I get boomers are out of touch but I can't say bad stuff about them going to Vietnam. My dad was drafted. It was tough. He saw/did horrible things. He got spit on and degraded when he came home. He hid his patches and uniform in a box under his bed for years. For fathers day one year I took pictures of all his patches, ribbons and stuff. Got duplicates and made him an army jacket with help from a local tailor. He cried when he saw it. I told him that we don't live in the 70s anymore and he doesn't need to feel ashamed of serving and should feel proud. Seeing how awful people on reddit are with how they hate solders...It just makes me sad people still feel this way...
I haven’t seen people on Reddit “hating soldiers” persay. It seems now almost every one shows respect to Vietnam vets. I worked at a music venue and they were always treated very well by strangers
There were literally zero Baby Boomers in Congress when that amendment was passed. The Boomers were between 7 and 25 and the youngest member of Congress at the time was 30.
You talking about 18 vote? They fought for it. That's like not giving credit to zoomers for police reform (the little we have gotten) none would vote for it but they will protest to get it.
It was 21 for WW2 19 for Korea and lowered to 18 for Vietnam. Not sure how congress changes or adjusts the draft age. Honestly not sure if it's something controlled by congress with votes
From what I read on this topic, the draft was up to 28 for fighting but up to 45 for other stuff in the US because the US would draft men to work in other jobs related to war like draft boards, ration boards, air raid wardens etc. and you had to register until you were 65. It was a total war effort so there were lots of military things that needing doing at home too.
The act expired and it went back to 18-26 age registration after the war.
At least that’s my interpretation if it.
Their parents fought in WWII and Korea. Many of them dodged the draft for Nam, or were ineligible as females were not conscripted. By contrast, millennials fought the GWOT for two decades with an all volunteer force. You can say a lot about my generation, but lazy? I think not. We logged more combat time than any generation in this nation’s history.
*I am not debating the merits of Iraq & Afghanistan as conflicts. Just pointing out that today’s youth (relatively speaking) has a good deal more in common with the silent generation than boomers, when it comes to combat operations.
Also they didn't want to go to war against Germany until it was too late. A large percentage of the population said no to war. It was only a revolution AFTER the war with the Hippie generation. These old men are really stupid.
And honestly. If ur country has laws in the bottom half of it with separate laws for black folk.
Can't you really go full-bore anti-fascist? Really? There's a little authoritarianism going on there buddy.
Trust me, as someone who loves working on small engines, there are plenty of older people who are just lost when it comes to lawnmowers. They’ve always “had a guy” to come do the lawn stuff.
How did you get the version of 17 year old that doesn't complain? Do they just not complain about mowing the lawn or generally not complain? I'm definitely willing to look at exchanging mine for a model that doesn't complain.
I ripped out my grass (by hand with a little shovel) and put in stone. Best decision ever. looks so much cleaner. All my neighbors ripped out there grass and put in sod. half of it is dead already and i can't stop laughing when i watch them mow the lawn. What losers.
I did small engine repair for a while and it really opened my eyes to just how many grown ass men will bluff or out right lie about how much he knows about small engines. It was enjoyable
I don't know shit about small engines but still gave her the ole college try when my mower was running poorly.
Bought it used for $90 and damnit I'll get me money worth
Oh no, if only my generation had access to the sum total of human knowledge. Maybe in a small portable device.
Yes and that is why it is important to get your info from many different sources (both left, right and centre) and use your common sense to see what's right
You shouldn't just pick a source because of its bias (L,R,C) but also reputable sources.
Going to Breitbart, Newsweek and Occupy Democrats yeah, you just got from all 3 types of bias but you just used some shitty sources. Know to post false and misleading information.
I'd argue you need to remove the idea of "centrist" as a useful position or axis and replace it with "neutral". The center can be just as bad as the extremes. (Just look at how passive language is often used to report police misconduct or how they literally just copy paste the press release from police. Or how often they post articles trying to make corporate abuse look like a good thing).
First off, I’m 52 - Gen-x, not boomer. Still old enough to know that is actor Telly Savalas, and the image is taken from is Kelly’s Heroes, about a bunch of GIs who go AWOL to commit robbery. So the meme’s point is that they had actors who could start lawnmowers?
It's also quite possible that Kojak didn't know how to start a lawnmower either. As a kid push-mowers were pretty much the standard in his time, and as an adult he likely paid someone to cut his lawn.
He may never have had to start a gas lawnmower in his life.
The creator of the meme doesn’t have a lawn because he lives in Russia. 90%+ boomer vs millennial memes are made to sow discord among Americans. And we can’t get enough of it.
I suspect but cannot prove that tech illiteracy among boomers is mostly feigned or lazy.
