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How long is a Generation?

21-06-2012 9:26pm

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HOS 1997

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When people say 'A generation ago', 'the previous generation' etc. How long ago are they talking about. 20 years, 30 years, longer?

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#2 21-06-2012 9:27pm

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A google of years.

20ish.

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#3 21-06-2012 9:27pm

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20 or 30 years or maybe longer.

It's a generational thing...:pac:

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#4 21-06-2012 9:29pm

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It's the average time it takes from birth to grow up and produce your first child.

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#5 21-06-2012 9:30pm

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could be worse he could be Chinese.

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#6 21-06-2012 9:30pm

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I always think of it as a decade or as long as it takes teens to have their own kids.

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#7 21-06-2012 9:30pm

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It's 25 years.

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#8 21-06-2012 9:30pm

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Anywhere between 15 and 35 years, depending on social class.

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#9 21-06-2012 9:31pm

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About eleven foot long.

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#10 21-06-2012 9:39pm

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Gran Hermano wrote: »

Anywhere between 15 and 35 years, depending on social class.

15 in town

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#11 21-06-2012 9:40pm

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There is no definition. It's all relative.

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#12 21-06-2012 9:43pm

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15 to 20 years

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#13 21-06-2012 9:43pm

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TeddyTedson wrote: »

There is no definition. It's all relative.

cousin, uncles and such but how many before it gets there.

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#14 21-06-2012 9:47pm

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220 volts.

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#15 21-06-2012 9:49pm

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For normal people 25 years.

For skangers, about 15.

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#16 21-06-2012 9:50pm

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It's precisely 26.3 in Ireland

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#17 21-06-2012 9:56pm

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About 22 minutes.... or 25 if you include the ad break!

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#18 21-06-2012 10:03pm

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grizzly wrote: »

I always think of it as a decade or as long as it takes teens to have their own kids.

Why teens? Surely it should be how long it takes newborn babies to have kids.

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#19 21-06-2012 10:08pm

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Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Why teens? Surely it should be how long it takes newborn babies to have kids.

Newborn babies can't have kids:eek:...... adults can and it takes approx. 9 months.:)

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#20 21-06-2012 10:42pm

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whatever age you are, when you say "damn kids" the first time.

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#21 21-06-2012 10:50pm

Where To

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When 18 year olds think you're old, that's a generation gap,

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#22 21-06-2012 10:53pm

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HOS 1997 wrote: »

When people say 'A generation ago', 'the previous generation' etc. How long ago are they talking about. 20 years, 30 years, longer?

to my mind its a life span ie 70ish years...like from 'one generation to the next'

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#23 22-06-2012 12:15am

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for Photorhabdus luminescens a generation can be as little as 3-4 minutes.

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