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30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Yup. My favorite is when they are like: "What's your source? You have no proof!" and it's like: "I didn't read about this, I lived it.".

squirtloaf , Mimi Thian Report

Final score:

235points

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The Phantom Stranger 3 months ago

I worked with a Gen Z girl like this--always trying to tell me I was wrong about "historical" events she learned about in college. I'm like, "Kid, I know what really happened--I was THERE."

124points

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves For me the most jarring thing is hearing people refer to records as "vinyls".

THEY'RE NOT CALLED VINYLS. THEY WERE NEVER CALLED VINYLS. CALLING RECORDS VINYLS IS LIKE CALLING CDS "PLASTICS". FFS, STOP THE MADNESS!!!

Records. They're called records. 12" records are also called LPs, short for Long Playing Records. 10" records are EPs, short for Extended Play Records, or 78s (if they are 78RPM). 7" records are 45s (because 45RPM) or singles.

GET OFF MY LAWN.

fkyourcanoes , Alina Vilchenko Report

Final score:

232points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago

They were called vinyls though? I remember them being called vinyls in the 80's I'm sure.

82points

FaceMaulingChimp , Gerald Johnson Report

Generation X refers to Americans who were born between 1965 and 1980. They’re the kids of the Silent Generation (who were born from 1928 to 1945) and Baby Boomers (born from 1946 to 1964).

Gen X precedes Generation Y (aka millennials, born from 1981 to 1996), Generation Z (aka Zoomers, born from 1997 to 2012), and Generation Alpha (born in the early 2010s to the mid-2020s).

Different researchers might suggest slightly different birth year ranges for each generation, so there’s a bit of disagreement here and there. For example, the moderators of the r/GenX subreddit argue that Generation X includes anyone born between 1961 and 1981, which is the broadest perspective on who might fit the bill.

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves LOL my oldest kid told me how OJ Simpson may have not k*lled his ex wife and the matching DNA was likely his son Jasons. Listen here, I didn’t watch court TV for 6 weeks and read 20 books on the case to have you lecture me about a 10 second Tik Tok clip that “solved” the crime of the century!! You don’t even know who Kato is !!!

Final score:

223points

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CP 3 months ago

When anyone says the person is innocent because the court found them that way, I always like to bring up OJ.

83points

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves My son came home from High School one year and pulled out his phone so I could hear this great new Band.

Aerosmith....

Outrageous_Brick7472 , Aerosmith Report

Final score:

218points

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PeepPeep the duck 3 months ago (edited)

My fave one was in 2001. Beautiful day was released by U2, first time hearing it and I went storming into my mums room to announce that this new band U2 and their stupid song ‘ beautiful day’ would not make them famous or liked 😂’ mum gave me the biggest eye roll with no words

71points

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Or, being told you’re not an ally because you aren’t up to speed on pronouns, or what all the letters after LGBT mean, but you used to literally beat up a******s who messed with my gay friends.

Instimatic , Markus Spiske Report

Final score:

204points

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Vincent Philippart 3 months ago

The modern "intersectonnal" lgbtqia2s+ movement is so cringe. They have no idea what fighting for your rights actually means. It feels like their goal is to make us as unlikeable as possible, directly undoing decades of work to earn goodwill among the general population. I hate it.

222points

According to Statista, there were around 66 million members of Generation X living in the United States.

In 2021, their numbers dropped slightly to around 65.8 million Americans. It’s estimated that there will be around 63.9 million Gen Xers living in the US by 2028.

While it’s easy to assume that older generations ‘had it easy’ when it came to employment and buying property, it’s not all rosy for Generation X.

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves I admit to getting tired about hearing how easy it was for me to get through college and such 25ish years ago. I also remember the 70s and 80s, and amazingly, my parents could not afford a giant house with one person working as a coffee shop attendant.

Every generation has some hardships, and today's young people have been screwed over in some ways, but they go way overboard with how easy it was for everyone before them.

I was there. I literally have social security tax records since I was 12, because I had to work. It was not some magical paradise.

SlyFrog , Stanley Morales Report

Final score:

197points

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Gustav Gallifrey 3 months ago

Agree. Heck, i'd have loved to do moreto make things easier for subsequent generations, including my own son, but i was flat out just keeping my own head above water.

52points

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Imagine being a person who grew up in former soviet union listening to young people talk about the benefits of communism.

daperdingus , Elina Fairytale Report

Final score:

197points

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Edgar Rops 3 months ago

Or about an absolute bowl-clenching terror of it. Both are ridiculous. I'm from those parts of the world, I know.

52points

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves I most recently remember this in 2020, after the election, when Trump was still challenging the results. Even after Biden was declared the winner, I remember seeing posts on Twitter from Trump supporters saying things like *"Don't give up! Back in 2000 the liberal media spent a month calling Gore the winner and referring to him as President-Elect, until the Supreme Court declared Bush the rightful winner!"* And I was sitting there going, no, that's not what happened at all. How you are lying about something that was 20 years ago? This isn't ancient history?

chace_thibodeaux , René DeAnda Report

Final score:

184points

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Verena 3 months ago

It is fascinating to see how people of all generations spread "facts" by using the little computer in their picket, instead of using that little computer to effortlessly check the fact before spreading it. If yoz can google funny cat videos, you can google facts.

