The abbreviations are all known by Gen X. We drove the boom in texting, smart phones and social media when the millennials were in nappies. 😹the rest was good.
Right! On top of the fact that a lot of it was based on have to write in short hand. Not sure if anyone else got the chance to take that class in high school in 89'- 95'?? Lol 😂
I think it’s the boomers that think that because I’m Gen X with a 21 year old son and very aware that he’s Gen Z and not a millennial. You can also partly blame Ellen degenerate for that because she’s a boomer that doesn’t have any kids or grandkids and she would often invite Gen Z on her show and call them a millennial.
Omg. So many of those things I thought were just me! Don’t know whether to be relieved or disappointed to know that I’m such a product of my generation. 🤣🤣
Constantly telling my Millennial kids when they were growing up that their hit new single was actually a cover of a song from my generation. Everything else was spot on. 😂
Then finding out that the song the new cover is, is also a cover from our parents, or earlier, generation, meaning the Millennials, and Gen Z, listen to covers of covers :)
Michael Moorcock famously wrote that. "All art aspires to Muzak." (Puts official grumpy old woodwork teacher hat on.) Yeah, get your own bloody music, kids! Stop bleeding the life and soul out of stuff that was played on actual instruments once! And not something that sounds like a misaligned rear derailleur! You know, that scratchy annoying musical relic sound of Tick, ticky ticky ticky, tick tick ti-ick... crap played through a lo-fi 0.2mm deep phone "speaker." Sounds like the rats in the ceiling formed a band with some chopsticks and foil. (Puts hat back in the angry box...) Admittedly, some of the new stuff is pretty amazing through half decent sound. :)
You forgot mild to moderate hatred of Gen Z thinking that everyone over the age of 30 is a boomer.. Love your work on this one, got me pegged for sure!
“Gaining credibility with your teen because they’ve worked out you’re the same age as the kids in Stranger Things”….. and is “Running up that hill” number 1 on the charts right now? Forever cool. On point, Jimmy.
One of the children (25yr old) at work, posted a gif from The Breakfast Club yesterday and when I asked him if he knew where it came from he was totally clueless. We really did have the best movies and music. I made sure my gen z child grew up with an understanding of all the 80's references and the ability to quote Monty Python.
my babies, millennials have a rich life, they grew up with two parents that opened their eyes to all the best movies music not just from our generation but across all generations. They grew up with Beatles, Bowie, Abba, Nivana, Midnight oil, Cold Chisel, Angels, pink floyd and even a little vivaldi and Mozart, some jazz, and some really cheesy 80s pop and now they listen to all different types of music by choice, My oldest Son knows all the words to any Abba song and he in turn has gifted us with German heavy metal bands which my husband loves xxx
Gen X by a whisker here almost a boomer. When I heard "What Is Love" I burst out laughing. Don't forget Fatboy Slim's Praise You and Faithless Insomniac ;) Used to bust the dance floor open with those ones hahahaha Oh and double spacing after a fullstop lols
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Jimmy 🤣 For those of us who are of the older vintage…growing up without seatbelts, bicycle helmets, actually having to walk 4kms to and from school, buying your first pair of designer jeans that cost $35 and took 2 months of weekend part time work to save for as minimum wage was $1.25/hour. Sure let’s not forget Kurt RIP…but remember where you were when you heard Elvis had died?
Holiday "daycare" for primary school kids whose parents both worked. It was a small group of us and the leader announced it. It was small becaus most kids still had mum at home during the day. I felt abandoned and alone as no one from my school was there and it was At a different school in a different sunurb.!!
Yup, I was 7 years old in Anaconda, Montana at my aunt's house with my little brother. My mom and aunt were crying about a fat guy in a sequined, high collared, skin tight, bell bottomed, whatever the f*ck suit dying on the shitter, which we thought was hilarious. I was 7 years old, I guess. I remember eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a paper towel watching it on the news with my mom and aunt carrying on behind me. When I was done with the sandwich, I got the Hell out of there so that I could go throw rocks at my cousin as hard as I could, lol. The 70's, lol.
I'm a Gen Xer - and FYI, I know all those acronyms and can use them IRL and online 😛😅 I never played Pacman or listened to grunge - but I do feel nostalgic about mixed lollies, chocolate Paddle Pops and Coca-Cola yo-yo's, because they were bloody excellent 😁
I feel this one wasn't as good and I think it's because gen x spans such a wide range. Gen x are more diverse a range from those who are technologically illiterate to those who could reconfigure your time machine. Still funny.
@@adrianbradbury2709 I'm from near the start of gen X and I knew all the acronyms too. But I did play Pacman but I'm with you on grunge, hated it then, still hate it. But the nostalgia on Coke yoyos, 20c bags of lollies, 1/2c cobbers (fantales without the wrapper) were my fave. And I can still remember petrol being under 20c/litre as a kid. What is it currently, $2:20/litre?
What about lining up at BASS or Ticketmaster to buy concert tickets?! Or listening to the first 20 seconds of each song on an album at Sanity Music before you actually decided to buy the album!
I still have fond memories of my dragstar bike and roller skates! Still LOL at typing with one finger and listening to the same music for 35 years! That's me!
I’m a 76 gal and Yup to basically everything the vast majority of my most played playlist is from 35 years ago til my clubbing years in the the late noughties. Gen X had the best music. Btw I do vote for the greens and understood all but 1 of your acronyms. Very funny and relatable. Thanks 😂
Gen X, born 1978 here. We are the generation that knows and understands what it was like before and after the internet and smart phones. I also just had a silver filling replaced last week after it fell out haha.
I clearly remember when chocolate paddle pops were good! so accurate, Jimmy. You did a great job with us Gen X types, and our strange affinity for that sound! Fantastic, mate!
@@plushieangela Banana ones were my fav, they changed the recipe a couple years ago and there was such an outcry they ended up changing it back! People power! Love it, dont play around with perfection lol x
Gen-X'rs can laugh at ourselves...that's what makes us resilient, adaptive and strong survivors. But don't mess with us or else we'll beat you to a pulp with our VCR tapes.
