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[PrettyLilPussy19]

(I smoked some new weed tonight and... let's just say that it just took me 2:30 minutes to figure out how to spell the word dissipated.)

I have not smoked any weed tonight and I kept reading that as "two thirty minutes" and was confused and thought maybe I was accidentally high?

 

[AveryElle]

Just in time for Pulpy’s question, I stumbled upon this:
https://reductress.com/post/man-who...-pain-to-your-life-wants-to-be-friends-again/

 

[Apisto42]

09.22.19

Exes

Are you good at remaining friend with your exes/past partners? Do you like to stay on friendly terms or is it too hard to watch them move on?

Hm. Two exes from college - I suppose we stayed friendly since they would call me occasionally for a late night after the bars closed things. But at one point I broke all ties with my past life and that was that. No exes since then. I’ve never been dicked over, so there was never any hard feelings on my part.

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

 

[guyonside]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

I think the thing that defines my generation would be employment and economic hopefulness. I know that sounds stupid but there was a very clear through line for us in terms of high school to some type of post-secondary degree be it a trade or university to lots of jobs. We all became well educated and or trained and employed. As with most things it had it’s good and it’s bad. We built lives but I also think we loved to buy stuff way too much.

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

09.20.19

Has there been a time in your life that you've "settled" for something/someone? Did you regret it or learn to love it?

(This is a discussion people! Details! All yes and no answerers will be spanked.)

That kind of depends. I note you list "Something" as a possible thing, and yes, I do "Settle" for somethings. I am for instance, Prone to buying "Refurbished" electronics, which also often times for the best money can be two or three years out of date. I may "Settle" on a "Base" model item, knowing that within a month or two, I may need to purchase an add on or upgrade item in order to get the Most out of it that I need. On the flip side, I also don't like being forced to spend money on features I simply will not ever use. I may also "Settle" on a "Beginner/Novice" grade item with the sole intent of being able to take it apart and do the proper upgrades myself for the learning experience. Again, why spend the money for all of the Bells and Whistles, yet lose the learning experience.

As for relationships, no. I can honestly say I never "Settled" for a Relationship. It was either All in or move on. I don't feel that is fair for the other party, nor do I want to put in that kind of effort.

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

09.22.19

Exes

Are you good at remaining friend with your exes/past partners? Do you like to stay on friendly terms or is it too hard to watch them move on?

Now this is a very mixed bag...

I do have an ex that, if other outside influences were Not[/i[ a factor, we have both acknowledged that we very easily could pick up right where we left off, but this time, the personal issues that were bumps in the road for us, are not there, as both of us have grown and dealt with those issues.

As for the couple of others, well, I am a widower for one...the others, no, those fireworks exploded. In one case, no matter how many times the olive branch has been offered, they still take it, carve it into an arrow and stab me in the back with it.

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

This one is difficult...I grew up in two VERY divergent households. My half sisters are very much the epitome of GenX, where as I am probably much closer to the Fringe/Alternative Way of Life of the GenX crowd.

To me, one of the really big aspects of the GenX crowd is "Microwave Living". All of these meals and meal plans we see based around quick, convenient foods, pre-made meals in a bag/box, etc are our fault. I used to blame it on my Parents, but really, it was a trend that really kicked in strong when my first kid was born.

I also really see it as the Beginning of the Tech Life style. Sure, you can go back and look at the 50's and 60's, and see how technology started to bloom, but I see GenX as the point where it REALLY started to take a foothold in the home. From there, we just pushed that envelope as big as we could make it, then kept gluing on more envelopes.

I also see it as the group that really pushed the "Politically Correct" concept. Not without reason mind you, but at the same time, I really see it as having been a bad influence on where we were starting to head when it came to Personal Relations. Rather than actually Addressing the issues, opening dialogue, and working out the issues, people instead just slapped the "That Isn't PC!" label on it and walked away. Well? Why isn't it PC? What actually needs to change to address the problem rather than just throw the PC band-aid on there and let the wound fester instead of healing...

As for me, I do believe I am on the fringe. My attitudes, approaches and outlooks when dealing with people, technology, business and politics is, in my experience, different than most of my Generational Peers. I know my Religious outlooks certainly don't match with a big portion of my Generation.

I just don't fit in

 

[AngelicaS1780]

09.24.19
What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

GenX...popular thought says independent, disillusioned, self-reliant, cynical, slackers, apathetic

I definitely agree with the ideas of independence and self-reliance. We were free range and latch key. Disillusioned and cynical? Compared to the baby boomers, definitely. As children and adolescents, we watched the cold war escalate to the threat of nuclear annihilation, the rising political power of the Christian right, and the greed is good mentality of Wall Street and corporate America. However, I don't think that, overall, we are apathetic slackers. I do think that many of us began to wonder why we should continue to "play by the rules" and to question the effectiveness of working for change within the existing power structures.

