DrVenture420
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Jul 20, 2021 10:12 PM
DrVenture420
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MINIMVM
Up yours boomer
Jollybluejay4
If you think ‘Boomer’ is the same as a word you can’t even spell due to how horrible it is then you’re being a real a butt hurt Boomer :)
Ostegonation
The difference is that Boomers have completely fucked out future, not because they were born that way, but because they CHOSE TO.
Teriio12
Both just words
Mark2dot0
But THEY called themselves that way way before people started using it mockingly. Silly Boomers.
MicrosoftWizard7
Man these dudes have 0 sense of irony. "Ok boomer" came out as a direct retort of the decades of petty bitching about millenials.
Lightsmith
Boomer please.
Ivoryspeak
‘Boomers’ has always been fine. It’s when ‘OK, Boomers’ arrived that it got all derogatory. Just that bit made it sarcastic & that’s sad.
IHateTheLotOfYou
If you will say 1 word but not the other. The other is the worse word
Mack1986
Sup my boomas. This crazy ass booma talkin shit
doodoobailey
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation. Weak ass wilted grass generation
AMBM2
Remember: “millennial, snowflake generation, trophy generation, worst generation ever, lazy generation, sjw generation, plus dozens of
AMBM2
Attack articles are fine, but “ok boomer” is a slur. It’s the young people who are sensitive and cause generation conflict, of course.
AMBM2
And now someone just HAD to downvote my pointing that out
SephReed
I have some boomer friends. Amazing, giving people. I've heard them say it hurts a bit, and I can respect that.
TheSupremeCrabMaster
The word you're self-censoring is the one you shouldn't be using.
Vydrach
Ok, Boomer.
ThailandExpress
CosplayComet
AHEM. Ok, Boomer.
PhailRaptor
SubiBryant
Meh, I feel bad for the Karens I know. They've taken it on the chin the last couple of years.
chewybacon
I knew a Karen that was the literal embodiment. Looks and everything. I hope it’s changed her.
FrankJustice1
We named our daughter Karen. 20 years ago it was just a classic name you didn't hear that often anymore. Doh!
hjernedoed
I have a cousin named Karen, she just laughs it off and threaten her teens with embarrassing them by going 'full Karen'
Kingofthedroogs
So has your mom
CaptainYesterday
Nah their mom takes it other places.
RenegadeSci
Their mom dodges and makes faces. Real karen shit.
gnomegenome
It's spelled "facials".
samwyze
Boffobeast
Anytime you can take a group and demean them is fucked up period. Doesn’t matter, just shows lack of understanding and typical attack mode.
activeracer28
Ok boomer, then stop using the word millennial in the same fashion.
GnomeDeGuerre
Dude didn't use that word.
H3RLA
Did you turn off your bulb or are you just not the brightest?
GnomeDeGuerre
I don't think that this is your chance to call people stupid. Go away and reconsider.
activeracer28
I was drawing contrast to the boomer generation calling millennials lazy, weak, entitled and then complaining over being called boomers.
activeracer28
So yes, you were foolish and now your being butt hurt and its sad.
skapanda616
Tisbutafleshwound
It was the "Greatest Generation" that screwed us all.
nessusDM
nojustsayitdont
News flash. The world is full, just chock full of assholes, young and old. THAT image will NEVER be us.
florpglorp
Yeah but i think we look back fondly on presidents like FDR for the new deal social security and ending polio. We can do great things again
CommentGuru
Not with that attitude.
3Davideo
... not least because it's architecturally unsound.
Norwegiansilverback
The baby boomers didn't elect Reagan. The generations before them did. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-1980
GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
If it was a little more important to them, they could have prevented it.
Norwegiansilverback
How? By staging a coup? The youngers BB were only 16 in '80, they couldn't even vote. The oldest were 34. I can't find any exact numbers, >
Norwegiansilverback
but it is highly unlikely that they were a majority of the population eligible to vote.
GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
I think your math is off. Boomers started being born in 1943. Generation X started in 1965. Trust me; I was there.
