I've watched a lot of these gen x videos. I've yet to see someone mention that half of us still have a copy of the anarchist cookbook stashed somewhere.
@@cane.srbljanovic my favorite volume was the one for dogs. It had so many color pictures of different breeds. I don't remember if it was d for dogs or c for canines.. but I do remember spending a great deal of time daydreaming about owning some.
@@raymondape This got me thinking and remembering... We (most of us) were manic readers. I remember carrying books in my pockets and reading everywhere... in the bus, trolley, in school classes (once my professor caught me reading a book that had no connection to the subject and not paying attention to him - took my book and slammed it on my desk several times... scared me shitless... didn't stop me though :) ) Imagine a HS kid (11-12th grade) buying a hard-core political newspaper every morning and reading it end-to-end before school on the bus... Crazy (and I was in no way a "nerd"... I was an athlete/jock of a sort). It's a good thing TV and internet didn't exist then (well, tv did - but wasn't interesting nor as invasive as today... So we had all this time... I think we used it well... For the most part, I suppose. IDK... there are things I envy later generations on... Access to knowledge, learning, world... is so much easier now. "Learn all David Gilmour. Brian May or Mark Knopfler solos in 20 instructional videos"... If I only had that then :)))))))) I even had to go to american embassy in my city to order/beg for books that were not available in my uni library... Getting the books, records, movies (18mm, VHS/Beta later) was a difficult (and valued) thing... But on the other side... I think they're so saturated with availability of everything that in a way makes them less interested... As I said - I dont know - and I'm not "everything was better in my time"... But we definitely didn't have much ADD or ADHD or such things nor we had to be medicated for it. IDK - it was a good ride anyways. I'm sure kids nowadays are awesome and will do great on their own and in spite of everything. I'm cheering for them.
Camping with family when I was 7. Folks hanging around with other parents. “Go to the beach!” we were told. No lifeguard, I couldn’t swim, just a load of kids in the water. I went on the slide, shot too far out and couldn’t touch bottom. I was under the water when my brain said “SWIM or you’re gonna die”. I swam. So proud of myself I ran back to camp and told my parents. “That great dear, now go back to the beach”. Survival of the fittest .. it’s not even a joke how our folks did this.
I was left to play by myself by the river on holiday. It was deep with a bit of current, but I knew that on the other side of the river, there was a rock under water with lots of cute tiny fishes. Just improvised learning to swim, as I decided to cross over to see the fishes. And Tada! That worked out. I have been able to swim, kind of like a doggy, though, since that day. I'm not sure I was even 4 years old.
I always remember that scene in First Blood where Rambo is having that nervous break down at the end of the movie and he's talking to his former Colonel and the Colonel says "The war is over" and Rambo says "Nothing is over. Nothing. You just don't turn it off. It wasn't my war. You asked me, I didn't ask you and I did what I had to do to win but somebody didn't let us win. Then I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport protesting me, spitting, calling me a veteran killer and all this vile crap. Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they unless they've been me and there and know what they're telling about? ...In the field we had a code of honor : "You watch my back and I'll watch yours." Back here there's nothing." Then the Colonel says "You're the last of an elite group. Don't end it like this." Then Rambo says "Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank. I was in charge of million dollar equipment. Back here I can't even hold a job! Where is everybody?" IDK, as a Gen X born in 1974 and looking back on the past, I sometimes feel that way too. Here we were, growing up and going to school back in the 1980's and early 1990's and I took courses to learn photography with a 35mm camera, learned how to do drafting at a table with pencil and paper, learned how to program a computer using BASIC, Machine Language, Base 16 and C, learned to fix gas cars with carburetors, learned to drive stick, learned cursive, read paper maps, made mixed tapes, set the clock on the VCR, and watched great movies and listened to new wave, punk, metal and even the older hippy and 50's rock music. Then as soon as I graduate and start going to college and getting out into the work world, everything went digital. Pencil drafting replaced by AUTOCAD, 35mm film retired for digital cameras, Computer programming became obsolete with "Plug and Play" software - why program when you can just buy it? - Tape cassettes and VCR's were replaced with CD's, DVD's, Blue Rays and then went to live streaming in platforms such as TH-cam. The old world we were trained to take over fell away overnight. Some of us couldn't even raise our kids in the 1990's without the CPS getting involved over silly things that were no problems for the Baby Boomer parents parents raising us. And now, here we are in 2024 and all those things we grew up with are getting cancelled by the younger Millennial and Z generations, like our syrup, our music, our childhood heroes, and so much more. The Boomers couldn't relate to us and called us slackers and wouldn't help us in the work world, so we had to either put up with it or become entrepreneurs just to survive. I often feel like Rambo when he says "I did what I had to do to win, but somebody didn't let us win."
Good sir. you have articulated the feelings of our generation in a way many of us are unable to. I applaud you!! I believe younger generations wish to cancel things because when confronted with reality, they unknowingly realize how weak and selfish their mindset is and refuse to face facts. I feel sorry for them. Nothing is over, nothing. I know some Gen alpha's that are pushing back, there is still hope.
Lol, who gives a shit if the guy was a Sergent or colonel. That wasn't the point! We were also the generation that saw things in a deeper level and broad retrospective. I understood perfectly 👌
I have a strong dislike for my fellow human beings and an extensive vocabulary that will hurt feelings, and if I can't hurt feelings I can at least hurt faces. So LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!
Gen X was released into the wild at early ages. Can open a can of Spegetti-Os with a spoon. Many would prefer a scrap of land and a tent vs. giving another penny to a Boomer. The older ones likely received a quality education because it was a real thing back then. Our Grandparents survived the Great Depression and WW2, and they LOVED their Grandkids, taught them all the hard times stuff their own kids ignored, (Got a tear from me) + can still drive a manual stick shift and a host of other old school skills and odd proficiencies. Gen Z is good with their phones. Good luck humans.