74points

There’s a risk that a large number of Americans from Gen X might run out of money in retirement. More so than members of the younger generations. Older Gen Xers are within a decade of retirement, while younger Baby Boomers are already in their early 60s.

How well someone will fare in retirement depends not just on their lifestyle, budgeting, and personal approach to savings and investments but also on the company they work at, along with any relevant pension plans.

#10

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves My dad got laid off twice in the early '80s, when I was a kid. It was a rough period for a lot of my relatives also. You never hear about that early-'80s recession anymore, people just go, 'Oh, everyone could buy a big house with just a high school degree.' There were a ton of homeless people in the '80s where I grew up also.

WhoDatNinjaToo , Phil Hearing Report

Final score:

179points

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Green Tree 3 months ago

The Reagan years were terrible for blue collar workers. The brits had it just as bad under Thatcher

134points

#11

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves I had a dude argue with me that there was absolutely no way the National Guard ever shot American college students… pft pft pft.

Necron9x11 , Mws77 Report

Final score:

174points

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Green Tree 3 months ago (edited)

May 4th 1970 Kent State University in Ohio. Neil Young wrote a song about it, lyrics say "Four Dead in Ohio"

110points

#12

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Missy Elliott at the Super Bowl and the young people posting about how she was trying to be Cardi B or some other current rapper. Lol, when I read those tweets I laughed so hard.

FormerChange Report

Final score:

171points

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Helena 3 months ago

Cardi B wishes she were Missy Elliott

177points

CNN reports that 45% of American households risk falling short financially if they retire at 65 years old. The number rises to 54% for people who would retire at 62.

“The shift from defined-benefit pensions to defined-contribution plans left Baby Boomers and Gen X with less time to accumulate savings,” researchers from Morningstar’s Center for Retirement and Policy Studies pointed out that there is a retirement crisis.

#13

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves A younger Millennial once insisted to me that we dial 911 for emergencies in honor of the victims of 9/11.

sabat , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

166points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago

So... What was the number before?

72points

PsychoWyrm , Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration Report

#14

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves I've had people tell me I'm making up the nuclear bomb drills we did in elementary school in the 80s.

Final score:

162points

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leendadll 3 months ago

As a So Californian, they paid off - duck & cover is now the preferred response to earthquakes!

54points

#15

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves I heard a younger coworker complain that NIN ruined Johnny Cash’s 'Hurt.'

doglvr48 , Johnny Cash Report

Final score:

146points

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Green Tree 3 months ago

One of the best covers of all time, in my opinion

142points

zovjraar me 3 months ago

i heard (not sure if true), that Trent said Johnny's version was better than the original.

25points

hwatinternation 3 months ago

First time I heard it was in music class and I loved it.

5points

DutchPanda 3 months ago

Absolutely true

2points

Giles McArdell 2 months ago

Agree, probably my age but the NIN version doesn't have any impact on me when I hear it, Johnny's breaks my heart every time.

1point

tameson 2 months ago

You aren't the only one.

1point

detective miller's hat 3 months ago

Seriously.

1point

Jennifer Brown 2 months ago

Ring of Fire by Social Distortion is pretty damn good too

0points

Ms.GB 3 months ago

Johnny Cash can sing anything, so many great covers on that album.

0points

Guess Undheit 3 months ago (edited)

There are some truly wretched covers out there, like "Hold On". Go listen to Ian Thomas's 1981 original, it makes Santana's terrible cover sound feeble in comparison.

0points

OrangeStripey Hat 3 months ago

Trent Reznor was to have said that he was born to write Hurt but Johnny Cash was born to sing it.

24points

KB 3 months ago

I once saw someone complain about Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt "because the original is about the singers struggle with d***s & Cash couldn't possibly understand that"

21points

Michelle C 3 months ago

LMAO! I had someone try to argue that with me that NIN wasn't the original artist and I walked away...The one that's really getting on my nerves now is "Fast Car"...it existed way before that country dude sang it!

18points

Nicky Shrimps 3 months ago

Their duet at the Grammy's was EPIC! Tracy kills it every time and Luke is so respectful.

11points

James016 3 months ago

Over 20 years ago some numpty I used to know was adamant that Metallica had ripped off Kid Rock's American Bad A*s when he heard their song Sad But True for the 1st time. He would not accept the fact that Kid Rock sampled Metallica

15points

meeeeeeeeeeee 3 months ago

So, today I found out this is not Johnny Cash's song lol

14points

OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago

TIL too... Now I have to go and hear the NIN version

0points

Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago (edited)

Tbf Johnny Cash pretty much made that song his, Trent Reznor himself admitted something like that.

