- May 5, 2025 18:34
There's a monty python sketch about this, the four Yorkshiremen. The jist of it is that they keep bragging about how shitty their upbringing is, and then they keep one upping each other and it keeps becoming increasingly ridiculous, but then they conclude that 'aye, but we were happy, we were!'

Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python
YouTube video by TheFullMontyPython
OK, what’s hilarious about this though is that they did do all those things and then they pulled the ladder up behind them so that we couldn’t do it and we got stuck in those shitty abusive homes.
I'm gen X.
I was recently reminded by my stepsister of the time my mother and stepfather left the house on a Saturday morning, with her in charge. She dipped out to drive a mile to get cigarettes and that 13 minute window I, 11 or 12, woke up, panicked, and called the police bc I was home alone.
Bashing each generation as they come up and fade out is so tired. We were kids, they're kids, they're gonna have kids, and everyone will think the other gens suck balls.
I hope Ed gets a nap.
smh, you kids will never understand having to walk ten miles to school every day.
In the snow.
Uphill both ways.
Now I pay women to spank me and call me a worthless little piggy, AND WE LIKE IT THAT WAY!
When your posts get replies
That are just heaps of lies
That's the Louv-rey...
Gen Xers are the new Boomers.
Yup. First job at 14 in a PC service department, looking up starry eyed at the techbros. If I only knew then what I know now😶
Finally admitting we GenX exist. That's positive.
We got screamed at for flushing the toilet during a drought & also if we didn’t, endlessly lectured about us destroying the planet, “ecology lessons.”while I spent hours washing spilled crude oil off birds, the estuary where we played stinked & shimmered with it.
Teachers were stoned.
X Gen pissed
Gen Y talks about our child abuse to therapists instead lol
We had to beat our own asses too
No one knows how to beat our own asses better than us
The irony just smashes people right in the face and they still don’t get it lmao