Instagram Boomers

[@drewisgooden]

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[@familyguylover250]

ok

[@rolliundrita2879]

yay

[@nobelium4487]

Hi drew, love the content

[@cretin6305]

No

[@bigal2369]

No way

[@CSLGSKS]

The best part is when they say they “were raised right.” That implies they raised us wrong, which is their fault.

[@JonathanSicoli]

Everyone knows Gen Z was grown in a vat, by the Evil Globalists!!!1

[@Sam-vy8ye]

To be honest most older Gen Zs were raised by Gen X

[@happythekatt8419]

@@Sam-vy8ye and most millennials and a chunk of Gen X were raised by boomers

[@odelayrowemonkey2145]

@@Sam-vy8ye and gen X were the last of the real humans.. 👍🏽

[@mr.mittens9123]

@@odelayrowemonkey2145 lmao what does that even mean

[@ProbablyLast]

“Kids these days have no respect.” - The people who raised them.

[@riverdaisy4215]

they seem to believe their children do as they say instead of copy the behavior their parents display

[@darrengordon-hill]

I don't have kids... but I do blame the parents.

[@yomiyuarts]

Kids these days don’t have any respect or manners -The same people who judge other people because they’re gay or not white

[@someperson1727]

They're probably also the same people who yell at retail and restaurant workers over the tiniest of shit

[@romeofernandez8608]

@@someperson1727 haha I started working fast food and my coworkers get madder than the customers. Sometimes I feel like they get mad just because they want to be mad

[@justabridget]

Boomers would be like “why is nobody working in retail anymore?? teenagers are so lazy” then proceed to call a worker a slur for being one fry short.

[@zonk4881]

It’s called building character pansy, now go make 7.50 and don’t complain 👱🏻

[@TheOceanBearer]

I see this all the time where I work.

[@katherinebarton3837]

"Why do all millennials get so offended when I cough on their children? No one cared about coughing on kids when *I* was a kid."

[@adrianghandtchi1562]

@@zonk4881 and you know damn well these are from people that are already very secure in their own income to say shit like that.

[@ghostlyhousehorrors]

like when boomers demand from the young workers and the worker say that it's against the rules or they're not allowed and the boomers throw a hissy fit and tell the worker they're bad at their job, when they literally were just trying to be a good worker and follow the rules, like it's out of the workers control you can't fault them for that

[@turboshazed7370]

"there were no CPS workers to come to your house". That's one way to make people aware about how horrible you are without even having to talk to you.

[@LaikasFriend]

For real, because why are you bragging about that?

[@TPRM1]

That one guy who said, “Switch whipping is NOT abuse!” I don’t even know what that is, but it sounds like it would leave a mark.

[@karmajester6504]

@@TPRM1basically the parent would tell the child to go get a stick, or a “switch” from the yard and beat them with it. It was some fucked up mix of “pick your own punishment” and getting beat by your parents as ‘discipline’

[@TPRM1]

@@karmajester6504 Jesus CHRIST. That is some fucked-up psychological torture.

[@owene2530]

Same mfs to abandon pets at old homes when moving

[@christiansvan734]

Boomers: "I have manners." Also boomers: "I'm gonna go scream at service workers for not accepting my expired coupon from another store."

[@Ventus-bt6xs]

Honestly, the worst customers I have serviced were boomers; boomers express their dissatisfaction by SCREAMING??

[@1-800-nonya]

Exactly.... its painful as fuck.

[@АнастасияСенцова-о1и]

LOOOL XDDD GET IT GUYS OLD MEN ARE BAD AND POOR WOMEN HAVE BEEN OPPRESSED BY THEM XDDDD REDDITOR NERDS APPROVE

[@ketaminepoptarts]

@@АнастасияСенцова-о1и found the boomer

[@АнастасияСенцова-о1и]

@@ketaminepoptarts ur a redditor nerd? That's true yeah lol

[@unripetomato4312]

"Young people today are so narcissistic, unlike us, who are good at everything" that one sentence captures it all.

[@aestheticbabies699]

id like this comment but it has 420 likes and i refuse to break that number, so, yes. i agree

[@coolbutnotverycool1440]

@@aestheticbabies699 why

[@RegretfulBirdConsumer]

@@coolbutnotverycool1440 funny weed number

[@Kipwingerstutu]

@@aestheticbabies699 it now has 888 😏

[@glendarjj3991]

And "young people are so impolite, unlike us who say racist comments whenever we feel like it"

[@ToomanyFrancis]

I like how they say that 70s-90s music is better than modern pop music, as if their parents didn't claim that rock music was invented by the devil.

[@celestialnichole]

I was literally about to comment this💀

[@216trixie]

There's a difference between criticism of pointless empty modern pop music, and calling it evil from hell.

[@davidmaka6742]

As if the 70s-90s didn't have tons of shitty music. It's just nostalgia again. There are just as many good songs over the last two decades.

[@ashleyespinoza4893]

@@216trixie A lot of the songs from the 70's-80's we consider classics now didn't even make the top 100. Popular stuff could be just as vapid as it is now. It's just a lot easier for us to point it out and track it online

[@bethm5852]

@@davidmaka6742 Yeah, the songs on classic rock stations are just the ones that were good enough to stick around. Even then I don’t like a decent amount of the 70’s/80’s songs that are still played.

[@jerbear7952]

The problem is that people my age and older (40+) used to be able to make the world do whatever we wanted by just being agressive and blustery enough. We could demand whatever we wanted and it worked. Then it stopped working and its like whaaaaa? Some of us figured out it was wrong and stupid. Others haven't figured it out yet. Young people stand up for themselves now and I'm so proud of them. If I'm ever in a store and I see someone picking on a young worker I like to use my previously acquired skills on the other customer until they leave. I can't get fired.

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

You are an absolute gift and I hope someone like you shows up at your darkest moment

[@ukelelepichu]

i hope you have a great day!

[@Squishypalms]

Thanks for being awesome, young and old people should work together to make things better ❤

[@Bilbobobpie]

“I can’t get fired” 😂😂 gotta love it lol

[@aeddiefarmer]

I'm 35 so not far off 40+, and it feels like only yesterday when I was one of the terrible young people. Terrifyingly I now know 40 is not that old! I think people engaging in the kind of stuff in this video are older than that, grandparents of the youth rather than parents.

[@ctflwrs1197]

“don’t mess with me. I’m a lead paint survivor” yeah we can tell

[@pissapocalypse]

We can tell by their sunken hollow eyes

[@fataldinazor3732]

@@pissapocalypse and the lead poisoning lol

[@biged8329]

My favorite conspiracy theory about why Boomers are so belligerent and strange

[@SalmonPaella]

@@fataldinazor3732 eyes like that are a symptom of lead poisoning

[@mytruthslays1303]

"Don't mess with me. I survived eating tie pods." That's unfortunate.

[@kira-lilym6363]

My favourite thing about boomers praising themselves for being 'raised right' is them criticising younger generations for not being 'raised right' as if it wasnt them doing the raising

[@KatinkaMaika]

LOL. They seem not to be very good at self reflection

[@purplecatonbroadway]

All of the lead in their paint and gasoline short circuited their cognitive reasoning

[@bigbearkat2010]

Right? Like everytime they complain about participation trophies, I'm just like "uh we didn't give those to ourselves"

[@kira-lilym6363]

@@4everbuffylover a lot of millienials are the children of boomers

[@Mr.Murasakino]

@@4everbuffylover And a lot of gen z have boomer parents

[@itsmushbloom]

the memes weren't cropped you just don't understand the good old days when tonka trucks were.

[@deanmoriarty6015]

it’s a shame those silly willy libsharts cancelled the existence of tonka trucks..

[@mangoh8er]

If you

[@glendarjj3991]

And of course -if you-

[@Starzoh]

When the

[@sora1498]

when.

[@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah]

“I refused to argue with anyone born after 1995” Thank you for being so kind and sparing me my brain cells! I didn’t wanna hear anymore bullsh!t from you so that’s very kind

[@caidalee1994]

As a person born in 95, I wish the cutoff was earlier.

[@pokaay3163]

@@caidalee1994 can you please tell the older people to stop infantilizing those younger than them and acting like age is the only decider on whether or not you can be taken seriously? Thanks, they wont listen to me when I try to do it.

[@caidalee1994]

@@pokaay3163 sorry, man, they don’t listen to me either because “those darn millennials”. Then again, they just don’t seem to listen period, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up.

[@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah]

@@pokaay3163 Older people are so entitled and stuck in their less efficient and actively harmful ways that there is no convincing them. They’d prefer a phone that’s actively more difficult to use and women not dress however makes them comfortable, than a phone that’s actively easier to use and modern women feeling comfortable just because they can’t deal with change It’s impossible. So if they refuse to talk to me because I’m born after 1995, I see this as an absolute win

[@Mgfaulkner793]

I suddenly regret being born in 1994.

[@jevilcore]

It’s really scary when people like this say “I was hit as a kid and I turned out fine, so I can’t wait to hit MY kid.” Like… I don’t think you turned out fine

[@MyFatherLooksLikeAPallasCat]

I was never hit growing up, and everyone asked my parents on how they disciplined me so well. My mom would always tell them that she just “reasons with me” and they would say something along the lines of “my kid is too stupid to reason with” No dude, I think you’re too incompetent and violent to be able to reason with anyone!