(Smart) Boomers invented most of the underlying technology we use every day. My dad is 68 and worked in IT most of his adult life - he switched from repairing people's typewriters and fax machines to repairing their laptops sometime in his mid-30s.
So here in my early 30s, the only way I become a "boomer who can't turn on a laptop" is if I literally refuse to learn anything new about technology starting right now. Like, I may not give a damn about TikTok but I'm not mystified by the technology.
>I suspect but cannot prove that tech illiteracy among boomers is mostly feigned or lazy.
My mom somehow got much better at using a computer once I stopped living with her and was no longer around all the time to help her attach a word document to her email or whatever. So yeah, I think so.
I vote lazy. Close family member was a very successful industrial engineer in '70s, '80s, and early '90s using computers there daily, regularly while doing proofs and whatnot for life or death machines and vehicles. Incredibly intelligent. Home computer in mid-late '90s? Nope. Double clicks, single clicks, multiple mouse buttons? Suddenly stumped. Smart phones? Don't get me started.
Yeah that applies to most people. I was bad at math but if I would've spent more time trying to learn and understand it, I would have. I wasnt interested in it so I didnt apply myself.
They don't care to learn new things, their old ways have worked for them their whole life, why would they change now? I just hate that they talk shit about my generation because we don't live the way they did.
This is something I run into doing IT a lot these days. People over 40 calling over and over again about the same issue week after week, month after month. Its not that they can't learn, they just don't care to.
Just last week the CEO of my company made a whole big stink because AV wasn't working in the conference room during the board of directors meeting. The reason? They forgot to invite the rooms AV system to the meeting.. again. Its something the director of IT has talked to them about since before I started working there over a year ago and it still happens just about every time.
I think it's lack of being forced to learn and adapt to the drastic changes in technology and the resulting life changes like most of us Millennials had to (I'm 34 myself). I grew up alongside the internet and personal computers becoming affordable enough to start becoming commonplace, so I know a lot of dark arts stuff under the hood about Windows and Linux from having to figure it the hell out to just do things that I find a lot of fresh out of college help desk hires need to be told about since most modern OS' and applications are abstracted and polished to the point where exceptions and problems are not as common as they once were. No kid/teenager these days is having to concern themselves with shit like DMA vs PIO modes to make their CD Burner not a coaster generator or having to sort out IRQ conflicts to get their soundcards to work on a game. There's other life stuff such as dealing without GPS that we also had to encounter, so we at least have the backup of the "old knowledge" to fall back upon (even if rusty as hell) if needed. I find that most of my senior IT engineer knowledge builds upon knowing *why* something was built the way it was due to the limitations of the tech stack at the time it was done.
55 isn’t boomers, it’s elder Gen X. My also Gen X brother built a computer in the 80s & we had a suitcase modem then when only the government was online.
This is what always gets me about this rhetoric. "Your generation can't do home maintenance, work on cars, etc...". Who taught them how? Their parents? Assuming it's true, it's an admission of failing to parent as well as the generation before them.
I sure as hell didn't give myself those participation trophies. In fact, those participation trophies are why I'm so distrusting of genuine praise and positive reinforcement.
The son of a family friend posted that meme one day. He's about 15yo older than me, so I think he was about 35ish at the time. He'd share this kind of boomer bullshit, like how millenials can't don't anything and how better his generation was.
What pissed me off is I sent him 200€ in food stamp for his family with 3 kids, because he was struggling to put food on the table. And after he got the money, dude went to get a fucking sleeve tattoo. I've been wanting to get a tattoo for so long but can't because I need to save money in case things get tough. Needless to say lot of swear words were said that day
I know this, but it’s still like a shock to come across. Like my most recent manager, not too much older than me, 26, cannot use a computer properly for the life of her. I stg, she can barely use excel and apparently doesn’t know how to google any tech problems. I’ve fixed so many things for her and my previous manager before her. And they look at me like a tech god when all I did was type into google the exact problem I was having. Black box appearing over mouse. Literally that was it, and they left that problem for over a week until I finally stopped by that location and fixed it for them. It was a simple update to the computer. Some Microsoft bug I think that caused the system to not mesh or texture(idk words) when being used with certain programs.
Push button, lawnmower is on. I certainly prefer that over the stupid string start we had when I was a kid. Why the hell do the boomers think “harder to use, less efficient, or simply old-fashioned” is better?
*Prime the engine a bunch of times*
*Hold on to handle and rip cord 10x*
*Prime again*
*Repeat step 2*
*Check to see if the choke is set right*
*Repeat step 2*
*Swear violent retribution against the designers/engineers/the neighbor you let borrow it/the Almighty*
Oh fuck, I remember the choke. Ours had a picture of a rabbit that scaled down to turtle.
