In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
I played a rogue, in WoW.
Noddaz said:
Looks WW2ish -- what movie is that?
In reply to P3PPY :
The Pianist. Great movie.
In reply to MyMiatas :
FTFY
In reply to eastsideTim :
I always thought Boomers were, by definition, anyone born from someone who fought in WWII, came home, got married, and knocked up Marilyn Monroe. So the year range would be 1945-1964
mtn said:In reply to P3PPY :
The Pianist. Great movie.
Just put it on. Man, maybe it's the COVID or the drugs talking but that opening scene where they're jubilant about Great Britain and France declaring war as promised-- it just breaks my heart at the treachery that was the Phony War.
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
I'm a boomer born in 1962 but in reality my dad was 10 years old when those soldiers came home and started families in 1945 so he didn't fall under that definition.
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Generations are kind of fluid. My Aunt is gen X, born in December 1965, but she was the youngest of 6 - and while my grandparents on that side weren't overseas, they were in the military/civil service during the War (Grandad was in Medical School, Grandmother was in the Public Health Service). So the 5 kids born from 1948 to 1959 kinda made the 1965 kid a Boomer.
Meme unrelated:
MyMiatas said:
It's that time of year where I complain about having my generation taken away and getting lumped in with another.
When I was in High School, Gen Y was born 1980-1/1/93 (birth of the internet, I explicitly remember this from the textbooks) and Gen Z was 93+ then some jerkface invented the word "Millennial" and then grouped those of us that grew up with corded telephones and dot matrix printers with the kids that never even heard a dial-up modem tone and now I yell at people to get off my lawn.
I always thought that I was the result of the baby boom but never looked into it. My parents where little tikes during WWII. There was a war going when I was born. Would that not make me part of the baby boom?
In reply to RealMiniNoMore (Forum Supporter) :
It's a good one, and I'm delighted to see the return of Pun Husky.
fasted58 said:
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
The kids born between 45-55 had a different childhood than 56-64. I would argue that it's two separate generations. Serial Movies and radio vs TV. No phone or a party line vs rotary dial phone. Mom at home with the kids vs working moms.... etc a lot changed around the mid 1950s.
I was born in 1975 which makes me a core Gen-Xer. My parents were silent generation kids, born in the 1930s. I tend to have a lot in common with folks a little older than me.
tester (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
The kids born between 45-55 had a different childhood than 56-64. I would argue that it's two separate generations. Serial Movies and radio vs TV. No phone or a party line vs rotary dial phone. Mom at home with the kids vs working moms.... etc a lot changed around the mid 1950s.
You're right.
Big difference in the post war boomers and those born in 1955-65. I'm in the latter group, and we have little in common with the earlier group. The society we grew up in was far different, and we had a more difficult time economically. I graduated from high school into back to back recessions, high unemployment, and high inflation including 600% increases in gas prices.
If you look at the chart, you'll see that the part of it containing the first group was cut off, so the Boomer II aka Generation Jones appears to represent the whole group.
Tangentially related meme:
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