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"Ugh, kids these days..." Sounds familiar? Probably every millennial knows that one baby boomer who bad mouths millennials at every opportunity they get. Well, this post is for those who've got the worse end in the never-ending baby boomers vs. millennials debate.
The generation differences and the outlook on life is very distant with baby boomers and millennials, and there are many causes to it. First of all, the millennial unemployment rate is huge, and not because they are lazy, but rather because they already came to a worse economic situation than baby boomers. And that's the cherry on top because this generation has it seemingly worse in almost every life's departments. And not only baby boomers like to complain about it all, but they've also no sympathy for the younger generation.
Below, Bored Panda has put together a list of the best comebacks for all the annoyed millennials out there. Keep on scrolling to check it out and have a best roast possible prepared at the next baby boomer bad mouthing millennials.
Have some of your own millennials vs. baby boomers comeback ideas? Add them to the list!
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Becky Austin 3 years ago
Actually, this doesn't work at all because the boomers are not responsible for the current and extreme rise in housing costs.
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Sheila Schindler-Ivens 7 years ago
That’s a good one, but we who are middle aged are GenX. We’re still irked that the Boomers put the hole in the ozone layer; so, we’re on your side, little sib.
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Bridget Smith 9 years ago
It was directed at Horatio. I really appreciated your comment, Long Joan Silver.
Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
My family and I copped a lot of racism by white Australian people because about 90% of my family are all immigrants from Greece and Cyprus. They kept calling us wogs and all other names under the sun and making fun of our race. Also, because my dads family is from the border of Greece and Macedonia, and my mother is from Cyprus, I have people of those backgrounds always telling me off for saying that I'm a Greek, Cypriot, Macedonian, Australian. I have Greeks saying "how can you be Macedonian? Macedonia is Greece" and Macedonians say "How can you be both Greek and Macedonian? That doesn't add up" and I get yelled at. Then, on the other hand, Cypriots don't care. But some Greeks say "we don't like Cypriots because they're Turkish". Umm, no we're not! This is why I like to get along with everyone because I have encountered racism and put down for my background. People can be so low.
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Ashley Oliver 8 years ago
Are we really complaining about vernacular right now? Did you miss the entire point of this post???? Like, come. on.
julius_seziure 3 years ago
even i can feel the heat of that burn. plus that fact really hit everybody in their faces so damn hard
Susannah Williams 9 years ago
People who designed fridges ripped the ozone layer *cough* 50 year olds
Jodi 9 years ago
Every generation has their own "hip" vernacular. It is something that develops and grows with every generation. In the nineties is was "Let's dip" meaning "let's leave". In the eighties is was "ace" meaning "awesome". We, as humans, no matter where we are from, will abbreviate our language because it is easier to say. Especially if we are natives to language. Also, the generation today abbreviates everything on texting because there is a letter limit on apps like Twitter which this picture is from. So it is not incessant but necessary to get our point across. So please don't judge my generation harshly and stop and think that just because we use the language differently from you, we are destroying the language.
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Katie Bear 9 years ago
The only way I'm ever going to afford a house is if my parents die and give me theirs.
Dan Daniels 3 years ago
Most parents leave everything they've worked so hard for to their children.
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John Ashley 9 years ago
No one I know in my generation or the previous did that. What alternate universe do you live in?
Nikita Terwedow 6 years ago
Some of it was unskilled work but was in a unsafe work environment Also you need to understand what inflation is. And most people didnt have a wage. My dad started working at a gas station when he was 10 and when he was 17 he started fighting on the streets for money
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Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
People will always have a problem with other people. However, I don't care what other people do. Let them do whatever they like and everyone is happy. Just don't kill each other :)
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Pi... 9 years ago
Make education more accessible! It's not supposed to be only for the elite. Common man is given the power to dream but no means to achieve!
