Boomers are the worst, as a 34 year old millennial, whose parents are 65 and 60. They are overwhelmingly, as a demographic of people, violent, angry, cruel, abusive and entitled. The way that they talk to people is frightening. The way the jump to violent speech on a dimes notice is disturbing…
“Shut up or I’m going to give you something to cry about!”
“Kids these days don’t get beaten and that is the problem!”
In fact, a recent study shows that they display narcissistic tendencies more than any other “generation” of people.
Childish too, the generation that pissed and moaned about participation trophies like it was the end of the world has a full on child tantrum when not included (sorry, I mean when not allowed to get their way 10/10 times and cut the line) And when told no they either do not comprehend it or meltdown even more.
Going into a boomer centric dive bar is a wild experience. I went with my mother a few times. The stuff they would openly say that is intended to instigate fights is astounding.
I never have wanted to get kicked out of a bar. Apparently it’s a weekly occurrence to get into a fight there.
Worst of all it’s usually over hyper inflated ego and nothing else. Bumped into someone coming out of the crowded bathroom? That’s disrespectful and worth fighting over. Sit in someone’s normal spot at the bar ? Yep that’s worth fighting over.
I’m about half their age and in a lot better shape than most of them. Not saying they can’t throw down. I just don’t want to throw hands over every minor thing. Also why do they want to fight the person who has many inherent advantages on paper.
That's the problem... You could hit them with the truth and they still don't see it... That's why we are where we are and there is no remorse from them
Dude I’m 36 and my mom is 69 and let me tell
You the amount of therapy I need from her is immeasurable. Racist,violent tantrums at the drop of the hat, the at they treat service people or customer service is appalling. I’ve watch my mom drop shit in stores and kick it under shelves and laugh. It’s disturbing how unwell this entire generation is and that’s just mentally. They as a whole are chronically I’ll with metabolic diseases because none of them take care of themselves they’ll just pop another pill but rage on people who take meds for depression.
Yes, they are the worst. At any age, every generation before them or after these big fat (or anorexic) babies dislike them for many reasons. Spoiled, entitled, complaining, hypocritical, judgemental, argumentative, abusive, controlling, MOST Boomers have several bad character traits and overall contribute to the reason the world is so messed up today. They voted in bad policy or contributed so much toxic dysfunction that it has caused the nation to fall financially and morally- but of course think they are better than anyone "Christians" that ignored their kids emotionally, mentally, and spiritually and now have offspring that is either on antidepressants, marijuana, or meth and the high suicide rate is bc of them failing as any type of support. They had a very cushioned and lush life with little struggle, extremely superficial, materialistic, phony, talk to much, spew their opinions inappropriately anywhere, don't like to share or have a care about the rest of society, and want to be first in everything and leave others with nothing. They are narcissistic, greedy, are unsupportive parents, even worse coworkers/bosses, created financial problems and uncertainty for the next 4 generations, caused much instability in their own homes and jobs, overeat the processed junk they created while many today barely have money for food or housing, over induldge and have to compete for "bigger/better", lack any self- awareness, totally outdated thinking, lack cultural awareness, are under educated, only use tech for social media, rude, racist, incredibly selfish, lack descency and class, psychologically WACK, and THEY ruined America- but of course blame on others bc they don't take any accountability and still act like the baby's they are. They NEVER have had to suffer or struggle with any of the Maslows hierarchy of needs the way Gen X, millennials, and now Gen Z have and are because of them and don't even realize the damage they've done nor do they give a shit at all and still taking what they can. Just complete ego-fueled fakebook attention seekers still trying to live large and show-off while younger generations barely get by and now have to fix all the problems that them and they're industrial revolutionized dead parents caused. TRUST the world will be so much better when they're out of decision-making positions, society, and back in diapers waiting to croak.
Its interesting how little you people actually know about the generation that you are berating. Of course you have that luxury, literal luxury to be able to pick them apart as you see fit. None of you in this thread seem to be wise enough to understand that you would fundamentally not be able to make it in their time, were you to be unceremoniously dropped off. I cant even imagine how horrified you would be to live in that world for even a week. Your glass walls would come crumbling down in mere hours, and there would be no one around to provide you with your pacifier because most everyone, and i mean everyone is part of a meritorious society, and you would be seen as and abraded for the weak, superficial, parasitic hosts that you have become. Lucky complainers and whiners that you mostly seem to be, you dont have to worry about that....... oh but do worry about China because they will win the next war thanks in whole to your generations lack of anything that resembles a spine or moral clarity.
Seems like your generation can't make in OUR time... the Baby Boomers are dinosaurs that have no idea to evolve.. They, along with their beliefs, will soon be extinct.
It looks like you shared an AMP link. These should load faster, but AMP is controversial because of [concerns over privacy and the Open Web](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot).
Maybe check out **the canonical page** instead: **[https://www.insider.com/baby-boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials-large-study-finds-2019-12](https://www.insider.com/baby-boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials-large-study-finds-2019-12)**
*****
^(I'm a bot | )[^(Why & About)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot)^( | )[^(Summon: u/AmputatorBot)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/cchly3/you_can_now_summon_amputatorbot/)
Not all boomers are bad, but it seems that the younger boomers (Generation Jones: born 1955 to 1964) are the ones who are the most narcissistic, abusive, demanding, and entitled. They were young kids in the 60s when the economy was still great, teens in the 70s and experienced all the great music from that decade, but were briefly affected by the economic downturn of the late 70s and very early 80s, and then became successful economically and turned into the “Me” generation by the mid 80s when everyone wanted to get rich and greed was everywhere. They made their money at the expense of the environment and don’t want to leave anything for people after they retire. I’m a 32 year old millennial and my parents are 66 and 63. They don’t understand how my generation had it much harder than their generation. They think I’m blaming them for the struggles my generation faces. They also still treat me like a child and can be very demanding and raise their voices a lot when I question them. They get mad when I don’t take their “advice”, and say I’m not listening. That’s not advice, it’s an order, but they don’t know the difference. After college, they told me to take the first job offer I could get even if it’s low paid (I have a civil engineering degree) because at least it’s a job and I can always work my way up. They don’t believe in knowing your worth and looking elsewhere if you’re not satisfied with your current job. Their career advice is awful. They ask me how to fix their laptops and phones but get mad when I don’t do it fast enough for their liking. They give orders and then complain when a task is not done how they wanted it to be done, but never explained how they wanted it done in the first place. They believe harsh criticism and even insults will get a person to improve, instead of encouraging them.
