Stop calling Gen X people "Boomers"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

No. Born in 1976 and have never ever considered myself a millennial.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Bet you had the matching tramp stamp too.

There aren't a lot of pics of us in those jeans because we didn't have cell phones with cameras. We had to get film developed.
I'll take that any day over my 20s splashed all over myspace

That’s ok. We have the image of your tramp stamp and thong sticking out while acting like a drunken fool seared into our brains.

No you don’t. If you’re so young, you weren’t at any of the good parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

No. Born in 1976 and have never ever considered myself a millennial.

+1.

Of course not. These rigid categories are silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:us boomer had the summer of love, man. You can't even do that today.
Sorry, can't say I think much of this current generation either

Summer of drugs and rape

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:us boomer had the summer of love, man. You can't even do that today.
Sorry, can't say I think much of this current generation either

Summer of drugs and rape

Thankfully those things don’t exist these days. Phew!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Bet you had the matching tramp stamp too.

There aren't a lot of pics of us in those jeans because we didn't have cell phones with cameras. We had to get film developed.
I'll take that any day over my 20s splashed all over myspace

That’s ok. We have the image of your tramp stamp and thong sticking out while acting like a drunken fool seared into our brains.

No you don’t. If you’re so young, you weren’t at any of the good parties.

Thank goodness we do not have film of all the stupid and really fun nonsense we did while young. It must be awful to not have some of those things get to naturally fade away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

No. Born in 1976 and have never ever considered myself a millennial.

+1.

All of this is arbitrary, I concede, but it makes no sense for PP's list to reduce Gen X to 10 years when every other category is 20 years. Millennials are mostly children of Boomers, and started in the Reagan era, 1981-2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:us boomer had the summer of love, man. You can't even do that today.
Sorry, can't say I think much of this current generation either

I’m a boomer and was 5 in the summer of love. My boomer brother was 3. I don’t think it had a formative impact on either of us.

[Anonymous]

Forgetting that GenX exists and thinking that the generations jump from Boomer to Millennial is classic for GenX. We're used to just getting shit done without demanding people pay attention to us. GenZ is going to be a lot like us rather than the self-involved prima donnas from the Boomer and Millennial generations.

[Anonymous]

Millennials are the lazy, selfish navel-gazers who were raised by the rude, selfish pill-popper Boomers.

Gen X are the poor people stuck in the middle who have to work harder to cover for these people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

No. Born in 1976 and have never ever considered myself a millennial.

+1.

Of course not. These rigid categories are silly.

Agree. DH was born in 1982. He is smart, focused and driven. We married relatively young (I’m 2 years older) and have been completely independent since the moment we graduated college, including insurance, cell phone bills, you name it. We have kids, bought homes, etc. We work hard and take ownership and initiative. We do not identify in ANY way with millennials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Bet you had the matching tramp stamp too.

There aren't a lot of pics of us in those jeans because we didn't have cell phones with cameras. We had to get film developed.
I'll take that any day over my 20s splashed all over myspace

That’s ok. We have the image of your tramp stamp and thong sticking out while acting like a drunken fool seared into our brains.

No you don’t. If you’re so young, you weren’t at any of the good parties.

I was there. You were the butt of the joke. So to speak.

It wasn't a good look - even then.

[Anonymous]

I explain to my kids that boomers have the big pensions and wildly inflated home equity. And they think they succeeded when they just worked regular jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

No. Born in 1976 and have never ever considered myself a millennial.

+1.

Of course not. These rigid categories are silly.

Agree. DH was born in 1982. He is smart, focused and driven. We married relatively young (I’m 2 years older) and have been completely independent since the moment we graduated college, including insurance, cell phone bills, you name it. We have kids, bought homes, etc. We work hard and take ownership and initiative. We do not identify in ANY way with millennials.

I mean, it doesn’t matter if you don’t feel like a Millennial. By dint of your birth year you and your husband ARE Millennials. You don’t get to just opt out. I don’t identify with a lot of American values, but I was born here, so I am an American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Bet you had the matching tramp stamp too.

There aren't a lot of pics of us in those jeans because we didn't have cell phones with cameras. We had to get film developed.
I'll take that any day over my 20s splashed all over myspace

That’s ok. We have the image of your tramp stamp and thong sticking out while acting like a drunken fool seared into our brains.

No you don’t. If you’re so young, you weren’t at any of the good parties.

I was there. You were the butt of the joke. So to speak.

It wasn't a good look - even then.

Oh. So you’re old like us. Then STFU.