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We had merry-go-rounds at the playgrounds and we drank from the hose and it was morning in America and we drank from the hose
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The lead paint had all been chewed off the merry go round by the time millennials got there, and we used it for inducing the head trauma God intended from what amounted to a child-scale horizontal pitching machine.
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All that leaded gas we were using.
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DRINK FROM THE HOOOOOOOOSE!!!!!!
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I'm right in that late Gen X/Xillenial dip where we have lower lead before it gets a little higher 5 years later until 2005 or so. Kinda scary missing out by so little and being better off than kids 5 years younger.
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I'm an elder millennial and full of lead, plastics and PFAS. Hopefully this combo will kill me before I'm crazy from lead leaching out my bones.
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That explains what happened to my generation, but the GenZ dudes are rotting their brains in a completely different manner. 😞
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It must have tasted good from the hose
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we were breathing leaded car exhaust too, good times
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enough of it, and this is literally true. Leaded water tastes sweet.
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What happened to our cool babysitters?

I'll end my life before I succumb to mind rot.
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I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
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I'm 51 and near the tail end of Gen X. This is off by about ten years.
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that would be because it says "2015" on it
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Imagining what the polls would look like if you didn’t post about Adonis
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We used to stand behind cars burning leaded gas and smell the fumes. I wish I was kidding
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This must be why I never felt like I belonged. Good.
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I love leadchart dot gif
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It’s funny, I am on the very left end of that bracket, and in high school the classes of 93 and 94 were very noticeably more belligerent, racist, and stupid than the later classes
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bsky.app/profile/chips.bsky.social/post/3mimhd5fook2u
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This is outRRRAAAgeous! The clear superiority of my generation's lead fortified gray matter shall not be challenged!
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The fuckin paint was delicious though. Can't deny that.
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My generation are complete idiots
Sorry
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Fuck was in those water hoses (lead, probably)
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I weep for my generation
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Chronic lead exposure early in life causes it to be stored in developing bones, and as those bones break down with geriatric senescence it re-releases years of lead buildup back into the bloodstream.

That's why boomers went fucking crazy just before retirement age, and gen x will be far worse.
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Source? Not saying you're full of shit but it's the kind of wild claim I used to see on anonymous imageboards
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yuh oh
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I dodged that tetraethyl lead like Neo in The Matrix by being born in 1989
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Obviously this is proof that Gen X MAGA should demand the return of leaded gasoline.
Potential rationalizations include bangers like:

"Unleaded gas is woke."
"High blood levels of lead protect you from 5G brainwashing."
"There was no autism before unleaded gasoline came along."

/s
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Jfc. Sorry. We suck. 😭
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Somehow I made it 48 years without knowing my generation was a bunch of fucking psychos.
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There really ought to be a sorta higher attention profile on psychos. I'm not going to judge you for what you've become accustomed to, but perhaps it's time to reevaluate some other stuff.
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bsky.app/profile/hoovybaby.bsky.social/post/3lep2lktwds2z
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Never blame mental illness for evil, unless the mental illness was caused by lead poisoning in the 1970s
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checks tf out
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this is what drinking from the hose got us
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