Authored by Dave Huber via The College Fix,
A recent op-ed in the Princeton University student paper The Daily Princetonian takes issue with criticism of the trendy phrase “OK, boomer.”
The expression is sort of a payback for derision of the Millennial Generation, but especially its successor, the centennials (those born in 1996 and after). It’s intended as a judgment of boomers’ alleged mishandling of everything from the economy to the climate.
(In case you’re unaware, “Boomer” is short for “baby boomer,” those born in the post-World War II years of 1946 to 1964. They’re the progeny of the Greatest Generation, aka those who — literally — saved the free world just scant years prior.)
I’ve been subjected to “OK, boomer” here and there even though I’m actually a member of Generation X (if barely). The remark doesn’t bother me in the least; indeed, it gives me a good chuckle since it typically comes from someone who’s never paid a bill, raised a family, or planned and made sacrifices for retirement.
In my experience, centennials like op-ed author Anna McGee are the worst culprits.
You want boomers and Gen Xers to take you seriously?
You forget yours is the generation…
- Of grade inflation.
- Of minimal discipline, in and out of school.
- Of being carted around to sports and social functions by helicopter parents who cater to your every whim.
- In college, you run and cry to “bias response teams” when the slightest little thing offends you.
- Then you demand “safe spaces” and other measures to make you feel “welcome” and “wanted” … like therapy animals, etc.
Not to mention, you want to sell us on the fact that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Greta Thunberg, and the Parkland, Florida activists are heroes of the modern age? That so-called “democratic socialism” is the answer to the country’s ills? People like AOC and Thunberg aren’t “discriminated against” because of their youth, as McGee claims; they’re ridiculed — because they’re stupid. There is a reason, after all, why age restrictions exist in society.
Centennials have more available to them than any other generation before. Even the American “poor” are the envy of the world. Try enjoying it, centennials! Cheer up! The world isn’t going to end in a dozen years because of climate change, and Donald Trump isn’t going to throw you in an internment camp.
Now get off my lawn.
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“Get off my lawn” is a good reply to “OK Boomer”.
yes… however, I think the way my son uses it is a bit different. Of course, he is a bit different.
“OK Millie” is a good reply to the airhead millennials.
“Whatever, Mille”
How about “get out of my basement”?
Get off Our Lawn is exactly what we said to our son, the rocket scientist! He actually gave me a fairly good explanation of what “Okay Boomer” means to him (or at least his new peer group.)
It seems we squandered technology by using it for personal whim. He claims white flight and urban blight are not the result of racial hatred, but were/are actually due to the increasing extreme wealth inequality between the richest and poorest. He claims that the only way to address the corruption of our elected leaders is to eliminate the idea that we need them.
He says we “old thinkers” should stop the old thinking.
That’s when we decided it was time for him to return to the city. Master of his fate. Rocket scientist.
Carrying a half dozen mason jars full of farm-raised turkey and vegetable and bone broth.
Get off our lawn. Come back soon, ya hear?
Remember when you told your parents that drugs should be legalized and marriage should not be a requirement for sex, living togethere? I bet they told you to get off their lawn.
Drugs should be legalized, the young man is correct.
Smart young fella you raised I think.
Is one of the best ideas around. Look up Larken-Rose The Most Dangerous Superstition
https://www.freeyourmindaz.com/uploads/1/2/8/3/12830241/the-most-dangerous-superstition-larken-rose-2011.pdf
Concur. One of the worst ideas around is stoking White inter-generational hatred, which serves nothing but the agenda of those who want us all dead and gone.
Our troubles began long before any of the living generations were born, and it can be argued that each successive generation was in its own way party to the decline.
Discussing what went wrong when and why is to be encouraged. But I refrain from both anti-boomer and anti-centennial bashing. A little humor in the right contexts is fine, but no good can come from serious blaming and shaming. My take.
Indeed. If he could only extend this principle to everything in his life and could get everyone in his generation to concur, things would finally be on the right track.
That’s called anarchy.
