If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

If you wanted a Thriller jacket as badly as I did, you are definitely Gen X. Plus, shoulder pads.

But also remember dancing to the Jackson 5 on a record player at pajama parties and debated whether you wanted to marry Michael or Donny.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

If you wanted a Thriller jacket as badly as I did, you are definitely Gen X. Plus, shoulder pads.

I don't recall ever seeing anyone actually wear a thriller jacket. Are you sure your not thinking of Members Only jackets?

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Um, no.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

A lot of Gen Xers were in college when that happened.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

If you wanted a Thriller jacket as badly as I did, you are definitely Gen X. Plus, shoulder pads.

I don't recall ever seeing anyone actually wear a thriller jacket. Are you sure your not thinking of Members Only jackets?

DP: The Thriller Jacket was a thing.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Right, I said "A LOT," not "ALL."

Yeah, I remember where I was when the Challenger exploded and when hearing Kurt Chobani died, but these things were not as big of a deal to us as the JFK assanation seemed to be to people in the 60's. I certainly don't remember seeing anyone cry about it. On the news maybe, but not in real life.

Honestly I saw stronger reactions from people after the OJ Simpson ruling than the death of Chobani or the Challenger explosion.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

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Maybe the defining question was: Where were you when MTV played the very first music video: Video Killed the Radio Star?

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

What? I was 24 in 1994, b. 1970, and am absolutely an X'er. Right dead set in the middle.

And no one cares if you were slaving away in your law office by then, PP. I was 24 and was in a mosh pit enjoying my youth.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

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I was born in 1959. The charts say I am a boomer, so I guess I am a boomer.

I was 4 when Kennedy was shot. I don't remember anything about it. While Vietnam was intensely going on, I was learning to ride my bike without training wheels. Of course I heard about Vietnam, but Gomer Pyle was on TV and he seemed pretty happy. That Woodstock thing? I first learned about it by listening to a Joni Mitchell song on the radio years afterward. When the astronauts landed on the moon, my mom made me come in from playing outside to watch and I was pretty cranky with her about it because I had been having a good time playing.

I vaguely remember TV shows going from black and white to color.

I suppose I have boomer influences as well. Growing up, girls were expected to learn to cook and raise children and clean house. Going to college was a "waste of money to spend on a woman." A young woman could learn a trade such as secretarial or teaching or nursing, but she was expected to quit working once she got married and started putting that uterus to work. As a teen and young adult, I assumed that there would always be factory jobs that would pay well. Assembling tricycles, working at the Frito factory, working at the air conditioner factory, etc.

You were supposed to try to remain a virgin until marriage. Living together before marriage was a sin.

I used to read the teen magazines back when I was, well, a teen. The magazine articles said that teen boys have fragile egos and a teen girl should never win at tennis or chess with a teen boy.

Birth control pills came along when I was a teen and that just absolutely revolutionized everything. Now, it is accepted as a completely normal thing that two people can have sex with each other without it resulting in a baby.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe the defining question was: Where were you when MTV played the very first music video: Video Killed the Radio Star?

Most people weren't aware of it happening so they wouldn't have had a memory of it.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Not me. Born in 72, I remember hearing about his death but had no idea who he was and was shocked that it was such a big deal.