Do you know why Gen X people have better immune systems than all yall whipper snappers?

Because we chewed the gum we found on the bottom of our school desks.

We didn't care if we drank from the same soda can.

It was common to play in parasite infested waters. (Actually a kid I knew in high school that got amoebas in his brain from that shit. He lost of a year of high school he had to repeat.)

Truth be told we probably don't have better immune systems. The younger gens are fucking each other and think condoms stop disease. So yall probably got Syphilis.

This can't be real:

https://fortune.com/2025/08/...

Tell me this is satire.

my boyfriend basically is offering to be my agent (for job hunting)

I mean... that's very supportive but weird

sigh I think I'll just die

apparently I'm smart. my brain is still scrambled eggs and now I seem to be oddly morose all the time

being smart means people wanna hire you, right? lol

but I'm not motivated for anything anymore. also working sucked because people just said weird snippy things to me like I did nothing which was incongruent. but hey it's that or you die. so joke's on me for having quit like 6 years ago and wanting someone to prove to me that not all workplaces would be like that. I really don't have a plan

maybe I don't even know myself. at which point that also deserves dying sooo

I never ate the gum under desks... uegh

though yeah sharing drinks and food was fine

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also younger generation has less sex. they also don't drink or do drugs apparently

@jestdotty

"I never ate the gum under desks... uegh"

Nobody did this. It was all reaction fodder.

Please don't tell the bugs that live in your eyebrows to stop having sex on your face at night.

@jestdotty Wait, what do you mean "was", is sharing food/drinks taboo or something nowadays???

@YourMom We had a guy who got fired for lying about his qualifications, and his dad came to talk to the CEO to try and get him un-fired. CEO told them to bugger off.

That was about 20 years ago, so before it became fashionable.

Hmm... Could also be the whole 'go play outside' we would hear as children. /* The older folks here, at least. */ Doesn't seem to be the case nowadays. More electronic devices, nowadays.

@retoor beer bottle licking... Is this a new pron category being unlocked?

@retoor brought a parent could be simply having a parent drive them, because (and I was shocked to discover this), most gen z kids don't have a drivers license, and more importantly don't want one either!

Of course most of them don't have cars either, but with inflation and wage-theft/stagnation thats the least surprising thing these days.

@retoor Hey, thats about the same distance I have to travel to go anywhere!

Only I walk because fuck gas prices!

You ever come to the states we should go biking the local paths. They go for like almost 50 KM if I've done my miles-to-km correct.

I've taken some of the guys and gals from my former work place there to hike. Makes it easier when you're the manager and they don't want to turn down free lunch! But the trails beautiful, and includes kayaking as an option. Mostly old people walking it, the occasional richbitches riding horses, and people walking their dogs.