# What Generation Are You **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715 "2009-09-27T02:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/21 "2009-09-27T16:01:17Z")
I am born in 66, but raised by the Generation that fought in WW2. A caboose, if you will. I don’t fit in with the Gen X’ers one bit, you whippersnappers. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/22 "2009-09-27T16:08:34Z")
Born in 62 I’m X by the poll. But really I feel to old for X and to young for Boomer. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/23 "2009-09-27T16:55:14Z")
I checked “Other” because, bringing up the absolute rear of the Boomers as I am, my experiences have been fundamentally different from those of Boomers in general. That’s one of the problems with a “clean slices” demarcation. It should be more of a continuum, and I’d show up as being in an interim-colored area between Boomers and X. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/24 "2009-09-27T16:58:34Z")
Just squeaked in GenX born Dec 1 1961 (send cards) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/25 "2009-09-27T17:22:07Z")
Every single SDMB poll I’ve taken so far, I’ve been one of the ‘winning’ answers. I’m starting to think I’m mister Doper-Average… Religion - Atheism. Politics - Democrat. Coke/Pepsi - Coke. Generation - X. Pet - Cat. Sexuality - Straight Male. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/26 "2009-09-27T18:16:53Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > What the hell does “Civic” mean for Millennials? It should be “Whiny and Spoiled.” > And where’s[Generation Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones)? > > The dates for Gen X are far to broad. And anything before the Millennials should be “old and crotchety.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/27 "2009-09-27T18:29:30Z")
Technically, a Millennial, though I always hated that designation, because I am one of the first ones (born in 82,) so I have that unhappy middle-ground. Though I think even extending gen X to '81 is a little far, I’ve considered it cut off in '78 or '79. At any rate, us late 70’s/early 80’s peeps, like most people born at the end/start of the generational gaps, have qualities of both. At one point I saw a different generational chart that had Gen X, Gen Y, and Millennials. X ended much earlier, and Y went to about mid-late 80’s, and the Millennials took over from there. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/28 "2009-09-27T18:37:24Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I checked “Other” because, bringing up the absolute rear of the Boomers as I am, my experiences have been fundamentally different from those of Boomers in general. That’s one of the problems with a “clean slices” demarcation. It should be more of a continuum, and I’d show up as being in an interim-colored area between Boomers and X. Heh. Usually I’m tossed in with the boomers, but these ranges put me in with the Xers. Only reason I voted. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/29 "2009-09-27T19:04:41Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Boomer. > > People try to put us down, just because we get around. M-m-m-me too. Hope I die before I get old. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/30 "2009-09-27T20:59:07Z")
I’m a Millennial, but prefer Generation Y designation (born in 1985). Both of my parents are Boomers. My older siblings are all Xs, the youngest of them having been born in 1972. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/31 "2009-09-27T21:10:43Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > M-m-m-me too. Hope I die before I get old. 🙂 Talkin 'bout my generation. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/32 "2009-09-27T21:34:36Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > What the hell does “Civic” mean for Millennials? It should be “Whiny and Spoiled.” In 1928 people said the same thing about the Greatest Generation. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/33 "2009-09-27T21:38:09Z")
Another 1982’er here - not quite Gen X, but not quite ‘millenial’ either. What does Nirvana \*\*and \*\*texting get me? ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/34 "2009-09-27T21:59:35Z")
I was not even aware I was in the X Generation (born 1980). I thought 79 was the cutoff. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/35 "2009-09-27T22:55:11Z")
Millenial according to the designations there, but for some reason, it doesn’t feel right. I think I prefer “Generation Y.” I was born in 1987. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/36 "2009-09-27T23:28:18Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > I was not even aware I was in the X Generation (born 1980). I thought 79 was the cutoff. Me too, although having strict cutoffs for these sorts of things seems a bit silly. What I wonder is if my brothers and sister are different generations than me seeing as they were all born in the 80’s (we all have the same parents, incidentally). That seems wrong for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/37 "2009-09-27T23:33:40Z")
Boomer here! (1953) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/38 "2009-09-27T23:35:03Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > It means we care about things other than ourselves. You should try it. meh…we X’s don’t care about shit:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/39 "2009-09-28T00:30:46Z")
> [@kitemaker\_chuck](#): > > Boomer here! > (1953) Wasn’t that a great year?! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/40 "2009-09-28T01:24:16Z")
1966 - I consider myself a Gen X’er. I think the reason other people my age don’t really consider themselves X’ers is because there is a flawed idea out there of what a Gen X’er actually is. Gen X’ers are not the flannel-wearing slackers people seem to think they are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715.md?page=3)