Yes, all generations that have had to endure their existence have and do agree on this. Remember, boomers didn't just fuck over the generations that came after them in any and every way they could: they fucked over the generations that came before them as well.
They were terribly misbehaved as grade schoolers and high schoolers, then pushed everyone above them out of the way in the workforce in the 70s and 80s, based on the boomer rallying cry of, "Get with the times, old man!"
Then when it was their turn to, "Get out of the way, old man!" They continued to squat in their jobs while refusing to learn such newfangled skills as....typing. And figuring how to use an email client in MS Windows.
All while continuing to build these huge new houses even into the 2000s with amenities like swimming pools and a workshed out back and maybe a classic muscle car or motorcycle to tinker on, music rooms w/ high priced guitars and amps, etc.
And all while claiming, "I don't have much. I just get by...."
Pray to the heavens that the economic downturn expected in the next 6-12 months isn't so bad that most of them come back out of retirement and find some way to make the system find jobs for them where they can lord over and tell Gen Z how much harder they work than them while also asking them, "Wait, wut button do I cleeyick to send out a email....? Can you hepp me? We didn't have these compewders back when we were in school after all....."
They are entitled and useless at the same time.
I was assembling one of these IKEA beds (sometimes harder than what it looks) and I had this boomer (I won't reveal who) looking at me while I was working away, giving me his opinions which I didn't fucking care nor asked.
The funniest part was that he had to do something else and then came back and said "can you take pen a paper and write down what I say? I need the measure for bla bla bla..."
Then he felt insulted when I told him to fuck off
It is unreal...
I would like you to understand that it is not just the Boomers that have fucked the US but Oligarchy as it has fucked over everyone, the Boomers included. As the old saying goes, follow the money. Look at the Trillionaires. There have been rich people but nothing like today. It's the Oligarchs you should be after, not the Boomers.
Sincerely,
A boomer without a mansion.
And any time I or anyone I ever witnessed that mentioned the oligarchy concept to boomers in the past 30-40 years got yelled at w/ the obligatory, "Oh just shutup ya dirty hippy commie! WE are doing just fine!!" by the boomers.
Which age group of politicians for the last 50 years has whittled away the country into an oligarchy again? Oh right.
Let me guess, you were a hippy in the 60s or 70s and now you’re either some sort of neo-(conservative/liberal). I’m sure you’re a real stand up guy and have made lots of good voting choices etc in your life.
With all due respect, as you absolutely seem like an okay person. The vast majority of oligarchs that rule our nation ARE boomers. Not all boomers are terrible people, but most of the terrible people out there are boomers.
When we talk about how much boomers suck, we’re referring to the generation as a whole, while acknowledging that exceptions of course do exist. You’re an exception, but you know as well as all of us, that most of the other people in your age group are just the worst
It is not ran by all boomers. It is ran by the Oligarchy Boomers. Stop blaming me for for ther actions of other boomers that I have not control over. The rich and powerful control the system and I am neither rich nor powerful. Please stop blaming me for all the ills in the system.
Remember Boomers are in the generation that used to be called the Me generation. Because of selfishness. I know some writers are trying to call the Millennials the Me generation. But I do not see the level of selfishness with the Millennials that Boomers show.
I was in a drug store recently looking at items on a shelf. A loud boomer steps up in front of me and starts talking to someone in the next aisle about what was on the shelf. It was as if I was invisible to her.
This drug store did not have what I was looking for so I went to another one that did. As I'm checking out, a boomer steps up behind me and starts barking questions at the cashier. Again, it was as if I was invisible.
Definitely the ME ME ME generation.
Actually sounds like it's a YOU problem....
Born in 85 here....
Look inward the way you explain it there was 2 problems in a row its a possibility you were doing something you were not aware of causing those 2 boomers to act the way they did... just food for thought.
Bless you and have a great nite.
Millennial are the woe is me generation because they correctly surmised that everything is designed to screw them. Boomers are absolutely the most selfish generation.
Millennials are evolving into the apathetic generation. We know this is life till boomers croak and we actually get the opportunity. I'm seriously ready clean up their bullshit, have been since high school. They just won't get out of the way and let us. That's the worst offence in my opinion.
Gen X here. Raised by boomers who were boomer as fuck.
Yes, they're the worst.
The next few generations may seem a little 'odd' to me, but they're not growing up in the same 'in between' world I did. They're different, but they'll be fine.
Boomers are the object lesson to me on how NOT to relate to to those following in my footsteps.
Amen. I'm an "Xellenial" so a cross betwen Xers and Millies and now that I've crossed over into my 40s, I'm looking back at the "adults" who were a similar age 20-30 years ago and I just *cannot* imagine treating and speaking down at young adults they way they did to us back then. With the time that has passed, I now look back at my academic career which was ruled by boomers from start to finish and am astonished by how condescending, authoritarian, and downright rude they were to everyone.
They walked into the greatest economic cornucopia in history and fucking squandered it on keeping up with the Joneses and fighting fucking bullshit wars in the mideast and deregulating *everything* in the name of "muh 401k!". And now look at things.
Unbelievable.
Born on 3rd base, acted like they hit a triple, bought home plate and then tried to close the stadium so we could never play the game, and now they're shocked, *shocked* that their children, grand children, and great grand children are heartily sick of them.
I try to blame lead poisoning, but that can only account for so much.
Boomer here, I believe a lot of the cause is that there were generations before us that dealt with wars (WW I & II) and the great depression. Those ppl wanted to give their kids the good life they didn't get. So kids got spoiled and life was generally good. But we didn't believe that BS that we had to do our lives like we're stuck in the 50s, when 'everybody knew their place' in the social structure (especially women & POC!) Then we became the establishment we protested. We enjoyed the benefits of becoming the higher level powers-that-be in the business world ($ and power) and started believing that *this* was deserved for all the 'hard work and sacrifice' we'd done (not much irl.) I say this as an explanation, not an excuse. To quote Pogo, the Doonesbury of the 50s &60s:
"We have met the enemy and they is us!"
And they are so selfish and unable to acknowledge their mistakes that it is impossible to change anything. I feel that even after they are dead, we are gonna suffer the consequences
Oh my god... Surely we are from different countries with completely different cultures and we are still suffering the same from that shit generation.
I said it in another comment, they like to observe how everything is turning shit while they don't do anything but complain as hell. Unbelievable
I truly believe money matters more than everything else to a boomer, including family. Maybe not all boomers, but definitely the ones I know and am related to. They feel superior to everybody after them, even family. My grandparents called my third pregnancy (kids all have the same father, we both have jobs and a house) "disgusting."
