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What’s your GenX Superpower? Mine is knowing the difference between Icona Pop and t.A.T.u

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Mine I a knowing the

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model563@reddit

Remembering actual phone numbers. Not many, but still, some 😂
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Fluid_Anywhere_7015@reddit

Not giving a fuck. I ran dry way back in, oh, it was probably 1995.
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sideways92@reddit

Yup. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0)
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sideways92@reddit

Knowing various ways to get a car to crank when it won't turn over - push starting a manual, crawling under with a wrench to whack the starter for one last crank, using jumper cables....
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yodamastertampa@reddit

Knowing the Dewey decimal system by heart
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DMFD_x_Gamer@reddit

Nothing "triggers" me.
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scottwricketts@reddit

I know who Tigra and Bunny are and what they like.
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RipNice7021@reddit

...the boom?
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Ksan_of_Tongass@reddit

![gif](giphy|14ceV8wMLIGO6Q)
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RipNice7021@reddit

...the boom?
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AproposOfDiddly@reddit

My Gen X superpower is knowing all the lyrics to all the songs in “Grease 2”. ![gif](giphy|3o6Zt8nQ5jlfiqy6uk)
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UncuriousCrouton@reddit

You're gonna score tonight.
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UncuriousCrouton@reddit

Sense Southern Barbecue and Situational Adaptability.
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satyrday12@reddit

I can tape people's buns together.
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ShyChiBaby@reddit

I can remember every move from the Street fighter games but I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.
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cinemattique@reddit

I read books.
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CurtisKobainowicz@reddit

The old saw goes that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed person is king. I'm afraid that in the land of the willfully misinformed, the one trying to keep their eyes open is a heretic. So my power is heresy.
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Dan-68@reddit

Knowing the difference between your and you’re.
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rwphx2016@reddit

HELL YEAH! Also, knowing the difference between a plural (apples), a possessive (Apple's), and a contraction (it's).
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Dan-68@reddit

There, their, and they’re.
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4Brtndr1@reddit

"There was a problem with their new car and so now they're angry." How adults still don't know the difference between them will always baffle me.
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SunGregMoon@reddit

I can drive a stick shift, I don't need a camera to drive in reverse and I can parallel park without really trying.
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holden_hiscox@reddit

I have a sixth sense of knowing christian rock or country music after about 2-1/2 seconds. It enables me to quickly turn the radio station quickly and not purposely drive off a bridge.
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jsakic99@reddit (OP)

Lots of use of the word “praise” in Christian Rock
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JzBic@reddit

Manual transmission
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3nar3mb33@reddit

I know how to use 8tracks players, record players, tape players, CD players, MIDI, streaming & youtube for my music....?
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Magik160@reddit

I know tatu. Even if the brunette said she would disown her child if they were gay. Meanwhile made what little celeb status she had pretending to be a lesbian. But I did enjoy their music. No clue who icona pop is.
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freakdageek@reddit

I don’t care.
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WheresTheQueeph@reddit

I love it!
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WheresTheQueeph@reddit

I don’t care about all the things she said…
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SnooEpiphanies157@reddit

Mine is not giving a fuck, especially post 50
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PoxyMusic@reddit

Being the last generation of recording engineers who learned on analog tape. I bet I could still do a recording alignment on a 24 track machine by memory.
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modernistamphibian@reddit

Is that a Gen-X thing? I've never heard of either! For a minute I thought you mean T'Pau.
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jsakic99@reddit (OP)

They’re both pop duos from the early 2000s
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modernistamphibian@reddit

I just Googled them, just never heard of them before. Early 2000s I was well into my career, having graduated college a decade earlier, so I wasn't really paying attention to pop duos!
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pinballrocker@reddit

"I don't care" got played alot at parties, clubs, and on the radio station I listen to, it was definitely a big hit song and I think is about a younger woman dating a Gen X guy.
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ekydfejj@reddit

C'mon no gen-x family. 2000s? /s
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Waffuru@reddit

I'm just sitting here going, "... the vulcan?" XD
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OverPaper3573@reddit

Still a thing. I met Carol Decker when I played a festival gig last summer.
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ekydfejj@reddit

Perhaps not knowing what either of those are /s
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BillyyJackk@reddit

You're so right I don't care, well played
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pinballrocker@reddit

I don't care, I love it
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bigrobdd@reddit

80's movie quotes & trivia.
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SassafrassPudding@reddit

mine are being able to keep myself company, and not giving in to peer pressure
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No_Dependent_8346@reddit

Mine is pushing a '78 ford pinto with a shot starter a half a block, jumping in and popping the clutch in 2nd to start that pig.
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anotherstepfwd@reddit