100%!!! We listened to Gramps, and learned what life was like when there were only two cars in the whole county, and the kids rode the plow horses to school in Winter.
@@TLowGrrreen I had a P-38 on the shoestring with my house key when I was 7!!! I wore it like a necklace. I wasn't the only one in my class with that rig too! I still have that P-38! Now it's on my keyring! My Dad gave it to me that year--1974!
@@TLowGrrreenI had a collection of church keys for the Hawaiian Punch and Hi C, and P38's for the raviolis and spaghettios, and those paint can openers for bottles of soda.
Gen X (1966) here. I read the entire dictionary, at my mother's suggestion, because I wanted to speak as well as Geoffrey Holder in Doctor Doolittle (Rex Harrison version)!
OMG, this is all so true. We had this book called "Book of Knowledge," and I read it cover to cover. I Drank water from a natural spring and was in a coma for a month after my boyfriend hit me with a jet ski. Oh yeah, and I put my brother out when he was on fire after kicking a gas can. I could go on and on, but you get the point. Proud Appalachian here.
Appalachian here too. Id go hunting with only 2 shells every day to feed the family sin bout age 11. No one ever got hungry... Even killed a bear one time out of necessity. Fear just don't run in the genetic code.
@@kokonutkelly7526 Oh I loved vocabulary tests and spent hours in the dictionary. And not just studying for test words. I still keep a dictionary and Roget's thesaurus handy to this day.
I am GENERATION X and damn proud of it. Excellent video. If they picked a fight, they came to the Right Place. We are the reincarnated ghosts of World War II.
LMFAO. Yes...grew up in miles of forest. The original Mad Max, Red Dawn, Terminator, etc. Building shelters/forts hunting and fishing. Funny stuff. Edit: 2 stroke mini bikes, dirt bikes, go karts. I don't know how we survived. Fun as hell!
Damn, you were sheltered. We lived in Las Vegas NV after moving from California. We would ride our bikes to Lake Mead, Red Rock Canyon, Mnt Charleston, and in the summer to back to California and back.
@DreidMusicalX I lived in a major city, 10 years old, and riding a 3 speed banana seat bike. That seat was not exactly the easiest on even a kid's ass. I was lucky and sore from that 14-mile plus round-trip.
I try to tell the kids stories like that,and they all think I'm lying- Im 1964, way more X than anything else- and MY WW2 Vet Uncles would 'show us HOW' To Play Army as kids, Lol...as in, how to actually kill other folks and how to dig real foxholes and of course, how to set up ambushes lol... I knew damn near everything they taught us in Basic by the time I was 10 Lol.. not that I was stupid enough to ever say THAT outloud to my DI's Hahahah...
I knew a few dudes in my neighborhood that love playing army with me . One of the dads actually was a p o w from Nam. How do I know I spent the night one night and he had a fucking flashback and scared the living shit out of me where I left at 2:00 in the morning so after that experience, I took everything more seriously and realizing that shit does happen behind the line
I learned while 4, on a boat and my Grandpa asked if I knew how to swim yet. I said no, and he checked my life preserver, then promptly threw me off the boat. I wish I was joking.
My husband and I are both Gen-X, kind of middle of the generation. While I lived the Gen-X ways, being a latchkey kid and no supervision, my husband could be considered one of these different Gen-X breeds. He grew up in western Colorado, on top of a mountain with no neighbors for miles, no running water or electricity. He and his three older brothers were turned loose on that mountain daily. The stories I've heard from his childhood make even me, a fellow gen xer fear the capabilities of him and his brothers.
I mean… they told us how the Oklahoma City building booooooom was made. On the 5oclock news. I dug a hole 10ft deep and 30ft wide instantly the next day. My grandpa was confused then glad I was okay & too young to be charged with anything. We were the “bet I can” generation
I am the youngest of my family and a GenXer that grew up in rural Texas with all boys as my friends I ran with, doing all the outside, away from town, with parents clueless as to where we were or what we were doing. Sometimes on bikes (and I don't mean bicycles...dirt bikes, sometimes on foot, sometimes on horseback...always with some weapon in case we got too close to a snake or other dangerous critter). And yes to reading encyclopedias, popular science, popular mechanics, national geographic, and the Foxfire series of books, and once the Internet hit...Anarchists Cookbook...lol. A few of us were that nerdy, and a few learned shady things from military dads and uncles that fought in Viet Nam. And a couple of us graduated with honors, but none of us were stupid...we all just had various sources of education. And no we still didn't give a rat's patootie who didn't like us or even why they didn't. Wasn't our loss. But those we liked, if in need and called for help...that request usually came with a don't hurt anybody too bad okay? Lmao
If you can even find Twinkies anymore, that's your best bet. Most of us still have those series on VHS with a working VHS player for when the grid goes down.
Dear gen z, At least I can change my oil, fix & replace tires, cook a steak or frozen pizza on a campfire, sew my own clothes, maintain my weapons, filter water using nothing but sand, charcoal, dirt & pebbles, cloth & bottles, then boil it, build forts & shelters out of whatever is available, & most importantly can be completely alone for weeks at a time! Oh yeah, don’t forget to lock the door of your “safe & quiet”place you need every time you get “triggered”! We never had those words when we were kids! LOL From-Gen X
Omg, you just unlocked a suppressed memory. I had gotten a chemistry set when I was very young from some well intentioned dumbazz. While "experimenting" with it in my room, naturally unsupervised, I created a rather large yellow spot in my green carpet. I'd call that a success! My mom disagreed and proceeded to me the reason I suppressed that memory.
when you mentioned the boxed set of Macgyver and possibly the A team I lost it as I looked over at some recent purchases of mine which included the boxed sets of Macgyver and The A team :)
Oh my f****** god!!! I actually did that! shot the arrow straight up in the air, wanted to see how far up I can watch it travel. then I thought , oh s***! where's it going to come down?😳 I can still f****** see it,,, fletch's wobbling, tip down, I managed to take one half step back,, and the f****** thing landed right between my footprints in the mud. no s***... word!
