Agreed. 2016 is well overrated.
Yup. Millennials feel like they have to live the polished fantasy life that people portray on social media and they go bankrupt in the process.

No 19-year-old lad needs a Mercedes and 8 Gucci belts but that’s what certain corners of Instagram will have them thinking.

That and the fact that every other person seems to want to self-identify as neurodivergent (autistic, ADHD, depressed, etc.), all the while trivialising those conditions.

Being the sort of person I am I’m less interested in governmental/political factors and more interested in people and social trends so that’s what I personally took as hallmarks of society. But you can talk about it from any perspective you want.

And it’s a casual thread on a Big Brother forum. No one’s really asking you to statistically quantify better or worse. All you need to do is give an opinion.

It is not 11 years.
2010 was Conserve-LibDem Power

I wish I still lived in the 60’s .. much quieter, safer , slower pace .

I’d still want the Fibre Broadband , Sky , Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube though !!


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Not to make you feel old Redway, but the youngest millennials are currently 25 :omgno:. Today’s 19 year olds are very firmly GenZ.

I see this slightly differently actually. I think a combination of poor socialisation in early years + an over reliance on social media has lead to a generation that has a lot of people who are 1) socially awkward and 2) suffer from generalised and/or social anxiety. The combination of those things is symptomatically similar to an autism diagnosis, which is why they believe they actually are neurodivergent, when it’s purely social conditioning.

It’s a bugbear of mine because my youngest is learning disabled with a clinical diagnosis of ASD… but because there are so many anxious teens with no comorbid disabilities self-diagnosing with autism, I feel like I can’t just describe my daughter as autistic. I have to qualify it with “yes, she is ‘properly’ disabled”. People hear “autistic” and think “they’ll be quirky, anxious and shy” not significant neurological disability.

Friends sometimes say I was "born in the wrong decade" because most films and music I like are from around the eighties ... BUT if I'd have grown up back then a)I'd have to wait for each thing to come out, rather than having it all available now and b) I'd now be really OLD!

It was all part of the enjoyment though, waiting for physical albums to come out, the album covers with the art work and words to the songs etc.

You would be a happier person though.

I prefer physical media to digital, and I collect different releases! The few modern things I do like, I do properly :dance:

Everyone would be happier without social media tbh

Mark Zuckerberg would be a miserable little sod.

As he should be.

Is he really happy ? have you read the last words of Steve Jobs , he say's all there is to say about wealth.

Twin cassette recorder/players :)


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That’s open for debate ..

I personally love social media ... as in TikTok , Instagram, Twitter and YouTube .

I detest Facebook oddly


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i have hundreds of physical albums, i can't remember the last time i looked at them. They are all warping nicely at the back of the garage :laugh:

Yes Mark Z
is happy


His Mother keeps him on the Ground
if she goes
he may not be so cool.

It's different when you're a teenager though or a teenager in the 90's, music was everything then

I’m pretty sure you got the gist of that message either way. Some people use millennial in reference to young people in general because in the most technical sense a millennial is someone who came/will come of age in the early 21st century and that can technically include the year 2049 if we’re really pushing the boat. It’s pop psychologists who think millennial ends at a certain-and-very-definite point in the late ’90s but it’s not as if it or Gen. Z are very scientific concepts in the first place.

i was thinking about this the other day and I think peak music influence for me was when i was 12-15 -i am very nostalgic for that period

I would say a bit later for me probably 14-17

Yep, lay in the dark as a 15/16 year old with a CD player and headphones, listening to music and feeling like all of the lyrics are about your life specifically. Peak teen angst. Especially if it was after a few too many Budweisers and some high drama at a house party :joker:.

aww yeah, so much nostalgia back then. I was right bang in the centre of the Grunge era too so maximum angst. Pretty sure Eddie Vedder is one of the only main singers from the bigger grunge bands still alive today, quite a few of them committed suicide :(

I believe it's worsened and not because of any prejudice towards any group of people (being accepting of other groups of people has been the best part about society over the last few years) I feel like overall people are a lot more miserable and stressed than I remember people being 11 years ago.

Maybe I'm being biased because of my childhood memories of those times, but a lot of people don't seem to know how to have fun nowadays, and tbf with our current Government I can't exactly blame these people for feeling that way.

It's worse now for sure, but I can't pick an option that fits the correct way to describe it.

But this government is utter garbage , Covid / pandemic is something we have to live with now . People are more worried overall and are definitely having less fun than 11 years ago.

I sometimes think about those times and how non of us could have predicted any of this.

“The biggest fear is the fear of uncertainty “

Spike Milligan ( or someone else )


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You’re absolutely right Mock. Capitalism’s been the death of everyone over a certain age in these past five years. There’s no sense of fun outside weekends anymore. You just wake up, grind and tip-toe around everyone so they’re not offended by anything you say.