One Thing That Millennials Don't Have…

[BR14]

Crikey, that was quick. I only suggested "Generation A" yesterday! Amazing how fast word gets around with all this social media malarkey

All this modern stuff! - No Good Will Come of It! - you mark my words

[OwlHoot]

Millennial/Gen Y
Post-Millennial/Gen Z
Gen alpha

Apparently.

Crikey, that was quick. I only suggested "Generation A" yesterday! Amazing how fast word gets around with all this social media malarkey

[Old Greg]

Just cos we get a cool edgy name and you don't

And a cool edgy novel.

[NotAllThere]

Millennial/Gen Y
Post-Millennial/Gen Z
Gen alpha.

Apparently.

[GreenMirror]

The Silent Generation: Born 1928-1945 (73-90 years old)
Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 (54-72 years old)
Generation X: Born 1965-1980 (38-53 years old)
Millennials: Born 1981-1996 (22-37 years old)
Post-Millennials: Born 1997-Present (0-21 years old)

The Post-Millenial band seems a bit wide to me. Should it be 1997-2012? Could those 2013 onwards be post-post-millenial?

And what about those born pre 1928? Like Zeity.....

[OwlHoot]

The Silent Generation: Born 1928-1945 (73-90 years old)
Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 (54-72 years old)
Generation X: Born 1965-1980 (38-53 years old)
Millennials: Born 1981-1996 (22-37 years old)
Post-Millennials: Born 1997-Present (0-21 years old)

As we're nearly at the end of the alphabet now, using "X", I suggest anyone born after say 2020 should be called Generation A.

Also, why are crumblies called the "Silent" generation? They certainly haven't all popped off, anything but. So is it because they don't whine and complain?

[NigelJK]

As we're in Pedants corner the Millenium was 01/01/1999.

[DaveB]

FTFY

Millennials were born in 1982 so they were 18 in the year 2000

(pure pedantry and nothing to do with wanting to be a Gen X rather than a bloody millennials

Just cos we get a cool edgy name and you don't

[SimonMac]

The Silent Generation: Born 1928-1945 (73-90 years old)
Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 (54-72 years old)
Generation X: Born 1965-1981 (37-53 years old)
Millennials: Born 1982-1996 (22-36 years old)
Post-Millennials: Born 1997-Present (0-21 years old)

FTFY

Millennials were born in 1982 so they were 18 in the year 2000

(pure pedantry and nothing to do with wanting to be a Gen X rather than a bloody millennials

[shaunbhoy]

Sorry, but you'll need to find a different cliché to use in your tired old whining about people who are much younger and better-looking than you

Unless of course we stick to the accepted facts.

Now back to whittling wood will you Gramps?

[NotAllThere]

Millennials | Pew Research Center

[NickFitz]

The Silent Generation: Born 1928-1945 (73-90 years old)
Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 (54-72 years old)
Generation X: Born 1965-1980 (38-53 years old)
Millennials: Born 1981-1996 (22-37 years old)
Post-Millennials: Born 1997-Present (0-21 years old)

[citation needed]

[northernladuk]

The Silent Generation: Born 1928-1945 (73-90 years old)
Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 (54-72 years old)
Generation X: Born 1965-1980 (38-53 years old)
Millennials: Born 1981-1996 (22-37 years old)
Post-Millennials: Born 1997-Present (0-21 years old)

[NickFitz]

…is the mistaken belief that "Millennial" refers to people aged around 18 to 24.

It refers to people who came of age around the millennium, not people who were born then. So their age now is around 36.

Sorry, but you'll need to find a different cliché to use in your tired old whining about people who are much younger and better-looking than you