[@sagez9422]

honestly.. I was spanked by my grandparents and I remember each and every time they burst into my room to hit me. It was 100% a fear tactic and I can't imagine inflicting that on my kids.

[@genericname2747]

Yeah that's definitely someone who should not have kids

[@Purinprince]

I cant speak for every child, but what my mom has done with me and my 6 sisters was just speaking in a very relaxed and happy for 24/7, and when one of us would act up she would get down on our level and drop her voice. It stopped literally everyone in their tracks hearing it. No punishment needed other than that lmao

[@averydee5328]

Having that attiudite towards disciplining your kids is not good.

[@patricelinman7183]

All these old people who talk about how they were "raised with manners" and are "so polite" are the same ones who bully and degrade customer service workers.

[@PoHazard]

when i was a kid, at the dollar store my boomer mom once told me loudly that we were different from the other poor people and the service workers at the dollar store because "we have class." in that moment i knew it was bullshit and every time i see her or another boomer doing some similar bullshit i go back to that moment and feel lost in this lifelong mystery of "why do people of her age act like that"

[@j-kricket4886]

Yes, the "I know your busy and it's dinner rush, but the world revolves around me and I'd like to talk to your manager because it's been ten minutes and my foods not up" 🙄😒

[@SieMiezekatze]

The moment everyone around 40 enters the store my heart rate goes up

[@maeg.9123]

A customer service worker here 👋🏼 most of the people who bully and degrade me are of all ages pretty equally.

[@aliencafe]

Exactly!!!! The high schoolers and college kids that come into my coffee stand are way nicer than the weird boomers that snap their fingers to get my attention instead of just saying hi

[@luketaylor9648]

“let the breeze flow through and ventilate the monkey” is the most horrifying sentence i’ve ever heard hands down

[@edwardthibodeaux8815]

I would make a joke but….. why would you call it a monkey?

[@lvbboi9]

It was so gross

[@zyaicob]

idk i quite like it, let the monkey get some fresh air edit: nvm i realised how gross it is while typing it

[@brentc8189]

Makes me think a lot of these posts are made by foreign bots running through google translate. One of my friends received an email threatening to release pictures of him "Flogging the donkey" as a totally natural way of saying masturbating.

[@RiptideEntertainment]

@@brentc8189 actually, it's an term in older aave, at least down here in the south and the west coast. check too short's "shake that monkey"

[@Andrea-y7f4u]

4:13 btw this is goes back to the whole "slurs aren't swearing" mentality. Its okay to have a show with blackface, harmful depictions of homosexuals or other minorities, its not okay to curse, because thats rude. Nevermind the fact that you couldnt say "pregnant" on television. They think of these shows as clean because they do not think of racism or thinly veiled bigotry as unclean.

[@cval_brown]

I can't wait to make memes like these in the future.

[@LightningSquad]

I uploaded my Face Reveal..

[@FTZPLTC]

Start making them now. Kids these days don't even know what Friendster is.

[@fortywolves]

I know right? I can't wait until I'm bragging that I can connect a Bluetooth device in the settings instead of allowing my AI AR-suite to handle that for me as soon as I think about maybe using my inbuilt audio devices.

[@lolol-vj7bc]

@@LightningSquad little premature don’t you think

[@milktea6676]

Future comes lives to regret it

[@Lex_brooke]

“These youngsters have no respect, unlike how I was raised.” YOU RAISED US/OUR PARENTS BARBARA

[@RabidChild82]

If a person has to brag about how they were raised right, they probably weren’t.

[@padywac1970]

No, we raised your parents.

[@Vesperad0]

@@padywac1970 there's a _slash_ in the comment. It's different for some based on how old their parents were when they got pregnant/adopted a child.

[@Lex_brooke]

@@padywac1970 literally what I said

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Exactly....like, did their grandparents take them out and laugh at them for not knowing how to churn butter? Or not knowing how to use other completely obsolete products 🙄 Doubt it. These boomers are a group of bullies basically, laughing at people for not knowing how to use something they will never need to use. (I'm looking at you rotary phones)

[@FrenkTheJoy]

I love old people who are all "i was raised to be polite!" The majority of rude people I encounter in public ARE OLD PEOPLE.

[@byrnetdown6076]

these people think politeness is just saying excuse me after you sneeze though you gotta remember that

[@cheruwu9659]

The same type of people that tell you it's rude to stare until they see POC or people with dyed hair

[@lachlanmclennan2188]

Rules for thee but not for me Humans are natural hypocrites

[@fishinspacey]

@@cheruwu9659 POC with dyed hair: 😰😰

[@aaronlandry3934]

Some old people are assholes, but others are just picky, as someone working in food service. If you make polite conversation with them though, they’re the most likely to tip you, because they actually remember to, whereas younger people just don’t ever tip. TBH, I’ll take one old lady making me take something back to the kitchen over some “influencer” that speaks down to you and doesn’t even tip

[@marlinfromfindingnemo8954]

You know the reason it seems like a lot of old music is better? It’s because we only kept the good music, no one is saving the old music they don’t like so it disappears

[@-starrysunrise-2908]

Survivor Ship Bias is a name for that concept

[@chimominino]

Such a good point

[@SillierPutty]

Sorry, I haven't seen your son.

[@marlinfromfindingnemo8954]

@@SillierPutty I’ve moved on that guy was a loser

[@noahboucher125]

Anybody who collects records knows this.

[@allysilman1631]

I love the defence of "I was beat as a child and I turned out fine" as If the fact that you're now advocating for child abuse isn't proof that you did not turn out fine.

[@katc2040]

I literally always say this haha

[@oranplan1630]

when you were beat as a child and then think it's okay to beat YOUR kids, that means you're in the cycle of abuse.

[@eldron29-a54]

No boomer get raised well. It's a fact.

[@fresa9720]

!!!!

[@billycox475]

They never ask themselves how much better they might have turned out if they weren't beaten as a child.

[@beccabecca3194]

"we were raised with MANNERS" bro literally anyone who has worked in customer service knows that old people are the rudest and coldest age group

[@TM-vg9vu]

For SURE the most impatient, rude and always demanding the most free crap while thinking they're entitled to being respected. Nobody believes "the customer is always right" like boomers do.

[@beccabecca3194]

@@TM-vg9vu damn right

[@lela5250]

for real!! when i worked at mcdonalds it was always older people who would complain and yell and make the cashiers cry (i have cried more than once at work because of people like that) and it was always young people who were polite and patient... yet boomers seem to think that manners "dont exist anymore"... oh they absolutely do, its your generation that forgot them!! (sorry for the rant lol i hated that job)

[@aepigeons9375]

"We were raised with MANNERS!" "Too bad it didn't stick : ( "

[@yukiislove]

Yessss

[@noxdomine4089]

The NERVE of boomers complaining that “people these days are offended by everything and it’s ruining cinema!” when THEY cancelled STAR TREK because they were offended by an interracial kiss

[@tunafish5462]

Those are the same people who complain about every marvel movie when it comes out cuz it has "magic" and it is corrupting the youth or something and then go watch a 50s sitcom with a fucking laughing track and "women belong in the kitchen" jokes.

[@deanmoriarty6015]

oh and they tried to cancel french fries and “reinvent them as freedom fries” LMFAO

[@GwyndolinOwO]

lmao right. I can't think of any good examples since I wasn't alive during that era (at least when it was at its worst) , but imagine just how many movies couldn't be shown or even sold because it had LGBT themes in it. I'm also not sure its just a boomer thing but i remember the older generation really hating movies or games that had too much sexual tension or violence. Its interesting to read into but one time there was a president that had a part of a speech that went something like: "We well not be a Simpsons time country, our families will be like the Wilsons"

[@geewillikers918]

Wait, really? lol

[@VultureClone]

Definitely hypocrites, but of course in their mind, their complaints are "serious" while ours are not. How convenient for them..

[@itsbeetimes]

“what happens at home stays at home” is a genuinely terrifying sentiment. I was told this a lot, and it always scared me, I felt like I couldn’t tell anyone anything, and when I did, it all blew up in my face and I got in a lot of trouble. It’s genuinely traumatizing.

[@antifa_communist]

what the actual fuck.

[@mrgameplay1001]

This was a tactic my mom did to me for years, even into my early 20s. Literally going "Don't go telling anyone our business, no one needs to know" and she's actively doing shit that makes her look/sound insane, and then when I tell her I've told my friends about what she did or show them literal text messages of what she said to me, showing the entire context, and having them siding with me, she freaks out and says I've "embarrassed her" as a deflection tactic. And then proceed to try and chew me out with extremely rude insults and comments as if that would make me go "sorry".

[@atomdecay]

My parents turned the other cheek to my oldest brother repeatedly molesting me & my sister because "what happens at home stays at home & he's the oldest". I never got the logic, but needless to say I don't speak to any of them anymore & live in complete solitude.

[@leonardolemos7542]

Bragging about lead paint is such an insane thing. "Hey, me and my generation were exposed to chemicals that are proven to impair our cognitive development, and we are PROUD of it!"

