BB guns, pellet guns, slingshots, bottle rockets (never did roman candles though - I drew the line at straight up fireballs), rocks as grenades. I remember this hill out behind my house in the woods that had a little bit of a dip in it, covering myself in leaves, mud, and camo grease paint like I was fighting the Predator. Laying there with my eyes closed and waiting until I heard somebody come close and then jumping up and scaring the crap out of them. Knowing full well there could be any number of wild animals or poisonous shite there and not giving a damn. Laying tripwires and pits for people to fall into... good times. 😂
@RepentantDrContra Gen X raised half the millennial, you made them that way lol. Gen X spread all the liberal ideologies and sexualization of teenagers.
@@hfd413 Cute dodge, but no dice. Each generation is responsible for both instilling the proper values, and following through by setting a good example. Yours has failed on both fronts. If you expect everyone to learn from first principles, don't be all butthurt when they come up with different ideas.
@@RubberKiwi79 6pm in winter it’s dark… Going out front door mom says where you going? To throw snowballs at cars I replied.. better not get caught she says… lol..
@@GeneralPadron no, Gen X is 65-80-ish but 65 is the start, most GenX are 70s born, the 60s GenX were a little different but had the same parenting as me born in 79.
@@KelticKabukiGirl , You might want to do some research into generations. And what defines a generation. I was born Jan. 1985. I am Gen X. Baby Boomers are those born to Solders coming back from WWII. That would be 1955-75. Those who served in WWII are known as the Greatest Generation. Ask yourself why?
@@GeneralPadron what the hell source did you get that?!!? The latest they put it is 82, but it's 80 in most publications. 65-80. You are just an older Millenial. I know you guys hate being Millenials, but that's not my problem
We rode in the back of trucks, had BB Gun fights, held M80s while we lit em, had rock fights, climbed trees and tried to get down with no hands, we made ramps and jumped our friends laying on the ground, we got up and fed ourselves then did our chores and were out the door before mom and dad got up. We left notes saying we were going to play and they didnt see us but maybe once a day for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich until the street lights came on. We raised ourselves. We had to figure it out on our own. The Gen Xers that died, didnt have enough critical thinking. The ones that got hurt, did it again until they didnt get hurt. There wasnt and still isnt "cant" in our vocabulary. We walked it off or most of the time we limped it off. Torn flesh was a good story, scars were badges of honor. Dont get me started on when we were old enough to have a motorcycle. Turning 8 or 9 was a great time. We got given BB guns at the age of 7 or 8. The only time we didnt have to be home by dark was if we were at work. If we Fucked around at a friends house, their parents had permission to whoop our asses. Then when we got home, we got our asses whopped again and even worse because we showed out at someone elses home. We respected our elders. We were raised with the mentality that there was "a fine line betweeen discipline and abuse". We did what we were told THE FIRST TIME! We knew what would happen if we didnt. When we were told "Get your shoes on and get in the car", thats exactly what we did, without a single question. We were raised by two forms of discipline. First was quick check discipline, a vey quick backhand. Second, and worse was the belt. And it wasnt worse because it hurt more. You knew it was gunna hurt. It was worse because it was ALWAYS something that was coming later. There was a build-up. And our time-outs lasted all weekend, maybe longer if we fucked up bad. I could go on and on. These are just a few of the reasons we are so tough. Justa few reasons why we dont care. We have zero fucks to give because we are takin those fucks to the grave with us.
I'm Gen X, I fell off my bike and hit my head, bleeding, when I showed my mom, she said "this better not ruin our camping trip" 😄 We grew up tough ! No bullshit
pedal stuck in head from a back flip off truck bed as a kid in Carson city Nevada, 17 stiches and we still went on vacation. Just how it was we just kept trucking.
I fell off my bike and broke my arm so I walked home and told my mother, she said you haven’t broken your arm because you would know it if you broke your arm 🙄 like what part of I broke my arm makes you think I don’t know that I broke my arm? Did she take me to hospital? No! We took care of ourselves because we had to.
I'm gen X. Grew up with my grandparents next door. Gen X is weak. Get at me when you grow up lucky to eat a single potato a day during the depression. Then sign up to die in war at 16. Gen X got new shoes every school year, my parents and grandparents grew up getting hand downs where the soul of the shoes had holes. You got kicked out of bed at 4am to do farm chores. Going to school was a luxury. As soon as you got home back to farm work. No electricity, no machines, split wood just to cook food. You still had to hitch up horses to go anywhere. Any clue how much work it takes to bail hay to feed that horse?? With no equipment. Why do you think we have no school in summer? Bc working on the farm to just survive was more important and summer was the busy season. My dad was lucky if he got a bottle of coke 2 times a year. Gen X is tough?? 😂😂😂 you've never met real men. Grow in a war zone, then get at me.
@@user-jv4ic8rh4d eh, I was put on the street at 14. I've gone days without eating. Was working before that. Debt free by 33. Never collected unemployment in my life and plan on using my SS for entertainment. Some genx are weak, just like any other generation. 😃.
'65 also; we grew up watching the news about Viet Nam and could feel we weren't being told the truth. I often wondered if Gen X is the line in the sand...
Gen x has a good mix of old school and new school, they can jive with the new school world but still have old school values and fortitude something that's very rare now.
1976 here. You're spot on man! We took our lumps without a second thought! Bikes, state boards, fights. We didn't have media dividing races, if someone was cool, that's what matters. We as kids knew what respect was!!
Makes you wonder how people can be the way they are now. So soft. No fun. Everyone is so angry now. We laughed our asses off constantly when I was a kid
1972 gen x here, at 14 you worked, well at least I did and my friends. The ONLY time we stayed in the house, was Saturday mornings watching cartoons, reading the box of cereal, while shoveling your face 😅😂...dang we are the best generation ❤
I was always at the ER. I have had stitches on my arms, head, my collarbone, my chin, my eyebrow, and the heel of my foot. All before aged 10! I would have what my grandmother called “medallions” on my shins. It’s a string of round bruises starting from your knees to your feet! 😂
Same I have a scar on my right foot that has been there since before I can remember lol my own mom didn't even know I had it until one day I asked her where I got it from and she was like hell I didn't even know you had one there lol still to this day I have no idea where it came from.
That one time I was teaching myself how to ride a bike, fell into a huge tree trunk. My grandma put iodine in my scraped knee and back outside I went to try it again. Those were the days
You are the first person who said exactly what I thought! I think Generation X was an experiment. Just notice the cartoons..Heman, Shera, shows bionic woman, superman, and even Star Wars. Then, there are a bunch of other movies about catastrophes, airplanes falling, boats sinking, and all kinds of survival movies. Then it was the scary cartoons, kids missing on milk cartons, drugs, AIDS, everything. And yes, the parks and playgrounds and even the gym class were crazy dangerous! It was survival of the fittest! And if you are a Gen Xer alive today, you definitely are dangerous and special!
You bought the ticket, obviously we would take you on the ride. What people don't realise is that the ticket is paid in blood & sweat (no tears) facing any and all obstacles with the knowledge of, this is going to hurt, alot, if I don't do it right but chicks dig scars.
Oh yeah, I can test that brother our parents always kicked us out but always told us to come back before right before dinner and they give us atimeline. Of course at the time we were always late.😂😂😂😂😂😂
Amen brother! 1970 here. We ARE the greatest feral generation! It doesn’t matter where you came from, we all share a common story. Don’t mess with us! We are generation X
1974 here mowing yard at 7, riding 3 wheelers no helmet at 8 by 10 jumping off the house with umbrella like freaking Mary Poppins, by 12 finishing my dad's strohs beers, @14 driving a 3 on a tree, the good Ole days!
The video literally blew my mind. I'd never made some of the connections. This also applies to some of the later Boomers. Plus, many of us boomers took hunting classes through our schools and had loaded gunracks in our truck windows, even when parked in the school parking lot. Raised in the country, my family still didn't judge others by skin color. Coming from a large family with a step-father, who once was a member of the Peoples Temple (cult), my childhood turned me into the survivor that I am today. I broke free, joined the Army (best decision of my life), and made my own family. I've taught my millennial sons to be survivors, to judge people by the character...they'll be standing right beside me, if that time comes.
