Let's talk about gen X because no other bugger does.

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Hail fellow X'ers.

We are never mentioned. It's always Boomers, Millennials or gen Z.

Why the fuck not?

We definitely exist, we were very cool people.

I have such good memories of my 70's childhood and teenage years in the 80's.

And all the goodness of the late 80s and early 90s.

It did happen didn't it?

My DC are Generation X and they are awesome.
signed, a Baby Boomer.

@GeorgeOrwellsTurningGrave My Mum was so worried!
I remember the crowd surge. I was down the front but on the edge so had room to move. There were way too many people there that year.

Not born in 1984 then 🤣

We have the most patience, because >

I'm sorry to read that. You're right, I was very lucky, even though the two prior years saving for my (£5k!) deposit felt like a real slog at the time. But I had no idea then how fortuitous it was to buy in that very small window of opportunity before prices went crazy. A year later, and I couldn't have done it, and had no partner to do it with either. It really was the last time that an average, single person with no family money could do that, and I am incredibly grateful for the stability it provided.

Made me smile.

Me too. In fact I didn’t even know Gen ?? Was such a thing until recently

I went too! Love finding other Space Cudets in the wild x

I'm happy for you, genuinely.
I'm very, very jealous though!!! Because you're right - 2 years later I had no hope of buying a place. Yet 2 years earlier I could have done. It took me years to get my head around how my fate changed in such a life changing way within 24 months. There was me backpacking around Asia on a shoestring, after working hard and saving up for years, naively thinking I'd go back home and buy one of those £50,000 flats, not knowing that acrually I was wasting time destroying any future chance I ever had to buy/own my own home. I'm very angry about it even at the age of 51. I don't think I have ever learnt to accept how stupid and naive I was, to be honest. At the time I thought I was being bohemian and free spirited. In actual fact I was being an idiot.
No family money for me either. It would have been my only chance to financially secure a future for myself.

I think we are an even luckier generation than the Boomers really as we had loads of fun, carefree childhoods and adolescence, able to buy property on average salaries, not really any job shortages.

Now a lot of my friends parents are sadly passing away and they’re inheriting huge amounts due to inflated London and other city property prices so are able to retire early and help their Gen Z kids (who I feel very sorry for).

I’ve just found out Stedman from Five Star has passed away.
Just about to put ‘Rain or Shine’ on in his honour.
My OH thinks my playlists are batshit.
Listen if I want to play Billy Idol and Dr Dre on the same playlist, deal with it.
He can’t stand the 80’s, plays endless Motown.
(I know Dre isn’t considered 80’s but he started as an artist then so I’m counting him in!)

Yes please. I just snook in towards the end of the 70s. 🙌🏻

I've never had therapy and can't imagine I ever will - us boomers are more resilient, and we also don't think the world owes us a great life.

I also don't need to be "hostile" (you really don't know what that means, do you) to feel good about myself, I always feel good about myself. Maybe you should try to stop feeling so sorry for yourself.

1978 so just at the tail end, always wondered where my people were!

It's an unrecognisable world isn't it. I graduated and got housing benefit straightaway and moved into a shared house 10 minutes away from my family home. Even when we were skint there was always money to go to the pub. I can't remember ever not being able to buy a round or not putting the heating on. House prices were disproportionately low in the mid to late 90s. A friend bought a one bed flat in Brixton for £50k.

OMG. I'd forgotten about slasher movies. They were terrifying but hilarious at the same time. Jason and his helmet, Freddy and that shirt. There were so many. And some idiot girl would always walk outside on her own,in the dark and the fog and the house would be in the middle of nowhere; and you'd know - well that's another one gone. And "have you checked the children?" The original obvs. So many. They were gory but not too gory. Just right for teenagers.

One thing that was terrible and I am glad to be rid of is "dial-up". Gah that was annoying , and the stupid cord from the phone jack to the study and that ring tone/beep. Drove you crazy. And then mum would yell. I need to call Barbara. Get off the computer., after you'd taken 45 minutes to get the bloody thing to work.
Also young ones don't know the joy of frogger and space invaders at a good old sit down proper machine in a milk bar. I'm getting wistful about the whole thing. And the amount of times I jumped out of my window in the middle of the night and went out with my friends was crazy. I had to climb down a ladder , at first I used to put the ladder away in the morning , then I decided I couldn't be arsed and just left it there leaning against my window and my parents never noticed!

We’re used to being ignored.

We don't have time to be bored!! 🤣🤣

I’m a boomer and was into 90s music and weed!

I often find myself trying to instil GenX values into DS (although I was born in 1969 I was an older mum so he’s only 12). The phrase ‘suck it up and crack on’, which I feel could be the battle cry for our generation, is frequently on my lips.

Love it!!

Gen X all the way. Born 69, and very grateful for it, I don't think I could've grown up at a better time!!

We are the best, because we coped with pre internet life, the early dial up modem years which tied up the landline and the explosion of online life.
We can still look up shit in a library full of books and cope with a power cut.
We are also the first to rage about menopause and might actually change things to ensure the struggle is recognised. I could go on.
We are fucking invincible if we put our minds to it.

To be fair there'll be an awful lot of gen x alcoholics now cluttering up the NHS. We drank like fish.

So true. Also no age checks. Me and my mates could get our southern comfort and cokes in any pub bar one from the age of 15

Me too! 'It's not for ever.' is my sage advice when times are tough. I'm just not sure my gen x values are a match for tik tok.