As an old person, I would like to hear from other old people about stuff - let’s make this apparently abandoned lemmy community lively and fun.

I am a ‘boomer’ (according to USA culture) in my society (UK) I am just ‘old’.

According to typical profile of ‘boomers’ by non-boomers we are scum of the earth and spawn of Satan. I am not sure its true but I am intrigued enough to wanna try it!

Here’s my profile: UK citizen, born early 1960s (‘late boomer’), feminist, socialist, environmentalist, vegetarian, and atheist - in all of that stuff was typically the only one in my family/school/community so I was a pioneer/lonely kid. I grew up weird and indefatigable and incorrigible - just like a battleship (a navy joke).

Grew up in poverty. First in my family to go to university - a posh one, had a scholarship, made friends who went on to rule the world (knew future Empress of Japan, knew Prime Ministers, ambassadors, popes, CEOs - all sorts). If you read this, you’re one or two persons away from all the world’s elite. No, I am not elite or rich, sorry, no begging letters please. I worked mainly in STEM but stayed interested in arts and humanities. I am still a Leftist and have gotten Lefter as I got older. I am now retired. Still waiting for the revolution.

Fellow oldies, please introduce yourself, if we hate each other’s politics maybe we can bond over sharing anecdotes about our haemorrhoids?

Let’s be old and loud and make our presence felt - in a good way. If you’re over fifty or feel like it, I invite you to make this your home from home!

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU! BLEW OUT MY HEARING AT CONCERTS IN THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES!

    Yeah, I know that gag is old, and that’s the point ;)

    I’m more middle-aged than old, but you’re not really old either. But I bloody well feel old, and I’m grumpy, so I’m claiming the title.

    70s baby here. US, southern Appalachians area, so that first decade of life, I saw some shit lol.

    • skytrim@reddthat.comOPEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Yeah, I reckon 60 is the new 40. And I don’t even feel 40. I still feel like I felt when I was 16 and at punk rock concerts so in my head I am a baby still but if people call me old, I’ll play along just for the giggles. I fancy being a grumpy old timer like grandpa in the Simpsons - ‘I wore a 40lb beard of bees’ style. Ha!

      Appalachians - am I right to be thinking about that movie with the banjo music right now? Deliverance, or some such title?

      Ooh boy! My family were coal miners and railway workers, life was pretty tough in remote rural mining villages. I think I can guess what sorta childhood you had. Been there, done that, we got the same t-shirt?

  • UncleArthur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Good afternoon! Fellow Boomer / Gen Jones here, born in the early '60s in the UK. I am an atheist, socialist and sci-fi addict. Never went to Uni, worked 43 years (both employed and self-employed) in financial services, and have recently retired and moved with my wife to the Welsh Marches. I have three children, one of whom still speaks to me.

    My wife says there are three topics I am not allowed to discuss with visitors for fear of driving them to boredom, so here’s my chance! They are:

    • The Titanic (and other early C20 ocean liners)

    • Julian May’s sci-fi / fantasy novels

    • Netflix’s DARK.