Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken

This generational bullshit is all made up by marketing assholes. None of it is legit, it's all a distraction from the class war we should all be waging.

I'm gen z and did this as well.
Stop pitting generations against each other.

The whole generation thing gets so much funnier when you think how other countries exist.
Imagine you experience a military coup at age of 10 and flee to North Iraq with your family where you live for a few years until your Asylum status gets processed and come to US.
Because of how weird whole process is however you still have to stay in a migrant detention center for anywhere between 2 days to several months depending on your age and gender as they check your papers and luggage.

(It looks like this btw.)
Then some highschool teacher calls you overgrown toddler because "your generation is too sissy to drink from a hose."
- Oof. Poignant. hope you're safe these days.

I am so fucking tired of this generational tribalism shit.

Back in my day we had generational tribalism for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and we liked it.
- My generation would go out and not come home until we'd killed an industry, just to take jobs from the generations that killed our chances of owning a home
Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience.... You'll be the same.
Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.
When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn't really a thing either. That's how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people's houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I'm not saying that's entirely a benefit, because it's not, there's definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.
You'll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.
What you don't know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It's a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.
IMO, it's not intended to be tribalism, it's intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it. I'm sorry that you feel like you're being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme.
- When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.
  No, actually, I won’t. I’m in my 40s, not some kid. If your opinion is that future generations should have to struggle as much as you did or they’re somehow not as good, then a solid fuck you.
- Apparently the biggest challenge of the current generation is "don't be a fascist."
- First number I remember as a kid was “Belmont 3 6316”. Can’t remember what it meant though.
  Edit forgot an “
- The thing I find amusing about these specific memes - regarding drinking from a garden hose - is that I'm an elder millennial, my sibling is gen X, we grew up on a farm, and neither of us EVER drank from a garden hose, it just tastes fucking disgusting. I've drank from countless sketchy-ass sources, and still will never drink from a garden hose. like, why would you even do that? just unscrew the hose from the spigot at least and use that FFS
Back in the day you could book computer time at the local library in my town. I would walk to the library by myself so I could play Oregon trail on an apple iie. Honestly I'm glad that kids have access to the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria in their pocket, but I do miss the days of pre social media and the 24 hour news cycle.

I'm gen z and I did this, this whole gen vs gen stuff is dumb imo.

Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I'm here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It's just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We're not that goddamned tough. We weren't slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.

I did used to drink stream water without a life straw or other filter...
My filter was the rain clouds.
I was also in the back country on the side of a mountain, so likely just a little animal dung and brain eating amoeba.
- Did you say brain eating amoeba? I have to get some.
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Yeah, drinking from the hose was a lot less problematic than just breathing the air, which was full of tetraethyl lead.

I am late GenZ, we used to drink all day, every day from pumps on playgrounds and parks that were just unfiltered well water. Until they shut them down one by one. This was not a GenZ idea, this were Boomers and GenX trying to line their pockets with the "savings" these measures had.

Legends say that Boomers and GenX then complain about children not playing outside anymore.

If you blame GenZ or Alpha for how they have grown up in the society and environment you left them with it just reeks of the signature Boomer mentality to fuck everything up for everything but themselves and then blaming everyone else.

I still laugh about boomers bitching about participation trophies while being the ones handing them out

I did this as a gen z kid after the new millennium. I did it with probably 40x contaminants than gen x ever had growing up. I apparently have a spoon weight in plastic in my brain by 25, let's see if I can drink enough water that I can fit a Frisbee up there by 30. Lets speed run this shit

Fairly sure my parents told me I tried to drink from the toilet.

The tap outside is the same water you drink from the tap inside why would you need a filter

Like the commenter above said .... having that water sit stale in about 50 feet of hose for about a week or two or longer and depending on where it was placed, being heated by the sun and cooled every night.
As a rule of thumb, if you ever want to try this, run the hose for about five minutes first.
- 5 minutes!? Jesus Christ, it clears out in about 10 seconds.
- Run it until it's cold. You don't need 5 minutes.
- Five minutes? It should take about 30 seconds to run numerous gallons through. I think project farm was testing hose nozzles and he was getting 5 gallons in less than a minute.
- Ah, I saw this and was thrown off because I grew up on a farm where the hose was used for everything. In thinking about it, my better judgement wouldn’t consider drinking from the hose I keep at the apartment for a second, even if I’d been using it all day 🤢. That sits for months at a time gathering who-knows-what.
Apparently it’s the hose that’s the problem, something about it breaking down or whatnot.
- Well obviously, it's probably depressed from getting called a hoes all the time.
People used to eat lead paint chips, too. Now they run our government.
- Can you describe where the lead chips from tap water going through rubber comes from?
No its not
Ehh I have well water and the outside spigots bypass all the filtering/softening systems in my basement cause why burn filter cycles cleaning groundwater to spray back on the ground
At my childhood home, I wouldn't drink the tap inside without a filter either. And my parents don't trust it even if it has been through a filter. Only reason I'd drink directly from the outside faucet is if I'm really in need of water and there's no other viable option.
That's not always the case. If a house has a well and later gets water from a utility, they will often keep exterior taps running well water because it's a lot cheaper than abandoning the well. So, technically, you could have water that's safe to drink inside the house but still have unsafe water outside.
Also, if the house has filters or other water treatment that generally isn't used for the exterior (though that's typically more about taste and mineral content, rather than anything hazardous).

