re: Gen X is The Last True “American Generation”

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I am actually a recovering alcoholic now so it's a little difficult for me to think that maybe being exposed to alcohol so early had anything to do with my future problems. It probably didn't but who knows....

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Isn't accountability one of your first steps?

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then the last 2 decades fashion, music, design has mostly been the same

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old person take

You can look at a photos of people from the early 2000s, the late aughts to early 2010s, and the 2020s and easily tell which is which

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You're the 2nd person to broach this in an attempt of some sort of gotcha and you've both come up empty

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doesnt seem that way....youre triggered AF

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I identify as 43 yo male, father of a beautiful 9 yr.old daughter, and loving husband of my wife of 20 years in October.

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and you are a millennial. Welcome. So am I. I was a freshman when you were a junior. We lived in the same world... you are a millennial.

Agree, I was also born in ‘72. I honestly think it was by far the best time to be a kid. My parents basically kicked us out of the house during the Summer and said come home at dark. I honestly think they forgot they had kids but my buddies parents were the same way. It was like 24/7 unsupervised freedom without the worries of the present day bullshite. In high school, we didn’t have phones, internet, or social media. I think I went an an entire semester of some bad grades that got kicked down the hall because I forged my parents name on a progress report. The outcome wasn’t so good but point being, technology may be awesome but it also sucks if you are kid trying to pull a fast one on your parents.

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Speech was truly free

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Eh, yes but there were a lot of social no-nos when I was a kid, I even remember women whispering the word pregnant

And if you said the wrong thing in front of your parents, it may have been free but it was potentially costly in skin

I got real smart about leaving something to stop my window from closing all the way so I could sneak back inside after getting locked out.

Looking back down, it's crazy how much range we had to wander around. shite I didn't get my first cell phone until late in my freshman year of college. I spent way too much money talking to a girl on a payphone on campus and finally broke down and got one.

This just isn't true. Lol at the shirts men wear. Fashions are the save. Woman's pants and shirts are back to 00 styles now. The big differences for them are low and high waist jeans. Nothing in your closet from 20 years ago is really out of place. Now if you pull out the 90s 80s or 70s clothes you look like you're going to a theme party.

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Nothing in your closet from 20 years ago is really out of place.

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again, you’re just old

Again you're just replying with a gotcha rather than substance.
The shoes I grew up with are still in. 95s and Jordan's.
The style of jeans from the 00s are still in. Polo's are still in.
I'm trying you look at fricking pop culture styles have changed little in the last twenty years compared to the decades before. No one is going to have 2010s parties like they have 80s and 90s themes