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

[Mach3]

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?

That period of time really was the best to be 'going out' age. I have such good memories of seeing Cud (several times). Went to see them again last year. Still an excellent live band.

Now it's Kids just going to the pub for a couple of pints...hoping to god they don't catch me wide eyed at 4am. Some of us old ravers are still at it!

I was brought up on excellent food. Very seasonal, my mother taught me about good food.

I was eating avocado, oysters and caviar in the 80s.

Born in 1981 I have one leg in millennials and one in Gen X. I do like avocado toast but the experience of 80’s parenting and growing up without being plugged in I feel more affinity with X.

I love to regal my kids with tales of the old days - when you had to watch programmes at the time they were on and make your cup of tea during the ad break.

Sadly I bet this will happen. It might be when the current young adults aren't our kids any more, but the kids of millennials. Once we stop being the parents of the current young people, but aren't seen as quite as old and fluffy enough to be cosy grandparents, we'll be recast as the middle-aged killjoys du jour and I'm sure some reason will be found as to why we're A Problem.

My parents were from the Silent Generation and my kids are Gen Z, but I don't think there's anything wrong with the people who fall into the Boomer category. Mostly people are just getting on with their lives under whatever the circumstances of the time are.

I do wish as Gen X we could stay overlooked though, which would rather mean not having quite so many threads where we talk about how cool we are although obviously we are very cool.

What a load of bollocks. You can't know a huge number of gay people.

i only spent two weeks in generation x - am I still an x?

This. This. Thisity this.

And I've been FUCKING RAGING about it for 30 years.

My childhood in a paragraph.

Fucking annoying eh?

I know enough.

We're the last generation who grew up without phones and internet and tech in our informative years. We went out and called on our friends by knocking on the door to see if they could come out. We wore watches and knew what time we had to be home. No one tracked us or helicoptered us. We were alert to our surroundings and knew how to fend for ourselves. Gen X had to transition quickly to a new world in terms of tech whilst still nurturing the values of loyalty, connection (in a different way) and hard graft. Gen X'rs are made of solid stuff and we don't deserve to be a forgotten generation!!

As have I.

I’m a millennial. I don’t get the war with the boomers, what are supposed to be warring about? I also don’t think gen X was the last generation for some of the things mentioned here. I grew up mainly without internet, we certainly didn’t have it at home until I was a teenager and then it was dial up, no Facebook or proper social media until I was 18. No mobile phones in primary school, mobile phones without internet until I was an adult. I grew up with videos and cassettes, the 90s and early 2000s pop music, summers playing out, lots of underage drinking and staying out without parents knowing where we were, contracting for us either as there were no apps or tracks on phones. We are also grown up now, mid-late 30s with kids of our own.

The music of the 80’s was iconic. Still TOTPs, so we could keep track. I listen to todays music and it’s just bland. Nothing differentiates. It’s just samey. Todays teens are crying out for another genre of music. Something different and new and exciting.

Shhh! The 1st rule of genx is you don't talk about genx! We're the ones that can't be arsed with any of this shit and quite happy to keep being forgotten about. The 90s were the best decade.

Are you an older millennial? I think that the generations have a few cross over years. DH is technically a millennial but really has roots in Gen X. I'm a younger Gen X so relate less to the oldest ones who overlap with the boomers if that makes sense!

Nah..it was always an illusion. You only thought you had equality because you didn't have kids. Still the same. It's all nice n equal and then you procreate and it's too late to do anything about it and you are screwed.

The NHS call us the Copers.

Services are overrun because

• Boomers - falling to bits and require insane amounts of care and money to be non-productive
• Zers - ditto

We’re sandwiched by heartsinks and drains.

But we don’t let it get to us. Happy Mondays up to 11 and friends irl fixes most things.

I agree with this. Only realised when I had my daughters how unequal things still were.

Yep!

Harsh lesson.

We have GenX Radio Suffolk on at work all day, no chance of anyone not realising that all 3 of us are gen x 😂

No I’m right in the middle of millennial so very average millennial. The younger millennials will have grown up more with internet and phones more similar to today but lots of us didn’t. We only had 5 tv channel growing up too, videos and cassettes and top of the pops, recording radio onto casettes. I was born in the 80s, grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. I think when older generations think of millennials they are really thinking of the younger millennials and older Gen Zs, not the majority of us millennials.

Our parents knew nothing. When I was my Dd s age (15) I was smoking at school and we were drinking bottles of blue nun at friends houses.

I would faint now, if I knew my Dd smoked and drank ( I know she does not!)

at the end of GCSEs my bestie and me were permitted to go on a biking tour in Scotland by ourselves. We were drinking Black Russians in a hotel in Oban and wine and roll ups constantly. No biking was done and we spent all our money on wine, fags and chocolate. We spent our time sitting around reading the sex in jilly cooper books.

what were our parents thinking. 🤣 good times!!