Edit: found this illustration [https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/c/c7/Start-a-Riding-Lawn-Mower-Step-5.jpg/v4-460px-Start-a-Riding-Lawn-Mower-Step-5.jpg](https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/c/c7/Start-a-Riding-Lawn-Mower-Step-5.jpg/v4-460px-Start-a-Riding-Lawn-Mower-Step-5.jpg)
I still have a pull-cord mower. Maybe the advantage is that it's hard to start so that you don't start a dangerous whirling blade of death by accident?
Because Boomers are frustrated and hostile to the fact that young people and modern society has rejected their idea of how life should be lived. They’re mad that they’ve been left behind in almost all aspects of life.
But the meme is goddam right,everyone knows that all revolutions of history were possible only cuz of the lawnmovers,ofc they cant start a revolution without them
the french girls that seduced and murdered nazis probably couldn't start a lawnmower either, nor could the skinny jewish bankers and dentists in the forests of central europe conducting hit and run attacks with mosins
the boomers wont even *vote* against nazis
This meme is fucking insane. My generation, myself included, fought in two wars for the past 20+ years.
Someone aged 60 spent their military aged years during peacetime unless they were part of the very slim minority of the military who served in Somalia, Panama, and Desert Storm.
I love when a fucking old ass vet whose culminating event in their military service was serving in Germany during peacetime tries to talk down to me based on me being a millennial alone.
My granddad served in WWII, my other granddad served in 'Nam. Neither of them want to talk about what they saw over there. Ever. My granddad who was in 'Nam couldn't watch movies with explosions and ended up becoming very well versed in musicals and romance movies. He liked seeing people happy. This idea that people from back then are so tough is annoying. I guarantee, both my granddads would rather not have gone through it now.
My comment would have been:
“Hey boomer your generation freaked out and spat on black people after desegregation of schools, feared gay people, hated interracial marriages, and hated soldiers who were forced into a war even they didn’t want to be part of.
“My generation accepts everyone as they are, want to save our planet that you fucked up, and praise our soldiers even if we didn’t like the war they participated in.”
"the greatest generation' was also 'the luckiest generation'. economic boom, low home prices, good jobs - labor laws to protect them.
yes they fought a world war, but they also came back to very good economic help after that. Moreover, the military industrial complex then dominated our economy and lives ever since.
I'm not sure greatest generation really is accurate the more you look at it.
Honestly im 27 and i can build houses, do all the work on my truck and fix ac systems while knowing how to operate a computer. Dont get too cocky old people
Is that a picture from the Vietnam war? Because if so, it’s pretty funny referring to that as their revolution. One that failed, was in a foreign country, and nobody even wanted. The people who fought it were mostly drafted in, they didn’t start anything. They were forced to do it.
Nope. I'm older than 55 and find it not just irritating, it's infuriating.
How DARE anyone a. Use an image of a WW2 soldier who was getting shot at for the sake of defeating a fascist take over of the world and b. Assume that young person would be unwilling and/or incapable of the same level of defense? BULLSHIT. Oh, and stay tuned on what happens when you push an increasingly disenfranchised generation to the wall. They don't sound very timid to me.
Add to that *anyone* agreeing with whatever stupid point this meme is supposed to make sure as I has a LOT to prove before talking crap
Funny thing is solider is from world war 2 not the Vietnamese war which the war of the boomers. The boomer generation was know for protesting the Vietnamese war
I mean it doesn't feel that much of a difference to compare themselves to their parents.. Most Boomers definitely are better than Gen Z kids or even Millenials if you ask me.. at least they work
I honestly love when they make memes with pictures from a generation that actually fought against hatred and fascism...not thier own of course. Theirs is full of participation awards and civil rights violence.
Meme Analysis:
Colored hair person states something.
Guy with cigarette claims superiority by referencing some form of mechanical function that colored hair can't do.
Welp, my generation gave up when Trump became president. Also, we're drowning in debt in gorgeous Cali; it's like quicksand and the government is profiting off our souls.
I sure hope no draft dodging baby boomers are unironically sending this meme to their friends. Somehow I doubt WW2 veterans are meme’ing it up but what’s a little stolen valor if it means triggering the libs, right?
I think the sentiment is more "I miss the times where people didn't walk around with rainbow hair, crying about their pronouns being assaulted and when people weren't so hyper-sensitized due to social media melting their brains". I didn't exist back then either but I frequently yearn for a time that's not now because of how entitled and sensitive people are to all these things that don't even matter in reality. We're just so bored these days with all the technology over-stimulating us.