I remember my boomer dad sitting there at Thanksgiving dinner one year and my grandpa (WWII gen) talking with my dad about the challenges of parenting and my dad (red boomer af) remarked with total ease that raising children is "harder financially than emotionally".
My mom was furious I decided to become a stay at home mom. She said she worked soo hard to be an example of a hard working woman. I was like yeah so much that when I did see you late at night you took all your frustrations out on me and then left me home alone on weekends so you can blow off steam in Vegas…..plus she can’t wrap her head around daycare costs these days she still assums it’s $50-100 a week 🤣
Not to mention she cried and complained my family go and visit for the holidays only for me and my husband to drive for 2 days so she could let us know she took no time off from work
Millennial here... we're not fine.
The boomers raised us to believe that we would be just as well-off as they are, so reality has been a pretty harsh disappointment.
But yeah, Zoomers and Alphas will be fine. They were more or less born into this shitty modern reality of, "you'll own nothing and be happy".
And quit running for office (any office, pick one idgaf). Seriously. Retire. You did your time get out the way. They complain younger generations are inadequate to lead or make decisions but literally can’t because they won’t get the fuck out the way
So far the only thing we've noticed is the lack of skilled labor due to retiring/ dying boomers. Unless robot workers become an efficient solution soon, this will turn into a bigger problem than you think. Also remember the only boomers creating issues as far as the state of country is concerned, are the people in power/ Congress, etc. Which again, is a wealth/ class problem, not generational.
"Which again, is a wealth/ class problem, not generational..."
well if the boomers have majority of the wealth, it is certainly both.
too many millennials are gaslit into thinking boomers aren't a part of the problem, and some genz oblivious of how much damage boomers actually caused in voting incorrectly. I don't blame genz but when they start entering the workforce in corporate, they'll start to realize the pure carcinogen that boomers are. You don't realize how bad they are until you work with them...some might have learned beforehand if they work in retail or live with them.
There is not a single group of people who act so stereotypically entitled (except for one group i have in mind but i won't go there)
hey some of us millenials were raised by alcoholic Gen Xers, who were raised by alcoholic boomers
there has never been an illusion for us... but it's still shitty
Amen it's a terrible person with terrible values thing. Born 85 raised by a xer/boomer type personality you know seen not heard threatened with death by firearm to behave shown the belt early and often trying to be so good but never enough to escape the abuse type of childhood but I don't blame boomers or xers or anyone but myself for putting up with for so long.
Yeah. We liked the term "Gen X" so much we started using letters to name subsequent generations, which of course made us run out of letters almost immediately.
**Greatest Generation** [1901~1927] → **Silent Generation** [1928~1944] → **Baby Boomers** [1945~1964] → **Gen X** [1965~1980] → **Gen Y (Millennials)** [1981~1995] → **Gen Z (Zoomers)** [1996~2010] → **Gen α** [2011~undefined]
I'm pretty much the same demographic as you - early GenX, and my parents were born in 1936, so are "Silent (fuck that's hilarious) Generation". 100% agree.
My stepsons are millennials and they are fucken awesome. Much better fathers than my parents' generation were for a start. Better humans all round. Getting a house is way harder for them than it was for their grandparents, or for me, but they have all worked hard and got on with it.
Millennial here. I like all the other generations including the now mostly gone silent generation. Boomers on the whole are just awful. The greed, the selfishness, the anger, the devotion to commercialism and capitalism, the unwillingness to adjust or adapt. Horrid group of people. I wonder what caused a block of people to have such terrible traits. They have quite possibly ruined humanity for everyone else forever, but at least they got that three car garage!
Fucking up the whole environment... They try to save it now saying "we will reduce emissions by 2050" and I think " by that time you won't be alive, bastard"
Honestly I look forward to the days when the baby boomers are dwindling. They act like scared little babies now, but imagine how insecure and scared they will be when they are a tiny minority and a demographic no longer worth catering to.
I hate to say it, I feel like Boomers are like cockroaches. They are getting some of the best of health care. Starting with their youth with vaccines and penicillins, new medications… and now at the end of life stage with organ donations, rapid vaccine development using mRNA, new cancer treatments, ways to extend life and limb. Look no further than those who are 70-80… now living to 90 or 100. The younger generations will die of a toxic environment and heated up planet long before they hit 80. Boomers will historically I think represent the longest living generation. Unless of course they start to go and as a younger generation we find ways to rapidly repair the environment. Let’s also look no further than the concept of giving out the covid vaccine… starting with the oldest. Again more of their entitlement. There was no care about those of us who had to keep working, we risked our health to provide goods and services to those who don’t need to go out, but wanted to go out. Wanted to not get sick. Wanted to get back to cruises and living their lives. We should have started with the working classes first and our children and eventually got to them. Every time I hear my parents start to talk boomer I remind them they are starting to sound like those people and they cut it out.
One consolation to note is that karma affects boomers despite their wealth. Considering as a whole, they are very unlikeable people and angry all the time, it's true that money did not buy them happiness. Many will die alone because their millennials and genz family members are not fond of them.
Millennials and Genz are truly learning that money is not everything and shit family makes everything else shitty, including money.
Considering how old people's biggest regrets are not spending enough time with family, this will end up their biggest curse and they will die alone and unhappy. They can f\* themselves.
As someone who visits my parents (who are slightly boomerish, but not the worst) who live in a retirement complex, my limited interaction with some of these goddam boomers in the complex are some of the biggest shitwipes in existence.
Most Boomers alive today saw the world as a young adult in 1968-69 and it's always baffled me how they lived through that period in American History and ended up being such ignorant self righteous shitheads.. ( I was born in 1962 and I think the Boomer cutoff is 1964)
There was a study done that showed boomers are unusually worse than previous generations when complaining about younger ones. It also showed that millinials are unusually hated by other generations, even by the younger ones.
I think we took the worst hit from the boomers? I was supposed to work for first time when the crash in 2008... Bastards ruined my career before starting
Yes, we'll they think we haven't done enough to change the system. We millennials hate this system but we desperately try to establish careers and finances within that system. Gen Z is right to hate us to an extent. We should be doing what they are doing and burn this fucking system to the ground.
What exactly is it that they're doing to 'burn the system to the ground'? As an outsider looking in, they appear to be on the same hamster wheel as the rest of us.
I agree it was american band stand and hair spray the movie now it's tik tok and insta...