I was born in 1967 so I am an early Generation X. In the US army in Germany I took Tang Soo do, Chuck Norris's martial art. I'm still in excellent shape and ready to ROAR!!!
Me and my friends were so off-grid, we had running water indoor plumbing and electricity. But our playground was the local garbage dump about 5 miles away. one hot steamy summer we found a case of outdated pudding tins. we took that back to our tree fort on the river and pigged out for a week😋😋😋
I work with a bunch of people younger than I am(54). I'm their "UncleSam", we work hard. They don't understand how I exist. They've heard the stories, they've watched as I accomplish tasks thought near impossible and are shocked at the lack of self preservation, they've seen me snap bones back into place and duct tape wounds. They call me a cryptid.
I remember the Pirate cookbook was all over the net when it first started in the dark corners, a basic 'how to do things' guide to being a rebel without a cause. Explosives, hacks, tricks to the system etc. Fun stuff.
We also had paintball shoots at the river in the winter time. And let’s not forget that the first rave I went to was in a corn field in the winter time.
Hmmmm, GenX, why yes I am. Youngest of 4, only boy. I learned at a very young age how to get even without getting caught. I was in the Boy Scouts and my Troop loved to do survival campouts, rather than just take Troop equipment and tents and sit around a campfire. No, it was a weekend long game of full contact, anything goes short of severing limbs, capture the flag. Yes we drank from whatever water source was available, we did carry Army surplus iodine tablets to purify shady looking water though (not sure who brought them, might have even been one of our Veteran Scoutmasters). Some of us would get together on the weekend to play Dungeons and Dragons. I owned the first Commodore 64 in the neighborhood. BB gun wars were real. Dodgeball was an artform and I had the "catch and pass" down to a science. I play wounded target, catch the ball thrown at me, pass it to one of our more accurate throwers and bada bing bada boom the enemy team is down by 2. The things I have done and survived would give the reader grey hair. We won't even mention the revenge I've enacted with nobody the wiser as to who did it. Mr. Peacock in the library with a wrench? Pshaw he's an amature.
Gen X was the first volunteer military generation, we fought in Dessert Shield/Storm and we fought terrorists, learned guerilla warfare from them. I believe we are the subsection you are referring to? 👀
Some of us spent time in Central American jungles too, learning under the tutelage of the few remaining Vietnam guys who were still in. They did everything they could to make us as dangerous as them.
As a GenX i had to go to the library and read through shelf after shelf of books to accumulate knowledge, if i was wondering about something it could take weeks to get the answer... Its called patience.. and these kids today better not test my patience, because truth is, GenX just dont care about your feelings.. and if you poke us long enough, we dont mind hurting those feelings with hard facts you cant find on Wikipedia or by using Google... Just leave us alone to mind our own business and everything will be fine..
In the words of one of those feral ones you're warning them about: "Awwww! But (enter big brother/sister)....we never get to have any fun...*fades back into the trees*
1980, Voltron, mask, transformers, G.I. Joe and Fragle rock! Saturday morning cartoons was the best then! Reading encyclopedias and tracking animals in the deep woods alone that was indeed good times!
This was even better for me, I was born in 66 and raised in the US Army by a career army Nam vet, all my friend's had Nam vet dads as well . . . and the things they taught us . . . lol
Fuck. I thought that was just me. We lived by the woods and a swamp. Learning to ride a bike was learning to balance while riding down the steepest hill. I knew where all the wild berries grew so I didn’t come back till past dark. I was the oops baby and not really wanted around, so I learned to make myself scarce. I could stay hid for 2 days without getting a beating. I’d just get a spanking. Big difference.
GenX 1974- I grew up in the middle of nowhere. 5 miles to the nearest town (population 268) & .5 miles from the nearest paved road. I could navigate by compass at 7 (and did every fall hunting). I drank directly from the stream that I caught fish out of. Sorry, no fishing poles. Sharpened stick, improvised gaff hook, or bare hands. I built pitfalls and snares. GenZ- I beg you. Please. For your own safety, stop. We do not care about your feelings. There is no safe space in our fights. Therapy will not bring you back from the trauma we will inflict.
No street lights...true, playing ball at dusk a friend lost his eye running into barb wire the owner put up to stop traffic from going through the trailer park. At that point the fun was over. It wasn't even a fence, just strung wire. Not getting into the salt shot the neighbors had.
My backyard was a river,we learned things,I will always find food (catfish) ,no helmets an we rode bicycles barefoot with them Fn metal spiked pedals and never complained.
We found a hidden tiny spring in the woods and that became the only water we drank.😂😂😂 and my dad worked for Pan American Union and we learned about the internet in 1970. The thought of people buying online and never going out was horrifying. And here we are🫣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve literally done all of these stupid things… even shooting the arrow straight up lol! The new crop of useless humans have safe rooms, while my friends and I played war with BB guns(and yes, we did shoot each other with them)..” we weren’t the brightest bulbs in the box sometimes, but we were practically indestructible!
We were raised by survivors of war. We WERE self taught ninjas and Macgyver rolled into one. And yeah, we learned everything about everything we could and made everything we could with a lot of garage chemistry.
When you grew up and before the age of 10 you were in at least 3 Summer Campaigns of BB Gun Wars and still remember the whelps……Whelp you can call yourself a Gen X’r.😮😂😅
Born in '58. Sister-in-law said you should be on Facebook. I said what the hell for? Could give a shit less what the rest of the world thinks. And I sure as hell don't want the rest of the world knowing what I think!
