Generation Snowflake...

[John K]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Snowflake

Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a term used to characterize the young adults of the 2010s as being more prone to taking offence and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own. The term is considered derogatory.

A couple of 'breaking news' stories have made me wonder if our tolerance of "**** happens" has really gone down in recent years.

My example was last summer at the end of the music festival season, I was on the train home and a girl in her teens was walking up the carriage in floods of tears begging for an iPhone charger because hers had gone flat.

Go back a generation and listening to my dad...

"The Russians came at 2am and forced us to leave the farmhouse at gun point and put us on a train to Siberia - it was quite an adventure except we had to leave the dog behind"

"The two winters I spent in Siberia were a lot of fun - except we had to eat our horses"

"The battle at Monte Cassino was quite exciting - except for when the Americans bombed us by mistake - three times"

I know the old ones are made from tougher stuff, but have we really gone so pathetic in two generations..?

 

[TAFKARM]

In her defence, maybe she was waiting for an important tweet. 

[tisme]

I'm just waiting for the day when all the 2G/3G/4G and associated communication satellites are wiped out by some intrepid master villain (or just some smart %&$ hacking away in his bedroom)

[Dommo]

I'm more offended that I'm clearly no longer a young adult and that there's now a generation name after mine.

[dombanks]

4 hours ago, tisme said:

I'm just waiting for the day when all the 2G/3G/4G and associated communication satellites are wiped out by some intrepid master villain (or just some smart %&$ hacking away in his bedroom)

go to livepool 4g has not made it yet.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

14 hours ago, tisme said:

I'm just waiting for the day when all the 2G/3G/4G and associated communication satellites are wiped out by some intrepid master villain (or just some smart %&$ hacking away in his bedroom)

This book One Second After about an EMP attack is chilling in its devastating effect from such a simple phenomenon.

[Welly Jen]

15 hours ago, John K said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_SnowflakeGeneration

 

My example was last summer at the end of the music festival season, I was on the train home and a girl in her teens was walking up the carriage in floods of tears begging for an iPhone charger because hers had gone flat.

 

 

Well the older generations didn't have iphones when they were teenagers, so we don't know how they would have reacted to such a disaster.

Jen