Don’t confuse anarchy with chaos. And if you believe that our supposed “leaders” must live a privileged lifestyle, play by their own rules (Social Security as an example) and continue recapturing that lifestyle by spending other people’s money, or there will be chaos, then you apparently didn’t pay attention in civics class. Your (non) thinking isn’t just part of the problem, it’s the WHOLE problem.
“Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of THEIR control.” – Jim Dodge
He is typical… some days he is smarter than other days.
I absolutely agree with the young man on this one too. Congress Critters should be declared extinct. I would go further; I would suggest they be euthanized because they are completely worthless to the rest of society after sucking on the public teat for as long as they have done. They are worse than feral hogs.
At least give us a hunting season.
Mags, Now that’s funny! I don’t care who you are!
MC? He stayed two whole nights this time. I think one night is best until/unless he shows prospects of producing grandchildren.
Seriously, though. It was a bit irritating having him explain that while “Okay Boomer” doesn’t apply to his father and I, it is directed at people who have accumulated wealth, retired and disconnected from society, and have no intention of producing anything for the rest of their lives.
I asked him “what is wrong with that?” If the wealth is THEIRS, why shouldn’t they do with it what they want?
And, you know what? I began to see what he was saying… it was time for him to go.
(It does sound like us. Brat. We produced him and decided we needed to stop producing.)
“He claims that the only way to address the corruption of our elected leaders is to eliminate the idea that we need them.”
I like it, needs to be a college class.
I defy anyone to present a cogent, intelligent argument explaining how/why we DO need these high falutin parasites in order to prosper. We don’t elect people on their ability to govern. No, we elect people on their ability to shake others down for free money of which they will then spend collaring their office. And just as in all rigged games, the one telling the most believable lies and cheats the most WINS.
We Boomers need a snappy retort to “OK Boomer”. One at the ready.
Hmmmmm….anybody got any good ones?
“You’re welcome, shit for brains” is too confrontational.
if at work, I like…just do your job!
if at home…here’s your bill for services.
if its a neighbor, go with…. get off my lawn or land
“Don’t talk to me till you brush your teeth.”
“get out of my basement”
Confrontational but truthful and sincere.
No car for you tonight, you are stuck here with us. Now go to your room and sulk.
“Pull your pants up”
“Wear a belt”
“Get a job”
“Ok, knowitall”
“You still owe me rent”
“Ok Boomer sir”
“Ok try-hard”
And Lastly, “fuck off”
Fuck off.
How about ‘Melanomas.’
There isn’t a single Boomer that was old enough at the time to vote in the politicians that clobbered us with the (misnomer) Civil Rights Act (where they stripped you of your freedom of association and called that a “right”?), the Great Society, the Vietnam War. GREATEST generation, they claim? I’d say “Most Gullible Generation” is much more deserved, I dare say.
Timmy75
“Centennials have more available to them than any other generation before.”
Right. The H-1B visas have strangled off the entry-level white collar jobs still remaining after offshoring most of the economy. Illegal and legal alien workers have knifed the blue collar workers in the back a few times, screwing them out of the remaning blue collar jobs.
Awesome opportunities. Thanks so much.
All so the boomers can die with a few extra shekels in their coffins. As a group, you are incomprehensibly self-centered. You’re essentially children who never grew up, and the world later generations will be forced to endure is a mess of your making.
Okay zoomer!
Lololololol. Typical. “I think things suck, and it’s your fault” Who’s the child??? :/
Clearly you are. Way to make his point for him.
Anonymous #1 rightly says that illegal aliens have knifed blue collar workers in the back, but the younger generations vote for open borders. It’s us old “Drunk Uncles” who are standing up for American citizens. You’re welcome. And get off my lawn.
Projection is my best guess….
Anon
Who’s going to get the few extra shekels?
Millenials and their children.
Think about things for a minute.
The government and or the Bankers depending on how many those few are.
Welfare Maggots
It will become true, in the end. Either the dregs will rise up and take possession (French Revolution style) or the powerful and protected will co-opt the military leadership to control the masses in urban areas as well as seek out pockets of “terrorist resistors” in rural areas, Soviet Style.
Either way, the wealth will be squandered.
