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Anon is standmaxxing (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 28 points 5 months ago (67 children)

If anon's parents are boomers, wouldn't that make them at least thirty?

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    I (46) was jokingly called a boomer by a 25ish at work and quitely told her I am GenX. Her reply was whats that? (An answer hilariously apt in a meta way) and she told me it to her it meant person with outdated opnion.

    The opinion was me not wanting to use AI but rely on my own knowledge in an area I quite frankly am close to being an expert in. No dunning Kruger expert either.

    And I am born august 79 so neither really gen x or millennial

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    It's ironic that wanting to use one's own brain makes someone a "boomer." I know not all baby boomers are as intellectually-lazy as the ones I grew up under, but considering that's one trait that I've seen a lot from that cohort, this is weird to see.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    1979 is solidly Gen X by any definition.

    But yeah, oof.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    According to sources, and by that I meam wikipedia, gen x is up to 1980. Me being born four months before that line is very young gen x or very old millennial. Considering how I started uni when I was 25 most of my contemporaries are millennials, so I kind if feel like that my self

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    1980 here. I consider myself genx. I'm on the side of the line that was too old to get super into pokemon/SpongeBob/Harry Potter. For me that's where millennial begins.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Nope. A boomer is anybody older than you whom you disagree with, just like millennials are those younger than you who you disagree with and Gen Z are those younger than you who uses a social network you dislike.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (46 children)

    Boomer, used as a pejorative term, doesn't mean someone born between 1946 and 1964. It never has.

    It's always been a dismissive term for an older person with outdated ideas. Every young generation has one.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (42 children)

    No, it always has. Some dumb kids just thought that it meant "anyone over the age of thirty," which is dumb.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (39 children)

    The fact that you have zero understanding of etymology basically makes you a child.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (37 children)

    Ask your teacher how etymology works, kid.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (35 children)

    Yes, it's a pejorative word for "black people." You're starting to understand!

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (34 children)

    Right, and boomer is a pejorative for old out of touch people because the baby boomers were the old people when it was coined, but it's not generation specific.

    This is what the term is referring to. You're being Principal Skinner.

    Slang and pejoratives don't typically follow strict etymology. They're more ephemeral.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (33 children)

    No, it was generation specific, and some dumb kids didn't understand what it meant and just thought "haha mean word."

    And you were so close to getting it! Keep trying, kid!

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (30 children)

    Oof, your reading comprehension needs some work, too.

    Tell you what, let's look to an authority.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boomer

    4 : a person born during a baby boom : baby boomer

    Huh, how about that.

    Good luck in school tomorrow, kid.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (29 children)

    You keep ignoring the fact that I specified "when used as a pejorative."

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (28 children)

    Misusing a word doesn't gift it magical powers of a new meaning.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (27 children)

    That's how language works, buddy. It's fluid.

    And as you can see from the definition you provided, one word can have multiple meanings based on context.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (26 children)

    And none of them are "any old person," as you so conveniently ignore.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (25 children)

    Right, because the dictionary takes a while to update.

    Using boomer as an insult is a new definition. I'm not sure why this is such a hard concept for you to grasp.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (24 children)

    "Boomer" has a very clear definition, and it's quite clear how it's misused. I understand that this is a hard concept for you to grasp, but if you stay in school, you'll learn more about such things.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (23 children)

    This might be a shock to you, but words can have different meanings based on context. Even in your own link, the reference to baby boomers was the last entry.

    When used as an insult it has a different meaning from when it's used as a term for an age range.

    When you call someone a bastard as an insult, you're not calling them a child born out of wedlock. You're calling them the negative connotations of the word.

    When you call someone an asshole, you're not literally calling them a rectum. You're saying they are like the negative associations with the word.

    When you call someone a boomer as an insult, you're not literally saying they were born in the baby boomer year range. You're calling them old and out of touch, like a baby boomer.

    The insult is an analogy, not a description.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (22 children)

    "Boomer" is short for "baby boomer."

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    "Boomer" is short for "baby boomer."

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    Thank you for being an good example of a boomer. Unwilling to acknowledge the fact that language is fluid.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (13 children)

    Buddy, you don't have to keep proving my point.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Only to people incapable of comprehending metaphors.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Only if you're a boomer.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/ok-boomer

    Not according to your own source.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    You are factually incorrect.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Not according to the dictionary

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    So I'm going to assume that you also believe that "Millennial" as a pejorative term never had anything to do with the Millennial generation.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago*

    Point is flying right over your head. Current, updated, slang usage does not address your patently incorrect assertion that it never refered to the baby boomer generation. It became a pejorative as part of referring exactly to that generation and then was expanded and generalized to older people. Exactly the same way Millennial commentary started out pointed at exactly that generation and then became generalized to a rolling window of "those young people". Even though the actual millennials are in their early 40s and late 30s now.

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