Post #1803646

2026-04-28 12:52 UTC

Me, Gen X, talking to my millennial partner: "I need you to understand how deeply traumatized my generation is, and how it interacts with our politics and world view." *Reaches for the Neverending Story DVD* (Also we're all lead poisoned, and survived on hose water, ketchup-is-a-vegetable lunches and Tupac and Biggie)

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@dnkboston@apobangpo.space 2026-04-29 22:43

@quinn@social.circl.lu I'm traumatized, but I missed sooo much. I did, in fact, see Never Ending Story, but I have not seen Dirty Dancing, Wall Street, Platoon, Bill and Ted movies, 48 Hrs, Big, Aliens, Mad Max, Risky Business, Say Anything...you get the idea. I was plenty traumatized by ET and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I still had television--and lead fumes.

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@quinn@social.circl.lu 2026-04-28 21:53

two kinds of Xers: 1. but but I saw it on Facebook 2. No one has seen them after leaving to go live in a cabin in Nevada

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@quinn@social.circl.lu 2026-04-30 01:46

Do grab Bill and Ted. One of the most wholesome movies ever made.

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@djohngo@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 12:57

@quinn@social.circl.lu Gen X be like, "The Neverending Story traumatized me for life. I insist you watch it!"

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@cora@hachyderm.io 2026-04-28 13:36

@quinn@social.circl.lu “hose water” sent me into a 45-second fugue. Can still taste it. Or smell it. It was kinda both.

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@meganecko@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 17:18

@quinn@social.circl.lu But the Facebook memes say the hose water is what gave us our powers!

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