I’d hoped Trump would make a real difference. And, as I mention to T4C, I hope all the optimism about a Qanon network where “things” are happening behind the scenes is the deux ex machina in the wings.
There is always capacity to Hope.
My optimism faltered this past fall, when I had to accept the facts slapping me in the face. The American Family as an institution is destroyed. Any attempt to convey the idea that man, woman and child form the strongest foundation upon which to build a community, then organize a country, is met with resistance.
When the Enemy is able to make an entire culture despise the Family Unit, the familial bond is easily severed. I have seen family after family after family (my own included, blessings on Huck) destroyed by drugs, greed, envy and petty jealousy. Hanging around elderly people in nursing homes isn’t all piano playing and gospel songs.
There are some really terrible tales there.
I told my son his father and I plan to get this place fixed up, sell it and travel around the world spending ourselves down so he doesn’t need to find some smarmy estate lawyer to shove all our belongings into a trust.
We will be spending it ourselves.
If you are blue collar and you know WTF you’re doing, you should be able to name your price. There’s a shortage of good master plumbers and organic farmers out there. But you have to work your ass off for it, put some time into your business plan, and look at what grants are available.
Son? I asked you to stay off TBP.
See when I was a kid, we didn’t have electronics/video games to play. We’d just have to go out and beat simpletons with sticks.
CBS Sunday Morning had a segment deriding Boomers.
I looked up Faith Salie. She has a degree in (I am not making this up) History & Literature of Modern France. She also has a Master of Philosophy in Modern English Literature.
OK Loser.
All due to the supervision of boomers/genxers.
The vast majority of which have drunk the communist kool-aid on social ideas and all keep thinking that “this time my vote will change things for the better” for fn’ decades.
I hope I see the day when the real men realize that there’s nothing left to lose and clean house.
Do you think the youngsters will cover the expenses when Wall Street steals both our retirement AND our social security, both of which we have paid into for half a century? Oh well, I have neither, tough luck.
wxtwxtr – what, are you a maron? What do you mean, “steals”? and what do you mean “our retirement” and “our social security”?
For fuck sake, there is no pot of money. It was not saved, it was spent. It is gone. It was a fucking tax, and it was never “your” anydamnthing. Thinking it is yours, and that it was saved somewhere, is stoopid.
SS was a “lock box” fund until the Democrats voted to make the SS fund and future SS payments General Revenue and Johnson signed it. Now it is just another Welfare Tax and the entitlement has been wasted into another Minority Welfare abyss.
I am looking at some interesting tables at the SSI “redistribution” of wealth agency.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_children/2006/table01.pdf
Take a look at the “trends” in the 18-64 age group and then the trend in the over 65 group. Why are the “over 65” a decreasing percent of disabled and the 18-64 represent the largest percent of disabled? With the very youngest group approaching 15% of the total number of disabled.
With 15% of our disabled being children, drawing a disability check in 2006 (averages available by state), naturally transitioning into the huge portion of working age disabled (18 – 64), it is not a far jump to grasp that the elderly are left with a very small portion of the unfunded disability pie. They are more and more powerless in this “Hey Boomer” atmosphere.
But, get this… once supported by regulation, the money becomes an entitlement. It becomes, in the eyes of the receiver, “their” money.
As it… “When I gets mah check this month, I am gonna get me some of that weed over in Illinois.”
SS was designed as a Ponzi scheme to make people think they were “saving” for retirement, when in fact, the government was collecting from everyone who worked in the private sector (government employees don’t have to pay SS taxes), giving a small portion to the few who were of retirement age and spending the rest. It was simply too much money to just leave laying around when you could buy votes and repay political contributors.
As with all Ponzi schemes, there are now almost as many drawing from SS as are paying into it and it is running deficits, causing additional money to be printed to pay the retirees drawing it. The SS trustees (sic) even admit the “surplus” will be gone by 2032. That “surplus” will show up as additional borrowing and more public debt.
https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/07/26/social-security/30581025/
Just another, in an infinite line of division. Perhaps I can see it more clearly as an Xer, but generational infighting only serves those that foment it.