Some chocolate chip cookie dough would be awesome. Not the ice cream... just the dough. In fact... ALL THE DOUGH. And those chips better be Nestle. NESSSSSTLEEEE DAMNIT!!!
i watch these and it's so similar to mt childhood, but i'm a boomer (1956) and it's a bit confusing. a few tv differences like like Rat Patrol or Combat instead of AirWolf and A-team, but of course I know them as well. some trendy toy differences like Mr Potatoe didn't come with a body, you were supposed to use your own spud.
Is the moving to the woods a thing with us? Seriously, when society went nuts it was almost an irresistible call. We sold, packed up and moved to just a little past nowhere.
Haha, you're literally describing my friends and I. We're all Aussies. Spent a lot of our time in the bush. I could write a book about all the crap we did. To give you an idea of what we did for fun. We used to catch venomous snakes and throw them at each other just to test each others manhood during our teens. If you screamed like a bitch when some one got you you'd never hear the end of it. We also viewed the Jolly Roger Cook Book as our bible. It taught us how to make rocket launchers, explosives and all other kinds of fun stuff.
They rolled the tv in the classroom and had us watch the Challenger Space Shuttle explode with a teacher in it. Then carried on wirh class like nothing happened. We didnt get safe spaces and counseling. We were taught to get back to work and do better.
I still read the dictionary and encyclopedia. Yes, for fun! When I'm bored! Fav movies... Mad Max The Road Warrior Southern Comfort Red Dawn (not the 💩 remake) Threads The day after Wargames Beyond Thunderdome The Outsiders Tremors (1-4) Lord of the Flies Predator Terminator These are our feel good movies. They don't give a damn about your feelings! Also, bring pop tarts and ding dongs. The choco-holic is strong in some of us! Twinkies won't cut it.
I've watched a lot of these gen x videos. I've yet to see someone mention that half of us still have a copy of the anarchist cookbook stashed somewhere.
I got rid of mine😊
Still have mine
Shhhh...
I still have the digital copies the Army issued me back in 2002.
I lost my copy in a divorce 😞 I don't miss my ex. I do miss that book 😅
when he said "they read encyclopedia for fun" (something to that regard) I cracked up :)))))))
It's stupid and it's sooo true :))))))))
Both sets AND the dictionary here...
Most of us couldn’t afford the entire set. We had I think A-L. My neighbor had some of the later ones so would use theirs if needed.😂
I read the thesaurus as well...
@@cane.srbljanovic my favorite volume was the one for dogs. It had so many color pictures of different breeds. I don't remember if it was d for dogs or c for canines.. but I do remember spending a great deal of time daydreaming about owning some.
@@raymondape This got me thinking and remembering... We (most of us) were manic readers. I remember carrying books in my pockets and reading everywhere... in the bus, trolley, in school classes (once my professor caught me reading a book that had no connection to the subject and not paying attention to him - took my book and slammed it on my desk several times... scared me shitless... didn't stop me though :) )
Imagine a HS kid (11-12th grade) buying a hard-core political newspaper every morning and reading it end-to-end before school on the bus... Crazy (and I was in no way a "nerd"... I was an athlete/jock of a sort).
It's a good thing TV and internet didn't exist then (well, tv did - but wasn't interesting nor as invasive as today... So we had all this time... I think we used it well... For the most part, I suppose.
IDK... there are things I envy later generations on... Access to knowledge, learning, world... is so much easier now. "Learn all David Gilmour. Brian May or Mark Knopfler solos in 20 instructional videos"... If I only had that then :)))))))) I even had to go to american embassy in my city to order/beg for books that were not available in my uni library... Getting the books, records, movies (18mm, VHS/Beta later) was a difficult (and valued) thing...
But on the other side... I think they're so saturated with availability of everything that in a way makes them less interested...
As I said - I dont know - and I'm not "everything was better in my time"... But we definitely didn't have much ADD or ADHD or such things nor we had to be medicated for it.
IDK - it was a good ride anyways. I'm sure kids nowadays are awesome and will do great on their own and in spite of everything. I'm cheering for them.
We were the ones that cheered when snake plisskin pushed the button
Camping with family when I was 7. Folks hanging around with other parents. “Go to the beach!” we were told. No lifeguard, I couldn’t swim, just a load of kids in the water. I went on the slide, shot too far out and couldn’t touch bottom. I was under the water when my brain said “SWIM or you’re gonna die”. I swam. So proud of myself I ran back to camp and told my parents. “That great dear, now go back to the beach”. Survival of the fittest .. it’s not even a joke how our folks did this.
Yep got tossed into the deep end, "sink or swim" how I learned early how not to die.
I was left to play by myself by the river on holiday. It was deep with a bit of current, but I knew that on the other side of the river, there was a rock under water with lots of cute tiny fishes.
Just improvised learning to swim, as I decided to cross over to see the fishes.
And Tada! That worked out.
I have been able to swim, kind of like a doggy, though, since that day.
I'm not sure I was even 4 years old.
I always remember that scene in First Blood where Rambo is having that nervous break down at the end of the movie and he's talking to his former Colonel and the Colonel says "The war is over" and Rambo says "Nothing is over. Nothing. You just don't turn it off. It wasn't my war. You asked me, I didn't ask you and I did what I had to do to win but somebody didn't let us win. Then I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport protesting me, spitting, calling me a veteran killer and all this vile crap. Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they unless they've been me and there and know what they're telling about? ...In the field we had a code of honor : "You watch my back and I'll watch yours." Back here there's nothing."
Then the Colonel says "You're the last of an elite group. Don't end it like this."
Then Rambo says "Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank. I was in charge of million dollar equipment. Back here I can't even hold a job! Where is everybody?"