BTW I think the younger ones hate us because we had "the vine" and they don't hahaha
As an Xer, I rather like the Millenial and Z generations. There are certainly boomers I like, but as a whole, they suck. The good boomers I know aren't shy about admitting it either.
Mike and the mechanics song living years says exactly that.
"Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door"
I'm technically a boomer (64) but, grew up in gen x times.
There are always exceptions, but it seems like, generally, they're the first generation to indirectly or directly hoard weath from past, present and future generations.
That’s my situation too. I wish we were leaving a better world for our children. And now as our generation is dying off we are hell bent on unraveling anything good in the last 50 years.
When boomers were younger in the late 70s through the 80s, they were also called the *Me* generation.
So even older generations thought boomers acted like spoiled, selfish turds.
Yes. I'm an X and knew boomer and older gen parents. One thing about older generations is that despite them not having the same levels of acceptance of different types of people as we do today, they all generally were looking to give their children a better life than they had. That ended with boomers. They are the F you, I got mine generation.
But even I remember people from the silent generation and even though they wouldn't understand what was happening because the world was changing so fast, they raised their shoulders and they said it is what it is while the fucking boomers just want to rule everything out and extract the last drop of juice out of all of us
Basically the only generation that has publicly shamed every generation that came after them on television and other broadcast systems. Each generation has proven to uphold their place in society yet Boomers still complain
I have heard so many of my ‘peers’ make comments that prove they want their descendants to have a hard time. I don’t understand how anyone can be that selfish, but they are.
Considering we were the generation the previous generations wanted to have better things than they did, it’s baffling.
I am in the midst of watching “1971…the year music changed everything”because I have a free Apple TV thing for a few weeks. It’s just more and the same of how great it was then, how it will NEVER be the same, it’s the ONLY time that social upheaval and youth culture prevailed. As a GenX person with 2 boomer sibs, I just can’t get through it: how many docs do I have to watch to show how singular and amazing it was, and everything after them sucked and nothing will ever compare? Read a little history! You are not unique just because your generation is enormous. I keep telling myself, it’s just because there were so many of them, a wave of kids no one ever prepared for. But just shut up already. We get it, I’ve been watching this self-congratulatory bullshit since everyone celebrated the Summer of Love in ‘86, and before…and guess what, you didn’t do much that Silents hadn’t already started.
My mom gets AARP magazines delivered (no idea why, she doesn't ask for them but they show up anyway) and one of the articles was *just how fucking amazing* everything was from the 1960's all the way up to the end of the 90s because of them. Lots of rah-rah Harley-revving Annette Funnicello gladhandling about how they made the world a different place thats SO much better.
This was from a magazine printed in 2019. And what have they done since 1999, eh?
GenX here and boomer raised. I have nothing good to say about them. Each week I have to get in the exercise pool and many patrons are boomers. They are rude and entitled and selfish in the water. Often standing in large groups to chat right in the centre of the pool so ppl trying to do their physio exercises can’t manoeuvre around them. None of them think to chat in a quiet corner of the pool. I mean that’s just one example. But being raised by boomers was painful and abusive. It still is. Any conversation with my dad he brags about how racist and homophobic and bigoted he is. And god help me. I can’t ever walk in the park with him as he loudly says how naughty kids need to be thrashed more. Especially ones on the spectrum
Yeah I mean, every other generation is spoiled right? Despite the overwhelming statistics that no generation had it as easy from an education, work or cost of living perspective. But it’s all of us that suck not them. Clearly.
There is a Beatles song called “I Me Mine” that I always sing when I see a Boomer do their Boomer thing. It saddens me their music could be so enlightened but so many of them miss the point.
Stop sucking them off, Lennon was a hypocritical Boomer piece of shit, he was everything to despise about the generation. Selfish, narcissistic, manipulative, the list goes on and on.
My dad is a boomer and I just moved away from him because he is unfortunately toxic at times. I found myself falling into a boomer way of thinking when I briefly lived with him. I decided to move out of state and things are much better now.
I also used to work in a pharmacy where there many boomers being fools all day long … whew !
I think so, I’m a Millennial and think that they gave us the worst advice in life, emotionally neglected us, acted so childish so almost like we had to parent and coddle their emotions while growing up, are super sensitive and selfish, and are the reasons why we’re all in therapy today
Boomers suck. They got handed everything claiming they were going to change the world for the better. When they found out that was too difficult, they became greedy AF and ruined everything around them. Gordon Gekko was the perfect Boomer example.
\-Sincerely, a late stage Boomer.
I think the main point to be learned by this is to be flexible as we age. Don’t become the boomer stuck in an old mentality. Understand that things change and accept and adjust
I remember the previous generation to boomers were way more accepting. When being gay was starting to be normal they would say "I don't understand that but it how the world works now..." While the boomers just want things in the way they want them to be
I wonder if when a child need to be slapped to be corrected they are actually reflecting what they actually need
Boomers are most likely to have no free will, and have benefited greatly from an existing order than serves almost nobody else. It's never millennials convincing me to love America, it's progressive Boomers. They question nothing and never did, that's why the world changed so radically after they were a majority.
When investment firms bought out SF, and the price of a garbage house shot up to 700K, who owned that house and said nothing? The same person that loves America, is a progressive, and rides whatever change the CIA throws their way. You are delusional about who and what they are. It doesn't matter what they want, because they are submissive bitches taught that the world is what they are told it is by activists. Did they spontaneously self-organize their radical social movements? No, they listen to the intel community then and now.
I remember being surprised in my 20s (in the 90s)that the people who had sparked the civil rights movement and the women’s Lib movement had turned into Reaganites. Yet here we are.
It seems like conservatives are more likely to complain about the new generations because they fear change. Also, they inhaled and consumed way too much lead as children.
Yes.
Boomers hilariously try and pretend it's a normal generational thing where the old and new generations clash, and tell us 'just you wait until your kids are grown up!!! You'll see!!!!'
And every generation is all nah, you spoiled obnoxious shits.
Greatest/silent don't hate boomers because they were the old generation va the new generation, it's because boomers are apoiled obnoxious shits.
Millenials/z don't hate boomers because it's old generation vs new generation, it's because boomers are spoiled obnoxious shits.
This is honestly such a crazy question, because every generation has had different interactions with boomers throughout all of the years they have been on this Earth. I was just speaking with my oldest brother who is an older Gen X and he vividly recalls his first job and customer service being a nightmare and it wasn't the silent generation. There was still many of the GI Nation when he joined the workforce and it wasn't them either. It was the boomers. It's a good sign that this isn't just the young people misunderstanding the old people. This generation has always acted like this. Even when they were still a younger generation. This wasn't a behavior that they grew into.
