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Opinion It's hard to survive as a 30-something in a millennial’s world

It is only now, in my thirty-second year that I realise – I really am up to my neck in this millennial world and sinking fast, writes Leah Quinn.

I WAS FULLY prepared to feel like an outsider in society when I reached my eighties.

I always imagined a silver-haired woman, who resembled me, sitting in a rocking chair,  grandchildren gathered around, her recalling her youth, a time dominated by football stickers and Saturday morning TV.

Oh, it was a simple time when kids used their hoodies as goalposts and only came home for dinner. A time when cornflakes and white sliced bread were the staples of every Irish kitchen and consumption of them was not associated with feelings of guilt. 

My grandchildren would follow the spectacular tales with wide-eyed fascination, tales of knock-and-run and Zig and Zag and playing ‘stop the bus’. 

I was prepared for that chapter of my life – and in a way, I was quietly looking forward to it.

But feeling like an ancient relic in your thirties doesn’t sit quite as comfortably. 

I often find myself gushing to some poor unfortunate of the great days spent in the nineties and early noughties, only to be met by confusion, boredom and occasional pity.

‘It wasn’t supposed to be like this’

I am 32 years old and I did not mentally prepare myself to feel like somebody’s Nana at this age.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. We were the children who happily lived on nothing in the eighties and then found ourselves on a ski slope wearing Ralph Lauren socks during the Celtic Tiger.

We were the kids who were dragged to mass every Sunday only to be told at age 13 that our parents were having doubts. 

We saw Riverdance live, Gay Byrne do the Late Late Toy Show and Nadine Coyle search for her passport. We remember Italia 90 and wish we could forget Saipan 2002.

We witnessed Ireland’s rise and then fall again, but look at us now, lost in a world where millennials reign… with nothing to cling to for comfort only our Snow Patrol albums and an old episode of Top of the Pops.

I am writing this piece as I feel compelled to voice my concern in the hope that I am not alone and that perhaps, somewhere out there there are others like me.

Those who also do not know the difference between a meme and a GIF and who lament the days of browsing in Xtravision on a Saturday.

This feeling of exclusion did not hit me like a ton of bricks but rather snuck up on me gradually and silently like water from a defrosting freezer.

#livingmybestlife

It is only now, in my thirty-second year that I realise: I really am up to my neck in this millennial world and sinking fast.

I’m drowning in Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, iClouds, hashtags, bloggers, influencers, protein shakes, podcasts, fitfam, filtering, streaming, contouring, failing, goals, and #livingmybestlife. 

It is, of course, quite possible that I am the only one who feels this way – I was never up to speed on the latest technology or trends. But I think there might be others who are the same.

I recently watched Trainspotting 2 and it seemed that this was an underlying theme of that movie, all of the characters seemed to be constantly looking back on their lives, finding themselves lost and out of place in the now.

Of course, their heavy reliance on class A drugs accounted for a lot of their feelings of exclusion but Ewan McGregor’s famous ‘choose life’ speech seemed to be a great source of medication and release for him – in the 2017 world of smashed avocado and clean living.

I will leave you now with a similar mantra for other 30-somethings who may be wandering the streets, desperately trying to access the iCloud their nephew set up for them at Christmas.

Choose Life

  • Choose learning about sex from teen problem pages.
  • Choose spending half an hour flicking through the poster selection in your local music shop only to end up buying another poster of an alien smoking dope. 
  • Choose asking your friends to draw all over your school bag in Tippex.
  • Choose drilling holes into your study desk with your maths compass instead of studying for your Junior Cert.
  • Choose wearing runners, a rugby shirt and O’Neill tracksuit pants to a disco.
  • Choose being sent to Connemara for three weeks and actually writing letters to your mother.
  • Choose tie-dying t-shirts or getting a black sack full of your cousin’s cast-off clothes 
  • Choose carpet burns, Father Ted quotes, not being allowed in the good room, Christmas biscuits, pints of Fat Frog, Sunshimmer instant tan and Penney’s socks.
  • Choose just calling round to your friend instead of making a mind-numbing ‘playdate’.
  • Choose admitting your kids like chips, nuggets and slushies and don’t crave quinoa and lentils.
  • Choose buying clothes because you like how they look – not because some influencer wore them.
  • Choose physically meeting up with your friends and laughing so hard that you snort like an unattractive pig.
  • Choose taking zero photos of that interaction – because you are too busy having fun.
  • Choose giving hugs instead of likes.
  • Choose not posting photos of meals or taking videos in concerts. 
  • Choose living in the moment and simply being you. 