[@fataldinazor3732]

"Hello yes I'm man, I got Lead Poisoning and IT WAS FECKING AWESOME!! WOOOOH"

[@addison7624]

That would be like the people in Flint, Michigan bragging about their water full of lead lmao

[@Alltime2050]

One of the first effects of lead poisoning is it makes you not care that you're being poisoned.

[@onyxth3ripper]

I think that's the cognitive stunting kicking in, I know this because when I was younger I got high off of marker fumes, and snuck into a church where they were repairing a lead painting and now I have one brain cell working overtime at all times.

[@notrod5341]

That would explain _why_ they're proud of it

[@LonelySandwich]

“You young people are so rude.” Then they call people racial slurs

[@Mama_Bear524]

Or my dad, as the girl is walking by “look at those tattoos! Don’t they look terrible? Tattoos are bad”. Ya I’m pretty sure he heard. So embarrassing

[@simplysnazzy7445]

Is this comment stolen too?

[@Jehty_]

@@Mama_Bear524 Glad my dad is not the only one always complaining about the looks of other people :)

[@tunafish5462]

​@@Mama_Bear524 For some reasons my mum just loves to point out how tight girls' pants are while she is driving, maybe just stop looking at their ass and focus on the road? I remember once a couple of years ago we were at the mall she said "how could she walk around in that?" about a random girl and I said without even realizing mind your own business or something and she was really pissed for a while. just so rude for no reason.

[@moogaboogaa]

Most boomers aren’t racist

[@Nightthade]

When parents make fun of their kids for stuff like not knowing how to read a map all I hear is "not only did I embarrass my child over something useless, I also didn't teach them how to do something I considered important" like yeah you weren't born knowing how to read a map, someone had to teach it to you.

[@ashleyespinoza4893]

The map thing sucks too, I was born in the early 90's and I still can still remember the anxiety of having to use a paper map to find a friend's house in a neighborhood we'd never been to before. Google maps is a godsend.

[@glendarjj3991]

They're hiding their insecurities about struggling with technology, so instead they say its the new generations fault for not knowing their way

[@TheHetaliafan123]

@@ashleyespinoza4893 True lol. I have a horrible sense of direction, and maps don’t help because I don’t know where the hell I am on it. Google maps is perfect for me lol.

[@Tinawarue]

Yess google maps are amaizing. And digital clocks and smart phones

[@ashleyespinoza4893]

@@TheHetaliafan123 I still remember my mom getting mad at me when I was like 6 because we couldn't find a friend's house, and you do that thing where you're like "okay so even number houses are on this street and odd number ones are on this one" but as soon as you turn a corner it's all confusing again. I so don't miss that stress XD

[@officialmonarchmusic]

The fact that half the boomers are flirting with extremely obvious bots is kind of ridiculous and also extremely creepy

[@freyjanimbi]

That's exactly how they want women to talk. Like a thoughtless robot.

[@officialmonarchmusic]

@@freyjanimbi Really shows a lot of their true colors

[@the_otamatone]

Give it 10 or so years, and we'll all be fine.

[@princecharmless4964]

still flabbergasted that my parent said "you think you're the only child whose afraid of their parents?" with zero irony and then can't fathom why i never visit or talk to them.

[@marissahicks3529]

I'm sorry that happened to you

[@mistahchad220]

Jesus criminy, that lack of self-awareness is genuinely terrifying. I'm glad you got the Hell out of dodge, friend.

[@maxwasthere]

I feel that. Can't believe my parent said "I'd rather hear you were a murderer than transgender" and then gets upset that I don't want to be around them.

[@spookyho5994]

@@maxwasthere I’m so sorry, that’s such a shitty thing to say

[@mollusckscramp4124]

@@maxwasthere Seconded, sorry to say that your parent (qualifying in biological terms _only_ ) is such a genuinely shitty human. They would rather be murdered than have to reflect on a single faulty self principle of their own. This is why natural selection exists. Good for you for recognizing that you deserve a supportive and less toxic environment than that and walking away from it, not a lot of people ever reach that point. It takes a good deal of resolve and self respect ❤

[@NorthoftheBorder]

Best description for the boomer generation I ever read was, "they were born on third base, but convinced they hit a triple".

[@johnwalker1058]

This comment uplifted my spirit. Can I steal this?

[@feynk6671]

@@johnwalker1058 ok boomer

[@johnwalker1058]

@@feynk6671 ok boomer

[@carstereobandits]

perfect

[@lobster_balloon2837]

Dude I love your content I’m so glad I found this

[@mr_dogfather_75]

“Our generation had the best soda.” “Your soda had cocaine in it.” “Like I said, our generation had the best soda.”

[@shell9918]

that's the one thing i really can't argue with them on

[@joshuapilling3641]

@@shell9918 They win this round

[@novemberiscoolithink]

this is true. you guys win this round

[@MrPresidentSwole]

I see nothing wrong with their soda

[@sm1purplmurderedme583]

saiki!

[@LittleMissDeath]

"They don't wear the same underwear as their mothers and grandmothers" We do, Gladys. We just don't call them girdles anymore, they're shapewear.

[@tinyblueunicorn7807]

Well I'd hope most people buy new underwear and not wear hand-me-downs from their mums and grandmas. 🙃 I'll never forget though when I was doing work experience in the lingerie department of a store and an elderly woman came up to me and whispered, "Excuse me, but do you sell any . . . panty girdles?" 14-year-old me was so confused and traumatised. 💀

[@LittleMissDeath]

@@tinyblueunicorn7807 LMAO they stopped putting me in lingerie department because I refused to be delicate with the subject. Customers would whisper about their desired "unmentionables" and I'd talk at a normal volume and pissed so many people off, especially old ladies.

[@SQUIZZLER24]

Back in MY day, we would RESPECT women and treat them like PRINCESSES. Also, I like to stare at women’s personal areas to see what underwear they’re wearing, and refer to their genitals as “wares” like they’re products to be bought.

[@maren4572]

How else would they mean wares

[@anoushkashenoy692]

@@chronometer9931 Many of these so-called “gentlemen” act this way though.

[@plutopian9059]

@@chronometer9931 yes it is. how are you going to claim to be respectful when there’s evidence that contradicts these statements? try again. and while you’re at that, go get a life bro. you’ve been burrowed in these comments a little too much for my liking 💀

[@officialprincelouie]

@@plutopian9059 Well said man

[@theinvinciblewinner]

You know, just to make sure they’re wearing them slips right 😎😎😎

[@Patterrz]

I love when old people complain about not being able to just tell straight up racist jokes anymore

[@glendarjj3991]

"Ah yes back in the good old days with constant sexism and racism."

[@glendarjj3991]

@@mercurychan really? She says... Nothing?

[@cctproductions6976]

@@glendarjj3991 nah man she says nigga

[@glendarjj3991]

@@cctproductions6976 wait... really? Nah that can't be it. We should keep thinking

[@jeremylopezrivera6881]

What do you mean? I'm not old

[@sourlemonade7916]

“i can write in cursive, do math without a calculator, and read a clock with hands” congratulations, you have the same functions as a 12 year old

[@sourlemonade7916]

@@BrainScramblies ah i don’t think they teach it but 12 year olds definitely think they’re cool when they figure it out

[@ringyz]

@@BrainScramblies They teached it to me when I was eight, never used it in my life after that

[@sayno8685]

They teach us cursive from 1-4 grade in elementary. I usually still write in cursive but for my own project not school, even some of my teachers who are boomers have hard time trying to figure out my cursive handwriting

[@beepbeepcasucha]

Functions 😭😭

[@ImGabeChan]

@@sourlemonade7916 my sister is 10 and my mom's a teacher. I know these things are still taught in school

[@TradwifeInTraining]

I like how you glossed over the “lead paint” thing when it literally alters your personality

[@mikkischlauder4388]

"I was raised in a generation with manners, ever heard of them?" *stares blatantly at every person with colored hair or ripped clothing*

[@glendarjj3991]

"Back in my day, everyone was polite to each other... and women and black people knew their place"

[@222-p2q]

Ahh you just brought back some memories

[@crypto1122]

To be honest, I’ve met way more polite punk people than polite elderly people

[@StayClosedDelorean]

Really ironic considering boomers are some of the rudest people I know. 9 out of 10 times, if someone around me starts sh*t, it's some old entitled fart who thinks they can get away with it just because they're older. Like age somehow grants people an a**hole free-pass.

[@zacharyvirgo8619]

*Screams at retail or food worker who got something even slightly wrong*

[@faithwilson8685]

As someone who worked in both retail and fast food, old people are the Worst. They're so proud of their manners and proclaim that people under 30 are so entitled but seniors were the most entitled, whiny, demanding, rude customers I dealt with.

[@_letstartariot]

My first day of my first job an old lady tried to get my fired cos I forgot to ask for her loyalty card.

[@Dweeb_Unit]

I've had some really sweet elders when I worked in retail, but the awful ones just stick out the most. They truly believe they are in the right when they expect and do the dumbest shit.

[@gn4tnat]

so true

[@punchdrunkassassin]

I had one get real mad and ask to talk to my manager, because I didn't know her special order at McDonald's. I was very clearly working there on behalf of the local radio station for McHappy Day.

