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05 Sep 2020, 12:54 am

Carpeta wrote:

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I ain't afraid of no skunk. :roll:

Are you going to bad mouth me behind my back?
Not recommended when you consider where my skunk "spritzing" comes from. :twisted:

Settle down, stripey. I said it to your face.

I think we hijacked the thread enough for one day.

My generation had it easy in terms of employment.
I am grateful for that.

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05 Sep 2020, 1:17 am

poll left out "generation jones" from 1954-'65. that is what i am, we are the former half of the boomers that got the short end of the stick in multiple ways.

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05 Sep 2020, 1:30 am

We didn't have the internet.
What a fracking bummer. :evil:

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05 Sep 2020, 1:48 am

We didn't have the internet.
What a fracking bummer.

I'm of "Generation X", and we started out with no Internet. Plus, I couldn't type and had no machine. And my handwriting is that awful "Aspiescrawl" you make when your fingers don't clutch the pencil (remember those?) properly. I must have lost a thousand points from assignments "for neatness".

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05 Sep 2020, 2:22 am

Romofan wrote:

We didn't have the internet.
What a fracking bummer.

I'm of "Generation X", and we started out with no Internet.

I went almost five years without internet, recently. By choice. I finally gave in last year because I missed streaming music and white noise online to help me sleep. It was a tad lonely, but it was quality time [and I saved some cash]. B-)

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Plus, I couldn't type and had no machine. And my handwriting is that awful "Aspiescrawl" you make when your fingers don't clutch the pencil proper (remember those?) properly. I must have lost a thousand points from assignments "for neatness".

Good Jah, I still remember several teachers over several grades literally grabbing and holding my right hand and pushing my pencil downward in a vain attempt to help me hold it right. I knew it was a better way to hold it, and I obviously knew it was expected of me, but I'd start writing like that, then it would just slip back up to how I naturally hold a pen or pencil to this very day. I learned to print very neatly by fourth grade, but when we started cursive.... man, oh man... Even I couldn't read my own handwriting. When I was finally throwing out all of my old assignments from grade school about ten years back, I still couldn't make out most of it. Made me feel bad for the teachers I liked. :lol:

By the time I got into college, my first in-class assignment was in English 101, we were asked specifically to print. I happily sighed so loud, people turned to look at me. My print writing has improved so much, I've always wanted to make it into a computer font. I couldn't sign my name in a way that it was recognizably the same every time until I was almost 30. It's still not all that legible, but I know it's mine. Whenever people give my signature an odd look, I always joke, "Yeah, I know, I should've been a doctor...."

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05 Sep 2020, 4:08 am

I, uhh... I came from elsewhere, where categorizing generations is a bit blurry.

Nothing consistent. It's too messy to categorize what kind of era I live in.

The closest would be the most modernized places like the capital, and the capital doesn't represent my whole culture or country.

In my generation I... Uhmm...
I get to eavesdrop on the landline by picking up the other landline in the house? :lol:

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A huge, huge, mess. :lol:

Maybe a 400 to a 90 year old mess.

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05 Sep 2020, 4:31 am

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"Millenial" but in Eastern Europe, the shared experience of my generation is not really relatable to "Millenials" in the US.
What defines my generation is: collapse of the Eastern Block happened in my childhood. All my life, I was living in rapidly changing reality obviously not relatable to experiences of my parents' generation.

When I was in my 20's, I had the privilege to work with some very cool young guys from Eastern Europe as cave tour guides [not spelunking, we had paved paths electric lights, and a waterfall pump to assist the natural waterfall in the dry seasons] at the Ruby Falls cavern in Chattanooga, Tennessee. When I asked one of them about what it was like to be young during the fall of the Eastern Block, he said that their region had been [and still was] in so much poverty, there wasn't a lot of local change afterwards. Interesting to hear that there were indeed marked differences in the lives of many after the USSR fell. I wish US media would report more about the depressing, worrisome situation in Belarus, sometimes that keeps me up at night wondering what's really going on.

