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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Who the fuck put keeanu in there?

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just checked, wow he’s technically a Boomer! Born in 1964, so just made it.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's....not even close to a Boomer. WW2 ended 20 years earlier lol.

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don’t understand, are you confused at the age range for Boomers? It literally says it in the image…

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Didn't notice those dates. Still makes no sense if you take the name literally though...

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Didn’t notice those dates. Still makes no sense if you take the name literally though…

You're wrong chronologically, but you're right based on how those labels are used to judge people's social values.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So it takes 20 years for a sexed up WW2 vet to hop in the sack after returning from the war?

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

So it takes 20 years for a sexed up WW2 vet to hop in the sack after returning from the war?

Fuck if I know, that's not what I'm speaking about.

You don't pop out of your mother's womb already programmed to have an understanding of the socieity that you live in. You learn as you go from external sources (parents, family, society) and you act a certain way at each milestone of your life (child, young teenager, older teenager, young adult, adult, middle aged, senior).

When we all judge someone by applying a generation label its done based on how they act/opine, and not the chronological date that they entered the World. There's a lag/delay from when a person starts to exist on this Earth to the time they form a personality and express said personality.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don’t understand, are you confused at the age range for Boomers? It literally says it in the image…

I get where they're coming from.

The starting point is normally defined at the time you came out of your mother's womb, but it really shouldn't be.

It should be started at the point where you first enter society as a child, and start learning your generation's societal values.

Basically, when you started kindergarten, or Elementary School.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just checked, wow he’s technically a Boomer! Born in 1964, so just made it.

The identifier should be started at the age you entered society, and not the age you came out of your mother’s womb.

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can infer the age you entered society from the age you left the womb.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

You can infer the age you entered society from the age you left the womb.

That doesn't work. Technically I'm a Boomer, but I act and think completely like a Gen-Xer.

In fact growing up I used to give Boomers crap myself, until I got more wise. They acted completely different from me, based on the times they grew up in.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess technically he's a boomer, but he's 1000% gen x. He doesn't make moves like a boomer would.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

I guess technically he’s a boomer, but he’s 1000% gen x.

The identifier should be started at the age you entered society, and not the age you came out of your mother's womb.