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mrMet said:
Iceman is the best qb I’ve ever watched at Tennessee. Keep in mind I was 5 when Peyton graduated
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Cool story, bro moment...

I was in Oak Ridge last week for work with a co-worker who is 23. A very mature 23 but...still nearly 16 years younger than me.

We went to Litton's in Fountain City for dinner--best burger ever but, apparently, no more milkshakes. When I tried to order one the (very young looking) waiter said they didn't have them, which I replied with "...but didn't y'all have them like 18 years ago?"

His response....

"I don't know, I'm only 19."


I might have involuntarily let a very sarcastic four letter word out, followed by "you" to both the waiter and my coworker.


Millennials...🙄
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Cool story, bro moment...

I was in Oak Ridge last week for work with a co-worker who is 23. A very mature 23 but...still nearly 16 years younger than me.

We went to Litton's in Fountain City for dinner--best burger ever but, apparently, no more milkshakes. When I tried to order one the (very young looking) waiter said they didn't have them, which I replied with "...but didn't y'all have them like 18 years ago?"

His response....

"I don't know, I'm only 19."


I might have involuntarily let a very sarcastic four letter word out, followed by "you" to both the waiter and my coworker.


Millennials...🙄
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If my math is correct, technically, you're a millennial too. :)

I keeed because you're in my age range -- the group that is labeled both Gen X and Millennial depending on the dates used but is really neither. One neat thing is the demographers and sociologists are trying to figure out what to do with us - we're not as cynical as true Xers or as naive Millenials.

We were first to have technology/computers/cell phones/internet as a key component of our lives but technology wasn't ever present in our childhood -- for us it went from just being there to ever present sometime in early adulthood/late teen years. We were the early adopters of all things video game and tech related.

One demographer wanted to label us Xennials - thank God that didn't take. I'd rather be left in that weird nameless void between Xers and Millenials than get stuck with that horrid name.
 
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UTProf said:
If my math is correct, technically, you're a millennial too. :)

I keeed because you're in my age range -- the group that is labeled both Gen X and Millennial depending on the dates used but is really neither. One neat thing is the demographers and sociologists are trying to figure out what to do with us - we're not as cynical as true Xers or as naive Millenials.

We were first to have technology/computers/cell phones/internet as a key component of our lives but technology wasn't ever present in our childhood -- for us it went from just being there to ever present sometime in early adulthood/late teen years. We were the early adopters of all things video game and tech related.

One demographer wanted to label us Xennials - thank God that didn't take. I'd rather be left in that weird nameless void between Xers and Millenials than get stuck with that horrid name.
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You both need to get off my dam lawn.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Cool story, bro moment...

I was in Oak Ridge last week for work with a co-worker who is 23. A very mature 23 but...still nearly 16 years younger than me.

We went to Litton's in Fountain City for dinner--best burger ever but, apparently, no more milkshakes. When I tried to order one the (very young looking) waiter said they didn't have them, which I replied with "...but didn't y'all have them like 18 years ago?"

His response....

"I don't know, I'm only 19."


I might have involuntarily let a very sarcastic four letter word out, followed by "you" to both the waiter and my coworker.


Millennials...🙄
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If you passed on the Thunder Road burger while ordering, I’d quit serving you too
 
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UTProf said:
If my math is correct, technically, you're a millennial too. :)

I keeed because you're in my age range -- the group that is labeled both Gen X and Millennial depending on the dates used but is really neither. One neat thing is the demographers and sociologists are trying to figure out what to do with us - we're not as cynical as true Xers or as naive Millenials.

We were first to have technology/computers/cell phones/internet as a key component of our lives but technology wasn't ever present in our childhood -- for us it went from just being there to ever present sometime in early adulthood/late teen years. We were the early adopters of all things video game and tech related.

One demographer wanted to label us Xennials - thank God that didn't take. I'd rather be left in that weird nameless void between Xers and Millenials than get stuck with that horrid name.
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Nope. Cut off is 1980, or at least that's what I'm going with. I'm Gen X :)

And I had a typewriting class, complete with a backspace that had to use white-out sheets to erase previous characters, and that was in high school.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Nope. Cut off is 1980, or at least that's what I'm going with. I'm Gen X :)

And I had a typewriting class, complete with a backspace that had to use white-out sheets to erase previous characters, and that was in high school.
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Lol we only had like 5 electric typewriters in my high school class. We each got one six weeks on the electric ones.
 
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UTProf said:
If my math is correct, technically, you're a millennial too. :)

I keeed because you're in my age range -- the group that is labeled both Gen X and Millennial depending on the dates used but is really neither. One neat thing is the demographers and sociologists are trying to figure out what to do with us - we're not as cynical as true Xers or as naive Millenials.

We were first to have technology/computers/cell phones/internet as a key component of our lives but technology wasn't ever present in our childhood -- for us it went from just being there to ever present sometime in early adulthood/late teen years. We were the early adopters of all things video game and tech related.

One demographer wanted to label us Xennials - thank God that didn't take. I'd rather be left in that weird nameless void between Xers and Millenials than get stuck with that horrid name.
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There is no way a person born from 1981-1985 can be considered a mellenial. One day, someone just picked out years out of thin air. I am just outside of it, but my peers are not mellenials. I was at least into my 30's until I even heard the word.

You can't be a teenager who had to use dial-up on AOL and IM others and still be a mellenial. Just can't.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Nope. Cut off is 1980, or at least that's what I'm going with. I'm Gen X :)

And I had a typewriting class, complete with a backspace that had to use white-out sheets to erase previous characters, and that was in high school.
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The cutoff for some demographers is 1980. I'm older than you and had BOTH typewriting and keyboarding as well as a computer class where we learned basic plot based graphics programming.