Remember for those of you born in the 70s... The time between 1970 and now is the same as the time between 1970 and 1918. Just let that sink in for a sec 😉
Thank you Jimmy - I had absolutely forgotten about the existence of my Dr Martens!!! They were expensive too!!! I feel very blessed to be a Gen X and feel a little sorry for those who have come along since. Thanks for bringing back some memories Ps. I had to google POV when you first started doing these 😂
Best one yet, I actually watched it twice so I could take a walk down memory lane and adding a few of my own - explaining to your grand children what a drive in cinema is, learning to drive sitting on your dad’s lap, wishing now that our parents owned a bottle of sunscreen 🥵, OMG so many good times, best generation 😜🤣🤕 Thanks Jimmy you never fail to make my day.
Yep, had hypercolour shirt and Docs., but you missed the white Reeboks and Swatch watches. Also, just bought new Docs last month, still the best shoes.
Oh yes! I had white aerobics Reebox and a red swatch watch. Plus I also recall smell-o-vision scratch and sniff t-shirts as well as hyper colour t-shirts
@@KINGBABOONMOTORS Eh.... I'm early 1990s GenX and had a fair few late 80s GenX friends. And we all goddam hated that right wing gibberish. And most of us still do detest it. Then again, my solidly boomer dad hates the right, so maybe I'm a biased sample lol
I can't help it if my teen wants docs, while I go through my own mid life crisis of buying a new pair of docs, voting greens, remembering where I was when Kurt died, constantly reminding my teen of 'back in my day, we had to go to the video store and hire out vhs's,' and my old coke yoyo as well as wishing hypercolour tshirts would come back.
Oh you burnt us so good ! So spot on ! We laughed so hard ! We voted greens! 😂Add in how 90’s fashions has come back so doesn’t that make us all hero’s ! 😂 oh and add all the horribly made re make movies !!! With no new or original ideas ! And add in parts about protesting skipping school and marching in Brisbane city for the environment , aboriginal rights and womens rights. And how the government and hasn’t changed much !!! Mostly we’re all just so nostalgic for the awesome years so many concerts like pearl jam , so many big day outs ,silver chair , Gwen , missy Elliott , Ice T… so many ! Camping and surfing 🏄♀️ And I think our generation worry that the younger generation kind of don’t get us as at all, And are not having as much ‘ Present in the moment ‘fun as we did … because they are staring at the phones 📱😅 I’m sure they’ll turn out ok !!! I hope so !!! Ok I got to go and look at my pile of photos , listen to a Joni Hendrix record while watching Seinfeld ( like we do every week! ) and quoting point break 😅😂👌👍🏻 thanks for big laughs Jimmy ! 👏
Elder Gen X here. I was wailing with laughter. Yes, used to vote Australian Democrats pre GST and now... (mumbles) votes the Greens. 🤣🤣 There was plenty here to say I've been called out on. Bloody brilliant.
Don't remember where I was when Kurt died but I remember Princess Di's death in vivid colour. And I only listened to JJJ...back when it was good! (I've heard that's a really annoying thing we say to the young 'uns but it's true and that's that).
Born in 1972, and a number of these I certainly relate to. Especially the denial of being 50 this year. Seriously, the 90s, and my 20s, weren't that long ago, basically yesterday :) I do love how everyone seems to pick on Boomers and Millennials and leave us Gen Xers alone :)
Thanks Jimmy! Yep - alI correct! Have the cassette tapes, doc martens, voted Greens for many years, needed to learn the abbreviations from Millennial daughter, and am writing this message with my pointer finger!
@@wj6886 was talking to father of my Millennial daughter today about how she texts or fact checks what we're saying, while she's looking straight at you, pretending to listen but her thumbs are busy under the table typing away 🤣
Remembering kids being caned at school; wearing pastel coloured socks to school when you knew you would get in trouble; being told to wash make up off your face at school; borrowing a stack of books to do homework; Velvet and bamboo thongs; happy shoes; Princess Diana haircuts; Princess Diana ruffled collars; Fanta yoyo if you were uncool; nylon cossies that gave you burn marks when you really wanted lycra cossies; Boomer parents chain smoking in the car; going to the drive -in to watch Jaws and having no seat belts in the car; Having your Millenial kids tell you not to use LOL, Peeps, Dressy or moist .
Sensed a little hostility there! When I was your age we showed respect to our elders! Ha, elders! I'm not old enough to be your elder. Oh, wait... 😆 Keep up the good work, Jimmy! 😘
Ha, when we were kids our elders had survived the Great Depression and fought in two world wars. Today's elders don't deserve any respect for anything.
Born in 83 but this made me laugh because it was very close to the bone. I think thats because I was raised by my grandmother with Aunts and uncle not alot older than me. The vhs and dvd collection I have is immense 🤣
Firstly, Keanu Reeves is only 57, though Timothy Dalton admittedly is 76 so you may have a point! I did want a pair of cherry Docs in high school, I've no idea where I was when Kurt died or River for that matter! If any song lyrics would make me rush to the dancefloor it would be either: "This here's a jam for all the fellas, Tryin' to do what those ladies tell us" OR "Ah, push it"
Rofl.. the dial up sound got me.. SLIGHTLY more millennial than boomer minded (lol BUT, I DID type all this with one finger..🤣) ps: BRING BACK FROGGER AND DONKEY KONG lmao🥰
I played a 90s dance mix on Spotify before watching this video. Felt very excited about rediscovering Youssou n’dour and Everything But The Girl before being taken down by this MERCILESS HIT JOB.
