"OK Boomer"

boring accountant

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

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

And you STILL don't know what a boomer is.

riffmongous

ErnestBorgnine wrote: »

Probably just has the affected accent.

Hey I remember you as Sergeant Fatso Johnson in From Here to Eternity

Poor_old_gill

boring accountant wrote: »

And you STILL don't know what a boomer is.

I grasp what characteristics you are trying to attach to it, yes.

However it shouldn’t be constantly used as a childish cop out for someone without the intelligence or wit to get their point across.

Isn’t generalising and shouting people down traits that someone like yourself would attach to the phrase?

ErnestBorgnine

riffmongous wrote: »

Hey I remember you as Sergeant Fatso Johnson in From Here to Eternity

One of my best, up there with Airwolf.

evil_seed

boring accountant wrote: »

And you STILL don't know what a boomer is.

Enlighten us then. I STILL haven't seen you explain what the phrase means. You're just sniping at people and coming across with a superiority complex.

boring accountant

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

I grasp what characteristics you are trying to attach to it, yes.

However it shouldn’t be constantly used as a childish cop out for someone without the intelligence or wit to get their point across.

Isn’t generalising and shouting people down traits that someone like yourself would attach to the phrase?

That's kind of the point, it's fighting fire with fire but in a harmless, playful way

RealJohn

This "ok boomer" issue is a growing problem in that it's an expression of willful ignorance. It's a means to **** down discussion. We have our own version here too, only worse, in some ways, in the form of 'repeal shield' (which enabled people to avoid having their views on abortion challenged) and now 'gowl blocker' (which enables people to avoid having their views on anything challenged, apparently).

I suppose this was a natural progression from the idea of 'safe spaces' but it's going to be seriously detrimental in the long run, if it continues.

To be fair, there is the phenomenon of people calling others 'snowflakes' too, which tends to be the opposite side to "ok boomer", and that's no more helpful. Personally, I'm very much in favour of free speech, but if I was in a position to ban something from social media, it would be posting abusive comments that add nothing to the discussion, and both "ok boomer" and 'snowflake' equivalents would be on top of the list.

*awaits replies of "ok boomer"*

Raconteuse

If boomer doesn't actually mean boomer, then pick another word instead of being lazy.

Poor_old_gill

riffmongous wrote: »

Hey I remember you as Sergeant Fatso Johnson in From Here to Eternity

Superb reference, tip of the cap

NSAman

Raconteuse wrote: »

If boomer doesn't actually mean boomer, then pick another word instead of being lazy.

Generation now!

fergus1001

damn you millennial non binary LBGTQZITFD liberal snowflakes

take everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaEFYHtXXkQ

Plumbthedepths

boring accountant wrote: »

Subtlety is lost on boomers.

Except you are in no way subtle, I just don't rise to what I perceive as intended provocation.

B0jangles

It's funny because after about a decade of this:




the 'millennials are such snowflakes' brigade are ridiculously furious about being mildly mocked with a single 2 word phrase that has existed for about a week.

boring accountant

Raconteuse wrote: »

If boomer doesn't actually mean boomer, then pick another word instead of being lazy.

That's not how language evolution works. People don't sit around a table coming up with words. Someone says it and it catches on and takes on a life of its own.

topper75

Ok Boomer wrote: »

Stfu Gen X. No one cares what you think.

Sadly what they, Gen X, think rules the world.

• The schoolteachers demanding that kids stop running
• The leaders upping the carbon taxes
• The people jacking rents and house prices
• The parents breeding the snowflake kids
• The tradesmen who won't take on apprentices
• The builders/marketers of moronic phones and apps
• The curriculum designers dumbing things down
• The makers of 'reality' television shows
• The abandoners of live music and exhalters of 'DJs'
• The wreckers of pub culture

are mostly generation X, and certainly not millennial.

I'm X and quite ashamed of my cohort.

Will I Am Not

B0jangles wrote: »

It's funny because after about a decade of this:




the 'millennials are such snowflakes' brigade are ridiculously furious about being mildly mocked with a single 2 word phrase that has existed for about a week.

If people want to use boomer in the same way as millennial or whatever else that’s a different story altogether.
“Ok boomer” as a reply to a comment or argument is just dumb.

The word boomer isn’t really the issue here IMO.