[@Dweeb_Unit]

@@punchdrunkassassin how self centered does a person have to be to get pissed when someone doesn't know your "special order"

[@MNelson1800]

"Our generation didn't get offended so easily!" Your generation lynched people if they drank at the wrong water fountain.

[@hollykm]

THIS IS THE COMMENT.

[@him12672]

Ahh I remember when American Bandstand got a lot of hate mail because Frankie Lymon, a black singer, danced with a white girl. SO NOSTALGIC

[@izzytepe]

I LOVE THIS

[@masha475]

That must be the biggest roast of all time.

[@tjmarx]

Wokesters still do

[@Dionysian.Cryptid]

1:09 I can translate this! The post is referring to when tonka trucks were made of metal. It's nostalgia to boomers cause obviously it's all plastic now.

[@Eyeball44]

“Who still says “excuse me” or “pardon me” when walking in front of someone?” Literally everyone except you grandpa/grandma, you’re too busy berating retail and restaurant staff

[@1-800-nonya]

Ik I still do! Even apologize for the inconvenience most times

[@Anonymous-ve7pi]

and when we try to calm them down from attacking them, they say "Dont apologise, the customer is always right, don't be walked on"

[@abloodcorpse3318]

I work at Walmart and literally the only people that don't use proper manners, aside from the trash, is old people.

[@perniciouspete4986]

I might actually be your grandpa: what's your grandma's name?

[@lordjreen]

@@abloodcorpse3318 I work at Walmart as well, can confirm. Literally the only customers I have issues with are boomers

[@CarrionMorris]

I like to imagine them carrying garden hoses around everywhere instead of bottles

[@kaamn1829]

No way, whenever you get thirsty you hop into someone's yard and turn on the hose and drink from there, hoping no one's home or that they can't hear the water being turned on and run out to see you drinking from their hose like a goblin bc then beat you with a switch and you can't do anything bc it's not polite and also what happens in the house stays in the house. that's how we did it in the good olden days, still got me a lump in my back from when I got thirsty and the hose owner was particularly mean old fellow.

[@KP_Gem]

Hahahahaha

[@moatasemkassab4517]

Lmaoo🤣

[@naritruwireve1381]

mm, love drinking from a hose that has touched dirt and all sorts of bacteria. people who drink from water bottles are weaklings

[@kaamn1829]

@@w花b kids these days just have no idea about tradition and real work, smh. back in my day we worked for what we had, if we wanted water, we just had to be willing to risk being beaten to within an inch of our life. there was no "cps" to intervene and say "that's inhumane and illegal! you nearly killed him!" social safety systems nowadays are making these spoiled kids too soft and accustomed to "decency." 🤢😔🙃

[@marystombaugh2282]

"no botox, no ripped jeans, no silicone, just grace and elegance." and an insane girdle/bra/pantyhose setup to attain that super natural shape and bi-weekly trips to the salon to set their hairstyles. All super low-key and not at all concerned with vanity.

[@neliaferreira9983]

Specially when their job was to find a husband. And become a wife.

[@starringvincentprice]

Don't forget all of those highly addictive and harmful diet pills!

[@sailoroverdrive1434]

Their point that there were "surgical procedures back then" is not even true. Nose jobs, skin whitening and hair jobs (e.g. the painful removal of hair around the forehead in order to make foreheads look larger and the face more oval) were practiced quite frequently in Hollywood. Just take a look at all the shit that Rita Hayworth had to do to herself in order to be "ethnically acceptable" in old Hollywood.

[@SieMiezekatze]

Yep plastic surgery was a thing at that time

[@Ipernova]

Definitely as low-key as Joan Crawford's skin care routine

[@hopefullyentertainment6029]

These boomers have inspired me to not only not wear pantyhose, but i will no longer be wearing underwear. or pants. or clothes in general.

[@tinyblueunicorn7807]

In my day we didn't have fancy clothes or expensive make-up, we rubbed our faces with natural dirt and wore leaves and nettles we found in the Garden of Eden as our Lord intended.

[@Vinthateshandles]

This reminds me of my dad saying that it's okay to grope women if their naked, even if they aren't consenting. He's a really gross person

[@bananabanana484]

As a raccoon, I’m actually surprised you were wearing them before

[@m1k3y48]

“Kids these days have terrible manners” WHO RAISED THE CHILDREN, BOOMER?

[@martinsergo6108]

plus I feel like this just isn't true. Most young people I've met are the nicest people I know. Obviously there's outliers, but a lot of the time it's older people who try to start shit. There are gonna be shitheads in any generation though.

[@meliycon-roma4112]

@@martinsergo6108 exactly

[@CaptainApathetic]

@@martinsergo6108 I work at the grocery store and the young people are generally very nice, whereas the older folk tend to be very entitled and simultaneously clueless to basically anything going on around them.

[@katw6757]

Gen X

[@martinsergo6108]

@@CaptainApathetic Yeah, this seems to be a pretty common theme among service workers. I've never had a job where I deal with customers (becoming increasingly grateful for that...) but if I did I'd be very surprised if most of the shitty customers weren't middle aged moms or boomers.

[@maijashea]

“We didn’t have behavioural disorders back then” yeah, you didn’t have the medical research in order to diagnose your child. Imagine being mad that human psychology is more understood and that children can have their needs accommodated to live a happier life

[@unitnumbera1]

I know right??? Isn't the point of raising the next generation to improve and advance society

[@mynameisreallycool1]

It's like when people say, "No one had peanut allergies back in the day." These people are so dense it's genuinely hilarious how smug and unaware they are of their own stupidity. "Oh, yeah, my friend mysteriously died after my mom made him a PB&J sandwich. I wonder why. Anyways, peanut allergies didn't exist when I was growing up."

[@roxanne_]

Yeah and they used Lobotomy to actually deal with their children. Sorry you had a child and knew it was going to be difficult raising one. 😕

[@deathsheadhawkmoths]

EXACTLY.

[@XDDCCOUUTT]

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN I CAN BEAT MY KIDS AND GET AWAY WITH IT CAUSE IM AN UNCIVILIZED MANIAC?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!!?!?!?!?

[@quartzfae]

“kids these days don’t say ‘excuse me’ or ‘pardon me’ anymore” yes we do, you’re just too old to hear us now 💀

[@demetria-n]

it's all fun and games until the old person can't read their menu right and complains to the manager, but they are just too old and blind.

[@GYAXA]

There’s actually some reasoning behind this in a convoluted way, as younger generations tend to say things like “no problem” instead of “you’re welcome” because they see helping someone as something that is required of them to do, as opposed to older generations who more often see help as a gift you are giving to someone.

[@johnforestersworstnightmar3756]

As someone who has worked in retail, it’s usually boomers who are the most impolite assholes while young people are largely the most polite and respectful people in the store.

[@you_know_me8218]

Yess 😂😂 I say that even when I don’t need to 😂

[@soccerruben1]

Dead, lol!

[@zachvayo8970]

If meme accounts had existed in the ‘50s, there would absolutely have been accounts full of old folks raised in the Victorian era griping about how young women wearing knee-length skirts didn’t “respect themselves”

[@bobbyonkazoo3512]

As someone with autism who was repeatedly called "A brat" as a kid, And was spanked by my grandfather without my parents knowledge, I can say that no, beating me does not "cure" my autism

[@MollieIsNotOkay]

I’m autistic as well and this hits too close to home. My grandparents place was the worst because they thought I was being a brat, and so they’d punish me. But then I’d freak out and have a meltdown because it was overwhelming, thus more punishment, an endless cycle. Wasn’t fun, the worst is they STILL think I’m a brat.

[@bobbyonkazoo3512]

@@MollieIsNotOkay thank you for reading me my own trauma

[@firesd7306]

Wait, spanking doesn't cure neurological disorders? That's absolutely insane

[@bobbyonkazoo3512]

@@firesd7306 ikr it shocked me

[@henrysphone6364]

Thats sad

[@donmcmoneagle662]

As a boomer, I oddly support this video. If boomers wanna do social media, yet complain about the youth doing social media, this is what’s gonna happen. Also, nostalgic.

[@lxvesickyuna6239]

Respect

[@Hikikomoriiiii]

@@lxvesickyuna6239 Respect.

[@DumPixels]

@@Hikikomoriiiii Respect.

[@Viper12335]

Respect sir. The first accomplishment a boomer can accomplish is accepting themselves as a boomer. If we call and old guy a boomer, he gets triggered, this is the case for most of the old people currently.

[@lautre.]

Respect sir

[@ApplesandOranges1967]

I was at a thrift shop the other day buying an old chair and told the guy in front of me in line (male, 60+ years old) that it was for my workbench in my basement and he said "I didn't know people your age had those." I asked no follow-up questions but I am still thinking about what it could have meant. What does he think 29 year-olds don't have? A workbench? A basement? Am I too old to have hobbies that require a table? Too young to have a house? Tell me your secrets, mystery boomer!

[@bluecollarlit]

LOL

[@Krydolph]

A workbench! Because young people can't and don't fix anything anymore! They just throw out and buy new! Well he does too, but that is only because he has gotten old and don't have the energy anymore, but back in the day where he wasn't made of money he fixed stuff, and the young people don't do that because they are so awful, so it was a real surprise you had one!

