Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken
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The whole generation thing gets so much funnier when you think how other countries exist.
Imagine you experience a military coup at age of 10 and flee to North Iraq with your family where you live for a few years until your Asylum status gets processed and come to US.
Because of how weird whole process is however you still have to stay in a migrant detention center for anywhere between 2 days to several months depending on your age and gender as they check your papers and luggage.
(It looks like this btw.)Then some highschool teacher calls you overgrown toddler because "your generation is too sissy to drink from a hose."
Oof. Poignant. hope you're safe these days.
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This generational bullshit is all made up by marketing assholes. None of it is legit, it's all a distraction from the class war we should all be waging.
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Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience.... You'll be the same.
Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.
When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn't really a thing either. That's how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people's houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I'm not saying that's entirely a benefit, because it's not, there's definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.
You'll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.
What you don't know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It's a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.
IMO, it's not intended to be tribalism, it's intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it.
I'm sorry that you feel like you're being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme.When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
No, actually, I won’t. I’m in my 40s, not some kid. If your opinion is that future generations should have to struggle as much as you did or they’re somehow not as good, then a solid fuck you.
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I did this as a gen z kid after the new millennium. I did it with probably 40x contaminants than gen x ever had growing up. I apparently have a spoon weight in plastic in my brain by 25, let's see if I can drink enough water that I can fit a Frisbee up there by 30. Lets speed run this shit
Fairly sure my parents told me I tried to drink from the toilet.
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I was going to make a pithy comment about Obama but nope turns out he's a boomer. Boomer ages are roughly Trump at the old end and Obama at the young end. So yeah y'all lost your chance at having a potus with kamala. The silent generation may manage another though, because somehow they took power and barely ceded any to the boomers.
Us millennials will get a solid decade or two of power and then you'll see. You'll all see! Who's occupying wall street now?
If I were to take power, I'd just give a speech about all the wonderful things in the world, and how we could all have them.
But most people consistently voted to screw each other over, so now everyone is getting replaced by AI.
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You were talking about PVC. PVC is not the same as HDPE. It’s not the same as PE, PP, etc.
When you say plastic you include a bunch of stuff that you probably don’t mean to. Plastic refers to any material primarily composed of polymers. The coating inside your cast iron pan when you season it using food oil like avocado oil is a plastic.
North American households don’t use pvc. They use HDPE. They’re not even remotely the same. The risks are completely different, just like the difference between styrofoam and rubber.
I'm not talking about plastic household pipes though - I was clarifying that they are more common than copper now on new builds. NA pipes are PEX from what I've been able to dig up.
Garden hoses - my main focus in my comments - are still made out of PVC
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When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
No, actually, I won’t. I’m in my 40s, not some kid. If your opinion is that future generations should have to struggle as much as you did or they’re somehow not as good, then a solid fuck you.
I don't. No. Future generations can, will, and bluntly, should, have it easier. Often it's not, because the challenges change, they don't go away, which is the great tragedy of it all.
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Apparently the biggest challenge of the current generation is "don't be a fascist."
Seems like a multi generational issue. I mean, the current generation was taught by someone, and will teach someone the same.
Fascism is not the answer. As a question, the answer should be no.
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First number I remember as a kid was “Belmont 3 6316”. Can’t remember what it meant though.
Edit forgot an “
Sadly, I've had enough experience with phone systems that I do.
Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316
But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the "Belmont" area phone system in order to call it.
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The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I'm an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I've drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
I get you. I mostly didn't either, I'm also an "elder" millennial. I grew up in a relatively small city. The city water from the garden hose was fine, for the most part. I don't remember any specific instance where I drank it though.
That's an issue specific to this statement from OP. I was trying to speak more generally, but setting that aside, I think the garden hose thing was a boomer/post boomer thing more than Gen X/millennial. ... Back then, from what I understand, it wasn't uncommon to send the kids outside to play and lock them out there... Probably so the parents can go fuck or at least get a moment of peace and quiet from their fuck trophies.
I don't really know, since I wasn't alive then, and I don't know that I care enough to look into it any more than I already have.
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When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
No, actually, I won’t. I’m in my 40s, not some kid. If your opinion is that future generations should have to struggle as much as you did or they’re somehow not as good, then a solid fuck you.
wrote last edited by [email protected]how do you manage to read that in. that's your narrative.
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My school was 20 minutes from one of the most deadly school shooting in the early 2010s. I went to high school with survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. But gen z is too sensitive is all I hear. We are literally surviving a war that takes place in classrooms and cafeterias, in our developmental years. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
wrote last edited by [email protected]We had nuclear bomb drills. Go to a cinder block corridor in the middle of the building. Sit on the floor with your pelvis pressed against the wall behind you. Curl up in a ball with your arms covering your head. Keep your eyes closed so you don't go blind from the flash. The world is going to end, the world is going to end, the world is about to end. Okay, now go back to class!
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neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting.
100 percent!
Dumb kids of all generations drink from the garden hose.
The smart ones go inside and get it from the kitchen (or disconnect the hose and drink directly from the tap which tastes perfectly fine)
It wasn't that we never went in to get a drink. The problem was all your friends were outside. If you went in the house you run the risk of getting a chore or task to do. By the time you get back your friends may have moved on somewhere else. With no way to contact them you'd have to search the streets. And if you couldn't find them again, you would be alone for a few hours. Drinking from the hose happened, but not as common as these memes suggest. At least for me.
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I don't. No. Future generations can, will, and bluntly, should, have it easier. Often it's not, because the challenges change, they don't go away, which is the great tragedy of it all.
I guess I don't understand what you meant by the part I quoted. Sorry for this misunderstanding.
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Sadly, I've had enough experience with phone systems that I do.
Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316
But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the "Belmont" area phone system in order to call it.
Neato. You triggered a memory. Be in the area. I rem now that it was B-2 E-3
Pretty sure that was from the 3 letters on each number key.
So the number was 233-6316
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I'm gen z and I did this, this whole gen vs gen stuff is dumb imo.
Just another way to divide the working class.
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The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I'm an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I've drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
the fuck are you people doing with your garden hoses that they get dirty inside??
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the fuck are you people doing with your garden hoses that they get dirty inside??
Even if you buy a brand new garden hose, it's not clean; they're made from materials that leach chemicals into the water. Once you get them out into the yard, they might be left partially empty with one or both ends open, allowing bacteria and mould to grow, letting insects in, etc.
If you go to a hardware store, you will find there are potable water hoses, they're usually white with a blue stripe. They are made from food-safe materials and meant to transport potable water. Care still needs to be taken to not allow bacteria growth, but not really any more than a re-usable straw.