IDK, as a Gen X born in 1974 and looking back on the past, I sometimes feel that way too. Here we were, growing up and going to school back in the 1980's and early 1990's and I took courses to learn photography with a 35mm camera, learned how to do drafting at a table with pencil and paper, learned how to program a computer using BASIC, Machine Language, Base 16 and C, learned to fix gas cars with carburetors, learned to drive stick, learned cursive, read paper maps, made mixed tapes, set the clock on the VCR, and watched great movies and listened to new wave, punk, metal and even the older hippy and 50's rock music.
Then as soon as I graduate and start going to college and getting out into the work world, everything went digital. Pencil drafting replaced by AUTOCAD, 35mm film retired for digital cameras, Computer programming became obsolete with "Plug and Play" software - why program when you can just buy it? - Tape cassettes and VCR's were replaced with CD's, DVD's, Blue Rays and then went to live streaming in platforms such as TH-cam. The old world we were trained to take over fell away overnight. Some of us couldn't even raise our kids in the 1990's without the CPS getting involved over silly things that were no problems for the Baby Boomer parents parents raising us.
And now, here we are in 2024 and all those things we grew up with are getting cancelled by the younger Millennial and Z generations, like our syrup, our music, our childhood heroes, and so much more. The Boomers couldn't relate to us and called us slackers and wouldn't help us in the work world, so we had to either put up with it or become entrepreneurs just to survive.
I often feel like Rambo when he says "I did what I had to do to win, but somebody didn't let us win."
Good sir. you have articulated the feelings of our generation in a way many of us are unable to. I applaud you!! I believe younger generations wish to cancel things because when confronted with reality, they unknowingly realize how weak and selfish their mindset is and refuse to face facts. I feel sorry for them. Nothing is over, nothing. I know some Gen alpha's that are pushing back, there is still hope.
The guy Rambo is talking to in the movie is a full bird Colonel not a Sargent
I feel the same way I feel like the ways that I know don't even mean anything in today's world. But I do what I do I don't change for nobody
Lol, who gives a shit if the guy was a Sergent or colonel. That wasn't the point! We were also the generation that saw things in a deeper level and broad retrospective. I understood perfectly 👌
@anc540 If you can remember the dialog of a scene in a movie word for word. Then they should have remembered the rank
Nope. We didn't get a break. They started it. Now. They are our entertainment.
I'm here to chew gum and break safe spaces, and i'm all outta gum.
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I got the popcorn!!
@erinhayes8552 Exra butter, please. 😋
I have a strong dislike for my fellow human beings and an extensive vocabulary that will hurt feelings, and if I can't hurt feelings I can at least hurt faces.
So LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!
Gen X was released into the wild at early ages. Can open a can of Spegetti-Os with a spoon. Many would prefer a scrap of land and a tent vs. giving another penny to a Boomer. The older ones likely received a quality education because it was a real thing back then. Our Grandparents survived the Great Depression and WW2, and they LOVED their Grandkids, taught them all the hard times stuff their own kids ignored, (Got a tear from me) + can still drive a manual stick shift and a host of other old school skills and odd proficiencies. Gen Z is good with their phones. Good luck humans.
100%!!!
We listened to Gramps, and learned what life was like when there were only two cars in the whole county, and the kids rode the plow horses to school in Winter.
A spoon? Stop flexing. We either had a Swiss army knife or a P-38 given by the Army vet in the family. 😊
@@TLowGrrreen
I had a P-38 on the shoestring with my house key when I was 7!!! I wore it like a necklace. I wasn't the only one in my class with that rig too!
I still have that P-38! Now it's on my keyring! My Dad gave it to me that year--1974!
@@TLowGrrreenI had a collection of church keys for the Hawaiian Punch and Hi C, and P38's for the raviolis and spaghettios, and those paint can openers for bottles of soda.
I was riding public transit, by myself, when I was 6.
Gen X (1966) here. I read the entire dictionary, at my mother's suggestion, because I wanted to speak as well as Geoffrey Holder in Doctor Doolittle (Rex Harrison version)!
Yay 1966 lol
But yeah, I read encyclopedias too. The old American Heritage one and my dad bought me a set called How It Works.
"Go to the woods. The real woods. Not the empty lot next door, and leave an offering of MacGyver on VHS."
I miss Airwolf and the A-Team
Airwolf!!! 👍👍🚁
Airwolf!
Hell yeah!!! Airwolf!
Airwolf, the A Team, MacGyver, BJ and the bear the duke's list is endless
I lived outdoors where there was no TV
OMG, this is all so true. We had this book called "Book of Knowledge," and I read it cover to cover. I Drank water from a natural spring and was in a coma for a month after my boyfriend hit me with a jet ski. Oh yeah, and I put my brother out when he was on fire after kicking a gas can. I could go on and on, but you get the point. Proud Appalachian here.
Appalachian here too. Id go hunting with only 2 shells every day to feed the family sin bout age 11. No one ever got hungry... Even killed a bear one time out of necessity. Fear just don't run in the genetic code.
Loved the book of Knowledge.
@@stellastarbrightk7563 I had a Volume Library some door-to-door salesman coaxed my mom into buying when I was little.
I thought I was the only one who read the dictionary for fun.
That's why we know words matter
I felt that statement as yes, I did that also lol
The dictionary is almost as much fun as a thesaurus.
@@kokonutkelly7526 Oh I loved vocabulary tests and spent hours in the dictionary. And not just studying for test words. I still keep a dictionary and Roget's thesaurus handy to this day.
Were we a subset or just more normal than we thought. I'm a bit surprised but I felt this one. lol
No, no.
Not Chuck Norris.
*whispers*
Bruce Lee
All this country boy Gen-X wants is to be left the Hell alone.
When the apocalypse happens … all that’ll be left are twinkies, certain bugs, and Gen X-ers - we’ve got ‘from the ground up life skills’
This cracked me up. Mostly because I kept saying “yep” to everything you said. 😂
Especially the part on how we were taught to swim !