Pi... 9 years ago
And that's even more cruel than having no dreams at all. :(
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Heather W. 5 years ago
Scholarshios, grants and other financial aide available in ... 1970: $147 2014: $76,978
Esme Barker 6 years ago
Ha! If I had a dollar for every time my mom told me that she paid her own way into college... i'd have enough money to pay for the tuition when she went to college!
Rafi'ulfath Riwansia 9 years ago
I thought these articles were from Millenials to Baby Boomer only
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Psic. B. Elizabeth Herrejón Cortés 9 years ago
Yup, I live in a tinny apartment sharing rent with my partner even though we both went to University and I have postgraduate education u_u
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Breathe J. 4 years ago (edited)
I gotta admit, this is pretty true lol. Although, I wouldn't call millennials as being “easily offended”, but rather “intensely passionate”, which can sometimes be a good thing ;)
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Flora Polvado 9 years ago
I'm an end date Baby Boomer(1965) and this has always noted the @&$) Out of me!
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AcousticGString 9 years ago
Pretty sure everyone slept with everyone in the 60s, and the same people oppose gay marriage. Also guys who watch lesbian porn, and then oppose gay marriage.
John Ashley 9 years ago
Actually, "free love" was invented by Germans prior to WW I, although it likely goes back to the beginning of human societal development in early hominid days.
Master Markus 9 years ago
I'm pretty sure most of the "free love" people were the ones supporting gay rights before it was "hot".
Master Markus 9 years ago
I mean, the sixties were also a time of huge racial issues and there were some who were/are racist and some who stood against segregation and the like. You can't really generalize anybody, and if you're going to generalize you're going to have to pick out legitimate hypocrisy and not the opinions of two different kinds of people.
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John Ashley 9 years ago
It wasn't that generation... it was the people they trusted (voted for) in authority. They believed people in politics were there to help them because they said "trust me". Same foolishness is still going on. All brought to you by the generation that told themselves not to trust anyone over 30... and when they came to power, did the exact same thing previous generation politicos did.
Jym Breitbach 6 years ago
Yeah, that makes it their fault. The generation who had an iron grip on the voting majority for 4 decades didn't do their homework and vote in real populist candidates. They voted for liars and thieves and now you come and claim their mistakes are someone else's fault? Typical boomer a*****e.
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Breathe J. 4 years ago
There's nothing wrong with living with your parents, it doesn't matter how old you are. You're always gonna be their child ♥️
Justin La Plante 5 years ago (edited)
WOW,... This article does nothing but show how petty and uneducated millenials actually are. Even more so that they thought these were witty "come backs". Grouping all boomers as though they all have the same political opinions, not understanding that millenials are polluting the earth, wasting resources and blowing just as much of their own non-disposable income as boomers ever did and assuming that boomers never wore torn jeans... This is why I love being gen-x. we get to sit back and watch the two most useless generations duke it out over who is more useless.
Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
I get asked why I still live with my parents. Yes, I may be 29, and as pathetic as this sounds, I do not want to rent. I would rather get my own home than pay to live in someone else's house.
Amy Eales 9 years ago
Rent instead of putting that towards my loans? Makes perfect sense to me.
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Breathe J. 4 years ago
I mean, to me, that's like saying “why are you obsessed with air?” … Cause it's important lol.
Elizabeth Taft 5 years ago
Well when you have to choose between food and a roof and usually "roof" is what wins, it's easy to get obsessed when your stomach hurts.
Harley Mitchell 7 years ago
That is your (way too sensitive) opinion. Clearly people do like it and even if they didn't, I don't care if it hurts your feelings that I got to eat some delicious Greek food and you didn't. Millennials arent spoiled baby boomers; we're broke generally and good food is one of the only pleasures we can afford. Go enjoy your luxury summer house you didn't need and ruin someone else's economy please.
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Breathe J. 4 years ago
That's true, unfortunately. However, those issues have always existed, even when the boomers were younger (or maybe especially then). I feel like we've come a pretty long way, though (or at least somewhat), with Pride, and LGBTQ+ discrimination bans/protections, the Black Lives Matter movement, feminism, the #MeToo movement, etc.
