Liberal government advised not to call young people 'millennials' lest they be insulted

[HIMBOB]

Oh you mean the one conclusion that they titled the article after?

Article??? This was a fluff piece designed to enrage the stupid.

Reading more than sensationalist click bait titles helps.

 

[Snake_Plissken]

<45> so good

 

[HIMBOB]

Or, we could just tell them to sack the fuck up and quit being a bitch.

The millennials were answering questions.

You make it sound like they were bitching almost as badly as all the people in this thread bitching about millenials and a relatively small amount of money being spent on increasing the efficiency of communication with about 1/4 of the population.

 

[Curmudgeon]

The millennials were answering questions.

You make it sound like they were bitching almost as badly as all the people in this thread bitching about millenials and a relatively small amount of money being spent on increasing the efficiency of communication with about 1/4 of the population.

Millennial detected.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

But its a small waste and draws attention from real issues.

We had a big fuss about ex politicians getting free flights for life and how it cost almost 1 million per year. Got loads of air time.
Due to this fluff issue less time was devoted to real issues like energy costs increasing 10s of billions of dollars a year.

In my mind waste should be granted attention on a pro rata cost basis. Seeing energy costs were costing over 10,000 times more it should get about 10,000 times more attention. And this is not just media but time spent in parliament.

I worked out that about 13 seconds of parliament sitting time should be devoted to that issue instead it was discussed for literally several days.

And people wonder why nothing gets done.

Hard not to see the logic in that post, even if I ultimately disagree.

 

[Ice That Jaw]

This is actually quite true in my experience and it speaks to a point regarding the definition of a generation that always bugs me.

From what I understand, the actual time frame of a generation in these studies has some flex to it, in that they tend to point to other studies and try to make the research match with at least average ranges. It also would seem that the whole range of a generation is based on a reproductional generation. Ultimately that is completely arbitrary, and so we need a common anchor point to begin really defining each generation.

That was WW2, we had the great generation and the boomers following. But that's just the thing, without the event, fixing a proper definition on the people born in the late 30s and the late 40s as one generation would be just as appropriate, since time is arbitrary.

So what's not arbitrary then is the event. A large scale impact on society and culture. 70s and 80s kids imo have more in common with each other than 80s and 90's do. Likewise I would group 90s and those born in the new millennium as more similar to each other.

I mean, we always say it right, smart phone kids. The rapid rise of technology has created a stark division between age groups that isn't accounted for in the common definition of millenials.

I have two older siblings and one very younger. By some definitions, we would all be millenials. Of the older cohort, we were all born in the 80s, my younger sibling though was born in 2001.

I remember when the I remember the NES being a luxury in my childhood. We were early adopters of a home PC too, but even that was extremely time limited for us kids. We would be pushed out the door and told to be home when the street lights came on. We still brought that into our teens, and would wander around the city after (and during) high school.

I'm not really sure that my younger sibling even leaves the house if not for school. Kids born in the 90s would have been born into computers being an every day item, taken for granted. Video games that are far more complex and consuming with the advance of consoles and PC games.

Ranting now, but I know what it was like to watch technology develop, but I'm lumped into a generational definition with kids who grew up embedded in it. I think that has shaped us very differently.

Not only that, but think of the porn the younger millenials had access to right out of the gate. I had to sneak the 70s and 80s vhs tapes like Sex Boat because even when we had a PC with windows 95, waiting 2mins to download a 640x480 image was just not cutting it.

 

[BruceLeeOnTRT]

If they take away millennial, they have to return one of the forbidden insults. Preferably gaylord.

 

[aus101]

I prefer the term gen Y.