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Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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Post by excessive » Mon, Nov 04, 2019, 6:54 PM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #116

excessive wrote: post #114

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> Some boomer should have some “OK SLACKER” t-shirts As part of Gen-X, I feel like that's appropriating from my culture. I was proudly on the "slackers" mailing list as an adult in the 90s when the millennials were being born. Give millennials a new pejorative, don't steal ours.

Eh, don’t fret too much, you’ll be a boomer soon...

I didn't think it worked that way. After that, can I be the Silent/Greatest Generation?

Maybe the word "Boomer" will just get redefined to mean "old people with more money than me". Kind of the same way "meme" got redefined from "idea permeating society" to "cartoon or cat picture with sarcastic text", and how "troll" got redefined from "someone who tries to antagonize" to "someone who says things I don't agree with".

Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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Post by mcv » Mon, Nov 04, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

jhbadger wrote: post #101

mcv wrote: post #92

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Yeah, I feel like a lot of the things Boomers and Millennials are blaming on each other, actually apply to Gen X (and I say this as a Gen-Xer myself). We got the best education deal before (admittedly Boomer-) politicians started to undermine education. We were the slacker generation. We're the generation that refused to grow up. We got jobs in the booming 1990s. But sure, let Boomers and Millennials fight. We're hap…

The 1990s were only "booming" (in the US) towards the end of the decade. The early/middle part of the decade was a recession.

I guess I was still in university back then. I'm late Gen X. I imagine early Gen X has a very different story. (I bet the same is true for every generation.)

Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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Post by enriquto » Tue, Nov 05, 2019, 1:14 PM UTC

lawlessone wrote: post #93

enriquto wrote: post #42

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wait, what's the problem with avocados?

oh you're in for a treat. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/austral...

regular news are becoming indistinguishable to the onion

Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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Post by kenny87 » Fri, Nov 08, 2019, 1:02 PM UTC

mirimir wrote: post #124

bredren wrote: post #38

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Actually this phrase started around October 15th on TikTok. The phrase’s use in related videos grew rapidly and had not existed before. It’s real sentiment. The fault with this article is that it focuses on merchandise. Edit: here’s the first video I saw it trend in comments: http://vm.tiktok.com/553g7w/

I thought that it was a line from "Battlestar Galactia".

nice