Loved my hyper colour shirt😜🤪🙃 Omg! This is totally me😂😂😂 NOT HAPPY JAN…that’s the winner😂😂😂 GEN X REPRESENT !!! Thanks Jimmy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻 This one was Gold 🏆🏆🥇🥇
Loved it. Acronyms lol. Not happy jan lol. Chocolate Paddle pops were good! I learnt to drive in a manual car but still don’t have my license and feel like I’m letting Gen X down that I’m now learning auto, Doc Marten’s lol - I had several pairs but my last ‘94 doc boots that I bought in London SoHo were stomped on to scuff them up (as I wore them) by my girlfriends British husband as he laughed and laughed that “no one wears them anymore”. And yes I am having Midlife crisis - How did you know? Lol watching tic tok reels on Facebook ✅, oh and I have a sound system with a 5 cd disk player with dual cassette tapes (so I can relive my teens and make actual mixed tapes and play my mixed tapes that I made) plus a turntable for my vinyl and giant speakers and analog radio. Tuned to 3RRR and PBS. (Tbh I need to donate it to the op shop as I don’t have room at home but I really don’t want to let it go). So yes I have been listening to the same music for 35 yrs because I literally still have all my CD’s, tapes and vinyls. Including the bootlegged tapes from London and Bangkok. Still livid about the vinyls that I took to parties that were lost or nicked. That’s Gen X.
@@clairesaunderson3483 I used to ride my bike up to the milk bar, buy a paddle pop and eat it riding back on my bike if it was hot or ride super quick home if it was cooler weather. Quite often I was also buying some fruit and veg for my mum. The paddle pop I’m sure I had to ask to buy but sometimes I’d just sneakily buy one with the fruit and veg money. I’m sure my mum knew!
@@taniabishop my brother and I stayed with my uncle and Auntie, on school holidays, down in Vic, They used to give us a ration of milk bottles to take back to the milk bar and cant remember how many it was but we basically took back enough to buy a paddle pop each. We did get creative though and sometimes snuck a few extra ones in so we could also buy a mixed bag of lollies. We were poor but we had a very rich childhood xxx
@@taniabishophell yeah she knew! but she would not of cared because she made you go to the milk bar and so she did not have to go lmao xxxx this thread just brings back so many memories, yeah there were some bad times in there but right now I am loving all the memories of the good times that are coming back. when someone mentions something that I loved but have since forgotton. It was a great time to be a kid xxx
As Millennial with older parents and mostly older friends... Too many of these were very real for me, also! Never stop making these Jimmy! I laugh every time.
A lot of this was real for me as an X'er but there was a missing element of traveling without a paranoid parent clenching our hands. I loved traveling to country rellies and going interstate on my own in my early teens.
Haha, I still remember the very 1st episode of Neighbours, and my actual street in Brisbane was giving away a "Neighbours" house the week it premiered! Definitely a Gen xer here!
I was doing some maintenance work at 7 the day the show got canned because they didn't think it had any life left in it and channel 10 picked it up.I wonder if the guy who made that decision still works in the industry.
Lucky for us Gen X you can still get a DVD and cassette player, to relive the memories of the best movies and songs. Yeah it's true, lollies, snacks (eg Cheezels), ice-creams, drinks were better back then. None of this natural flavourings and colours we have now. Who knew, us Gen X are starting to sound like our parents, harking back to a better time. Gen Y are starting the process now.
Hate to tell you, there aren't any Gen Xers in their 60s yet. Gen X was 1965 - 1980 still got 3 years before that happens. Remember when people could do arithmetic *without* a calculator? 😂😂😂
Yes, but our teenage crushes were generally 10 or 20 years older than we were. Remember back when 30 year olds played teenagers in high school movies and TV shows?
John Hughes movies. Sunnyboys. Relax t-shirts. Duranies. Travelling into the city to go to cinemas before they were in suburbia, drive-ins were still around. I still have all my mixed tapes I made pressing the play & record button then rewinding to edit out DJ
The phrase "Windows 95 was better", cooking nachos and pasta bake out of tins, wistful memories of when 'food X' first arrived in the shops, angry memories of the pre-plastic era (never again!), a therapy bill for your childhood and anger issues, a loathing of Pay TV, knowing where you were when Elvis, John Lennon and Princess Diana died, having a pile of floppy discs of either size that you just can't part with... and an underlying deep-rooted fear of nuclear war because you watched 'Threads' and/or 'Karen Silkwood'.
Jimmy, your insights about every generation and occupation are so accurate I wonder if you're actually a social demographer pretending to be a comedian? Love your take on my generation [X]. What about: *Getting a perm or mullett and regretting it for the rest of your life, especially when old photos reappear at celebrations *Thinking acid wash jeans were actually cool and they need to make a comeback *Wondering why on earth MTV doesn't play 'music videos' anymore *Being able to say proudly, 'that's a remake of blah blah' when your kids play you 'new' music Keep it up, Jimmy. You are very good at this stuff.
Pretty good, however if we are watching sky news there’s no way we are voting greens. Sky news is for the Boomers not us. Otherwise not bad, if you added something about space invaders then that would have been better.
Pretty good Jimmy, am not so sure about Green's and caravans though? I think we ran to the dance floor for Rock Lobster. None of us could get up a after the down down down bit these days! We have aches and pains. Love being Gen X.
I'm 51 and when I play my late 1980's rave toons on my tape deck my teen yells at me to 'turn that awful noise off, it's not even music'!!! I'm perplexed...isn't it supposed to be the other way around? I'm extremely nostalgic about my life prior to 2000 as it was very low tech and we had so much freedom... and yes I do like to call rather than text!!! Tape deck and DVD player working fine... good thing because I have a shit loads of DVD's... as you said they seem to have stopped making great movies about anything other than superheros lately... people going to be banging at my door one day to watch something decent... and original!!!
sitting here going: yep. yep. yep. yep.... whilst wearing my hypercolour t-shirt... sitting next to my collection of DVDs... literally... and seriously I do remember the first episode of the Simpsons... and I love watching true crime! 🤣
Was booking tickets for a musical including parents and friend all qualifying as seniors. Had an awful moment of realisation just how close that seniors card at 55 is when you hit your mid 40s. Definitely still one of the young ones inside my head! You didn't mention the collection of plastic jewellery that still lurks in the back of drawers, a must with shiny red leggings, leg warmers, a perm and a boom box and your hypercolour tshirt of course.
Used to be 55 in some states, now it looks like it’s at least 60 (in vic).... I have 2 pairs of leg warmers, both of which I gave to my mum, and then when she passed, I have them back again. Might start wearing them. See if I can start a new 80’s trend 😂
The abbreviations are all known by Gen X. We drove the boom in texting, smart phones and social media when the millennials were in nappies. 😹the rest was good.