11points

Carilyn Beverly 3 months ago (edited)

This is when I know I'm getting too old; when the younger generation thinks Johnny Cash was the original for the song Hurt (in his defense, NIN stated that his version was really good/what they meant for this song; same goes for The Sound of Silence- Simon and Garfunkel stated that Disturbed recorded the song the way they imagined it to be)

9points

Biytemii 3 months ago

I loved sound of silence and Simon and garfunkel had their cd but I was a disturbed fan from day one and when they came out with their version of sounds of silence I was in awe... it was amazing I like it by both bands but disturbed did something woth it that made it even more amazing than the original

4points

R Dennis 3 months ago

Trent Reznor said he was upset by Johnny Cash doing the cover because it was his personal story of addiction and recovery. But when he heard it, he felt like someone had taken his girlfriend because it was so raw.

8points

Foffy Skrimshaw 3 months ago

You can really thank Rick Rubin he is the one that convinced Cash to sing Hurt. Cash was hesitant at first, because he didn't like some of the lyrics. But finally gave in after Trent and Rubin agreed he could change the lyrics from Crown of s**t to Crown of thorns

1point

Willem Andries Oosterhof 3 months ago

Just like the Beatles had no business ruining Joe Cocker's With a little helf from my friends.

1point

sidda7 3 months ago

Was a big NIN fan, love Cash too. I woulda had some choice words for that kid.

1point

MotherofGuineaPigs 3 months ago

It's a NIN song.Trent Reznor wrote it.

1point

El Dee 3 months ago

My favourite JC song..

1point

Mason Kronol 3 months ago

Wow. In TIL news I like NIN. Haven’t kept up with them, so much music, books, movies, tv, life … so I listened to the NIN first, meh. I am NOT a Johnny Cash fan. But that song and video is powerful. Completely suits him. I may not cre for him but a lot of family members do so I grew up listening to him and know his stories, good and bad.

1point

Laura Deckers 2 months ago

NIN's cover of Physical is good.

0points

Adina Pernell 2 months ago

That's like saying that David Bowie ruined Nirvana's The Man Who Sold The World.

0points

James Twong 2 months ago

Cash's version is the definitive version.

0points

Sven Horlemann 2 months ago

Well, I take the compliment. Like Trent Reznor said after hearing Johnny Cashs cover: "It is not my song anymore".

0points

ANTIVICTORIA 3 months ago

I'm biased but I think he improved it.

0points

Bisha Moten 3 months ago

To be fair, Trent did say (after hearing Johnny's version), that the song was "his" now. Meaning Johnny.

0points

Angelshark 3 months ago

*headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*

0points

Michael Danhauer 3 months ago

This one is just plain funny...

0points

Robin Roper 3 months ago

Cash's cover is way better than NIN's

0points

Lee Banks 3 months ago

Johnny Cash liked it.

0points

Heather Menard 3 months ago

Hahaha it's the other way around

0points

Ivy 3 months ago

Sometimes the cover is better than the original and it takes over. I remember the first time I listened to True Colors being sung by Cindy Lauper and thought I was listening to a really bad cover of a Phil Collin’s original song lol.

0points

Art O 3 months ago

I heard someone tell me NIN ruined Johnny Cash's version.

0points

FM MD 3 months ago (edited)

Ayayayayayyyyy ignorant

0points

tori Ohno 3 months ago

No, he just performed it better than NIN.

0points

Manana Man 3 months ago

What I hate is when bands cover a song and do it just like the original (I'm looking at you Aerosmith). Change it up, take your shot.

0points

Shea Fujishima 3 months ago

I've seen comments about Kate Bush ruining Placebo's "Running up that hill"

0points

David Houde 3 months ago

Best cover of all time in my opinion is (not really a cover) a-Ha re-envisioning Take On Me on Summer Solstice. They did both versions of the song, but they couldn't be more different.

0points

David 3 months ago

I confess I'm a boomerr who used to think that. I am not a rabid fan of either Cash or NIN so not familiar with all of their songs and when they came out. But it happened I had heard the Cash one first and many times before I heard the NIN version and was a bit surprised to hear NIN was first. I prefer the Cash version but both are interesting - just different.

0points

David Martin 3 months ago

My younger sister once complained that Abba was stealing all of The A Teens songs. Even when I pointed out that those songs existed before any of The A Teens were born...

0points

nine4t4 3 months ago

Trent Reznor also ruined 'One peice at a time's, 'Boy named Sue' and 'Folsom prison blues'. Seriously Cash's version is a million times better than NIN. The kid kinda had a point.

0points

Vampiresscrow 3 months ago

I've had to correct people who came first. The shock on their faces made me giggle.

0points

Ms. Mack 3 months ago

Oh dear.

0points

Romek Vili 3 months ago

Once my friend told me that Rebel Yell was Scooter's song that Billy Idol coverded.

0points

Jason 3 months ago

It sucks being one of the few that hate the cover.

