I was going to write a post all about how shivery up the spine Mike's dancing on the plinth yesterday was, and how it got us that know him all a-twitter and some of us a bit weepy, partly because it was Mike because he's just adorable and brave as hell getting up there, and partly because from a lump of marble in the middle of London, he managed to create a simply simple live music event amongst friends across the world by setting up a stream of the music he was dancing to on his ipod for that hour so we could join in and I was going to suggest that our generation, generation x, is just the best generation ever and are the best generation to take advantage of this new world ... the baby boomers before us so much that they are, profligate, opinionated, entitled to everything; the generation y-ers after us so lacking in something (maybe they'll catch up, but I doubt it) and I drew the picture above and then I was going to stick it all together by saying that we x-ers will be the first generation since the teenager was invented that WON'T be requiring a Radio 2 to their Radio 1 (spurred on mention this, because of the deeply predictable and funny reactions this week to Chris Evans replacing Terry Wogan on Radio 2).... .... but I rather lost the thread... ...  

So, try and stick it together for yourself and imagine what point I was trying to make.  And if you're a Generation Y-er or a Baby Boomer, don't take offence (maybe just a little).  You can't help it.

ps. STOP TAKING ME SO SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

PPS  SIGH.

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written by Mandi M , September 18, 2009

I have to agree with you. If nothing else, we must be the only generation to grow up with one reality and then had to adapt to a new one.

Back in the '70s as we were growing up, who'd have thought of something like the Internet (apart from Douglas Adams)? And yet, many of it deal with it every single day.

I started my working life in an old-fashioned newsroom for a paper still printed on hot metal, and my copy was bashed out on an antique portable typewriter. When out in the field, we reporters had to find a public phone box, compose the story in our heads and scream it down the phone line to copy takers. Very different to today's technological conveniences and something the Generation Y-ers cannot even start to conceive.

We also know how to appreciate some of the classic entertainment our folks enjoyed, whilst still understanding today's offerings (or at least most of it). We KNOW that the ultimate in British humour is NOT "The Office" or "Little Britain", but delights like "Yes, Minister" (but NOT Benny Hill, please).

And we grew up having to entertain ourselves - long bike rides down muddy lanes, picking blackberries in the autumn, building Indian teepees out of bean poles and an old blanket in the garden. All without our parents having a Health & Safety fainting fit (most of simply bounced when we fell down - some of us still do).

We yelled for them 'Ban the Bomb', we cheered when they finally freed Nelson Mandela, and we dug deep for Live Aid. Deep down, we probably believed as much as those who came of age in the '60s that we might just be able to change the world.

We lived through times of massive social and technological changes - and then some. And yet, we took it all in our stride.

Gen X rules, OK!

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written by lucy , September 20, 2009

there WAS a twatty comment here. i deleted it. bwahahahah.

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written by Daddy Papersurfer , September 20, 2009

Am I a 'Baby Boomer' Ms Pepperoni? It's just this trying to define a generation always rather confuses me ..... and I must say I'm rather surprised that you do .....

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written by lucy , September 20, 2009

i'm surpised you think i'm being THAT serious, silly! they are huge generalizations, but like most generalizations, they do have a grain of truth in them.
so there.
lesson: don't blog tired.

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written by Daddy Papersurfer , September 20, 2009

I'm quite surprised [and delighted - tee hee heeeeee] you rose soooooooo easily ...... [doin' an 'ickle dance whilst giggling hugely]

Baby Boomers 1

Generation X Rubbish!!!!!!!!!

Generation Y Bothered ...........

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written by lucy , September 20, 2009

oh you bugger.

it's been that kind of weekend.

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written by mike , September 20, 2009

WOW at the illustration, MM-HMM at the text. Hadn't thought of it like that, but then I was born in 1962 and so feel post-baby-boom but also fractionally pre-gen-X...?

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written by lucy , September 20, 2009

it was one of those posts where i was sure of how it all tied together before i began, then had a minor nervous breakdown in the middle.
you are a gen x-er. i said so.

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written by asta , September 20, 2009

Well, according to David Foot, who is THE demographer in North America, the Baby Boom didn't end until 1966 in Canada and there was no significant baby boom in Europe at all.

But Hey. I still like the post.

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written by Daddy Papersurfer , September 20, 2009

Still *giggling* ........... alot

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written by brunoclark , September 21, 2009

so when's the official cut off for generation X? so i know whether to agree completely or feel insulted?

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written by Lo,TG , September 21, 2009

You can't be Generation X, me and Daddy P are - and so, I believe, were my mother & father..........

P.S. I have no intention of taking you seriously.

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written by jen , September 21, 2009

Love it!!! Godspeed, Generation X!

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written by clare sudbery , September 24, 2009

I agree with a lot of this, but I have lost count of the number of previously-goodly-tasted friends and acquaintances who have tried to convince me that Radio 2 is rather good these days. So I have tried listening to it, only to discover that it sounds exactly as it did when we were young - but now the "golden oldies" contain a goodly smattering of rubbish hits from our own youth. Leading me to sadly surmise that Radio 2 works consistently for people in their 40s, who probably always think that it has suddenly got good, rather than they being the ones who have suddenly got old...