Hose water was awesome!
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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What other type of water was there? Turn it on let it flush and drink!
Uhh excuse me. There was also watergun water. Stream water. Bath water...
Who's steam you drinking?....
Water from a rinced off Windex spray bottle.
Hey don't forget the water barrel. If you dunk the bottle down deep under the scum on top, that's some good, cold water!
Gen X here. What made us uniquely who we were is that we were the first generation to know that the boomers were full of shit. It was a loss of innocence.
And MTV. It's interesting to observe how little is relevant anymore what we grew up with. And it's getting faster and faster. Social media in it's current form will die too in the next 10 years or so. Memes will prevail, though. They have to.
I’m technically a millennial (right on the cut off) and I was also raised on these, but instead people keep blaming me for everything.
damn right! written by my favorite author, Grand Mal
Damn right!
neglect
because boomer (too much) enjoying their life?
Less helicopter parenting.
GenX were allowed to be latchkey kids and roam free. Later generations got weird about parenting and safety.
Gen x IS the later generation raising their kids super protectively. And we don't even know why it turned that way.
Because journalism started becoming fear bait. They raised ratings by making people scared to be outside, or think if they let their eyes off their kids for a second, they'll be taken (even though it's far more likely they'll be killed in a car accident, or abused by someone they know).
Media did it.
There are something like 60 child abductions per year in the United States that aren't family related.
There were a few kidnappings.
That is why Mom used to tell me not to get kidnapped.
Did you listen?
Shit, sorry, yes. A bit traumatized, if I am honest. You just get used to avoiding kidnappers. Never questioning why.
Not kidnapped though. So, I have that going for me.
It hasn't been 24 hours yet, we still might be able to save them!
E. Oh phew they're safe!
I read this as piercings and safety. Still tracks
Pretty much. As much as they could without the kids bugging them and they still complained about raising kids.
Boomers simply didn’t invest in the next generation. We were expected to do everything ourselves.
Hell, GenX is called boomers by their kids.
That’s because boomers are old now so they can’t see what they were really like.
I'm gen z but hose water was the best
Nobody cares.
Because of the formatting I read this as, "Raised on hose, water, and neglect."