0points

robin aldrich 3 months ago

(((Heavy...very heavy...sigh)))

0points

RabidChild 3 months ago

lol

0points

CP 3 months ago

Both songs are amazing.

0points

Illifred 3 months ago

I know, this opinion is quite unpopular, but: I simply don't like Cash's version. I've always loved the NIN-version so deeply. Hearing it by Johnny Cash is like listening a stranger telling my story. Silly, I know. But that's how it is.

0points

Beth D 3 months ago

1954 song by Jimmie Crane and Al Jacobs. "Hurt" was originally performed by Roy Hamilton,

-3points

Piglet 3 months ago

Completely different song.

1point

#16

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Close, close friend of mine was killed in Iraq (w me there). At the funeral, his son accepted the flag the military presents to the next of kin. The photo became really famous. Had a Gen Zer tell the picture was staged by the military as military propaganda (without realizing how dumb the thought of the military spreading pictures of crying 7-year-olds in an attempt to improve their image, is). I tried showing them pictures, etc to show the family is real. She responded by saying I was one of "those".

Darth-Newbi , Brett Sayles Report

Final score:

143points

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Jeremy James 3 months ago (edited)

I must be one of "those." I was in a car with a friend of a friend who was trying to convince everyone that the Sandy Hook tragedy was staged. Bro, I worked with the sister of one of the victims. I covered shifts so she could attend the funeral. She was definitely real and not some kind of "crisis actor" or "plant."

123points

#17

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves “In 1986 you could work part time at a yogurt shop in LaJolla, CA and afford a 3 bedroom home on the ocean”

No. Parts of this country have always been super expensive to live in.

MikeinAustin , James Lee Report

Final score:

141points

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CP 3 months ago

Clearly that is hyperbole.

31points

#18

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves The most common one I see is from younger writers proclaiming that "The entire country was up in arms about [insert major event]"...

I was there, the reality is that most of the country didn't really care either way, but a few hundred protestors made a lot of noise.

Bashirshair , Sawyer Sutton Report

Final score:

131points

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Nora12 3 months ago

Although this is true for all historical events. As a generation X child I remember interviewing an elderly couple about their experience in the Great Depression and they were both like “our families were fine, it didn’t really affect us” Just because an event is a big event in history, doesn’t mean it affected everyone who lived at that time.

61points

#19

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Just the other day some young person tried to passionately tell me that “shout” by tears for fears was actually written and performed by depeche mode. I was so embarrassed for them. They were so sure they were right. Bless their heart.

cuppyturkey Report

Final score:

130points

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Dave Walters 3 months ago

The first 7 inch single I ever bought. Note I didn't call it vinyl. All these years later I live a few houses away from the drummer on this song.

44points

#20

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Slenderman is the one that really baffles me. Kids are all "It's real" or treat it like it's as old as Bloody Mary or something, meanwhile I'm like "I helped invent Slenderman on the Something Awful forums when I was in my 30s."

My own children were terrified of Slenderman when they were younger, and I told them "You know why he has really long fingers? Because a forum Goon called WIIWW suggested it. I know that cause WIIWW is me.".

blackest_francis , Tifith Site Report

Final score:

116points

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Mingey 3 months ago

Look at the issues that dam Slenderman created!!!! Google it!! Quicksand was a better fear, it kept people out of water and river banks etc😂😂😂

44points

#21

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves I was chaperoning my daughter’s trip to Washington DC. The Millennial tour guide said he was going to take the kids to see the Challenger Space Shuttle.

Ineedzthetube , NASA Report

Final score:

114points

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 3 months ago

Did they mean what they could find of it?

57points

#22

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves A few years back, in an open office, I was quietly listening to music and singing along (my desk was far away from all others so I wasn't being rude), when a much younger coworker came up and asked how I knew the words to 'the song' already, since it just released two days ago by a popular young artist. I said that I had been singing the original for decades. They laughed and said, "No, really?". I repeated the answer and they said I was wrong because that was a new song by 'popular young artist'. I said "No, the song was written and performed by 'washed up, once popular old artist'. They reiterated that I was wrong. I looked it up online and showed them. Their response: " 'Washed up, once popular old artist' must have covered it from 'popular young artist'. She wouldn't even admit that that was a problem, unless one of them was a time traveller, because she refused to admit that she was wrong or that she liked an "OLD" song.

Edit: Sorry guys, I can remember the conversation clearly but I can't dredge up whatever song it was from the depths of my swiss cheese memory.

Adastria , Annie Spratt Report

Final score:

107points

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Cat Chat 3 months ago

I remember when my daughter was dancing and singing 🎶You spin me right round, baby....🎶 and I told her I was dancing to those same lyrics when I was her age. She didn't believe me.

