I'm on the Boomer/Gen X cusp. I'm a tweener. Our music came from the late 70's - Fleetwood Mac
Talking Heads, Boston, Journey, Kansas, Springsteen, Billy Joel, The Bee Bees - Saturday Night Fever, Jackson Brown, Cheap Trick, The Cars, Commodores, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers. And Disco.

Apparently, as I was born in '72, that puts me slap bang into Generation X. 'The Me Generation'

Snap Dani.
I never felt like one though. Comes from starting work at 16.
I was already 30 by the time I was legal drinking age.

I never really got to be part of the E generation either, or experience Madchester, Cool Brittania, living for the weekend.
Too worried about getting arrested, getting up for work, how I was going to get home. And how my finace would react, because he was anti-drug and a teetotaller.

I can't really complain. I did have what I wanted when I was in my early twenties. I just wasn't happy.

It was a trick question. If you're familiar with the Cure enough to say one way or the other, you're a GenXer.

Oh I totally felt like a Generation Xer at the time.

I thought Gen Y was the 'me generation'.

I think they both get called that. 'Me Generation' was originally coined for the GenXers, but has been subsequently applied to the GenYers.

We've also been called the boomerang generation, because so many people ended up back in their parent homes in their 20s and 30s (myself included :p)

Oh and you Gen Y sooks, harden up. Terrorism? Pah! You're afraid some loonie is going to stage an attack and kill maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand people, with a tiny chance you or someone you know might be one of them. Pfft. Back in MY day, kiddo, we lived with the constant fear of near-instant global nuclear annihilation. That's right, five minutes from go to stop, 3 billion killed in the first wave, the rest dying horribly over the next six months, end of civilisation, Earth uninhabitable.

All this with an onion tied to my belt, mind you.

[/grandpa rant]

We live in the midwest. We're more worried about our generators....

I remember that, and the survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day.

Gen Y would think Threads was lame. But then they didn't get sat down to watch it by a teacher who explained this was what would really happen when the bomb dropped. When.

Also they didn't grow up on a diet of truly horrible Public Information Films like The Finishing Line or Apaches.

No wonder some of Gen X are at heart nihilists.
Sadly, the older Gen Xers are reproducing and therefore bringing up a generation of nihilists-without-a-cause.

Blame the parents.
Always.

:p:

BTW - check out the above films if you have a time. It would be a serious time commitment to watch all three - I'd recommend Finishing Line, but Threads is the most seminal. I don't think shock tactics worked, but they are a reasonable reminder of how children were treated when I was a child.

No, Donnie, those Gen Xers are cowards. /lebowskireference/

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.



:D

They don't mean to but they do...

The most scary thing I recall being taught / scared witless by were the aids awareness ads.