Again, it’s just the generational circle of life.
“Gen X high school history teacher here.
The things kids do not understand about what their parents lived through in the ’70s/’80s/’90s is hilarious and infuriating.
Had a 16-year-old student scream at me about how ‘I couldn’t understand!’
and ‘I didn’t know what I was talking about!’
and ‘It’s not like you listened to this music!’
“I’ve literally had arguments with Gen Z over how landlines worked, period. "
He looked me dead in the eye and said thats not possible since Kurt Cobain died in the ’70s.
I just remember laughing until I was crying.”
“Talking about Nirvana.
I mentioned the word ‘grunge.'”
“My Gen Z niece didn’t know what a payphone was.
“I recently had this conversation with my friend’s daughter about ‘Fast Car’ covered by Luke Combs.
She was wondering why he said ‘check-out girl’ and thought it was a mistake NO ONE caught.”
“I posted one of MY OWN pictures from 1991, and a redditor was all ‘AHA!’
Even something like Watergate was supposedly with boomers in charge.
She still doesnt buy it.”
“I had some teen tell me there was no way viral videos existed before YouTube or the internet.
I don’t think he could even grasp how people would discover things without the internet.”
18.And lastly, “I had a young person explain mullets to me.
I had one in 1989.
I’m good on them.”
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