@mabeljoe4305 I'm one of those Xennials. Older millennial, raised by older parents/grandparents. I grew up in 84, black and white tv, watching MASH, Mama's Family, Matlock etc...I feel you
Remember all the public commercials telling girls not to get the nose job bc we were perfect how we were born. Minor cosmetic surgeries were a HUGE DEAL back in the day!
1969. Kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s. We experienced Star Wars, arcades at the mall, Mtv, break dancing, disco, punk, nu wave, rap, Scooby Doo, Superfriends, Carter, Reagan, recording on VCRs, walkmans, boom boxes, mix tapes, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Where's the Beef? Definitely good times. 👍
@@MrCard031584you are under the impression we would need to get physical 😂. Many ways to survive a zombie apocalypse, and I believe the sweet summer child millennials would lack the critical thinking skills required to not become zombie food first. In other words, many layers of people to get through before the zombies even get close. 😊
Born in 1975, over here, lol- Proud Gen X'r!! Went over the handlebars on my bike, on a freshly tar and chipped back road, the day before 4th grade. No ER visit, moms and gramma took me to the bathroom, put me in the tub, got out the scrub brush and Felznaptha- scrubbed all the cinders outta my face, knees, shoulders, hands and elbows- went to school the next day!
Proud Gen-X 1972 here! Best Generation ever, when we actually lived life instead of watching it. Would give ALMOST anything to go back to those times again. 😊❤
I am so glad the internet computers and smartphones did not exist back then. They have ruined society as far as I'm concerned. We used to ride our bikes from sun up to sundown hanging out with friends. Kids today would probably have a heart attack if they had to ride a bike
@@KathyJones-fs1ng I thank God we did not have any of these stupid technology back then. It's done nothing but harm society and removed literally all the fun. Kids are more unhappy now than I have ever seen. Everything offends them. Everything is waaaacist. Everything is a microaggression. No wonder they all dress like mental cases.
Metal slides, pointy lawn darts, we had lethal toys and methods of entertainment. Anyone else used to lie down on the roundabout as it spun? How about aggressive games of Red Rover? We Not Soft. I now know I am Gen X. '76 here.
Our Teacher was life outside. Our food and drink was sour grass or the neighbors fruit tree and the hose. Our training grounds were rusty bars and sharp edged slides. Our vehicles were bikes or hand made scooters with old skate wheels a 2x4 and an old wood crate. We jumped everything with o9ld plywood and bricks. We had at least 7 new cuts, bruses and road rash every single day. They were badges of honor.We got wooped if we didnt listen to our parents. We deserved those woopings. We respected our parents. We had to adapt to survive. And we did it all with excitement and joy. I miss those days!
"Because we are" was exactly my response! Proud Gen X-er here. We were in the streets. We emulated the "A" Team and MacGuyver. We had to figure it out and make it out of duct tape and a wire hanger. If you didn't bleed, you didn’t have fun. Word!! ❤
1965, early gen-xer and it's a miracle I am still alive! As a kid, I was riding my horse from dawn to dusk, exploring bear territory, galloping across open fields. No fear at all.
Same, man it was fun back then outside all day every day, they punished us by not letting us leave the yard sometimes the house, that was cryptonite to us if we couldn't go outside 😂😂
Oh my god that sounds so cool. I remember stacking up bricks and laying a piece of plywood on it and then riding my bike as hard as I could and jumping as hard as I could. The thought of wearing a helmet was just too embarrassing. We would have been ridiculed out of existence if we had weren't bike helmets
Gen X is scary because when we throw down, we KNOW we're going to get hurt, but the goal was to hurt the other guy more, and to be able to walk away after.
@@sherrycaldwell-w8e My dad (born in 1936. Not a Boomer) had the end of his middle finger on his right hand cut off in a car door when he was 14. It was literally like a piece of granite. He'd melon thump you with that goddamn sheleighly of a finger if you'd get stupid in public. I never got stupid in public.
@@elmobolan4274 exactly and get caught, whispering under your breath. You still get popped in the mouth in front of everyone with no hesitation.. that was the days when parents would bring a belt to the school and whoop your butt if they get called up there because you acting a fool. Ask me how I know…1971 GenX
1976 here, BMX and Motocross 38 broken bones and 21 surgeries later. Yeah I'd say I'm tough, we are the baddest, meanest, toughest generation ever and if you don't believe it mess around and find out.
What, never had to get a tetanus shot for playing with your toys? Surely, at least stitches, right? ...Yeah, nevermind kid, you probably never even re-spooled a cassette tape. And sure enough, neither, even, had their parents... 🧦🩴 Oh, that reminds me... Go get your shingles vaccines everyone. I know you, 5oo, were forcefully subjected to chicken pox, and I PHN is no joke. At 50+ you can request it from your pharmacy without an Rx. Re-up every 10y.
Remember the sounds coming out of every neighborhood? Kids having fun playing in the streets, adventures in mayhem, and we kept emergency rooms busy across the country. Today, those same neighborhoods are dead quiet, except of course for Gen X’ers cranking out the tunes!
I was just talking to my brother about this the other day. All the happy sounds of summer are gone. We remember just how alive the neighborhoods felt in the 80's,, absolutely buzzing with excitement....the smell of the grill and laughter filled the air. Boys jumping their bikes off of homemade bike ramps, girls lining the sidewalks playing double dutch, everybody running around having water balloon fights or garden hose wars. All kids lived on their bikes, and the kids who didn't have bikes, got doubled,, your choice, seat or handlebars. We were in it together and looked out for our friends. I will never stop missing those days.
My little brother and I were on a first name basis with our ER docs. No bullshit. That was back before they'd staple your wounds and it was always stitches. I've had literally hundreds of them.
The boomers were the last generation to grow up in the traditional 2-parent nuclear family until western governments (especially in North America) started to interfere with the family court system. This gives single fathers the shaft, then children then grow up without a father, and has lasting devastating consequences on the children's future. Men have to bear the responsibility of financially supporting a family, but could no longer exert authority and discipline over his own household after the 1960's. Generation X were the first generation to experience growing up without a father in a single mother household, even being subjected to poverty, among other social ills. So yes, we Gen-Xer's are street smart which makes us tough.
@@aresjerry The rich politicians & western governments (at least most of them) are the enemy. Driving fathers out of the household destroys the middle class, the children's well-being & future, and later on, society as well, except for the politicians which get to line their pockets with gold. Makes sense?
Hey, I'm a Boomer, 50's born...fell n2 the 60's...we were tough raised 2 parent "married" family home...what he saying Boomers set the mark for Gen-Xer's
Right on bro! Born in 1968. We had pine cone wars. Not the pine cones that were brown and developed. We used the immature pine cones that were hard as rocks. We are the last truly free children. Put up or shut up. We were tough as nails.
Nothing says how Badass Gen-x was like when we went to certain school play grounds with metal swings, pullup bars, ladder bars, slides and a 7 ft jungle dome that were on cement. Yes cement play grounds at school. And not just in inner cities either!
55 yr old female here, this brought me to tears at how accurate it is and how much I miss the teaching of respect, loyalty and patriotism. Most of us (gen X) still hold these things dear and are willing to die for them.
It's crazy that no matter where you were from, these values were hyper important. I grew up in what was called Western Germany and I moved to France when I was 12. Despite this, our experience are almost the same. Same values of self reliance, respect and working for whatever we wanted.
"Walk quietly and carry a big stick" thats what people would say. We are protectors, always on guard, hyper vigilant of every sound and motion, ready, and to either strike hard or disappear like a sniper. Yet we walk both in strength and grace, seeking peace for all humanity. ~live long and prosper
1974 Gen X here and so grateful that I am. The ‘80s were the Absolute BEST time to grow up! We had 1 foot in the past and 1 foot in the future. I can relate to Everything you are saying here. We made the bike ramps and we used our imaginations. Indian Jones was our idol! We found 2 trees in our backyard with sturdy branches to tie Indy’s whip (a piece of rope we found) from. We got tools from the garage to clear the space out and dug a hole as deep as we could under the whip. This was behind the neighbours shed which happened to have a tree stump behind it. We swiped an outdoor candle from the back yard patio that looked just like the idol from the movie. We found an empty velvet Royal Crown bag and filled it with sand. We took turns playing Indie. That little project took more than a week and we used to play All the Time! Our bikes were the ticket to freedom and if your friends caught you wearing a helmet, you would lose all respect. We LOVED Nintendo but we would rather be outside instead of playing in front of the TV. We figured out how to make a flamethrower with a lighter and a can of aerosol hairspray. It I didn’t come in the house covered in pine tree sap from climbing as high as I could , there something wrong with me. I could go on forever but I don’t want to give any more ideas in case little eyes are reading this! Boot camp is absolutely right. 😂😂😂
54 yo GenX here. If you think about it, we are the smallest Gen around and even small when you account for the ones we lost to jail, military and drug overdoses. You want to know why we're tough? Because we are the SURVIORS of the survivor generation.