States from the former Eastern Block chose a variety of trajectories after the collapse of this system. East Germany, Visegrád Group and Baltic States chose West-oriented politics and reforms towards market economy from the very beginning. Belarus chose their own politics of remaining pro-Russian but independent and not introducing market economy nor Western concepts of democracy. Ukraine is quite torn apart. I think complicated character of Ukrainian cultural identity makes it really hard to steer that nation one or the other way.
There is also all the South-Eastern Europe... they are another several chapters of cultural and political history of the former Eastern Block.

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05 Sep 2020, 5:11 am

Romofan wrote:

We didn't have the internet.
What a fracking bummer.

I'm of "Generation X", and we started out with no Internet. Plus, I couldn't type and had no machine. And my handwriting is that awful "Aspiescrawl" you make when your fingers don't clutch the pencil proper (remember those?) properly. I must have lost a thousand points from assignments "for neatness".

My handwriting isn't great either.
It looks like an aspie trait.

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05 Sep 2020, 3:42 pm

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Movies that were popular with each niche:

Boomers: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dirty Harry, M*A*S*H

Generation X: Top Gun, Coming to America, The Little Mermaid

Millennials: Harry Potter, Harry Potter, Harry Potter

Generation Z: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Joker, Avengers: Endgame

actually ...to be a little more accurate:

Boomers: Butch and Sundance, Dirty Harry, MASH, and the Star Wars Franchise.

Gen X: Top Gun, Coming to America, Little Mermaid, and the Star Wars Franchise.

Millennials: Harry Potter, Harry Potter, Harry Potter, and the Star Wars Franchise.

Gen Z: Joker, Avengers, and the Star Wars Franchise.

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05 Sep 2020, 6:50 pm

actually ...to be a little more accurate:

Yep, Star Wars rules the generations. James Bond also straddles em quite nicely :jester:

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08 Sep 2020, 4:46 pm

I was born in 1963, the youngest of the Baby Boomers (1964- 1964).

From my own personal, generational etc. values, I'm inclined to nickname the younger Baby-Boomers (like myself) as a "bridge generation of sorts." Like so many other of my experiences, I feel "caught in the middle" generational wise. I feel that I'm considering (or bridging) those values between those born in the mid 1950s, with the values of those born up to the mid-1980s - the older Gen Ys.

In short, like imagining two sides of a coin --- at the same time!

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08 Sep 2020, 6:03 pm

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There is a theory that the latter half of the baby boom generation is a separate generation called "Generation Jones".
I tend to divide the baby boomers into "Vietnam era boomers" and "Post Counterculture boomers"

When one generation ends and another begins is always an educated guess. Those near the where one generation ends and another begins will always not quite fit in and thus have an identity crisis of sorts.

The generational boundaries vary by location.

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09 Sep 2020, 3:31 pm

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Generation Jones, identity crisis of where one generation ends, and another generation begins, and even where generations have lived (Calif. personally)..........In short, OHHHH yes!

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09 Sep 2020, 5:51 pm

I'm a millennial, born in 1990.
I'm not too impressed with my generation though. Nowadays it seems to be the norm to separate as parents while the children/child are still under puberty age, or babies, or even still in the womb. More children these days have lots of half-siblings and step-singlings than they did when I was growing up. Most people's parents were married but got divorced when the children were teenagers.

A lot of couples these days don't like to work things out between them or compromise or work as a team. Any little thing and they split up and move on to the next one. I'm not like that though. I like the old-fashioned way.

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09 Sep 2020, 6:13 pm

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I have always thought that the Boomers split into two groups. Those old enough to have to have to have seriously worried about getting drafted into the War in Vietnam if they were male (my cousins), and the younger ones who turned 18 after the draft was eliminated (I was among the first in that group). I was born in 55. So the cutoff is probably 54 to 55.

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17 Sep 2020, 9:48 pm

I'm a Millennial. I was born in 82. I'm not sure how I feel about my generation. All the generations have their pluses & minuses. Rite now I'm majorly hoping that the rebelliousness of the 60s & 70s comes back. I cant resist posting this song despite the fact it is before my generation :arrow:

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