Norwegiansilverback
"The generation is generally defined as people born from 1946 to 1964, during the post–World War II baby boom" From wikipedia
SpunkyMcFunPants
I would have commented earlier, but I was too busy killing like 45 different industries.
UsernamesAreStupidAnyways
And let's not forget all the unborn children we grind into our bread.
CrazyCatLad
I slaughter industries in my free time which is all the time because I'm a lazy millennial who lives at home.
gothyghoul
This comment needs more attention
WoTLert
WenTheEternallySurprised
"Boomer" is one of the stupidest epithets of the last 2 or 3 hundred years. Especially when applied to people born decades after.
DukeDarkwood
It comes from the economic term "boom" ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boom Def. 2), and was originally a neutral descriptor
DukeDarkwood
when the term "baby boomers" was coined in 1963 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers#Etymology ).
Norwegiansilverback
"The term baby boom refers to a noticeable increase in the birth rate."
rukeman
I was born in 61 so both my mother and I are both 'boomers' . I was born long after WW2 ended and we rarely agree on shit, so NO.
HopelessNecr0mantic
Well ya, that part is dumb as shit. But when used accurately, it carries a lot of apt context.
GnomeDeGuerre
Trick is that it doesn't get used accurately very often.
WenTheEternallySurprised
Really, it jjust shows how willing people are to assume any random group of people are all the same. This isn't a good habit.
HopelessNecr0mantic
Agree. Which is why, to me, "OK boomer" in response to specific bullshit being proffered, made sense.
CulturallyEmbiggened
Boomers gonna Boom. This is literally what they called themselves without a problem for all my life.
Nanoxt
BABY BOOMER is not BOOMER
CulturallyEmbiggened
Please, stop saying it with a hard R. You're making me uncomfortable.
JayJay99447
"Boomers" - Blowing shit out of proportion to make themselves feel special... It's a fitting name.
debthepleb
Heavy overlap with the whole Karenism too
whatdidyoureallyexpect
Boomer here. Hey, millennials are being totally ticked by the system and are rightfully pissed. Remember when that was us, boomers?
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
Sure. Although in my case as a member of Generation Jones, I mostly just looked over your shoulder.
JoeT85
@BobLonsberry, shut up, boomer.
GapToothBaldHeadedBoomer
Yep on that.
GnomeDeGuerre
Sounds a lot like: "They use the N-word, so I should also get to use it like a slur".
laurenlena1
No. No, it doesn’t.
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CulturallyEmbiggened
Hey look it's the guy who didn't take away the most obvious lesson from the original post!
GnomeDeGuerre
"Don't be a bigot" was another lesson one could have seen in the post.
Bananabeanie
Okay Boomer.
GnomeDeGuerre
Okay trump-supporter.
Fuckimgurcunts
You have this heavily reversed mate
GnomeDeGuerre
Deliberately so.
mithiwithi
"Trump supporter"? And you accuse us of using slurs. Hypocrite.
GnomeDeGuerre
Are you standing up to my hypocrisy or defending your groups right to slurs?
IPoisonedDorcasMutton
Even disregarding you digging your own hole deeper, I'm fairly sure people who use Okay Boomer and Trump Supporters are nearly 1
IPoisonedDorcasMutton
Mutually exclusive, so.... 2
destinoz
Boomer isn’t a slur, and claims like this are ridiculous, but ageism (young or old) is shitty and shouldn’t be encouraged.
Sooner70
I dunno... As an old guy I look around and see a lot of folks in my generation who are pieces of shit. Maybe we collectively deserve it?
destinoz
punishing people for being shitty is ok. Punishing them because they’re too old or too young is shitty. Don’t encourage that.
GnomeDeGuerre
Do you get to decide what's a slur? And are you correct in saying that it doesn't get used as a slur?
MeekrabJones
A single pissed off boomer on Twitter doesn't get to decide that either.
GnomeDeGuerre
Well, correct.
GoToTheZoo
Being a boomer has very little to do with actual age or generation, it is based on the traits one shows, making it an insult but not a slur.
