• bstix@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    Gen X has to come up with something other than lawn care. Lawns are for boomers.

    Gen X is too cool/apathetic to care about lawns. The issue is that Gen X isn’t really trying to gatekeep anything.

    If I had to tell the boomers or millennials or gen z to “stay off my bandwidth” I’d probably be more like “ok, suit your self, I have no shits to give”.

    While there are plenty of issues where I’d support the younger generations against the older, being cool isn’t one. None of them have any idea, and neither did we.

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        1 year ago

        Your mother’s reaction is the most clever thing I’ve ever read.

        Allow me to gen-x-plain:

        The thing isn’t necessarily apathy. It’s an acknowledgement of being able to handle the request regardless of the input. That’s what gen X does. We handle shit. Regardlessly.

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          Exactly, “whatever” is us graciously accepting that we’re the donut hole between two huge generations and political and economic power will be neatly handed past us to the millennials.

          Whatever you say man, I know I won’t have a choice.

    • Rolando@lemmy.world
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      Gen X has to come up with something other than lawn care. Lawns are for boomers.

      How about: “step aside, I can’t see the TV.”