I still get stuck in both X and Millennial at times because demographers can't make up their minds. Tho now that they have an idea of what the generations are like they are tightening things up. They'll find a category for us nameless ones soon. We're closer to X than Y but we're not true Xers either.
 
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VolGee4 said:
There is no way a person born from 1981-1985 can be considered a mellenial. One day, someone just picked out years out of thin air. I am just outside of it, but my peers are not mellenials. I was at least into my 30's until I even heard the word.

You can't be a teenager who had to use dial-up on AOL and IM others and still be a mellenial. Just can't.
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That's only because we all hate Millenials and the thought of being lumped in with them is repellent to most of us. I brought it up as a tease but from ~77-85 is a group that has unique characteristics of both. It's also an age range that has been stuck in both categories depending on who is doing the study.

Relax y'all. As fun as generational warfare is these are made up categories that are mainly used for marketing because marketing is the only aspect of the social sciences where you can become a millionaire. :)
 
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VolGee4 said:
You can't be a teenager who had to use dial-up on AOL and IM others and still be a mellenial. Just can't.
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There are plenty of people in their mid to late twenties who had dial up until middle school too though and spent hours on IM and MySpace.

The thing with generations is that their boundaries can be kind of hard to set a definite beginning and end on. Someone born in 1990 May get lumped in with millennials, but had a very different adolescence than today’s high schoolers (many of whom can’t even remember a pre-9/11 world).
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Nope. Cut off is 1980, or at least that's what I'm going with. I'm Gen X :)

And I had a typewriting class, complete with a backspace that had to use white-out sheets to erase previous characters, and that was in high school.
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Ive always seen 1982 as the starting year for Millenials... :dunno:
 
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UTProf said:
The cutoff for some demographers is 1980. I'm older than you and had BOTH typewriting and keyboarding as well as a computer class where we learned basic plot based graphics programming.

I still get stuck in both X and Millennial at times because demographers can't make up their minds. Tho now that they have an idea of what the generations are like they are tightening things up. They'll find a category for us nameless ones soon. We're closer to X than Y but we're not true Xers either.
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Agreed. Seems like those in the 1978-1985 range are almost their own unique sub-group.

Not quite the quintessential Gen X, but definitely not Millennial.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
There are plenty of people in their mid to late twenties who had dial up until middle school too though and spent hours on IM and MySpace.

The thing with generations is that their boundaries can be kind of hard to set a definite beginning and end on. Someone born in 1990 May get lumped in with millennials, but had a very different adolescence than today’s high schoolers (many of whom can’t even remember a pre-9/11 world).
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This exactly.

Technology reaches us at different paces. Sort of like me learning computer programming in middle school while orangeblood79 had typewriting in high school. Using those two bits from our past you'd think orangeblood was older but I'm older than him. I just happened to have access.

Also even though I had dial-up as a teen/young adult, I quickly moved onto ADSL and made use of UT's T-lines. Living in Knoxville meant that was available but elsewhere ADSL wasn't accessible and T-lines are still rare outside of college campuses and silicone valley.

As for Millenials... I think the problem with that label is that an entire generation got stereotyped based on the behavior of very well-off/upper class white kids and their parents (e.g. helicopter parents) behaviors. There's an upper middle class/private school/Ivy League feel to the label put on that generation that isn't fair. It's probably the most unfairly maligned generation right now. I don't know many who actually fit the stereotypes we have of that generation.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Agreed. Seems like those in the 1978-1985 range are almost their own unique sub-group.

Not quite the quintessential Gen X, but definitely not Millennial.
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Really, we're a sort of 'bridge' generation which puts us at an advantage in the workplace in that we can relate to both and sort of be a go between but we're definitely unique. If more of us had been born we'd already have a name but we were a smaller group caught between X and the baby boomlet that became known as the Millenial generation.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
There are plenty of people in their mid to late twenties who had dial up until middle school too though and spent hours on IM and MySpace.

The thing with generations is that their boundaries can be kind of hard to set a definite beginning and end on. Someone born in 1990 May get lumped in with millennials, but had a very different adolescence than today’s high schoolers (many of whom can’t even remember a pre-9/11 world).
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Yea, I understand. I know it's subjective. But I was shocked to see a mellenial as starting in 1981.

I won't get into economic disparities, but there aren't many people who are in their mid 20's who had dial up in middle school. Once I got to UT in 1998, things were moving on from dial up. I saw a star that only about a third of the population was using dial up in 2000.
 
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UTProf said:
This exactly.

Technology reaches us at different paces. Sort of like me learning computer programming in middle school while orangeblood79 had typewriting in high school. Using those two bits from our past you'd think orangeblood was older but I'm older than him. I just happened to have access.

Also even though I had dial-up as a teen/young adult, I quickly moved onto ADSL and made use of UT's T-lines. Living in Knoxville meant that was available but elsewhere ADSL wasn't accessible and T-lines are still rare outside of college campuses and silicone valley.

As for Millenials... I think the problem with that label is that an entire generation got stereotyped based on the behavior of very well-off/upper class white kids and their parents (e.g. helicopter parents) behaviors. There's an upper middle class/private school/Ivy League feel to the label put on that generation that isn't fair. It's probably the most unfairly maligned generation right now. I don't know many who actually fit the stereotypes we have of that generation.
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Safe spaces and participation trophies aren't limited to well-off white people.
 
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