Poor millennials
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Back when you made a playlist by having the cassette tape in your stereo, ready to rush over and hit “record” when your favorite song came on the radio?
Little Big Man MT Chris
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Yep ! When I was growing up the only way to listen to music was record, dad had an eight track player in the camper, And then about seventh grade they start coming out with those portable cassette players , we called boom boxes, and then when I was in high school in my bedroom I had a double cassette player so you would put your one tape on pause and then play your other cassette until It got to the song you liked and then unpause it on the other tape , it was meticulous craft I was an expert. Cds didn’t become popular until the very end of the 80’s
And I’m old-school I still like collecting CDs these are the two I’ve got in the mail in the last week
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It's called a siesta you cultural so and so...,...
noharleyyet
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I don't generally pay much attention to what generation anyone happens to be a member of, but I went to the store today and because of this thread I was conscious of how different generations tend to view each other. I stood in line at the cashier right behind a gen Z. In the short time I stood there admiring her assets, I fell madly in love. So, apparently this old boomer, kinda likes gen Z. When my new love paid the cashier, a gen X, she told her to keep the 50 cents change. Instead of appreciating the tip the cashier started complaining to me about how dumb the Kids are these days. I suggested that maybe she just didn't want the change because she didn't have any pockets in those cute little running shorts she was wearing, but no, she insisted it was because they just don't have any sense. So, that gen X, obviously didn't care to much for Gen Z, and I didn't care to much for that particular Gen X gal because of her attitude towards my future wife.
Why are they the silent generation? They all die?
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"The most startling fact about the younger generation is its silence. With some rare exceptions, youth is nowhere near the rostrum. By comparison with the Flaming Youth of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame. It does not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. It has been called the '"Silent Generation.'"Why are they the silent generation? They all die?
People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION
IS it possible to paint a portrait of an entire generation? Each generation has a million faces and a million voices. What the voices say is not necessarily what the generation believes, and what it...
"The most startling fact about the younger generation is its silence. With some rare exceptions, youth is nowhere near the rostrum. By comparison with the Flaming Youth of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame. It does not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. It has been called the '"Silent Generation.'"
People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION
IS it possible to paint a portrait of an entire generation? Each generation has a million faces and a million voices. What the voices say is not necessarily what the generation believes, and what it...content.time.com
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noharleyyet
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I like to add Xennials in there until about '85. That's where I fall. I definitely feel more GenX than millennial.
VikingsGuy
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Spoken like a true gen-Xer
VikingsGuy
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Here is my spin on "why"?
Boomers, unlike the silent generation, lived longer, worked longer and did not leave family-sized housing to "downsize". These all limited available jobs and family housing for Millenials. This combo resulted in "delayed adulthood" for many. And now after two decades+ of NIMBY zoning we still don't have enough housing stock for Boomers and old Gen Xers to get their Millenials out of their basement at reasonable pricing.
KB_
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I enjoyed my parents basement. It had a pool table.
NEWHunter
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10/29/81 - so helpful, this explains my generation identity issues
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Bro do you even watch true crime shows... 70-80s were terrifying... apparently. Atlanta Child Killer... holy smokes.
AvidIndoorsman
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Yep... definitely fits with my perception of things, or at least in my family+ extended network.
Both sets of grandparents downsized in their late 60s to smaller houses/ apartments and then went into nursing/assisted living/group home etc, in their 70s and moved there at a time when they were fully independent, still could drive, etc.
2 sets of great grandparents stayed in the house they raised their kids in until they died.
Conversely, my in-laws, 2 aunts/uncles, 3 sets of first cousins-once removed, and 4 sets of friends parents all upscaled during the pandemic.
"Our kids are gone, and we crushed the stock market, let's go from 3 bed 2 bath 1800 sqft to 5 bed 3 bath and 3000 sqft" or "let's buy a house in Florida and one in NY and do the snowbird thing..."
... and like weird houses for aging folks with lots of stairs, huge yards, really rural areas, places far from any kind of healthcare...
Also, talk to any healthcare work who deals with Boomers, holy chit does that generation think they are immortal. "I'm going to wait till I'm 80 to get my knee done, you know they only last 20 years"