[@tinyblueunicorn7807]

Clearly, he meant young people today don't use chairs smh. But also all they like to do is sit around waiting for things to happen and come to them, unlike himself, who is always up and at something, but he also likes to take the weight off his feet at the end of a long day because he's earned it, but also young people are restless and always running around getting in the way, but also . . .

[@Bonserak23]

Well most of us will never own a house, like EVER. Until we are 60 lol

[@strange17]

@@Krydolph No, he throws things out and buys new ones because "they don't make them like they used to" but of course that's not his generation's fault

[@astrorat7228]

one time my mom, when she was like 40 or 41 she said "and if you called cps on your parents they'd just beat you harder" no shit they would, they're abusive pieces of garbage that didn't wanna get caught!

[@degiguess]

"I'm glad my parents used to beat me as a kid, it's what taught me manners and respect! That's why I use my adult strength to hit small little children who can't defend themselves! Because I am well adjusted and have manners and respect!"

[@degiguess]

@@chronometer9931 punish bad behavior but do it in a way that actually fixes that behavior instead of teaching bad lessons. "Violence is an acceptable way to make people stop doing something you don't like" is a bad lesson to teach kids.

[@DrSoftShoo]

​@@degiguess Btw your username is on point for this topic XD

[@jaysax7381]

@@chronometer9931 newsflash beating the shit out of your child does not in fact make them better kids! If you can’t set boundaries and correct bad behavior without yanking your kids brain loose maybe you shouldn’t have kids. Wonder why so many serial killers and weirdos were beat by their loser fathers wonder if there’s a correlation in teaching kids that violence solves an issue. Hmmmm

[@naritruwireve1381]

those who beat defenseless children then act like they're doing a good thing are the worst. hope they burn in hell

[@richardg8376]

@@degiguess Spot on. The child simply learns to avoid getting caught so they don't get smacked, rather than understanding why what they did was wrong. Smacking is a lazy way to feel like you've disciplined your child, and once they're too big to smack you've lost your only tool for disciplining them.

[@bigcheese1061]

As someone who works at Dillards I can confirm this company still keeps Christmas alive, by putting Christmas decorations up on the first day of fall

[@jsmalls9575]

The Hobby Lobby near me started putting Christmas stuff out in July. That’s... bonkers.

[@cam4636]

@@jsmalls9575 Not surprising, seeing as Hobby Lobby is literally an evangelical Christian company

[@flognawj]

told us our store hours are getting extended , i can do this shit no more 💔

[@daltonbedore8396]

im shocked to hear Dillards still exists

[@ClebyHerris]

I work at lowes and we already took most of our Halloween stuff down. Its 11 days before the holiday

[@bighungry98]

Old people hate how this generation is offended by everything, as if old people weren’t the ones who put parental advisory labels on every album under the sun

[@chronometer9931]

Two wrongs don't make a right

[@astronova6150]

thats....a unique take

[@ryanthomas49]

@@chronometer9931 no one said they did and how does that phrase apply here?

[@otterzrkuhl]

Chronometer what’s the 2nd wrong?

[@MammalianCreature]

@@chronometer9931 You can't deny that it brings satisfaction, can you? Two wrongs might not make a right, but they make you feel right. That is enough for us.

[@laurenhayes564]

I love the one about manners, considering I have never once heard the words “thank you” or “I’m sorry” exit a boomers mouth in my direction.

[@AhDollar]

they were too busy slapping their wives around and using up all the wealth, leaving none for us

[@lark613]

If there's one thing a boomer has never done, it's apologize to someone younger than them

[@ThePandaclash]

My least favorite thing I used to hear as a kid was “children are meant to be seen and not heard”

[@hunterlanius6526]

"The adults are talking right now, do not speak unless you're spoken to. Children are meant to be seen, not heard." "Younger generations don't know how to have a decent conversation! Almost none of your friends go out of their way to say hello and chat, common courtesy."

[@BleachBrownie]

mom used to get upset about how rude or disrespectful she thought we were and would say "my mom just had to look at us a certain way and we knew" to shut up or stop an action etc when people were around

[@soren5312]

You can always tell a Milford man.

[@randomness928]

I mean this is literally the sort of thing early south park made fun of

[@_letstartariot]

‘Respect your elders’ enraged me too. Respect is earned. You want me, a 6yo, to respect absolute strangers cos they’re older than me? Does it mean I don’t need to respect anyone younger?

[@GrayShadowOfNight]

them being proud of being raised with manners... is their parent's achievement. them hating on kids not having manners..... is their own failure i love how they just don't realize that they are the problem

[@phactress891]

I really don't run into a lot of kids/teens without manners. I do, however, run into a ton of elderly people who treat me extremely rudely under the guise that they are too old to care what others think and that I should automatically respect them because they are older.

[@hiigghhggg9150]

Lmao I’m so proud of myself because my parents raised me right, and I’m so disappointed in younger generations because I forgot to teach them manners

[@greg1486]

I'm pretty sure everyone has been told in their life at least once or twice that they should have manners. The younger generation is just brain dead from too much social media, so they don't get it.

[@demetria-n]

@@greg1486 boomer? I still use manners, I get upset when people don't eat with their mouths closed. I am always watching my elbows making sure they aren't on the table, but they aren't underneath either. I say pardon me and say sorry for budging through an area, I make sure to thank people who do services for me, and when I see someone in cosplay or wearing a hoodie that relates to something I enjoy, I politely ask them about it and then say how cool it is. Meanwhile, my grandfather wears shirts about fart jokes, makes jokes about farts, eats with his mouth open, and makes openly racist/homophobic references everywhere we go. IDK, who seems more brain dead?

[@odelayrowemonkey2145]

@@demetria-n you do..

[@basilciccone1679]

the most annoying take is “todays music sucks” because until music streaming, it was extremely difficult finding music outside of the radio and what other people physically owned

[@vaishnavisingh9244]

also "today music sucks" is so generalised, these people haven't listened to anything NOT on the radio

[@kaiwei5072]

If they said today’s mainstream music sucks that could be a reasonable argument

[@grantzelenick8200]

Each generation says new music sucks

[@BB-te8tc]

The funny thing is that most boomers I know will only listen to the hits of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and won't even try to listen to the deep cuts or put the whole album on.

[@alexey7459]

I can understand how that take is annoying, and I am grateful for the vast amount of music from all times that can be discovered today. Though I will say I agree that most mainstream music of today sucks compared to that of the past as an 18 year old, and in general the music scenes of today just don’t do anything for me. A lot of it seems bland and lacking depth. Seemed like there was a lot more excitement for music back then with the awesome concerts, and overall buzz that new music being released created. Sure it maybe was a little bit more difficult discovering a greater amount of music, but everyone at the time was on the same page more or less and had a shared love for that great music being released when it was new. Of course you had MTV in the 80’s, and a plentiful amount of record stores (even in smaller towns had one or two). Not everyone enjoyed the same stuff of course, but the cross-over appeal and superb talent and creativity combined with the innovation of technology in the music from the 70’s to 90’s was just a time in music that will probably never be recreated again. But maybe I’m a bit biased since older music is just what connects with the most, Rock, progressive rock, and pop/rock especially. I guess there is a wide range of stuff besides the mainstream to look into today, but that also brings up the counterpoint that with so much stuff it can be hard to find other people who enjoy and connect with it the same way.

[@AWMC2023]

“I was raised right” ok so why didn’t you raise your kids right

[@spereira3879]

Man's reached such peak grumpy-dad-on-the-internet levels he's literally grumpy about grumpy dads on the internet, it's amazing,

[@SpaceySodaPop]

It’s funny how these Boomers are like “No medicine, just a belt” and “Behavioral disorders more like being a brat”, and then they wonder why all of their children cut contact with them and don’t talk to them anymore.

[@ambarcastaneda4763]

THANK YOU OMG

[@jamssy3409]

And they call us "snowflakes" wtf.

[@kecym.4808]

true

[@SpaceySodaPop]

@@ambarcastaneda4763 You’re welcome! ✨

[@SpaceySodaPop]

@blue I’m so sorry to hear that man.

[@Aro_dynamic46]

“No one uses manners anymore” says the generation who abuses anyone in customer service to the generation with too much anxiety to say no to people

[@ph0enix321]

Come on now, most people in this generation is well abled to say no

[@consentclub8431]

Too accurate

[@casusbelli9225]

@@ph0enix321 And they are more than capable of being abusive assholes, they are just doing that crap on twitter, reddit or tumblr. Go to the fucking fanbase of some idiotic show and post something that goes against headcanons, you will be obliterated.

[@taylove1461]

@@ph0enix321 Not true, a lot of people find it hard to say no

[@ph0enix321]

@@taylove1461 No

[@RadEdits]

Why do boomers think gen z can’t read or write in cursive 😭 I was born in 2003 and I was taught cursive in 3rd grade & I still remember it. I don’t use it often tho, just when I sign my name. It’s a cool trick but that’s literally it.. it’s just cool. It’s not actually vital for anything lmao they act like gen z is avoiding something so detrimentally important. Also, it’s not even _our_ fault if teachers aren’t teaching cursive anymore.. it’s literally the school boards fault 💀 like why are they blaming it on us??? “I’m blaming you for the decisions someone else made” bruh???