As an Xer I saw first hand many of the trials and tribulations the boomers endured trying to raise kids and keep it all together, the explosion of divorce, the societal realization that maybe we were being lied to about things, and the love of debt, best exemplified with the Interest only mortgages.
I also understand the Millennials deep dissatisfaction with the status quo, exorbitant student debts, credit cards, and the rest, resulting in shit for assets and grim prospects going forward, all combine to lend credibility to some generational anger. That said, it is easy to pick on the biggest group of snowflakes America has ever seen, it’s not even close.
All summed up, it’s going to be a wild 4th buttressed by these 2 groups, and honestly it would behoove us all to focus on the real predators, likely the very motherfuckers promoting this shit, than succumb to generational infighting.
Lady Liberty needs us all.
Can we get a refund on this shit article?
“OK Boomer” was trademarked two weeks ago, but no… that’s not newsworthy.
From Boomer to Zoomer, all have been subject to brainwashing….It’s just a matter of time and failure before the rinse and repeat cycle kicks in.
“Now get off my lawn”. Love it and I laugh hard every time I see or hear it.
I am not prejudiced, I just distrust everyone equally.
Dirty Harry hates everyone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=SN&hl=fr&v=RnRkCemeV7k
Good Practice!
First off, I was born in ’57, and I remember I was specifically NOT a ‘baby boomer.’ Which was weird when I heard it, because my grade was always the largest class from K-12. Graduated in ’75, valedictorian, 110 in the class, 84 graduates. Yes, people did not graduate if they didn’t make the grades.
1. My father was subject to the Korean War, not WWII.
2. Why are millennials and centennials only one decade, rather than the 18 you assign to ‘boomers?’
3. I just think you’re lazy, because those of us who graduated after the ‘bra burning, summer of love, flower children, hippies,’ of the sixties were pretty tame and unremarkable.
4. The freshmen class at university were definitely never called ‘hippies,’ but we soon earned the name ‘nerd.’ We were the Disco generation, not go-go girls.
My brother was slated to be selected for service in the Vietnam War, but he graduated in ’73, got called, got canceled, eventually. Because they actually made out the summons to my Dad. My brother went and straightened that mess out only to be told that at 6’7″, like the reason my dad was not drafted for Korea, the service would not accept him unless he volunteered and he would have to buy his uniforms and shoes. So, neither my brother nor my dad had money for that. But Dad was called up (drafted) twice, 20 years apart. LOL
My wife’s brothers and sisters were all born from 46-52. She was born in 61 and I in 64. Indeed her dad fought in WW2, but her life experience was NOTHING like her siblings. My mom was from the silent generation (1930-1940s), and my experiences are most definitely NOT boomer, but are truly GenX. Even the band members of Generation X were born in the mid 50s. 1960 used to the beginning of GenX and then they changed it. Much like the climate change liars, I think people take a look at the statistics with an AGENDA in mind, then they set the cutoff dates to meet THEIR goal. I truly do not see how you can have two different generations of people (“greatest” and “silent”) BOTH giving birth to kids in the same following generation (boomers). Your point is made by lots of folks.
They are the Cryennials.
Great one! Or, “ok, stupid wants his brains back”
The Oligarchs run America so no particular generation is to blame for what they do; the Oligarchs foster the blame game to (1) shift focus from themselves and to (2) foment Chaos.
Indeed, it is simply the degree to which the generation was bamboozled, or acquiesced to the policies implemented by the ruling criminal elite. And today’s generation has never had more access to the truth than any other generation. That they choose to continue to blindly believe the lies of the government, the mainstream media, their worthless government teachers, and their worthless college professors, is FULLY ON THEM. For those in the generations they wish to blame, information was far more difficult to obtain, and far more restricted. Even finding out legislative votes was a chore.
And their answer is Bernie Fucking Sanders??????
Or Fuckahontas?
Billy Joel is never the answer.
Bacon.
’59 Never heard the phrase, my son likes “The future is now Old Man”, me too. Although I despise eating out at restaurants, so not much interaction with table help.