Yep
I am GENERATION X and damn proud of it. Excellent video. If they picked a fight, they came to the Right Place. We are the reincarnated ghosts of World War II.
LMFAO. Yes...grew up in miles of forest. The original Mad Max, Red Dawn, Terminator, etc. Building shelters/forts hunting and fishing. Funny stuff. Edit: 2 stroke mini bikes, dirt bikes, go karts. I don't know how we survived. Fun as hell!
Those woods are great memories of my childhood. The nearest woods were 7 miles away and filled with adventures.
Damn, you were sheltered. We lived in Las Vegas NV after moving from California. We would ride our bikes to Lake Mead, Red Rock Canyon, Mnt Charleston, and in the summer to back to California and back.
@DreidMusicalX I lived in a major city, 10 years old, and riding a 3 speed banana seat bike. That seat was not exactly the easiest on even a kid's ass. I was lucky and sore from that 14-mile plus round-trip.
@@justinhand4518 I remember those damn seats. I was so happy when the BMX seats came out.
Gen-x here, 1969. My dad showed me how to dig a Punji pit and set up an l-shaped ambush on my eighth birthday. Good times, good times!!
@@hamfox9714 honestly, that would have been awsome!!!
I try to tell the kids stories like that,and they all think I'm lying- Im 1964, way more X than anything else- and MY WW2 Vet Uncles would 'show us HOW' To Play Army as kids, Lol...as in, how to actually kill other folks and how to dig real foxholes and of course, how to set up ambushes lol... I knew damn near everything they taught us in Basic by the time I was 10 Lol.. not that I was stupid enough to ever say THAT outloud to my DI's Hahahah...
I knew a few dudes in my neighborhood that love playing army with me . One of the dads actually was a p o w from Nam. How do I know I spent the night one night and he had a fucking flashback and scared the living shit out of me where I left at 2:00 in the morning so after that experience, I took everything more seriously and realizing that shit does happen behind the line
Great thing your Dad did for you, I learned about that trick at 13 years old reading soldier of fortune magazine from the store next to the school.
I learned while 4, on a boat and my Grandpa asked if I knew how to swim yet. I said no, and he checked my life preserver, then promptly threw me off the boat. I wish I was joking.
My husband and I are both Gen-X, kind of middle of the generation. While I lived the Gen-X ways, being a latchkey kid and no supervision, my husband could be considered one of these different Gen-X breeds. He grew up in western Colorado, on top of a mountain with no neighbors for miles, no running water or electricity. He and his three older brothers were turned loose on that mountain daily. The stories I've heard from his childhood make even me, a fellow gen xer fear the capabilities of him and his brothers.
I mean… they told us how the Oklahoma City building booooooom was made. On the 5oclock news.
I dug a hole 10ft deep and 30ft wide instantly the next day. My grandpa was confused then glad I was okay & too young to be charged with anything. We were the “bet I can” generation
I am the youngest of my family and a GenXer that grew up in rural Texas with all boys as my friends I ran with, doing all the outside, away from town, with parents clueless as to where we were or what we were doing. Sometimes on bikes (and I don't mean bicycles...dirt bikes, sometimes on foot, sometimes on horseback...always with some weapon in case we got too close to a snake or other dangerous critter). And yes to reading encyclopedias, popular science, popular mechanics, national geographic, and the Foxfire series of books, and once the Internet hit...Anarchists Cookbook...lol. A few of us were that nerdy, and a few learned shady things from military dads and uncles that fought in Viet Nam. And a couple of us graduated with honors, but none of us were stupid...we all just had various sources of education. And no we still didn't give a rat's patootie who didn't like us or even why they didn't. Wasn't our loss. But those we liked, if in need and called for help...that request usually came with a don't hurt anybody too bad okay? Lmao
So yea, you kinda hit the nail on the head about that rumored group...
If you can even find Twinkies anymore, that's your best bet. Most of us still have those series on VHS with a working VHS player for when the grid goes down.
I also have a tube tv somewhere!
@@odysseyeduardojesus, I thought I was the only one watching VHS on a tube TV. 😂
Malcolm in the Middle, this would be Dewey.
I am one of those, I think? I made nitroglycerine at age 11 "because it was fun".
Dear gen z,
At least I can change my oil, fix & replace tires, cook a steak or frozen pizza on a campfire, sew my own clothes, maintain my weapons, filter water using nothing but sand, charcoal, dirt & pebbles, cloth & bottles, then boil it, build forts & shelters out of whatever is available, & most importantly can be completely alone for weeks at a time! Oh yeah, don’t forget to lock the door of your “safe & quiet”place you need every time you get “triggered”! We never had those words when we were kids! LOL
From-Gen X
Omg, you just unlocked a suppressed memory. I had gotten a chemistry set when I was very young from some well intentioned dumbazz. While "experimenting" with it in my room, naturally unsupervised, I created a rather large yellow spot in my green carpet. I'd call that a success! My mom disagreed and proceeded to me the reason I suppressed that memory.
No training wheels ; I leaned by using a tree or car to stand bike up and started riding
Born March of 65 so I'm early gen X. We're dangerous in ways that gen Z can't even imagine! Hollyweird can't even fathom what we are capable of
😅
How about some love for Roget’s International Thesaurus😂🎉
Yeess!
Much love!!!! More fun than a dictionary any day of the week.
Yep! I read that too!
Still do!
That ole tome?
when you mentioned the boxed set of Macgyver and possibly the A team I lost it as I looked over at some recent purchases of mine which included the boxed sets of Macgyver and The A team :)
youngest of 4 here born in early 70's - can confirm, all you said is abso fact ... when shtf they will know they did it to themselves lol
Oh my f****** god!!! I actually did that! shot the arrow straight up in the air, wanted to see how far up I can watch it travel. then I thought , oh s***! where's it going to come down?😳 I can still f****** see it,,, fletch's wobbling, tip down, I managed to take one half step back,, and the f****** thing landed right between my footprints in the mud. no s***... word!
