How to spot a millennial

[ubuysa]

On another forum where help out with BSODs I've recently diagnosed a user's problem as having two active drives with a Windows system on them both. I advised them to copy all the user data off the second Windows drive and then format that drive to be sure of removing every trace of the old Windows system.

Here's the response I'd have got from anyone born in the 20th century...

Very many thanks for your help. I'll get on to that straight away!

Here's the response I got from the user, someone who is clearly a millennial...

I'll have to buy another hard drive to do that!

Sometimes I wonder why I bother giving up my time and expertise.....

 

[TonyCarter]

Should have told them that they needed a whole new PC instead as they've got a 2024 model and as we're coming into 2025 when it will stop working in about a month.

 

[AccidentalDenz]

Millennials (also known as Gen Y) were born in the 1980s and 1990s and we're increasingly in our 30s and 40s. I think my generation do know how to format a drive, even if they learned it by accidentally wiping a drive or two - speaking from experience!

Gen Z were born in the 2000s and 2010s - they're potentially clueless about all this!

 

[TonyCarter]

 

[Scott]

Was about to say, I'm a millennial (depending on the list though, some state GenX as above).. surely you mean the GenZ or above

 

[TonyCarter]

I'm a generation all of my own (Gen π).

People of my own age don't understand me, and people of other ages look at me funny.

 

[ubuysa]

TBH anyone born after 1980 is suspect.....

 

[SpyderTracks]

TBH anyone born after 1980 is suspect.....

I wasn't born, I was manufactured out of toothpicks much like the armored vehicles in The A-Team original series. Unfortunately the glue they used seems to be giving way.

 

[ubuysa]

I was apparently found under a gooseberry bush. ☺️

 

[Martinr36]

I was apparently found under a gooseberry bush. ☺️

I bet that was a prickly conversation when you were told that 😂😂😂

 

[SpyderTracks]

I bet that was a prickly conversation when you were told that 😂😂😂

likely a sticky situation too by the sounds of it

 

[ubuysa]

It does mean that I'm very sweet but with a prickly exterior.

 

[TonyCarter]

I wouldn't call fresh gooseberries sweet, all ours (from a couple of bushes we had in my grandparent's garden) were tart until we washed them and covered them in a pound of sugar!

 

[polycrac]

There's only really one age divide - you are either old enough to remember white dog poo or you're not.

 

[TonyCarter]

There's only really one age divide - you are either old enough to remember white dog poo or you're not.

What about if you remember a shilling being both 12p and 5p, and sixpence being both 6p and 2.5p?

 

[Martinr36]

What about if you remember a shilling being both 12p and 5p, and sixpence being both 6p and 2.5p?

A shilling was 12d not 12p likewise a tanner was 6d not 6p

 

[TonyCarter]

A shilling was 12d not 12p likewise a tanner was 6d not 6p

d is just an upside down p - and was still 'pence' - no-one called it 'dinarius'.

 

[Martinr36]

It was sixpence not six six pence

 

[SimonPeters116]

A shilling was 12d not 12p likewise a tanner was 6d not 6p

I was a little confused by that, then translated the appropriate p's to d's 😊