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Gamma Azul 9 years ago
Funny. My parents say I spend way too much time on my phone but as I type this my mom is on her phone.
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AcousticGString 9 years ago
Companies today: We want 22 year olds with college degrees, and 30 years of experience.
Cat Meow 9 years ago
And if you're female: you better not be in a long term relationship because you MIGHT have a kid somewhere down the road. (Yeah, had someone ask me that once in a job interview I went to earlier this year)
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Garrett Hall 6 years ago
Try a trade skill, you know like most men used to. It works for everyone that actually puts in work. Have my own house and have worked for every dollar. Good luck on the return of even your college degree funds.
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Cat Meow 9 years ago
Taking classes to change your profession: get offered unpaid internships... And, how do you Baby Boomers thing we're supposed to pay rent? Or do you want us Millennials to stay at Hotel Mama until we're well in our 30s/40s?
Elizabeth Taft 5 years ago
And then they talk s**t at you for still living with your parents after refusing to pay you for your 40 hour per week internship.
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Cat Meow 9 years ago
Someone crowdfund this! Millennials, let us unite and make this happen. My broke millennial a*s would definitely donate a buck.
Psic. B. Elizabeth Herrejón Cortés 9 years ago
This is actually a great idea :D I would definitely give in a buck or two. (Can't give more, I'm a millennial)
Jes Burgess 8 years ago
Also, have someone pop in every day or call to remind the baby boomer to buy a house
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AcousticGString 9 years ago
Then the baby boomers get divorced, and the amount of divorces is nearly half of all marriages by 2016. Studies show those who get married later in life (30s and 40s) tend to stay married
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AcousticGString 9 years ago
Works 3 jobs to afford a house that can't be enjoyed because all your time is spent working.
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Horatio Valentine 9 years ago
Wha??? This list seems to be more about the baby boomers' parents and less about them. My parents were baby boomers and this doesn't describe any of the parents of my friends when I was growing up. It does describe my grandparents' generation to a T though.
Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
My parents were baby boomers and were not like that either. My dad's mum wasn't like this either. Not so sure about his father as I never really got to know the man. As for my mums parents, definitely! They're overly religious and against basically anything and want my gay male cousin to marry a female and don't care about his sexual preference.
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Natalie Blenkhorn 9 years ago
What? Both of my parents have had interracial relationships, I haven't!
Garrett Hall 6 years ago
Hahaha this c**p is outright redicoulous. How do half of you even survive with this outlook on your elders. No respect left whatsoever.
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Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
HAHA! If you want service, you're going to have to wait for that service! Just because you go somewhere, and think you're some kind of special human being, guess what? You're just like anyone else. Wait your turn and you will be served.
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AcousticGString 9 years ago
This also applies to relationships. Baby Boomers have the highest rate of divorces.
Pieter Markey 9 years ago
Agree, but then again, we just don't marry anymore after only holding hands for 2 years.
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Jan Rees 9 years ago
Every generation has complained about the generations that came after them and the ones that came before them. This is a natural cycle and will continue to happen until the end of the human race. The Victorians complained about the flappers, everyone who was alive during the Great War couldn't believe how immoral society had become after the war, how short women's dresses were - that women rode bicycles! The second world war made things even worse - parents started complaining that their sons were marrying women who had jobs! Their daughters were marrying men who had no social background - or worse, not getting married at all. But in actual fact, these things had been happening all along- but only to the 'lower classes'.
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Naima Ivansdóttir 9 years ago
all while driving towards a complete ecosystem disaster! now that's some skills
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Hans 9 years ago
The only reason I could find to be mad at millennials is the inability to use proper interpuntation, e.g. questions marks. (sarcasm off)
Krystal Tuning 9 years ago
I feel that it's a nuance. I omit question marks on rhetorical questions, but I can't say that's a general rule for everyone.
