At some point during adulthood, many of us started pretending to enjoy things we definitely hated as kids. Olives. Blue cheese. Red wine. Sparkling water that tastes like somebody whispered “fruit” into it from another room. Gen X especially became experts at this. Somewhere between paying council tax and buying kitchen appliances voluntarily, we convinced ourselves certain foods were “sophisticated.” And for years many of us quietly forced them down […]

Not every trend deserves a comeback. For every brilliant bit of nostalgia Gen X remembers fondly, there’s another trend we’re perfectly happy to leave buried somewhere in the past next to broken fax machines and forgotten New Romantic haircuts. Because while the 70s, 80s and 90s gave us amazing music, iconic films and some unforgettable TV, they also gave us some truly questionable ideas. And somehow, at the time, many […]

School taught us a lot of things. Some useful. Some confusing. Some completely impossible to apply in real life unless somebody urgently needs a compass or a recorder performance. But the most useful skills most Gen Xers ever learned usually came from somewhere else entirely. Parents. Jobs. Friends. Trial and error. Or complete panic. Because growing up in the Gen X era meant learning practical life skills whether you wanted […]