BBC have deboomerised me.

Gen X started when the pill was legalised which ended the baby boom.

I technically fit in that Xennial category. I've always thought of myself as being between the generations. Which doesn't actually make sense now I think about it but I always liked the idea of being an in-betweener.

ETA Didn't know that about the length of the baby boom, and the role of the pill in ending it.

It's to do with the length of the hump.

So the birth rate went up and stayed up for about 10 years post war.

Ithink it's because a lot of people define the real difference between X and the millennials as being around the fact that Gen X wasn't digital, and millenials had the internet from childhood, which radically changed childhood.

The latest Gen X though did get internet when still young enough that it influenced their youth somewhat. So some want to call them Xenials.

"Classic boomer" I think refers to people who were born in the baby boom that followed WW2. That's where the name comes from. I'm not sure when the term was extended to refer to a whole extra decade-plus. But it used to just refer to those born in the post-war baby boom.

This makes more sense for me. Brought up analogue adult digital. I am definitely one of those, I guess xenial (?). Goes to Google to confirm.

Yes, where does this end? Niches between niches between niches between niches? Before you know it you're doing calculus on the generations 🙄

@Ursulla Nope. We have xennials. Anyone who is born after Generation X and before the millennial generation would be considered a xennial.

I mentioned it earlier. Also known as the Oregon Trail generation, which sounds very Stranger Things.

I am a Gen X, apparently, but only just, I had no idea I was so closely related to a Millennials. Well actually my close cousin is a Mill (sigh) As the GenA say "mind blown". I think we should more labels for things then it won't get confusing. Sorry I'm having a bit of a day!

Twins - different birth days , yeah,, different months... yeah... different star signs.... different school years... hmmmm

different generations, that's 😂😂😂😂🤯

Recession, foot and mouth disease, bird flu, swine flu, Brexit, more recessions, Covid, what’s next? I feel like I’ve seen it all at this point. And then there’s this constant fear that Russia and North Korea are going to trigger WW3.

This is me lol
I'm on the cus thought
Definitely more Gen x than boomer - can find my way round a computer.

Anyway nobody else had in-between generations - that was just for millennials because they're so special

LOL surely nobody would want to label themselves as a beta, poor sods.

There’s xennials and zillenials. I wonder what’s the in between generation for Gen Z and Gen Alpha? Gen Beta? 🤔

Apparently Gen Z are the new Silents - childhood and coming of age at a time of global instability and economic uncertainty.

Shame as I had high hopes for them - they had their parents' gen x cynicism plus a mastery of tech making them fantastic decoders of information but sadly we've fucked it all up a bit.

What’s a geriatric millennial? Curious to know if I am one as I am 35 years old. And I already feel like I’ve hit middle age. Just last year, I had my first batch of white hairs and they’ve all sprung up in one go so I guess I a geriatric millennial .

There's actually a little niche in-between Generation X and Millienials between 1977-1983 called Xennials. Analogue childhood, digital adulthood. So says the internet... I might have been slow on the uptake but I was 25 when I opened my FB account in 2007!

I was also born in 1960.

My take-home pay as a teacher in '84 worked out at £80 a week, I recall. I got my house in '87 for £21 but couldn't afford to redecorate (beyond painting) and I'm afraid that I still have the original '70s carpets in part of the house.

When interest rates went up, I just managed to keep my head above water.

I think it's that they (ETA : the silent generation) weren't publicly loud maybe though. But then some of them will have been at Woodstock, been protesting for civil rights and so on - people born in the 40s would only have been in their 20s for all of that.

Ha! As someone who is managing to hang onto Boomerdom by the skin of her teeth, I say "Ha, ha and thrice ha!" to that.

I was thinking exactly the same about my mother, born 1936! 😂

I was born in 1960. I bought a flat in zone 2 with two beds and a gge for £30k in 1981. Uni fees were paid although only about 3% to 5% went to HE. I also have a final salary pension scheme which applies to my pension up to 2014, then it became career average.

However, I recall 15% interest rates, white goods that cost a months' net salary, 1981 was the worst year for grad recruitment ever, black Monday, the early 90s crash. Mat leave in 1994/5 was 6 months providing you had two years' service before pg and pat leave was unheard of.

£9,000!!!

That was a huge salary

I don’t think I earned more than £3500 and that was in the very late 80’s

A few years later that was my monthly mortgage payment before tax

Don’t think I am getting a pension, state or private. I haven’t paid enough in to get a pension and my private one was used to prop up a failing company, so there isn’t anything there. I also don’t think I will ever reach retirement age. I keep getting older but so does the pension age

Definitely wouldn’t have been able to afford university

When people talk about Boomers it always feels wrong. I don’t know anyone of my age who fitted with the description because the ones that I know all lost everything or struggled to hold onto anything during the housing crash of the early 90s because we had only just started out and didn’t have the buffer of savings or equity to save against the down turn and negative equity

Off to look up Gen X