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Stille20 9 years ago
Slow down there friend. That ugly little tirade is why people think we are self absorbed whiners. 1. There are a wealth of racist, homophobic and sexist Millennials. 2. The recession has nothing on the Great Depression. So they did not create the worst job and housing market. 3. While the first volunteer bureau was founded in 1919. Wide spread volunteering began in the 1960s with Lyndon B Johnson's War on poverty... you know.. with the Baby Boomers
Pat Fenis 5 years ago
Thank you. Really the only thing I have to say about the "boomer" generation is that they are awfully self-righteous. We have an entirely different economy to live in; things are just different these days, and one has to be pretty deluded to believe that the playing field is still the same. That being said, get over it! We can't just "oppress" ourselves because someone else had it easy! Who cares if they like to rub it in our face out of their own ignorance, I just shame them back lol. There's nothing like telling some old a*****e off with reality Must be nice to have credit; I destroyed mine before I was 22 because it was damn near impossible to survive. NOT because I was unemployed, I was in the Navy back then. The economy definitely had just tanked, gas was damn $4/gal....
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Elizabeth Taft 5 years ago
HAHAHA MILLENIALS ARE SO STUPID THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT A ROTARY PHONE IS!!1! *5 mins later* Son, how do I get the Netflix working on this smart TV. Your dad has been trying for 45 minutes and he's fixin to have a fit!
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J.E.C. 9 years ago
this should read, "people are idiots" I think we can all agree on that, no matter what generation we're part of.
Karma Castro 5 years ago
Not a baby boomer and barely a millennial yet still remember that pet rock was the only kind of “pet” I ever had growing up
Harley Osborne 8 years ago
You can get a USB version now, new laws, all pet rocks must be on a lead...
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Harley Mitchell 7 years ago
The point went waaaaay over your head my friend
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Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
True and true, baby boomers (some) do say that about Gen Y's. Kind of sad aye? No need for war, as it may solve some issues the country is facing (if any), but it creates major problems with families.
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AcousticGString 9 years ago
This one bothers me the most, those of us who work multiple jobs, don't party like crazy, loose sleep by stressing about paying back student loans, never being able to afford a house, or never having money to retire or get social security, and they wonder why we are all depressed and pessimistic.
Carly Noelle 9 years ago
"Sleep is important . . . here, have seven hours of homework and two jobs to work!"
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Pi... 9 years ago
True. Depression is rampant and not enough attention is given to address it. :(
Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
That is very true. I know this first hand. Now I try to help others who feel or have felt the same way.
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Then they don’t believe your depressed and asking for help until your pushed over the edge and then they say “ Why didn’t you say anything you can talk to use we’ll understand.” For get the months your telling them about your depression and they just call you a snowflake and say your just a follower and you don’t know they pain they’ve been through, when there’s hundreds and hundreds of millennials and younger generation that are constantly abuse by baby boomer parents and when you can’t take it there crying saying how much they love you when they are the ones that put you though all of the s**t your going though. MILLENNIALS RAISE OF HAND IF YOU OR YOUNGER SIBLINGS WERE ABUSED BY PARENTS AND NO ONE BELIEVES YOU BECAUSE YOUR “JUST A CHILD”
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Rèdiño - - 9 years ago
"We are a reflection of your personalities. By insulting us you are insulting yourselves."
Devin D 5 years ago
Yeah thats the most depressing part. They created us and they don't even like us; we're not good enough for them. Many of us whipped into submission at an early age, much more polite and well mannered in comparison to their generation. I think that's part of where the millenials "lack of direction" comes from. Their parents add in so many suggestions forcibly and try to direct the child's life for them. The child grows up and doesn't even know who they are or what they want because theyre used to being told what to be and what to do. Its very toxic. Then the Boomers say "these millenials have no drive or aspirations they have it too good to want to work hard."
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Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
I love bean bag chairs! Absolutely nothing wrong with them at all!
