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The word Boomer echoes loud and clear. Are there actually Jimmy Buffet fans under 50? I'm one year away from being able to live in a retirement community (gasp)

The word Boomer echoes loud and clear. Are there actually Jimmy Buffet fans under 50? I'm one year away from being able to live in a retirement community (gasp) and I still think I'm a college freshman, but the contrast is sharp between this article (The New Yorker) and forums such as /r/antiwork on Reddit, or Twitter in general.

throwawaycities 5y ago
In South Florida there is a way of life known as Salt Life, I describe them the rednecks of the ocean. It doesn’t matter if they are young or old, even if they primarily listen to hip hop, they probably have fond memories of going down to the Keyes and having the time of their lives at some point listening to some Jimmy Buffet. I can liken it to Christmas music, it’s not going to be your go to or even your favorite, but it has it’s time and place when nothing can be better.
egypturnash 5y ago
50 is right in the middle of Gen-X now. Boomers are currently about 85-68, if you take the earliest/latest start/end dates various people have given; 88-63 for the latest/earliest start/end dates. I made an infographic about this a while back: https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2019/12/07/ok-boomer-a-concise-guide-to-the-generations-living-in-early-21st-century-america/ https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2019/12/07/ok-boomer-a-concise...
- aspenmayer 5y ago
  I like your post. That said, the images don’t scale properly (at all?) on iOS, causing horizontal scroll bars and bad font scaling, among other issues I don’t know how to properly describe because I don’t do web design.
  - egypturnash 5y ago
    Yeah, I should fix that someday. It’s been faintly annoying me for a decade now; other stuff takes priority.
    - aspenmayer 5y ago
      It’s a good post, all the same. I think it has to do with the mobile theme, and the photos don’t scale or resize automatically with the theme, or something. I really liked the content, and thought a bit of work on the presentation would help it get wider reach and more exposure. I shared it with some friends all the same!
      - egypturnash 5y ago
        There is no mobile theme on my site. :)
        aspenmayer 5y ago
        Well there’s your problem right there. Snark aside, some of the pictures don’t break the horizontal scrolling, or force the scrolling, or whatever they do to make it so that I have horizontal scrolling when I ought not to. One of the photos doesn’t scale its embed, and so it just takes up the whole horizontal real estate of the screen on iOS, causing horizontal scroll behavior that is not ideal. Sorry, I don’t really know how else to describe it, and the site works fine otherwise, and I like the content. I hope I’m not protesting too much. I wish I knew better how to describe the issue so I didn’t seem like I’m just nitpicking. I think presentation of the content can be improved, but it is perfectly serviceable as it is.
- kmbfjr 5y ago
  How is someone born in 1937 a baby boomer when the term baby boomer describes post-WWII births? Someone born before 1945 can’t be a baby-boomer.
  - egypturnash 5y ago
    I got all the dates from Wikipedia. shrug Oh wait also I did the math wrong in my reply above :)
- egypturnash 5y ago
  I dd my math backwards yesterday: the earliest Boomers are 79-75, depending on whose definition of Boomers you believe, and the latest are 61-56. Whoops :)

throwawaycities 5y ago

In South Florida there is a way of life known as Salt Life, I describe them the rednecks of the ocean. It doesn’t matter if they are young or old, even if they primarily listen to hip hop, they probably have fond memories of going down to the Keyes and having the time of their lives at some point listening to some Jimmy Buffet. I can liken it to Christmas music, it’s not going to be your go to or even your favorite, but it has it’s time and place when nothing can be better.

egypturnash 5y ago

50 is right in the middle of Gen-X now. Boomers are currently about 85-68, if you take the earliest/latest start/end dates various people have given; 88-63 for the latest/earliest start/end dates. I made an infographic about this a while back: https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2019/12/07/ok-boomer-a-concise-guide-to-the-generations-living-in-early-21st-century-america/ https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2019/12/07/ok-boomer-a-concise...

aspenmayer 5y ago
I like your post. That said, the images don’t scale properly (at all?) on iOS, causing horizontal scroll bars and bad font scaling, among other issues I don’t know how to properly describe because I don’t do web design.
- egypturnash 5y ago
  Yeah, I should fix that someday. It’s been faintly annoying me for a decade now; other stuff takes priority.
  - aspenmayer 5y ago
    It’s a good post, all the same. I think it has to do with the mobile theme, and the photos don’t scale or resize automatically with the theme, or something. I really liked the content, and thought a bit of work on the presentation would help it get wider reach and more exposure. I shared it with some friends all the same!
    - egypturnash 5y ago
      There is no mobile theme on my site. :)
      - aspenmayer 5y ago
        Well there’s your problem right there. Snark aside, some of the pictures don’t break the horizontal scrolling, or force the scrolling, or whatever they do to make it so that I have horizontal scrolling when I ought not to. One of the photos doesn’t scale its embed, and so it just takes up the whole horizontal real estate of the screen on iOS, causing horizontal scroll behavior that is not ideal. Sorry, I don’t really know how else to describe it, and the site works fine otherwise, and I like the content. I hope I’m not protesting too much. I wish I knew better how to describe the issue so I didn’t seem like I’m just nitpicking. I think presentation of the content can be improved, but it is perfectly serviceable as it is.
kmbfjr 5y ago
How is someone born in 1937 a baby boomer when the term baby boomer describes post-WWII births? Someone born before 1945 can’t be a baby-boomer.
- egypturnash 5y ago
  I got all the dates from Wikipedia. shrug Oh wait also I did the math wrong in my reply above :)
egypturnash 5y ago
I dd my math backwards yesterday: the earliest Boomers are 79-75, depending on whose definition of Boomers you believe, and the latest are 61-56. Whoops :)