Baby Boomers, Millennials, Generation X, etc...

[MontyVeda]

I stumbled across this chart on Wikipedia and never realised that I'm apparently from Generation X... i thought that was just an under average punk band

There's some interesting labels being applied here... especially the 'lost' and 'greatest'... why lost? why so great?

my Dad was from the so-called 'silent' generation, Mum's borderline silent/boomer.

discuss

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What chart?

 

[oldwheels]

I am silent.

 

[Lozz360]

Lost generation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation

Greatest generation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation

 

[MontyVeda]

What chart?

CC wouldn't display Wiki's SVG file... so i put a jpg up instead.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Presumably lost generation because they're the ones in WW1 and greatest because they fought in WW2?

Edited after reading the wiki links above. I wouldn't argue with either label.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I am silent.

Sorry can’t hear you

 

[Ming the Merciless]

CC wouldn't display Wiki's SVG file... so i put a jpg up instead.

Thanks. I’m gen X at well , for what it’s worth.

 

[cougie uk]

Lost generation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation

Greatest generation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation

Talk about having greatness thrust upon you.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The next generation will be called generation Omicron

 

[Mburton1993]

Oh bugger I’m a millennial, well atleast that explains my sense of entitlement.

 

[tyred]

I'm generation X apparently but have no idea what that actually means!

 

[si_c]

I'm generation X apparently but have no idea what that actually means!

Same. Mrs C is a Millennial. I take great pleasure in making disparaging remarks about her generation. It gets the same response as when I call her a Tory

It's a meaningless distinction really, I was born in 1980, but does that really make me a Gen X or would I realistically have more in common with so-called millennials.

 

[PeteXXX]

I was born twixt WW2 & the Korean war.. Is that where the BOOM comes from?

 

[steverob]

But most newspaper columnists who make sneering generalisations about "millennials" are actually talking about people who would fall into Generation Z / Zoomies / whatever category it's called now. Millennial no longer refers to an actual generation but merely to "people younger than me* whose behaviours I* don't understand".

* - "I / Me" in this case, being the newspaper columnist / rabble rouser on social media / etc.