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Before and after the work-hard-play-harder Generation X came two sets of people who seem to be at constant war with each other. Baby Boomers and Millenials have their differences and are prepared to defend their colliding points of view by all means. At times, this Millennials vs. Boomers conflict gets really emotional, and it seems that both are prepared to take it to the streets.
Baby Boomers are typically considered to be born between the mid-1940s and mid-1960s. They were the result of the end of World War II when birth rates spiked. The Boomers became healthier and wealthier than any generation before them. They are thought to be work-centric, extremely hardworking and motivated by position, perks, and prestige. Mentally focused and competitive, the generation grew up in turbulent times (consider the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis or the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.). Because of that, Boomers began to fight for social, economic and political changes. Idealistic and uncynical, this generation was able to buy a house and a car, to chill on a beach, instead of fighting a war.
However, since the Baby Boomers sacrificed a great deal to get where they are, this generation believes that others - mainly, the Millennials - should pay more dues. Millennial generation (also known as Generation Y) are people born between roughly 1980 and 2000. They are thought to possess a great deal of confidence and tolerance, but also entitlement and narcissism. Refusing to comply, they blame the Baby Boomers for wrecking the economy and having zero understanding of the Millennial definition of work-life balance, necessary in the workplace. To shed some light on the conflict, Bored Panda has decided to collect some of the most memorable comebacks the Millennials threw back ant the Baby Boomers. Some are lighthearted and funny, while others try to reason and inform. Scroll down to check our list of Millennial jokes and their clapbacks in this Baby Boomers vs. Millennials war.
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Zori the degu 6 years ago
But my generation doesn't seem to understand good, non-racist jokes either.
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Kerri Russ 6 years ago
Where I live in Oregon, it's the Baby Boomers who are out PLAYING Pokémon Go, including me and my husband. Our 18-yo son rolls his eyes at us. He and his friends think no one plays Pokémon Go anymore so I had to take a picture of the 80+ people at a raid a few weeks ago. Plenty of people are still playing but because it's not the kids themselves, they think NO one is playing.
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Bored Fox 6 years ago
I am 32 and I have never had a permanent job even though I spent over 5 years to get an education to become a chef. Because you can't work in a kitchen here in Finland if you don't have the chef's education.Then I watch a TV docomentaries about famous chefs and they tell how they started working at a kitchen when they were 13 years old and they did non stop chef's job over 50 years and now they are millionaires and they have many Michelin stars and restaurants all over the world...I just struggle with the unemployment benefits money (500-700 € per month).
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Zori the degu 6 years ago
I'm 15 and facing the same problem. Getting amused looks by my grandmother and co-students for saying that if I don't accomplish my goal to get a job in field zoology, I would be comfortable becoming an English-Bulgarian translator of scientific books. What the hell is wrong with them? I'm just trying to be innovative and different. I'm looking for any satisfactory(I refuse to work in an office. I'd rather be poorer, than a prisoner of a job I hate) career path possible, that would bring me modest but sufficient salary to live with, while they either struggle(the former one)or are completely dependent on technology(the second ones).
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Lonely Dragon 6 years ago
Oh my God this is too true. I always find it so funny how these artists then rely on social media and technology for their "art" to be seen. "The sad truth about today's world" shut the f**k up
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Jhoa 6 years ago
I see this as something good. We are slowly eliminating the problems in society, starting from the most pressing. Now that they got equal rights for men and women, we can focus on something else, like gay rights. Yes, the discrimination of the LGBTQ community is a lesser problem than the descrimination of women was. But thats Good! That's progress! Why should we stop trying to help and fix, just because the problems aren't as big any more?
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Danie Lüttringhaus 6 years ago
I remember when my mom always commented on me like "Why do you have to share your entire life on FB etc.?!?!" Today, I am happy if I do not wake up to a notification that my mom uploaded 456.405 pictures to the new album called "Sunday morning walk around the lake" or stuff like that... I see double standards coming in ;)
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Lazy Panda 6 years ago
I remember once I bought this big piece of cork bark for my lizard (I buy it cause that way it comes clean the stores have bigger, thicker pieces) and my mum says to me "why don't you just go outside and get a piece of bark for free?" Like okay mom, you're the one who had a pet rock, why didn't you just go outside and get a rock for free?
#32
The Famous Junkie 6 years ago
I’m so glad the UK pays a decent minimum wage and tipping is rarely expected or needed.
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That Fat Mouse 6 years ago
Double standards and annoying hypocrites everywhere! It does get annoying after a while.
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Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
Again, is it really generational? Maybe it's somewhat more common attitude with older people, but all the a******s in Charlottesville that I saw were pretty young.
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Connie Sallach 4 years ago
you are disrespecting your country. if you really feel so strongly about a subject find another forum, there are so many. During our National Anthem is not one of them. You never watched your frightened neighbor leave for Vietnam and return in a box. so you can't relate. I understand that now stand up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#47
Katie Fallon 6 years ago
free love and demonstrating injustice yet millennials are hypersexual and shouldn't protest
#49
I Am the Walrus 6 years ago
Sorry baby boomers, but I'm a millennial and I used the library for projects too. I also know cursive, in case you're wondering.
#50
~Ravenclaw~ OwO 6 years ago
That's how they made so many babies. They were impatient to find the best child.