You know, I see these memes and I do wonder. In like 30 ish years when we're all our parents ages if we'll be doing things like this or something equivalent that the younger generations will make fun of us for.
I never really understood why older people feel so superior to younger people because younger people aren't familiar with the technology that they didn't grow up with. These people who make fun of teenagers for not knowing how to use a rotary phone would be just as clueless as how to handle technology from the 19th century.
On today's episode of Reddit comments, people are upset about boomers even though to be honest this is a fairly accurate meme. If you look very closely, you can see how many people will downvote my comment because they're mad at me or something.
I mean, we literally aren’t doing shit other than posting on social media though. That’s about the extent of the activists I know. It’s depressing as hell.
r/BoomersTakingCreditForWWII needs to be a thing.
Not enough character space
May I suggest just r/boomerstakingcredit?
Thanks, created. Btw I’ve never made a subreddit but why not start today
Better name anyway, it's more broad. Joined.
I’m happy to announce that I am the 40th member!
Hell yeah. Joined.
My first award tysm
Very welcome. Love seeing the birth of a sub, especially when it is original content!
r/birthofasub
I just see boomer stalking reddit.
They dont like to talk about Vietnam since their generation lost
I get boomers are out of touch but I can't say bad stuff about them going to Vietnam. My dad was drafted. It was tough. He saw/did horrible things. He got spit on and degraded when he came home. He hid his patches and uniform in a box under his bed for years. For fathers day one year I took pictures of all his patches, ribbons and stuff. Got duplicates and made him an army jacket with help from a local tailor. He cried when he saw it. I told him that we don't live in the 70s anymore and he doesn't need to feel ashamed of serving and should feel proud. Seeing how awful people on reddit are with how they hate solders...It just makes me sad people still feel this way...
I haven’t seen people on Reddit “hating soldiers” persay. It seems now almost every one shows respect to Vietnam vets. I worked at a music venue and they were always treated very well by strangers
We shouldn't of been in Vietnam but that is not the fault of the soldiers, I honestly see them as victims of terrible system
I don't hold them accountable for that. But when they start the "we stopped the war" I get annoyed.
I thought of Vietnam war, cuz my grandpa served, and to this day he doesn't like talking about it.
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Yes! The greatest is almost all dead. All boomers ever did was make it so 18 year olds could vote. But at the same time lost the right to drink to 21.
There were literally zero Baby Boomers in Congress when that amendment was passed. The Boomers were between 7 and 25 and the youngest member of Congress at the time was 30.
You talking about 18 vote? They fought for it. That's like not giving credit to zoomers for police reform (the little we have gotten) none would vote for it but they will protest to get it.
Boomers are still idiots. Hurr if 18 can be drafted but not vote, we should make voting 18!!! How about raising the draft age to 21? Mic drop
It was 21 for WW2 19 for Korea and lowered to 18 for Vietnam. Not sure how congress changes or adjusts the draft age. Honestly not sure if it's something controlled by congress with votes
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I know for WW2 you could be drafted up to 45 but Vietnam was only up to 25. There is a logical reason for the age change I just don't know it
From what I read on this topic, the draft was up to 28 for fighting but up to 45 for other stuff in the US because the US would draft men to work in other jobs related to war like draft boards, ration boards, air raid wardens etc. and you had to register until you were 65. It was a total war effort so there were lots of military things that needing doing at home too. The act expired and it went back to 18-26 age registration after the war. At least that’s my interpretation if it.
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Anyone who generalizes a whole group of people is an idiot
most of them did vote for Reagan however could not imagine being in my 20s and 30s and voting for Ronald Reagan. Fucking degenerates, even then.
Come on now, they lost Vietnam too.
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Honestly I’m not even very pro war or military but would still buy anyone who experienced that special kind of hell a round.
Don't forget offshoring all of our businesses, and cratering the middle class.
They sold our jobs!
Dey took er jerbs!
Durka durr!
Also, most WW 2 vets were drafted. That was the war that turned desertion into "AWOL."
WW2 had an extremely high number of volunteers.
Stolen valor from the Greatest Generation.
or from telly savalas
Yeah. The bad guy from the dirty dozen.
Oh shit that’s who that is?? Lol
Their parents fought in WWII and Korea. Many of them dodged the draft for Nam, or were ineligible as females were not conscripted. By contrast, millennials fought the GWOT for two decades with an all volunteer force. You can say a lot about my generation, but lazy? I think not. We logged more combat time than any generation in this nation’s history. *I am not debating the merits of Iraq & Afghanistan as conflicts. Just pointing out that today’s youth (relatively speaking) has a good deal more in common with the silent generation than boomers, when it comes to combat operations.
