All college fun started to end at the end of the 1970s and was completely ruined by 2001. Due to above reasons

I started college in 1980 and drinking age was 18 I went to Stonybrook which still was very hippie like. We had like 10 bars on campus and two clubs, hall parties every Thursday through Saturday. Beer, jungle Juice vodka at hall parties were FREE as paid out of student activity fee. Our on campus Bars stayed open till 4 am. No one dated as we all hook up.

But that all started to end around 1982. Raising drinking age to 21 and tough DWI laws really overnight killed a lot of fun. Plus computers then tech ruined a lot.

Imagine today if my Hall threw our 1980 Jungle/Juice Lude Toga Party. Yes we have huge garbage cans full of koolaid and vodka and everyone got a quelude. And smoking legal too so smoking pot all mixed in. I recall I was DJ ing rappers delight with Mike at one point. And some girl tripping on LSD. Yet at Stonybrook 1980 parties like that were common.

My nephew went to stony Brook 40 years later and I rather be in a Soviet prison camp

You can't be Gen-X. I am and I was 6 when you started college.

I am one of the oldest Gen-X (Feb 1965). I entered college in Fall 1983. So, the PP is definitely a Boomer, not an Xer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think boomers got a label because there was something unique about the time period they were born in whereas not so much with gen x, so they were labeled later as an afterthought when other generations got labels. Not sure why it's even necessary.

The boomers did the labeling. It’s how they are wired. They did not think of the genX’ers because why would they? Everything they did was so cool and nothing can compare.

This is just silly.

I am on the cusp between these arbitrary generational Categories and literally know no one who lollygags about basking in the unearned glories of being a boomer … if anything, people are focussed on changing health needs according to specific age/ decade.

The generational categories are designed for broad brush painting to help social scientists and historians break down complex reality -/ and not for shaping meaningful identity.

That said, the title “Gen X” presents a messaging problem - Gen X sounds like a test tube placeholder.

How about
Gen Xenon (gaseous element)
Gen Xerox (photocopy on xerographic copier)
Gen Xylyl (univalent radical)
Gen Xysti (a roofed area where athletes trained in Ancient Greece)

I think I've seen the term Xoomer for the late Boomer cusp kids (born 1960-1964).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think boomers got a label because there was something unique about the time period they were born in whereas not so much with gen x, so they were labeled later as an afterthought when other generations got labels. Not sure why it's even necessary.

The boomers did the labeling. It’s how they are wired. They did not think of the genX’ers because why would they? Everything they did was so cool and nothing can compare.

This is just silly.

I am on the cusp between these arbitrary generational Categories and literally know no one who lollygags about basking in the unearned glories of being a boomer … if anything, people are focussed on changing health needs according to specific age/ decade.

The generational categories are designed for broad brush painting to help social scientists and historians break down complex reality -/ and not for shaping meaningful identity.

That said, the title “Gen X” presents a messaging problem - Gen X sounds like a test tube placeholder.

How about
Gen Xenon (gaseous element)
Gen Xerox (photocopy on xerographic copier)
Gen Xylyl (univalent radical)
Gen Xysti (a roofed area where athletes trained in Ancient Greece)

I think I've seen the term Xoomer for the late Boomer cusp kids (born 1960-1964).

Love it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“We can’t drive drunk anymore and now life sucks”
Is a hot take!

+1.

Also, how did I know that “Jungle Juice” was gonna be Kool-Aid-based. Cringe.

And if someone started college in 1980, They were born in ‘62 or ‘63. GenX (aka the Baby Bust generation) started in ‘65.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think boomers got a label because there was something unique about the time period they were born in whereas not so much with gen x, so they were labeled later as an afterthought when other generations got labels. Not sure why it's even necessary.

The boomers did the labeling. It’s how they are wired. They did not think of the genX’ers because why would they? Everything they did was so cool and nothing can compare.

This is just silly.

I am on the cusp between these arbitrary generational Categories and literally know no one who lollygags about basking in the unearned glories of being a boomer … if anything, people are focussed on changing health needs according to specific age/ decade.

The generational categories are designed for broad brush painting to help social scientists and historians break down complex reality -/ and not for shaping meaningful identity.

That said, the title “Gen X” presents a messaging problem - Gen X sounds like a test tube placeholder.

How about
Gen Xenon (gaseous element)
Gen Xerox (photocopy on xerographic copier)
Gen Xylyl (univalent radical)
Gen Xysti (a roofed area where athletes trained in Ancient Greece)

I think I've seen the term Xoomer for the late Boomer cusp kids (born 1960-1964).

Love it

I’ve seen “Generation Jones.” I agree they’rea different flavor of Boomer… but still Boomers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X got a taste of actual work and fun in college. Before it got ruined.

The real declined stared with MADD - mothers against drunk driving, raising drinking age and AIDS.

All college fun started to end at the end of the 1970s and was completely ruined by 2001. Due to above reasons

I started college in 1980 and drinking age was 18 I went to Stonybrook which still was very hippie like. We had like 10 bars on campus and two clubs, hall parties every Thursday through Saturday. Beer, jungle Juice vodka at hall parties were FREE as paid out of student activity fee. Our on campus Bars stayed open till 4 am. No one dated as we all hook up.

But that all started to end around 1982. Raising drinking age to 21 and tough DWI laws really overnight killed a lot of fun. Plus computers then tech ruined a lot.

Imagine today if my Hall threw our 1980 Jungle/Juice Lude Toga Party. Yes we have huge garbage cans full of koolaid and vodka and everyone got a quelude. And smoking legal too so smoking pot all mixed in. I recall I was DJ ing rappers delight with Mike at one point. And some girl tripping on LSD. Yet at Stonybrook 1980 parties like that were common.

My nephew went to stony Brook 40 years later and I rather be in a Soviet prison camp

You can't be Gen-X. I am and I was 6 when you started college.

I think the Juice/Ludes did something to his brain. He's not Gen-X. I am barely Gen X, and I started college in 1986. Although he might still have been in college then....