Labelling generations

[Mr Larrington]

I belong to the   Generation
And I can take it or leave it each time

You are Richard Hell AICMFP.

 

(After checking to make sure Mr Hell (b. 1949) ate'nt dead)

[Clare]

What happened to Generation Y?

Another name for millenials.

[Robh]

I belong to the   Generation
And I can take it or leave it each time

You are Richard Hell AICMFP.

 

(After checking to make sure Mr Hell (b. 1949) ate'nt dead)

And Mr Hell was merely riffing on this piece, from way back when in the 50s (note that the writer is uber hipster Rod McKuen):
https://youtu.be/Y5-HlUAOjGE

[Mr Larrington]

This could equally well go in “The Last Trump”: Meet the Gen Zers with a plan to take the fight to MAGA.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I belong to the   Generation
And I can take it or leave it each time

You are Richard Hell AICMFP.

 

(After checking to make sure Mr Hell (b. 1949) ate'nt dead)

And Mr Hell was merely riffing on this piece, from way back when in the 50s (note that the writer is uber hipster Rod McKuen):
https://youtu.be/Y5-HlUAOjGE

Never heard of any one of them. But that was fun and although it had clear jazz influences in a way it sounded less outdated than rock n roll of the same era.

As for generations, isn't it conventional that each generation complains the next one is lazy?

[Cudzoziemiec]

And continuing on generations and music, apparently hip hop is "officially" 50 years old this year. Gosh! Surely time for it to disappear?

[Vernon]

And continuing on generations and music, apparently hip hop is "officially" 50 years old this year. Gosh! Surely time for it to disappear?

Or time for its replacement? N.W.Z. anyone? 

[Cudzoziemiec]

And continuing on generations and music, apparently hip hop is "officially" 50 years old this year. Gosh! Surely time for it to disappear?

Or time for its replacement? N.W.Z. anyone? 

Niggaz Wit Zeal?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Btw, why is this thread in POBI? It really doesn't belong here, to my mind.

[ian]

It was commented the other day that us Gen-X people will be a glut of older workers in the senior ranks because all the Boomers got to retire to their big houses in the country in their mid-to-rate fifties, which in my experience seems to be coming true.

[Vernon]

And continuing on generations and music, apparently hip hop is "officially" 50 years old this year. Gosh! Surely time for it to disappear?

Or time for its replacement? N.W.Z. anyone? 

Niggaz Wit Zeal?

Zimmers.

[rafletcher]

It was commented the other day that us Gen-X people will be a glut of older workers in the senior ranks because all the Boomers got to retire to their big houses in the country in their mid-to-rate fifties, which in my experience seems to be coming true.

Indeed. I’m sort of post-boomer (born 1957) and still working, though partly that is poor financial nous, divorce, and peripatetic employment.

[Wowbagger]

Btw, why is this thread in POBI? It really doesn't belong here, to my mind.

I thought about putting it elsewhere, but mention of boomers has been triggering for some forummers in the past and it is, perhaps therefore, a Big issue? I had no idea which way the discussion was going to go so put it in here just in case. If mods wish to move it somewhere they deem more appropriate, then I have no objection.

OK boomer — C-3PO.

[Cudzoziemiec]

And continuing on generations and music, apparently hip hop is "officially" 50 years old this year. Gosh! Surely time for it to disappear?

Or time for its replacement? N.W.Z. anyone? 

Niggaz Wit Zeal?

Zimmers.

But true.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Btw, why is this thread in POBI? It really doesn't belong here, to my mind.

I thought about putting it elsewhere, but mention of boomers has been triggering for some forummers in the past and it is, perhaps therefore, a Big issue? I had no idea which way the discussion was going to go so put it in here just in case. If mods wish to move it somewhere they deem more appropriate, then I have no objection.

(A boomer is a male kangaroo.)

[hubner]

It's all nonsense, how can an age gap of 20 years be of the same generation?

Millennials: Born 1981-1996

The oldest millennial is 42, the youngest is 27, and they are supposedly of the same generation. Likewise  77 and 58 for the so called boomers.

A young parent and their offspring would be of the same "generation".

Because they're supposed to be broad social labels to identify attitudes changing by cohort, not strictly to do with family relationships.

I don't think a 77 year old and 58 year old are of the same "cohort". The "parent and their offspring" is just an example of the "generation" nonsense because of the age gap, not that boomer/gen x/z etc is to do with  family relationships.

[hellymedic]

They don't really work in years, they work in generations (well, duh).  So GenXers are the children of the boomers, and millennials are the children of GenXers.  By then, any correlation with years gets muddied due to the fact that (these days) parents' ages can vary wildly.  Back in the boomer days, you were more likely to get a man in his mid to late twenties marrying a woman in her early twenties, and popping out a couple of sprogs straight away.

The "Greatest Generation" thing smells of WW2 celebratory bollocks.  I bet the Germans don't call them that.

Parental ages have ALWAYS varied wildly.
The large Victorian families often had older children old enough to be the parents of the youngest.

I'm a boomer, born in 1958 to parents who married the previous year.

Kid Brother was born in 1977, when the other 5 of us were all in double figures.

Kid Brother's kids are aged 3-14…

My sisters kids are aged 24-36..

[pumpkin]

It was commented the other day that us Gen-X people will be a glut of older workers in the senior ranks because all the Boomers got to retire to their big houses in the country in their mid-to-rate fifties, which in my experience seems to be coming true.

Indeed. I’m sort of post-boomer (born 1957) and still working, though partly that is poor financial nous, divorce, and peripatetic employment.

According to a lecture I saw recently we are boomers up to 1959. And like you I am working and prob will be until I am 67

[Lightning Phil]

What happened to Generation Y?

They became middle aged and went silent.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

When did we start to think of society primarily as a collection of age cohorts? Take any recent attempt to capture the people of Britain and we tend to be shown a block strafed with three great horizontal divides: one canyon between 58- and 59-year-olds (generation X and boomers), a second great rift between the ages of 42 and 43 (millennials and gen X), and yet another unbreachable gap between 26 and 27 (gen Z and millennials).



Oh Brave New World!

[Cudzoziemiec]

What happened to Generation Y?

They became middle aged and went silent.

They got hopelessly divided, but at least they lasted longer than Generation V.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

When did we start to think of society primarily as a collection of age cohorts? Take any recent attempt to capture the people of Britain and we tend to be shown a block strafed with three great horizontal divides: one canyon between 58- and 59-year-olds (generation X and boomers), a second great rift between the ages of 42 and 43 (millennials and gen X), and yet another unbreachable gap between 26 and 27 (gen Z and millennials).



Oh Brave New World!

Shouldn’t this thread be in POBI?

[Wowbagger]

It was!

Edit: the fact that there's a Grauniad article about the topic just two days after I raised it here (in POBI) makes me think I ought to charge them a subscription...

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's a well established fact that all Grauniad journalists are just pseudonyms for various YACFers.

[Wowbagger]

One of them has actually nicked my name, but I think he fell short of actually calling himself Wowbagger.