MakeItBackAlright
Look my dude if I wanted to be agist I sure have stronger options than a self identified descriptor. Boomers are mad that their legacy is
GaySocialistLiberalMuslimCommieAtheist
Society as a whole typically decides that, except the idiots are trying to force it to be a slur and failing. Funny to watch tho.
GnomeDeGuerre
Can't stop the idiots from using it as a slur.
MakeItBackAlright
It's a descriptor. The only thing that makes it seem like a slur is that Boomers are seeing their legacy is turning to shit so much so that
MakeItBackAlright
the DESCRIPTOR for their generation represents arrogance, entitlement, and ignorance and they want that to be the fault of someone else.
GnomeDeGuerre
All groups have idiots, some use the word as a slur. Some boomers are vain and try to run from the consequences of recent past.
EroticZombiePants
Which ironically is a stereotypical Boomer trait.
darthstormer
"If you're comparing the badness of two words, and you can't even say one of them.....that's the worse word."
Tobeeornottobee
-France is Bacon
Cortezdelanoche
The whole thing!?!
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MaladaptedMedic
So why are they saying “boomer” but not saying the you-know-what word unless they already knew it wasn’t remotely similar?
alaest0r
Jokes on you, i cant say lots of words
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Fun fact: this guy is a local radio host near me. Got briefly fired a few years back for comparing a black mayoral candidate to a monkey.
barnwolf
Isn't that his argument? This is how things are, but they shouldn't be like that?
AVoiceOfReason
Who said that
ReplyingToComeBackToThisLater
Jun Mahloney
mostlyjustheretoupvotefunnycomments
John Mulaney
MaladaptedMedic
Mohn Julaney
alcaray
Pretty sure there was no competition to find the worst word.
Dashirl
Whoever tf downvoted this...fucking fight me you cowards
areyouelonmusk
I didn't, but I'm always down for a game of tummy sticks
Dashirl
LETS GO LETS GO! How you wanna do this? Rock paper scissor? Connect 4? DnD 5e? Soul Caliber 2?
randomuser48102349
Except he is not saying the are the same. He is saying it is discrimination, also at one point you could say the n-word.
Dashirl
He literally said it is the same. Boomer is the n word of ageism. And again, boomer is the name of the generation. Fucking snowflake boomers
Criscartersfallguys
Fuck…and I cannot stress this enough…off you boomer.
i3inaudible
But he is. He almost literally said A = B. That’s was *is* means.
alcaray
I get it. You hate boomers.
i3inaudible
A certain boomer I’ve recently had the (dis)pleasure to interact with does come to mind...
QuickGoogleSearch
...you mean when black people experienced more racism, violence, and dehumanization than ever? Like slavery- & Jim Crowe-eras?
Dashirl
I dunno. That all sounds bad, but, like, young people are impatient with me when I'm racist so....kind of the same thing. /s
alcaray
Is there only one brand of bigotry that we can complain about, now?
Dashirl
Complain away but when you compare hurt feelings w centuries of oppression you are gonna get called out as racist trash. Free speech is dope
i3inaudible
No, this is America, you’re free to complain away. We’re free to call you out on any lies or exaggerations you might use in said complaints.
LightningMcQueef
I am homeless, I am gay, I have AIDS, I’m NEW in town…
thebeadweeb
But at least you don't drink Worcestershire
wiltsjunk
"There are no single guys left in Manhattan." "I know a guy who's new in town." "What are 3 other things about him?"
RorytheRedKing
Makes me laugh every goddamn time
DarwinsFrog
You're gonna close with new in town? That is not the most interesting thing you just said.
Derpitteederp
*push him*
laurenlena1
profoundschnook
STREET SMARTS
laurenlena1
lookingOknaked
Eat Ass, Suck a Dick, And Sell Drugs
Burke616
...but by the end you've got a business!
Richter12x2
Not excusing it, but at one point "negro" wasn't offensive, it just meant black. If people hadn't immediate followed it up /1
Richter12x2
By beating, killing, and enslaving them after saying it, it might be fine to this day. I guess the moral is, boomer is ok unless /2
Richter12x2
You start beating them to death?
