This is so retarded. Born in 1963 and I have nothing in common with folks born in the late 40s and 50s...
Were you one of the older kids in your family?
I’m one of the younger ones in my baby Boomer family, and all these terms are in my lexicon. I even heard “cruisin’ for a bruisin’” when I was a kid.
“This is so retarded. Born in 1963 and I have nothing in common with folks born in the late 40s and 50s...”
Early Boomer. In 1963 I was in 7th grade and vividly remember hearing Kennedy had been killed. Vietnam directly impacted a lot of us. We had an entirely different life experience.
“Generation Jones” is now used to differentiate the 1954-1965 cohort from early Boomers. It never made sense to extend the Boomer cohort to 20 years.
That’s totally bogus.
Now I’m ticked off!
You’re right. We 1960s babies were very different from the late 1940s to mid-1950s babies. They had the draft and the Vietnam War. The ‘hippies’ protested, and they talked and sang about their ‘generation.’
We have nothing in common with them. We came of age in the 1980s when Reagan was president. It was peacetime. We didn’t have protests or talk about ‘our generation.’
At first, news writers dubbed us “Generation X.” Then, someone decided “Gen-X” doesn’t start until 1965. Then, someone else decided to call us “Generation Jones.”
I think they all got it wrong. I’d say 1960-1974 babies are a unique demographic: When we were growing up, more parents started divorcing, and more mothers started working outside the home. We had less supervision but more TV. We were teens and young adults when Reagan was president. We weren’t offended by a joke. Our retirement age was raised to 67. And many more reasons...
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That was the slang I was looking for from Gen X. LOL
My rant on being a Baby Boomer:
I’m in the middle as a Baby Boomer. That means I was 10+ years younger than BB’s who went to Vietnam, hippies and yippies gone wild, the drug culture, folkies, British Invasion bands, Carnaby Street, adult humorists, the nostalgic youth, Motown muscle car drivers, influential neighbors and relatives, California-bound dreamers, Woodstock, dead rock stars, women’s libbers, “free love” women, student radicals, yuppies, STD-infested gays, militant urban street gangs, junkies and dealers,...
There was this lifestyle- To emulate your favorite rock stars and countercultural figures, but what we were really doing was being good little fan$. Not all of it but still a lot of it...Fortunately for me, I eventually grew out of it.
However, I’m no maturity snob either and still can’t get enough of the old MAD Magazine, National Lampoon, George Carlin, Flip Wilson, rock bands of the era, cartoons, a little bit of this and a little bit of that, space exploration, Mecum car auctions, etc.
Maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.