Also Millenials’ and Gen Alpha’s. Once again Gen X doing all the heavy cultural lifting.

(Edit: go on then, you name a 20yo skateboarder that most people outside the sport have heard of)

(Second edit: yeesh, I retract my statement! It was a post about a skateboarder having a long career, not a calculated attack on everyone under 45, put the pitchforks away already)

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    and I’m the one clutching pearls?

    Yup, still are, ignoring the point of the comment in favor of the “ludicrous” context of their anecdote. “It’s just a joke” is also a poor, worn out excuse to discredit criticism.

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      Oh wait I see, you’re in training for when they add Extreme High Horse Riding to the X-Games. Careful you don’t fall off.