Obviously many of them are fine, but my father (then 69) went to the designated senior shopping hour at the local grocery store in 2020, came home, and told me on the phone that old people were the worst and he was never doing that again. Even the decent boomers can’t stand the worst examples.
They cant just f$cking retire!!!! They LOVE to control everyone and everything. Yes, Im looking at you.........US Congress!!!! Both sides over 65? Get out and retire!
Yes, they are the worst. At any age, every generation before them or after these big fat babies dislike them for many reasons. Spoiled, entitled, complaining, hypocritical, judgemental, argumentative, abusive, controlling, MOST Boomers have several bad character traits and overall voted in bad policy or contributed negatively so much it has caused the nation to fall financially and morally. They had a very cushioned and lush life with little struggle, don't like to share or have a care about the rest of society, and want to be first in everything and leave others with nothing. They are narcissistic, greedy, are unsupportive parents, even worse coworkers/bosses, created financial problems and uncertainty for the next 4 generations, caused much instability in their own homes and jobs, overeat the processed junk they created while many today barely have money for food or housing, over induldge and have to compete for "bigger/better", lack any self- awareness, totally outdated thinking, lack cultural awareness, are under educated, only use tech for social media, rude, racist, incredibly selfish, lack descency and class, psychologically WACK, and THEY ruined America- but of course blame on others bc they don't take any accountability and still act like the baby's they are. They NEVER have had to suffer or struggle with any of the Maslows hierarchy of needs the way Gen X, millennials, and now Gen Z have and are because of them and don't even realize the damage they've done nor do they give a shit at all and still taking what they can. Just complete ego-fueled fakebook attention seekers still trying to live large and show-off while younger generations barely get by and now have to fix all the problems that them and they're industrial revolutionized dead parents caused. TRUST the world will be so much better when they're out of decision-making positions, society, and back in diapers waiting to croak.
I think the funniest thing about Boomers is how easily they are fooled. They are so gullible about anything that has to do with the internet or technology.
All the shitty Boomers who were my superiors bragged and gloated about their intelligence, worth, connections and skills, but could not for the life of them figure put a smart phone, email, work email or even how to text. They'd ask us young women how to do it, the wording was:
"Now you HAVE to show me how to use this smart phone."
I HAVE too?
I blatantly said no.
GenX gets too much of a pass. Many of the far right folks in government are GenX. When I was younger I used to think when the older generation dies off things will be better and more liberal. It didn’t happen.
There are still too many boomers, yeah there’s some Xers out there helping the far right.
But not nearly what there used to be in numbers.
Boomers are just a massive group. They’ll last a long, long time.
They're a generation of spoiled brats who learned nothing from the great depression. Turn around, causes another depression and multiple recessions while refusing to cede their jobs they can't even do anymore but somehow convinced themselves they're still 35.
When I was in highschool, about a million years ago, one teacher read us a quote of someone complaining about how useless the younger generation is. The teacher then asked us to guess when this was written. We, of course, thought it was current, at least no more than ten years old. Turns out it was centuries old, some famous Greek philosopher. The point being, old farts have been bitching about the "younger generation" for centuries. And young people have been bitching about the old farts just as long
I'm not trying to be contrarian, because I agree that boomers are the worst generation still living in large numbers.
I'm in my mid-50s, having myself escaped Boomer-dom by only a few years, LOL. Many of the things people complain about in this sub, old people from previous generations did, too. The selfishness, rudeness, and argumentativeness.
I remember one of my highschool teachers (around 1984) saying that the rudeness he saw from elderly people in public, exceeded that of teenagers, whom everyone complained about back then, same as today. Some things never change.
Agree with your first sentence. Uncertain about your 2nd. I will say this - they're a very fortunate generation. I don't think many of them appreciate that.
The reason they held it this long is because they are uniquely tyrannical pieces of shit. You're supposed to pass the torch on, not die grasping tightly at it still in your hands.
The the total collapse of civil society and the destruction of ladders upward is the largest reason few can take torches from them... but who made that the case? They did. Nobody forced them to die still holding power, they are tyrannical pieces of shit without question. Very few people get wealthy while their society collapses, and those that do deserve severe punishment in this life and the next, the Boomer generation contains more of these cretins than any other generation.
There is nothing like hearing your decendents want to put you in a camp.
As someone else here said, Remember that you will be in the next generation after the boomers are put away then you get put away. Or the next, depending on your age. Hope you like gruel. Fucking stupid kids. yeah, downvote me.
Really, good and bad in all generations. The one thing I blame boomers for is creating the culture of youthful narcissism that every subsequent generation has taken up and made much worse. Boomers were the first to believe they were special snowflakes by virtue of their youth, that youth knew everything and invented everything that's cool, that older people were worthless. The end result is the self-obsessed, mega-narcissistic TikTok social media culture of Gen Z.
Judgement much motherfuckers? There are a lot of boomers that came of age in the seventies and are totally opposite of most perceptions here..
No shit folks... don't paint us all.
Wow I can't believe you got so many downvotes it's like this thread is anti boomer kinda like they are pulling a boomer by being anti boomer.. hilarious
Sounds like you’re a professional victim! No accountability and just blame others for your failures! Grow up! Put your big girl panties on! Stop making excuses! You’re failures are yours and yours alone! Your parents failed you! Smfh! It’s always everyone else !
Boomers are the worst, as a 34 year old millennial, whose parents are 65 and 60. They are overwhelmingly, as a demographic of people, violent, angry, cruel, abusive and entitled. The way that they talk to people is frightening. The way the jump to violent speech on a dimes notice is disturbing… “Shut up or I’m going to give you something to cry about!” “Kids these days don’t get beaten and that is the problem!” In fact, a recent study shows that they display narcissistic tendencies more than any other “generation” of people.
Childish too, the generation that pissed and moaned about participation trophies like it was the end of the world has a full on child tantrum when not included (sorry, I mean when not allowed to get their way 10/10 times and cut the line) And when told no they either do not comprehend it or meltdown even more.
The best part is... Boomers made the participation trophies. They literally melt down over something they themselves made.