Leah Quinn is a freelance journalist orignally from Clare and living in London.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:36 PM

    32 and feeling old. FFS!

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:43 PM

    @Adrian: good luck with the rest of your 40 odd years. All ahead of you. There’s not a lot said about it, but that satisfaction you get from a shake of the head and roll of the eyes as you send a telegram to your pal about a dumb kids tweet is worth it.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:44 PM

    @Adrian: 32 years old and claiming you can remember Italia 90, you were 3 or 4 love, I doubt it. Stop sounding like a millennial so, life could be a lot tougher you know

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:50 PM

    @Vocal Outrage: I was 4 and remember it clear as day, running out on the street seeing my older brother and his friends screaming in delight. It’s an early but big memory singing (albeit badly) we’re all part of jackies army.
    32 is not old but there’s a huge disconnect to the next generation who are practically born using iPads

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:58 PM

    @Sarah: 32 are millenials

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:09 PM

    @Adrian: im 42 and you just have to laugh at the world and carry on regardless. Start enjoying Saturday nights in

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:17 PM

    @Adrian: read the headline and posted the comment. Well done sir. Standard comments section post.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:46 PM

    @Darren Byrne: exactly she’s slap bang in the middle of being what she’s giving out about , anyone born between 83-98 is one after that is genZ between 99-13 and the next gen after won’t be named for a few more years

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    Jan 27th 2019, 2:38 AM

    @Vocal Outrage: I’m 33 and my earliest football memory is USA 94

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    Jan 27th 2019, 7:40 AM

    @PΛÐÐY ЯOOПΣY: yes, because you would have been 8

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    Jan 27th 2019, 10:02 AM

    @Vocal Outrage: Millenial? She sounds like a baby-boomer!

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    Jan 27th 2019, 7:32 PM

    @Adrian: Im in ma 30s never felt so connected happy and informed, use most of what you just listed and its great for meeting new people. All the social media is like being at the pub except you can play games music do anything and have a chat with those while you do it and have an interest to watch. If you are above 30 never be afraid to try something new and ull never feel old. There are plenty of younger people out there using these platforms and entertaining and keeping people engaged has never been more difficult because of the abundance of choice of who they can watch or be watched dont feel bad about not holding peoples attention it almost impossible in this digital age.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:00 PM

    I’ve got news for you, if you’re 32 you’re a millennial but sure that’s easy enough to spot because you’re whining about feeling old at 32

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:10 PM

    @Darren Byrne: she can’t add either! At 32, she’s in her 33rd year not her 32nd!

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    Jan 26th 2019, 11:18 PM

    @Kevin Farrell: Big news the millennials term is to be replaced next year with Clearviewers from next year on. Or we can stop putting ourselves into type cast roles. I am still trying to be a mod from the 1960′s, the one true mod Steve Marriott knows. Modern Life is tough or is it easy?

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:03 PM

    32 is a millennial. And as a fellow millennial you can tell the author is a millennial with the perpetual moaning about nothing.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 8:11 AM

    @Vintage Summers: at 32 in 2019, great if you’re a confirmed bachelor, not so great if your a woman looking for the whole kit and caboodle.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 9:10 AM

    @iohanx: what does that mean? Explain please

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:08 PM

    Choose not feeling guilty by getting to 50 through hard work, saving and sacrifice.! And when anyone mentions an “Ivory tower” you can look out from it, built on your own sweat and tears and say “I made it”…. I have no regrets, everyone I grew up with in disadvantaged Dublin seem to have made it through too! I lived in a bedsit for 10 years, nowadays I would be classed as homeless..you have to work at life, not expect it to magicaly appear for you! And I’m sure the correspondant will feel the same at 50!