I am a boomer, I have more money than God and all Millennial put together. I will NOT be leaving any to anyone..MY Wife and I will Spend it all before we Die.. Many YEARS from now ..
Any youngster believes their generation is more modern and knowledgeable about efficiency and opportunities available.
They think the older generations are old fashioned and out of step with modern methods.
Although there’s some small truthful examples to that, by and large, they fail to honor the experience of elders.
Quick to blame, quick to offer excuses, and quick to believe in entitlements.
By experience, the elders have learned that problems and obstacles are overcome by trial and error, a persistent work ethic, and earning what’s desired.
You “Yeah-buts…”
-Save me the exceptions to the rule. Life is unfair.
Suck it up, cupcake. Envy is bad.
There’s no free lunch.
Somebody, somewhere has to pay.
In time, effort, and money.
Piling up extravagant riches is what some still desire, and out of envy is born the search to blame others for one’s own failures at success.
What’s stopping you, Millie, from succeeding? Look in the mirror and get to work.
Success happens when preparedness meets opportunity.
And opportunities are all around us. Find them. Research. Ask the advice of elders, in a respectful manner. Befriend successful people, especially elders, as they can offer you a roadmap that avoids the pitfalls of the ditch.
Abandon your wish for quick riches.
Don’t let your expectations get too far ahead of reality.
Identify a worthy goal.
Then start toward it in incremental steps.
Adjust techniques and strategies, after evaluating if you’re closer, or farther away from achieving the goal.
Then after achievement, plan a new goal.
Success is like a chimney construction. One brick at a time, after careful planning, resource consultation, and managing the budget requirements responsibly.
Successful boomers know this.
The entitlement generation has too many of their group who fail to understand it, believing things are way different for them.
Think!
Don’t tell me or anyone else how to live that you aren’t doing yourself. Lead by example or shut the fuck up.
We say: “OK, Loser“
Heh, the first few times I heard this phrase, I thought it was coined by a Gen-X’er. We have to put up with the idiocy of both the Boomers still stuckin the 60’s & their retarded spawn in the Millenial generation. But it’s kind of funny, in a cynical way, listening to the whiny Millennials complain about their parent’s generation, as they plod along trying to fire back. The liberal Boomers set the course for destruction in this country, and the Millenial hatred of them is ironic, bc their parents programmed their offspring to be the entitled, snowflake clones of the stereotypical Boomers that many of them are.
However, I would not want to get on the bad side of the American-born, ambitious, clever, and resourceful members of Gen Z as they will soon be a force to be reckoned with (even though they are a minority in their generation, they will accomplish much, much more than the illegal aliens, snowflake-wannabes, and immivaders in their cohort). They have witnessed the snowflakes & ancient hippies in action and are disgusted by them. They will be much more harsh than even Gen X when it comes to slapping-down the BS. Hey Boomers, guess who is going to be taking care of you in the rest homes???
FYI, the Boomers were about 1/2 and 1/2 conservative vs hippies. The conservatives in that generation act much more like the Silents than anything else, IMO. The hippies however, have driven the national agenda, while their conservative cohorts did the day to day work of moving the country along. X-ers are about 2/3 workers, and 1/3 louses. Milleneials are a flip of the X-er numbers, as are the Gen-Z. But that 1/3 will shape the future of the 21st century. We rightward thinkers need to help the reasonable Millenials & Z’ers move forward.
As a late X’er I think my generation has plenty of gripes against the much larger and dominant Boomer generation that preceded us. Just look at the Democratic presidential field where the leading candidates are people in their 70’s – not 50’s. The Boomers have carried the power in this country for a long time and don’t seem to be yielding it either. While I’m not going to consult with some 20yr/old Gen Z on issues of importance I can see the argument that it’s time for new blood. Just look at most of the comments quoting get off my lawn like a bunch of cranky seniors.
The last “youngster” to be president was murdered by the ruling elite/deep state. The schizophrenia of wanting “fresh blood” while also demanding “lots of experience,” is a failing of a vast majority of the voters. And “lots of experience” in government means generally that you are a life-long parasite and criminal.