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[–] [email protected] 140 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 weeks ago

Lucky me, I've never been 'with it'.

[–] captain_aggravated 8 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm at the point where what is 'it' is weird to me, but it isn't scary yet.

What amazes me is how much stuff I was "with" is still relevant to kids these days. I'm amazed at the staying power of Source Filmmaker for example.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Fuck that. I'll be too engrossed in my nursing home LAN parties to be talking to Gen B or C or K. Whichever it is when we're all old.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

At this rate, generation wasteland.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Did someone say teenage dirtbag

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Inform them about their mother while you are at it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If it's anything like it is now I'm sure it's the unborn future 9 year olds that will be telling me they fucked my mother.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

Imagine the Zerg Rush vs Protoss Carrier battles in those nursing home LAN parties!

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[–] Gullible 100 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Boomers: racism, wife bad

Millennials: aggressive misunderstandings, the collapse is imminent, domng cute

Gen alpha: remember when there was fish, skibidi

[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Gen Z is the new Gen X, lol. People just skip over them.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Can confirm, Gen-X here. We're all either Boomers or Millennials depending on whatever is coming out of our mouths.

To all that noise, I say: Meh, whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Gen Z are millennials without the beginnings of joint pain or basic knowledge of internet safety

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 weeks ago

I get so happy whenever i see this. Sarah Anderson easily has the most relatable comics. Absolutely gonna carry treats for all the 13/10 puppers

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)

I don't quite understand why it's okay to pigeonhole people based on their age. It's the same obtuse logic that racism works on: You ascribe all your prejudices to a imaginary group that is defined by nothing more than a single characteristic - be it age, race, gender or whatever. Don't get me wrong, I'm a millennial myself and I think this post is funny. Other might not.

What I'm trying to say is that I can't quite understand that with all the political correctness that is rightly emphasized these days, age discrimination seems to be excluded.

I just don't think this form of discrimination is particularly helpful to anybody, as it also pits one group against another - just like rasicsm does. So please don't normalize that stuff just because it's the only ...ism left that is accepted in social media.

And just to get that out of the way: Ok, boomer or millenial comments in response to this comment are not particularly original.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ok, Boomer. Tl;dr. Skibidi ohio.

[–] Steamymoomilk 13 points 4 weeks ago

💀💀💀💀💀

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Race, gender and whatever are "people that are not like me". Jokes about old people are jokes about myself, because I (hopefully) will get old myself one day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Aww, that's wholesome.

[–] booly 22 points 4 weeks ago

I don't quite understand why it's okay to pigeonhole people based on their age.

I don't think that's what's happening here. It's just a millennial imagining an exaggerated future of what she'll be like as an elderly person, using too much of her current slang.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

You can in fact tell someone's age with reasonable accuracy based on the slang they use. It's not "pigeonholing" to acknowledge a generation's quirky slang.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I think we do this because of the school system, fast moving trends and technologies, and lastly marketing campaigns.

The school system does a good job keeping everyone separated by age. So different classes will often have different trends and might compete against each other. Then once out of school, people still have this framing.

There are also real differences in how I experienced childhood versus other people when they were kids, with internet and cellphones not being prevalent like today. Also certain events like 9/11 and Columbine caused a lot of national conversations. It felt unique to my experience and so I want to share and contrast that with others. We all have a shared human experience, and it's interesting to find commonalities and differences in that. Which is probably why OP posted - the shared human experience of getting old and what we might look like.

And last, I think a lot of the simplistic, controversial stuff just comes from advertisers trying to make people feel insecure so they can sell them something.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

This comic strip will keep on giving, you can keep remaking it every 20 years

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[–] wander1236 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

My cat is also named børt.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My Simpsons reference is also named Bort.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I've heard of 5/7 but what is 13/10 from?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think it's from an insta/Twitter account named WeRateDogs, but I could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

You are correct.

For anyone else unaware, the schtick of the account was they'd always rate dogs with ratings of x/10 with x always being greater than 10. It was pretty funny how often people would get upset over this.

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Dumb me thought the dogger was the one saying "huh?"

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