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When did you 'know' your generation was done? Was it hearing kids saying something that you had no idea about? Tech/apps etc...

Posted by Philhughes_85@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 19 comments

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BoogerWipe@reddit

What? lol
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Antaine1916@reddit

Gotta be honest, I spent most of my youth trying to live in my grandparents' generation anyway, so I always felt disconnected and out of touch with even my own generation. In 2001 I started teaching high school and college (which I've been doing ever since), and so I've gotten more in touch with the culture of my own youth from the 80s and 90s *now* than I ever was then.
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snicmtl@reddit

Heard in an academic setting: “can I reference a paper from the late 1900s? There was good information in it.” The paper was from 1994
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buffysmanycoats@reddit

They’re clearly trolling with this “late 1900s” stuff but it annoys me. Not because it makes me feel old (I don’t) but because it makes them sound dumb.
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James_Vaga_Bond@reddit

I think it just sounds like a logical extension of the term "late 1800's" to them, and only sounds ancient to us.
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insertcleverthought@reddit

When I watched an episode of TMZ and had absolutely no idea who any of the people they were bugging were.  
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slightlyundercooked_@reddit

I was pretty sure when my sister was born in '85
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JurgonKupercrest@reddit

Emo style and tight skater pants.
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postscarcity@reddit

when women 10-15 years younger than me were being called milfs.
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Bodidiva@reddit

I’m 45 and was with a friend who is 87 last night. We parked the car and had to pay the meter. The meter battery was dead (Town, get your shit together.) but you aren’t off the hook for paying - you must use the app. My friend (who is Greek) is trying to get me to take her quarters for the meter but I’m explaining that I couldn’t even if I wanted to bc I have to use the app. She says I can use her card, but I again say I have to use the app. She waves her hand as of shooing away and says “That is beyond me, do what you have to do. I don’t know anything about that.” “It’s okay”. I say “You don’t have to know.” “You’re right, I don’t have to know because I don’t drive anymore.”
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Rare_Following_8279@reddit

This sounds like something a gen z-er would say. I knew you were done before you were born
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ConcreteKeys@reddit

I was at an estate sale and I saw a kid playing with a 80s/90s rotatary telephone. The ugly peach kind that was in every hotel room. He turned it with his little 10 year old finger and had that wonder in his face that I very clearly remember having myself when I went to my aunts house and did the same exact thing on her 1920s rotary phone. Remember watching movies and kids would go up in attics and there would be all this cool old stuff? That's our stuff now!
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OneHumanBill@reddit

Done? I don't think our day has even started yet.
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CursedSnickerdoodle@reddit

Done how, I'm not done, fingers crossed I'm not even half done, lol. I felt pretty old when my niece called me "bruh" though!
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ThxIHateItHere@reddit

The May 1996 MAD magazine cover was a graduating Alfred E. Neuman with the title “Congratulations Class Of 1996. You’re Doomed!!”
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Mobile_Pangolin4939@reddit

Somewhere around the late 2019s when people started obsessing over school, work, and diversity.
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Mattimvs@reddit

A generation doesn't end when it ages out of adolescenthood
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Transplanted_Cactus@reddit

For real like what are they even talking about? I'm almost 42. I stream on twitch. I can work my cell phone. I can make TikToks. I can troubleshoot a problem with my PC.
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SnooSnooSnuSnu@reddit

Done with what?
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