68points

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#23

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Can confirm. I was very young but can still clearly remember watching the touchdown on the moon, the first steps, the placing of the American flag…. the whole thing. Even at that young age it was emotional for me. My deep southern home town got to watch some of the truly enormous parts be transported verrrrry slowly on huge trucks right past our house. My dad took photos. They had been manufactured at a nearby site. Before the launch we drove all the way to the launch site and those enormous pieces of equipment we’d seen were now in place. He showed the photos to a NASA guide, the guide recognized the giant parts immediately and enthusiastically pointed them out to us. It was an incredibly cool moment.

Another historic moment was the horrific Challenger disaster. Everyone in the country was so excited and proud for the teacher, Christa McAuliffe, from Concord, New Hampshire, who was selected for and had trained to become a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L. On the day of the launch the whole world ….. including her husband, children, family, friends, her school, and all her students…. were excitedly watching the broadcast live as the Space Shuttle went up….. and exploded just 1 minute 13 seconds after launch. Unbelievably, they didn’t cut the live feed immediately. It was horrible watching the shuttle disintegrate and fall, knowing there was no possibility of survivors. Just…. horrible.

And one more moment: September 11. We had 2 daughters in basic training at the time, right at the point of graduation. My husband and I both watched live feeds as the planes slammed into those 2 towers. We sobbed as we watched the towers collapse, forever burying those still within them. We watched thousands of people out of their minds with grief, desperately wandering the streets, posting photos and notes, searching for their loved ones.

And through it all, we were totally paralyzed with the fear of absolutely knowing that our two barely 18 year old little girls were going to be caught up in whatever this had been.

All this is to say: Look around and know your audience. If they’re a good bit older than you, you might want to hold up on the faux passion about 9/11….. because many of us lived that s**t and will never get it out of our heads.

SkootchDown , Pixabay Report

Final score:

106points

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Boo 3 months ago

I will never forget watching the shuttle disaster unfold in Science class.

39points

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#24

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves I'm the daughter of WW2 Vets. (My parents born 1922,had me at 45yrs) Australian. My uncle also KIA over Germany 1942.

I grew up knowing many WW2 vets. Some had been POWs of Japanese. Tortured by them. I always took a keen interest and asked lots of questions and learned heaps off my parents & these people.

My parents taught us a LOT about how it was in those years. What they knew when, the states of minds of people at that time, details about living during that period and the politics of the time.

Both my parents well educated, intelligent people. Not prone to "flights of fancy" or stretching truth etc etc etc.

And as a result of my parents I have studied, read and learned about WW2 era extensively. I believe I am somewhat of minor "expert" of sorts. I know a LOT more then the average punter, from books but also from 1st hand accounts.

So when 25 year olds try to tell me "how it was during WW2"!! I get very freakin annoyed. They will argue about things they know nothing about. It's infuriating.

Gracie1994 , Museums Victoria Report

Final score:

99points

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detective miller's hat 3 months ago

My grandparents used to take in orphaned children during WWII, all of them orphaned because of the war. My dad said there were always 4-6 random kids living in the house at any given time.

42points

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#25

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Someone was explaining how we had to invade Iraq to find the people who did 9/11. It was just too much for me to even try.

zombuca , RDNE Stock project Report

Final score:

91points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago

You mean the Saudi guy with links to Afghanistan who was found in Pakistan?

77points

#26

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves In the same vein - I was chaperoning a trip to Disney and one of the teens confidenty told me The Haunted Mansion ride was based on the movie with Eddie Murphy. She was wondering why Eddie Murphy didn’t appear in the ride. The other Gen Xer I was with explained the ride came first, like Pirates of the Carribean.

FuzzyScarf , SolarSurfer Report

Final score:

81points

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A girl 3 months ago

Hmm. I toured the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in 1972. Eddie would have been about 11.

34points

#27

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves One thing I’ve found interesting from younger generations recently was the idea that Boomers have always been old and have always been in power politically. Like I’ve heard people talk about events in the 70s and 80s under the assumption that it was the Boomers who controlled everything (or even back to the 60s). Even something like Watergate was supposedly with Boomers in charge. When in reality it was the World War II Greatest Generation like Reagan (and Silents) who dominated politically from the 60s until the 90s (and there were a ton of politicians from those generations that stuck around forever).

Bill Clinton’s win in 1992 was the start of Boomer political power really and it wasn’t until the 00s that they began to truly dominate the Senate. However in the 70s and 80s, Boomers were mostly in their twenties and thirties (or even teens in the 70s). But younger Millenials and Gen Z, barely know about the long dominance of the World War II Generation…they controlled the presidency from JFK to the first Bush, that’s 32 years of the presidency. Younger people today seem to think Baby Boomers were always old and probably never even really knew their great grandparents from the Greatest Gen. Hell, I remember relatives from the Lost Generation born in the 19th century that were still alive when I was a kid in the 80s who remembered World War I. But today all old people have been grouped as “Boomers”.

anon , Laura Musikanski Report

Final score:

80points

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General Anaesthesia 3 months ago (edited)

The idea that you can neatly pigeon-hole people into arbitrary fifteen- to 25-year "generations" is ludicrous.

