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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 2 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

HolyDiver 2 months ago

Got into the same argument with my son. When I said I was there, he said 'so your trying to tell me my school is wrong?'... Yup. That's EXACTLY what I am telling you. He then said "You must have misremembered" smdh...

12points

Ervin Conn 2 months ago

Don't cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written!

11points

Paul Donahue 2 months ago

That is conjecture. Site your sources.

2points

nuberiffic 2 months ago

Your memory can be faulty though

0points

WinterLady 2 months ago

This statement won't be true when they become our age because social media has distorted the truth.

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Lew k 2 months ago

I always hear from my fellow younger blue collar workers how I am liberal because the media brainwashed me. Uh no I didn't start liberal and I don't watch the news. I'm liberal because I've been alive long enough to have lived through 4 republican and 2 democrat administration and my memory is longer than 5 minutes.

13points

Tom Brincefield 2 months ago

If you've lived through 4 Republican presidential administrations, then you've lived through 3 Democratic presidential Administrations.

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CP 2 months ago (edited)

Human memory is notorious for being false. There was a study done after 9/11 where they interviewed people after to say what they were doing that day. Their stories changed a lot of the next 10 years. Your memories are influenced by all sorts of factors including other people's stories from that day,

13points

Jacquie Carr 2 months ago

I know exactly where I was and I'm not American & have no ties to America. I couldn't list the whole day but when it was happening and for many hours after, I know where I was

6points

Traveling Lady Railfan 2 months ago

Also not american, also no ties, and I know exactly what I was doing that day, where I was, what time it was, and my observations. Television and radio and internet news aside, the biggest tangible observation of that day was the skies were perfectly clear. Not a helicopter, not an airplane in sight or sound which, never. In this city, never are there no airplanes or helicopters. To me, The sound of silence skies was surreal in erie, it was like proof that what I was seeing on TV wasn't made up, wasn't a movie, that this was real.

2points

CP 2 months ago (edited)

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CP 2 months ago

Here is the study. Thank you all again for proving my point. I too remember where I was when it happened. That doesn't mean it is accurate. Humble yourselves. This is science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2925254/

4points

LonelyLittleLeafSheep 2 months ago

I remember EXACTLY where I was during the Challenger disaster and 9/11. You need to link sources if you're going to spout off about a "study". There's no guarantees that the study had a large enough sample pool or guidelines that make its conclusions foolproof.

2points

BWC 2 months ago

With respect to the facts about false memories, especially when related to crime witnesses and such, I remember exactly where I was and what we did in response to the attacks.

1point

AR 2 months ago

Some things, especially traumatic things, can stay very clear in one’s memory.

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Nikole 2 months ago

I’m American and I remember exactly. My senior year of college hadn’t started yet (Northwestern is on trimesters) and I’d spent the summer as a restaurant hostess. It was my day off so I was super pissed when my mom barged into my room, waking me up to say that the twin towers in NY were being hit by airplanes. I grumbled, “I don’t care”, but curiosity got the better of me and I got up and turned on the tv…

0points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 months ago

I worked night shift, got off at 9:30. When the first plane hit, we were getting our clients on their bus. When the second plane hit, I was folding the center's towels I'd washed that night. I walked home in shock, and just watched the news until around 11, when my mom picked me up to take Grandma and me out for lunch. When we got back, I went to bed.

0points

Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 2 months ago

Also, people just lie.

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Miki 2 months ago

This

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The Scout 2 months ago

To be fair, some events really would seem too crazy if printed in a book. But history IS crazy... I mean, inadvertedly opening up the Berlin wall by mistake by a tired and unprepared official? Having a 90 year old Queen starr in the initial videos for the London Olympics? Having something only visible under a microscope stop the world for years? Just because things are very unlikely, that does not mean they did not happen.

13points

T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago

Oh, geez. I've had people (and not only white people, which is both a shock and a mystery) say to me that "things were better during apartheid". Me, who was born 26 years before it ended: "No."

12points

AR 2 months ago

🤯

1point

David 2 months ago

As a generalized thing - It makes me giggle and sad when I see young people banging on about how easy Boomers had it and how we all got rich on easy money and that's why life is harder for them. I'm on state medical and driving a 22 year old vehicle because I can't afford a new one. I'm not homeless, but I'm also not riding that gravy train that some young people seem to think all boomers are riding. And neither are my boomer friends.

6points

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cerinamroth 2 months ago

On the whole, I eyeroll alongside you, but everyone's experience is subjective - two people can experience the same event in two different ways.

