I thinky you mean ekil.
What’s with the young girls for the past few years wering jeans so tight and low on their hips that it pushes out “muffin tops” of fat over the top? Even extremely thin girls look terrible in those things!
Early nineties I could listen to the Modern Rock and Classic Rock stations and know the words to 90% of the songs. Now the Modern Rock station is unlistenable (Mandatory Metallica for an hour every fucking night!) and I couldn’t tell you if there’s still a Classic Rock station around here.
My line is baggy pants not pulled up or hiphuggers = Y
Regular pants that don’t show underwear = X
FWIW, according to the (scientifically nonfalsifiable) generational-cultures theory of William Strauss and Neil Howe, you would be on the cusp between the 13th Generation (aka Generation X) and the Millennial Generation (Gen Y). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strauss#Anglo-American_Generational_History
To my knowledge, there is no crossover-cultural phrase “Grrrl Power”
There is: “Riot Grrrls” which is an off-shoot of grunge, and typically considered to be with the set of girl-rock bands like Bikini Kill, Hole, 7-year Bitch, etc…
“Girl Power” might’ve been a Spice Girls thing, but I don’t know about that…
As for me, my Gen X-embarrassing question has to do with technology - well not anyone question but overall. Given the power of the web, how can you keep up with all of the new uses available and make sense out of which ones are actually worth investing time and effort in?
Toni Basil released Mickey in 1981, when she was 38 years old. She’s 62 years old now.
A “young” pop icon from my Gen-X youth is now old enough to appear in a Depends or Craftmatic commercial. Scary.
I’m pretty sure I must be Generation W.
I was a 4th grader during Woodstock, and where I was when Kennedy was getting shot was nursery school, so I don’t feel very boomerish even though the definers of such things would toss me in at the end.
But the 1980s music wasn’t the soundtrack to my High School years, but instead was of my 20s, early adulthood, the stuff you snag a keeper from here and there and toss it onto the “My Music” pile that got tall before you had a driver’s license, you know? And that was 70s stuff for me.
MTV was “Hey check out what the kids have got nowadays, too bad we didn’t have that, except with real music of course”.
To me the difference between Generation X and Generation Y is whether you prefer the Cure pre-Desintegration or post. Everybody likes Desintegration, so that doesn’t count. I prefer pre, so I am Gen X.
Agreed. Rather abruptly over the course of a single season, my viewpoint changed from “loved watching a show with fascinating peers giving voice to my hopes, fears, dreams, and angst” on the S.Fran season, to “getting annoyed by a bunch of whiny self-indulgent brats magnifying their own petty issues to end-of-the-world proportions” on the following season.
It may have coincided with my first post-grad full time job. 
Agreed. Rather abruptly over the course of a single season, my viewpoint changed from “loved watching a show with fascinating peers giving voice to my hopes, fears, dreams, and angst” on the S.Fran season, to “getting annoyed by a bunch of whiny self-indulgent brats magnifying their own petty issues to end-of-the-world proportions” on the following season.
It may have coincided with my first post-grad full time job.
There is a school of thought, mentioned in the book Saturday Morning Fever that divides GenX into two factions: Atari-wave and Nintendo-wave.
If your fondest video-game memories of playing Adventure or Yar’s Revenge on your TV set, you are an Atari-wave GenX-er. If you fondly recall Super Mario Bros., You are a Nintendo-wave GenX-er. If it’s the Sony PlayStation, You are a millennial.
Another reason English isn’t written left-to-right: proofreading is darn near elbissopmi.
I can completely understand that.
When I was 14 I had to go all the way downtown to get my Cure Pornography record because they didn’t even have it in the mall because it was so weeeeird and cooooool. Now when I go grocery shopping they pipe in the Cure like it was James Taylor or Carole King or something. I assume this means I am now the most important person in the world. The first time I heard it I felt old and frightened but then I realized it’s the circle of life.
I do have a question for Gen Y people. How do they stand having every single person they ever met and every person in their family tree on messenger. How??? If you’re online, everyone knows where you are. You’re at home on the computer. Everyone knows if you so much as turn on your computer. If someone talks to you you don’t feel like talking to, how do you hide? I don’t get it.
Gen X-er checking in here…
I take it you only have one messenger identity?
The key is to have several, and use a third-party chat client like Trillian which allows you to login as multiple identities at once. I have at least one identity in each of the major messenger types (MSN, Yahoo, IRC, AIM) which only my husband & my sister know about. I keep tabs on all my other buddies while logged in as a “secret” identity, then if I see a buddy online I want to talk to, I come online (and visible to them) as one of my more public identities. On an average day, I’m concurrently logged in as at least 2 AIM identities, 2 Yahoo, 1 IRC & 1 MSN.
See? It’s simple! 
You can block people, you know.
Y’er checking in.
I feel like I have to post this whenever the term ‘emo’ pops up - because it has taken on a different meaning - real emo, not real emo. No one probably cares, but I feel the need to at least try and educate. 
And I haven’t told my parents what my screenname is. Then I couldn’t post what I was actually doing in my away messages! Two of my little cosuins (13 y/o) found me and bug me a lot.
I do know that if I say I will “hollaback at ya” it means I will get back at you/ call you back, etc. But I’m not sure what a “Hollaback girl” is.
Uh oh … I’m confused. Disintegration is my favorite, but my second favorite is a tie between Wish and Head on the Door. What does that make me?
I should note that I don’t like anything post-Wish.
Here’s a question: What do kids call new rock music these days like The Killers or The White Stripes? In my day, everything was “alternative rock”. Music sites like Allmusic.com still basically call every rock band since 1991 “alternative”.
Indie rock, although there’s some controversy over the term. Indie rock used to actually be independent, just like alternative rock used to actually be alternative, and there are some folks who still want to use the term that way.
That Real World thing is funny. But for me it was Seattle as the last “good one”. The next year was Hawaii and they were all just stupid kids then.