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"OK Boomer"

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    #92
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    RWCNT wrote: »
    Don't know where you're getting the "purports about letting people live without labels" bit. I assume you're talking about the modern social justice orthodoxy, which is unashamedly pro-label from my observations.

    It's sad that you've bought into the negative press around your own generation. "Get on with it" is exactly what the vast majority of millenials do - albeit with a bit of moaning. You've got some serious blinkers on if you think self entitlement and complaining is limited to those born between 1981 and 1996.

    I didn't buy into any press about my generation. I am one of my generation. I grew up with my generation and I have experienced the pitfalls and setbacks of our generation. From coming out of school around the financial crisis to now dealing with the threat to our environment. My opinions are formulated from life experience. Not someone online or in the paper telling me otherwise.

    I'm no entreprenuer or roaring success by any means. But I can appreciate what I have and in the event of what I don't have I know I have to work for it. That seems to escape alot of people in and around my age.


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    #93
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    It's an American term that is irrelevant in Ireland saying it is doesn't make it so.

    If it is used by people in Ireland (and it is) then how is it irrelevant in Ireland?

    That doesn't make any sense.


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    #94
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    As for Boomer it doesn't apply to Ireland, simple. A post war era US term irrelevant to Ireland.


    This is such a boomer post. Boomer in the context it's used by kids today doesn't mean baby boomer. It's taken on a life of its own. You're a boomer, I wouldn't expect you to get it.


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    #95
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    If it is used by people in Ireland (and it is) then how is it irrelevant in Ireland?

    That doesn't make any sense.

    Never heard it used in Ireland. First reference was here.
    The term still doesn't apply to Ireland as much as some numpties wish for it to.


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    #96
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If it is used by people in Ireland (and it is) then how is it irrelevant in Ireland?

    That doesn't make any sense.


    Because anything American is thereby foreign and has no place in Irish culture, said the boomer


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    #97
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    boring accountant wrote: »
    Because anything American is thereby foreign and has no place in Irish culture, said the boomer

    Happy to acknowledge the good stuff and ignore the bollixology of which there is much, the boomer idiocy being the most obvious.


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    #98
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    chrissb8 wrote: »
    I didn't buy into any press about my generation. I am one of my generation. I grew up with my generation and I have experienced the pitfalls and setbacks of our generation. From coming out of school around the financial crisis to now dealing with the threat to our environment. My opinions are formulated from life experience. Not someone online or in the paper telling me otherwise.

    I'm no entreprenuer or roaring success by any means. But I can appreciate what I have and in the event of what I don't have I know I have to work for it. That seems to escape alot of people in and around my age.


    https://hbr.org/2016/08/millennials-are-actually-workaholics-according-to-research


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    #99
    Varik
    Registered Users Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Closest we have is those born during or who grew up during the Celtic tiger.


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    #100
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Happy to acknowledge the good stuff and ignore the bollixology of which there is much, the boomer idiocy being the most obvious.


    Resistance to all things new is a peculiar characteristic of the boomer


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    #101
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    boring accountant wrote: »
    https://hbr.org/2016/08/millennials-are-actually-workaholics-according-to-research

    How is this relevant to Ireland?


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    #102
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Varik wrote: »
    Closest we have is those born during or who grew up during the Celtic tiger.


    Or those who became rich simply by buying a house in the 80's and doing not much else else since. Aka, the boomer


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    #103
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Ye are late to the party. Its over a week since I was called a Boomer on this very site by someone who didnt like the cut of me jib, and then told me to look in the mirror where I might see a pig digesting a python or vice versa, some such hyperbolic bullsh1t. Hmmm wish I had known it was a "thing" then, woulda wiped the floor with the meme loving fcuker.


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    #104
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    How is this relevant to Ireland?


    Sorry boomer, if you click on the blue text it opens up a new webpage with more words in it.


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    #105
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    It's also a snack still being sold in the UK. It can only be an insult if the victim of intended insult is aware of the meaning.

    No it's an insult if people get insulted by it, even if they are unaware but get wound up, it's still serving it's purpose.


