Environment and 'Ok Boomer'

GG - 78 - goodness, who would know!

Summerlove love your name .
Well yes, if that's the case, then as my children were born in the eighties they are indeed millennials (sp?).

My DD will definitely not want to have me put down.
I am too useful!!
She needs me for child care and as she has a health condition relies on both her parents.

Her dad came to the rescue yesterday, when she had a flood in her kitchen.

And as I said before, if and when she has grandchildren, she will still probably be working, so we will if our health allows, be picking up the slack.

I get that if the older 'Baby Boomer' generation leave savings house etc,
the millennials will use money for child care, buy their own homes etc, but what will they do when the money runs out or the Baby Boomer parents have no money to leave to the millennials?

Imho, they are sadly lacking in a bit of joined up thinking.

I am probably a bit naive, but I dont think that Baby Boomers should worry, it is just social media hot air.?

Are people actually calling for essentially putting people on ice floes and pushing them out to sea?

I had naively assumed assisted death was for those who were ill and wanted to end it themselves with help.

Not sure how to take that lavendezen but I can guess.

*Summerlove see my post a bit further up the thread. I would also say that it is younger people who keep lights on and heat up when not home. Drive instead of walking.

It is also the millenials who drive most of the gas guzzling SUVs and 4x4s

I will look for that post Monica.

As I said, in my experience, with people I know, it is the older generation that does that. I’m sure it’s people of all generations, but in the people I interact with I see it more in the older one.

Monica, having reread your post, we obviously just see different people out and about.

I assumed you had posted about assisted death and I missed it

I just look at the houses as I drive round in my village and elsewhere where all the lights are on and the curtains not drawn, big 4x4 in the drive. Our next door neighbours have 2. Lots of those parked outside our primary school each morning

Look at the thread on plastic bags, most older people use non-disposable bags.

Monica most school runs are done by gen X or boomer grandparents and a lesser amount of millenials due to recent generations often waiting until later to start families so seeing 4×4s & SUVs at school gates is less likely to be millenials and more likely to be gen x or older so....

For all who did not know:

Millennials originally were those born in 1982 and so 'came of age' in the year 2000.
It has changed to encompass a wider age range and a whole generation.

Millennials (age 37/38) are quite likely to be parents of young children and could be those doing the school run (as seen each day outside my house).

Monica, nowhere did I say you were wrong. I said in my experience with people I know and people I see. then i said obviously we see different people. That doesn’t make my experience any less valid than yours. Which I previously stated was your experience and valid.

I have read the plastic bag thread, I’ve just not commented on it.

Most of the older millennials that I know cannot afford to go off on holiday or go out to eat often. Their money is all spent on nursery/mortgage.

Their parents, who are young boomers or older Gen X parents, are constantly taking long-haul vacations.

Again, just different cross sections of people.

Well, millennial parents are not all 'baby boomers' or Gen X!

Some of us are older than that.
And some of us have to take occasional long haul flights in order to see them.
Mind you, my 'millennial' has never fitted into the most category.

Again, my comments are in relation to people I know.

Not meant to include whole generations.

Its not at all uncommon for people these days to become parents in their 40s. Meaning they are in their 50s when their children are still in primary school!

School run does not = millenial! There are gen X and gen Y parents of primary age kids too!

School age parents can be the genetation before or after millenials, and plenty of grandparents do school runs too.

There is no "school run" generation. The 4×4s you see outside school could be from any adult generation.

I think people use "millenial" for "anyone younger than me whom I dislike/judge/disagree with" when actuallly the person or people they are referring to may not be millenials before!

I have been called a millenial on GN just because I have had what were percieved as "millenial" oppinions. There is no such thing!

Yes there are! Those who came of age in the year 2000 and those I know were very proud to be called millennials at that time!

School run does not = millenial! There are gen X and gen Y parents of primary age kids too!

I mean X and Z.

The current generations that have school age children are X, Y and Z.
Only Y are millennial.

I'm getting now

How have I missed out on XY and all that stuff?

I've never heard of it before today.

Why?

People are citing school run behaviour as evidence of "millennial" behaviour.

There are 3 generations that currently have school aged children: X, Y & Z.
The school gates can also be populated by grandparents.

School run behaviour near you is not evidence against one particular generation!

P.s. I know 2 millennials who are grandparents. And lots of gen X grandparents.

Stereotyping! Nit-picking!
All this coded 'divide and conquer'
tosh aimed at intergenerational strife is so so far from my family's experience that I simply will not dignify it with serious discussion.

Ps your reference to pious folk attending regular C of E services is a sweeping generalisation which at the same time excludes large swathes of the population of the UK.

One of GN's more pointless threads!

you're right

However, I am going to do a survey tomorrow; going out with my clipboard at school pickup time and I'll quiz everyone who has parked here on their age, whether or not they are a parent or grandparent etc. etc
Watch them all disappear and park somewhere else

I just find a fluorescent jacket from somewhere and make myself look official

Or is it my turn to pick up? I'm not sure which generation I am actually as I don't fit into any of them.

Don’t forget to publish your findings, Callistemon.

DS did once wax lyrical on the iniquity of DH and me not having to pay tuition fees when he had to. Till I reminded him that we paid them for him.