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Christina Woodruff 6 years ago
Their generation protested nam, so it wasn't that one. But thegulf war, the Iraqi was, and the Afghanistan war are all on them
#52
Hotdogking 3 years ago
Buslady, we weren’t talking about you specifically, just your generation. If you’re not part of the problem, that’s fantastic, but don’t get personally offended when someone complains about your generation, it makes you look petty
#53
Verdant Hush 6 years ago
Boomer: doesn't tip because their well-done piece of shoe meat isn't on their table in 5 minutes.
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M O'Connell 6 years ago
I always tip more than that, especially for a haircut. So the cut costs $12, figure the stylist can do 3 per hour (if they are always busy), bringing an income of $36/hr. That sounds pretty good until you realize that they have to rent the chair, pay for their own equipment and supplies, they have to spend more time & money on their own appearance (because who wants a haircut from someone who isn't put-together enough to do their own hair nicely). In my area, a stylist actually gets a check for around $9/hr BEFORE TAXES. I know my stylist just had a baby because she kept getting more and more pregnant until she suddenly got less pregnant, and that is sure as hell not cheap. I round to $20.
#65
Leanne Murray 6 years ago
BusLady literally describes herself as 'Little old church lady', but don't call her old LOL! !
#66
Business Info 4 years ago
We don't want to ban anyone in particular. We just want our immigrants to go through the process and have background checks. I've been through various parts of Africa and had to show my documents at every checkpoint. I certainly never felt a tinge of racism, just due process.
#68
Kururi.Orihara 6 years ago
What do you think we do most of the time on our phones? It's definitely not read (fanfics, blogs, messages, etc) and write! (Texts, blogs, fanfics, etc)
#69
Anna McHugh 3 years ago
Is anyone else absolutely sick of BusLady? Her tin-earedness is the epitome of everything the post's about.
#70
TheMsLollidella 6 years ago
I always give my parents these "tech 101" classes ahah like how merge all jpgs into a pdf file or how their phones work
#73
Neurotic_Octopus 6 years ago
I swear "BusLady" is only making these comments to prove some of our points... :p
#75
Ryan Osbaldeston 6 years ago
I am a Millennial and this is incomprehensible. Wish people, of any generation, would use proper punctuation and spellcheck.
#76
Ryan Osbaldeston 6 years ago
umm... my baby boomer parents mooch off my Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO accounts...
#77
Chris J. Ford 6 years ago
Okay, BusLady, your generation is the single richest one in the history of Humanity. Not only in cash, but assets. You had the ability to buy a home on minimum wage, afford a college education, buy a car and hundreds of other luxuries that the huge majority of my generation can only dream of. I've ridden 83 miles in a day on my bike, not because I wanted to, but because I simply can't afford a car, and there was no sale on train tickets.
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Suzi Gauthier 6 years ago
I can't believe the number of old rednecks I see on the road in their giant trucks who have their phone up to their faces and not looking at the road. What the heck happened to old rednecks hating cell phones! Am I in the upside down?
#81
Kate Brown 6 years ago
Literally put signed in via Facebook to downvote all of BusLady's clueless comments. These DO make sense and this IS out daily lives when meanwhile you don't get why it is harder for our generation and at the same time don't realize that 30s means 30 seconds. Wow.
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stellermatt 6 years ago
yeah, I dunno... It seems that a lot of people find it easier to blame the generation before, or before that. There's gotta be a point when we stop placing the blame and start making a change?
Sierra Hall 6 years ago
That's what I was thinking. There's so much blame and no trying to work together to resolve the issues. So much resentment and arguing.
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Alia G. 6 years ago
Wow... What a messy comments section... I feel like I should say that the millennials weren’t talking about ALL baby boomers, they’re referring to all the baby boomers who have been criticizing millinials almost all their lives. There shouldn’t be a war between generations, but it can’t be expected for millennials to sit still and quiet while they’re told they’re incompetent.
Alia Ris 6 years ago
meh. I bet in several decades the Millenials will do the same for the next generation, whatever they will be called.
A S Koziol 6 years ago
One thing I find interesting is that research into the human brain has found that the structure and the way the brain thinks changes as you age. So it's almost hardwired for us to be more idealistic and black-or-white in our thinking when we are younger, and more flexible in our thinking, able to see multiple points to a situation, and more conservative as we age. Theories also propose that the accumulation of experience changes the thinking because it requires the brain to broaden it's thinking abilities, which changes the structures in the brain, too.
Load More Replies... stellermatt 6 years ago
yeah, I dunno... It seems that a lot of people find it easier to blame the generation before, or before that. There's gotta be a point when we stop placing the blame and start making a change?
Sierra Hall 6 years ago
That's what I was thinking. There's so much blame and no trying to work together to resolve the issues. So much resentment and arguing.
Load More Replies... Alia G. 6 years ago
Wow... What a messy comments section... I feel like I should say that the millennials weren’t talking about ALL baby boomers, they’re referring to all the baby boomers who have been criticizing millinials almost all their lives. There shouldn’t be a war between generations, but it can’t be expected for millennials to sit still and quiet while they’re told they’re incompetent.
Alia Ris 6 years ago
meh. I bet in several decades the Millenials will do the same for the next generation, whatever they will be called.
A S Koziol 6 years ago
One thing I find interesting is that research into the human brain has found that the structure and the way the brain thinks changes as you age. So it's almost hardwired for us to be more idealistic and black-or-white in our thinking when we are younger, and more flexible in our thinking, able to see multiple points to a situation, and more conservative as we age. Theories also propose that the accumulation of experience changes the thinking because it requires the brain to broaden it's thinking abilities, which changes the structures in the brain, too.
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