"OK Boomer"

RWCNT

chrissb8 wrote: »

I didn't buy into any press about my generation. I am one of my generation. I grew up with my generation and I have experienced the pitfalls and setbacks of our generation. From coming out of school around the financial crisis to now dealing with the threat to our environment. My opinions are formulated from life experience. Not someone online or in the paper telling me otherwise.

I'm no entreprenuer or roaring success by any means. But I can appreciate what I have and in the event of what I don't have I know I have to work for it. That seems to escape alot of people in and around my age.

Fair enough, I can't speak to your own experiences - it's certainly a narrative that's harped on frequently in the media, so maybe I'm just not meeting the right (wrong?0) people. I'm also from the millennial generation and the vast majority of people I know within my age group are extremely hardworking and focused. I don't think our generation is any more inclined towards self entitlement or complaining than the ones before or after it.

SJW Lover wrote: »

All of these things will be done by the newest generation as soon as they get into power. They might dress up their capitalism a bit better but, mark my words, all of the above will continue to happen. And, if the newest generations were boomers, they would have done all of the above. Probably less as they would have wasted some of that time pouting for likes on instagram. But more or less the same output.

You've hit the nail on the head there really SJWL.

The idea that "boomers" are responsible for any other generation's present woes and not the bugs/features (depending on how you look at it) of capitalism is totally wide of the mark.

I think most young people realise this though and "OK boomer" is just a snippy internet troll thing which serves it's purpose incredibly well given how much it annoys people. I'll certainly be using it if anyone wants to quote the first part of my post with any chat about socialism, communism, Venuezuela or anything along those lines.

boring accountant

is_that_so wrote: »

We were probably a decade behind. Less relevant here perhaps but those born in the 50s would share some of the same traits as boomers. For Gen X there may be a few years in it , but the rest are probably much the same.

I can say from my experiences that Irish "boomers" are those born after 1960. Half of them left school at 16 and got public service jobs and bought houses in the 80's. 20 years later their net worth was half a million due to the massive increase in the value of their assets which they paid pennies for. They tend to embody the same traits as the American boomers. All of this growth was paid for through the printing of money and borrowing which our generation will have to pay back.

Plumbthedepths

boring accountant wrote: »

I can say from my experiences that Irish "boomers" are those born after 1960. Half of them left school at 16 and got public service jobs and bought houses in the 80's. 20 years later their net worth was half a million due to the massive increase in the value of their assets which they paid pennies for. They tend to embody the same traits as the American boomers. All of this growth was paid for through the printing of money and borrowing which our generation will have to pay back.

You not enjoy any of the benefits of the money you claim your generation will have to pay back?
I remember my parents paying 13per cent interest on their mortgage in the 80's can't remember it being much fun for them. Father worked two jobs , mother worked from 7 to 6 each day.
Stop whinging it's pathetic and serves no purpose.

is_that_so

boring accountant wrote: »

I can say from my experiences that Irish "boomers" are those born after 1960. Half of them left school at 16 and got public service jobs and bought houses in the 80's. 20 years later their net worth was half a million due to the massive increase in the value of their assets which they paid pennies for. They tend to embody the same traits as the American boomers. All of this growth was paid for through the printing of money and borrowing which our generation will have to pay back.

That's probably about right about the age profile although our proximity to Britain dragged us more quickly into modernity, culturally at least, so those who hit adulthood in the late 60s were boomer-like.

silverharp

lol

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1192841711497687040

andekwarhola

Never realized that entire generations act as hive minds and reach a consensus in being completely responsible for even global, corporate and government actions.

This thread is really helpful.

SafeSurfer

boring accountant wrote: »

I can say from my experiences that Irish "boomers" are those born after 1960. Half of them left school at 16 and got public service jobs and bought houses in the 80's. 20 years later their net worth was half a million due to the massive increase in the value of their assets which they paid pennies for. They tend to embody the same traits as the American boomers. All of this growth was paid for through the printing of money and borrowing which our generation will have to pay back.

Is there anything factual in this post at all?