72points

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#28

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves This guy told me I must not actually be Gen X because if I was, I would know that straight guys didn’t buy Milli Vanilli. Crazy

CreatrixAnima , Milli Vanilli Report

Final score:

72points

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 3 months ago

Well, bugger me with a fish fork. Today, I found out I've been gay all these years.

101points

#29

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves I keep getting lectured on how awesome socialism is and how the socialist country I grew up in wasn't really socialist.

Pile_of_Walthers , Ling Tang Report

Final score:

67points

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StumblingThroughLife 3 months ago (edited)

China isn't Socialist. It's Communist, like the Soviet Union was. We covered all of this in History classes (UK). Deleted this chart (SD instead of S, sorry) Appropriate description in next post.

36points

nautius_maximus1 , cottonbro studio Report

#30

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Listening to people say they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary because of their completely bogus interpretations of events during Bill C’s presidency. Not fun.

Final score:

56points

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CK 3 months ago

I don't think this is an age thing. There are people who were old enough to pay attention to Bill Clinton's presidency if they wanted to who firmly believe that Bill and Hillary are both serial killers who work together.

20points

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#31

YES! Younger people, kids, and most people in general now, have super easy, fast access to information, right or wrong. They usually don't ask people who've actually lived through it, they just swipe and click and choose the information that is more shocking or in line with whatever ideas they already have about the event.

It's a bit disconcerting. Once that feeling passes, I get annoyed.

BohemianChickie Report

Final score:

30points

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Familie Schmidt 3 months ago

I'd love to agree, but on the other hand I am a German who grew up with her grandparents who lived through the Hitler era. They recounted bascially 99% good things and a lot of s**t from the US and the rest of Europe. So there's that.

11points

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#32

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Young people idealizing the 70s is a real weird one.

_nokturnal_ , Annie Spratt Report

Final score:

29points

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Bartlet for World Domination 3 months ago

The seventies were wonderful because I was a kid with zero responsibilities and school only taught things I already knew.

34points

disinterested_a-hole , Tofros.com Report

#33

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves A thirtysomething (?) accused me (48) of being a twentysomething pretending to be Gen X because I said the style of a photo was more 1970s than 1980s. I did not have the words or motivation to argue.

Final score:

29points

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Pork Chop 3 months ago

Pay attention people, the person posting this handled this situation like a proper Gen Xer.

18points

#34

OMG yes. I teach middle school and have had this happen. Kids arguing with me and I’m like “See this little crack in the floorboard? I was literally standing on it RIGHT HERE while watching this happen LIVE on TV.”.

Neat-yeeter Report

Final score:

25points

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Amanda Young 3 months ago

Omg the song "Where were you when the world stopped turning" by Alan Jackson. I will never, ever forget where I was. Much like you I was in school as well, but high school. Was pregnant with my oldest (yeah I know judge all you want IDC) , waddling to math class.

10points

#35

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Or how much better athletes are today. have had some turds on /r/nba tell me that Michael Jordan would just be average today. Shaq can't shoot. The 1980s lakers would not be competitive today.

gerd50501 , NBA Report

Final score:

24points

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Papa 3 months ago

I remember reading that Michael Jordan was asked in an interview if he thought his Bulls team from back in the 1980's could beat the best current NBA teams. He replied that he thought so, but it would be close. He was asked why it would be close, and he replied something like "Well, we're all quite a bit older now."

36points

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#36

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Because of the Batman movie that came out - kids were asking ‘what was Nirvana like?’ and ‘Kurt cobain k*lled himself - that was messed up’🤦🤦🤦
I try to give context that my understanding is that while people focus on d**g problems - Kurt cobain had actual chronic health issues. Living with that and a demanding life can be torture on mental health.
I think I didn’t want these kids to be like ‘he was emo and did d***s so he k*lled himself’.

sdmh77 , Nirvana Report

Final score:

23points

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meeeeeeeeeeee 3 months ago

I doubt he was worrying about what people in 2024 would think of him

13points

#37

- the HIV epidemic
- 9/11
- **the Iraq war** OMG younger people are insufferable with their Iraq war takes
- the 2000 election.

anon Report

Final score:

23points

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martin734 3 months ago

Many people under 40 still don't realise there were two Iraq wars. My dad was a Royal Navy helicopter pilot who served in the Gulf War in 1990/1991.

19points

#38

30 Times “Obnoxiously Arrogant” Young Folks Tried To Lecture Gen X But Got Schooled Themselves Like how to pronounce “gif.” We pronounced it “jiff” in 1988, or at least within my circle of nerds. Now I’m told reasons why I’m wrong. I don’t actually care how anyone says it, just don’t come at me with your post-2000 logic saying I’m wrong when I have precedence. And let’s be honest, that person trying to correct me is only saying “giff” because that’s how they first heard it and how *their* friends say it, which is totally fine by me.

