So you hate Boomers but you like The Beatles?

Yes!  Generational labels are the dumbest thing ever!  The only people who really embrace them are news media people and marketers which are two of the most eye-roll-worthy professions.

Is there any real way to relax BTW Livvie?

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This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at August 3, 2023 3:42 PM MDT

I like a lot of Beatles songs but I don’t hate people born between 1946 and 1964, nor do I hate people who were born in 1964 who had parents who were born in 1946 who are somehow members of the same generation.  My parents, aunts and uncles were all born between 1946 and 1964 and I love them.


This post was edited by Livvie at August 3, 2023 8:54 PM MDT

'Baby Boomers' has an actual meaning.

I'm a lesser person than you, though; they all blend into one confusing group of adjectives about sets of years of which I can't keep straight.
I'm thinking Baby Boomers, though ,was the high rise in births after some set of time in USA -- a war, maybe. 

Baby Boomers are 1946 to 1964.  Generation X is 1965 to 1980.  The millennials are 1981 to 1996.  Umm yeah, I actually had to look it up to get the years.  Ahem, I also had to look it up to figure out how to spell millennial.  I got it wrong on the first three tries so I kept getting that red line under it.  lol, I didn’t even know how to spell my own generation.   It’s that unimportant to me.

Anyway, did you know it’s possible for a Millennial to be older than a Generation Xer?  It’s true!  Someone born on 1981-01-01 at 00:01 in New York is a Millennial even though they’re older than a Gen Xer who was born in Los Angeles on 1980-12-31 at 23:59.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that!


This post was edited by Livvie at August 3, 2023 8:52 PM MDT

What comes before boomer?

Good question. Whatever my parents’ (born in 1928 and 1931) generation is called, following The Greatest Generation, those who fought in WWII.

Update: People born between 1928 and 1945 are called The Silent Generation.

Well, thanks a bunch. I've never heard that. Now I have a "label" too. And, I've never heard discouraging words about "The Silent Generation". I wonder why I never thought to look it up myself...

Maybe you never heard discouraging words about the Silent Generation because they really were the silent generation.  The Baby Boomers on the other hand, at least the ones in media who embrace the label, are pretty full of themselves and just don’t know when to shut up.

What harm has any of them caused for you?