Raconteuse

topper75 wrote: »

Sadly what they, Gen X, think rules the world.

• The schoolteachers demanding that kids stop running
• The leaders upping the carbon taxes
• The people jacking rents and house prices
• The parents breeding the snowflake kids
• The tradesmen who won't take on apprentices
• The builders/marketers of moronic phones and apps
• The curriculum designers dumbing things down
• The makers of 'reality' television shows
• The abandoners of live music and exhalters of 'DJs'
• The wreckers of pub culture

are mostly generation X, and certainly not millennial.

I'm X and quite ashamed of my cohort.

Erra why would you be ashamed?

What you list is exactly what's said about boomers ruining everything. And will be said about millennials too when they're in charge (already the case seeing as the older ones are approaching middle age).

It's all rather silly really.

SJW Lover

boring accountant wrote: »

Subtlety is lost on boomers.

Because millenials are so subtle, arent they? If they have an interesting crap after dinner, they have to rush out and tell the world on social media. Really hard to read people.



Not surprised this boring issue has ignited you, Mr/Mrs Boring Accountant.

SJW Lover

boring accountant wrote: »

That's kind of the point, it's fighting fire with fire but in a harmless, playful way

Ahhhh i get it. You're a coward.

boring accountant

SJW Lover wrote: »

Because millenials are so subtle, arent they? If they have an interesting crap after dinner, they have to rush out and tell the world on social media. Really hard to read people.



Not surprised this boring issue has ignited you, Mr/Mrs Boring Accountant.

What age category do you think millennials are?

SJW Lover

boring accountant wrote: »

What age category do you think millennials are?

What's with the boring questions, Accountant?

riffmongous

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

Superb reference, tip of the cap

Thanks Gill, let's quit the fussin and the feud'in

Gynoid

boring accountant wrote: »

That's not how language evolution works. People don't sit around a table coming up with words. Someone says it and it catches on and takes on a life of its own.

You are not describing classical evolution of language which took thought and effort and appreciation and learning and time. You are describing how memes work. Memes need the speed and distribution of the network in the ether. They are hollow at core, though there may be surface wit. The funniness loses its charm quickly, memes have a short half life. They rely on a certain jaded irony, the brief exhale of the sneer in the nostrils instead of the deep breath of the belly laugh. They are not a short hand for thought, memes are a substitute for thought. They are derivative. As Raconteuse alluded to earlier, there is an inherent laziness. Apathy, I reckon. Weakness. Entropy. The inner life is all surface noise and zero depth with memes.

Chris_Heilong

To the kids, anyone of a different "older" generation to them is a "boomer" by internet logic so the original meaning does not matter.

Feisar

Battlestar Galactica is all I think of when I hear "Boomer".

Then I think, Starbuck or Number 6?

Is the whole world just kind of trolling itself at this stage?.. like, everyone got a video camera, the world/reality kind of looked at itself, and half of it thought "Jesus, ye're all a shower of idiots..", and half of it thought "OMG, I'm so amazing..", and we've entered some sort of divine comedy, where reality itself is just trolling everyone..

RocketRaccoon

I'm ****ing ashamed of this country that a thread and discussion like this can get so many responses. Bunch of morons.

boring accountant

Gynoid wrote: »

You are not describing classical evolution of language which took thought and effort and appreciation and learning and time. You are describing how memes work. Memes need the speed and distribution of the network in the ether. They are hollow at core, though there may be surface wit. The funniness loses its charm quickly, memes have a short half life. They rely on a certain jaded irony, the brief exhale of the sneer in the nostrils instead of the deep breath of the belly laugh. They are not a short hand for thought, memes are a substitute for thought. They are derivative. As Raconteuse alluded to earlier, there is an inherent laziness. Apathy, I reckon. Weakness. Entropy. The inner life is all surface noise and zero depth with memes.

No, most language developed by borrowing words from other languages for convenience and then those words mutate to fit the speech patterns in that language. Language evolves to become more efficient over time because of what Racon calls laziness. Why use 10 words when you can use 1 or 2?

Raconteuse

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

I'm ****ing ashamed of this country that a thread and discussion like this can get so many responses. Bunch of morons.

Don't be ashamed of this country at all.

Jeez people get ashamed fierce easily.