No!! Not my internet! How will I survive?
I was born in 1967 so I am an early Generation X. In the US army in Germany I took Tang Soo do, Chuck Norris's martial art. I'm still in excellent shape and ready to ROAR!!!
Me too, 67. Yea, I'm still in shape and healthy. Navy brat in Panama and Rota. Did 4 in the Navy myself.
My childhood movies were Watership Down, Alien, Animal Farm, Critters, Bloodsport.
As an Original X (1965), I approve this message. Now I'll be in the woods, if Z wants to... try something.
Class of '86! 🎶🎸🎵😎🎶
MY people.
Me and my friends were so off-grid, we had running water indoor plumbing and electricity. But our playground was the local garbage dump about 5 miles away. one hot steamy summer we found a case of outdated pudding tins. we took that back to our tree fort on the river and pigged out for a week😋😋😋
You are funny. I hung with that crew frequently back in the day...
A number of my old buddies did in fact end up doing some time...or became monks
Bro describes us perfectly!!!
Come out to playaaaayyyy!!!
We lived in the forest as kids.
Had yer house key on a string around yer neck, too? LOL. Worn on the outside of the t shirt.
Haha, its all good 'till it ain't good.
I work with a bunch of people younger than I am(54). I'm their "UncleSam", we work hard. They don't understand how I exist. They've heard the stories, they've watched as I accomplish tasks thought near impossible and are shocked at the lack of self preservation, they've seen me snap bones back into place and duct tape wounds. They call me a cryptid.
The book Lord of the Flies came alive on "some" days, but Piggy seldom died.
Yes!!! 1978 baby!! Truly, literally, does not care 😂😂! And bring the Twinkies!! Good one 1️⃣
Saaaame and I got the boones farm and the lawn darts.
Get X here. This is the guy I refuse to serve alcohol to 😂❤.
I remember the Pirate cookbook was all over the net when it first started in the dark corners, a basic 'how to do things' guide to being a rebel without a cause. Explosives, hacks, tricks to the system etc. Fun stuff.
We also had paintball shoots at the river in the winter time. And let’s not forget that the first rave I went to was in a corn field in the winter time.
Hmmmm, GenX, why yes I am. Youngest of 4, only boy. I learned at a very young age how to get even without getting caught. I was in the Boy Scouts and my Troop loved to do survival campouts, rather than just take Troop equipment and tents and sit around a campfire. No, it was a weekend long game of full contact, anything goes short of severing limbs, capture the flag. Yes we drank from whatever water source was available, we did carry Army surplus iodine tablets to purify shady looking water though (not sure who brought them, might have even been one of our Veteran Scoutmasters). Some of us would get together on the weekend to play Dungeons and Dragons. I owned the first Commodore 64 in the neighborhood. BB gun wars were real. Dodgeball was an artform and I had the "catch and pass" down to a science. I play wounded target, catch the ball thrown at me, pass it to one of our more accurate throwers and bada bing bada boom the enemy team is down by 2. The things I have done and survived would give the reader grey hair. We won't even mention the revenge I've enacted with nobody the wiser as to who did it. Mr. Peacock in the library with a wrench? Pshaw he's an amature.
The bow remark had my memory spinning 😵💫 and I burst out laughing!!! Oh man the crap we did!!
LOL.. Lawn darts... caught with a stick... or hands... whatever.
You're describing me. I'm a horrific force of nature
Me and my nerdy Gen-X friends, used to study weapons banned by the Geneva Convention, and figure out how to build them.
Gen X was the first volunteer military generation, we fought in Dessert Shield/Storm and we fought terrorists, learned guerilla warfare from them. I believe we are the subsection you are referring to? 👀
🤔 MercuryShadow, Dude! badass name. Can I steal it?
@@odysseyeduardo I stole it from Soilwork, but sure. 🤣
Yeah those stories about Iraq were all complete BS though. Gadaffi too. Check out USMC Gen Smedley Butler's book.
Some of us spent time in Central American jungles too, learning under the tutelage of the few remaining Vietnam guys who were still in. They did everything they could to make us as dangerous as them.
PROUD TO BE PART OF THE GEN X ELITE!
As a GenX i had to go to the library and read through shelf after shelf of books to accumulate knowledge, if i was wondering about something it could take weeks to get the answer... Its called patience.. and these kids today better not test my patience, because truth is, GenX just dont care about your feelings.. and if you poke us long enough, we dont mind hurting those feelings with hard facts you cant find on Wikipedia or by using Google...
Just leave us alone to mind our own business and everything will be fine..
He literally described me to a tee.
In the words of one of those feral ones you're warning them about: "Awwww! But (enter big brother/sister)....we never get to have any fun...*fades back into the trees*
1980, Voltron, mask, transformers, G.I. Joe and Fragle rock! Saturday morning cartoons was the best then! Reading encyclopedias and tracking animals in the deep woods alone that was indeed good times!
You're speaking not only of Gen X but of us Boomers as well, who've passed you the torch to carry on.
Carry it proud folks!
This was even better for me, I was born in 66 and raised in the US Army by a career army Nam vet, all my friend's had Nam vet dads as well . . . and the things they taught us . . . lol
I had access to a complete encyclopedia set and would lay under the coffee table and read each volume
Fuck. I thought that was just me. We lived by the woods and a swamp. Learning to ride a bike was learning to balance while riding down the steepest hill. I knew where all the wild berries grew so I didn’t come back till past dark. I was the oops baby and not really wanted around, so I learned to make myself scarce. I could stay hid for 2 days without getting a beating. I’d just get a spanking. Big difference.