Definitely. The gen x gamers invented those abbreviations.
Thank you for saying that. We invented all the abbreviations! 😎
Right! On top of the fact that a lot of it was based on have to write in short hand. Not sure if anyone else got the chance to take that class in high school in 89'- 95'?? Lol 😂
Gen X invented the internet.
Don't forget the beeper codes.lol
So happy you quoted my favourite ad of all time “not happy Jan” 🤣🤣🤣
So many good memories in this video! 👍🏼
Im an early 90s kid (gen y millennial) and I remember there "not happy Jan" ad 😂😂
Use this frequently to this day!
NOT THE 👍
as i read this comment he said it, lol
I have to put in a link... th-cam.com/video/2akt3P8ltLM/w-d-xo.html
yes I still listen to 80's music it was the best decade for music!!
Yes it was
Yep, late 70's and 80's music still rocks
Oh hella yes! Still have Aussie 80's mixtapes too!!
It definitely was the best decade for music!!
DURAN DURAN !!!!
Thinking millennials are still teenagers and we’re only 30 . . . I swear that’s real.
Some of us are pushing 40 lol
@@DejanKeepingitReal I swear I was that age yesterday . . . . .reality check and adjustment!
Im 41 and the oldest of the millennial (Xennial) and it's really screwing with how hold I think I am. Am I 17, 30 or 41? 🤣
That is literally me.
I think it’s the boomers that think that because I’m Gen X with a 21 year old son and very aware that he’s Gen Z and not a millennial. You can also partly blame Ellen degenerate for that because she’s a boomer that doesn’t have any kids or grandkids and she would often invite Gen Z on her show and call them a millennial.
Omg. So many of those things I thought were just me! Don’t know whether to be relieved or disappointed to know that I’m such a product of my generation. 🤣🤣
Haha likewise 😅
Me too, thinking millennials are teenagers 😂
Yes, & having actual friends that you had to physically visit if you wanted to see them, & the whole household had only one phone.
@@bjw4859 and I was always on it spending hours attached to a cord and sitting on a chair under said phone lmao🤣😂🤣
@@clairesaunderson3483 Yes! With Mum popping back constantly to tell me I’d been on the phone too long! 🤣
Constantly telling my Millennial kids when they were growing up that their hit new single was actually a cover of a song from my generation. Everything else was spot on. 😂
Oh, that peeeeees me off so much when kids dont know its a cover 🤣🤣
Having my eldest freak out when they realised Greenday were around when I was 19 was hilarious 😆
Then finding out that the song the new cover is, is also a cover from our parents, or earlier, generation, meaning the Millennials, and Gen Z, listen to covers of covers :)
According to my Gen z offspring AHAS ‘Take on me ‘ was released in 2019 🙄🙄🙄
Michael Moorcock famously wrote that. "All art aspires to Muzak."
(Puts official grumpy old woodwork teacher hat on.) Yeah, get your own bloody music, kids! Stop bleeding the life and soul out of stuff that was played on actual instruments once!
And not something that sounds like a misaligned rear derailleur!
You know, that scratchy annoying musical relic sound of Tick, ticky ticky ticky, tick tick ti-ick... crap played through a lo-fi 0.2mm deep phone "speaker." Sounds like the rats in the ceiling formed a band with some chopsticks and foil.
(Puts hat back in the angry box...)
Admittedly, some of the new stuff is pretty amazing through half decent sound.
:)
You forgot mild to moderate hatred of Gen Z thinking that everyone over the age of 30 is a boomer.. Love your work on this one, got me pegged for sure!
RIGHT?! Drives me nuts!
Me too, so stinking annoying.
The boomers are our literal parents. 🤮
Have pity on us GenX ers. 😥
As a Gen Xer, spot on! I still have my mix tapes in a box, and I've typed this using only my pointer finger 🤣🤣🤣
I didnt even realise that i use my pointer finger until now 🫣
omg me too
@@Trobynski 😂
I've tried the 2 thumb thing. It gets ugly.
I still have my mixed tale and other bought cassette plus CD’s and vinyl.
No matter what! Best time to be a kid in Australia! Loved every second and wouldn’t change it for anything! Thank You 😊
Agreed. We were very lucky...to be allowed to roam around until the street lights came on!
better video games now. Pong wasn't so good, even though I was so jealous of those Pong kids...
absolutely.
“Gaining credibility with your teen because they’ve worked out you’re the same age as the kids in Stranger Things”….. and is “Running up that hill” number 1 on the charts right now? Forever cool. On point, Jimmy.
One of the children (25yr old) at work, posted a gif from The Breakfast Club yesterday and when I asked him if he knew where it came from he was totally clueless. We really did have the best movies and music. I made sure my gen z child grew up with an understanding of all the 80's references and the ability to quote Monty Python.
I remember being so excited when my eldest (also 25 now) got to the age when I could watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off with her.
Now THATS good parenting !!
Always look on the bright side of life🎶
my babies, millennials have a rich life, they grew up with two parents that opened their eyes to all the best movies music not just from our generation but across all generations. They grew up with Beatles, Bowie, Abba, Nivana, Midnight oil, Cold Chisel, Angels, pink floyd and even a little vivaldi and Mozart, some jazz, and some really cheesy 80s pop and now they listen to all different types of music by choice, My oldest Son knows all the words to any Abba song and he in turn has gifted us with German heavy metal bands which my husband loves xxx
Dont forget the other movie St Elmo's Fire. Both films came out in 1985.
One thing for sure, us Gen-Xers never cared less about what generation you were from. And I knew all those abbreviations :)
Facts!!! We were too busy playing with our Pac-Man though…
Gen X by a whisker here almost a boomer. When I heard "What Is Love" I burst out laughing. Don't forget Fatboy Slim's Praise You and Faithless Insomniac ;) Used to bust the dance floor open with those ones hahahaha Oh and double spacing after a fullstop lols
Yes to double spacing.