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

The one I never want to see again was not a good guy. Fuck him.

With a Nailbat and no lube perhaps?

 

[AlpineFresco]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

'86 puts me as a millennial, and I'd say it's mostly, in the UK, defined by a lack of ability to get on the property ladder. We're more mobile, we're the last generation that bridged the gap between pre and post net and mobiles. We're more likely to be eco-conscious than those who came before (but probably less than those who came after), and similarly on ideas of how things 'should' be done (traditional and convention are less important to us, broadly) because for a lot of things, our parents' experience isn't as useful as they'd (or we'd, probably) hoped.

I'd say we're adaptive.

If I'm wrong on those points, I'll add that we talk a whole load of bollocks.

I probably do fit the mould, more or less (especially that last bit).

 

[AveryElle]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

I'm a cusper - can be classified as Gen X or Gen Y. But, I'm X. I'm jaded, caustic, cynical. But, I'm also passionate. I think Gen Xers are quietly passionate. And a lot (I mean, a lot of the era's pop culture "speaks" to me. Gen Y stuff? Nope.

X is also classified by student loan debt (which I do not have, thank god!), poor wage growth (debatable), and inability to buy a home (I have been able to, but due to not having student loan debt).

I match up with the attitude and behavior, but other things, I've been lucky to avoid by planning and family bonds.

 

[Justadesperatewifeandmom]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

Well, to me that is more difficult than the generational categories would show. From the traditionalists to Gen Z, generations are typically broken into 20 year age blocks. So my mother and I are both Gen Xers, the same generation, yet clearly we are not. She was near the beginning of Gen X, on the boomer side, and I am near the Gen Y cut off. Some sociological stereotypes of Gen X are tech adaptable, yes, my generation that built today's infrastructure. Now, my mother is not, she barely knew the vcr, yet we are the same generation technically. Gen Xers are known for a solid work life balance, babyboomers for overworking, and Yers for being slackers. I think I fit Gen X but maybe a touch of a lean to Y. Babyboomers stayed with the same company forever, Xers bounced around a little, Yers bounce a lot. Again, I fit Gen X, but with a bit of Y lean. I am more adaptable than most Xers, but probably not as much as Ys. Gen Xers are known to be self reliant, as our generation was the generation with the most working parents and single parents yet the least child care options. My side of Gen X wore house keys on our neck, came home, played with friends, went in to do our homework, and started dinner per parental instructions by 8 or 9. Early Gen X was still primarily in the typical 2 parent provider/homemaker roll, which was much rarer by late Gen X, and with Gen Y they created a more prominent child care industry. Some Gen Xers still had Nuclear Bomb drills in school and some of us can barely remember seeing President Reagan on TV. Later Gen Xers had more education compared to early Gen Xers, especially the woman. Really, can we say a child starting school in the 60s is the same generation as a child starting school in the 80s?

As a whole, I guess I am fairly typical to many stereotypes of Gen X. Good with technology, self reliant to a fault, individualistic, risk taker, rebel, flexible, but I also have some of the Gen Y traits such as the a bit impersonal due to the long term use of technology, valuing diversity in groups, impatient and struggle with delayed gratification, strong multitasker.

 

[AbsintheFather]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

No other Boomers yet? I'll represent.

I came along at the end of this generation. We were rebels against 'the establishment'. I wore long hair and bell-bottom jeans. I remember the Vietnam war, the protests and classic rock before it was 'classic'. In the days before computers, video games and cell phones, we were more social. Pickup ball games in the neighborhood was the way we interacted. Parents didn't push us, we were pretty much left to find our own interests and motivation.

But them we became parents to Millenials. We became the parents we never thought we would grow up to be. I think it's just what happens, the way the world works. One of my daughters recently confessed to me that she now likes my music . . . it's happening to her.

 

[AlwaysFara]

GenX.

The best hair, music and movies.

 

[Sexybritches69]

Gen X here. Definitely music. Pushback against authority. Gen Xers are hard workers. Downside is we can be crotchety and single-minded.

 

[standard1]

Baby Boomer to a T; work ethic, competitive, self-assured, goal centric. grew up able to roam. teen years cruising, drinking and trying to be cool. registered for Vietnam draft, but didn’t get called. resourceful enough to find fun in most situations. always engaged in an interesting new idea. plus most the stuff AF said earlier. i feel lucky to be a Boomer.

