What are the first 5 words/cultural references that come to mind?
Generation X - associations
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 22, 2018 12:01 PM |
Me, me, me, me, me!
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 16, 2017 8:25 PM |
angst
flannel
grunge
slacker
nirvana
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 16, 2017 8:25 PM |
Melrose Place
Slacker
Grunge
Twenty something
Jeaneane Garofalo
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 16, 2017 8:27 PM |
combat boots
coffee
doily
portland
alternative
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 16, 2017 8:42 PM |
Kurt Cobain's shotgun
Douglas Coupland's book
Sony Discman
In Living Color
Lisa Loeb's glasses
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 16, 2017 8:46 PM |
Dan Cortese
Britpop
Daria
MDMA
Beavis and Butthead
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 16, 2017 8:49 PM |
5?
The internet,
The Tech Industry ,
Clintons,
90's,
The Aids Epidemic
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 16, 2017 8:51 PM |
Nissan X-Terra Lesbians Dungeons and Dragons (the cartoon) Seattle Therapy
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 16, 2017 8:54 PM |
The Gap
Details Magazine
Bandanas
Reality Bites
My So Called Life
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 16, 2017 9:01 PM |
Zima
Nirvana
Alannis Morisette
Slacker
Doc Marten
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 16, 2017 9:01 PM |
" No one understands meeee"
"I'm stuck between two narcissistic generations and I'm the only grown up around here!!"
"No one understaaaands meeee"
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 16, 2017 9:20 PM |
Billy Idol Singles Real World Grunge Irony
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 16, 2017 9:41 PM |
Generation X aka slackers used to be called the 'ummm generation'.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 16, 2017 10:50 PM |
mmm, Dan Cortese.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 16, 2017 11:33 PM |
I want my MTV!
The last verse of Billy Joel's "We didn't start the Fire"
R14 I second that!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 18, 2017 5:05 PM |
Sesame Street
Schoolhouse Rock
MTV
Ecstasy
Apple
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 18, 2017 5:16 PM |
Grunge MTV No phones Melrose Place Craft beer
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 18, 2017 5:17 PM |
90210
River Phoenix
Beck - Loser
Dot-com
XTREME sports
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 19, 2017 4:06 AM |
Friends, Reality Bites, Singles, AOL, Club MTV, Raves, Ecstasy
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 19, 2017 4:30 AM |
Yo! MTV Raps/120 Minutes, The Clinton's, AZT, Personal Computers, The Rachel
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 19, 2017 7:13 AM |
Assholes.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 16, 2018 10:54 PM |
Who would've thought, it figures....
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 16, 2018 10:56 PM |
Adderall addiction
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 16, 2018 11:00 PM |
Winona
Winona’s Big Brown Beaver
Primus
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 16, 2018 11:07 PM |
redundant
redundant
redundant
redundant
and finally, redundant
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 16, 2018 11:12 PM |
Lollapalooza
[italic]Empire Records[/italic]
Denis Leary bumpers on MTV
[italic]My So-Called Life[/italic]
[italic]Daria[/italic]
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 16, 2018 11:21 PM |
Nirvana Molly Ringwald The Breakfast Club Seattle Reality Bites
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 16, 2018 11:26 PM |
R23 - I'd personally like to reclaim adderall addiction on behalf of the Millennials.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 16, 2018 11:28 PM |
Frances Bean
Kinderwhore
Angst
Suicide
Heroin
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 16, 2018 11:33 PM |
Heroin Spice Girls Techno Winona
by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 16, 2018 11:37 PM |
Phony
Goddam
Crumby
Corny
Flit
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 16, 2018 11:58 PM |
Tonya Harding
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 17, 2018 12:21 AM |
Natalie
Merchant
spinning
and
twirling
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 17, 2018 12:21 AM |
Latchkey.
Malls.
Slacker.
Grunge.
Gulf War.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 17, 2018 12:27 AM |
Obama
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 17, 2018 12:29 AM |
Thirtysomething
Winona Ryder
Friends
Nirvana
HuskerDu
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 17, 2018 12:45 AM |
Flannel, "With the lights out, it's less dangerous", fanzines, Before Sunrise, East Village, Rent, squeezebox, the CDs that came with CMJ
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 17, 2018 12:51 AM |
SubPop record label
John Hughes' movies
Spike Lee's movies
Oasis
The Smiths
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 17, 2018 12:56 AM |
The Bumblebee Girl in the Blind Melon video
“Isn’t it ironic?”
OJ
Earth tones (backlash against 80s neon colors)
David Spade, Chris Farley and Adam Sandler (much as I hate to admit it)
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 17, 2018 1:18 AM |
AbFab
Clinton
AOL
Brad Pitt
AquaNet
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 17, 2018 1:33 AM |
Hanson's Mmm Bop
Austin, TX
Sandra Bullock
kd lang's Torch Songs
Dwight Yokam
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 17, 2018 3:28 AM |
Kate Moss Nine Inch Nails Zima Doc Martins Seattle
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 17, 2018 3:39 AM |
My friend Robert was one.
The book that gave us the name, by Douglas Coupland.
Those John Hughes movies.