I was thinking about that the other day. Just kinda listing the dead, and a few who ended up in prison. It really sucks when you lose contact and find out years later that they're long gone.
Gen X 1969...I remember going to the job site with my old man and thinking to myself when I would get my hands rough and tough like him, time and hard work took care of that and damn proud of it.
GenX 1969 here. I was raised by Boomer Parents like the rest of us, but my Grandmother lived with us too and I don't know what her generation was called, but that generation was loving and ruthless at the same time. My upbringing prepared me for the Marines. Also keep in mind that our Generation won a war in 100 hours..
Just like my grandfather. He taught me so much. Respect was his higher value and the only thing he asked from me as kid and a teenager. He was a man of few words, but kind and he knew so much. I think we were lucky to have people like your grandmother and my grandfather.
I think a large portion of us Gen Xers were raised by our grandparents. That’s why we’re so polite but we let our hands do the talking. My grandfather was a World War II vet. He taught me how to box always told me if you don’t like what somebody saying,walk away and if that don’t work let your hands do the talking for you,they won’t have much to say after that. He also taught me to be polite, stand my ground and stick up for those that may not be able to stick up for themselves. You never know who you might come across in this world. …….and for those who don’t know FAFO.
My dad taught me to fight & had only one rule. Don't throw the first punch & don't run away. My mom hated that because I was a girl. I never once backed down.
Absolutely 💜💜 ETA: I broke my pinky finger playing softball at school. The school nurse said don't be a baby, go back to class. Got home, momma said shack it off, don't be a baby. It's still crooked to this day. Over 40 yrs later lol. It's a daily reminder to shack it off and go on.
Remember one group spinning it as fast as they could, then the group on the merry go round would grab the rails and hang off letting momentum hold us paralell umtil one by one, you would lose your grip and go flying off
More terrifying watching kids smaller then you hang on for dear life. And then be hurled. Bullies +merry go round Yea, this game was called launch. lol
Don't forget the Gen x no matter where you look we all have similar background experiences as to what we endured and how and what we did and what we learned along the way and how we went about doing it and yet there was no social media to tell us how and what to do. We all learned similar things did similar things. Thousands and thousands of miles apart. So think about it no social media to tell parents how to raise us no social media to tell us how to act and yet we all did pretty much the exact same things and lived by the same code.
At 7 we were like 18 yr old , walked home to an empty house, got beat by our parents for being “bad”and learned how fist fight to survive other kids. We rode bikes for miles without parents knowing where we were or really caring. It all made us well grounded , common sense generation.
Yep, we gen x kids took care of each other. I remember we had a dead body on our street that ended up being a murder back in the 80's. That's back in the day when you actually had to walk to the bus stop. So all of us kids made arrangements each morning cause it would still be dark and the one at the end of street would run up to the next kids house and so on, till we all were walking together. I dont' recall a single parent even being involved with the walking, we just took care of business to handle it. Most of us had divorced parents and let ourselves in after school, made our dinners, washed our clothes. Different times indeed. Now, we've over compensated and didn't want our kids to go through such things, and became helicopter parents.
I don't think you understand what helicopter parenting means. Doing your job as a parent isn't helicopter parenting. Hower I can agree that you may have not given us the push that we needed because sometimes children need that push to move into the next stage of life. (I'm Gen Z)
Yeah I was alatchkey kid. From age of seven, caught train for half an hour, walked 20 minutes,let myself in, expected to complete homework and then feed animals and then start dinner,set table,eat, help tidy and wash up. My social life was school and the getting there and back again and all that went with it. Loved it.
Im a "Gen Xer" & my theory why we was tuff cuz we're a byproduct of the last Generation.....we was pre internet....pre smart technology, & pre Google to search for information. Everything we had to learn was literally by hands on experience....our music was real musicians, instrument players & we sung about love....even songs about sex wasn't as lude as it is today. Our TV & movies usually kept us entertained with real action, drama, scares, & suspense.. ..Growing up in the 70's & 80's was just an awesome years to grow up.....Most of us are now fathers, grandparents, & loving husbands today. Now we watch our kids & teens live thru a whole new era....!!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Our movies were live action training videos : Commando, Red Dawn, Full Metal Jacket, Empire of the Sun, Hamburger Hill, Platoon. No CGI and aliens. We watched real people re-enacting death in war on screen.
Spot on brother. I've been in the trades my whole life. I've pushed crews in supervision. Now I drive a Peterbilt pulling a step deck because I just want to be left alone. I can't babysit anymore. I see a lot of Gen X truck drivers. We nod, say how's it going? And stay out of each other's way.
GENERATION X : O N E. W I L D. &. F R E E. GENERATION ! ‼️😃. P L A Y. A L L. D A Y &. N I G H T. UNTIL. The. STREET. LIGHTS. COME. ON ! FRIENDS. WERE. FROM. EVERY. BACKGROUND ! LISTENED. TO A L L. MUSIC. ! T H O S E. W E R E. T H E. D A Y S. ! ‼️😃🥇🎖️🪅🎈💥
Remember being like it’s only gravel if you fall…(because it wasn’t asphalt 😂😂😂!) and we actually could tell gravel impact was softer…ahh the good days…
Our playgrounds were made out of asphalt and concrete with 20- food slides and the most unsafe swings, monkey bars, merry- go-rounds, Tswings, etc. Yeah and Evil Kenevil! And the only thing you could throw at someone's face was a kickball! Dodge-ball for us was brutal!
Gen X 79 here. I remember climbing a 10ft chain link fence and falling down when crossing over. Caught my leg with one of the top links, dragged a wound all the way down my leg. Bleeding, i tried to sneak past my mom to get a bandaid. Her instincts though. She knew i was hurt and found me. Gen X is built different.
Never thought about those things. We grew up without cell phones and computers. We were always outside playing. Our fathers and grandfathers were war veterans. Sometimes we got sent to bed without food, because we did something stupid. I still wonder how I survived my childhood.
1968 here. Brother You are So o correct! The board on the radio flyer wagon GREAT AIR!! HALLOWEEN you went out with your friends till midnight one am. No problem... We The Gen X in this Country will get the job done. Because we were a tough then, so we can persevere Today.
Gen X is going to be the ones to save this country when it collapses. We’re almost there now. I was born in 82 but I was on the borderline and most my friends were 3-4 years older so I was in there by default. The no participation trophy era. The if one person try’s it we all gotta take our turn. We bled together and went through growing pains and fun and drama together.
Unfortunately you’re correct. Now we gotta freaking save everyone else because they’re too dumb to figure it out. If the world goes completely to he**, we will be the only ones to survive…. 🤔 Now there’s an idea!
1975 X'er and I relate to 95% of the experiences discussed in the Comments section. We are independent to the extreme, and our generation must now rescue our beloved country. Stay strong and work to make your community better. God bless and whatev. "Secret military project that went off the rails", indeed.
1972 here. I'm a retired Green Beret and former Marine Scout-Sniper. I didn't come from a military family, but watching Rambo, The A-Team, and Delta Force was the ultimate revruiting tool. It was like my destiny in life was all but written for me!
I was born in a time between the change. When I was 11-12 years old I started to see the change from tough to wimpy. I’m a 1988 boy, early 2000s turned into whiny and whinier
Gen X 1980. Grew up with older gen X role models and had to prove as a kid I was just as tough or even tougher. That's why gen Z have to come through us gate keepers first to come at our big brothers and sisters that are just hibernating and if disturbed will come out swinging. We got you.