You forgot the Nutbush
@@liandren Both versions. Did my head in learning the 2nd one haha
I love what is love, Might have to revisit a night at the Roxbury again lmao x
I still double space, it’s the correct way when typing up a formal document. Omg looks like this is one I could let go! 🤣
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Jimmy 🤣 For those of us who are of the older vintage…growing up without seatbelts, bicycle helmets, actually having to walk 4kms to and from school, buying your first pair of designer jeans that cost $35 and took 2 months of weekend part time work to save for as minimum wage was $1.25/hour. Sure let’s not forget Kurt RIP…but remember where you were when you heard Elvis had died?
Holiday "daycare" for primary school kids whose parents both worked. It was a small group of us and the leader announced it. It was small becaus most kids still had mum at home during the day. I felt abandoned and alone as no one from my school was there and it was At a different school in a different sunurb.!!
Or Princess Diana...
I was one of the last of my generation that could smoke at work or on planes and trains. That was weird.
Yup, I was 7 years old in Anaconda, Montana at my aunt's house with my little brother. My mom and aunt were crying about a fat guy in a sequined, high collared, skin tight, bell bottomed, whatever the f*ck suit dying on the shitter, which we thought was hilarious. I was 7 years old, I guess. I remember eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a paper towel watching it on the news with my mom and aunt carrying on behind me. When I was done with the sandwich, I got the Hell out of there so that I could go throw rocks at my cousin as hard as I could, lol.
The 70's, lol.
"Not.Happy. Jaaaan." 🤣😘👌🏻
you forgot GOONIES 😂
I have this 😂 watch it when feeling nostalgic about the most awesome childhood Gen X rules
Goonies NEVER say die!!!!
I never watched that movie and it is a must classic of our generation.
Do the truffle shuffle!!
I'm a Gen Xer - and FYI, I know all those acronyms and can use them IRL and online 😛😅 I never played Pacman or listened to grunge - but I do feel nostalgic about mixed lollies, chocolate Paddle Pops and Coca-Cola yo-yo's, because they were bloody excellent 😁
I feel this one wasn't as good and I think it's because gen x spans such a wide range. Gen x are more diverse a range from those who are technologically illiterate to those who could reconfigure your time machine. Still funny.
Not all Gen X'ers were into grunge. I was a raver so it was all electronic music. Never went near grunge very much.
And what was wrong with the Fanta one's? lol bloody strings broke way to easy going round the world.
@@adrianbradbury2709 I'm from near the start of gen X and I knew all the acronyms too. But I did play Pacman but I'm with you on grunge, hated it then, still hate it. But the nostalgia on Coke yoyos, 20c bags of lollies, 1/2c cobbers (fantales without the wrapper) were my fave. And I can still remember petrol being under 20c/litre as a kid. What is it currently, $2:20/litre?
@@adrianbradbury2709 especially if said time machine just happens to be a DeLorean :)
I thought that Reebok pumps were going to get a mention.
Was thinking about those, too.
White sneakers are a USAmerican abomination. Thank universe they never caught on for long in Australia.
Most of us would love to see them back in production, but we would never look as cool wearing them as we did in our 20s.
What about lining up at BASS or Ticketmaster to buy concert tickets?! Or listening to the first 20 seconds of each song on an album at Sanity Music before you actually decided to buy the album!
I went to Brashs or JB.
So many Concerts!! That was fun and I still love to go to some shows.
Ticatek, NSW!
I still have fond memories of my dragstar bike and roller skates! Still LOL at typing with one finger and listening to the same music for 35 years! That's me!
I’m a 76 gal and Yup to basically everything the vast majority of my most played playlist is from 35 years ago til my clubbing years in the the late noughties. Gen X had the best music.
Btw I do vote for the greens and understood all but 1 of your acronyms. Very funny and relatable. Thanks 😂
So true! The street lights going on was the alarm for me to head home.
*But music from the 70s, 80s, 90s & 2000s is better than 99% of current auto-tuned offerings LOL* 🤣
Gen X, born 1978 here. We are the generation that knows and understands what it was like before and after the internet and smart phones. I also just had a silver filling replaced last week after it fell out haha.
When he said realizing all your teenage crushes are now in there 60s that one stabbed my heart 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's so true
I clearly remember when chocolate paddle pops were good! so accurate, Jimmy. You did a great job with us Gen X types, and our strange affinity for that sound! Fantastic, mate!
Also remember how much cheaper they were too
banana ones were better :P
@@plushieangela Even though chocolate were good, banana were also my favourite!
@@leeheatherallen9196 About 20 cents. And a pine lime splice was maybe 40.
@@plushieangela Banana ones were my fav, they changed the recipe a couple years ago and there was such an outcry they ended up changing it back! People power! Love it, dont play around with perfection lol x
Gen-X'rs can laugh at ourselves...that's what makes us resilient, adaptive and strong survivors. But don't mess with us or else we'll beat you to a pulp with our VCR tapes.
1:04 that bit about the Hypercolor shirts… I felt that deep in my soul. I LOVED my Hypercolor sweatshirt in high school!
Remember for those of you born in the 70s...
The time between 1970 and now is the same as the time between 1970 and 1918.
Just let that sink in for a sec 😉
That is so cruel!
Omg 😳
now that's just depressing
Thank you Jimmy - I had absolutely forgotten about the existence of my Dr Martens!!! They were expensive too!!! I feel very blessed to be a Gen X and feel a little sorry for those who have come along since. Thanks for bringing back some memories
Ps. I had to google POV when you first started doing these 😂
Best one yet, I actually watched it twice so I could take a walk down memory lane and adding a few of my own - explaining to your grand children what a drive in cinema is, learning to drive sitting on your dad’s lap, wishing now that our parents owned a bottle of sunscreen 🥵, OMG so many good times, best generation 😜🤣🤕 Thanks Jimmy you never fail to make my day.
Phone book hit me right in the feels.
They were great for packing stuff up when moving house. Rip out the pages lol
Yes they had many purposes.
I still have a few that I can't bring to throw away. I'm keen to find someone to throw them at.
Nooo. I just bought some Doc Martens. I was too poor to have a pair in my teens. I'm 44. Got me.😁
Yep, had hypercolour shirt and Docs., but you missed the white Reeboks and Swatch watches. Also, just bought new Docs last month, still the best shoes.