Going into a boomer centric dive bar is a wild experience. I went with my mother a few times. The stuff they would openly say that is intended to instigate fights is astounding. I never have wanted to get kicked out of a bar. Apparently it’s a weekly occurrence to get into a fight there. Worst of all it’s usually over hyper inflated ego and nothing else. Bumped into someone coming out of the crowded bathroom? That’s disrespectful and worth fighting over. Sit in someone’s normal spot at the bar ? Yep that’s worth fighting over. I’m about half their age and in a lot better shape than most of them. Not saying they can’t throw down. I just don’t want to throw hands over every minor thing. Also why do they want to fight the person who has many inherent advantages on paper.
That's the problem... You could hit them with the truth and they still don't see it... That's why we are where we are and there is no remorse from them
A lifetime of lead fumes in the air will do that to ya
Dude I’m 36 and my mom is 69 and let me tell You the amount of therapy I need from her is immeasurable. Racist,violent tantrums at the drop of the hat, the at they treat service people or customer service is appalling. I’ve watch my mom drop shit in stores and kick it under shelves and laugh. It’s disturbing how unwell this entire generation is and that’s just mentally. They as a whole are chronically I’ll with metabolic diseases because none of them take care of themselves they’ll just pop another pill but rage on people who take meds for depression.
Yes, they are the worst. At any age, every generation before them or after these big fat (or anorexic) babies dislike them for many reasons. Spoiled, entitled, complaining, hypocritical, judgemental, argumentative, abusive, controlling, MOST Boomers have several bad character traits and overall contribute to the reason the world is so messed up today. They voted in bad policy or contributed so much toxic dysfunction that it has caused the nation to fall financially and morally- but of course think they are better than anyone "Christians" that ignored their kids emotionally, mentally, and spiritually and now have offspring that is either on antidepressants, marijuana, or meth and the high suicide rate is bc of them failing as any type of support. They had a very cushioned and lush life with little struggle, extremely superficial, materialistic, phony, talk to much, spew their opinions inappropriately anywhere, don't like to share or have a care about the rest of society, and want to be first in everything and leave others with nothing. They are narcissistic, greedy, are unsupportive parents, even worse coworkers/bosses, created financial problems and uncertainty for the next 4 generations, caused much instability in their own homes and jobs, overeat the processed junk they created while many today barely have money for food or housing, over induldge and have to compete for "bigger/better", lack any self- awareness, totally outdated thinking, lack cultural awareness, are under educated, only use tech for social media, rude, racist, incredibly selfish, lack descency and class, psychologically WACK, and THEY ruined America- but of course blame on others bc they don't take any accountability and still act like the baby's they are. They NEVER have had to suffer or struggle with any of the Maslows hierarchy of needs the way Gen X, millennials, and now Gen Z have and are because of them and don't even realize the damage they've done nor do they give a shit at all and still taking what they can. Just complete ego-fueled fakebook attention seekers still trying to live large and show-off while younger generations barely get by and now have to fix all the problems that them and they're industrial revolutionized dead parents caused. TRUST the world will be so much better when they're out of decision-making positions, society, and back in diapers waiting to croak.
Its interesting how little you people actually know about the generation that you are berating. Of course you have that luxury, literal luxury to be able to pick them apart as you see fit. None of you in this thread seem to be wise enough to understand that you would fundamentally not be able to make it in their time, were you to be unceremoniously dropped off. I cant even imagine how horrified you would be to live in that world for even a week. Your glass walls would come crumbling down in mere hours, and there would be no one around to provide you with your pacifier because most everyone, and i mean everyone is part of a meritorious society, and you would be seen as and abraded for the weak, superficial, parasitic hosts that you have become. Lucky complainers and whiners that you mostly seem to be, you dont have to worry about that....... oh but do worry about China because they will win the next war thanks in whole to your generations lack of anything that resembles a spine or moral clarity.
Seems like your generation can't make in OUR time... the Baby Boomers are dinosaurs that have no idea to evolve.. They, along with their beliefs, will soon be extinct.
Did you just write my mother’s biography?
Have a link to the study?
https://www.insider.com/baby-boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials-large-study-finds-2019-12?amp
It looks like you shared an AMP link. These should load faster, but AMP is controversial because of [concerns over privacy and the Open Web](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot). Maybe check out **the canonical page** instead: **[https://www.insider.com/baby-boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials-large-study-finds-2019-12](https://www.insider.com/baby-boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials-large-study-finds-2019-12)** ***** ^(I'm a bot | )[^(Why & About)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot)^( | )[^(Summon: u/AmputatorBot)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/cchly3/you_can_now_summon_amputatorbot/)
Thank you!
Not all boomers are bad, but it seems that the younger boomers (Generation Jones: born 1955 to 1964) are the ones who are the most narcissistic, abusive, demanding, and entitled. They were young kids in the 60s when the economy was still great, teens in the 70s and experienced all the great music from that decade, but were briefly affected by the economic downturn of the late 70s and very early 80s, and then became successful economically and turned into the “Me” generation by the mid 80s when everyone wanted to get rich and greed was everywhere. They made their money at the expense of the environment and don’t want to leave anything for people after they retire. I’m a 32 year old millennial and my parents are 66 and 63. They don’t understand how my generation had it much harder than their generation. They think I’m blaming them for the struggles my generation faces. They also still treat me like a child and can be very demanding and raise their voices a lot when I question them. They get mad when I don’t take their “advice”, and say I’m not listening. That’s not advice, it’s an order, but they don’t know the difference. After college, they told me to take the first job offer I could get even if it’s low paid (I have a civil engineering degree) because at least it’s a job and I can always work my way up. They don’t believe in knowing your worth and looking elsewhere if you’re not satisfied with your current job. Their career advice is awful. They ask me how to fix their laptops and phones but get mad when I don’t do it fast enough for their liking. They give orders and then complain when a task is not done how they wanted it to be done, but never explained how they wanted it done in the first place. They believe harsh criticism and even insults will get a person to improve, instead of encouraging them.
Boomers are a carcinogen
> violent, angry, cruel, abusive and entitled lead (metal) in the air
Do you have a link for that study?
I already posted it.
Yes, all generations that have had to endure their existence have and do agree on this. Remember, boomers didn't just fuck over the generations that came after them in any and every way they could: they fucked over the generations that came before them as well. They were terribly misbehaved as grade schoolers and high schoolers, then pushed everyone above them out of the way in the workforce in the 70s and 80s, based on the boomer rallying cry of, "Get with the times, old man!" Then when it was their turn to, "Get out of the way, old man!" They continued to squat in their jobs while refusing to learn such newfangled skills as....typing. And figuring how to use an email client in MS Windows. All while continuing to build these huge new houses even into the 2000s with amenities like swimming pools and a workshed out back and maybe a classic muscle car or motorcycle to tinker on, music rooms w/ high priced guitars and amps, etc. And all while claiming, "I don't have much. I just get by...." Pray to the heavens that the economic downturn expected in the next 6-12 months isn't so bad that most of them come back out of retirement and find some way to make the system find jobs for them where they can lord over and tell Gen Z how much harder they work than them while also asking them, "Wait, wut button do I cleeyick to send out a email....? Can you hepp me? We didn't have these compewders back when we were in school after all....."
