I cannot consider myself a Boomer

[maxsolomon]

i was born in 1963. i know that TECHNICALLY qualifies me as a Boomer, but jesus christ on a pogo stick, i'm NOT in the same generation as George :wtf: Bush. the man is almost 60 & a clueless fucknut!

i came of age listening to the Clash. i have NO fond memories of hair metal, and am unable to enjoy it in the ironic mode. i'm the same age as the members of the Pixies. the same age as Brad Pitt & Michael Jordan.

i prefer to think of myself as intergenerational, between the Boomers & Gen X.

i, good people, am a Slacker.

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[CottonBear]

1. I am technically a Boomer

but I don't feel like one. I too, was born in 1963. I however, am not a slacker. I'm definitely not a Gen Xer. Maybe I'm a Caboose Boomer.

I remember watching the moon landing, Laugh In, Ed Sullivan and the Vietnam War on TV. I watched Walter Cronkite's nightly news reports with my dad. My first 45 rpm records were Yellow Submarine and Puff the Magic Dragon which I played on a Close and Play record player. I remember Watergate and watching Nixon resign on live TV. I listened to AM 1970's radio as well as to 1970s rock, pop, disco, and punk records (actual vinyl.) I had a pair of Jordache Jeans and I had bell bottoms prior to that. My sister and I joined the Osmond Brothers fan club and I watched the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family in their original runs! My family never had an 8 track cassette player. We had a car stereo cassette player! I loved the Ramones and Blondie. I was always a Beatles fan. I saw Don McLean perform at the first concert that I ever attended.

[maxsolomon]

4. Slacker Generation was acutally floated

around the time of that movie, Slacker. Richard Linklater's first, i believe.

you watched a lot more TV than me. i have vague memories of much of your list. i think i just had a really sheltered, catholic childhood. my first concert was John Denver. then i talked my Dad into taking me & my buddies up to Hara Arena in Dayton to see Steve Martin. my first unchaperoned concert was The Knack.

yes, you can feel sorry for me.

[CottonBear]

7. I watched TV with my parents but not to excess.

Remember that there were basically three channels back in the late 60s and early 70s! I didn't really watch much TV until the 1970s. I loved any Norman Lear sitcom. I think those turned me into a liberal! I loved All in the Family, Maude and the Jeffersons as well as M*A*S*H.

I loved John Denver. I had many of his albums. (I was sort of all over the place musically. I had albums by KISS, Pat Benatar, The Ramones, Captain & Tennille, John Denver, the Beatles and the Eagles, among others.) I don't feel sorry for you at all! Steve Martin must have been really funny! That would have been during his white suit, wild and crazy guy time!

[Left Is Write]

2. That's okay. I can't consider myself a Gen Xer.

I have no generational self-identity.

[kiraboo]

3. Here's to you, Max

:toast: I was born the same year and I'm young and wild compared to that hoary old man GWB, with his cock-walk and shapeless suits and moronic grin.

[trof]

5. I am technically a geezer.

1941 pre-boomer.
;-)

[CottonBear]

9. You're a very nice geezer!

;)

[trof]

10. Why, thank you.

<blush>

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. Well, he was one of the first boomers born

right after the war, and you were one of the last. So of course you are very different.

[SmileyBoy]

8. Generational scholars think I'm in the same generation as 6 year-olds.

And I'm 23, for christ sakes. My life and the world around me growing up was completely different than the lives and world of kids who are 6 years old.

Those idiots have the generation cut-off point at 1981. I was born in 1982. For example, Barney came out when I was 10, and I thought it was disgusting back then. For the first 12 years of my life, there was basically no Internet. I remember being taught how to use the Internet when I was in the 7th grade. Pokemon? It came out when I was in high school. My age group was obviously too old for that. I'm in the same age group who used to listen to Nirvana when we were in 5th 6th and 7th grade, watched the Berlin Wall fall when we were little kids, not quite understanding what the consequences of it were, but still watching it. I watched Gorbachev visit Minneapolis when I was 8, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

I am NOT like a 6 year-old in any way.

