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.

@Jumell , I wonder if there are local authority courses to help you? You clearly have taken a wrong turn.
Also...I used to drive a Morris Minor! 1984. It was navy blue and the most reliable vehicle on God's green earth.

Aw love them and love the colours !

Like the mad Boomer I was, I gave it up for a VW Golf.

I’m a bit surprised they were making Morris Minors as late as 1984 tbh

No the whole point is that millennials became adults around the millennium.

Very literally for me, a 1982 born geriatric millennial

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I bought mine from an elderly neighbor who had to give up driving. She had kept it in fantastic condition.

Did they really? Because everyone I know GOT that phone for Christmas 1998 which was when it exploded

Aw fabulous! 🙌

The xenial thing makes sense to me, because the Internet was such a huge change in everyone's lives.

The arguement is that Xenials had both an analogue childhood and a digital one. I.E. no Internet early childhood and a gen x childhood in primary school, and digital teenage years, like early AOL chat rooms and a millenial teenage years in secondary.

Love this

Anyone want to guess my year of birth ?

I had free milk at break times at school ! 😁

2009, you look so young!

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Geriatric? 😳😱 I was born in 1983. A way off geriatric yet, I hope 🤣

Oh dear. Just when you thought you were in your prime 😉

We also think it's a load of bollocks don't we?

Yep 💪🙌

we’re far too cool to get involved in any drama !

Haha @BeatrizBoniface! Not sure about that either, to be honest! 🫣🤣

I noticed a trend over recent years, probably over the last 10 years for social media and some parts of the media to categorise more and more people as 'boomers' later and later birth years, usually as in insult or a problem.

100%. We also had way less support if we were divorced, demonised for being single mothers and struggled to be respected professionally, dealing with blatant misogyny at work.

tbh I think Boomers had the best music /cars etc .. to be 20 circa 1967 must have been excellent!!

I’m Gen X. I remember my first mobile phone in 93. It’s the year I started university. Everyone at university had a mobile. I also got dial up internet the same year. University had labs with computers and we took our work in with floppy and zip disks. It’s the computer science department labs that had the Zip disk. Everywhere else was floppy.

I am surprised at the 97 quoted up thread for being the year when mobile took off. I was in NZ if that makes a difference.

I got my first mobile in 2001 aged 21... I don't recall any of my friends having them before that. One friend had one because he got it free with his Barclay's student account. I think it even had a Barclay's logo on it.

I did go to a uni in a town with everything in walking distance so maybe we just didn't need them.(UK, uni was in Wales).

I only had access to the internet when I went to uni in '98. I definitely feel Xennial

I'm a Gen x !

I started Uni in 1993 and didn't know a single person with a mobile phone. In 1996, the year we graduated, someone's older boyfriend had one, and my boss at my weekend job had a car phone. I didn't get a mobile until 2000 which was about average amongst my family and friends.