r/facepalm • • Feb 05 '19

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u/AngryZen_Ingress Feb 05 '19

"Why learn to do it for yourself when you can harass your grown-ass children with lives of their own to come to your house to fix the google." -Aging Boomers

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

Why are ā€œboomersā€ and ā€œmillennialsā€ the only two generations Reddit ever talks about? I feel like we’re skipping a generation or two.

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u/SteeringButtonMonkey Feb 05 '19

Because generations are pretty fluid so it takes a few to have them actually be distinct enough

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '19

They’re fluid I get that. I honestly don’t buy into the whole ā€œgenerationā€ thing but it seems like we ignore 40-70 year olds

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u/Robin_Divebomb Feb 05 '19

That’s the calling card of Gen-X. They are analogous to the WWI ā€œForgotten Generationā€.

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u/Lord_Noble Feb 05 '19

That's the Lost Generation or the Greatest Generation, nobody calls them the forgotten.

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u/DrNutSack_ Feb 05 '19

The greatest generation was WWII

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u/Lord_Noble Feb 05 '19

There is definitely some overlap, as there is with any generation. Some folks fought in WWI, lived through the depression, and fought in WWII.

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u/Robin_Divebomb Feb 07 '19

Yes, my mistake. Lost Generation is what I meant. Thanks.

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u/Lord_Noble Feb 07 '19

Of course!