[@oswaldrabbit1409]

because statistically it's a skill that is rapidly in decline? It's not of any great importance, but it's true that most of us youngsters don't know how to write in cursive.

[@ivy-ux3gr]

“I was raised with manners” yet i was screamed at by old people constantly to the point of breaking down in tears when i was working in fast food

[@anysaneperson851]

I'm so sorry about that, hope you're doing well now!

[@basilzoubi1290]

Oof thats sad

[@vectoralphaSec]

@@basilzoubi1290 Yeah old people are hypocrites.

[@LunarEleven]

This was true when I was a teen 20+ years ago working fast food... It's comforting that all those awful people are dead but they were just replaced with a new generation who targets teens unfairly.

[@eryan1419]

I work in hospitality and it’s so bizarre how some of the nicest customers I’ve ever had are old people and some of the worst customers I’ve ever had are old people - you either get one of the other and I hate playing russian roulette!

[@AlisonChrista]

And as a historian, I can assure you there never were the “good old days.” Just times that people romanticize and conveniently gloss over horrific aspects of.

[@usria2312]

I'm not sure who said it first, but the line "nostalgia is just heroin for old people" always stuck with me. :-)

[@kitni]

I agree, but does that means there were no “bad present day” too? Just wondering

[@AlisonChrista]

@@kitni I think I understand what you’re saying. If I do, then I agree. The present day is definitely not “great” or perfect, and I’m sure future generations will look back and criticize things. And rightly so! We’re always progressing, evolving, and hopefully trying to move forward. That requires a lot of work, and it’s definitely not easy or fun. I definitely hope our children will have a better world than we do, and if we can help them get there, then we should do that. If they make it happen, then I’ll be happy still. Progress is progress. :)

[@editazilinskyte3681]

Good old days just kinda look back when people were young/younger. Was the world perfect when i was 10? No. But i didnt have any bils or a job and got to play outside all day.

[@NewPaulActs17]

as a history student, there's several plagues/pandemics every century going back millennia

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

A thing to note is that this happens every generation. Douglas Adams puts it best: "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

[@atomdecay]

Ah, the ole "Juvenoia".

[@beansbeansbeans576]

“I was raised with manners! Kids these days don’t have them!” Well who raised the kids these days, Susan? Who raised them without manners SUSAN?!

[@oppaloopa3698]

EXACTLY HOLY SHIT

[@TheBfutgreg]

Probably Gen X obviously

[@lesvianaura]

@@TheBfutgreg and who raised Gen X?

[@fw4193]

Who raised them? No one. Most kids back then were left at home to fend for themselves while the parents worked.

[@admiralackbar4652]

@@fw4193 yeah, back in the day we hunt monke for a living

[@TheSimplyCooking]

Finally, a sequel to "Do people even eat Sauerkraut anymore?!“

[@luccabritto2566]

Every 2 weeks i remember that phrase

[@GA_131]

@@luccabritto2566 its something that lives in my brain

[@Tabbcwhynot]

That’s my comfort video lol

[@GrandCircumlocution]

I understood that reference

[@PearoIGuess]

BuT tHaT wAs MaDE bY DAnNy!1

[@Majinken]

I never understand why boomers are so critical of young people for being "addicted to the internet" while they post 500 posts every day

[@FTZPLTC]

Same reason they complain about young folks getting participation trophies, as if boomers didn't invent them to give out to their kids.

[@erniefofernie]

My boomer dad is on his phone and/or laptop CONSTANTLY and then gets so angry when my mum calls him out for not paying attention when we’re hanging out as a family.

[@gz5405]

@ yes. it’s not hyperbole at all. every single old person posts 500 times a day.

[@elsie8757]

My dad wonders what I could possibly be doing internet for hours, yet he watches TV for just as long and doesn't see the irony

[@gz5405]

@ it’s true. every single boomer? 500+ posts without fail. they have to do it.

[@kitsterangel]

Whats ironic about the SeLf ReSpEcT thing is that they're really gonna act like the 70s weren't known for women being braless (like legit most of both my grandmothers' pictures from then are a wee bit floppy) and hot pants ??? Which show WAY more leg and than the average booty short today tbh, like some covered as much as underwear. We didn't invent shit bro, it's all just the same styles coming back.

[@donnytonny730]

Love how boomers hate that people say “no problem” or “don’t worry about it” instead of “your welcome” when someone says thank you. I don’t remember who said it but I like the interpretation that the current use is a way of normalizing kind actions as the norm and not something to be thanked for everytime/ or acknowledge.

[@KaliTakumi]

Well it's a more humble response in general

[@Jpik72]

Tom Scott has an interesting video about this

[@stellasdoesstuff]

Okay so I use "no problem" all the time, but this is what I've heard from boomers: It's because "no problem" assumes that you think they are worried that it was a problem. They might say, "but I didn't think it was a problem, why are you bringing it up?" or "of course it's not a problem, ___ is literally your job".

[@hrtly64]

Something about how they say "you're welcome" because they knew they did something they didn't need to do in order to help someone else and how young people say "no problem" because we're expected to bend over backwards for others and still reassure them that they're not an inconvenience

[@donnytonny730]

@@stellasdoesstuff might be thinking to into it. A substitute might be “that’s okay” or “no big deal”

[@SamGarrett]

"A little switch whipping is NOT ABUSE!!!11!!" That's literally beating a kid with a stick. A flexible stick which somehow hurts MORE than than a normal stick. But sure okay, that's not abuse. Keep telling yourself that, Harold.

[@spiderbug7615]

"It's CaLLed DiSCipLINe!!"🤮 So fucking gross

[@hhoop3876]

I kinda feel bad for them. They've essentially been brainwashed into thinking it's normal

[@sezedal]

It's called traumatizing your kid into discipline

[@theywalkinguptoyouand4060]

Truth is, as someone who got a little spanked when i was a kid, i didn't think it was a big deal. But in the end, it's like behavioral training for animals, rather than teaching anything.

[@mrplague456]

literally whipping a child. disgusting how they think its okay or healthy

[@tonyarmbrust]

Drew, I turn 60 later this year, and you are spot on. The past wasn’t always the golden age that we want to believe.

[@alicethemad1613]

Happy early birthday!

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

Happy early or late birthday! And it's so insane whenever my parents reflect on the 'good ol days', like how my dad was sold into indentured servitude or how they were both the victims of physical and emotional abuse...and they're proud of that?

[@ryanbeaty4893]

Yeah, and right now is such a dream. It's called growth. We are where we are because each generation had good people in it. Not fair to generalize any group.

[@spinda1011]

You rock, sir.

[@honeyswann]

Happy Birthday!

[@danaprendick7883]

i was always told slips were to stop my dress from sticking to my legs or getting stuck in my buttcrack. and it worked, and it's sort of a shame they fell out of fashion because they're sort of useful for that, but a pair of bike shorts do the trick too and it stops you from getting chubb rub too.

[@cherrycordiaI]

A lot of dresses and skirts have built-in slips now.

[@goneawayxx]

the people freaking out about others not wearing a slip under their dresses like.... they know shorts exist right....???

[@sukiiriinaa]

The old men being thirsty to anything that closely resembles a female is very accurate.

[@Losshe]

And I'm pretty sure when they type down "Hello how are you today beautiful?", they were also thinking: see this is how a well mannered gentleman should act

[@TylerL220]

It's crazy how horny on main they are

[@ehold6877]

Wtf are you blabbing about? Thirst transcends generations..🤣

[@mw7845]

The hypocrisy is infuriating. How they belittle “modern women” for wearing what they want yet drool all over these fake ass profiles. It’s due to the hyper sexualization of women’s bodies but it’s still insane how they can’t see the double standard of actively pursuing these women while calling women that do the same thing “sl*ts” Middle age men disgust me lol

[@Junkprincee]

@@mw7845 literally the absolutely fucking worst .

[@RGC_animation]

When people say: Seat-belts are dumb, back in my days, we used to ride on the carrier of the truck, standing up, going at 80 miles per hour and we survived. Well it's because you survived, many didn't.

[@alexsiemers7898]

“There’s no bullet holes in the engines or some parts of the fuselage for the planes coming back, meaning they don’t need extra armor”

[@kaemincha]

its so wild, seatbelts are statistically one of the greatest inventions of all time given how many lives theyve saved

[@arandomhashbrown3756]

Survivorship bias

[@fart63]

“I miss the old days where all my homies fucking died”

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Boo hoo, people die. Deal with it

[@claraobrien7219]

I think the reason boomers might be so angry about the younger generation is because they had to go through quite a bit of trauma w abuse from parents and etc. And seeing kids growing up now w/o that same trauma (because weve realized that hitting and screaming at our children for very little mistakes isn’t the best way to go) or kids now getting more help with their struggles and mental issues, and they go “hey that’s not fair, they should suffer how I suffered” which to them seems unfair

[@claraobrien7219]

In itself that invalidates what trauma the current youth also goes through but yk us new generation are “too soft”

[@El-de6nj]

@@claraobrien7219 i would even argue that being born into a time where mental health is a bigger concern is more difficult than not worrying about it at all. I am seeing more well adjusted people in gen z than i ever have boomers.