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Hayley Lightcap 9 years ago
I don't know why you're acting like this is new. Bored Panda posts a variety of articles that includes societal views.
Load More Replies... Jan Rees 9 years ago
Every generation has complained about the generations after them and those before them. That's the way life works. Unfortunately, as you grow older, you tend to forget how you felt when you were young. But it was very likely the same as the generation of young people now. Old people are always shocked by the way young people dress - parents have to tell their kids to dress more modestly, that's part of their job, it doesn't mean your mom didn't wear short skirts in the 70s or 80s. Murder rates have always been dreadful - living in Victorian London you would be more likely to be murdered than you would be living in Chicago today - maybe older people just remember their childhood fondly and can't help projecting their dissatisfaction with their own sadness at getting old, or coming to terms with the changing world, onto the young people they see enjoying it.
John Ashley 9 years ago
This type of stuff isn't helping the cause of Millennials. Makes you sound like whinny little complainers... the type who don't do anything other than complain. Which, btw, every generation has.
Vini Stafford 7 years ago
Well, if these were the "best", I am glad that I didn't waste ten minutes reading something else. Bottom line: pandering to folks who like to stereotype everything.
Vini Stafford 7 years ago
If this is the ten "best", I guess I'm glad I didn't waste the last five minutes of life on the worst. It is kinda hard to tell though... this seems to be pandering to folks who like to be judgmental and press stereotypes on other folks.
Shari H 9 years ago
Sure, some baby boomers are horrible people, and some millennials are horrible people. At least those of us in Gen X are all perfect :-)
Stille20 9 years ago
I'm right between Gen X and Millennials... in fact I got called a Millennial before it was cool ;) (like 12 years ago)
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Flora Polvado 9 years ago
Whiners of every generation are depressing.could only read few of these before the sky began to darken.
Superluminal1 9 years ago
Overgeneralization is a logical fallacy that occurs when a conclusion about a group is drawn from an unrepresentative sample.
Hayley Lightcap 9 years ago
I don't know why you're acting like this is new. Bored Panda posts a variety of articles that includes societal views.
Load More Replies... Jan Rees 9 years ago
Every generation has complained about the generations after them and those before them. That's the way life works. Unfortunately, as you grow older, you tend to forget how you felt when you were young. But it was very likely the same as the generation of young people now. Old people are always shocked by the way young people dress - parents have to tell their kids to dress more modestly, that's part of their job, it doesn't mean your mom didn't wear short skirts in the 70s or 80s. Murder rates have always been dreadful - living in Victorian London you would be more likely to be murdered than you would be living in Chicago today - maybe older people just remember their childhood fondly and can't help projecting their dissatisfaction with their own sadness at getting old, or coming to terms with the changing world, onto the young people they see enjoying it.
John Ashley 9 years ago
This type of stuff isn't helping the cause of Millennials. Makes you sound like whinny little complainers... the type who don't do anything other than complain. Which, btw, every generation has.
Vini Stafford 7 years ago
Well, if these were the "best", I am glad that I didn't waste ten minutes reading something else. Bottom line: pandering to folks who like to stereotype everything.
Vini Stafford 7 years ago
If this is the ten "best", I guess I'm glad I didn't waste the last five minutes of life on the worst. It is kinda hard to tell though... this seems to be pandering to folks who like to be judgmental and press stereotypes on other folks.
Shari H 9 years ago
Sure, some baby boomers are horrible people, and some millennials are horrible people. At least those of us in Gen X are all perfect :-)
Stille20 9 years ago
I'm right between Gen X and Millennials... in fact I got called a Millennial before it was cool ;) (like 12 years ago)
Load More Replies... Flora Polvado 9 years ago
Whiners of every generation are depressing.could only read few of these before the sky began to darken.
Superluminal1 9 years ago
Overgeneralization is a logical fallacy that occurs when a conclusion about a group is drawn from an unrepresentative sample.
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