Baby Boomers

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2003-05-17 12:44am

Is any one else sick of them (assuming you're not one)? I spoke to my mother today, and she started carrying on about how wonderful and great the baby boomers were and how everything was so wonderful in the 60's and how my generation and later had failed to produce any decent art or music while hers accomplished so much, blah, blah. She's not the only one. And it's not just that they say "In my day things were better," no, they personally take credit for everything good that happened after 1960. Never mind that rock and roll was invented by people born before or during the War, never mind that the Civil Rights leaders were of the previous generation, never mind that casual sex began withy the free-love movement, never mind all the horrible behavior of generation x is due to the horrible parenting of the baby boomers. Every generation tends to think that it's the best, but does any one else ever feel that baby boomers are just too self righteous?

Sorry for the rant, but conversations with my mother tend to leave me worked up. At least this one was better than most; she didn't scream or curse or cry.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-05-17 12:53am

I thought baby boomers were 1980

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-17 12:59am

Robert George wrote:The Baby Boomers are the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation in American history.

So true.

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-05-17 01:00am

aphexmonster wrote:I thought baby boomers were 1980

Baby boomers are anyone born 1945 to early/mid 1960s IIRC. After that comes Generation x, then the current generation.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-17 01:03am

I hope they don't give our generation some gay-ass crap name like "The Digital Generation."

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-05-17 01:03am

Be better then Generation X...

WTF is up with that piss poor of naming?

Cthulhu-chan · Post by **Cthulhu-chan** » 2003-05-17 01:04am

No, the '80s should be Generation X. You know, all the brooding, cynical, "my-life-sucks-in-some-intangible-manner-I-can't-quite-communicate-so-
I'll-just-pretend-it's-too-deep-for-you-to-understand" types. The '80s Spirits is responsible for goths and grunge.

Make of that what you will.

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Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-05-17 01:04am

Durran Korr wrote:I hope they don't give our generation some gay-ass crap name like "The Digital Generation."

I've already heard that one...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-17 01:06am

Crayz9000 wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:I hope they don't give our generation some gay-ass crap name like "The Digital Generation."
I've already heard that one...

Bah, I refuse to accept that name. Call us the miserable, cynical assholes that we are, not some buzzname.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-05-17 01:07am

Cthulhu-chan wrote:No, the '80s should be Generation X. You know, all the brooding, cynical, "my-life-sucks-in-some-intangible-manner-I-can't-quite-communicate-
so-I'll-just-pretend-it's-too-deep-for-you-to-understand" types. The '80s Spirits is responsible for goths and grunge.

IIRC goths existed before then... but I can't stand the goth mentality either way.

And one question that's been bugging me... does Generation X refer to people who were teens in the 80s, or people born then?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-17 01:08am

Crayz9000 wrote:
Cthulhu-chan wrote:No, the '80s should be Generation X. You know, all the brooding, cynical, "my-life-sucks-in-some-intangible-manner-I-can't-quite-communicate-
so-I'll-just-pretend-it's-too-deep-for-you-to-understand" types. The '80s Spirits is responsible for goths and grunge.
IIRC goths existed before then... but I can't stand the goth mentality either way.

And one question that's been bugging me... does Generation X refer to people who were teens in the 80s, or people born then?

People who were teens in the 80s.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-17 01:16am

I've also heard "The Millenial Generation" floating around. Lame.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-05-17 01:19am

What is it about classifying generations anyway? All they're doing is reinforcing the nonexistant "generation gap"... *sigh*

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-17 01:19am

Durran Korr wrote:I've also heard "The Millenial Generation" floating around. Lame.

The other two suggestions I've heard were Generation Y and the Gap Generation.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-05-17 01:21am

I would think that it would be worthy of note that the current generation is the first in generations (:D) not to live through the cold war with nukes hanging over their heads.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-17 01:22am

neoolong wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:I've also heard "The Millenial Generation" floating around. Lame.
The other two suggestions I've heard were Generation Y and the Gap Generation.

How about the "We don't want to be defined by what year we were born in, leave us the fuck alone" generation?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-17 01:25am

But that doesn't have a catchy ring to it.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-05-17 01:37am

Baby boomers used to annoy me to no end. They are my parents generation. I got so tired listening about the 60's when I was a kid. But lately it seems as boomers age and approach retirement they have laid off talking about their past. I have not given much thought to them in a while.

I think for people my age (32) we are a few years too young to be boomer and a few years too old to belong to Gen X. We are sort of in between.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-05-17 01:42am

Fuck the generation gap!

Fuck across the generation gap!

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-05-17 01:42am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I think for people my age (32) we are a few years too young to be boomer and a few years too old to belong to Gen X. We are sort of in between.

That's what I mean. There is no generation gap, given that people exist in between the so-called generations.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-05-17 03:49am

aphexmonster wrote:I thought baby boomers were 1980

Not quite. '80 and '81 form the ass-end of Generation X.. After that it's the current generation. Which is currently the <insert cutesy title> generation.

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-05-17 07:15am

I hereby propose that the current generation shall be named the buttsex generation.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-05-17 07:47am

neoolong wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:I've also heard "The Millenial Generation" floating around. Lame.
The other two suggestions I've heard were Generation Y and the Gap Generation.

"The Gap Generation"? No way am I going to tell my kids that.
ME:"We were part of the Gap generation. named after a stupid overpriced store"
KIDS: "At least Grandpa WANTED to change the world"
ME: "Ah, but HE ever play 'Microsoft Flight Simulator?"

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-05-17 09:12pm

The first definition I ever heard for Generation X was people born during The Summer of Love-1967, and later. I'm practically a stereotypical Gen X poster child.....

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-05-17 10:53pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote: I think for people my age (32) we are a few years too young to be boomer and a few years too old to belong to Gen X. We are sort of in between.

I agree. I'm 34 and my parents are definately in the BB generation but I've seen a few instances where the year I was born, 1969, is also included in that generation. If I get lumped into Gen X it's usually because people can't think of any place better to put people like me.

As for being sick of the BB generation, I am. It seems to me that they've shut up a bit about how great they are now that we're on our second BB president. Sure they'll talk a bunch of smack about how as college students they actually made a difference but they'll quickly shut up about that when you show them all the stupid and fringe protests that no one even bothers paying attention to. It also helps that so many of the BB turned into greedy-assed coke snorting bastards in the 80s. They were more than happy to ride the gravy train in the 90s as well.

I will grant the BBs that musically it seems to me that they put out a lot more interesting and innovative stuff than other generations but as for art in general, please. While there have been some great BB film makers I think that later generations are already making as much of an impact, if not more.

Before I forget to mention it. Since we're bitching about generations for a very long time I was always sick of hearing about the WWII generation. "I fought in WWII so ****** owes me".

I got so sick of that shit growing up. Plus they always seemed to complain about the Vietnam guys being whiners.

Now, is there anyone else that already finds the current crop of snot-nosed punks annoying?

I think I'm considering applying for my crochety old man license early. I can stand on my balcony waving my cain yelling at the young whippersnappers to get off my property and turn that *noise* down.