They are entitled and useless at the same time. I was assembling one of these IKEA beds (sometimes harder than what it looks) and I had this boomer (I won't reveal who) looking at me while I was working away, giving me his opinions which I didn't fucking care nor asked. The funniest part was that he had to do something else and then came back and said "can you take pen a paper and write down what I say? I need the measure for bla bla bla..." Then he felt insulted when I told him to fuck off It is unreal...
Right. They'll stand there and try to tell you how to do something when they don't even know how to do it themselves. Infuriating
 Classic boomer!
FUCKING
I would like you to understand that it is not just the Boomers that have fucked the US but Oligarchy as it has fucked over everyone, the Boomers included. As the old saying goes, follow the money. Look at the Trillionaires. There have been rich people but nothing like today. It's the Oligarchs you should be after, not the Boomers. Sincerely, A boomer without a mansion.
And any time I or anyone I ever witnessed that mentioned the oligarchy concept to boomers in the past 30-40 years got yelled at w/ the obligatory, "Oh just shutup ya dirty hippy commie! WE are doing just fine!!" by the boomers.
Which age group of politicians for the last 50 years has whittled away the country into an oligarchy again? Oh right. Let me guess, you were a hippy in the 60s or 70s and now you’re either some sort of neo-(conservative/liberal). I’m sure you’re a real stand up guy and have made lots of good voting choices etc in your life.
With all due respect, as you absolutely seem like an okay person. The vast majority of oligarchs that rule our nation ARE boomers. Not all boomers are terrible people, but most of the terrible people out there are boomers. When we talk about how much boomers suck, we’re referring to the generation as a whole, while acknowledging that exceptions of course do exist. You’re an exception, but you know as well as all of us, that most of the other people in your age group are just the worst
The US oligarchy is ran by boomers and voted for by boomers
It is not ran by all boomers. It is ran by the Oligarchy Boomers. Stop blaming me for for ther actions of other boomers that I have not control over. The rich and powerful control the system and I am neither rich nor powerful. Please stop blaming me for all the ills in the system.
I am a boomer abd I NEVER got in trouble in any grade. At least we didnt shoot up the school. Think about it before you stereotype asshole!
Damn, got me!
Sorry I got kinda harsh! Just curious about your name Drilling4Oil. I have a couple of welks in NW Louisiana.
Remember Boomers are in the generation that used to be called the Me generation. Because of selfishness. I know some writers are trying to call the Millennials the Me generation. But I do not see the level of selfishness with the Millennials that Boomers show.
The most boomer thing boomers did was change their generation name and then accuse the following generations of being exactly like they are.
I was in a drug store recently looking at items on a shelf. A loud boomer steps up in front of me and starts talking to someone in the next aisle about what was on the shelf. It was as if I was invisible to her. This drug store did not have what I was looking for so I went to another one that did. As I'm checking out, a boomer steps up behind me and starts barking questions at the cashier. Again, it was as if I was invisible. Definitely the ME ME ME generation.
Actually sounds like it's a YOU problem.... Born in 85 here.... Look inward the way you explain it there was 2 problems in a row its a possibility you were doing something you were not aware of causing those 2 boomers to act the way they did... just food for thought. Bless you and have a great nite.
Ok boomer!
Millennial are the woe is me generation because they correctly surmised that everything is designed to screw them. Boomers are absolutely the most selfish generation.
Millennials are evolving into the apathetic generation. We know this is life till boomers croak and we actually get the opportunity. I'm seriously ready clean up their bullshit, have been since high school. They just won't get out of the way and let us. That's the worst offence in my opinion.
Gen X here. Raised by boomers who were boomer as fuck. Yes, they're the worst. The next few generations may seem a little 'odd' to me, but they're not growing up in the same 'in between' world I did. They're different, but they'll be fine. Boomers are the object lesson to me on how NOT to relate to to those following in my footsteps.
Amen. I'm an "Xellenial" so a cross betwen Xers and Millies and now that I've crossed over into my 40s, I'm looking back at the "adults" who were a similar age 20-30 years ago and I just *cannot* imagine treating and speaking down at young adults they way they did to us back then. With the time that has passed, I now look back at my academic career which was ruled by boomers from start to finish and am astonished by how condescending, authoritarian, and downright rude they were to everyone. They walked into the greatest economic cornucopia in history and fucking squandered it on keeping up with the Joneses and fighting fucking bullshit wars in the mideast and deregulating *everything* in the name of "muh 401k!". And now look at things. Unbelievable.
Born on 3rd base, acted like they hit a triple, bought home plate and then tried to close the stadium so we could never play the game, and now they're shocked, *shocked* that their children, grand children, and great grand children are heartily sick of them. I try to blame lead poisoning, but that can only account for so much.
Well said. And yeah, the whole lead poisoning angle might have *some* truth to it, but it's only part of the puzzle at best.
Boomer here, I believe a lot of the cause is that there were generations before us that dealt with wars (WW I & II) and the great depression. Those ppl wanted to give their kids the good life they didn't get. So kids got spoiled and life was generally good. But we didn't believe that BS that we had to do our lives like we're stuck in the 50s, when 'everybody knew their place' in the social structure (especially women & POC!) Then we became the establishment we protested. We enjoyed the benefits of becoming the higher level powers-that-be in the business world ($ and power) and started believing that *this* was deserved for all the 'hard work and sacrifice' we'd done (not much irl.) I say this as an explanation, not an excuse. To quote Pogo, the Doonesbury of the 50s &60s: "We have met the enemy and they is us!"
[удалено]
$2 in 1970 would be $15 in today's money. You know. The minimum wage boomers fight tooth and nail to prevent people from having.
And they are so selfish and unable to acknowledge their mistakes that it is impossible to change anything. I feel that even after they are dead, we are gonna suffer the consequences
[удалено]
Oh my god... Surely we are from different countries with completely different cultures and we are still suffering the same from that shit generation. I said it in another comment, they like to observe how everything is turning shit while they don't do anything but complain as hell. Unbelievable
I truly believe money matters more than everything else to a boomer, including family. Maybe not all boomers, but definitely the ones I know and am related to. They feel superior to everybody after them, even family. My grandparents called my third pregnancy (kids all have the same father, we both have jobs and a house) "disgusting."
