The Generation Table: Where Do You Fit In?

I'm a baby boomer right around the middle of birth years. My brother is also a baby boomer and he is going on 75 this year. So the oldest baby boomer is incorrect on that chart.
 
Deya said:
That chart is off with the ages. The silent generation ended in 1945. Someone has terrible math skills. If born in 1945 you would be 80.
Click to expand...
These charts were drawn up long after my birth (1943). I have always considered myself a "war baby". My sister, born in 1946, is the leading edge of the post war baby boom. My daughter born in 1963 is supposed to be a boomer which is pretty ridiculous.

The baby boom was definitely a thing. As the wave of Australian children born after the men returned from overseas service worked its way through the schools and into the workforce. They brought with them fresh ideas and social innovation. It was a marvellously forward thinking generation and their children have benefited from all that they did.

By the way, since the age of ten I have never been silent. I have no trouble speaking up and expressing my opinions. I usually try to do so with respect. My 5th grade teacher taught me how to do this.
 

a black and white photo of a little girl dancing with the words boom shakalaka above her

 
fuzzybuddy said:
I never bought into this "generation" idea. It assumes that if one is born on a specific day, one will think x, y, and z. It's like saying everybody born on July 12, 1952 is a Democrat, and everybody born on Aug 30, 1961 is a Republican. Yeah, there are trends and fads, but they affect everybody- not only the people born on a certain day.
Click to expand...
Sure there will be general differences between generations, because everyone is growing up in an evolving society, but generation "experts" make a bigger deal out of than necessary.
 
seadoug said:
I think it was called the "Silent Generation" because compared to the self-obsessed, loud, protesting Baby Boomers they were relatively quiet. :ROFLMAO:
Click to expand...
Hey, hey there, Silent Seadoug, easy on the baby boomer bashing! I know all of you from the other generations are jealous because our generation had the coolest cars and lived the coolest teen years, but remember the bomb drills and the security of hiding under your desk and then after graduation the vacation the boys got to Vietnam.

I remind my granddaughters frequently that they were never as cool as their old granny. They never did cool things like drive in theaters, dragging main in a hot rod they helped build, dancing the twist, sit at a soda fountain, outsmart the school truant officer, get threatened with being expelled because your skirt was 1/2" too short, smoke Kool cigarettes, but only when the boys were looking, watch American Bandstand, play guitar and sing protest songs, have transistor radios, go braless, wear flowers in their hair and use words like cool and groovy and get expelled from school for advocating and circulating Catcher in the Rye and using words like friggin.

Also they never heard of a Bell Telephone Operator. They don't appreciate old country music like The Bells Of Southern Bells sung by Del Reeves or Dave Dudley's truck driving songs when their grandpa plays and sings them. Six Days on the Road and I am going to make it home tonight. Gramps was never a truck driver, but he sings it convincingly.

I omit the part about getting pregnant at 18 from a wild encounter in the back seat of a 55 Chevy two door, and this the reason I married so young, just so one granddaughters dad wouldn't be called a bastard. It was years later that I realized my reasoning for marriage was flawed. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Last edited:
And the discussion often includes unnecessary claims about why each generation is worse than the last. It reeks of the "What's wrong with kids these days?" Maybe we need representatives of each generation to write their own descriptions.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top