Oh yes! I had white aerobics Reebox and a red swatch watch. Plus I also recall smell-o-vision scratch and sniff t-shirts as well as hyper colour t-shirts
Paranoia, because Jimmy's been spying on you and your life choices......
As a Xennial I half relate, half feel alienated. As per usual.
Yes GENX 1990s is different from GENX 1980s because 1980s tend to be REPUBLICAN
@@KINGBABOONMOTORS Eh.... I'm early 1990s GenX and had a fair few late 80s GenX friends. And we all goddam hated that right wing gibberish. And most of us still do detest it. Then again, my solidly boomer dad hates the right, so maybe I'm a biased sample lol
Where has this phrase been my entire Xennial life?
@ciao214Z sorry but the 1990s is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT world from the 1980s. There is a HUGE difference between BUSH/REGAN and CLINTON in culture
Spot on. But a "mild to moderate affinity with Sky News"...definitely NOT.
I can't help it if my teen wants docs, while I go through my own mid life crisis of buying a new pair of docs, voting greens, remembering where I was when Kurt died, constantly reminding my teen of 'back in my day, we had to go to the video store and hire out vhs's,' and my old coke yoyo as well as wishing hypercolour tshirts would come back.
Oh gosh.. the memories! "What is Love?" What a song! And I will never part with my DVD collection lol
I was surprised that wearing a flannelette shirt was not brought up - that was more common than Doc Martens!
Great video, cheers :)
I still wear them.
Oh you burnt us so good ! So spot on ! We laughed so hard ! We voted greens! 😂Add in how 90’s fashions has come back so doesn’t that make us all hero’s ! 😂 oh and add all the horribly made re make movies !!! With no new or original ideas !
And add in parts about protesting skipping school and marching in Brisbane city for the environment , aboriginal rights and womens rights. And how the government and hasn’t changed much !!!
Mostly we’re all just so nostalgic for the awesome years so many concerts like pearl jam , so many big day outs ,silver chair , Gwen , missy Elliott , Ice T… so many ! Camping and surfing 🏄♀️
And I think our generation worry that the younger generation kind of don’t get us as at all, And are not having as much ‘ Present in the moment ‘fun as we did … because they are staring at the phones 📱😅 I’m sure they’ll turn out ok !!! I hope so !!!
Ok I got to go and look at my pile of photos , listen to a Joni Hendrix record while watching Seinfeld ( like we do every week! ) and quoting point break 😅😂👌👍🏻 thanks for big laughs Jimmy ! 👏
Elder Gen X here. I was wailing with laughter. Yes, used to vote Australian Democrats pre GST and now... (mumbles) votes the Greens. 🤣🤣 There was plenty here to say I've been called out on. Bloody brilliant.
Surprised you're not voting the Teals.
@@balung Guilty 👋
@@balung I kinda missed that boat. I'm in Adelaide. Rex Patrick was our teal candidate.
Don't remember where I was when Kurt died but I remember Princess Di's death in vivid colour.
And I only listened to JJJ...back when it was good! (I've heard that's a really annoying thing we say to the young 'uns but it's true and that's that).
Born in 1972, and a number of these I certainly relate to. Especially the denial of being 50 this year. Seriously, the 90s, and my 20s, weren't that long ago, basically yesterday :) I do love how everyone seems to pick on Boomers and Millennials and leave us Gen Xers alone :)
Also a '72er and I feel you, 50 is looming and I have to keep reminding myself just how long ago the 90s was. We turned 18 in 1990!
Born 1971 and yes the 90s and our 20s seems like basically yesterday. I blame Boomer's for a LOT and will continue to do so 🤭
Snap! Happy 50th! - sorry, 49th!!
🤦🏼♀️ 50 used to be old!! ‘72 was a great year tho!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all my fellow ‘72ers!!
Also 50 this year, reason they leave us alone is because its futile, we don't give a shit what others think.
Ah, that modem sound....bliss!!
Thanks Jimmy! Yep - alI correct! Have the cassette tapes, doc martens, voted Greens for many years, needed to learn the abbreviations from Millennial daughter, and am writing this message with my pointer finger!
I don't mind the abbreviations when written, but they're super annoying when spoken. Just say the darn words already! 😄
@@dawnmichelle4403 yep, takes just as long to say the abbreviation as it does to say the actual words!
Frighteningly accurate 🤣 and I also asked my Millennial daughter about various abbreviations (tbh)
Yep I'm a pointer finger. Have no idea how they are so quick messaging using thumbs
@@wj6886 was talking to father of my Millennial daughter today about how she texts or fact checks what we're saying, while she's looking straight at you, pretending to listen but her thumbs are busy under the table typing away 🤣
Remembering kids being caned at school; wearing pastel coloured socks to school when you knew you would get in trouble; being told to wash make up off your face at school; borrowing a stack of books to do homework; Velvet and bamboo thongs; happy shoes; Princess Diana haircuts; Princess Diana ruffled collars; Fanta yoyo if you were uncool; nylon cossies that gave you burn marks when you really wanted lycra cossies; Boomer parents chain smoking in the car; going to the drive -in to watch Jaws and having no seat belts in the car; Having your Millenial kids tell you not to use LOL, Peeps, Dressy or moist .
Sensed a little hostility there! When I was your age we showed respect to our elders! Ha, elders! I'm not old enough to be your elder.
Oh, wait...
😆
Keep up the good work, Jimmy! 😘
Ha, when we were kids our elders had survived the Great Depression and fought in two world wars. Today's elders don't deserve any respect for anything.
You totally nailed it this time, Jimmy.
This is SO me! LOL
Born in 83 but this made me laugh because it was very close to the bone. I think thats because I was raised by my grandmother with Aunts and uncle not alot older than me. The vhs and dvd collection I have is immense 🤣
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I’m definitely still in my 30’s…..Born in 1979 makes me…..oh crap…..😭
I, too, felt this!
I am also thirty thirteen this year!
@@simonabunker absolutely! We’re definitely not closer to 60 than 20….
