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?

Just saying high 👋👋👋 to my fellow Gen x ers with my favourite gif

Will be reading along and soaking up the memories

I'm late 70s born and squeak into gen X - I'm so glad I'm a part of it! I didn't have the internet before I went to university, teenage years were a haze of drink and weed, the 90s were just the best! I'd hate to be a teenager now with being constantly online, I'd be a nervous wreck! Teenage years were bad enough without having a permanent record of it. Wish I'd been able to take advantage of the housing market before it went crazy, but am still doing ok compared to today. I suppose every generation thinks they had it the best, but coming of age in the 90s was just awesome

As a Gen Xer, I like to be ignored.

I was born in 77 so I turned a teenager in 1990. I’m also a xennial as well as being gen x.

definitely a latch key kid and loved the 80s and 90s. I miss them

We are the best

just booked for another 80’s night, amazing music from the early 80’s

And we went to open days and interviews by ourselves, all over the country. It helped that train tickets were about £13 supersaver return for journeys that are now more like £130 single. And trains being cancelled for no apparent reason just didn't happen.

Bland food all the way. We knew exactly what we were having for dinner by what day it was.
Not just the automatic washing machine as an alternative TV but also the microwave - our dining chairs were lined up across the kitchen like a theatre when my Mom’s friend came around to watch a sponge pudding being cooked when we got our first microwave.

We were so lucky. I was born towards the end of 1969. Childhood in the 70s, teenager in the 80s, in my 20s in the 90s. We had the best of times.

Gen X, yes, had a great upbringing.
Learnt to be independent, encouraged to take advantage of all the educational pathways and allowed to choose our own way - free from fathers who had WWII borne terrors which poor old Boomers had to endure.
We were too young for Vietnam War call ups. We were children in the 1970s so missed out on the drama adults suffered then. We had colour TV but no intrusive phones.

Gen X - the lucky ones. We appreciated, and benefited from, all that had been done before us.
We were not spoilt with spending money and travelled in family cars that were Mustangs, Fairlanes, Kingswoods, Datsun 240Z, Honda Civics etc.

We didn't do flower power and antiwar rallies because the Boomers did that already.
We went under the radar and had freedom.

Our music - Suzie Quatro - Devil Gate's Drive, Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell, The Sky Hooks - Ego is Not a Dirty Word, Rod Stewart - Sailing, The Bay City Rollers - I Only Want to Be with You., Hush - Glad All Over, Sweet - Fox on the Run. etc. etc.
We still go under the radar and enjoy life.

We are lucky.

Hardly any kids go to look at Unis on their own now.
In fact you can spot the private school boarders a mile away…..they are parent less..lucky them!

This category exists, I am also one. According to some thing I read on internet once we are called Xennials or Geriatric Millennials.

I dunno, I'm a millennial and we grew up mostly without phones and internet too (I don't really count dial up and waiting half an hour for a page to load as internet). I remember starting university and not understanding what email was and how it worked 😂

I am an early Gen Z so I was a punk. In my head I am still snarling and po go-ing but on the outside I am a little old lady ( or so my 17 yr old students think - last week I let slip I had been to Glastonbury in the 80s….. they haven’t looked at me the same since)

I also take no shit and have decided I am not too keen on folk tbh

Gen X here and my DS16 can't believe we had computer studies at school without an actual computer! It was all bits and bites shite, bar codes.
No internet or mobile phones.
The music was absolutely fantastic and my DS doesn't realise that a lot of what he's listening to is remixed stuff from the 80's.
Martin Kemp Remix session on Greatest Hits Radio is fab!

My parents never knew what I got up to. I went out after breakfast and had to be back by dark.

Horror films were absolutely booming, we watched everything in the van that came around once a week.

We learnt how to be independent as our parents were most likely the first generation of both parents working. We still had home cooked meals every night. No convenience stuff. Actually, the first time my parents brought me a chinese takeaway I ended up crying as I ate so much my stomach hurt.

Gen X - the last era of free thinking and doing things for yourself with no expectations of help.

Of corse we also had Gary glitters and jimmy saville etc…..

Interesting, I actually agree with this. Maybe it was all an illusion. I was born in the late 70s so teen in the 90s. I looked up to women in the 80s and 90s who looked very equal to men...but when I had my own kids I saw a different reality.
It's damm hard to have kids and also fight for your equality.
90s were the best. I listen to my 90s music in Spotify. Love our gen x.

Sorry, not read the thread yet. I was born early 80s so what am I classed as?

Can we just take a moment to say WTAF: HOW are we in our fifties? I swear Guns & Roses playing Donnington was just a few years ago...ahem.

And plenty of others. In the best of times...

Millennial, fo sho.

It's ok isn't it?

I feel fine about my 52 years.

I think.

@GeorgeOrwellsTurningGrave I saw Guns play Donnington. It was the year that someone was crushed to death in the crowd.

Just turn up at the train station and get the cheapest option. Not booking weeks in advance.

Think you’re right. It’s not personal, it’s to have a punchbag

Yes exactly, millennials were the last generation to grow up without these for the most part, not gen X.