'90s jeans
R.E.M.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 17, 2018 3:54 AM |
Smashing Pumpkins
Blessed Union of Soul
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Sophie B. Hawkins
Susan Loeb
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 17, 2018 4:02 AM |
1) The Clintons
2) The 90s
3) Vegan
4) Tech
5) Gay Community
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 17, 2018 4:12 AM |
The Clintons?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 17, 2018 4:13 AM |
You were born, and so you’re free. So happy birthday . . .
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 17, 2018 4:16 AM |
I know you said 5 OP, but whatever
6) Aids
7) Starbucks
8) Anime
9) China
10) Downfall of communist Europe
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 17, 2018 4:21 AM |
What does any of those things have to do with Gen X except maybe anime, r49?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 17, 2018 4:22 AM |
1 - the expansion of alternative music
2 - the introduction of the weekly "reality" TV series
3 - the introduction of hyper-specialized cable channels
4 - the explosion of tech companies
5 - cynicism, but that's probably everybody these days
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 17, 2018 4:36 AM |
[quote]What does any of those things have to do with Gen X except maybe anime, [R49]?
R49 is a tard
That you would think Aids is not associated with Gen X is pretty idiotic. The 80s and 90s where the Aids epidemic took place. Our fascination with China started in the 80s and 90s...etc...etc
by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 17, 2018 4:48 AM |
MTV
Reagan
Nirvana
Madonna
1984
by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 17, 2018 4:58 AM |
Hair bands Martha Quinn Reagan Ice ice baby 1800collect
by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 17, 2018 5:16 AM |
9/11/2001
Bursting of the dot com bubble
Al Gore and climate change
Talk shows like Oprah and Ellen
90210 and Melrose Place
by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 17, 2018 2:00 PM |
I was born in '66, or Year Two. Most of your associations are Wikipedia-level shit. Either try harder or don't play.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 17, 2018 7:59 PM |
The Try Harderz, featuring DJ Grumpy Pants
by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 17, 2018 8:17 PM |
Oh, what could have been if not for the McGovern Report helping to turn a generation of potential hunks into soy boys.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 17, 2018 9:23 PM |
The first people to get AIDS were born in the 1940s and 1950s. I would not have thought of it as generational, but if you insist, it seems more of a thing that started with the boomers and never went away. And think on this fact: people born in the 1970s, all of whom count as Gen X, were no older than 10 when AIDS began, only 20 by the end of the 1980s, the first decade of AIDS awareness. Not to say no one in that age group had AIDS, but it is not the characteristic age group most associated with the disease.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | January 17, 2018 11:14 PM |
Prozac Nation
The Brat Pack
R.E.M.'s Murmur
I want my MTV!
Ecstacy fueled raves
by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 18, 2018 9:59 PM |
[quote]R.E.M.'s Murmur
True. I never heard of R.E.M. until Out of Time.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 19, 2018 8:57 AM |
'House' music
Rap
Hip-hop
Breakdancing
Tupac's death
by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 19, 2018 2:12 PM |
The Breakfast Club
by Anonymous | reply 65 | January 21, 2018 8:44 AM |
Smug
Assholes
Forgotten
Jan Brady
Passive-aggressive
by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 22, 2018 11:49 PM |
Nothing generation-specific about assholes or passive-aggressive behavior.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 22, 2018 11:50 PM |
Saturday morning cartoons
TGIF
Madonna
90210 and Melrose Place
AOL
by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 23, 2018 12:02 AM |
Pubic hair Diet Coke Blue GAP dress Cigars Safe sex
by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 23, 2018 12:57 AM |
Nirvana
Plaid
Grunge
Ecstasy
Raves
by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 23, 2018 1:01 AM |
some of this stuff is all 90s, not gen-x
by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 23, 2018 2:56 AM |
Feel free to add your own, R72.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 23, 2018 7:19 AM |
bump
by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 23, 2018 9:57 AM |
Who?
Ignored
by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 25, 2018 5:06 AM |
Sassy Magazine Riot grrrls Bret Easton Ellis Singles, the movie Beastie Boys
by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 25, 2018 6:35 AM |
someone's Dad/Uncle/Brother was in the Vietnam war, the challenger explosion, star wars, john hughes and stephen king films, ronald reagan, aids,hands across america, mtv
by Anonymous | reply 77 | January 25, 2018 9:09 AM |
flannel
big hair
baggy clothes
aids (was a death sentence)
the cranberries :-(
by Anonymous | reply 78 | January 25, 2018 9:13 AM |
r60 - when we were in health education classes (early 90s) haart was not available yet and even when it was, nobody knew it would actually work long term & allow people to live indefinitely. They were "cautiously optimistic" about HAART for a long time because the real trial was being done on actual people in real life. You can't do a 20 year test in the lab.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 25, 2018 9:15 AM |
Clean Up In Aisle Eight
by Anonymous | reply 80 | January 25, 2018 9:22 AM |
Status quo.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 22, 2018 10:33 AM |
4 non blondes
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 22, 2018 11:20 AM |
Ethan Hawke
Robert Sean Leonard
people who quote "The Brady Bunch"
people who love '80s music
uncut American men whose parents were hippies and wanted their sons' dicks to be "natural"
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 22, 2018 12:01 PM |