@@simonabunker I'm thirty twenty five 😥
I'm thirty thirteen and it's my sons 18th birthday, midlife crisis plus empty nest syndrome aiaiai
GenX are like young boomers but old millennials at the same time. That’s what makes them special
The explaining of the abbreviations make sense because we were not too lazy to actually write or spell words
Firstly, Keanu Reeves is only 57, though Timothy Dalton admittedly is 76 so you may have a point!
I did want a pair of cherry Docs in high school, I've no idea where I was when Kurt died or River for that matter!
If any song lyrics would make me rush to the dancefloor it would be either:
"This here's a jam for all the fellas, Tryin' to do what those ladies tell us"
OR
"Ah, push it"
"Push it real good!"
Busta Move, Young MC! I still know all the words!!
Gen Xer from Rhode Island, USA. Love the video. I get along well with Gen Z , and I find that they have the same dark sense of humor as us.
Haha yes Jimmy!! You nailed it!! Maybe could have mentioned saving up for your first cabbage patch kid and/or Pound Puppy!!
I still have 2 of my Cabbage Patch dolls! Caitlyn and Veronica. LOL!
Hypercolour T-Shirts really need to make a come back
They really do.
I'll make some room in the freezer to reset them faster. (Who remembers doing that?)
Not Gunna lie Jimmy you nailed it 🤣
Rofl.. the dial up sound got me.. SLIGHTLY more millennial than boomer minded (lol BUT, I DID type all this with one finger..🤣) ps: BRING BACK FROGGER AND DONKEY KONG lmao🥰
I text with my index lolololo
I replied and hit your comment ‘like’ all with my index finger lol
@@andream.. Hahahahaha
I played a 90s dance mix on Spotify before watching this video. Felt very excited about rediscovering Youssou n’dour and Everything But The Girl before being taken down by this MERCILESS HIT JOB.
Loved my hyper colour shirt😜🤪🙃
Omg! This is totally me😂😂😂
NOT HAPPY JAN…that’s the winner😂😂😂
GEN X REPRESENT !!!
Thanks Jimmy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
This one was Gold 🏆🏆🥇🥇
lol, coming from the generation that needs a trophy for just existing.
Loved it. Acronyms lol. Not happy jan lol. Chocolate Paddle pops were good!
I learnt to drive in a manual car but still don’t have my license and feel like I’m letting Gen X down that I’m now learning auto,
Doc Marten’s lol - I had several pairs but my last ‘94 doc boots that I bought in London SoHo were stomped on to scuff them up (as I wore them) by my girlfriends British husband as he laughed and laughed that “no one wears them anymore”.
And yes I am having Midlife crisis - How did you know? Lol watching tic tok reels on Facebook ✅,
oh and I have a sound system with a 5 cd disk player with dual cassette tapes (so I can relive my teens and make actual mixed tapes and play my mixed tapes that I made) plus a turntable for my vinyl and giant speakers and analog radio. Tuned to 3RRR and PBS. (Tbh I need to donate it to the op shop as I don’t have room at home but I really don’t want to let it go). So yes I have been listening to the same music for 35 yrs because I literally still have all my CD’s, tapes and vinyls. Including the bootlegged tapes from London and Bangkok. Still livid about the vinyls that I took to parties that were lost or nicked. That’s Gen X.
born 71 and I remember when paddlepops were 20 cents lmao
@@clairesaunderson3483 I used to ride my bike up to the milk bar, buy a paddle pop and eat it riding back on my bike if it was hot or ride super quick home if it was cooler weather. Quite often I was also buying some fruit and veg for my mum. The paddle pop I’m sure I had to ask to buy but sometimes I’d just sneakily buy one with the fruit and veg money. I’m sure my mum knew!
@@taniabishop my brother and I stayed with my uncle and Auntie, on school holidays, down in Vic, They used to give us a ration of milk bottles to take back to the milk bar and cant remember how many it was but we basically took back enough to buy a paddle pop each. We did get creative though and sometimes snuck a few extra ones in so we could also buy a mixed bag of lollies. We were poor but we had a very rich childhood xxx
@@taniabishophell yeah she knew! but she would not of cared because she made you go to the milk bar and so she did not have to go lmao xxxx this thread just brings back so many memories, yeah there were some bad times in there but right now I am loving all the memories of the good times that are coming back. when someone mentions something that I loved but have since forgotton. It was a great time to be a kid xxx
As Millennial with older parents and mostly older friends... Too many of these were very real for me, also!
Never stop making these Jimmy! I laugh every time.
Me too
A lot of this was real for me as an X'er but there was a missing element of traveling without a paranoid parent clenching our hands. I loved traveling to country rellies and going interstate on my own in my early teens.
Yeah same, 83 model raised by my grandmother alongside my aunts and uncle who aren't alot older than me.
Haha, I still remember the very 1st episode of Neighbours, and my actual street in Brisbane was giving away a "Neighbours" house the week it premiered! Definitely a Gen xer here!
I was doing some maintenance work at 7 the day the show got canned because they didn't think it had any life left in it and channel 10 picked it up.I wonder if the guy who made that decision still works in the industry.
Lucky for us Gen X you can still get a DVD and cassette player, to relive the memories of the best movies and songs.
Yeah it's true, lollies, snacks (eg Cheezels), ice-creams, drinks were better back then. None of this natural flavourings and colours we have now.
Who knew, us Gen X are starting to sound like our parents, harking back to a better time. Gen Y are starting the process now.
Nostalgic collection of either Star Wars, Masters of The Universe, Transformers, Ninja Turtle action figures, or all the above.
Hate to tell you, there aren't any Gen Xers in their 60s yet. Gen X was 1965 - 1980 still got 3 years before that happens. Remember when people could do arithmetic *without* a calculator? 😂😂😂
I think the point was that many teenage crushes are typically of older peoples rather than peers. e.g. Tom Cruise will be 60 next month...
@@kappa7 Brad Pitt - 59 this year
Yes, but our teenage crushes were generally 10 or 20 years older than we were. Remember back when 30 year olds played teenagers in high school movies and TV shows?
@@ariadnepyanfar1048 yep, Kevin Bacon was 25 when he played a high school kid in Footloose!