I begged my mom to take me to the park with the rocket ship slide all the time. Eventually it got condemned. But instead of taking it down, they just put a little fence around it. Like that would stop anyone. I kept going back there until I moved to a different city. It was in worse disrepair each time. Making it all that more exciting. FUCK YEAH!!!
GenX today are the ones that survived. I broke my arm when I was 7. My Vietnam vet dad put a homemade splint on it and dead ass told me to walk it off.
73" and still putting out more horsepower than any 3-4 kids today 😂 tried and tested.. actually came out of retirement to bounce at my friends bar...fun stuff 😂
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Gen X has zero fucks to give.
You bet your ass.
That's why the crap happend in your watch. Gen bollex
@@tasadiqhussain6008 And this shit happened in the 1960's and the boomers are responsible for the feminist bs! Gen X didn't start that movement.
I actually have a "zero fucks given" coin I carry in my wallet.
Even more so nowadays. Lol ... what is happening to me!!!!!????!!!!
Who remembers as a kid b.b gun wars or roman candle wars
@JohnForgette-km1sl Oh Hellz yeah! BB gun wars, Roman Candle / Bottle Rocket wars, Slingshot wars, Rock wars! We was WARRIORS! 😁
yup.
Slingshot wars, rock wars and here in florida we had sand bur wars.
BB guns, pellet guns, slingshots, bottle rockets (never did roman candles though - I drew the line at straight up fireballs), rocks as grenades. I remember this hill out behind my house in the woods that had a little bit of a dip in it, covering myself in leaves, mud, and camo grease paint like I was fighting the Predator. Laying there with my eyes closed and waiting until I heard somebody come close and then jumping up and scaring the crap out of them. Knowing full well there could be any number of wild animals or poisonous shite there and not giving a damn. Laying tripwires and pits for people to fall into... good times. 😂
Shingle fights
Gen Z and Millennials talk smack BEFORE they throw down. Gen X throw down FIRST then talk smack.
Millennial also
Whoever was standing at the end of the fight was right.
Gen X popularized eating booty and cross dressing? LOL
No planning, no announcing. When the time came, there was no discussion. We got active immediately.
@RepentantDrContra Gen X raised half the millennial, you made them that way lol. Gen X spread all the liberal ideologies and sexualization of teenagers.
Gen X is the generation that knows the difference between being injured and hurt. Most of us likely avoid hospitals unless something is truly wrong.
Exactly
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❤YES!!
If it didn't require surgery, it was taken care of at home, and we walked it off.
1967 here. I'm more and more convinced each day that we are the last generation with any sense.
Your generation elected Ronald Reagan.........the FIRST TV star made president.
@@hfd413 He declared an unwinnable war on drugs.
If you don't like what came after, you've only yourselves to blame. Never too late to start getting right.
@@SáreOfAlaska You prove my point. No self accountability.
@@hfd413 Cute dodge, but no dice. Each generation is responsible for both instilling the proper values, and following through by setting a good example. Yours has failed on both fronts. If you expect everyone to learn from first principles, don't be all butthurt when they come up with different ideas.
"Im going to the creek mum!"
"Be home by dark and don't drown."
"Okay"
It was the best of times for a better generation
OMG they were words from my Mom every day!
@@RubberKiwi79 6pm in winter it’s dark… Going out front door mom says where you going? To throw snowballs at cars I replied.. better not get caught she says… lol..
Did you catch crawdads? Insects? Catching Garden snakes 3:33 As a kid?
Where I'm from, it was called the dips.
BMX, HUFFY, MANGOS
today
Harley, Indian, F the rest
Gen X 1966 - We were fearless. Street lights were our signal. We had to figure it out for ourselves.
I am pretty sure that in the Baby Boomer not Gen X.
I lived in the woods around lambertville, nj. We didn’t have street lights.
@@GeneralPadron no, Gen X is 65-80-ish but 65 is the start, most GenX are 70s born, the 60s GenX were a little different but had the same parenting as me born in 79.
@@KelticKabukiGirl , You might want to do some research into generations. And what defines a generation. I was born Jan. 1985. I am Gen X. Baby Boomers are those born to Solders coming back from WWII. That would be 1955-75. Those who served in WWII are known as the Greatest Generation. Ask yourself why?
@@GeneralPadron what the hell source did you get that?!!? The latest they put it is 82, but it's 80 in most publications. 65-80. You are just an older Millenial. I know you guys hate being Millenials, but that's not my problem
Never thought us GenXers would eventually have to save the world in 2024
We know it be us that sorts it
Not sure about this 'saving' business. Invoking GenX is like releasing the Kraken.
It fucking tracks tho 😂
@@DaBayouGeeks deep down we always knew we would. Pretty sure that's why almost all of us were latch key kids by age 7
😂😂
If you didn't bleed, you weren't having fun.. 🤣 we were Wolverines!!
Lawn Darts..
Indeed scars & injuries were FUN badges 😁
New cut, scratch, or bruise every day. That’s living
Red Dawn.
Feral Honey Badgers
No one wanted us at home
Gen X was thee only generation who successfully united as a whole.
You wrong on that...Baby boomers united and invented everything frim civil rights to the hip hop rock metal and even reggae we still listen to today
@@pauobunyon9791 United as a people's mindset not as a materialistic thing(s)
@@dionisis5206 The civil rights movement was materialistic ? ..Draft protests ? ...We never united like the way them Boomers did
@@pauobunyon9791 lol draft protests from a generation that never went to war. Lol. Boomers avoided what they caused. Nice.
@@dionisis5206 Boomers were the youth the greatest generation used to fight Vietnam bro. I think your missing a few marbles saying that
Gen Xers are the ones with the "Spidey Senses" 😉👍
True
Well hell yeah;we're mutants,thanks to microwaves,TV cathode rays and preservative laden breakfast cereals. 😂👍
Hell yeah! 😂 🕷️🕸️
Ikr!!! If the vibe is off, I’m out!!
@@FNJ720 There's nothing like good foresight. 2024 and beyond? Spidey Senses tingling for sure.!!
We rode in the back of trucks, had BB Gun fights, held M80s while we lit em, had rock fights, climbed trees and tried to get down with no hands, we made ramps and jumped our friends laying on the ground, we got up and fed ourselves then did our chores and were out the door before mom and dad got up. We left notes saying we were going to play and they didnt see us but maybe once a day for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich until the street lights came on. We raised ourselves. We had to figure it out on our own. The Gen Xers that died, didnt have enough critical thinking. The ones that got hurt, did it again until they didnt get hurt. There wasnt and still isnt "cant" in our vocabulary. We walked it off or most of the time we limped it off. Torn flesh was a good story, scars were badges of honor. Dont get me started on when we were old enough to have a motorcycle. Turning 8 or 9 was a great time. We got given BB guns at the age of 7 or 8. The only time we didnt have to be home by dark was if we were at work. If we Fucked around at a friends house, their parents had permission to whoop our asses. Then when we got home, we got our asses whopped again and even worse because we showed out at someone elses home. We respected our elders. We were raised with the mentality that there was "a fine line betweeen discipline and abuse". We did what we were told THE FIRST TIME! We knew what would happen if we didnt. When we were told "Get your shoes on and get in the car", thats exactly what we did, without a single question. We were raised by two forms of discipline. First was quick check discipline, a vey quick backhand. Second, and worse was the belt. And it wasnt worse because it hurt more. You knew it was gunna hurt. It was worse because it was ALWAYS something that was coming later. There was a build-up. And our time-outs lasted all weekend, maybe longer if we fucked up bad. I could go on and on. These are just a few of the reasons we are so tough. Justa few reasons why we dont care. We have zero fucks to give because we are takin those fucks to the grave with us.
Mic drop on that one!!!
Yep
@@Demonglo- And that concludes our Gen X sermon for today. Amen 🙏
THIS!!!
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And for the most part we raised ourselves and learned to survive
and if we got hurt we just rubbed some dirt in it and continued what we were doing
I was gifted at an early age with a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook.