And we have to dodge bullets at school. What's your fucking point, old timer?

Gen Z and Gen Alpha

My school was 20 minutes from one of the most deadly school shooting in the early 2010s. I went to high school with survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. But gen z is too sensitive is all I hear. We are literally surviving a war that takes place in classrooms and cafeterias, in our developmental years. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
Hey us millennials had to do that too. Just not as often
Point is your too slow to dodge because you spend all your time on your ass watching tiktok.
-same
- If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ~~ball~~ bullet.
That Boomers are to blame for almost all of the current state of affairs

There was a gen x?

They'll he defined as a generation thay never got to be in charge.
The youngest X-ers need colonoscopies, and the Boomers still fucking refuse to step back.
- I was going to make a pithy comment about Obama but nope turns out he's a boomer. Boomer ages are roughly Trump at the old end and Obama at the young end. So yeah y'all lost your chance at having a potus with kamala. The silent generation may manage another though, because somehow they took power and barely ceded any to the boomers.
  Us millennials will get a solid decade or two of power and then you'll see. You'll all see! Who's occupying wall street now?
- Hold your hats because Gen X gonna be in charge eventually.
Shush.
First rule about Gen X, we don't remember about Gen X.

Just an extension of Boomer survivor bias arguments.

They also didnt use seat belts blah blah blah....

Used to drink out of the hose all the time growing up in the 80s, but it was usually after playing in the sprinkler or otherwise running the hose for quite awhile. But never really thought twice about it either way.

Now as an adult the hose water always has this super appealing nostalgic smell, but I don't run it very often, and the idea of whatever might be lurking in that stagnant water just squicks me out too much to take a swig :(

I was born mid eighties and grew up in South Florida. You better believe we learned to let the hose run for a solid minute before even thinking about drinking from it.
Also most filters don't filter out pthalates.
- I'm pretty sure the cancer is half the reason it tasted so good!

Did this and it was glorious after playing bball in the driveway. Nothing better.

Cold water inside was pretty good.
- We played at my buddies house. He was Asian descent, so taking shoes off everytime to get a drink was too much work for us. Just grab the hose and get that drink. Pour some on your head too, cool off a bit.

Libs: owned

As a gen X I always think it's kinda weird how Gen Z (or whatever is the last), care about health considered the shitty world they're supposed to meet.

I think it's because a lot of Gen Z already have health problems that they can't afford to go to the doctor for. Or if they can afford it, the doctor doesn't know how or doesn't care about treating it. I know a healthcare provider that said they can't believe how many young people come in with old people diseases.
Because they live in a poisoned world. If you know you're constantly being poisoned, do you accept it, or do you become worried about the level of poison?
Social media and short videos. That's why there's a reason young girls to young women have a eating disorders and it's going up.

Have a sip of water that's been solar heating in a rubber garden hose for a pavlovian blast from the past!

The water tasted like damp basement! Oddly enough, it was a kinda pleasant flavour.

We also used to eat the first white snow of winter and rain water as it fell from the sky. Things were less (or more) polluted back then!

I drank from a water hose many times when I was young. I assume this is a bad thing?

Depends where you live, where I am you might get typhoid by doing that
- Was in Toronto in 60’s and 70’s.

Mmmmmmm metal and water perfect combo.

We totally did do this.

Every generation is tougher than the next, but ever generation is responsible for the next.

Lol acting like these older cunts have any responsibilities to themselves or to their children is funny

Generation Proxmox?
- lol, I hadn't even realized that.
- I read that as Generation Prolapse
Ok am I just getting old? Seems like memes are just missing words now. OP's was too.
- Mines not a meme, just a screenshot of some Gen x cringe content. you didn't miss anything
Dude is really pushing that left wrist accessorizing to unnatural boundaries.

Garden hose filters prevent lime scale from destroying whatever is attached to the hose.