One thing missing Jimmy .... Being able to use a Melway and get excited when the new edition came out every year!!! And yes I inhaled regularly 👍🍻🙃
Aaah yes, the Melway under the seat. Could not survive without it 😆
Baby Boomer here , what's a Melway ? Missed that one when I was growing up . 65 years of age. 👍
Just winged it yeah??👍🍻
@@mark-ni5fv It's a street directory of Melbourne in book format about 170 or so maps.
Thanks TC . In Qld. it was called a Collins Street Directory . 👍
remembering the first episode of Home and Away ....
John Hughes movies. Sunnyboys. Relax t-shirts. Duranies. Travelling into the city to go to cinemas before they were in suburbia, drive-ins were still around. I still have all my mixed tapes I made pressing the play & record button then rewinding to edit out DJ
Scott and Charlene's wedding 🤣
Whoa whoa whoa..now gen x knows FYI! We said it in school ! I bought a new pair of converse and timberlands just FYI for MY midlife crisis.
I don't know what this guy is talking about. Gen X invented a lot of the stuff he claims we don't know how to use.
The phrase "Windows 95 was better", cooking nachos and pasta bake out of tins, wistful memories of when 'food X' first arrived in the shops, angry memories of the pre-plastic era (never again!), a therapy bill for your childhood and anger issues, a loathing of Pay TV, knowing where you were when Elvis, John Lennon and Princess Diana died, having a pile of floppy discs of either size that you just can't part with... and an underlying deep-rooted fear of nuclear war because you watched 'Threads' and/or 'Karen Silkwood'.
"Threads" was absolutely terrifying wasn't it???!!!
Jimmy, your insights about every generation and occupation are so accurate I wonder if you're actually a social demographer pretending to be a comedian? Love your take on my generation [X]. What about:
*Getting a perm or mullett and regretting it for the rest of your life, especially when old photos reappear at celebrations
*Thinking acid wash jeans were actually cool and they need to make a comeback
*Wondering why on earth MTV doesn't play 'music videos' anymore
*Being able to say proudly, 'that's a remake of blah blah' when your kids play you 'new' music
Keep it up, Jimmy. You are very good at this stuff.
I feel attacked! I'm just gonna go and sulk and play with my Rubik's cube and Slinky. 😆😆
Not Happy Jan!!!! I laughed so hard!!! SOOOOOOOO true!!!! LOL Thanks Jimmy
JIMMY , Stop hammer time 😂😂
Technically I'm Gen X but I was really surprised that I didn't really identify with most of these. I related way more to your Millennials vid.
They used to say 1977 was start of millenials, now they say 1981
the phrase "i got smacked and i turned out ok' hahaaha so true and listening to the same music for the past 30 years
Pretty good, however if we are watching sky news there’s no way we are voting greens. Sky news is for the Boomers not us. Otherwise not bad, if you added something about space invaders then that would have been better.
I will neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of this! 😂😂😂
Sounds more like you’re describing Boomers. Gen X knows acronyms and abbreviations. Now my Dad on the other hand. 😅
🤣🤣🤣 I feel attacked and I’m not even Gen X 😂
As a Xennial (on the cusp between gen X and Millenial) some of these ring true, but most don’t
😂Hahaha, wondered what POV meant 😂... still watched the "content" though 🤣
I nearly asked the question online what is P.O.V. I'm glad I didn't because my children watch Jimmy. 🤔😂
@@petercrispin2129 😂👍🏻
Chilli'n'chive 👍 Great Thai .. Physical paper menus and they they take cash !👌👌
Pretty good Jimmy, am not so sure about Green's and caravans though?
I think we ran to the dance floor for Rock Lobster. None of us could get up a after the down down down bit these days! We have aches and pains. Love being Gen X.
I'm 51 and when I play my late 1980's rave toons on my tape deck my teen yells at me to 'turn that awful noise off, it's not even music'!!! I'm perplexed...isn't it supposed to be the other way around? I'm extremely nostalgic about my life prior to 2000 as it was very low tech and we had so much freedom... and yes I do like to call rather than text!!! Tape deck and DVD player working fine... good thing because I have a shit loads of DVD's... as you said they seem to have stopped making great movies about anything other than superheros lately... people going to be banging at my door one day to watch something decent... and original!!!
All spot on, except where I lived there were no street lights, used to ride my horses all day, just got told Be home b4 dark😅
Omfg! This is so right hahaha! So on point in a hard core yet hilarious and gentle way I can’t stop laughing 😂 😂
sitting here going: yep. yep. yep. yep.... whilst wearing my hypercolour t-shirt... sitting next to my collection of DVDs... literally... and seriously I do remember the first episode of the Simpsons... and I love watching true crime! 🤣
I was worried you would get this really wrong, but no, 100% nailed it! I am both embarrassed and laughing 😂
Should had included: “adding an emoji at the end of every sentence” 😜😂
Was booking tickets for a musical including parents and friend all qualifying as seniors. Had an awful moment of realisation just how close that seniors card at 55 is when you hit your mid 40s. Definitely still one of the young ones inside my head! You didn't mention the collection of plastic jewellery that still lurks in the back of drawers, a must with shiny red leggings, leg warmers, a perm and a boom box and your hypercolour tshirt of course.
Really, 55 for a senior's card? In WA it's 64.
Where are you getting a Seniors Card at 55? It's 64 here.
And mood rings 🙂
Sported a spiral perm for years !!
Used to be 55 in some states, now it looks like it’s at least 60 (in vic).... I have 2 pairs of leg warmers, both of which I gave to my mum, and then when she passed, I have them back again. Might start wearing them. See if I can start a new 80’s trend 😂
What are you talking about? Gen X INVENTED BTW, ICYMI, TBH, IRL, and FYI has been around for a very long time. We aren't boomers.
What is love, baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more !
Sung by Haddaway, for those who want to download it on TH-cam music.
Being confused by gen z is on point
😆 I'm still referring to boomers as "middle aged"... so yeah, I still think I'm 10 years younger than I actually am 🤣
I’m sure it’s now 2002.
@@nerissarowan8119 Only out by 20 years!
Hahaha!! At first I was so offended and pissed but I couldn't stop laughing! My damn side hurts 😂😂😂✌️