EmmetSpiceland

andekwarhola wrote: »

Never realized that entire generations act as hive minds and reach a consensus in being completely responsible for even global, corporate and government actions.

This thread is really helpful.

I just think it’s great that the, much maligned, “millennials” are hitting back and it’s really landing too.

The old, gammon-faced, snowflakes are a sensitive bunch, it turns out.

andekwarhola

Thank god I'm Gen X which is a far snappier and pleasantly punk rock moniker than Boomer or Millennial. Sucks to be you, chaps.

Poor_old_gill

andekwarhola wrote: »

Never realized that entire generations act as hive minds and reach a consensus in being completely responsible for even global, corporate and government actions.

This thread is really helpful.

You know your folks, probably born in a relatively impoverished Ireland, well they are responsible for Americans wars and also something to do with Walmart.

So have that for yourself

Dante7

This has quickly become the default response from the pronoun brigade on Twitter when they are confronted with an argument which they cannot debate. The correct response is, "OK Barista, now get me my latte".

Poor_old_gill

With the fact that people born in Ireland in the 50s and 60s are getting blamed for American wars in the 80s and 90s - does this mean that us millenials are responsible for Trump, Boris Johnson, Syria & Maria Bailey?

fergus1001

ok snowflake

super_furry

andekwarhola

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

With the fact that people born in Ireland in the 50s and 60s are getting blamed for American wars in the 80s and 90s - does this mean that us millenials are responsible for Trump, Boris Johnson, Syria & Maria Bailey?

No, the wobbly thesis that the travails of society are directly attributable to an entire generation apparently abruptly ended around 2000.

tuxy

andekwarhola wrote: »

No, the wobbly thesis that the travails of society are directly attributable to an entire generation apparently abruptly ended around 2000.

I don't think the poster is asking if it is true but if many believe it to be so.

andekwarhola

tuxy wrote: »

I don't think the poster is asking if it is true but if many believe it to be so.

I was agreeing/riffing with them.

Raconteuse

Also what about the intra generational differences? My dad was born in 1946 - he has little in common with those born at the other end.

The early Gen X folk had to emigrate en masse in the 80s as the economy was so woeful. The late Gen X people born in the late 70s/early 80s (me) had it piss easy. It was Celtic Tiger time by the stage we left school/went to college/started working.

The differences between the generations is interesting, societal trends, economic patterns etc - for sure. But this kinda stuff gets a bit silly.

sdanseo

MrAbyss wrote: »

The "I shot JR" for fellas in their early 30s still living with their parents and considering what brand of tampons to purchase?

I'm in my early 30s and live at home and was called a boomer earlier in reponse to calling some oversensitive people snowflakes - in the context of the Mr Tayto tweet that was taken down.
My parents are boomers, I am not. The offending article (it didnt have enough intelligence to be a human) was factually incorrect.

Maybe it's a reactionary thing rather than something thought out?

Although I suppose that would imply these fad terminologies are thought out.

tuxy

sdanseo wrote: »

I'm in my early 30s and live at home and was called a boomer earlier in reponse to calling some oversensitive people snowflakes - in the context of the Mr Tayto tweet that was taken down.
My parents are boomers, I am not. The offending article (it didnt have enough intelligence to be a human) was factually incorrect.

Maybe it's a reactionary thing rather than something thought out?

Although I suppose that would imply these fad terminologies are thought out.

I agree but the term "snowflake" is on the same level as "ok boomer"
Two sides of the same coin.

sdanseo

tuxy wrote: »

I agree but the term "snowflake" is on the same level as "ok boomer"
Two sides of the same coin.

I've no problem with either term when used in correct context. Snowflake is designed to be mildly offensive and reflect people who are overly sensitive. Boomer conversely is meant to reflect those a big long in the tooth to care about sensitivities.

Where the whole thing falls apart is that there are plenty of people who would be slightly (or more) right of centre who are also, by definition, millenials. They can't be boomers. It's an illogical insult.