[@lalaya5972]

I agree with this. Just because you got “tore up” as a child doesn’t mean you should want other children to be. I get that it can feel unfair because it happened to them, but shouldn’t we want better for the next generations? Isn’t that the entire point of having children, to be able to give someone what you didn’t have?

[@megeles]

@@lalaya5972 A common way to cope woth trauma is to accept the blame because it gives a sense of control. The world feels safer and more just if you feel like abuse was the result of your own actions, because then you can just behave better to be safe. Once this belief is ingrained in a person they tend to clamp onto it for the rest of their lives, and of course, apply it to others.

[@pissapocalypse]

They say we shouldn't get rid of spankings even though there's tons of studies that say it will negatively affect kids. I don't understand their obsession with wanting kids to be beat or screamed at for doing something bad. You can go to jail for punching an adult but it's totally cool if you punch a much more small and defenceless person who's brain isn't even developed all the way. Makes sense

[@Zaolan123]

"no botox, no fillers, no silicone" there were still, like, girdles, and padding, and makeup and photodoctoring

[@starlightkid49]

“no cps were around” so thats why theres so many cases of kids running away because theyre parents were horrible

[@FJ_Beaujangles]

It's funny how even with the internet, where that sort of information could be spread _very easily_, you still don't hear about near as many runaways online as you read in old "classics" n all. I _lived_ with a runaway, until she ran away of course, and it still seemed like a rarer thing than some 1950s newspaper.

[@mistressofstones]

The most shocking thing is not only where there so many runaways but the police did not care at all... a girl or boy would go missing and they would say "probably just a runaway" and close the case. Meanwhile serial killers and other terrible humans were picking them off like flies. The past is a terrible place.

[@vich8810]

That's why they had more serial killers back then too. Because they got tired of all the shit and abuse and one day snapped.

[@flutterbatt]

@@mistressofstones exactly

[@KP_Gem]

Their* I'm sorry. It's a problem 😔

[@apricot6789]

Makeup definitely existed back then. What else would women cake their faces with to cover the bruise from last night when they accidentally burned dinner.

[@candicecart9786]

Don’t forget the ads with husbands spanking their wives for being bad 🤣🙄🤦‍♀️... also plastic surgery existed back then- it just wasn’t as good as it is now and boomers would always deny it 🤣🙄... my parents are boomers who had kids very late in life (compared to my classmates they were like my classmates grandparents ages) - and I always said from my mothers photos it looked like she had a nose job... she denied having had plastic surgery for years but has since admitted that she had it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pusheenqueen519]

I almost spit out my water (bottled, I'm so spoiled🤪) reading this, this comment is gold

[@m._6566]

*shots fired*

[@itsnowonder9856]

@@m._6566 and punches thrown

[@kingghidorah8106]

they burned dinner, then husband slapped her, you mean?

[@BleachBlue04]

The irony about the “well-mannered boomer” is that they’re the worst customers food-service workers have ever had to deal with.

[@dorothyallspice1862]

As someone who used to work at a grocery store, a restaurant, and at a concession stand at a movie theatre, this is very VERY true.

[@jacklyntree7752]

And that's why I'm never working fast food,

[@BleachBlue04]

@@jacklyntree7752 you’re lucky. Most people don’t have that choice… I sure didn’t 😞

[@poogissploogis]

My theory is that they were well-mannered to people older than them, but they think they don't have to be polite to younger people, and now most people are younger than them.

[@indoorgreg7364]

Good thing I work retail

[@mippy5842]

one of the most frustrating things is when they talk about how well-mannered they are and then proceed to go on social media and say the rudest shit. i have an aunt who will use the same copy pasta like every two months about how ridiculous it is that walmart makes you do self check out and if she does it, she won't let the person check their receipt because "if you make me check myself out, you have to trust i'm not stealing." and it's just??? the worker checking the receipts doesn't know if you used self-check out or not 😭 please just let them do their fucking job because it takes like 10 seconds. but then after they treat workers like that, they proceed to say "nobody wants to work these days!" and it's like.... yeah bc people like you make working retail hell. the jobs where there's low contact with customers are barely open because people want those jobs so they're treated like humans.

[@Donyourmom]

They were a generation raised by parents that gave them whatever they wanted, they never had to work hard for anything.

[@user-co1hv2in1n]

the cursive thing confuses me because they act like cursive hasn’t been taught in around twenty or thirty years, when my second grade teacher taught us how to write in cursive in 2012

[@mastermarkus5307]

I'm definitely older but I think that it's telling that even though I learned cursive as a child I basically have never used it outside of elementary school besides initially establishing my signature that is like... half-cursive.

[@ph0enix321]

Same, I was born in 2005 and did a ton of cursive learning in 3rd through 5th grade

[@lizlee8715]

@@ph0enix321 Me too! 3rd grade for me was just me practicing my signature lol

[@katla_phc]

@@mastermarkus5307 arguably the cursive itself wasn't the point of you learning cursive, it was an exercise to help develop your fine motor skills.

[@Lynsey17]

I think there are schools that are phasing it out completely. Which makes sense, cursive as a skill became obsolete when it became cheap enough to type and/or digitize everything. We no longer need a formal handwriting style.

[@Diphenhydra]

My favourite contradiction that was not mentioned was the “well mannered” folks also being people that will yell at teenagers who are overworked and underpaid just trying to do their job.

[@masonthejar8890]

as a starbucks employee i felt that...i get to help those “well mannered” folks daily 😬

[@rosemali3022]

I was told that they were taught not to take any more time than neccesary to complete an order or transaction. So, for the customers who are just very brisk (to the point of what we consider being rude), that IS being polite to them. For the others, we'll there is no excuse. I think that all comes back to believing respect is only for authority.

[@4everbuffylover]

I just think people get more easily irritated the older they get. 70+ years is a long ass time to deal with people for. Plus like in my grandpa’s case, the behavioral issues are tied to changes in the brain

[@meganchambers8108]

@@rosemali3022 oh brisk is one thing. I never fault someone for just wanting to get in & get out. It's the "customer is always right" ones that I think they are referring to. The ones who will complain about prices, menu changes, ordering mistakes (often their own doing), expired coupons, long wait times when clearly busy, item unavailability, and other things that the employee has no control over or that are minor inconveniences that happen sometimes in life.

[@McSnezzly]

It’s cause the boomers feel like they deserve special privileges

[@BJo-jj2uk]

They’re like “miss when we could still be racist”, “why don’t people respect each other anymore??”, “everyone is so offended by everything”, “in my day we had manners!” Do they not hear their contradictions???

[@mimsycookiiess]

Frr!! Lmao it’s absolutely ridiculous I can never take them seriously

[@marcelloreeves7216]

Not defending anyone but keep in mind there all different people with different viewpoints. It’s not a hive mind.

[@tjeduards3802]

@@marcelloreeves7216 hating, killings and offend people by there skin color is not a point of view

[@marcelloreeves7216]

@@tjeduards3802 not my point, I guess I should’ve worded that better. Im Saying they contradict each other because there all different people. Sorry for the confusion. Also Im not saying what they are doing Is justified

[@GSC-Operator-chan]

This is the exact reason why other countries call the US a bunch of hypocrites. These boomers can't die off fast enough.

[@manguymanfellaman]

They had the best music, the best cars, the best Defcon 2 and Cold War, the best Cuban Missle Crisis, the best Great Depression, the best racism, all of the best things.

[@jayden5818]

Do you know when the Great Depression or Cold War happened? Boomers were born around the 50’s, not the 20’s and 30’s.

[@cloudstrife4534]

@@jayden5818The Cold War was still going on in Boomers time. Just because it started before their time doesn’t mean it wasn’t still extremely relevant to them, considering it went on into the 80s. And yeah, the Great Depression was definitely before their time, but the original poster was being facetious.

[@jayden5818]

@@cloudstrife4534 yeah I made a mistake on the Cold War part, but my point still stands, mostly.

[@thomas3224]

How to scare the new generation: lock them in a room with no food, no water, and no escape and watch them get triggered!

[@chocolatburp2436]

I wouldn't want to do that, the new generation is SO lazy and whiny that they will start saying dumb things such as "please let me out of here" "my stomach hurts so bad" or "I am miserable in here", then they just start sleeping at random like the lazy shits they are!!! even after you let them out, so disrespectful

[@lyrixmaples]

You have no idea how many of us gen z would love that

[@yourmother6901]

Yah Susan 😩👍 I gageree with yo.u

[@kyleoates6367]

Isn't this just called kidnapping... and has been used to terrorize humanity since before recorded history? Here, I'll fix your saying that you seem to think is so smart for you: How to scare ANY generation: lock them in a room with no food, no water, and no escape and watch them get triggered!

