Ok, Boomer

[chomalungma]

I have had to repeatedly tell DS that I am not a boomer. His Grandad is though.

I am with him though. He went through a whole litany of the issues facing his generation and what the older generation have benefited from.

He seems to have got some of the memes from 'Insta'.

Anyone else got a child who uses this phrase?

15 year old DS said that to me once. The WiFi went off for a week.

Most parents of teenagers are Gen X. But that’s beside the point - it’s fucking rude.

That phrase annoys me so much. It's over used, not funny or clever and it's divisive.

I'm not a boomer.

An interesting article on it here

www.vox.com/2019/11/19/20963757/what-is-ok-boomer-meme-about-meaning-gen-z-millennials

Mine uses it. I laugh.

Obama was a boomer is the response.

I think it's quite funny 🤣

It's been interesting to discuss politics, climate change, economy etc with DS - and how things have changed since I was his age. I do feel for his generation and the future they face.

I am not a boomer but DCs grandparents are. I'll be damned if they insult people who lived through WWII frankly. Unbelievably rude.

I'll be damned if they insult people who lived through WWII frankly

Baby boomers were born after WW2.

Ask him what he’s done for society and how he has made things better in the world. Did he create vaccines, the internet, charities, do voluntary work, March for peace? No! Then when his generation create the life saving vaccines, improve on fuel consumption, help those in poverty (rather than just slabbering about it) then he can judge the generations before him.

Oh this is funny! I have been telling my teens all week that I am not a boomer.

I’m confused by this

Initially I thought it was a reaction to Obama calling out wokeness

But now Matty Healy says someone said it to him. Hopefully as a joke...but apparently not....maybe some satire that’s gone over my head because I don’t understand anything now!!

I understand the sentiment.

I just can’t abide glib conversation-ending cliches in lieu of an actual discussion of the issues.

It's a bit like care homes and day centres that continue to do wartime memorabilia from ww1 and 2 even though many current residents were very young children during ww2 rather than teens or young adults.

There seems to be an ongoing view that 'boomers' are our parents, because that's been the case for 30/40 years. Actually they are mostly grandparent age now but their children are often still benefiting from having baby boom parents and prevail with 'boomer' attitude/outlook/expectations even if that's not now actually achievable.

I've bought my ex dss a T shirt with this on for Christmas. :)

It is rude. And hilarious when people say it to me. I'm not a boomer. My parents were born during the war so not sure they even are though they fit the "doing better in retirement than their offspring ever will" demographic.

I am a boomer so half expecting something with it on for Xmas now.

@chomalungma in my experience, it's a term used indiscriminately against older people.

It's rude and shitty.

Oh hang on, maybe I do get it

It’s now being stretched to include much much younger people?

@SwedishEdith go get a mug with "obama is a boomer" on it now!! As a counter move present

SlightlyBonkersQFA 😁

Omg had this discussion today DS 14 keeps calling me it today I said what does it mean...he said old!!!!

First person says it to me will be forced to watch Reality Bites repeatedly.

I think it's funny coming from teenagers -especially given that they generally address it to gen x-ers so they're not even getting that bit right - but then I think cocky little kids being cheeky is generally quite funny. They'll get all of that insouciance bashed out of them soon enough.

It’s about as funny as the much overused MN favourite ‘are you on glue?’
First time funny, rest of the time...