Generation X

[Easy-X]

So with the Globalists doing their best to kill off those annoying Boomers a heavy mantle of responsibility will now rest on the shoulders of us: Generation X.

I've often thought (with my inherent natural arrogance) that ours will be the last generation to know real things. A thread about multimeters elsewhere reminded me I learnt how to make and calibrate a moving coil multimeter when I was a kid from first principles i.e. from scratch.

There will be two distinct groups of "so, what?" from that last statement. "So, what? You just get a magnet, some wire..." and "So, what? I can get a digital one from eBay for a fiver..."

Anyhoo, be prepared for several decades of resigned sighs, wry smiles and head shaking as you watch those Millenials, Gen Z and Alphas frantically hitting things with wrenches like deranged monkeys.

"...ffs, give it here. Look, you just need to turn it!"
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[bhinso]

The worst was the vid of kids trying to figure out how to use one of those turn-ey phones.

I can't even remember the name for those phones now

[iooi]

[stinkwheel]

Bring back lead in petrol I say!
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Easy-X]

[Howling Terror]

Dial. You dial the number using the dial. FFS!

Gen X...hmm Not for us to say if it's the best.
Time will tell.

It was the generation that witnessed the first flight to the moon even if I couldn't remember it. Oh the first to drive Group N Rally Cars or at least watch them.
Turbo powah!!
Cheap foreign travel = nobbing that Spanish girl.
No speed cameras.
The naughtiness of a pub lock-in.
First computer games.
Political awareness a step above what had preceded.
A tangible fear of nuclear war with government do this/don't do that info.
Smoking cigarettes absolutely everywhere apart from ...err nope can't think of a place.
The beginning of PPE (Pervert Predators Everywhere)
Lead in Petrol
Smog
Deep snow that disrupted day2day living.
Children's toys designed to hurt other children
Football matches played in streets
Outside toilets still used
Central heating and a colour telly...although the telly was on bricks.
Carrying a knife not for work was oki-doki
A good quality of recreational drug
Massive increase in heroin addiction
Interaction...like actually arranging to meet-up with someone...then physically going out and meeting them.
Writing a letter to a fan club...getting a written reply
Aids
Gays
Famine
Woolworths did sell everything but it was shite
First McMurders...shite compared to a Wimpy Bar (which was not sterile yanky-doodle)
Packs of dogs running about....Dogs also lived in a kennel.
Very LOUD gigs by a regular stream of outstanding innovative musicians at a price that even jobless could easily afford.
PUNK
ALTERNATIVE ROCK
METAL
TECHNO
DRUM n BASS
DUB
SKA
TRANCE
HARDCORE
Mobile phones
White dog shite on pavements
Microwave Oven
The combi washer-dryer
Fans throwing darts and sharpened coins at football players
Motorbike and sidecar were commonplace
Could actually buy a house/car at 18
Leaving home a 16-18 was commonplace
Handbrake turns
'You looking at my girlfriend' was an invitation to scrap.
Kung-Fu
Massive...HUGE speakers in houses and vehicles.
100mph and never go to jail.
Drink n Drive was naughty naughty but not BAD SINFUL.
Kids in pub carpark in car eating crips whilst parents getting 'relaxed'
Buy a packet of salted peanuts in a pub = possible nipple
Nipples everywhere
Found Porn
Betamax vs VHS
Music cassettes in gulleys/trees
Loads of trees
Nature..stuff getting discovered
Pencil cases at school..because we wrote things all the time
Remembering things that were not just passwords
Getting your name belted out at high volume by your mum when it was time to return to eat.
The first 5 speed and 10 speed bicycles.
BMX's
Skateboards..no knee pads..no helmets..no Skateparks
Street parties
Underage babysitters letting you watch Dracular films
Good musical instruments were very expensive
Playing out morning noon and night...and all those fantastic street games that each group invented
Neighbours would bash you around the head if found dicking about and your parents would either approve, or occasionally fight them.
Financial independence from an early age. Commonplace to have a few part-time jobs and pocket money was something you got for doing a task...(Bought my own BMX bike(one of the first in our town)).
Building your own bikes out of spare parts and inventing the precursor to the mountain bike.
Saturday morning matinee at the local cinema...with your mates or taking a girl.
Cricket match with stumps drawn on the wall
Sparrows everywhere

Then on Tuesday it was....
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Singer songwriter, Artist and allround good bloke Listen to Andrew Susan Johnston here
The Harry Turner Project

[Lupo]

[Easy-X]

[Islander]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Funnily enough they ner replaced by system x exchanges.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[JackButler]

[Nobby the Bastard]

My dad put a load of them into exchanges replacing the old electromechanical stuff in most of of London. Was replaced by system y.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[Courier265]

Already posted this but....

The courier company I work for is now manned by Generation x, all the millennials are sitting at home, lazy fuckers.
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CBF500 - 2 x Inazuma 250

[bhinso]

I'm sure I saw once that lead was only put in petrol in the 1920's to inhibit combustion to prevent knocking.

Once this problem was solved by other means they just didn't bother to take lead out of the petrol, until the environmental crisis started in the 1990's.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Bhud]

[stinkwheel]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Polarbear]

[GettinBetter]

[bhinso]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Yes it does, but given a choice between poisoning my kids and the petrol going off after 6 months or my kids being poisoned with lead I'll choose the former option.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[JackButler]

[Nobby the Bastard]

No I don't. They have muesli.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[Ste]

Non stick pans cause Covid19?