[@kai_maceration]

omg gen z are such snowflakes! I trapped one in a small dark room, and slowly sucked out all the air while playing Fur Elise on an old broken music box, and they started having a panic attack 🙄

[@dystopyxrose]

"your medicine was a good smack" "no meds, a belt" yikes... I'm so sorry. I was definitely born in the RIGHT generation, where I can be properly diagnosed with autism and not worry about corporal punishment from someone who doesn't understand me/care enough to try and understand me, despite being the person who is supposed to do just that! it's autism awareness month, so let's all take a moment to appreciate autism diagnoses and treatment (the GOOD treatment, not the autism speaks bs) that we have today

[@skerpy]

Wii sports has killed someone probably.

[@daanyasobhan7732]

Happy Autism Awareness Month! So happy that you were born in this generation. :)

[@tatacraft791]

:)

[@guesswho5790]

What is autism speaks?

[@floormoss]

i have adhd and i have a teacher who is a boomer. so i was rocking back in forth during class and my teacher yelled at me for “not paying attention” and “distracting” and i said i had adhd and he literally looked at me and said that i was over exaggerating. like what.

[@Possiblyjaz]

Pretty soon it's gonna be "Who remembers hearing your parents yelling and fighting in the living room at night"

[@mori6434]

Ah yes, one of my earliest memories. Really takes me back to the good old days of being twelve and threatening legal involvement against my own parents to get them to just agree to a damn change in the custody schedule

[@kaemincha]

omg its terrifying and oddly comforting to know thst other kids have this same experience

[@fart63]

Turning the tv up so I couldn’t hear them

[@daychild_]

@@kaemincha same

[@MaxwellTornado]

Yeah, the once per week fights, where my teenage older sister got sufficiently scared of how loud our parents were fighting, to crawl into my bed, was really quite comforting. Truly, a happy family. (She moved out shortly after that, and I stopped being afraid of my parents.)

[@siarhian10]

2:05 I never got why old people complain about kids not learning cursive, despite kids very much still learning cursive in school, they just don't get punished for being bad at it any more. I had to do cursive in school only like, 10 years ago, and I didn't learn how to do it properly until I was maybe 15

[@Xxmuunlight__melaniexX]

I don’t have to do cursive anymore cuz it’s not required but all through 3rd and 4th grade we learned how to write in cursive and I’m gen z/gen alpha so like?

[@Kazooples]

Everyone misses their youth, some people just project it onto the rest of the world instead of accepting that the past is the past.

[@MamadNobari]

Yup, it's all just a generation thing and thinking the previous generation is dumb and boomer and the next generation is bratty and childish and they're the best generation ever existed the cycle continued till the end of time.

[@orangejoe2147]

I’m definitely interested for when we reach the point where millennials reach the age that boomers are now. I wonder how the cycle’s gonna look

[@GwyndolinOwO]

@@orangejoe2147 probably somewhat similar. I can see some people being pretty understanding but that's true for pretty much every generation. Even for boomers theres a lot of them that just kinda chill or only complain on occasion, it just happens that people who are pretty loud get heard the most either in public or online. Though it doesn't hurt to teach the idea that you don't have to understand something in order to be okay with it. I like the internet but something i learned in college is that bad information has existed pretty much...forever, but the internet helps it spread a lot more, so that could be one reason why boomers really stand out since the ones i run into always read the weirdest shit about technology and just take it at face value.

[@Lunauwu331]

we might cant write in cursive but they can’t even start a pc without gifting all their wealth to a nigerian prince

[@thebacteriawasbeatentodeath]

I laughed so hard thank you for this

[@kenalba5641]

Lmao

[@thewatchersdidnothingwrong7702]

😂

[@神名18is]

lol but on a side note, really? am i the only one who learned cursive in elementary school??? i thought it was a joke but i haven’t seen any comments saying that us GenZ have learned how to read analog clocks and cursive in 1st grade.

[@Lunauwu331]

@@神名18is i learned it in like 2nd grade or something, i really don’t know what they’re on about

[@LynLyn2000]

I love how old people don’t know that biker shorts exist. That’s what every woman I know wear under their dresses lol.

[@Ami_E_Bowen]

I don't. I wear panties and sometimes leggings or pantyhose. I'm not against biker shorts under dresses just never thought of it.

[@LynLyn2000]

@@Ami_E_Bowen yea! I think it moreso depends on the dress too. I just like biker shorts because I think they’re most comfortable

[@amber3033]

Exactly!

[@gateauxq4604]

Acting like the horrors or garter belts, bras designed exclusively by men, hose that don’t stay up, and girdles was somehow what made women ‘women’ and not obscenely uncomfortable 😒

[@bethm5852]

Also wearing a slip dress under a dress wouldn’t prevent people from seeing your underwear if you’re sitting. At all. Shorts make way more sense

[@ashleylongley1628]

I feel like the people who say everyone gets offended don’t have friends. When you have real friends you can make fun of each other in a lighthearted way and it’ll be funny I do it with my friends, so I’m pretty sure these people are just really lonely.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

Also back in those days people didn't have Facebook or Twitter to see whether people were sensitive or not, people probably were (as Drew pointed out, Boomers are offended by certain things, they're just not the same things that younger people/liberals are offended by) but there was no venue for them to air their frustration out I'm middle eastern and I see how conservative muslims get super offended by anything that doesn't meet their super conservative standards (that make western conservatives look like liberals in comparison) so conservatives in the past definitely got a offended as liberals do these days

[@notnotrachel]

2:50 actually, something i’ve noticed is the gen z is *extremely* polite and thankful to workers in restaurants, stores, etc. it’s boomers who are rude and ungrateful 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@way2dead4u]

right??? like I, someone who was born in 2002, usually am the one in line apologising to the workers on behalf of the mean old people

[@simpleneeds2582]

how about the fact that they were rude to people who got the number wrong and they still are. and if they truly are aware of it (which they definitely arent cuz their main concern is that it might be a scammer) still, most of the times, these scammers scam the shit outta these boomer peeps

[@ashleyannak]

It's cuz Gen Z actually realizes the struggle of working a job in customer service and what the employees have to go through. Empathy is awesome.

[@jstarstudios7110]

I will say, as someone who works retail, that the elderly are really more of a mixed bag. Some of them are just so incredibly sweet, and a lot of them are always ready for a bit of friendly conversation. Of course, when they are bad, they're REALLY bad

[@notnotrachel]

@@jstarstudios7110 totally agree! i used to work retail too… mostly middle-aged, like 30-60 years old, are the absolute worst. it was like flipping a coin whenever they walked up to the counter 🙄

[@uhohhotdog9150]

i had a teacher in high school who would regularly repeat this story of being so disappointed in her children and grandchildren living in the 'me era', and how she refused to buy anything for them that was made by apple because 'why does it have to be an 'i' phone? why does it have to be me me me?` and then her grandkids asked her 'grandma, can you buy us a We?` and she got so excited because finally a toy that was about more than just yourself. but she got to the store and was horrified to discover that it wasn't a 'we', it was a 'wii'! two i's! double the selfishness! so she told her grandkids no, and bought them all books instead.

[@ghostlyhousehorrors]

no fucking way, this has to be a joke. it's too comical to think this way

[@uhohhotdog9150]

@@ghostlyhousehorrors it absolutely sounds like something she heard someone say as a joke, but i had this teacher for 4 years, and this story is heartbreakingly realistic for her

[@Kimmie6772]

If only she realized that it truly was a we and that she could've actually shared something enjoyable with her kids. Wait till she hears that wiis are a hit at old people's homes and church groups. Edit: not that books don't have any merit and aren't enjoyable but she seems like the kind of person to not really care about what their kids are into and just throws random books at them until they read at least one of them. Get the kid "thank you for arguing" so they can convince their parents they're unreasonable.

[@ghostlyhousehorrors]

@@uhohhotdog9150 i can't even be mean to someone like that, im like "oh you poor sweet summer child" ( though she's way older than me) and pity the person for their naivety

[@phersnamelasname]

sounds like she could have been a background character in bojack horseman

[@janelbbuck]

I feel like “hey look at me I’m so polite, *no one else* has manners.” Is a statement that lacks elegance, and guess what else it lacks? Manners.

[@themoderndandy713]

I remember reading a book on Victorian etiquette, because that stuff is fun for me, and the number one rule in it was to not point out or criticize other people's manners unless necessary and done in private. Even today, calling someone out for bad etiquette is considered worse in almost every case than the actual etiquette fault by almost every actual authority on etiquette. Boomers also tend to totally miss the point of etiquette. Etiquette is meant to make others around you comfortable. If a rule no longer has that effect, it's outdated (in most cases). For example, having your elbows on the table used to send a signal of "I want to leave", but very few would pick up on that anymore, so it's not very relevant now. If you're going to berate someone for slouching at the table or something, it shows you totally missed the point of etiquette as a concept, and that your manners are sorely lacking.

[@troybolton14]

@@themoderndandy713 interesting!! thanks for this info!

[@themoderndandy713]

@@troybolton14 You're welcome.

[@kingdionysus1867]

@@themoderndandy713 Where can I buy such a book? 👀👀👀

[@themoderndandy713]

@@kingdionysus1867 Look up Manual of Politeness. This is my sixth attempt at commenting, I'm sorry I can't elaborate.

[@august_astrom]

Every generation takes part in the same hypocrisy; the trick is to see how much of it you can hide, sugar-coat, or just forget with the passing of time.