MaladaptedMedic
Yes. No word is inherently bad, but it MUST be taken in context. The N-word was used to enslave and subjugate an entire race of people for
MaladaptedMedic
centuries. Hence, it’s a word you don’t say. Until “Boomer” is used to commit heinous acts against that generation, it won’t be a bad word
Fendeezy
But..."Negro" isn't the "N-word" he's referring to.
Richter12x2
How do you think they got the n word he's referring to?
Strostkovy
"worcestershire" is the most heinous of all
Effehezepe
As far as English town names go Worcestershire isn't even that bad. Not compared to Ratlinghope or Happisburgh.
Omegarighteous
As a British person, it comes pre downloaded in your vocabulary, we just struggle with any other language instead
CaptainYesterday
Pretty sure lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is worse.
TheAngriestBeardman
Floccinaucinihiliphilification wants to join
Illithidbane
I'd like to know if this man ever dismissively referred to millennials.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
You even have to ask?
jessika95ve
Ok whitey.
Yacobs21
"That's like the cracker of ageism" -this guy, probably
ThePathofDestruction
This guy is a talk radio guy in my hometown. Yes he has
WeFoundSomethingBeneathTheIce
I will not take that bet.
grandestgrandeur
Yeah let's not forget the industry that LOVES to blame businesses, diamonds, even NAPKINS "dying" thanks to millenials. :/
alcaray
If millennials heard "OK millennial" every day, then they would probably point out the bigotry, as well.
MicrosoftWizard7
Are you new here? Ok boomer is a direct retort of the decades of petty bitching about millenials. Lay in the bed y'all made.
rando84
Millennials were raised on a steady diet of anti-millennial criticism from Boomers. Of course, Boomers did the same shit to the GI Gen, (1
rando84
Gen X, & now Gen Z. They seem to quarrel with just about every other generation, & seem oddly defensive/unapologetic about society finally(2
rando84
scrutinizing their period of control for creating a toxic political culture, tanking the economy multiple times, overseeing unprecedented (3
rando84
inequality, bankrupting the public sector for tax cuts, etc. Their control of popular culture was such that it really is jarring to be (4
AMBM2
You’re joking right? Millennails heard way worse then that for years and rolled with the punches. If “boomer” is a slur, “millennail” is a
AMBM2
Far worse one and has been since about 2010. You never see the millennial hate articles?
MrKnowItAll1903
Whenever some punk-ass kid says "OK Boomer!" I reply "OK, so we agree!"
Bananabeanie
And they reply "No" and go along with their day, yes?
IveGotRedOnMe
In that context, "ok" is a means of dismissing you due to lack of interest, not affirmation or agreement. Ok, boomer?
laurenlena1
CulturallyEmbiggened
Grumpy Clint Eastwood, is that you?!
ForestRed
Eastwood is part of the Silent Generation though
CulturallyEmbiggened
Oh, you're right. I did not realize quite how old he is.
i3inaudible
That fucker’s ancient and too full of spite to die.
CaptainYesterday
QuickGoogleSearch
How else are boomers supposed to respond? It sounded okay to me ('90s kid).
AMBM2
Normally “ok boomer” Is a response to a condescending rant or insult. If you don’t want to hear it, don’t start an argument
QuickGoogleSearch
Ah, makes sense. Thanks ?
ARandySavageGifForEveryOccasion
While meaning to refer to gen z*
omox
Is there a chart or something? I lost track :p
LootenetDan
Literally overheard someone complaining about how Millennials aren't taught cursive in schools these days ?
JCBalance
I heard that too, from my parents' and aunt's FB page, while being the only member of my family that still used cursive.
alcaray
Because that's how incompetent those boomers are, amiright?
Whitemannatee
Us Gen Y'ers are like the middle child of the generations.
Raenon
They used Gen Y before Millenial caught on. Now they're synonyms. Baby Boomer, Gen X, Gen Y (Millenial), Gen Z
llortamai
What's the next generation, Gen A?
KiwiGameDev
Alpha, yeah
Subtilico
No this is just the end.