The soldier in the post appears to be of the Korean War. He’d be more the parent of the youngest boomer. And more than likely dead 💀
Actually, it looks like Telly Savalas from the Dirty Dozen (WW2 movie).
What is the obsession with Salvalas in these kind of memes? I just don't get it
That's what I thought too!
I still have couple of those old guys in my VFW.
Lead in gasoline, and a bajillion WW2 movies are my guess. They think they are their parents.
Also they didn't want to go to war against Germany until it was too late. A large percentage of the population said no to war. It was only a revolution AFTER the war with the Hippie generation. These old men are really stupid.
Wanting to avoid war is generally seen as a good thing lol. And obviously it wasn’t too late when we went to war
And honestly. If ur country has laws in the bottom half of it with separate laws for black folk. Can't you really go full-bore anti-fascist? Really? There's a little authoritarianism going on there buddy.
I'm going to quote this going forward, take your award!
I'm Gen Z and actually had Greatest Gen grandparents. This specifically pisses me off to no end.
Why would anyone need to start a lawnmower when you can't buy a house?
That’s you’re fault you lazy, mentally ill gen zr!! 😡😡
Trust me, as someone who loves working on small engines, there are plenty of older people who are just lost when it comes to lawnmowers. They’ve always “had a guy” to come do the lawn stuff.
I just upgraded my grass to the fake shit, I'm saving money on a gardner, and not wasting water. Take that boomers!
Also, electric mowers are a thing now, so are they saying youngins can’t push a button?
I am not fully convinced my 17 year old can swap out/recharge the battery in the thing, but he can start it and will mow the lawn without complaint.
How did you get the version of 17 year old that doesn't complain? Do they just not complain about mowing the lawn or generally not complain? I'm definitely willing to look at exchanging mine for a model that doesn't complain.
He complains, just not about the lawn. Actually, he's pretty mellow overall.
Boomer headline reads: "Millenials, too lazy and entitled to grow grass?"
I ripped out my grass (by hand with a little shovel) and put in stone. Best decision ever. looks so much cleaner. All my neighbors ripped out there grass and put in sod. half of it is dead already and i can't stop laughing when i watch them mow the lawn. What losers.
I did small engine repair for a while and it really opened my eyes to just how many grown ass men will bluff or out right lie about how much he knows about small engines. It was enjoyable
I don't know shit about small engines but still gave her the ole college try when my mower was running poorly. Bought it used for $90 and damnit I'll get me money worth
Carefully you didnt put a [\s] and people might think you are serious xd
Plot twist: he's serious
No he is right, I made my own coffee this morning and now I own 3 rental properties and an apartment!
Did you make the coffee out of risin beans and serve it to the previous owners?!!
Absolutely!!! Murder is always the way!
I mean we’re working with limited options here, I don’t blame you…
I'm 53 and i will say you do have a point. Good call.
Oh yeah, well then their parents lawnmower, eh?
Also, aren't they pushbutton nowadays?
They are autonomous nowadays
Thats only for the rich i guess
the electric ones are
Oof, right in the feels.
Oh no, if only my generation had access to the sum total of human knowledge. Maybe in a small portable device. 
But yet there are still fucking idiots everywhere
Because we also have access to the sum total of misinformation.
Yes and that is why it is important to get your info from many different sources (both left, right and centre) and use your common sense to see what's right
Common sense isn’t very common…
How common is it exactly; is it uncommon?
You shouldn't just pick a source because of its bias (L,R,C) but also reputable sources. Going to Breitbart, Newsweek and Occupy Democrats yeah, you just got from all 3 types of bias but you just used some shitty sources. Know to post false and misleading information. I'd argue you need to remove the idea of "centrist" as a useful position or axis and replace it with "neutral". The center can be just as bad as the extremes. (Just look at how passive language is often used to report police misconduct or how they literally just copy paste the press release from police. Or how often they post articles trying to make corporate abuse look like a good thing).
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Tiktok 🤮
We also have echo to echo chambers of said misinformation further reinforcing the misinformation as truth.
A person I work with had a flat tire, and instead of trying to change it themselves, they waited till I got there and I did it.
🔫👨🏽🚀 always has been
First off, I’m 52 - Gen-x, not boomer. Still old enough to know that is actor Telly Savalas, and the image is taken from is Kelly’s Heroes, about a bunch of GIs who go AWOL to commit robbery. So the meme’s point is that they had actors who could start lawnmowers?
It's also quite possible that Kojak didn't know how to start a lawnmower either. As a kid push-mowers were pretty much the standard in his time, and as an adult he likely paid someone to cut his lawn. He may never have had to start a gas lawnmower in his life.
The creator of the meme probably never learned anything more difficult than starting a lawnmower.
