"Okay boomer..."

[Rusty Blade]

I recently watched a news clip where a young person in a public forum dismissed the comments of an older person by saying, "Okay boomer". This was a new one for me so I had to look it up.

Wikipedia says, "OK boomer is a viral internet slang phrase used, often in a humorous or ironic manner, to call out or dismiss out-of-touch or close-minded opinions associated with the baby boomer generation and older people more generally."

I am guessing this in retaliation to the use of the term, "snowflake". Wikipedia says, "Snowflake is a 2010s derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly-emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions. Common usages include the terms special snowflake, Generation Snowflake, and snowflake as a politicized insult."

If a young person said, "Okay boomer..." to me in a public forum I would be insulted and may have to go into therapy.

 

[martym]

Me too!
Oh wait.
I’m over it.

 

[Stubblebum]

Where are my crayons?

 

[naughtilus]

 

[GaryTha]

It's going to get worse. That's why I'm going to vote against everything that would help those people.

 

[oc_in_fw]

Old people have been griping and insulting younger generations for years (and the internet makes it more visible), so now when they fire back with something we (actually, I am a Gen X’er) get our boxers in a bunch.

 

[Badgerstate36]

Well, boomers have been blaming everything on millennials for years and this is just a response to that. IMO, its childish, stupid and does nothing but create division but what doesnt nowdays?

 

[BigD]

99% rule. Out of almost any normal group 99% of the group is cool. The last 1% ruin it for everyone else.

 

[shavefan]

When I hear "boomer" as slang the first thing I think of is...

I probably read too much Clancy

 

[Vespasian]

So what's so wrong with being a boomer, aside from the usual travails of growing older. We got through the Eisenhower years, had our hearts broken by assassinations, opposed the war in Viet Nam, supported civil rights and feminism, made amazing music and amazing movies. Not a bad score; I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

 

[GaryTha]

So what's so wrong with being a boomer, aside from the usual travails of growing older. We got through the Eisenhower years, had our hearts broken by assassinations, opposed the war in Viet Nam, supported civil rights and feminism, made amazing music and amazing movies. Not a bad score; I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

Don't forget we invented the internet.

 

[Ted A]

Old people have been griping and insulting younger generations for years (and the internet makes it more visible), so now when they fire back with something we (actually, I am a Gen X’er) get our boxers in a bunch.View attachment 1034287

Young people have been griping and insulting older generations for years...

There is nothing new under the sun

 

[Toothpick]

I just wish we could keep this crap off B&B. But alas, it all makes it’s way here in due time.

 

[shavefan]

So what's so wrong with being a boomer, aside from the usual travails of growing older. We got through the Eisenhower years, had our hearts broken by assassinations, opposed the war in Viet Nam, supported civil rights and feminism, made amazing music and amazing movies. Not a bad score; I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

Don't forget we invented the internet.

And they got really good at 'Kick the Can' as youngsters

 

[GaryTha]

And they perfected Kick the Can as youngsters

My father played Kick the Can and rolled barrel hoops. We invented skateboards using a piece of 2 x 4 and our sister's roller skates with the key.

 

[Stubblebum]

Don't forget we invented the internet.

Hopefully, we will be forgiven for that mistake.

 

[Doc4]

 

[shavefan]

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Wrong generation, not the Baby Boomers.

 

[john parker]

When I hear "boomer" as slang the first thing I think of is...

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I probably read too much Clancy

That's what I thought of, too! Interestingly, one of my wife's nurses is an Air Force wife who says that boomer is what her Air Force husband was called because he operated a refueling boom on a tanker.

 

[mrlandpirate]

Boomer and proud
... NOW GET OFF MY LAWN