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:44 PM

    @GerryCummins: Very well said Jerry…

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    Jan 26th 2019, 11:07 PM

    @Tony Harris: With a “G” lol

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    Jan 26th 2019, 11:58 PM

    @GerryCummins: bloody glasses! Sorry Gerry…

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:49 PM

    It is easy to survive as a 40 something in a millennial’s world, by ignoring most of ego driven stupid vanity posts on social media.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:11 PM

    @Brian McDonnell: exactly. I went back on Facebook. I lasted two mins or so. Seriously. 40s are grand 50s are probably better.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:41 PM

    @andyearley: Probably? Definitely….

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    Jan 27th 2019, 9:07 AM

    @andyearley: majority of Facebook users are 40+

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:52 PM

    This millennial crowd will keep us amused for many a year to come.
    They’re the crowd who take a smart phone into the toilet , so they can Google how to wipe their own ……

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    Jan 27th 2019, 1:19 AM

    @BaaB: You wrote this while sitting on the toilet, didn’t you?

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:12 PM

    As a 34 year old, I thoroughly enjoyed this article. Great nostalgia with a heavy sense of disappointment for the millennials and upcoming generation that they won’t experience much of it. But then I suppose every generation probably laments the very same!

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:22 PM

    @Cathriona Daley: Err….You were the grand sum of 1 when the Eighties started love… Let`s keep a bit of perspective when talking nostalgia

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:28 PM

    @Pixie McMullen: nostalgia isn’t just reserved for the eighties.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:29 PM

    @Pixie McMullen: Jesus, i guess i can`t count, You were the grand sum of minus 4 when the eighties kicked off

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:06 AM

    @Pixie McMullen: The ’80s started 39 years ago. So if Cathriona Daley is 34, then…..?

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:21 PM

    @Cathriona Daley: YOU ARE A MILLENNIAL *insert shocked gasp*

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:52 PM

    Millenials have not got a clue, Snow Flakes the whole lot of them
    Try growing up in the sixties or seventies when everyone had nothing
    Life is much much better in Ireland now, can never understand all the doom and gloom

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:27 PM

    @Peter Byrne: not too sure about that pete

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:40 PM

    @Peter Byrne: the big difference being, life got better for everyone progressively from the 60s but for many millennials life has provided more challenges in adult life compared to what they had growing up and what they were told they could have/do. I wonder what millennials will look down their noses on with generation x or whatever label the next gen is given?

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    Jan 26th 2019, 11:37 PM

    @Peter Byrne: Old man yells at cloud

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    Jan 27th 2019, 2:11 AM

    @Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: You weren’t around in the 80′s obviously to witness mass unemployment and emigration.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:04 PM

    @Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: that’s a difference alright, in the eighties no one went around telling their kids that they were perfect, could do anything they wanted and would be successful at everything they did – a bit realism didn’t hurt. I feel sorry for the current generation who swallowed the BS their parents and teachers feed them!

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    Jan 27th 2019, 10:00 PM

    @kehe: at least in the 80s where women were encouraged to stay at home by the way, it was possible for someone on a single wage to buy a house in Dublin. Now however your doing well for a couple to afford it

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:37 PM

    Cut the girl some slack. An entertaining article that evokes a bit of eighties and nineties nostalgia. When did anyone who isn’t a milenial become such a begrudger?

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:39 AM

    @Motherofthree:

    It’s an Irish thing. Ingrained in the culture that became worse after 2008.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 11:29 AM

    @Nollaig Elliot: the biggest problem with social media addiction is they think that everyone is using social media, which they very much are not. Most of my friends in my own year now have good jobs, savings, took advantage of it being the cheapest ever time to travel and have seen and will see as much as possible. Basically planning has become a fundamental skill as young people have never had such a good opportunity to make money at a young age. I’m in my mid twenties, but maybe it’s a rural thing.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:50 PM

    Baggy jeans listening to blink 182 and watching american pie.. but i love being 32 some friends never got to see it

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:14 PM

    The Eighties started 39 years ago ye sap, Ye were born in 1987 according to yourself….I`ve tubs of Sudocreme older than ya

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    Jan 27th 2019, 9:13 AM

    @Pixie McMullen: you can’t count

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:38 PM

    I can relate to that.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:10 PM

    You ARE a millennial. Anyone born between 1982 – 2004 is generally classed as one.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 2:12 AM