Consuming 18 cups a code in a single work day and my BP is excellent.
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LilJourney@reddit

I can tell the difference between a 78 and a 33 1/3 record by feel and know how to break the "copyright protection" on a vhs tape.
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jsakic99@reddit (OP)

Macrovision!
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emgyres@reddit

I used to be able to program the VCR to tape The X Files. I still have a knack for figuring out how to do things without referring to the manual.
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Illustrious_Camp_521@reddit

Knowing the difference between Shit & Shineola.
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GrolarBear69@reddit

When in doubt? NO. If there's any doubt the answer is no. Shut it down, pack it up, its over. Defying this rule has consistently resulted in fuckery and shenanigans, or even worse, drama. Doubt signing that financing contract? No. Doubt going home with that dude? No. Doubt what that dude is doing over there with that backpack? NO! Papa Darwin wrings his filthy rotted hands in anticipation every time you disobey your first instinct in making a decision. So yeah no sketchy decisions.
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panchango@reddit

Mine is knowing the difference between listening to someone and not giving a shit about what they are saying.
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Waffuru@reddit

I know the lyrics to almost every top 10 80's song that shows up on classic radio stations. I'm not proud, or tired...
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Winter_Ratio_4831@reddit

Emotional Intelligence. Active listening.
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RVAblues@reddit

Mine is detecting bullshit and knowing sponsored content when I see it.
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jsakic99@reddit (OP)

Lol, who would be sponsoring this?
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elitistjerk@reddit

You all rolling around in fake Russian lesbian money from the 90s. Smh
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jsakic99@reddit (OP)

Sad!
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RVAblues@reddit

I didn’t say yours was. Hell, I wouldn’t have commented if it was.
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jsakic99@reddit (OP)

Oh, sorry. Misinterpreted your comment.
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apollo_popinski@reddit

Middle management. Someone has to endure shit gets done at work.
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GarthRanzz@reddit

Knowing how to research without asking others. We didn’t have the internet, just the library’s card catalog and encyclopedias. Yet with Google at their fingertips, my (mostly) Gen Z coworkers post questions in Teams rather than research it themselves. A Google search would be quicker than making a post.
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Ctsherm44@reddit

My bullshit detector.
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Darostheone@reddit

Deeply ingrained work ethic.
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LicarioSpin@reddit

Evaluator of good music.
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TotallyRadDude1981@reddit

Mine is not caring about stuff
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Naive_Finding_1287@reddit

When someone buys something, I can count their change back without a calculator or cash register telling me how much. Assuming, of course, the transaction actually involves that stuff called cash.
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Organic_Mix2282@reddit

I am a surviver Not to brag or look for sympathy, but a list of sorts of what hasn't ended me. Latch key kid at 9, single father, spent lots of time on my own, I can go days without needing contact with another person. Dad made sure I never lacked things to do or art supplies. I just never got the emotional support, and I repressed that 5 year old bit until later. Molested at 5. Mentally abused until my father divorced her. Moved around lots 16 fell off the back of a Honda 80 dirt bike, 6-8 somersaults into the ditch, doing around 25 and no helmet. I was a slave to hormones, no 16 year old should have a rack that big. Anyways I was last of three on this bike... 20 tried putting myself in a wheelchair skiing. Late 40's guess the warranty ran out, ruptured appendicitis, gallbladder the following year. Been homeless for a year at 54 Suicidal at 55 and admitted myself for help 56 On disability and waiting for a place of my own, while working on how to manage chronic pain. (Prefer Indica) Pain isn't in my neck or shoulder that bothers me, it's my feet.
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Historical_Chip_2706@reddit

Not giving a shit what people think of me
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Techchick_Somewhere@reddit

Mine is everything about fashion designers of the 80s and 90s from Vogue magazine and Fashion Television. 🙃
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Agent7619@reddit

I can tell Phil Collins apart from Genesis
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TreasonalDepression@reddit

Critical thinking
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TryingToChillIt@reddit

Not being scared of new tech OR old tech. Non gen X are afraid one way of the other
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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

I don't care. I love it!
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YellowOnline@reddit

I don't know who you talk about, though tatu rings maybe a bell as a Russian lesbian pop act. Anyhoo, my GenX superpower is wearing short trousers when it's cold.
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porkchopespresso@reddit

If the trivia question is asking for the name of a one hit wonder from the 80s or 90s you want me on your team. My brain just locks those bands and singers in for good but I still need Google to look up the random odd formula I might need once a month
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MaximumJones@reddit

Apathy has always been the GenX super power. Or, whatever.
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