soze: I'm 31, and this Catalano crap is the most self-indulgent horse poop

Then you're grown, and shouldn't say the word poop.

Wasn't Jordan Catalano illiterate?

Wow, naming your generation after some pretty boy character on an obscure TV show no one ever gave a damn about?

Why not say you're part of Generation Manimal. At least that wold sound cool.

So the next Summer of Love will be in Barcelona?

tricycleracer: "Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shiattier jobs ... Generation X is used to being farked over."

Graduating high school maybe. Gen X was graduating college in the middle of the Tech Boom. They were being paid $125k/year because they knew rudimentary HTML.

In my entire life, there have been maybe two 4 or 5 year periods that seem to have been easy to graduate into- the late 80s, and the late 90s. Neither of which I was fortunate enough to hit. Maybe those weren't so easy, if you were 22 at the time. And as bad as the early 80s or early 90s or even now may have been, the worst time must have been the late 60s. Then, you didn't worry about getting a job; you worried about getting sent to Viet Nam. And in the 70s, you didn't worry so much about what you were going to do when you got out of college, because you probably weren't going to college anyway. Only about 25% of people did go. So you worried about what you would do when your factory job went overseas. The whole world was a pure shiathole in the 70s, but I don't remember my parents pining for the good old days, when everything was easy.
I don't know what that generation was that skated through life. I do know that sometime in the future, kids are going to be whining about how good the millenials had it, even if 20% of them or so didn't get what they wanted back in 2011.