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

Generation X is the demographic cohort following the post–World War II baby boom, representing a generational change from the baby boomers.

Many researchers and demographers use dates which correspond to the fertility-patterns in the population, which results in a Generation X starting-date of 1965, such as Pew Research Center which uses a range of 1965–1980,[15] Australia's McCrindle Research Center which uses 1965–1979,[16] and Gallup which also uses 1965–1979.[17] PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, describes Generation X employees as those born from 1965 to 1980.[18]

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981. They argue that those born between 1961 and 1964 are part of Generation X rather than the Baby Boomers because they are distinct from the Boomers in terms of cultural identity and shared historical experiences.[19]

Some researchers use dates similar to Strauss and Howe's such as the University of Michigan's Generation X Report, a quarterly research report from The Longitudinal Study of American Youth, which defines Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981.[20]

Author Jeff Gordinier, in his 2008 book X Saves the World, defines Generation X as those born roughly between 1961 and 1977 but possibly as late as 1980.[21] Canadian author and professor David Foot divides the post-boomer generation into two groups: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966; and the "Bust Generation", born between 1967 and 1979, In his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift.[22][23]

Other demographers and researchers use a wide range of dates to describe Generation X, with the beginning birth-year as early as 1960[24] and with the final birth year as late as 1984.[25][26]

Individuals born in the Generation X and millennial cusp years of the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s have been identified as a "microgeneration" with characteristics of both generations.[27] Names given to these "cuspers" include Xennials,[28] Generation Catalano,[29] and the Oregon Trail Generation.[30]

Posting that as I have run into a Few people who believe they were of the Boomer Generation, that were born After 1960, but before 1965. That seems to be a Gray Area.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

Late Boomer here (1958). Too young to have enjoyed the Summer of Love or any of that stuff. But I remember Classic Rock as just being "Rock".

Those older than me were pioneers, explorers, visionaries who changed the world. I merely benefited from that. The revolution was over by the time I was ready to take on the world.

The dividing line for me? Calculators. I learned how to use a slide rule in high school, but was using a calculator by the time I started University (1977). The Engineering School cancelled the annual Slide Rule Competition in 1978. That may be a more realistic divider than simple calendar years: The Rise of Computing Power.

And yes, I have been with the same company (sort of) since 1985. It has been sold and reorganized multiple times, but I'm still plugging away.

Well, to me that is more difficult than the generational categories would show. From the traditionalists to Gen Z, generations are typically broken into 20 year age blocks. So my mother and I are both Gen Xers, the same generation, yet clearly we are not. She was near the beginning of Gen X, on the boomer side, and I am near the Gen Y cut off.

SNIP

TIL: Justa's mother is younger than me.

 

[Justadesperatewifeandmom]

Late Boomer here (1958). Too young to have enjoyed the Summer of Love or any of that stuff. But I remember Classic Rock as just being "Rock".

Those older than me were pioneers, explorers, visionaries who changed the world. I merely benefited from that. The revolution was over by the time I was ready to take on the world.

The dividing line for me? Calculators. I learned how to use a slide rule in high school, but was using a calculator by the time I started University (1977). The Engineering School cancelled the annual Slide Rule Competition in 1978. That may be a more realistic divider than simple calendar years: The Rise of Computing Power.

And yes, I have been with the same company (sort of) since 1985. It has been sold and reorganized multiple times, but I'm still plugging away.



TIL: Justa's mother is younger than me.

yes, I do agree that now and for all future generations to come, the technology is the dividing line, which makes me believe the 20 year standards are too great. Someone who started school in the 80s is nothing like someone who started in the 2000s. The rapidly changing face of technology is also rapid changing the sociological behaviors. Sure, maybe you can lump the lost, greatest, traditionalist, and boomers into their 20 year lumps, but by the middle of Gen X, there is such a huge divide. You can not use the Gen X data as a way to target market to both my mother and I. You can not use that data to look at your employment structure and staff to insure diversified think tank operation. The notion of quantifying generations does have merits, both for current applications as well as for future historical purposes, but I think it needs to be re-conceptualized to account for the contemporary evolution path of our societies, and would likely be more like 10 year groups.

