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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (40 children)

All right everyone it's time for an old person check!

If you identify with this meme you might be old!

it's important for you to recognize every generation was cringe because life is cringe. It's a little part of growing up, try to be kind to those around you even if they're younger.

[–] Koike 40 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Not really about generations, it's more about manners, anyone blasting shit around people who never asked for anything deserve a kick in the groin. Bonus kicks for people ruining the calm in a natural landscape.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Agreed. Every generation is chock full of idiots, just basic math. Two generations ago this would have been an idiot blasting his boombox on the bus.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

38 years later...

[–] mindbleach 1 points 9 months ago

And instead of greentext, the response was people applauding Spock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

But this post explicitly defines the situation in terms of their generation not their attitude, separating the two changes the context and my response was to the context.

[–] DumbAceDragon 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If it's not about generations then why is a specific generation mentioned in the post, title, and pretty much half of the comments?

Also, natural landscape? This is on a bus

This post is an excuse to get mad at a stereotype of young people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, the people saying it's "not about the generation" are coping because they don't want to admit it's tribalism.

This post didn't have to mention the generation and most certainly did not have to put it in framing that perported it was the reason they behaved like that.

People in these comments don't understand how close they are to the "millennials are the problem with x posts"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I am 18 any almost all my friends consume this type of media at a rapid pace. This is not really an -old people hate youngsters thing, what these consumers are dou g is simply not okay (specifically the unreasonably loud tiktoks, without headphones obv)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. At the end of the day, a haircut, or fashion, or what you like to do on the bus is super unimportant. Manners and common decency are timeless. Too bad that parents aren't really teaching those values as frequently these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I’m pretty sure that, in my grandfathers days of the 1950’s, long hair was frowned upon. This stuff has been happening since the dawn of man.

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