WhateverGreg , Pixabay Report

Final score:

21points

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leendadll 3 months ago (edited)

I learned it as GIf, for Graphics Image Format, when it came out. I see that the correct word is Interchange, but I was taught Image.

15points

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#39

Yeah, definitely. It's like "hol-up Junior." I **personally** remember how that went down, and **you're** full of s**t.

greevous00 Report

Final score:

18points

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robin aldrich 3 months ago

"Hol-up Junior".... I like that... may I use that?

3points

#40

Woodstock '99.

tentongeek Report

Final score:

13points

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hwatinternation 3 months ago

Lang was impressively bad at doing events.

6points

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Alex Boyd 3 months ago (edited)

I take a bit of comfort in knowing that The Youth Of Today will one day--fairly soon, in the scheme of things--hear some crummy teenager refer to the COVID lockdowns as history, and immediately feel *ancient*.

22points

CP 3 months ago

And they too will then make fun of the youngins who act like Covid wasn't anything. And the cycle will continue.

17points

Wintermute 3 months ago

Conspiracies! I was a huge X-Files fan and listener of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell since the mid-90s. I was there, Gandalf. I was there when the crazy people made up the b******t. Clearly schizophrenic people in the full throes of hallucination telling stories on late night AM radio. And that was it. Ethically questionable entertainment outlets for the mentally disturbed. It's amazing to see how far some of that nonsense has gone, and terrifying. And then to hear people repeat those theories as though they're some age old truth? Nah, man. I was there when it was invented, and Donald Trump had already run for president once. Not so long ago as we like to think.

12points

Kerry Fletcher 3 months ago

Oh man. The first time I heard him was driving home from seeing the Sixth Sense. The movie creeped me out and he was talk about ghost stories. Didn't know that at the time I joined mid show. Scared the heck out of me and I drove home with the interior light on, doors locked and windows up.

3points

StumblingThroughLife 3 months ago

Admittedly, I do get confused with all these (insert letter) Gens. Like, what time period are Boomers, for example? X?? .... and is 'Y' my 14yr old granddaughter? I'm in my mid 60s, so what do they call me? The only one I know is 'Millennials', lol. Back in the day, we'd just say "I was born in the 60s", lol. So much easier than these current labels.

8points

MoMcB 3 months ago

You're a Boomer. Same as me, born in 1964, but I identify more with Gen X experience.

5points

Brian Droste 3 months ago

If you are in your mid sixties like I am, you are a boomer.

1point

Pollywog 3 months ago

Elders, peers and whippersnappers!! 😂

1point

Angela C 3 months ago

Your 14 year old granddaughter would be a gen z/alpha cusper

1point

AMaureen Dance 3 months ago

All I know is my daughter tells me I'm a boomer and she's a millenial.

0points

DelvianBlue 3 months ago

I remember last year when one of my students tried to tell me that 9/11 is just a conspiracy by the government and didn't really happen. I was like "kid, I watched the entire thing unfold on TV. It definitely occurred."

3points

Kathy Richardson 3 months ago

Let me say that when my boys were in middle and high school in the early 2000's, I ended up joining the History Book club because they were barely taught any history in school. I was flabbergasted at the amount they did not know/had never heard of, and my boys were straight A students. So yeah, these younger generation will get their misinformation from the internet.

3points

Damned_Cat 3 months ago

I've had young office workers refuse to believe me when I tell them what it was like before computers and email. Yes, we typed documents on a typewriter, and if your boss decided to make changes, you typed the whole page (or more) over again. If you wanted to send a memo to all staff, you typed it out on a piece of paper, made a pile of copies and walked around distributing them to everyone's desk. More than one young person has said, "No way! Nobody would go through all that work!"

2points

Ilikemybooksshakennotstirred 3 months ago

I've reached this age in my early 30's. XD My younger cousins will tell me things they read about 9/11 as fact, and I have to be like "Look, I was only in the 4th grade when it happened, but this is what I remember. " xD

2points

Annabelle 3 months ago

Poll option correction or addition: "Disinterest in truth"

1point

Ivy 3 months ago

The craziest thing about this post is how unwilling people are to admit they’re wrong and would rather continue digging a deeper, more embarrassing hole for themselves. If someone fact checks something I said with information I didn’t know… I admit I was wrong and move on. Simple as that. I’d rather not etch myself into their memory as the idiot who kept idiot-ing.

1point

doredde 3 months ago

I find it a bit irritating how everyone seems so obsessed with being part of a certain "generation". 25 year old colleauge of mine talking about the 18year old kids, as if seven years make SUCH a huge difference. I know that trends, tastes and that change much faster now (or at least it feels like this). I was teached that a generation defines the age "gap"or level between parents and their children (25-30 or more years now maybe). Referring to your birthyear and the culture, country in which you were raised in etc. seems much more adequate for me to say something about you. Gen X (my "generation") spans from born in 1965 - 1980. I´m sure that I (born 1966) had a totally different upbringing and so on, than someone born 15 years later. Especially as a woman!

