Just happened to me too while I was playing some game online. They think we millennials should be gardening instead of gaming. Bitch we are the pioneers of modern tech. We grew up drinking internet.
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I don't think anyone knows what boomer means anymore. Now it's just what you call someone older then you.
That's what kids do lol
As an actual Boomer (born in 1964, the last year of Boomers), I feel this.
The first time I remember being called generation something was "generation X", then "the screwed-up generation", "the MTV generation", then suddenly I was on the "millennials" and now I ended up a boomer.
I was raised though by those being born during the 50s on stories about how easy I was having it while they had to go uphill both ways to school through the snow.
Yep, the way I see it is that every subsequent generation after the “Greatest Generation” has been fucked in one way or another.
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.
— Philip Larkin
I got that a while back talking about old video games. "Eww you played DOS games? What a boomer"
No, no that makes me mad. I was learning to navigate the DOS shell to set up Duke Nukem (skills I still use at my job today) while my boomer parents yelled at me to stop wasting my life on the computer and come in the living room to watch another six hours of Bonanza reruns.
That's the difference. Bah, burns me up
I like to think back to when I was a young lad, making fun of old people. The ones who got angry reinforced my naïve perspectives, and the ones who took it in stride with humility taught me to not be so judgemental.
It's hard, but we millennials have to exemplify humility for the younger generations, even though we didn't have many role models ourselves.
The way I see it: if someone dismisses valid concerns, I'm going to give their opinion less weight; if they do it with hasty generalizations, I'm going to give it zero weight and maybe mock them for being incompetent.
i am torn whether you are talking about boomers or zoomers?
both, probably. 🤷
Millennials, you are everything you hate about your parents.
If anything you do it worse.