To think I'm neither gen x or a millennial?

[Spidder]

I know, I know; I shouldn't care. But this is the adult version of poring over your star sign.

Apparently gen x is 1965-1980. Then millennials are 1981_ 1995 , or something.

I was born on the cusp. I don't have much in common with x or mill. Kind of a mix of both really. I thought we were called gen y a few years ago, but now that's been given to those born after 1995.

So, I know I'm bu to care, but aibu to not think I'm x or millennial?

@ginandwineandbaileys

I think millennials were spoiled by their boomer grandparents/ parents, their older generation x siblings paved a more liberated path >>> hence their snowflake whiny personalities. The zoomers are the children of generation x, have been brought up to think radically, to not accept inequality, plus have information available at their fingertips, and sm. politicians now find it very difficult to lie, and hide behind personalities. I love my gen z hildren and their friends.

I'm a millennial and my parents are Gen X, not boomers so where does that fit your theory?

Lol @luckynumber

I think it’s very interesting. I’m xennial (1982 millennial) married to a gen x, have a zoomer DSS and alpha kids.

I was very surprised that my DSS told me he’d joined the Conservative party when he’d turned 18 and that everyone he knew at his state sixth form college were very much conservatives. He doesn’t drink much and neither do his friends (even before lockdown) far too sensible.

I don’t know what he thinks of millennials, but he doesn’t seem to have that entitlement about him.

I remember being told at school that computers / internet / mobiles were going to revolutionise ours lives and make everything easy for us. We’d all go to university and earn £££s because we were the generation who knew how to turn a PC on and off. Well it didn’t work out that way and there sure is some bitterness in my generation.

I think the covid generation are going to be the ones to watch I don’t think they will be so willing to do as they are told by the government. I feel there will be some push back against large organisations and government control.

@Waxonwaxoff0
Grandparents...

All the labels do my head in. I'm happy to stick with 'human'.
Adult human female even. But that's it. Why do we need to be boxed in and have a label stamped on our arse?
It all makes me very grumpy!

Ok Boomer

[quote ginandwineandbaileys]@Waxonwaxoff0
Grandparents...[/quote]
My grandparents aren't boomers either. They're silent generation.

@Waxonwaxoff0
I can tell you the source of your angst, but you're not going to like it.

Definitely Gen X, born 75.

My parents were boomers. Except they didn't get into grammar school, so left school at 15 and had shit jobs all their lives. And a shit house they put everything in to. No fancy holidays or holiday homes for them. Bet there are a lot of boomers who get really pissed off by being classed as boomers.

My dad has been known to say the 'pc gone mad line though' which, as was commented on in another thread, could be because boomer union reps don't tend to be very inclusive. But I wonder if that's because being union rep is quite empowering in a world where you feel disempowered.

Bit serious.

Dave Grohl has been in the Foo Fighters for nearly 30 years. Think he was in Nirvana for less than 10. Now that's mad. The music I try to foist upon my kids is as dated as the Beatles were to me.

The way music dates is weird. I find it so odd that for my primary school aged children 1990s music is as old as the 1960s music I heard my parents listening to in the 1990s. But because the 1990s music is ‘my’ music it doesn’t sound dated at all to me, whereas is obviously does to my kids, and my parents music sounded very dated and old to me.

I'm a millennial but an elder one 😁

I suppose the thing is that some music dates and some doesn't. Some of the v poppy beatles is v is v of its time, but others can still sound ageless. Same with any of the good stuff. I love a lot of my 90s era, but much of it is quite throwaway- usually the stuff inspired by the music that became the classics.