Compare boomer to millennial, sure, but not to snowflake. "Snowflakes" transcend generations.

tuxy

The "ok boomer" can also apply to millennials.

tigerboon

Is it not just today's kids way of saying "shut up you old fart " but nicer......being snowflakes and all that

Chris_Heilong

Always Tired wrote: »

No, most are very aware of the meaning and what ages boomers are. Unfortunately it is mostly the boomers who are unaware of what ages millenialls are, and call them kids, like yourself just did. They are young and not so young adults. I was born in 1980 and when gen x was a thing, I was still in school. So I guess Im what they call an x-ennial, sort of in between the two.

For those having trouble understanding the OK Boomer phrase, it comes out of the awareness that boomers are first of all, the generation largely responsible for the bewildering and terrifying corporate capitalist hellscape that America (and actually, quite a lot of the world, the western world in particular) has become.

And millennials are now fed up trying to explain to them how screwed we are because you quickly realize they either don't get it or don't care, as they are alright jack, they have houses, health insurance, savings, pensions and investments. But they think millennials have it easy because... they have Ipads and Uber.

They call millennials kids... when millenials are on their 20s and 30s. But when they want to point out how they haven't done the stuff that previous generations have all done by the time they are 25, now suddenly we will be told 'you're grown adults, for chrissakes!'

So we've just given up trying in depth communication as it is like talking to a really dumb robot.

Hence, 'ok boomer'.

You are taking me far too literally and I am the same age as you. I explained how it is used by young Irish and I have seen it coming from Gen Z use it for anyone older than them so I have seen it used IRL. In an American sense it is how the poor millennial have nothing because the boomers did not pave a future for their kids and spent all their money just enjoying themselves and not thinking of future generations or helping out the economy, it is also a dig at the older generation not understanding what the younger generation is going through and when being lectured by the boomers they can dismiss them with a 'OK boomer.'.

Raconteuse

tuxy wrote: »

The "ok boomer" can also apply to millennials.

That's the thing. Someone born in 1983 is an "old" person but still a millennial.

Chris_Heilong

This popped up in my youtube feed.

RWCNT

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

This popped up in my youtube feed.

I'd highly recommend you don't listen, that man is a first class idiot.

BeerWolf

BuboBubo wrote: »

Gender fluid, something something

Keep your gross gender fluids to yourself, thanks.

BuboBubo

BeerWolf wrote: »

Keep your gross gender fluids to yourself, thanks.

Excuse me mister Wolf, my gender fluids are only extracted from the finest of genders.

How dare you insult my gender... fluid :P

kieran.

Raconteuse wrote: »

That's the thing. Someone born in 1983 is an "old" person but still a millennial.

Not sure 36 is officially 'old'

high_king

I've noticed Ageism is becoming more and promoted and supported in Ireland. Young turkeys voting for Christmas.
"OK Turkeys"

Dante7

https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1191816962827071488?s=09

Raconteuse

kieran. wrote: »

Not sure 36 is officially 'old'

It isn't objectively, but to a 21-year-old it is.

DEFTLEFTHAND

These hysterical molly birds should be appreciative of what past generations did to give them such a soft and pampered upbringing in the west.

tuxy

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

These hysterical molly birds should be appreciative of what past generations did to give them such a soft and pampered upbringing in the west.

You’re worthless and weak. You do nothing, you are nothing, you sit in here all day and play that sick, repulsive, electric twanger! I carried an M16 and you, you carry that, that guitar!

So doesn't this happen every generation?

EmmetSpiceland

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

These hysterical molly birds should be appreciative of what past generations did to give them such a soft and pampered upbringing in the west.

I think the main thing, that people of this country should “appreciate”, that our Boomers did was to make paedophilia no longer an acceptable part of our society in the mid 90’s.

JupiterKid

No idea whatsoever what this thread is really about - is this some sort of Twitter hashtag thing?

To me “boomer” means someone of the “baby boom” generation from the USA or the UK, born between 1946 and 1964. The original hippies, mods, punk rockers, New Romantics and the so called “rebellious” generation. The generation Hollywood director Oliver Stone made his films for.

