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And don't forget the over-involved parents.
Yes, I remember saying before he has the worst traits of people of his generation.
Millennial/Gen-Y were born from 1982-1994 IIRC, so Chris is at the beginning of his cohort.
Yes, I remember saying before he has the worst traits of people of his generation.
Millennial/Gen-Y were born from 1982-1994 IIRC, so Chris is at the beginning of his cohort.
Bah! Kids these days with their music! Why, back in MY day if you wanted to talk to someone you had to use the telephone, and I don't remember anyone complaining about it neither! The world is going to Hell in a hand basket! What ever happened to the good old days?
You are the world's youngest old man.
You are the world's youngest old man.
Re: Is Chris the proto-millennial?
The people who coined the term Millennial say 1982-2004. OPL is at the very beginning of the cohort.
The people who coined the term Millennial say 1982-2004. OPL is at the very beginning of the cohort.
I feel Chris is more like the perfect storm of autism and bad parenting.
I don't think Chris fits into any generational grouping. He's too isolated. At best, he is a distorted caricature of some of the bad traits millennials are criticized for.
OT, but the same old people that now bash young people for relying on technology too much, are the ones who "watched too much TV" and listened to "evil rock music" according to their parents when they were young. Plus, they're killing our economy with all their selfish medicare and social security that millennials will never get to take advantage of because there's way too many of them clogging up the system; and when challenged they fall back on their whole "we're the greatest generation" schtick, as if every single one of them fought in World War II. So those old pieces of shit can go get fucked.
OT, but the same old people that now bash young people for relying on technology too much, are the ones who "watched too much TV" and listened to "evil rock music" according to their parents when they were young. Plus, they're killing our economy with all their selfish medicare and social security that millennials will never get to take advantage of because there's way too many of them clogging up the system; and when challenged they fall back on their whole "we're the greatest generation" schtick, as if every single one of them fought in World War II. So those old pieces of shit can go get fucked.
Chris is strangely both timeless yet bound to the 80s/90s.
JeffGoldblumIRL
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Alec Benson Leary said:
Marry me.
I feel like one of the defining aspects of the "Millennial" generation is that they cannot remember a time before the Internet, either due to being born after its availability as a commodity or by simply being too young to remember when it "didn't exist" (e.g. born in 1991 or so). Generation X (or whichever one is the one before Millennials) can remember a childhood or a time where the ease of use of the Internet was not a thing. I am about the same age as Chris and I wouldn't consider myself a Millennial. Back when I/we were kids, information wasn't as easy to get as Googling a word for a quick definition. Kids our age actually had to make use of libraries, phone directories, and collect calling.
Generational traits are usually pinned to the actions and attitudes of a generation as they become young adults.
Chris never got that far.
also, every Generation has it's bright and dark aspects. The so-called "Greatest Generation" either fought WWII, or came together to support the war in a way that you could never pull off today, but a lot of them were also racist assholes who supported segregation. The Baby-Boomers struggled for peace and racial harmony, but largely sold out their ideals for SUVs and McMansions as they got older. Gen-X sort of set the bar for individual achievement and self sufficiency, but the downside of that is that they are in a lot of ways, cynical, selfish jerks. I can't really speak to Millennials, since i don't know many, but i'd say that from what i see they're no different in this. Yeah they're kinda clueless and helpless when "unplugged", but when they ARE plugged in? Damn, they can do some shit. (viral movements ala 'Arab Spring', etc...)
Generations are just people living in different times and circumstances, but they're still people, and therefore capable of both awesome and terrible shit.
Chris never got that far.
also, every Generation has it's bright and dark aspects. The so-called "Greatest Generation" either fought WWII, or came together to support the war in a way that you could never pull off today, but a lot of them were also racist assholes who supported segregation. The Baby-Boomers struggled for peace and racial harmony, but largely sold out their ideals for SUVs and McMansions as they got older. Gen-X sort of set the bar for individual achievement and self sufficiency, but the downside of that is that they are in a lot of ways, cynical, selfish jerks. I can't really speak to Millennials, since i don't know many, but i'd say that from what i see they're no different in this. Yeah they're kinda clueless and helpless when "unplugged", but when they ARE plugged in? Damn, they can do some shit. (viral movements ala 'Arab Spring', etc...)
