BBC have deboomerised me.

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I thought boomers were up to 1964, BBC news had an article about "Alphas". In which boomers were designated as born between 1940 and 1960, so I am an "X" now. Given the resentments that exist towards "Boomers", maybe it is for the best.

I thought Millennials would include 1999/2000 although I don't remember these terms being used much when I was younger (gen x) so I've no idea how they work.

I was thinking about our generation's fairly hands off experience of being parented the other day and came to the conclusion that for most of our parents, many of whom spent their childhoods in shit housing etc, they probably felt they'd done enough just by providing a nicer country to live in than they had had with more political and domestic stability. I mean the 70s and 80s would have looked like paradise to people who grew up in the 40s or in the case of my old pa the 30s.

I'd love to see anyone persuade my mother, born in 1940, that she's part of the Silent Generation. She never stops talking!

Millennials are people coming of age in those years, not being born then.

I was born in the last fortnight of 1976, so I consider myself to be an Xennial.

😂This is one of the funniest things I have read in ages. And yes, it could have described my DM

£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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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!

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 .

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

different generations, that's 😂😂😂😂🤯

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!

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

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

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