Why is GenX incomparable? What have we done that can't be matched?

Posted by Cheap-Shower-4340@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 31 comments

For starters, how many bands have there been that had an ARMLESS DRUMMER?? DEF LEPPARD defined our determination to get shit done, and never needing someone to do anything for us. Gen X are some stubborn fools, but were unstoppable. Sorry, end rant.

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PFAS_All_Star@reddit

In before “Rick Allen’s a boomer!”. That’s why I hate using specific birth years to define generations. Culturally, he couldn’t be further from my boomer mother. He’s one of us.

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LayerNo3634@reddit

We jammed to Def Leppard in High school. Mom was a boomer and definitely didn't like their music.

Funny story: hubby and I took our youngest daughter to a DL concert. Brother and Niece came along. Halfway through the concert, niece said, "OMG, that drummer only has one arm!" Brother didn't raise her right and we still tease them almost 10 years later.

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SunFunAndGuns@reddit

LOL every generation thinks they are the peak of humanity and the world is ending soon.

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hikeonpast@reddit

GenX is not incomparable. We had some experiences that are different than other generations, but we’re no more special than any other generation.

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MovingTarget-@reddit

A granfalloon is a "false karass"—a group of people who share a common identity or purpose based on a fabricated or meaningless premise

Cat's Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut

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zombie_spiderman@reddit

Thank you! I'm getting a little tired of the back-patting that goes on sometimes. I like this sub for the shared experiences, not for sitting around sniffing our own farts.

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HLOFRND@reddit

Those are vintage, hose water farts, thank you very much.

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zombie_spiderman@reddit

OMG WITH THE HOSE WATER

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MovingTarget-@reddit

Whatever :)

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RCA2CE@reddit

We know we aren’t special

That’s what makes us unique

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hikeonpast@reddit

All the hose water and manual transmission posts on this sub suggest that there are a lot of folks here that lean toward generational exceptionalism.

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RCA2CE@reddit

We are exceptionally unremarkable

Remarkably so

Our whatever’s are high, our fk’s are low

All we wanted was to be left alone in our average home

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DiggingforPoon@reddit

I feel the only thing special with us is that we don't, for the most part, care one fuck about how we are viewed by society and/or history.

We tend to avoid the karma-whoring brain-rot creations, even if it is just out of inertia and leftover angst from the 80s and 90s that has solidified into a kind of "crust of disdain", as opposed to any real sense of purpose. This mystifies and confuses the other generations above and below in age, as they all seem to care about what others think of them...

A LOT

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Aggressive_Jury_2667@reddit

This subreddit of shows otherwise though.

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DiggingforPoon@reddit

a few thousand, at most, out of 65 Million?

I stand by my comment

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Aggressive_Jury_2667@reddit

Feel free

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FrannyFray@reddit

3,000% and on point. Gen X ain't a monolith.

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NickNightingale@reddit

Def Leppard are boomers tho, as is most bands from the 80s and 90s.

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DeezDoughsNyou@reddit

Keep wondering if it matters when the band members were born. Def Leppard are all boomers but we were their audience. Although I suppose the younger boomers were too. Can't really think of any Gen X musicians that are incomparable. But the extreme sports athletes were pretty amazing.

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DapperGovernment4245@reddit

Maynard from Tool, Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello from rage against the machine, Trent Reznor from NIN

Personally I would call all of them incomparable but I might be biased.

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MonoBlancoATX@reddit

Um... he's not "armless".

He still has one, right?

Also, is he even Gen X?

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