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Translation by google:

We are a generation that I didn't want to miss or swap...

A generation that went to school and came back on foot or by bike in wind and weather without E.

A generation that has done its homework quickly in order to be playing on the streets as soon as possible.

A generation that spent all their free time outdoors. A generation that played hide and seek when it got dark and built huts in the woods.

A generation that made mud cakes and collected white pebbles and had competitions in spitting plums and cherry pits.

A generation that collected marbles.

A generation that made paper toys with their own hands.

A generation that loved rubber twists for hours.

A generation that collected photos and albums. .

A generation that recorded music cassettes with their favorite songs from the radio and still knows that tape salad could sometimes be saved with a pencil.

A generation that grew up with standing blues parties and kissing.

A generation that naturally preferred to grow intoxicating medicinal plants with their parents' ok effect themselves and was able to stop experimenting.

A generation that had parents and grandma and grandpa, not old people.

A generation that secretly read books under the covers before going to bed or wrote in diaries with a small padlock and laughed or cried softly so that the parents would not know that we were still awake.

A generation that spent the whole summer together at the lido, in a clique with friends.

A generation that played badminton outside in the evenings.

A generation that swapped poetry albums.

A generation that thought television was stupid and preferred to be nonsensical and talk and discuss with each other.

A generation that could eat and tolerate anything.

A generation that was interested in many things, wanted to try them out and be able to do them.

A generation that learned and was able to cook, bake, knit, crochet, sew, style mopeds and repair cars.

A generation that still wanted to be husband and wife.

A generation that just put the phone down so they couldn't be reached.

A generation that visited each other without making an appointment and just rang the doorbell and spent time together.

A generation that met to watch their favorite series together.

A generation that had best friends at home who understood you when you had problems.

A generation that could drive a car before driving school started.

A generation that skipped school to be undisturbed with their first love.

A generation that sadly will never come back like this.....we enjoyed youth and were excited for the life ahead.

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[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A generation that thought television was stupid and preferred to be nonsensical and talk and discuss with each other.

That one sure is BS. Then also…

A generation that met to watch their favorite series together.

[–] dog@suppo.fi 15 points 1 year ago

Aka the spoiled brats.

She’s bragging about skipping school, it shows

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

A generation that naturally preferred to grow intoxicating medicinal plants with their parents' ok effect themselves and was able to stop experimenting.

There's just so much in this one

[–] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She looks like she's from the generation that did a lot of those things early in childhood but then discovered the power of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Also let's be honest: If her kids skipped school to be with their lovers, she wouldn't support this at all. She probably wouldn't even support kids skipping school to be politically active.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ich bin die Generation, die dauerhaft im Strahl kotzen könnte, weil alles bergab geht bis auf meine Ausgaben.

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, good for them. Must have been a great time to be young.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, I don't think this was as much of a brag as that lady thought it was.

Especially when the following generation which is implied as worse is their own children.

[–] Sofsip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Loving rubber twist and swapping poetry albums .. sign me up!