I disbelieve strongly in all attempts to define “generation this or that”. So I was reading this with at least a pint of scorn, when it occurred to me that I was working in a tech start-up and I’d been to a 2-Tone gig at the weekend.
I disbelieve strongly in all attempts to define “generation this or that”. So I was reading this with at least a pint of scorn, when it occurred to me that I was working in a tech start-up and I’d been to a 2-Tone gig at the weekend.
Putting aside DD’s objections to the phrase, stopped clock, twice a day and all that…
They gain some accuracy over the usual purveyors by thinking in a slightly more fine-grained (and less in thrall to round numbers) way when they define generations…
But… I was born in 75 and you’re not telling me (in the British perspective) that I have lots in common (for example politically) with someone born in 82. The first political struggle I was really aware of was the Miner’s Strike – and I’m not saying I understood it all, but I saw my part of the world devastated by Thatcher. Someone born in 82 never even knew that that world I saw devastated even existed…