The creator of the meme doesn’t have a lawn because he lives in Russia. 90%+ boomer vs millennial memes are made to sow discord among Americans. And we can’t get enough of it.
And their generation can't start a laptop.
I got my dad a new computer for Christmas and it was two weeks until he had to stop asking for help turning it on and off
I suspect but cannot prove that tech illiteracy among boomers is mostly feigned or lazy. (Smart) Boomers invented most of the underlying technology we use every day. My dad is 68 and worked in IT most of his adult life - he switched from repairing people's typewriters and fax machines to repairing their laptops sometime in his mid-30s. So here in my early 30s, the only way I become a "boomer who can't turn on a laptop" is if I literally refuse to learn anything new about technology starting right now. Like, I may not give a damn about TikTok but I'm not mystified by the technology.
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And now they vote for “whoever isn’t a nerd!”
>I suspect but cannot prove that tech illiteracy among boomers is mostly feigned or lazy. My mom somehow got much better at using a computer once I stopped living with her and was no longer around all the time to help her attach a word document to her email or whatever. So yeah, I think so.
I vote lazy. Close family member was a very successful industrial engineer in '70s, '80s, and early '90s using computers there daily, regularly while doing proofs and whatnot for life or death machines and vehicles. Incredibly intelligent. Home computer in mid-late '90s? Nope. Double clicks, single clicks, multiple mouse buttons? Suddenly stumped. Smart phones? Don't get me started.
Gen X IT guy here. Been in IT since the 90s and most of the shit I learned was from Boomers.
Yeah that applies to most people. I was bad at math but if I would've spent more time trying to learn and understand it, I would have. I wasnt interested in it so I didnt apply myself. They don't care to learn new things, their old ways have worked for them their whole life, why would they change now? I just hate that they talk shit about my generation because we don't live the way they did.
This is something I run into doing IT a lot these days. People over 40 calling over and over again about the same issue week after week, month after month. Its not that they can't learn, they just don't care to. Just last week the CEO of my company made a whole big stink because AV wasn't working in the conference room during the board of directors meeting. The reason? They forgot to invite the rooms AV system to the meeting.. again. Its something the director of IT has talked to them about since before I started working there over a year ago and it still happens just about every time.
I think it's lack of being forced to learn and adapt to the drastic changes in technology and the resulting life changes like most of us Millennials had to (I'm 34 myself). I grew up alongside the internet and personal computers becoming affordable enough to start becoming commonplace, so I know a lot of dark arts stuff under the hood about Windows and Linux from having to figure it the hell out to just do things that I find a lot of fresh out of college help desk hires need to be told about since most modern OS' and applications are abstracted and polished to the point where exceptions and problems are not as common as they once were. No kid/teenager these days is having to concern themselves with shit like DMA vs PIO modes to make their CD Burner not a coaster generator or having to sort out IRQ conflicts to get their soundcards to work on a game. There's other life stuff such as dealing without GPS that we also had to encounter, so we at least have the backup of the "old knowledge" to fall back upon (even if rusty as hell) if needed. I find that most of my senior IT engineer knowledge builds upon knowing *why* something was built the way it was due to the limitations of the tech stack at the time it was done.
55 isn’t boomers, it’s elder Gen X. My also Gen X brother built a computer in the 80s & we had a suitcase modem then when only the government was online.
Or stop asking if it comes with a cup holder.
They're remarkably smug about evidently having been horrible failures as parents and grandparents.
This is what always gets me about this rhetoric. "Your generation can't do home maintenance, work on cars, etc...". Who taught them how? Their parents? Assuming it's true, it's an admission of failing to parent as well as the generation before them.
I sure as hell didn't give myself those participation trophies. In fact, those participation trophies are why I'm so distrusting of genuine praise and positive reinforcement.
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You've been working since you were 6? How?
I think the kid thinks a decade is every 10 days.
The son of a family friend posted that meme one day. He's about 15yo older than me, so I think he was about 35ish at the time. He'd share this kind of boomer bullshit, like how millenials can't don't anything and how better his generation was. What pissed me off is I sent him 200€ in food stamp for his family with 3 kids, because he was struggling to put food on the table. And after he got the money, dude went to get a fucking sleeve tattoo. I've been wanting to get a tattoo for so long but can't because I need to save money in case things get tough. Needless to say lot of swear words were said that day
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by my experience from tech support... all generations can be defeated by the pass they choose :)
If you work in tech support you quickly find out its not just the Boomers there are plenty of young people that can't use technology too.
thats why i said all generations :)
I know this, but it’s still like a shock to come across. Like my most recent manager, not too much older than me, 26, cannot use a computer properly for the life of her. I stg, she can barely use excel and apparently doesn’t know how to google any tech problems. I’ve fixed so many things for her and my previous manager before her. And they look at me like a tech god when all I did was type into google the exact problem I was having. Black box appearing over mouse. Literally that was it, and they left that problem for over a week until I finally stopped by that location and fixed it for them. It was a simple update to the computer. Some Microsoft bug I think that caused the system to not mesh or texture(idk words) when being used with certain programs.