Generations are just people living in different times and circumstances, but they're still people, and therefore capable of both awesome and terrible shit.
Alec Benson Leary said:
I concur, but would also posit that chris is basically a gestalt entity of the shittest parts of the past half century.
From the fifties he brings his views on race, sexuality and gender
From the sixties he brings his taste in sitcoms
From the seventies he brings his hairstyles
From the eighties he brings his sense of fashion
From the nineties he brings his "super kewl radical" persona and obsession with nineties pop culture
From the naughties he brings the habit of putting everything he does on the internet
DrChristianTroy
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This. The whole "Grrrrr Millenials!" is what happened to every generation before them. Same that will happen to the generation after them.Some JERK said:
Burning Love
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That's not how millennial is defined, though. You can't just make up definitions for it. Millennials cover the time period between 1982 and 2000-2004 depending on who you ask.JeffGoldblumIRL said:Alec Benson Leary said:
Marry me.
I feel like one of the defining aspects of the "Millennial" generation is that they cannot remember a time before the Internet, either due to being born after its availability as a commodity or by simply being too young to remember when it "didn't exist" (e.g. born in 1991 or so). Generation X (or whichever one is the one before Millennials) can remember a childhood or a time where the ease of use of the Internet was not a thing. I am about the same age as Chris and I wouldn't consider myself a Millennial. Back when I/we were kids, information wasn't as easy to get as Googling a word for a quick definition. Kids our age actually had to make use of libraries, phone directories, and collect calling.
Baby Boomers are roughly 1946 to 1964, being the generation of children born in the post-war population boom. Generation X was born 1965 to 1981. Generation Y (aka the millennials) started being born in 1982 and ended between 2000 and 2004. That's just how generations work. If you were born after 1981, you aren't Generation X. Generation Z is next and their most notable trait is they were raised in a world inundated in the internet and high technology. The beginning of GenY didn't live in a world where the internet was ubiquitous, but by their coming of age, it was starting to be.
Generation labels serve 2 purposes:
1. It's a way for older generations to make fun of the parental faults of the moms and dads who reproduced after them.
2. It's a way for parents of young people to laugh at how bad they are at raising kids while pretending it's all society's fault.
1. It's a way for older generations to make fun of the parental faults of the moms and dads who reproduced after them.
2. It's a way for parents of young people to laugh at how bad they are at raising kids while pretending it's all society's fault.
Bernd Lauert
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I would just like to, ahaha "derail" this thread just a tad bit further by extending a heartfelt "Thank You" to all the fine folks who have helped supplying me with a definition of the buzz-word "millenials" while pretending to discuss OPL.
Thank you. Now I know. And knowing is half the battle!
Or so you used to say. Shine on you crazy 'murricans. From the bottom of my heart, I say: you confuse me as only a woman could and that is the reason I can't help but love you.
That is all.
Thank you. Now I know. And knowing is half the battle!
Or so you used to say. Shine on you crazy 'murricans. From the bottom of my heart, I say: you confuse me as only a woman could and that is the reason I can't help but love you.
That is all.
An old millennial, in the future: "Fucking kids these days!! these year 2065 kids are such entitled assholes, now in my day, we knew the definition of hard work lemme tell you what! Son did I ever tell you about the summer of 05? Back in my day, we listened to REAL rock music, lemme get out my Slipknot Cd."
or imagine some kid looks though his dads cd collection, " Marilyn Manson, he was shocking in your time??? he is so tame be todays standards."
to answer the question, No. What ABL said.
or imagine some kid looks though his dads cd collection, " Marilyn Manson, he was shocking in your time??? he is so tame be todays standards."
to answer the question, No. What ABL said.
Bernd Lauert said:
Let us go all the way down this rabbit hole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_Generation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z
Yeah, Judge Holden is right.
Chris is an avatar of all of the worst traits of each generation, while lacking any of the virtues.
He is as hidebound as a "Greatest Generation" member, but lacks their work ethic.
He is as "withdrawn, cautious, unimaginative, indifferent, unadventurous and silent." as a "Silent Generation" member, but without the stability.
He is as entitled as a "Baby Boomer" but without the innate craving for experience or novelty.
He is as cynical and dissaffected as a "Gen X'er" without being savvy or rebellious.
He is as "plugged in" as a "Millenial" without actually absorbing any of the information at his disposal.
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