BBC have deboomerised me.

I love your user name

although my mum would have adapted it to ‘at the end’ - and would also have probably made it the middle 🤣

you really do need a sense of humour about these things …

I was born in the grey area of 1960-1964 and have always felt more Gen X than Baby Boomer.

I never knew or experienced the rationing, shortages and going without that the peak boomers would have done - although I do remember the three day weeks and rolling power cuts. Growing up, being a teen in the 70s, music and cinema were pushing boundaries, technology was coming in, the world was changing.

So maybe I’m a Boomer X.

Wow ! I’ve read that people born circa 1955 had many advantages- generous student grants

Also - they would’ve been around 20 when computers were just coming in so could benefit in many ways from these developments… e.g Bill Gates ?

Same, but on the upside, use of ‘Okay Boomer’ is a quick way of knowing someone is an arsehole.

Excuse me! I am a late boomer (born 1962) and I had my whole career in the computer industry so I think I can find my way round a computer.

Yes, born 61, career writing software. I occasionally can't find my way around a device because they've done something illogical with the UI, tbf.
DB, born mid 50s built his own computer when he was a student.
The people of our generation who did computer stuff weren't just consumers of services which is what most people are now.

I don't much care either way, (born 1962) but what I do very much care about is the way the term 'boomers' is so often used as a contemptuous insult on MN.

Mah ok thanks for exposing I see exactly what you mean

pensions were more generous for those born in earlier decades - 30s etc

44 year olds aren’t geriatric. We may feel old at times but give us a break!
Well, unless you're having a baby. 'Geriatric primagravida' is a phrase which shouldn't exist except maybe re John the Baptist's mother.😂

Excuse me! I am a late boomer (born 1962) and I had my whole career in the computer industry so I think I can find my way round a computer.

As can DH and my elder sisters actually and they were all born in the 1950s.

44 year olds aren’t geriatric. We may feel old at times but give us a break!

I was born in 1953 and all those “rug pulling” things happened to me too.

it was never easy to buy a house, but I agree that it has become much harder. DH and I have young adult kids, two of which are still living at home because of the ridiculous price of housing in the south east. It doesn’t benefit anybody really, as we need to die to release the equity to our kids!

Exactly this.

But we are coolest.

My honest opinion is that I think a lot of Boomers really did luck out in buying houses

but I don’t begrudge them any of it - am pleased for them

they’ve worked hard for it

🤣

im Gen X !

any chance of me being X orcised ?

If you are in the cohort that gets deboomerised and then reboomerised, are you a Boomeranger?

Final salary pensions pulled, pension age for women pushed back, high mortgage interest rates, negative equity - that sort of thing. I’m not denying we had benefits which those following did not have e.g. free university education, but we were born just a little bit too late to benefit to the same extent as those born a little bit earlier.

I’m not complaining by the way 😁. Generally, I think that plonking individuals into broad categories is pretty meaningless.

Great call 🤣

I may have a T-shirt made.

In what way was the rug pulled sharply ?

to me 1967 are firmly gen x

I don’t know why the term Generation Jones isn’t used more often. This includes those born from 1955 to 1967 and better describes those of the late boomer cohort who had the rug pulled sharply from under their feet.

‘Deboomerize’ sounds such a fun verb !

I've always considered myself to be one of the younger Boomers (October 1963). And I'm staying one! The BBC are not going to deboomer me!

I'm like @RayonSunrise, technically too old to be an Xennial but I fit the definition. I learnt to code at the age of 11.

Xennial makes more sense for me. I was an adult in the 20th century.

I was so peeved to have a mobile phone foisted on me in 1998 so DM could keep tabs on me. It could store 8 SMS messages. Social arrangements were still very much "meet me by the statue at 7:30" because calls were expensive and SMSs could often lag. I didn't live with the internet until 2003. I began using it reguarly at school/ uni from 1997 but had to use libraries/ computer rooms/ internet cafes until then.

My music taste is more Gen X as I had an older sibling and a long memory so was exposed to their musical exploration. Plus parental music tastes. I've already outgrown Radio 2 even though I'm allegedly their target audience.

My friendships are very much late 70s- early 80s with a lot of friends securely in the Gen X band. DH is very securely Gen X, and we have a Gen X typical financial positioning. I just missed out on university grants, but the newly introduced tution fees were low. I had a bursary for my post-graduate course. My student houses were like being in The Young Ones.

I did the older style 3 A-levels before the AS/A2 split (A-level and university studies were still very much book/ journal based with limited supplimenting of online information). Y9 SATs in their limited window before they were dropped, but no y6 SATs. Y6 was an interesting school year! The National Curriculum and Key Stages had just come in and there was rearranging of school structures around that.

It was very much an analogue childhood, and while there was computing through my teens, it was niche and didn't integrate with social interactions until phones became more sophisticated in my adulthood.

The 90s/ early 2000s was such an optomistic era for teenagehood and enjoying the independence of young adulthood. It was fun and creative. You could afford to enjoy it, and there was no fear of unbridled fun appearing on social media and coming back to bite you.

A few weeks on a calendar does not a Millenial make!
Gen Xen, the best of analogue and digital.