1point

Angela C 3 months ago

Seven years definitely does make a difference. Most of the people I hang out with are at least 5 years younger than me and when they talk about their high school experience it's in many ways so different than mine was

2points

Marcus Lynch 2 months ago

Imagine having to tell someone that Winston Churchill and Alfred Hitchcock were not the same person and that neither one of them played The Penguin in the Batman movie. So sad...

0points

Gracie Mae 2 months ago

Most of these had me laughing outright...then I realized how freakin' old I am to have lived through a lot of them...

0points

Lene 3 months ago

My brother, 10 years younger than me, is convinced that ww2 happened sometime in the late 1800s. Also, we live in Denmark and Denmark is pretty much just a group of isles so there used to be ferries between the biggest ones, but in 1997-1998 they opened a tunnel and a bridge between Funen and Zealand. Before then it was ferries and my bf's dad worked on some of them, my bf sometimes went with his dad to work, and I used the ferries at least twice per month (parents divorced living on diff. isles). My brother was SHOCKED to learn that my bf and I had even been alive when the ferries were still in use. I just laughed and said "well, so were you!". He was 3-4 when the bridge and tunnel opened. He may not remember it but he was alive then!

0points

AMaureen Dance 3 months ago

There's no survey selection for 'none of the above'.

0points

Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 3 months ago (edited)

All the comments about who sang original songs - We've all made the same mistakes when we were growing up too. I find it weird that a re-release of a song doesn't automatically have to be called 'So-and-so's blah blah blah' - they have to pay royalties to the original artist so why not name them in the new version's title too. (Edited immediately for spelling, as always!)

0points

Ansi 3 months ago

Bye bye bye... bye bye! Did you know that Deadpool/Wolverine song is from an old band!?!? 🤦 Eh, yeah?

0points

PattyK 3 months ago

It makes my blood boil when people say the Holocaust never happened. Those people didn’t have to liberate the concentration camps.

0points

VOTE if you live in the USA 3 months ago

My 7-year-old nephew was shocked I knew the song crazy train by Ozzy osbourne. I just laughed and said boy this song is older than even me!

0points

D. Pitbull 3 months ago

It's scary for me to see the difference in 'what you see, what I see' in people who really aren't that much younger than me. You wouldn't think 7 years would make a difference? I just end up not talking to people anymore... because, yes, they'll fight you on these things despite the proof/evidence on hand. Even if you physically produce proof (like an actual CD of the 'old washed up artist'), they'll fabricate some garbage like "Well, you made a fake" (???). It's a waste of time to argue. I just can't do it anymore.

0points

Michael Grant 3 months ago

My favourite feature about being senior is standing atop the generational mountain and seeing younger people be as stupid, clueless, happy, sad, hopeful, gloomy as we were. Making the same mistakes, learning the same lessons as I did. If not for one simple thing I would think they are going to be alright. BUT if we don't get a handle on climate change (leave it in the ground) it all crashes in a generation or 2. We (boomers and older) caused the problem and have a major role to play in helping yet we pulled the ladder up behind us.

0points

Guess Undheit 3 months ago

Are younger people ignorant of a lot of things? Yes. Is that their fault? NO. "Schools" discourage curiosity, and they don't teach facts. Is that the kids' fault, or the adults' fault?

0points

Pyla 3 months ago

I find it hilarious that Bored Panda does funny memes, and inspiring content, only to devolve to intergenerational age baiting. Funny how they don't seem to get that it's possible to just interact without slapping a label on to things. Cheap, lazy journalism Jonas Grinevičius

0points

CP 3 months ago

This list should be renamed "Useless anecdotal information about the past and old people complaining about young people like they have for all of human history". Admittedly it is a bit wordy and I only got to post 20 before I couldn't take anymore.

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Alex Boyd 3 months ago (edited)

22points

CP 3 months ago

And they too will then make fun of the youngins who act like Covid wasn't anything. And the cycle will continue.

17points

Wintermute 3 months ago

12points

Kerry Fletcher 3 months ago

3points

StumblingThroughLife 3 months ago

8points

MoMcB 3 months ago

You're a Boomer. Same as me, born in 1964, but I identify more with Gen X experience.

5points

Brian Droste 3 months ago

If you are in your mid sixties like I am, you are a boomer.

1point

Pollywog 3 months ago

Elders, peers and whippersnappers!! 😂

1point

Angela C 3 months ago

Your 14 year old granddaughter would be a gen z/alpha cusper

1point

AMaureen Dance 3 months ago

All I know is my daughter tells me I'm a boomer and she's a millenial.

0points

DelvianBlue 3 months ago

3points

Kathy Richardson 3 months ago

3points

Damned_Cat 3 months ago

2points

Ilikemybooksshakennotstirred 3 months ago

2points

Annabelle 3 months ago

Poll option correction or addition: "Disinterest in truth"

1point

Ivy 3 months ago

1point

doredde 3 months ago

1point

Angela C 3 months ago

2points