Shit we were Babysitting The Younger One's 6 hrs a day and still had to Get The Fuck outside and be back by dinner
Yep latch key at 6 & only child! The piano and my dog were my best friends lol
@@SomebodysomewheresometimeLegit 💯,we coined the term "latchkey kids." 😏👍
I'm Gen X, I fell off my bike and hit my head, bleeding, when I showed my mom, she said "this better not ruin our camping trip" 😄 We grew up tough ! No bullshit
I fell off my bike and smacked my head, grounded for a week for doing drugs.
pedal stuck in head from a back flip off truck bed as a kid in Carson city Nevada, 17 stiches and we still went on vacation. Just how it was we just kept trucking.
I fell off my bike and broke my arm so I walked home and told my mother, she said you haven’t broken your arm because you would know it if you broke your arm 🙄 like what part of I broke my arm makes you think I don’t know that I broke my arm? Did she take me to hospital? No!
We took care of ourselves because we had to.
I'm gen X. Grew up with my grandparents next door. Gen X is weak. Get at me when you grow up lucky to eat a single potato a day during the depression. Then sign up to die in war at 16. Gen X got new shoes every school year, my parents and grandparents grew up getting hand downs where the soul of the shoes had holes. You got kicked out of bed at 4am to do farm chores. Going to school was a luxury. As soon as you got home back to farm work. No electricity, no machines, split wood just to cook food. You still had to hitch up horses to go anywhere. Any clue how much work it takes to bail hay to feed that horse?? With no equipment. Why do you think we have no school in summer? Bc working on the farm to just survive was more important and summer was the busy season. My dad was lucky if he got a bottle of coke 2 times a year. Gen X is tough?? 😂😂😂 you've never met real men. Grow in a war zone, then get at me.
@@user-jv4ic8rh4d eh, I was put on the street at 14. I've gone days without eating. Was working before that. Debt free by 33. Never collected unemployment in my life and plan on using my SS for entertainment. Some genx are weak, just like any other generation. 😃.
We didnt care about race. We had FUN. And we blead together.
😂
Facts.
Exactly. I'm just learning about racism 10 years ago. I wish it go, it's in the way
The only race we cared about was the one on our bikes down to the corner store.
@@melrupinski88 yea ok 😂
1965 here. GenX is the toughest generation, and the world is about to find out how tough we are!
'65 also; we grew up watching the news about Viet Nam and could feel we weren't being told the truth.
I often wondered if Gen X is the line in the sand...
You are Gen J. Generation Jones. I'm 1965 too!
@MillennialRescueOrg generation x is from '65-'80
@@Warlanda
I watched British troops in northern Ireland and knew it wasn't right either.
@@JimGruver-l9l 1972 right in the middle
Generation X is a tough Generation. We have been through a lot. 1970. Gen. X here.
1970
1966 here.
69' here
1965 and still alive..... Luckily 💪👍
1966
The nightly news had to remind our parents that we existed. “It’s 10pm, do you know where your children are?”😂
My Dad had a whistle that you could hear a mile away. We heard that and we booked it home. Or we would be getting his belt if we were late.
@@prodigalpriestmy mom could whistle! And we were in trouble if we couldn’t hear it! What a time to be alive!
Hehe OMG I remember that! Hadn’t thought about that one for years. 😂
OMG FAAAAAACTSSS!!!!!
Omg😂😂😂 that’s right!
Gen x has a good mix of old school and new school, they can jive with the new school world but still have old school values and fortitude something that's very rare now.
@@95Sn95 facts 💯
Facts
@@95Sn95 For real! 💯🎯
Well said
I don't jive with the new school world at all. But, I'm not Gen X I guess. I was born in 83
1976 here. You're spot on man! We took our lumps without a second thought! Bikes, state boards, fights. We didn't have media dividing races, if someone was cool, that's what matters. We as kids knew what respect was!!
Confirmed, im Gen X and just like my fellow generation X'rs, stand undefeated before all men and beasts. We die on our feet, no excuses !
"I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees!"
- Bud(played by Harry Dean Stanton) -
'Repo Man'
A great movie from my childhood. 😊👍
Truly a statement of what we were in our youth,as iconic as us.
We still have the same mindset and are dangerous, probably too dangerous for these fools now days.
Makes you wonder how people can be the way they are now. So soft. No fun. Everyone is so angry now. We laughed our asses off constantly when I was a kid
@@PhillipFelix-kw3zi why do y’all always say “we” to validate yourself?
1972 gen x here, at 14 you worked, well at least I did and my friends. The ONLY time we stayed in the house, was Saturday mornings watching cartoons, reading the box of cereal, while shoveling your face 😅😂...dang we are the best generation ❤
Yes and we fed ourselves while our parents slept in, and heaven help you if you woke them up and it wasn’t a life threatening emergency!
My first job was at 14. I was a camp counselor. Can you imagine putting a 14 yo today in charge of 8 children. 🤣😂🤣
1973 gen x i started washing dishes at a restaurant at 11 years old on weekends, i bought my own nintendo before most local kids had one.
@@scottbright595did we all do that. It gave us money to buy stuff. And hard sweaty work too.
Fish restaurants were rough lol
14 that was a late starter by 10 I was doing paper routes, loading groceries in to cars running errands for elderly .
I still have scars from running around as a kid. They remind me of how I grew up tough.
I had 12 concussions before I was 18 😂 add another 6 concussions to that list after 18
I was always at the ER. I have had stitches on my arms, head, my collarbone, my chin, my eyebrow, and the heel of my foot. All before aged 10! I would have what my grandmother called “medallions” on my shins. It’s a string of round bruises starting from your knees to your feet! 😂
Same I have a scar on my right foot that has been there since before I can remember lol my own mom didn't even know I had it until one day I asked her where I got it from and she was like hell I didn't even know you had one there lol still to this day I have no idea where it came from.
That one time I was teaching myself how to ride a bike, fell into a huge tree trunk. My grandma put iodine in my scraped knee and back outside I went to try it again. Those were the days
Bike pedal to the shin of leg😂😂😂
You are the first person who said exactly what I thought! I think Generation X was an experiment. Just notice the cartoons..Heman, Shera, shows bionic woman, superman, and even Star Wars. Then, there are a bunch of other movies about catastrophes, airplanes falling, boats sinking, and all kinds of survival movies. Then it was the scary cartoons, kids missing on milk cartons, drugs, AIDS, everything. And yes, the parks and playgrounds and even the gym class were crazy dangerous! It was survival of the fittest! And if you are a Gen Xer alive today, you definitely are dangerous and special!
I'm 45 and the way our generation learned was by getting hurt all the time and brushing it off like a boss. Live and learn!
I think Millennials start
around 1982?
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Generation Y here.. I look up to generation X so I grew up like generation X.. thank you for showing me the ropes. It’s paying off in the real life..
Gen y here also and i grew up like this guy is talking to.
You bought the ticket, obviously we would take you on the ride. What people don't realise is that the ticket is paid in blood & sweat (no tears) facing any and all obstacles with the knowledge of, this is going to hurt, alot, if I don't do it right but chicks dig scars.
Oh yeah, I can test that brother our parents always kicked us out but always told us to come back before right before dinner and they give us atimeline. Of course at the time we were always late.😂😂😂😂😂😂
Amen brother! 1970 here. We ARE the greatest feral generation! It doesn’t matter where you came from, we all share a common story. Don’t mess with us! We are generation X
The last generation that didn't care what color you were rich or poor. If your down to play let go
We the only generation that didn't care if tou were black or white rich or poor. If your down to play let go
Absolutely! 1969 born here. We're different in all the best ways. No other generation can compare. Tough as nails and don't give a f*ck!
1974 here mowing yard at 7, riding 3 wheelers no helmet at 8 by 10 jumping off the house with umbrella like freaking Mary Poppins, by 12 finishing my dad's strohs beers, @14 driving a 3 on a tree, the good Ole days!
We were also the first generation entirely being taught that you judge a person by the content of their character not the color of one’s skin.
The video literally blew my mind. I'd never made some of the connections. This also applies to some of the later Boomers. Plus, many of us boomers took hunting classes through our schools and had loaded gunracks in our truck windows, even when parked in the school parking lot. Raised in the country, my family still didn't judge others by skin color. Coming from a large family with a step-father, who once was a member of the Peoples Temple (cult), my childhood turned me into the survivor that I am today. I broke free, joined the Army (best decision of my life), and made my own family. I've taught my millennial sons to be survivors, to judge people by the character...they'll be standing right beside me, if that time comes.