[hfojvt]

11. absolutely

according to some, the ones I pay attention to, the boomer generation ends in 1961. Thus, I am not a boomer either, just a really, really old Xer.
Or is it better to be a young boomer?

[ismnotwasm]

12. Evidently there is a "inbetween" generation

With no name. The Boomers ended, what '64? I was born in '60 and have never related to the name. I was listening to a couple of "generation X" Residents (They're doctors so they feel old LoL) discussing this mysterious group of people the between boomers and Generation X. It was actually kind of interesting, since I've never felt like a boomer either. I've never looked it up or researched it, but that might explain those of use still listening to punk and metal in our 40's, instead of that slow slide into smooth Jazz and blues......

[SmileyBoy]

13. I'm probably in that category.

The very first children of the Boomers.

[L A Woman]

14. it's called the Sandwich Generation...

those of us who are neither boomers nor gen Xers. i was born in '67 so i am one of them.

people in the sandwich generation are typically smarter and better looking than those in the other generations. :P

[CottonBear]

15. We are the Sandwich Generation? I'd not heard that term.

people in the sandwich generation are typically smarter and better looking than those in the other generations.

I like it! ;)

[maxsolomon]

23. well, Brad Pitt is our spokesmodel

(unfortunately, so it Tom Cruise.)

but there's no doubting we're the first generation to leave women truly satisfied. we discovered the clitoris. i'm TOTALLY SERIOUS. ;>)

[CottonBear]

26. *

:wow:

[xmas74]

17. They now think the "inbetween" generation

dates from 1960 to 1965, w/ 1965 starting off Generation X.

[CottonBear]

21. That makes sense. So, I'm an Inbetweener born in 1963

and my little sister and brother are GenXers.

[xmas74]

22. They are doing further studies on the subject.

No name for the generation at this time since there is an argument on when it would begin or end(some say as soon as 1958, others say as late as 1966 on the other end). But there are arguments also about Gen X. Some say that it began in 1964, others 1966. Some say that it ended in 1975, others go as high as 1982.

Generational studies are quite interesting all around, aren't they?

[CottonBear]

27. They are very interesting. I'm going to do more research on this subject.

:) However they date my inbetween generation, I'll still be in it because I was born in 1963.

[xmas74]

34. Yes, but some say you will be at the end of it.

Some date 1964 as the beginning of Gen X because some of the most noted people associated w/ that era were born that year, instead of beginning it in 1965 as most do.

[L A Woman]

28. that is weird...

i definitely don't feel like a gen x'er. born in 1967.

[xmas74]

32. They say Gen X is more of a mindframe than a style thing.

From what I've read they seem to quietly rebel against Boomer mentality, tend to be more socially permissive and most Gen X'ers hate labels in general.

[LostinVA]

16. I was born in 1964, and am one too

However... I can't lump myself in with Mom (born in 1946), but also not with people even five years younger than me... we are like Limbo Boomers or soomething....

[CottonBear]

18. Limbo Boomers! I like that better than Sandwich Generation.

;)

I don't really relate generationally to those too young to remember Watergate, Vietnam and the moon landing.

[xmas74]

19. Some date you as the beginning of Gen X,

others date you as a Boomer. Others yet are calling the years of 1960-1965 an inbetween generation, lost between both times.

[hfojvt]

24. well that's no fair

1961 has to be the cut-off date that way my sister is a boomer and the rest of us Xers. She always did think she was better than us. :evilgrin:

[xmas74]

33. According to some researchers,

you are neither generation. You're sandwiched in between two strong generations, one that is revered and one that is shunned.

[Seabiscuit]

20. I'm not an Esiason either.

[maxsolomon]

25. i'd also like to add

that i thought Star Wars was for babies & simpletons who hadn't read Dune or LOTR or Stanislaw Lem.

[Lady Effingbroke]

29. Generation Jones - yet another name for the gen. between Boom and X

LINK

LINK

[ismnotwasm]

30. Funny!

Unfortunately, I now have "Basketball Jones" as an earworm....

[Burma Jones]

31. I'm a Baby Buster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Busters