I have a Pandora box locked up in my head. And I know I'm not the only Gen X that has one.
GenX 1974- I grew up in the middle of nowhere. 5 miles to the nearest town (population 268) & .5 miles from the nearest paved road. I could navigate by compass at 7 (and did every fall hunting). I drank directly from the stream that I caught fish out of. Sorry, no fishing poles. Sharpened stick, improvised gaff hook, or bare hands. I built pitfalls and snares.
GenZ- I beg you. Please. For your own safety, stop. We do not care about your feelings. There is no safe space in our fights. Therapy will not bring you back from the trauma we will inflict.
No street lights...true, playing ball at dusk a friend lost his eye running into barb wire the owner put up to stop traffic from going through the trailer park. At that point the fun was over. It wasn't even a fence, just strung wire. Not getting into the salt shot the neighbors had.
My backyard was a river,we learned things,I will always find food (catfish) ,no helmets an we rode bicycles barefoot with them Fn metal spiked pedals and never complained.
I strangely read the first 4 books of the Bible. It was a vacation Bible school assignment in the late 70's.😅
i read the bible and the encyclopedia and had a shared website in 1994 and started my own in 2004 and i love the woods and i build my own computers
Sad part to this. Um he isn’t exactly telling a fib. They do exist. One of my siblings is one.
I was a thrown off the boat and learn to swim kid… supposedly I’m a millennial but I relate more with my older gen x siblings
Oh he just described me! Gave me away to half the Internet. Boy is he in trouble now.💣😆
Mutually-assured-destruction about sums it up. And it's not as small a sliver as you may think.
Hahaha this was unhinged 😂
(edit: and I mean that in the best possible way)
Taken in the best possible way!😀
We found a hidden tiny spring in the woods and that became the only water we drank.😂😂😂 and my dad worked for Pan American Union and we learned about the internet in 1970. The thought of people buying online and never going out was horrifying. And here we are🫣🤣🤣🤣
I still can't speak about it on account of there being no statute of limitations, and juvenile offenses in certain states are not sealed.
No helmets or pads for anything. Bikes, motorcycles, skates, skateboards, etc.
I’ve literally done all of these stupid things… even shooting the arrow straight up lol! The new crop of useless humans have safe rooms, while my friends and I played war with BB guns(and yes, we did shoot each other with them)..” we weren’t the brightest bulbs in the box sometimes, but we were practically indestructible!
We were raised by survivors of war. We WERE self taught ninjas and Macgyver rolled into one. And yeah, we learned everything about everything we could and made everything we could with a lot of garage chemistry.
When you grew up and before the age of 10 you were in at least 3 Summer Campaigns of BB Gun Wars and still remember the whelps……Whelp you can call yourself a Gen X’r.😮😂😅
lol, I’ve got a scar on my hip from the bow and arrow idiocy. Turns out I wasn’t quick enough….
Born in '58. Sister-in-law said you should be on Facebook. I said what the hell for? Could give a shit less what the rest of the world thinks. And I sure as hell don't want the rest of the world knowing what I think!
I'm gen x. I did read the encyclopedias, and dictionary for fun. I also read books on Physics, and chemistry, when I was 8-9, and on.
Young Gen X here (1978).
I'm still completely feral.
I was the one all my older Gen X cousins picked on.
M.A.D. is the only way
Some chocolate chip cookie dough would be awesome. Not the ice cream... just the dough. In fact... ALL THE DOUGH. And those chips better be Nestle. NESSSSSTLEEEE DAMNIT!!!
i watch these and it's so similar to mt childhood, but i'm a boomer (1956) and it's a bit confusing. a few tv differences like like Rat Patrol or Combat instead of AirWolf and A-team, but of course I know them as well. some trendy toy differences like Mr Potatoe didn't come with a body, you were supposed to use your own spud.
Lol you just described my feral childhood. Gen X bravo💀
Big theme around GenX we want to be left alone. Dont try to force every single thing down our throat and say its good for us and to accept it.
The tail end of GenX, we sit in the shadows, waiting, biding our time.
When SHTF all generations will be looking to gen x for wisdom, guidance, knowledge and protection. We were born for this shit.
1972 here
Is the moving to the woods a thing with us? Seriously, when society went nuts it was almost an irresistible call. We sold, packed up and moved to just a little past nowhere.
Haha, you're literally describing my friends and I. We're all Aussies. Spent a lot of our time in the bush. I could write a book about all the crap we did. To give you an idea of what we did for fun. We used to catch venomous snakes and throw them at each other just to test each others manhood during our teens. If you screamed like a bitch when some one got you you'd never hear the end of it. We also viewed the Jolly Roger Cook Book as our bible. It taught us how to make rocket launchers, explosives and all other kinds of fun stuff.
Remember that subsection all have their own copy of the Anarchists Cookbook that they have been studying for years.
They rolled the tv in the classroom and had us watch the Challenger Space Shuttle explode with a teacher in it. Then carried on wirh class like nothing happened. We didnt get safe spaces and counseling. We were taught to get back to work and do better.
Zoomers: "Gen X needs to get involved!"
Gen X Bravo: "If you insist."
Zoomers: "...what are you doing with all that fertilizer and fuel oil?"
I still read the dictionary and encyclopedia. Yes, for fun! When I'm bored!
Fav movies...
Mad Max
The Road Warrior
Southern Comfort
Red Dawn (not the 💩 remake)
Threads
The day after
Wargames
Beyond Thunderdome
The Outsiders
Tremors (1-4)
Lord of the Flies
Predator
Terminator
These are our feel good movies. They don't give a damn about your feelings!
Also, bring pop tarts and ding dongs. The choco-holic is strong in some of us! Twinkies won't cut it.
Some of us were Trained by "Enter the Dragon"