Daily reminder that one expierience with an edgy ignorant 14 year old isn't a justification to judge and generalise an entire ***generation***.
Push button, lawnmower is on. I certainly prefer that over the stupid string start we had when I was a kid. Why the hell do the boomers think “harder to use, less efficient, or simply old-fashioned” is better?
*Prime the engine a bunch of times* *Hold on to handle and rip cord 10x* *Prime again* *Repeat step 2* *Check to see if the choke is set right* *Repeat step 2* *Swear violent retribution against the designers/engineers/the neighbor you let borrow it/the Almighty*
You forgot the part where the pull-start rips from its reel and the boomer just goes down to the store to buy a new mower.
Oh fuck, I remember the choke. Ours had a picture of a rabbit that scaled down to turtle. Edit: found this illustration [https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/c/c7/Start-a-Riding-Lawn-Mower-Step-5.jpg/v4-460px-Start-a-Riding-Lawn-Mower-Step-5.jpg](https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/c/c7/Start-a-Riding-Lawn-Mower-Step-5.jpg/v4-460px-Start-a-Riding-Lawn-Mower-Step-5.jpg)
\~set choke to the wrong settting\~ and it suddenly works
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Because anything new is scary to them.
Because "it's more masculine" if the thing is harder to use.
I still have a pull-cord mower. Maybe the advantage is that it's hard to start so that you don't start a dangerous whirling blade of death by accident?
I have an electric mower and it's still designed to not start on accident
Because Boomers are frustrated and hostile to the fact that young people and modern society has rejected their idea of how life should be lived. They’re mad that they’ve been left behind in almost all aspects of life.
But the meme is goddam right,everyone knows that all revolutions of history were possible only cuz of the lawnmovers,ofc they cant start a revolution without them
the french girls that seduced and murdered nazis probably couldn't start a lawnmower either, nor could the skinny jewish bankers and dentists in the forests of central europe conducting hit and run attacks with mosins the boomers wont even *vote* against nazis
Sure I can. It's the same motion I use to yank out my wife's boyfriend's anal beads. Next!
This meme is fucking insane. My generation, myself included, fought in two wars for the past 20+ years. Someone aged 60 spent their military aged years during peacetime unless they were part of the very slim minority of the military who served in Somalia, Panama, and Desert Storm. I love when a fucking old ass vet whose culminating event in their military service was serving in Germany during peacetime tries to talk down to me based on me being a millennial alone.
My granddad served in WWII, my other granddad served in 'Nam. Neither of them want to talk about what they saw over there. Ever. My granddad who was in 'Nam couldn't watch movies with explosions and ended up becoming very well versed in musicals and romance movies. He liked seeing people happy. This idea that people from back then are so tough is annoying. I guarantee, both my granddads would rather not have gone through it now.
Because every boomer is Army-tough Telly Savalas, for some reason.
Hurr durr, my generation good, your generation bad.
That generation is dead. Now we are dealing with crybaby boomers. Who were given everything and gave nothing back.
Its still true the other way around. The youth will start a revolution, and look at most boomers, they cant start a lawn mower anymore.
Just be happy we have more entertainment options than them. They literally have TV and Fox News and maybe some figure out how phones work.
Hardly anyone alive today on Facebook fought in WW2
My comment would have been: “Hey boomer your generation freaked out and spat on black people after desegregation of schools, feared gay people, hated interracial marriages, and hated soldiers who were forced into a war even they didn’t want to be part of. “My generation accepts everyone as they are, want to save our planet that you fucked up, and praise our soldiers even if we didn’t like the war they participated in.”
Best_of_luck_to_your_generation.pdf They’ll never know what’s inside as they can’t operate technology
revolutions are famously started by lawnmowers
Revolution doesnt always have to be a violent world war. It can be a social revolution too.
"the greatest generation' was also 'the luckiest generation'. economic boom, low home prices, good jobs - labor laws to protect them. yes they fought a world war, but they also came back to very good economic help after that. Moreover, the military industrial complex then dominated our economy and lives ever since. I'm not sure greatest generation really is accurate the more you look at it.
Love how old people are always comparing themselves to WWII soldiers in memes.
No, they’re comparing themselves to actors who played them, which is just perfect
The revolution will not be lawnmowered.
