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| #4838 | | Paper Rabies:
Hypersensitivity to littering.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4839 | | Bradyism:
A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in
large families. A rarity in those born after approximately 1965,
symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional
withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a
well-defined personal space.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4840 | | Black Holes:
An X generation subgroup best known for their possession of
almost entirely black wardrobes.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4841 | | Black Dens:
Where Black Holes live; often unheated warehouses with Day-Glo
spray painting, mutilated mannequins, Elvis references, dozens of
overflowing ashtrays, mirror sculptures, and Velvet Underground music
playing in background.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4842 | | Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4843 | | Squires:
The most common X generation subgroup and the only subgroup
given to breeding. Squires exist almost exclusively in couples and
are recognizable by their frantic attempts to create a semblance of
Eisenhower-era plenitude in their daily lives in the face of
exorbitant housing prices and two-job life-styles. Squires tend to be
continually exhausted from their voraciously acquisitive pursuit of
furniture and knickknacks.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4844 | | Poverty Lurks:
Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era
parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4845 | | Pull-the-Plug, Slice the Pie:
A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the
net worth of his parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4846 | | Underdogging:
The tendency to almost invariably side with the underdog in a
given situation. The consumer expression of this trait is the
purchasing of less successful, "sad," or failing products: "I know
these Vienna franks are heart failure on a stick, but they were so sad
looking up against all the other yuppie food items that I just had to
buy them."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4847 | | 2 + 2 = 5-ism:
Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself after
holding out for a long period of time. "Oh, all right, I'll buy your
stupid cola. Now leave me alone."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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