@@christinavan8519Baby Boomers (circa 1946 to 1964) Generation X (circa 1965 to 1980)
@mabeljoe4305 I'm one of those Xennials. Older millennial, raised by older parents/grandparents. I grew up in 84, black and white tv, watching MASH, Mama's Family, Matlock etc...I feel you
Yeah. Now, it's nothing but skin color and sexuality. It's gross. I want to go back to the 90's and early 2000. I was only 8 when the 90's started.
Remember all the public commercials telling girls not to get the nose job bc we were perfect how we were born. Minor cosmetic surgeries were a HUGE DEAL back in the day!
1969. Kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s. We experienced Star Wars, arcades at the mall, Mtv, break dancing, disco, punk, nu wave, rap, Scooby Doo, Superfriends, Carter, Reagan, recording on VCRs, walkmans, boom boxes, mix tapes, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Where's the Beef? Definitely good times. 👍
Oh, the memories! I miss the good ole days!
Where's the beef!...haha, memories.
The best…..
Gen-x !! We will be the survivors the restart society after the zombie apocalypse!!
The Fallout Kids 🤣😆🤠🎩👑
Got my copy of The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks,
a 12 gauge shotgun and several bladed weapons - Time to nut up or shut up!
😊👍
Ya with your knee replacements and all 😂😂😂😂😂
@@MrCard031584you are under the impression we would need to get physical 😂. Many ways to survive a zombie apocalypse, and I believe the sweet summer child millennials would lack the critical thinking skills required to not become zombie food first. In other words, many layers of people to get through before the zombies even get close. 😊
Poor zombies wouldn’t stand a chance! 😂😂😂😂😂
Born in 1975, over here, lol- Proud Gen X'r!! Went over the handlebars on my bike, on a freshly tar and chipped back road, the day before 4th grade. No ER visit, moms and gramma took me to the bathroom, put me in the tub, got out the scrub brush and Felznaptha- scrubbed all the cinders outta my face, knees, shoulders, hands and elbows- went to school the next day!
Proud Gen-X 1972 here! Best Generation ever, when we actually lived life instead of watching it. Would give ALMOST anything to go back to those times again. 😊❤
I am so glad the internet computers and smartphones did not exist back then. They have ruined society as far as I'm concerned. We used to ride our bikes from sun up to sundown hanging out with friends. Kids today would probably have a heart attack if they had to ride a bike
Damn straight because these kids nowadays won't have memories of their own lives, they'll have memories of what they saw on their screens
Me too! You could screw up and know for a fact no one at school has video of it! That made us fearless. Life was better then.
Same here , he forgot parks with tires and cement tubes to crawl through. I had the boyscout bible as well. Ah the found memories.
@@KathyJones-fs1ng I thank God we did not have any of these stupid technology back then. It's done nothing but harm society and removed literally all the fun. Kids are more unhappy now than I have ever seen. Everything offends them. Everything is waaaacist. Everything is a microaggression. No wonder they all dress like mental cases.
77 here. Our generation went the hardest. Look at our music
Yes!! Music used to be good!!
4:20 4:22 4:23 4:28 4:29 4:30
4:54 4:54 4:55 4:56 5:00 5:00
You are a 77 year old and think your music was hard ? Lol okay
@@markthelie666 Dude ... 1977 ... lmfao ... 77 and on the UA-cams ... lol ... 😆 🤣
Generation X has the toughness that can be found in the Greatest and Silent Generations.
1969 Gen X here. Simple and so much better than today. You could send me back again and I wouldn’t be mad at anyone for it.
Metal slides, pointy lawn darts, we had lethal toys and methods of entertainment. Anyone else used to lie down on the roundabout as it spun? How about aggressive games of Red Rover? We Not Soft.
I now know I am Gen X. '76 here.
100%!!!
Our Teacher was life outside. Our food and drink was sour grass or the neighbors fruit tree and the hose. Our training grounds were rusty bars and sharp edged slides. Our vehicles were bikes or hand made scooters with old skate wheels a 2x4 and an old wood crate. We jumped everything with o9ld plywood and bricks. We had at least 7 new cuts, bruses and road rash every single day. They were badges of honor.We got wooped if we didnt listen to our parents. We deserved those woopings. We respected our parents. We had to adapt to survive. And we did it all with excitement and joy. I miss those days!
No lie. I remember sitting in class comparing road rash(strawberries). Got pretty heated too. 😁👊🏻
Born 1970 I remember all that,I agree,we were tougher kids but respectful,
On my Moma on my hood! Military kid , my parents are still married 67 years strong, AIR FORCE STRONG
I’m 1970 as well and, yes we are tough as nails. We had to be.
"Because we are" was exactly my response! Proud Gen X-er here. We were in the streets. We emulated the "A" Team and MacGuyver. We had to figure it out and make it out of duct tape and a wire hanger. If you didn't bleed, you didn’t have fun. Word!! ❤
1965, early gen-xer and it's a miracle I am still alive! As a kid, I was riding my horse from dawn to dusk, exploring bear territory, galloping across open fields. No fear at all.
Same, man it was fun back then outside all day every day, they punished us by not letting us leave the yard sometimes the house, that was cryptonite to us if we couldn't go outside 😂😂
@@yvettekeys9262 totally!
Oh my god that sounds so cool. I remember stacking up bricks and laying a piece of plywood on it and then riding my bike as hard as I could and jumping as hard as I could. The thought of wearing a helmet was just too embarrassing. We would have been ridiculed out of existence if we had weren't bike helmets
Gen X is scary because when we throw down, we KNOW we're going to get hurt, but the goal was to hurt the other guy more, and to be able to walk away after.
My life saying is I don't start stuff, but if someone else starts it, then I will finish it my way. I taught my daughters that also.
Our parents didn’t think twice about whipping us if we were disrespectful....we respected our elders and replied, "Yes, mame or Yes sir."
I can still feel those behind the arm pinches when mom wanted to be polite in front of company!
Still do but it's underappreciated
@iamthatiam1618 Me too, and I still call flight attendance stewardess....keeping it old school cuz we were brought up w/manners...57 yrs old
@@sherrycaldwell-w8e
My dad (born in 1936. Not a Boomer) had the end of his middle finger on his right hand cut off in a car door when he was 14. It was literally like a piece of granite. He'd melon thump you with that goddamn sheleighly of a finger if you'd get stupid in public. I never got stupid in public.
@@elmobolan4274 exactly and get caught, whispering under your breath. You still get popped in the mouth in front of everyone with no hesitation.. that was the days when parents would bring a belt to the school and whoop your butt if they get called up there because you acting a fool. Ask me how I know…1971 GenX
1976 here, BMX and Motocross 38 broken bones and 21 surgeries later. Yeah I'd say I'm tough, we are the baddest, meanest, toughest generation ever and if you don't believe it mess around and find out.
1971…excellent video!! We’re built like Tonka trucks! 👊
@@alsmithee6902 Yessir! The plastic ones aren’t real. 😂
What, never had to get a tetanus shot for playing with your toys? Surely, at least stitches, right? ...Yeah, nevermind kid, you probably never even re-spooled a cassette tape.
And sure enough, neither, even, had their parents... 🧦🩴
Oh, that reminds me... Go get your shingles vaccines everyone. I know you, 5oo, were forcefully subjected to chicken pox, and I PHN is no joke. At 50+ you can request it from your pharmacy without an Rx. Re-up every 10y.
My lille 2 yr old brother (he was born 1976) would ride his tonka truck
Remember the sounds coming out of every neighborhood? Kids having fun playing in the streets, adventures in mayhem, and we kept emergency rooms busy across the country. Today, those same neighborhoods are dead quiet, except of course for Gen X’ers cranking out the tunes!
I was just talking to my brother about this the other day. All the happy sounds of summer are gone. We remember just how alive the neighborhoods felt in the 80's,, absolutely buzzing with excitement....the smell of the grill and laughter filled the air. Boys jumping their bikes off of homemade bike ramps, girls lining the sidewalks playing double dutch, everybody running around having water balloon fights or garden hose wars. All kids lived on their bikes, and the kids who didn't have bikes, got doubled,, your choice, seat or handlebars. We were in it together and looked out for our friends. I will never stop missing those days.
