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Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken

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  • S [email protected]

    And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?

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    That Boomers are to blame for almost all of the current state of affairs

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      Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I'm here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It's just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We're not that goddamned tough. We weren't slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.

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      Yeah, drinking from the hose was a lot less problematic than just breathing the air, which was full of tetraethyl lead.

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        Garden hose filters prevent lime scale from destroying whatever is attached to the hose.

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        • matttheprogrammer@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

          I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.

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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.

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            Point is your too slow to dodge because you spend all your time on your ass watching tiktok.

            -same

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            If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball bullet.

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            • prioritymotif@lemmy.worldP [email protected]

              Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie.
              Honestly I'm glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle.

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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.

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                There was a gen x?

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                • S [email protected]

                  And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?

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                  Hey us millennials had to do that too. Just not as often

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                    I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?

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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.

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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 “

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                      • bebopalouie@lemmy.caB [email protected]

                        I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?

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                        Depends where you live, where I am you might get typhoid by doing that

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                          Every generation is tougher than the next, but ever generation is responsible for the next.

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                          • bunscientist@lemmy.zipB [email protected]

                            Depends where you live, where I am you might get typhoid by doing that

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                            Was in Toronto in 60’s and 70’s.

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                              We totally did do this.

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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.

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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

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                                  The water tasted like damp basement! Oddly enough, it was a kinda pleasant flavour.

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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.

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                                    Apparently the biggest challenge of the current generation is "don't be a fascist."

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                                    • matttheprogrammer@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                                      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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                                      Your quoted reply was from MystikIncarnate instead of PriorityMotif, and it looks like you're reading hostility into their reply that I don't think was intended. I believe the point was that every generation will have unique struggles, and it's not intended to wish that each one should have to struggle exactly the same way or amount by pointing out some of those challenges.

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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.

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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.

                                        What kind of moron goes through life thinking "Every generation after mine is going to go through the exact same experiences as me!" - what made you think that? What sort of pompous, self-important shithead of a kid were you?

                                        "The future will be just like today"

                                        Were you dropped on your head or something?

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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

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