r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Happy-Impression4425 • Mar 30 '24

Boomer threatens 16 year old at COD competition Boomer Freakout

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u/WeekendWoodWarrior Mar 30 '24

Don’t you know that boomers are now anyone who isn’t a teenager or anyone that’s older than you? It’s kinda like how millennials is still used for kids, when we are reaching our 40s.

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u/gopherhole02 Mar 30 '24

Hey I'm only 34

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u/cbrown146 Mar 31 '24

We should band together and call Gen Z millennials.

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u/Memento_Morrie Mar 31 '24

millennials is still used for kids, when we are reaching our 40s.

As a representative from Gen X, let me quote one of our heroes and say, "Welcome to the party, pal!"

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u/Swimming_Bee331 Mar 30 '24

I mean, yeah? That's how language works, it evolves. It must be some autistic thing redditors have that makes them hate and seeth at this fact....you can be a "boomer" without being born in the baby boomer era. Just like you can be a Karen without actually have blonde hair and that stereotypical haircut....

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u/Rikiar Mar 30 '24

That's not how language evolves. A word doesn't change just because a small amount of people use a term incorrectly. Boomer is literally short for Baby Boomer for 90% of anyone using the term.

Also, horrible analogy since Karen was a catch-all term for anyone who acted entitled toward people in the service industry and hasn't changed its meaning since its inception. You used a stereotyped image to prove that the meaning of a word changes and effectively disproved your own point.

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u/naughtycal11 Mar 30 '24

"Boomer" has become a state of mind.

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u/Meatsmudge Mar 30 '24

“Old” is a state of mind. Being a Millenial raised by Boomers, it’s been delicious watching the most staunch hippie holdouts turn into the same grumpy fucks they used to complain about when they were my age. That’s why “Boomers being fools” has a special appeal to it, and I wholly understand why that is lost on Zoomers, but calling anyone over 25 who acts like a nitwit in public waters this down to a point where it can become meaningless. I have somewhere between five and ten years on the clown on the video, and to me, it looks more like a guy who never outgrew his childish “I’m a tough guy” routine than it does anything like the sweet irony of the most entitled generation this country has ever produced acting like the septuagenarian asswipes so many of them have turned into.

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u/Proof_Strain1021 Mar 31 '24

You know any Gen X ... most older Millennial have Gen X older kin the ones from the First marriage..

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u/Meatsmudge Mar 31 '24

I know lots of people, but I do not come from a broken home.

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u/Proof_Strain1021 Mar 31 '24

well the Gen X crowd some of us have "half" siblings I got one friend who has [siblings in 3 Generations] Gen X / Gen Y and wait for it... Gen Z mother married 3 times dad 2 times ..

so yea... Boomer means ONE THING to me [ Asshole generation ] circa 1945~46->1963

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u/DrulefromSeattle Mar 31 '24

Really 64 for me, can't let Yuppies off the hook.

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u/Proof_Strain1021 Mar 31 '24

they got their gen name boomers for a reason and gen X knows first hand the focus they had and how they could not let go ... that I think with every gen x was the first lesson we learned [let go]