and haha, the things learned on lit. Yes, she is a bit younger, but not by much. My father is actually older, solidly in the boomer designation, hence me not using him as an example of the concept of generation lumping into a narrow definition while containing such a wide date range being completely outdated based on the rapid changing of technology and therefor society.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

yes, I do agree that now and for all future generations to come, the technology is the dividing line, which makes me believe the 20 year standards are too great. Someone who started school in the 80s is nothing like someone who started in the 2000s. The rapidly changing face of technology is also rapid changing the sociological behaviors. Sure, maybe you can lump the lost, greatest, traditionalist, and boomers into their 20 year lumps, but by the middle of Gen X, there is such a huge divide. You can not use the Gen X data as a way to target market to both my mother and I. You can not use that data to look at your employment structure and staff to insure diversified think tank operation. The notion of quantifying generations does have merits, both for current applications as well as for future historical purposes, but I think it needs to be re-conceptualized to account for the contemporary evolution path of our societies, and would likely be more like 10 year groups.

and haha, the things learned on lit. Yes, she is a bit younger, but not by much. My father is actually older, solidly in the boomer designation, hence me not using him as an example of the concept of generation lumping into a narrow definition while containing such a wide date range being completely outdated based on the rapid changing of technology and therefor society.

I attended a talk by a professor from Louisiana on the difference between Millennial's and Baby Boomers concerning how each "thinks" and behaves differently. The talk was in support of my job teaching adults in a technical field. it was one of THE most fascinating discussions I ever heard. Unfortunately, I do not recall the professors name.

One anecdotal part of the discussion is vivid in my mind as an example.

When baby boomers purchase new technology, they are always distrustful on some level. During the technological revolution, there was a lot of pressure placed on baby boomers to buy the latest thing - the latest gadget. The speed at which new technology was introduced was far more rapid than at any time in history before. But with the speed of distribution came the let downs.

Manufacturers used a process where only functionally disruptive bugs were repaired before the product hit the market. Minor bugs were allowed to be fleshed out by the consumer. The mental condition for everyone at the time was that we EXPECTED bugs and LIVED with them as a part of the way of doing business at the time. Baby Boomers were OK with things not making sense. The inconvenience of something not being perfect was lived with. That's why such a large number of VCRs had their clock lights blinking - because baby boomers didn't care about the nuisance of the wrong time on a VCR - as long as the VCR worked.

Baby Boomers were accustomed to initial roll outs of new technology products to be flawed - so while there was pressure to buy the newest "thing," the new habit was to wait until the bugs were shook out, and THEN buy the product.

Over time, grumbling and the initial stages of what would become known as, "social media" forced MUCH more quality control standards to be used BEFORE a product hit the street. Everything worked when introduced. Standardization became the norm for products like game controllers, etc.

The result was that Millennial's did not have to go thru the same growing pains for new products. They never had to worry about everything not working. Therefore, they trusted technology more than baby Boomers.

 

[AbsintheFather]

When baby boomers purchase new technology, they are always distrustful on some level. During the technological revolution, there was a lot of pressure placed on baby boomers to buy the latest thing - the latest gadget. The speed at which new technology was introduced was far more rapid than at any time in history before. But with the speed of distribution came the let downs.

I was a young man working as an analyst at a bank when Lotus first introduced the spreadsheet.

My boss didn't trust it and made us double check all the columns and rows of numbers using a calculator to make sure they added up. Crazy

 

[Sundayschild]

I was a young man working as an analyst at a bank when Lotus first introduced the spreadsheet.

My boss didn't trust it and made us double check all the columns and rows of numbers using a calculator to make sure they added up. Crazy

Hilarious!

 

[DarkSimian]

09.24.19

What do you think most defines your generation? Does it apply to you or do you stand out?

GenX.

The best hair, music and movies.

GenX here. And I agree with Fara; best music (from Southern rock to heavy metal, punk to early rap, hair bands to new-wave alternative), movies (the rise of the action movie, John Hughes, Star Wars, the rom-com, and the teen-sex craze) and the hair and clothes....

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

I was a young man working as an analyst at a bank when Lotus first introduced the spreadsheet.

My boss didn't trust it and made us double check all the columns and rows of numbers using a calculator to make sure they added up. Crazy

I had a boss in the early 90s when email was first introduced widely in our company who would have his Clerk print his emails so he could read them.

I think one defining thing about Boomers is learning to adapt to rapidly evolving technology. Yes, some never got that clock on their VCR to work. But think about "photography" .

The first digital camera we had at work stored data on a 3.5" floppy disc. It was the size of a wall mounted phone and stored ten pictures I think. It replaced our Polaroid camera for quick pics. Within a couple of years you couldn't even buy 35mm film outside of a specialty shop. Kodak and Polaroid are gone (ish). Fuji is vastly different and the rest of the camera makers are fighting for market share with cell phone makers.

Now film photography is almost unheard of in the general population. Yes, professionals and serious hobbyists still use it, but most people do not. And it happened almost overnight.