My little brother and I were on a first name basis with our ER docs. No bullshit. That was back before they'd staple your wounds and it was always stitches. I've had literally hundreds of them.
Lol stop it your making me memory sick.👍👍👍👍👍👍
The boomers were the last generation to grow up in the traditional 2-parent nuclear family until western governments (especially in North America) started to interfere with the family court system. This gives single fathers the shaft, then children then grow up without a father, and has lasting devastating consequences on the children's future. Men have to bear the responsibility of financially supporting a family, but could no longer exert authority and discipline over his own household after the 1960's. Generation X were the first generation to experience growing up without a father in a single mother household, even being subjected to poverty, among other social ills. So yes, we Gen-Xer's are street smart which makes us tough.
Which lead them to abandon their own kids, cause "We Tough."
@@aresjerry The rich politicians & western governments (at least most of them) are the enemy. Driving fathers out of the household destroys the middle class, the children's well-being & future, and later on, society as well, except for the politicians which get to line their pockets with gold. Makes sense?
"Fact"👏
Hey, I'm a Boomer, 50's born...fell n2 the 60's...we were tough raised 2 parent "married" family home...what he saying Boomers set the mark for Gen-Xer's
@Back2Filesx why did you raise your kids spread all this socialism and Trans-ing kids?
Right on bro! Born in 1968. We had pine cone wars. Not the pine cones that were brown and developed. We used the immature pine cones that were hard as rocks. We are the last truly free children. Put up or shut up. We were tough as nails.
Those green ones were hard 😅
Picking your own switch is a real thing in our day.
And you better not have brought back a weak little twig or you were going to get it soooo much worse
If you brought back a little switch your mom would go get the tree😂
🗣️
we got the belt equally as painful
Nothing says how Badass Gen-x was like when we went to certain school play grounds with metal swings, pullup bars, ladder bars, slides and a 7 ft jungle dome that were on cement. Yes cement play grounds at school. And not just in inner cities either!
the dome haha those were sick 😂
Cement, hot black top and broken glass 😂😂😂
Man we built different.
55 yr old female here, this brought me to tears at how accurate it is and how much I miss the teaching of respect, loyalty and patriotism. Most of us (gen X) still hold these things dear and are willing to die for them.
It's crazy that no matter where you were from, these values were hyper important. I grew up in what was called Western Germany and I moved to France when I was 12. Despite this, our experience are almost the same. Same values of self reliance, respect and working for whatever we wanted.
And we were taught to QUESTION EVERYTHING, except our parents..
We are the most educated and the most resilient generation. That's why NOTHING phases us. 1972 here.
"Walk quietly and carry a big stick" thats what people would say. We are protectors, always on guard, hyper vigilant of every sound and motion, ready, and to either strike hard or disappear like a sniper. Yet we walk both in strength and grace, seeking peace for all humanity. ~live long and prosper
@@mrasposito 💯
They couldn't break us!! That's why they leave us alone...we are One Nation Under God, Indivisible, with Unity and Justice fir All!!
i still get giddy when I find a stick that looks like a gun or a sword
1974 Gen X here and so grateful that I am. The ‘80s were the Absolute BEST time to grow up! We had 1 foot in the past and 1 foot in the future.
I can relate to Everything you are saying here. We made the bike ramps and we used our imaginations. Indian Jones was our idol! We found 2 trees in our backyard with sturdy branches to tie Indy’s whip (a piece of rope we found) from. We got tools from the garage to clear the space out and dug a hole as deep as we could under the whip. This was behind the neighbours shed which happened to have a tree stump behind it. We swiped an outdoor candle from the back yard patio that looked just like the idol from the movie. We found an empty velvet Royal Crown bag and filled it with sand.
We took turns playing Indie.
That little project took more than a week and we used to play All the Time!
Our bikes were the ticket to freedom and if your friends caught you wearing a helmet, you would lose all respect.
We LOVED Nintendo but we would rather be outside instead of playing in front of the TV.
We figured out how to make a flamethrower with a lighter and a can of aerosol hairspray. It I didn’t come in the house covered in pine tree sap from climbing as high as I could , there something wrong with me.
I could go on forever but I don’t want to give any more ideas in case little eyes are reading this!
Boot camp is absolutely right. 😂😂😂
54 yo GenX here. If you think about it, we are the smallest Gen around and even small when you account for the ones we lost to jail, military and drug overdoses. You want to know why we're tough? Because we are the SURVIORS of the survivor generation.
I was thinking about that the other day. Just kinda listing the dead, and a few who ended up in prison.
It really sucks when you lose contact and find out years later that they're long gone.
Gen X 1969...I remember going to the job site with my old man and thinking to myself when I would get my hands rough and tough like him, time and hard work took care of that and damn proud of it.
1970 here. Raising my son in the ways of Gen X. He's almost 10 now and is going to be an awesome man. So proud of him.
I'm gen X and we rock. We were brought up old school.
GenX 1969 here. I was raised by Boomer Parents like the rest of us, but my Grandmother lived with us too and I don't know what her generation was called, but that generation was loving and ruthless at the same time. My upbringing prepared me for the Marines. Also keep in mind that our Generation won a war in 100 hours..
Your grandmother is from the "the great generation" the ww2 era. The foundation of GenXers
Amen for your Grandma. Greatest gen ever.
Just like my grandfather. He taught me so much. Respect was his higher value and the only thing he asked from me as kid and a teenager. He was a man of few words, but kind and he knew so much. I think we were lucky to have people like your grandmother and my grandfather.
I think a large portion of us Gen Xers were raised by our grandparents. That’s why we’re so polite but we let our hands do the talking. My grandfather was a World War II vet. He taught me how to box always told me if you don’t like what somebody saying,walk away and if that don’t work let your hands do the talking for you,they won’t have much to say after that. He also taught me to be polite, stand my ground and stick up for those that may not be able to stick up for themselves. You never know who you might come across in this world. …….and for those who don’t know FAFO.
my father was a WWII vet, shot twice with 2 purple hearts and let me tell you... you did *NOT* talk back to that man...
I was
Agreed. My grandfather was my father figure.❤
100%
My dad taught me to fight & had only one rule. Don't throw the first punch & don't run away. My mom hated that because I was a girl. I never once backed down.
Gen X we're the last generation that has grit as well as common sense!!!
We surely did let Timmy come along and didn't leave him behind. Facts.
Absolutely 💜💜
ETA: I broke my pinky finger playing softball at school. The school nurse said don't be a baby, go back to class. Got home, momma said shack it off, don't be a baby. It's still crooked to this day. Over 40 yrs later lol. It's a daily reminder to shack it off and go on.
those days will never happen again for any future gen
Gen Z’s getting drafted. 18-26. Including women.
I raised warriors. They will fit right in.@@phoenixeagle462
Yep. We are collectively building a dystopian nightmare for our children.
Sad but true we have to try to pass this on as much as we can
@@phoenixeagle462this is a very bad joke
Growing up Gen X, taught me how to think out of the box, and work smart, not hard!
merry go round.... flew off that thing more times than I can remember
Remember one group spinning it as fast as they could, then the group on the merry go round would grab the rails and hang off letting momentum hold us paralell umtil one by one, you would lose your grip and go flying off
into gravel usually
More terrifying watching kids smaller then you hang on for dear life. And then be hurled.
Bullies +merry go round
Yea, this game was called launch. lol
Yes we were warriors.We got hurt alot. Only came home when it was dark. Catholic girl.
Having to stop the Mary go round cause someone about to throw up 😂😂😂
Don't forget the Gen x no matter where you look we all have similar background experiences as to what we endured and how and what we did and what we learned along the way and how we went about doing it and yet there was no social media to tell us how and what to do. We all learned similar things did similar things. Thousands and thousands of miles apart. So think about it no social media to tell parents how to raise us no social media to tell us how to act and yet we all did pretty much the exact same things and lived by the same code.
1968 female Gen X here. Yep we tough. No fear.
