Bill Gate's advice to Generation Y

[robracer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBA1K18b1Q

[brendanzxr]

All i can say is bloody bullies.

[Colette]

Now come on boys, play nicely

[6maniac]

Now come on boys, play nicely

Or else you'll cop a scolding from ttc !

[robracer]

Now come on boys, play nicely

Yes maaaammmm

[Gosling1]

..... any way after loooking it up, generation X was anyone born between born between 1964 and 1984......

Gen X seems to vary every time I see it quoted. The generation known as the Baby Boomers, are those kids born between 1945 and 1960. Although, if you study any graph of the 'boom' in babies after WWII, the actual 'spike' in children born was over a very short period of 3 years between 1945 and 1948. After 1948, the birth-rate basically dropped back to pre-war numbers......how its possible to refer to someone born in 1963 as a 'Baby Boomer', almost 20 years after WWII finished, is beyond me !!

Most references I have seen to Gen X seem to run with the period 1960-1980. A generation always 'used' to be defined as a period of 25 years, but recent history seems to suggest that a generation is now only a period of 20 years. I am really happy to be a cutting-edge Gen X - the generation that grew up with video games, not card games....

Anyone born after 1980 is Gen Y, and the kids who are now 7 or 8, are all Gen Z. They haven't really caused any problems yet, its just the Gen Y brats that need their arses kicked !!!

[Blurr]

its just the Gen Y brats that need their arses kicked !!!

just point to where you need me!!!

[6maniac]

..... any way after loooking it up, generation X was anyone born between born between 1964 and 1984......

Anyone born after 1980 is Gen Y, and the kids who are now 7 or 8, are all Gen Z. They haven't really caused any problems yet, its just the Gen Y brats that need their arses kicked !!!

So what do we call the Next Gen ? ( After Gen Z )

[Ratmick]

So what do we call the Next Gen ? ( After Gen Z )

Well we can start afresh from Gen A, or branch out into the Greek alphabet and we can have Gen Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon...

Mick

[aardvark]

its just the Gen Y brats that need their arses kicked !!!

Hear, hear!!! Gos for PM!!

[Six Addict]

Most references I have seen to Gen X seem to run with the period 1960-1980. A generation always 'used' to be defined as a period of 25 years, but recent history seems to suggest that a generation is now only a period of 20 years. I am really happy to be a cutting-edge Gen X

baffles me how someone who is 48!!! can be a gen x-er.... ive seen 1965-1981

in theory yes a "generation" as in a generation in a family used to be around 25 which was probably based on the average age of when women gave birth.... these days the actual generation is probably closer to 30!!!

however i reckon in terms of how we describe a generation when kids grew up... it should probably be broken down in to 10 year increments...

as gay as it sounds i reckon im part of the myspace generation... or the playstation generation...

[Colette]

Wikipedia defines the generations this way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generations

[Six Addict]

looks like im a member of XY cusp and gen Y.... altho ive never had cable tv so ive hardly been influenced by mtv

[Gosling1]

....baffles me how someone who is 48!!! can be a gen x-er.... ive seen 1965-1981 ..

mate I was born in 1962, so I have only 'just' turned 46 !!! which means I was only 44 at the start of last year, which makes me 'Cutting-edge Gen X'....

1965 ?? so a full 21 years after the end of WWII, which is the start of the baby-boomers generation, these kids are still known as baby-boomers ??? What do you call children who were born in 1963, to a child born in 1945 ??? Baby BOOM BOOM'ers ??? and there are plenty. It was not unusual at all back in those days for chicks to leave school at 17, and be married with kids at 18 or 19.

I AM NOT A FUCKING BABY BOOMER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baby boomers didn't grow up with 'Pong', or 'Star Wars'. or 'Asteroids' etc.

Gen Y kids are definitely the Nintendo/Playstation Generation.

[Gosling1]

Wikipedia defines the generations this way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generations

(born 1944-1960) The Baby Boomers

(born 1960-1979) Generation X

(born 1980-2001) Generation Y

There you go - I had not looked at the Wiki entry for this before posting my dates above, but these dates lifted straight from Wiki correspond almost *exactly* with the periods in my earlier post. Wiki also mentions all sorts of 'cusp' generations (ie 1975 - 1986) etc, this is just crap. There have been only 3 basic generations between the end of WWII and the end of the 20th century.

I am just being pedantic about this because *NO FUCKING WAY* am I some baby-boomer retired fat arse who smoked shitloads of cones in the 60's and 70's (well, maybe the very late 70's !!!)