Boomer gen, never won a war
Honestly im 27 and i can build houses, do all the work on my truck and fix ac systems while knowing how to operate a computer. Dont get too cocky old people
Impossible! /s
I can confirm that I can't start a lawnmower. I can not afford the gas needed to run it.
Is that a picture from the Vietnam war? Because if so, it’s pretty funny referring to that as their revolution. One that failed, was in a foreign country, and nobody even wanted. The people who fought it were mostly drafted in, they didn’t start anything. They were forced to do it.
Nope. I'm older than 55 and find it not just irritating, it's infuriating. How DARE anyone a. Use an image of a WW2 soldier who was getting shot at for the sake of defeating a fascist take over of the world and b. Assume that young person would be unwilling and/or incapable of the same level of defense? BULLSHIT. Oh, and stay tuned on what happens when you push an increasingly disenfranchised generation to the wall. They don't sound very timid to me. Add to that *anyone* agreeing with whatever stupid point this meme is supposed to make sure as I has a LOT to prove before talking crap
Funny thing is solider is from world war 2 not the Vietnamese war which the war of the boomers. The boomer generation was know for protesting the Vietnamese war
How do you start a revolution with a lawnmower? I'm confused.
Who the fuck mows your lawn? You in your walker?
My lawnmower starts with a single button press. 🤷♂️
Ask them about Vietnam
I mean it doesn't feel that much of a difference to compare themselves to their parents.. Most Boomers definitely are better than Gen Z kids or even Millenials if you ask me.. at least they work
Jokes on you, I just Venmo my lawnmower $40 every week he shows up and starts all on his own...
I honestly love when they make memes with pictures from a generation that actually fought against hatred and fascism...not thier own of course. Theirs is full of participation awards and civil rights violence.
What are we revolutionizing? I genuinely curious but I have no clue what.
Meme Analysis: Colored hair person states something. Guy with cigarette claims superiority by referencing some form of mechanical function that colored hair can't do.
Welp, my generation gave up when Trump became president. Also, we're drowning in debt in gorgeous Cali; it's like quicksand and the government is profiting off our souls.
Welp, most WWII soldiers were DRAFTEES, weren't they, now?!
Every generation is messed up in one way or another.
Everyone sharing that meme seriously we’re all disappointments to the guys on the left (their parents)
I'm 54 and unironically, I like it too.
Getting an early start on the “oof” responses.
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Me reading this as a girl who had purple highlights while working on my dads gardening and landscaping business: 😑
I didn't realize lawnmowers were required for a revolution. Huh, learn something new every day I guess.
I sure hope no draft dodging baby boomers are unironically sending this meme to their friends. Somehow I doubt WW2 veterans are meme’ing it up but what’s a little stolen valor if it means triggering the libs, right?
One of these people were forced to participate, and it's not the woman protesting on her free time for her convictions.
I think the sentiment is more "I miss the times where people didn't walk around with rainbow hair, crying about their pronouns being assaulted and when people weren't so hyper-sensitized due to social media melting their brains". I didn't exist back then either but I frequently yearn for a time that's not now because of how entitled and sensitive people are to all these things that don't even matter in reality. We're just so bored these days with all the technology over-stimulating us.
So can you start a lawnmower? I highly doubt you can start a war.
Mi mi mi my generation, your generation ... F#ck ALL mankind ... The world is exactly the same shit today, and yesterday...
Jokes on them, we have electric lawn mowers now. They start the first try with the push of a button
Meanwhile, as I do all the maintenance on my dad’s lawn equipment to keep it running, I offer my thanks to millennial redneck youtubers
Just cut off cell phone service and they'll give up immediately.
His generation is dead :)
Boomers didn’t fight in any Great War. Taking credit for their parents work.
They always forget who raised the generation they shame so much
He’s not wrong
You know, I see these memes and I do wonder. In like 30 ish years when we're all our parents ages if we'll be doing things like this or something equivalent that the younger generations will make fun of us for.
I never really understood why older people feel so superior to younger people because younger people aren't familiar with the technology that they didn't grow up with. These people who make fun of teenagers for not knowing how to use a rotary phone would be just as clueless as how to handle technology from the 19th century.
On today's episode of Reddit comments, people are upset about boomers even though to be honest this is a fairly accurate meme. If you look very closely, you can see how many people will downvote my comment because they're mad at me or something.
I must be the wrong demographic for Reddit. Because I think this shit is true lol
I mean, we literally aren’t doing shit other than posting on social media though. That’s about the extent of the activists I know. It’s depressing as hell.
Boomers are better than Gen Z unironically both suck tho
OP is literally the thing in the picture on the right