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    #106
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    boring accountant wrote: »
    Resistance to all things new is a peculiar characteristic of the boomer
    Nothing new in insulting sections of society, it has been done for centuries usually with an agenda.


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    #107
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    riffmongous wrote: »
    No it's an insult if people get insulted by it, even if they are unaware but get wound up, it's still serving it's purpose.

    You can't insult someone if they are unaware that you are insulting them.
    A wind up and an insult are two totally different things.


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    #108
    evil_seed
    Registered Users Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭evil_seed


    Elder millennial here. I think OK Boomer is just the snowflakes way of saying "whatever fúcko", but they don't want to be offensive cos they're a snowflake.

    Or it's just a load of pish on the internet that has no business of being in the day to day lexicon when speaking face to face with someone

    ¯\(ツ)/¯


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    #109
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Nothing new in insulting sections of society, it has been done for centuries usually with an agenda.


    Boomer: *spends decades discriminating on the basis of race, gender and sexuality*
    *calls new generation snowflakes for not liking it*

    *gets called out of touch*
    Guys stop with the insults PLEASE!


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    #110
    ErnestBorgnine
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭ErnestBorgnine


    boring accountant wrote: »
    Sorry boomer, if you click on the blue text it opens up a new webpage with more words in it.


    I've no problem younger generations using whatever terms they want to piss off older peoples, it's always happened and they do take a lot of stick.

    But jesus christ do millennials struggle with comedy.


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    #111
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    You can't insult someone if they are unaware that you are insulting them.
    A wind up and an insult are two totally different things.


    Totally wrong. Those are the best insults.


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    #112
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    boring accountant wrote: »
    Boomer: *spends decades discriminating on the basis of race, gender and sexuality*
    *calls new generation snowflakes for not liking it*

    *gets called out of touch*
    Guys stop with the insults PLEASE!

    Racists, bigots basically assholes transcend the generations , you'll have to try harder if you are trying to be specific about the behaviour of a certain generation. As you are failing with the above.


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    #113
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I thought it was funny yesterday.

    Today I'm totally bored with it.


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    #114
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    boring accountant wrote: »
    Totally wrong. Those are the best insults.

    Not if the intended victim is unaware. Abject failure is all they are in that instance.


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    #115
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Not if the intended victim is unaware. Abject failure is all they are in that instance.


    Subtlety is lost on boomers.


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    #116
    CrabRevolution
    Registered Users Posts: 2,801 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    It's another one on the list of phrases I've never actually heard said, but I have heard people refute and claim is said all the time.

    Like the supposed phrase "romance is dead" when really the only time you'll hear that said is as part of "and they say romance is dead".

    I've also never met a Cork person who actually says Cork is the real capital of Ireland. I've only heard others claim Cork people say that.


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    #117
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Ok Boomer wrote: »

    The joke comes from the stereotypical retired middle class American who can't comprehend why his son doesn't just 'go down to the Chrysler plant, ask to speak to manager and get a job like I did, back in '74'.

    The Chrysler plant.

    It's almost like you are a real American.


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    #118
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    I read about it this morning - Danuel Kaufman has an article today on The Electric Agora. He argues that its a weakness symptom.


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    #119
    ErnestBorgnine
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭ErnestBorgnine


    Arghus wrote: »
    The Chrysler plant.

    It's almost like you are a real American.


    Probably just has the affected accent.


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    #120
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,893 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    boring accountant wrote: »
    Subtlety is lost on boomers.

    You’re not very subtle! You’re just covering your ears and shouting boomer at everyone.

    And no I’m not a boomer, just because someone disagrees with you does not make them 40 years older than you- people your own age can also point out your childishness


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    #121
    boring accountant
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭boring accountant


    Arghus wrote: »
    The Chrysler plant.

    It's almost like you are a real American.


    Probably just more at ease with his identity as an Irish man than the stodgy conservative Irish types who see any kind of cultural cross pollination from the states as being a sign of some sort of personality defect.


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