    @Sean Ryan: I think it’s 1982-1996. Anyone born after 96 is a different generation.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 7:35 AM

    @Marie McG: Who decides this? Why do we have to label everyone? Can someone tell me the difference between millennial, baby boomer, and generation z? I honestly don’t have a clue, and to be honest, I find the whole thing very childish.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 9:29 AM

    @Mick paisley: 1996 to present: Gen Z, iGen, or Centennials.
    1977 to 1995: Millennials or Gen Y.
    1965 to 1976: Generation X.
    1946 to 1964: Baby Boomers.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 10:51 AM

    @Legitimate Savage:
    Am confused. If my maths are right 41 y.o. Is a millennial. Is this correct?

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:44 PM

    @Frank Kelly: Yup. At some point people started to focus entirely on the lower part of age bracket as Millenials, with Gen Y being considered the upper ages of the bracket.

    Generations normally roll along in 20 year brackets or so, but the general western social upheaval of the mid 60s into the mid 70s means most people consider that decade to have covered enough generational change than others.

    It’s all a bit iffy at the best of times.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:15 PM

    Stop complaining, ffs 32 is NOT old. I’m 32 and I’m honestly having the best time of my life right now

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    Jan 27th 2019, 2:13 AM

    @Sam Louise: Hear hear. I’m 30 and the amount of people my age saying how old they feel is ridiculous.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 2:31 AM

    @Sam Louise: yes everyone should feel like you. Well done

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    Feb 11th 2019, 9:18 AM

    @Sam Louise: Enjoy life wherever you are in it. I am 72. I am still working and have never been happier with life than I am now.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:42 PM

    Cut the girl some slack. It’s an entertaining article that evokes a bit of eighties / nineties nostalgia. It’s a nice read. When did everyone who isn’t a milenial become so judgemental and moany?

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:49 PM

    Too many choices at the end, sounds like something available to the young! In my day we only had one choice and that was the one you were told!

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:31 PM

    Unreal piece …cop on to yourself

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    Jan 27th 2019, 2:32 AM

    @Martin O Donnell: great addition to the comments. Get a life there chief

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:49 PM

    What’s “knock and run”? Could you possibly mean nick-nack?

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:36 PM

    Im 30 and if I express feelings like yours in two years’ time I might realise what privileged life Ive led. Incredibly out of touch.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:43 PM

    Ha ha ha ha ha, that was funny :)

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:37 PM

    Post that to Instagram will you!

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:16 PM

    I am 28 and I feel I’m right on the verge between the two yet feel I don’t fit in either. I had a conversation with one of my younger co-workers and I referred to Marian Finucane and was met with a blank stare. That made me feel old.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:14 PM

    It’s the Government’s fault it’s my parents fault it’s trumps fault it’s all down to boom and bust. Ah the life of a millennila.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:03 PM

    Jesus that was some tripe from a 32 year old. Not a chance she can remember Italia 90 either. Absolute horse shite.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:30 PM

    Another snowflake ..Ffs

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:49 PM

    I choo choo choose you.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:12 PM

    Why can’t we post memes here ? This would be a far more intresting comments section . Sort it out journal .

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:16 PM

    @Darren moore: they really should!

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    Jan 27th 2019, 1:17 AM

    @Darren moore: what’s a meme?

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:32 AM

    First world problems, aren’t we lucky.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:39 AM

    @Seán Dillon: Finally … never a truer word !

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:56 PM

    Oh get over the smugness ! They’re not snow flakes, millennials, or any other designation.
    Young people now are merely a product of the previous generation. That’s all. They will handle the future with the skills they inherited.
    Just like we did in the 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s etc .

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:51 PM

    32? Try going on 51 !

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:19 PM

    Jesus, but yer a fcikin` eegit writing about something you had no part in or indeed experienced, …what else do you steal for a living besides you`re writing?

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:37 AM

    @Pixie McMullen: trouble is people actually get money to “write” stuff like this. More worrying is that I actually read it , wasting minutes of my life on it. I could have been listening to a James Last or Andre Rieu Album.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:47 PM

    Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fcuking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fcuking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fcuk you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fcuking junk food into your mouth.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:50 PM

    @dick dastardly: Choose rotting away at the end of it all, piddling your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fuked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.