Ireland’s baby boom generation (aka the “Pope’s Children” coined by a Mr David McWilliams) was born between 1968 and 1983, which I and many here on Boards are a part of. Basically Generation X and the oldest part of the millennials. Ireland was about 20 years behind the rest of the West because we were much poorer until the 1990s.

Being Generation X, we grew up with colour tv, music videos, computer games, 80s pop and 90s grunge and techno, summer jobs whilst in secondary school and in college, access to computers and the early internet and - for the younger part of Gen X, an economy that was starting to really take off when we graduated and started work in earnest.

We were also the generation screwed by the Great Property/Credit Bubble and the banking sector collapse. Many of my good friends ended up in negative equity.

Poor_old_gill

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/009954203X/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Read this book while on holiday this year and it talks about how most western European states used the post war rebuilding period to implement social welfare states that improved everything from the availability of healthcare to the availability of housing, education, etc.

Those bloody damn boomers and their Walmart

L1011

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/009954203X/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Read this book while on holiday this year and it talks about how most western European states used the post war rebuilding period to implement social welfare states that improved everything from the availability of healthcare to the availability of housing, education, etc.

Those bloody damn boomers and their Walmart

That would have all been done by the parents and grandparents of the age group being criticised, though.

ArrBee

Having heard in this thread that it applies to all sorts of age groups and generations and that it's not too be taken as literally the baby boomers. And the intended purpose of the put down, I reckon it boils down to a reaffirmation by those that use it that they expect life to gift them everything.

I mean, the target in this context is surely just "any successful person"
Kind of a compliment really.

Poor_old_gill

L1011 wrote: »

That would have all been done by the parents and grandparents of the age group being criticised, though.

Not necessarily - look at the dates when free secondary education became available in Ireland. People born in '46 would have been 20 and able to vote.

Same for other countries - the direct post war years was just the start of the process whereby all the aforementioned services became more readily available.

The book is an excellent read actually if you're interested in Economic/Political history

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

It is funny to see a forum that can't get enough shots in at milennials suddenly take offence at people mocking another generation.

tuxy

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

It is funny to see a forum that can't get enough shots in at suddenly take offence at people mocking another generation.

I think you may be mistaken, the posts you talk about are milennials mocking Gen Z. Although it's not unusual to see gen z mocking gen z while thinking they are mocking milennials.
The vast majority of posters on here are milennials.

high_king

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

It is funny to see a forum that can't get enough shots in at milennials suddenly take offence at people mocking another generation.

Ok Turkey

Junkyard Tom

Everything was better in the olden days. In fact, the further you go back the better it was. Oh to be a fish with rudimentary feet.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

tuxy wrote: »

I think you may be mistaken, the posts you talk about are milennials mocking Gen Z. Although it's not unusual to see gen z mocking gen z while thinking they are mocking milennials.
The vast majority of posters on here are milennials.

Given the amount of complaining there is about milennials, I doubt that. There are a lot of bitter old farts on this forum who are still complaining about skinny jeans.

high_king

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Everything was better in the olden days. In fact, the further you go back the better it was. Oh to be a fish with rudimentary feet.

Looks like even Nostalgia is not as good as it used to be

davedanon

tuxy wrote: »

I think you may be mistaken, the posts you talk about are milennials mocking Gen Z. Although it's not unusual to see gen z mocking gen z while thinking they are mocking milennials.
The vast majority of posters on here are milennials.

Well, I am emphatically not, and to prove it I will just add:

'millennials', ffs.

tuxy

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Given the amount of complaining there is about milennials, I doubt that. There are a lot of bitter old farts on this forum who are still complaining about skinny jeans.

You think most posters are over 40?
Maybe, I guess most younger people have moved on to reddit and sites like that.

davedanon

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Given the amount of complaining there is about milennials, I doubt that. There are a lot of bitter old farts on this forum who are still complaining about skinny jeans.

I'm an old fart - I'm disputing 'bitter' - who wears skinny jeans.