6points

PFD 2 months ago

Not to mention that personal experience of larger events is *spectacularly* narrow. I've lived through all kinds of things where my personal and mediated experience was miles away from being representative, let alone objective truth (if there is such a thing).

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Insomniac 2 months ago

Oh, so much this. I've been an active feminist for 25-plus years. I've studied theorists from across the centuries. I've taken a degree in feminist literature. I have a half-done dissertation on sacred feminine mythologies (they differ according to culture) and how they've evolved. I know it all. The waves, the seventies sex wars, disability feminism, queer theory, Indigenous and Black womanism, all of it. But I need someone who wasn't even born when I was marching for my rights to tell me I'm wrong about everything and gender is a colonial construct that never existed in precolonial societies (WRONG - it existed in numerous manifestations) because they saw something on TikTok about it.

5points

Tiffany Buchner 2 months ago

That's when you tell them to read a book.

0points

AgingBull 2 months ago

I don't know I think asking for source isn't a bad habit. Plus what you hear on the news at the time of an event isn't always accurate. News agencies might put out corrections to inaccurate information but the corrections are very quiet and in obscure places and just to prevent lawsuits.

4points

Thanos'Fingers 2 months ago

You don't ask for a source from someone giving an anecdote. "I was there on January 6, I watched a guy in bull horns take a s**t on Pelosi's desk!" ... Do you have a source? Ya, me!

1point

MotherofGuineaPigs 2 months ago

I'd like to know what school teaches critical thinking. It was part of our English classes. Understanding what is fact and what is not - without being rude about it. Reserve judgement before you stick your head up your a$$.

2points

Goth Vixen 2 months ago

As a physicist, I've been told I can't know anything about other topics. I can only assume these people have no idea what education really means.

1point

Solandri 2 months ago

I remember a similar story around 1990 about a teacher who brought in a Holocaust survivor to tell his school kids about her experiences. The kids couldn't believe it and were saying she was making it all up. He had to tell them he had helped liberate the camps when he fought in WWII. And what she was saying was all true. He'd seen it with his own eyes.

1point

Insomniac 2 months ago

My Pops was a WW2 Allied soldier. He helped liberate those camps. I saw the horror of that in his eyes till the day he died.

0points

Kim Kermes 2 months ago

The twice daily newspapers and Uncle Walter. I remember what I've read extremely well.

1point

WFH Forever 2 months ago

My dog was named Walter as I got him the last night of Cronkite's career.

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Kakashisith 2 months ago

People:" Why don`t you want a relationship?" Me:"I have done this before."

0points

Sue Mcquay 2 months ago

Pretty sure records (made of plastic/vinyl) have been around since the 1930s. I put plastic because my dad had a ton of 78 rpms that were much more brittle than my 1960's albums.

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TennesseeHomesteadUSA 2 months ago

"I don't care what is says on CCP Tik Tok -- I was there !"

0points

C.O. Shea 2 months ago

Zoom, zoom.

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Kerry Fletcher 2 months ago

Who starts a sentence with just Yup.

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zak 2 months ago (edited)

Was that a Pee-Wee Herman quote, from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure? 🤔

0points

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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.

221points

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

Cardi B wishes she were Missy Elliott

176points

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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

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

141points

#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 2 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."

122points

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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 2 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 2 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 2 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

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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 2 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 2 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 2 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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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 2 months ago

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

39points

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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 2 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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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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

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

100points

#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 2 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 2 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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Alex Boyd 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

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

5points

Brian Droste 2 months ago

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

1point

Pollywog 2 months ago

Elders, peers and whippersnappers!! 😂

1point

Angela C 2 months ago

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

1point

AMaureen Dance 2 months ago

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

0points

DelvianBlue 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

Poll option correction or addition: "Disinterest in truth"

1point

Ivy 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

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

0points

Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 2 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 2 months ago

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

0points

PattyK 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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.

-1point

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Alex Boyd 2 months ago (edited)

22points

CP 2 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 2 months ago

12points

Kerry Fletcher 2 months ago

3points

StumblingThroughLife 2 months ago

8points

MoMcB 2 months ago

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

5points

Brian Droste 2 months ago

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

1point

Pollywog 2 months ago

Elders, peers and whippersnappers!! 😂

1point

Angela C 2 months ago

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

1point

AMaureen Dance 2 months ago

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

0points

DelvianBlue 2 months ago

3points

Kathy Richardson 2 months ago

3points

Damned_Cat 2 months ago

2points

Ilikemybooksshakennotstirred 2 months ago

2points

Annabelle 2 months ago

Poll option correction or addition: "Disinterest in truth"

1point

Ivy 2 months ago

1point

doredde 2 months ago

1point

Angela C 2 months ago

2points