    Choose your future.

    Choose life.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:36 PM

    Ok…

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:56 PM

    Yawn..

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:44 PM

    Narcissism is a plague!

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    Jan 26th 2019, 8:45 PM

    @John Smith: I just posted that to my Pinterest, people loving it. I’m so witty!

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:49 PM

    Not a bad piece. Perhaps a bit too young to remember most of the eighties though. I remember a time you got a black rubbish bag and that was your Halloween costume..born in ’79. Take what you want from technology. Those friends worth spending time with will want to spend time with you..face to face that is…oh yes and master the art of the eye-roll as another poster has said this. Most generations blame the one which preceded it and resents the ones which comes after it. Monty Python’s four Yorkshire men is a good sketch on the topic.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 9:39 PM

    I think she meant centennial. Either that or she can’t relate to her own generation.

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    Jan 26th 2019, 11:03 PM

    What were you doing watching trainspotting at such a young age? Wasn’t it 95/96?

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:28 PM

    Tell you what the real killer is, you are a millennial. By about 4 years.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 7:00 AM

    You were 3 you dont remember italia 90,you remember watching it on reeling in the years, also i hate to break it to you but if you are 32 technically your a millenial too

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:22 PM

    It’s Satire. It’s light-hearted. It’s the people taking this seriously, people genuinely questioning the journalistic integrity of a light hearted piece who are the ones who need to take a look at themselves. This isn’t hard hitting investigative journalism. I thought that much was obvious. The comments are genuinely laughable.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 8:24 AM

    What a pretentious load of waffle. This is writing simply for the sake of writing.
    If these are genuinely the things that cause anxiety in your life, and millennials are indeed a fulcrum around which your sense of self pivots, then you have one of the most vapid existences conceivable.
    I suggest you try to fill your life with hobbies other than socializing.
    What a load of carp.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 9:53 AM

    Nostalgia is not what it used to be…..

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    Jan 27th 2019, 5:24 AM

    Life goes on we all had our time and it was good but I certainly would not want to go through my youth again enjoying life now at the ripe age of 38

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    Jan 27th 2019, 9:38 AM

    How could she remember Italia 90 when she would have been barely 3 years old?

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:50 PM

    Sponsored by….pinch of salt, bs dont comment on whats fuxckin up this and next generation..ffs

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    Jan 26th 2019, 11:27 PM

    Basically if you were born in the 80s you are classed as a millennial, pointless article lol

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    Jan 26th 2019, 10:37 PM

    Yes yes yes!

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    Jan 27th 2019, 10:15 AM

    Try being 53! For God’s sake stop whinging and get on with your life…hankering after the past isn’t going to make the present any better.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 3:11 AM

    This is a silly article.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:42 PM

    A 30 something is a millennial.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 9:27 AM

    32 years old = a millennial. I feel your difficulties might have another source.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:01 PM

    YOU ARE A MILLENNIAL!

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    Jan 27th 2019, 3:33 AM

    You CAN turn off Snapchat etc and choose not to drown. Personally I think out of millenial resentment. Look past the stereotype and inspire millenials rather than repeat the status quo.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 12:23 PM

    Leah… you are a millennial.
    Educate yourself before writing an article.
    From, a fellow millennial.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 7:36 PM

    Cant say I feel the same, Im in ma 30s never felt so connected happy and informed, use most of what you just listed and its great for meeting new people. All the social media is like being at the pub except you can play games music do anything and have a chat with those while you do it and have an interest to watch. If you are above 30 never be afraid to try something new and ull never feel old. There are plenty of younger people out there using these platforms and entertaining and keeping people engaged has never been more difficult because of the abundance of choice of who they can watch or be watched dont feel bad about not holding peoples attention it almost impossible in this digital age.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 10:29 AM

    I read the article, it’s Sunday and I’ve nothing better to do! You suffer tragically from first world problems! F*****g millennials.

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    Jan 27th 2019, 1:39 PM

    You are a millennial. Stop thinking that millennials are teenagers. We’re in our 20s and 30s.

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