Okay not really, but this generational quiz says so. 😛
To be fair to the quiz, I didn’t really recognize a lot of the famous singers or athletes, and for the toys, I might have picked very ‘old’ toys seeing as I picked the little kitchen set.
I was not a cool or up-to-date sort of child, and TV, music or any idolization of singers, athletes or celebrities was not on my mind.
This made for a very culturally-isolated kind of childhood which made me quite unpopular seeing as I was just not into the same things.
I was too busy in my own dream world with books and chocolate bars. 🙂
Take the “Which generation do you belong to” quiz!
Big thanks to Geek in Heels for the link
UPDATE: Now it’s 1979
I took it again, trying to pick what I remembered as being cool as a kid and not what I wanted but they still got it wrong, although it’s getting warmer to my real age.
So which generation do you belong to?
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Totally unrelated, but this post on Vegan Eating and how Voracious Vegan is a Vegan no longer, really broke my heart.
(No I’m not a vegan.)
Many of you know that I have recently been struggling for the first time in my life with health problems. When I discovered that my problems were a direct result of my vegan diet I was devastated.
2 months ago, after learning the hard way that not everyone is capable of maintaining their health as a vegan, I made one of the most difficult decisions of my life and gave up veganism and returned to eating an omnivorous diet.
My health immediately returned. This experience has been humbling, eye-opening, and profoundly transformative.
I firmly believe that there are many who thrive being vegan or a vegetarian, and the choices they make are good ones.
For Tasha, she really gave it a shot. She tried hard, she felt sick (and perhaps a bit self-righteous by her own admission) not eating animal meat, but her body told her otherwise.
I am sorry she couldn’t follow her passion and her belief, and this is not a triumphant: HEY LOOK, VEGANISM SUCKS post, it is more of a please be careful and do what is best for you and your body, whatever the case may be.
I don’t think it’s right for anyone to tell a meat-eater they’re shameful and wrong for eating meat (stone me!), as it is just as wrong in her post for other vegans to have told her: hey you’re just doing veganism wrong and you aren’t trying hard enough.
It’s like getting out of debt, or being a minimalist: there is no wrong or right way, as long as the path leads you to where you want to go, and you try your best with the information that you have, with a good conscience and heart.
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Hey thanks for linking to that post by Verocious. I hadn't come across it and I found it to be extremely interesting!
I did too. I think people should eat what they want and what they should to stay healthy.
I wasn't cool either. The quiz made me 17 years older.
You and me both.
I got 1984 but was born in 1985 – nice!
Younger = Better? 🙂
(P.S. I really love your blog!)
So Close! only a year off! Said 1971, but really it's early 1972.
Wow. Eerily close!
I got 1975… not very accurate, as I was born in '84 😛 Then again, maybe it's my soul's real age or something. I tended to listen to older stuff most of the time. Still do, as a matter of fact.
My recent post Yummy Childhood Treats
Ditto. My soul\’s real age is really old then 😛
First time around, 1959. I'll be honest, I didn't know a lot of the correct answers!
Second time around, I discovered that hovering the mouse on the picture told me what it referred to (of course!). The news still didn't really relate (I haven't a clue as to what happened in the states when I was a kid), other than things I might remember from history class. Most of my answers pegged me correctly, but it was the news that I didn't do well.
It turns out "Baby Jessica" is my era (I just looked it up) of birth, but now I'm trying for things that happened as a teenager (since I got 1972 that time).
So, third try, and I got 1983, which is at least closer…
*LAUGH*
It’s like trying to take a test to tell you the right answer of what you are supposed to have chosen 😛
I’m sticking with 1964. The influence of my parents was great, seeing as they listened to very old artists.
Mine was bang on. I totally thought it would peg me as growing up in the early 70s since I had three older siblings so I watched what they were watching as teens. Very neat.
I thought mine would at least put me in the right decade!
Mine was almost spot on. It said I was born around 1983, when I was actually born in 1984!
You were a really hip child then 🙂
the quiz put me around 1985, close! I was born in 1983.
It guess that I was born around the 1980s 🙂 I was born in 1984 Hah! Close enough! 🙂 honestly I just choose the things I know now or from when I was in my late teens!
I can\’t even remember who was hot when I was a kid. Was it New Kids on the Block?
I got 1984 which is very close. I was born in 1981!
I came across that quiz on another blog yesterday and thought it was pretty disappointing. They’re not actually asking what you liked, just what was popular, and the choices they give you aren’t very good. For instance, who taking that quiz would associate Tom Brady or Michael Phelps with their childhood? I really couldn’t believe they put both of them in there over Michael Jordan or Mia Hamm. I also want to know who actually remembers satellite radio as a “major” technological leap. I’m thinking iPod/mp3 or WiFi. And Star Wars Ep. 1 or Mean Girls as “the” blockbuster of your generation? Seriously? They’re only 5 years apart. Where’s Titanic?
It just annoys me because I’ve been a pop culture fanatic since I was a kid. :p Two of the contributors claim to be “Millenials” (and I take issue with their generational definitions) but they either didn’t actually help with the selections or were born on the early end, because that whole bracket had some pretty spotty representation (as did other groups, but ’90s is my specialty). It’s fine if it’s just for fun or whatever, but they made it sound so authoritative, so I feel the need to grumble. :p
Wow, you are way more into pop culture than I was. I am more into pop culture now, but as a kid.. not so much.
Grumbling = Welcome 🙂
I just took the test, and it says I was born around 1987. It’s quite accurate, I was really born in ’83. Guess I’m a child of this generation!
Wow that is really accurate!