1965 Gen X here. Our park had an actual locomotive a tank and a jet fighter you could climb on. Tons of sharp edges, it was wonderful.
At 7 we were like 18 yr old , walked home to an empty house, got beat by our parents for being “bad”and learned how fist fight to survive other kids. We rode bikes for miles without parents knowing where we were or really caring. It all made us well grounded , common sense generation.
I was operating heavy equipment starting at 8. Rebuilt a 283 when I was 8. Farm kid 65.
lol dude is bringing back memories, especially the rock fight I still have that mark on my eye now
Yep, we gen x kids took care of each other. I remember we had a dead body on our street that ended up being a murder back in the 80's. That's back in the day when you actually had to walk to the bus stop. So all of us kids made arrangements each morning cause it would still be dark and the one at the end of street would run up to the next kids house and so on, till we all were walking together. I dont' recall a single parent even being involved with the walking, we just took care of business to handle it. Most of us had divorced parents and let ourselves in after school, made our dinners, washed our clothes. Different times indeed. Now, we've over compensated and didn't want our kids to go through such things, and became helicopter parents.
I don't think you understand what helicopter parenting means. Doing your job as a parent isn't helicopter parenting. Hower I can agree that you may have not given us the push that we needed because sometimes children need that push to move into the next stage of life. (I'm Gen Z)
Yeah I was alatchkey kid. From age of seven, caught train for half an hour, walked 20 minutes,let myself in, expected to complete homework and then feed animals and then start dinner,set table,eat, help tidy and wash up. My social life was school and the getting there and back again and all that went with it. Loved it.
Im a "Gen Xer" & my theory why we was tuff cuz we're a byproduct of the last Generation.....we was pre internet....pre smart technology, & pre Google to search for information. Everything we had to learn was literally by hands on experience....our music was real musicians, instrument players & we sung about love....even songs about sex wasn't as lude as it is today. Our TV & movies usually kept us entertained with real action, drama, scares, & suspense.. ..Growing up in the 70's & 80's was just an awesome years to grow up.....Most of us are now fathers, grandparents, & loving husbands today. Now we watch our kids & teens live thru a whole new era....!!!!!
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Our movies were live action training videos : Commando, Red Dawn, Full Metal Jacket, Empire of the Sun, Hamburger Hill, Platoon. No CGI and aliens. We watched real people re-enacting death in war on screen.
Full Metal Jacket…
IMO the best war movie ever.
Don't forget, if you were gen x, all the Saturday and Sunday ww2 movies our dads would watch. Only one TV in the house during those times.
Shaw brothers king fu on Saturday afternoon was my thing back in the 80s.
Spot on brother. I've been in the trades my whole life. I've pushed crews in supervision. Now I drive a Peterbilt pulling a step deck because I just want to be left alone. I can't babysit anymore. I see a lot of Gen X truck drivers. We nod, say how's it going? And stay out of each other's way.
I'M ONE OF END OF THE BOOMERS, MAYBE YOU WOULD SAY I'M THE FIRST OF X! I'M STILL IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE AND GOT A SHARP MIND! F2CK AROUND AND FIND OUT!
I'm the First year of millennials and raised by Gen X sisters, and cousins so I was forced to live like a Gen X glad I was.
Will somebody please explain to me the difference between gen x, Boomers and millennials, and whatever??
You're a Gen-Jones Boomer not the first of anything.
@@christoph8539They’re the names of generations:
Baby Boomers: born 1946-64
Generation X: born 1965-80
Millennials: born 1981-96
You failed at raising your kids, super tough
We played King of the Hill!
Red Rover
Dirt Clot Wars ( No Rocks)
@@Another_Drifter, even many a boomer will remember engaging in those, lol.
Us too... I got to be Boomhauer!!
With pure unforgiving asphalt under the monkey bars, and solid metal sliding boards and swings, we simply learned how NOT to get hurt😂
We didn’t play tennis on grass or clay, nah, we baked on asphalt. 🤣
Those metal slides were really hot when the sun hit them in the summer !
GENERATION X : O N E. W I L D. &. F R E E. GENERATION ! ‼️😃. P L A Y. A L L. D A Y &. N I G H T. UNTIL. The. STREET. LIGHTS. COME. ON ! FRIENDS. WERE. FROM. EVERY. BACKGROUND ! LISTENED. TO A L L. MUSIC. ! T H O S E. W E R E. T H E. D A Y S. ! ‼️😃🥇🎖️🪅🎈💥
Remember being like it’s only gravel if you fall…(because it wasn’t asphalt 😂😂😂!) and we actually could tell gravel impact was softer…ahh the good days…
Our playgrounds were made out of asphalt and concrete with 20- food slides and the most unsafe swings, monkey bars, merry- go-rounds, Tswings, etc.
Yeah and Evil Kenevil!
And the only thing you could throw at someone's face was a kickball! Dodge-ball for us was brutal!
Gen X 79 here. I remember climbing a 10ft chain link fence and falling down when crossing over. Caught my leg with one of the top links, dragged a wound all the way down my leg. Bleeding, i tried to sneak past my mom to get a bandaid. Her instincts though. She knew i was hurt and found me. Gen X is built different.
1966 Gen-x’er here! Sir, this was Awesome!! You hit the nail right on the! Than you. God Bless!
Never thought about those things. We grew up without cell phones and computers. We were always outside playing. Our fathers and grandfathers were war veterans. Sometimes we got sent to bed without food, because we did something stupid. I still wonder how I survived my childhood.
1968 here.
Brother You are So o correct!
The board on the radio flyer wagon GREAT AIR!!
HALLOWEEN you went out with your friends till midnight one am.
No problem...
We The Gen X in this Country will get the job done.
Because we were a tough then, so we can persevere Today.
living on a farm in the 70’s as a kid driving tractors and work until night just made me hard like a rock
Gen X is going to be the ones to save this country when it collapses. We’re almost there now. I was born in 82 but I was on the borderline and most my friends were 3-4 years older so I was in there by default. The no participation trophy era. The if one person try’s it we all gotta take our turn. We bled together and went through growing pains and fun and drama together.
Unfortunately you’re correct. Now we gotta freaking save everyone else because they’re too dumb to figure it out. If the world goes completely to he**, we will be the only ones to survive…. 🤔 Now there’s an idea!
Facts 💯 I was the toughest out our age bracket 82 baby 💪💪
1975 X'er and I relate to 95% of the experiences discussed in the Comments section. We are independent to the extreme, and our generation must now rescue our beloved country. Stay strong and work to make your community better. God bless and whatev.
"Secret military project that went off the rails", indeed.
🙌🙌🙌1975❤️
1972 here. I'm a retired Green Beret and former Marine Scout-Sniper. I didn't come from a military family, but watching Rambo, The A-Team, and Delta Force was the ultimate revruiting tool. It was like my destiny in life was all but written for me!
I was born in a time between the change. When I was 11-12 years old I started to see the change from tough to wimpy. I’m a 1988 boy, early 2000s turned into whiny and whinier
Gen X 1980. Grew up with older gen X role models and had to prove as a kid I was just as tough or even tougher. That's why gen Z have to come through us gate keepers first to come at our big brothers and sisters that are just hibernating and if disturbed will come out swinging. We got you.
I begged my mom to take me to the park with the rocket ship slide all the time. Eventually it got condemned. But instead of taking it down, they just put a little fence around it. Like that would stop anyone. I kept going back there until I moved to a different city. It was in worse disrepair each time. Making it all that more exciting. FUCK YEAH!!!
Hahahaha all they saw was jagged metal, rusty nails and rotten poles. All we saw was three more obstacles to get round.... Good times
GenX today are the ones that survived. I broke my arm when I was 7. My Vietnam vet dad put a homemade splint on it and dead ass told me to walk it off.
Any game, no blood, no foul.
73" and still putting out more horsepower than any 3-4 kids today 😂 tried and tested.. actually came out of retirement to bounce at my friends bar...fun stuff 😂
Born March 1970, damn do I miss my youth. Thanks to this channel for reminding me of this great time in my life.
Yes mate. GenX is Practical, Tactical and Respectable. Big up from The UK.
Merry-go-round best ride in the park!!! Yeah!!! Really took me back!!!