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• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 101-ism: The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Dumpster Clocking: The tendency when looking at objects to guesstimate the amount of time they will take to eventually decompose
  Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova....
• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Native Aping: Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Homeowner Envy: Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Air Family: Describes the false sense of community experienced among coworkers in an office environment.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...