Are you a Boomer?

[Chymaera]

I have lived my whole life in the shadow of the Baby-boomers. Everything I have read about it says that being born in '63 includes me on the tail-end of it and I had to beleive that.

But as I grow older I feel less and less a boomer but I am not a GenXer either. I have litte in common with people born in '45 and in the 80's. So I have been feeling disconnected.

There is a theroy that the Baby-boom incompassed two generations and that I am in the second group from about 1960 to 1975.

What do you think?

[Ancalagon]

IBM invents the floppy disc . . . Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister as the Conservatives win the general election . . . Four students are killed during an anti Vietnam war protest at Kent State University in Ohio . . . In Britain, an epidemic of Asian flu kills 4000 people in 1 week . . . President Nixon sends US troops into Cambodia . . . Pallestinian commandos hijack and blow up three airliners in Jordan . . . Divorce is legalised in Italy . . . The high court awards £370,000 in damages to 18 children damaged in the womb by the drug Thalidomide . . . Ill-fated Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean after a catalogue of near disasters on board . . . 57 lives are lost in the Mediterranean when French submarine Eurydice sinks . . . Paul McCartney announces that he has left the Beatles . . . Laurence Olivier is knighted by Queen Elizabeth . . . Brazil wins the soccer World Cup . . . 'Smokin' Joe Frazier becomes the heavyweight world champion . . . 150,000 people die as a typhoon and tidal wave ravage East Pakistan . . . Civil war breaks out in Cambodia . . . BIG FILMS IN 1970: Love Story . . . Patton . . . Catch 22 . . . True Grit . . .Courtesy of Classicalbums.co.uk

I was trying to work out what exactly happened in 1970 that led to my conception? I have included everything except drink, which was the most likely reason:D

[Chymaera]

I could see how maybe Brazil winning the World Cup, Catch 22, and drinking could have contibuted to your conception:D