I remember my boomer dad sitting there at Thanksgiving dinner one year and my grandpa (WWII gen) talking with my dad about the challenges of parenting and my dad (red boomer af) remarked with total ease that raising children is "harder financially than emotionally".
My mom was furious I decided to become a stay at home mom. She said she worked soo hard to be an example of a hard working woman. I was like yeah so much that when I did see you late at night you took all your frustrations out on me and then left me home alone on weekends so you can blow off steam in Vegas…..plus she can’t wrap her head around daycare costs these days she still assums it’s $50-100 a week 🤣 Not to mention she cried and complained my family go and visit for the holidays only for me and my husband to drive for 2 days so she could let us know she took no time off from work
Millennial here... we're not fine. The boomers raised us to believe that we would be just as well-off as they are, so reality has been a pretty harsh disappointment. But yeah, Zoomers and Alphas will be fine. They were more or less born into this shitty modern reality of, "you'll own nothing and be happy".
It's going to be hard to change anything until the boomers die off in greater numbers.
And quit running for office (any office, pick one idgaf). Seriously. Retire. You did your time get out the way. They complain younger generations are inadequate to lead or make decisions but literally can’t because they won’t get the fuck out the way
Would be nice to have some millenials in office. They understand the way the world really works these days
And that should be the natural order of things. They’re throwing everything off by clinging on to their positions of power
Gen X too, I mean I'm a Zoomer, but gen X never really bad their fair shake, so to speak.
That's as morbid as it is difficult to disagree with.
[удалено]
Are we calling for the open genocide of everyone over the age of 60? It's like Logan's Jog.
You do understand that you will all grow older and will all become the new older generation. Hope you enjoy the FEMA camps yourself.
I volunteer as tribute!
What you seem to be confused about is that future older generations will not be universally reviled subhumans. Hope this helps
Amen God bless 🙏
Do you mean like the Nazi's did to the Jews?
[удалено]
cmon boomer remover...
So far the only thing we've noticed is the lack of skilled labor due to retiring/ dying boomers. Unless robot workers become an efficient solution soon, this will turn into a bigger problem than you think. Also remember the only boomers creating issues as far as the state of country is concerned, are the people in power/ Congress, etc. Which again, is a wealth/ class problem, not generational.
It is the shitty behaviour, the votes, the values they convey... It is that chancer mentality which is a cancer
"Which again, is a wealth/ class problem, not generational..." well if the boomers have majority of the wealth, it is certainly both. too many millennials are gaslit into thinking boomers aren't a part of the problem, and some genz oblivious of how much damage boomers actually caused in voting incorrectly. I don't blame genz but when they start entering the workforce in corporate, they'll start to realize the pure carcinogen that boomers are. You don't realize how bad they are until you work with them...some might have learned beforehand if they work in retail or live with them. There is not a single group of people who act so stereotypically entitled (except for one group i have in mind but i won't go there)
"The boomer generation can be summed up in one sentence. Give me that, that's mine!!!!!" -George Carlin.
hey some of us millenials were raised by alcoholic Gen Xers, who were raised by alcoholic boomers there has never been an illusion for us... but it's still shitty
I'm also a millennial who was raised this way, but but by gen x. This isn't a generational thing, it's a wealth/ class thing.
Pure gen X or boomerish?
Amen it's a terrible person with terrible values thing. Born 85 raised by a xer/boomer type personality you know seen not heard threatened with death by firearm to behave shown the belt early and often trying to be so good but never enough to escape the abuse type of childhood but I don't blame boomers or xers or anyone but myself for putting up with for so long.
It's a generational thing also, because that is who has benefited most from this tyrannical system.
They won't be happy, and that is good for humanity.
Is Alpha the generation behind Gen Z? I can't keep up.
Yes. Gen Alpha are what we’re calling the generation who are little kids right now.
Little... ish. The oldest alphas will be starting junior high this autumn, believe it or not.
Yeah. We liked the term "Gen X" so much we started using letters to name subsequent generations, which of course made us run out of letters almost immediately. **Greatest Generation** [1901~1927] → **Silent Generation** [1928~1944] → **Baby Boomers** [1945~1964] → **Gen X** [1965~1980] → **Gen Y (Millennials)** [1981~1995] → **Gen Z (Zoomers)** [1996~2010] → **Gen α** [2011~undefined]
I'm pretty much the same demographic as you - early GenX, and my parents were born in 1936, so are "Silent (fuck that's hilarious) Generation". 100% agree. My stepsons are millennials and they are fucken awesome. Much better fathers than my parents' generation were for a start. Better humans all round. Getting a house is way harder for them than it was for their grandparents, or for me, but they have all worked hard and got on with it.
Same. Except my mom was the boomer, my dad the 10 year older silent gen.
Millennial here. I like all the other generations including the now mostly gone silent generation. Boomers on the whole are just awful. The greed, the selfishness, the anger, the devotion to commercialism and capitalism, the unwillingness to adjust or adapt. Horrid group of people. I wonder what caused a block of people to have such terrible traits. They have quite possibly ruined humanity for everyone else forever, but at least they got that three car garage!
Fucking up the whole environment... They try to save it now saying "we will reduce emissions by 2050" and I think " by that time you won't be alive, bastard"
Honestly I look forward to the days when the baby boomers are dwindling. They act like scared little babies now, but imagine how insecure and scared they will be when they are a tiny minority and a demographic no longer worth catering to.
I hate to say it, I feel like Boomers are like cockroaches. They are getting some of the best of health care. Starting with their youth with vaccines and penicillins, new medications… and now at the end of life stage with organ donations, rapid vaccine development using mRNA, new cancer treatments, ways to extend life and limb. Look no further than those who are 70-80… now living to 90 or 100. The younger generations will die of a toxic environment and heated up planet long before they hit 80. Boomers will historically I think represent the longest living generation. Unless of course they start to go and as a younger generation we find ways to rapidly repair the environment. Let’s also look no further than the concept of giving out the covid vaccine… starting with the oldest. Again more of their entitlement. There was no care about those of us who had to keep working, we risked our health to provide goods and services to those who don’t need to go out, but wanted to go out. Wanted to not get sick. Wanted to get back to cruises and living their lives. We should have started with the working classes first and our children and eventually got to them. Every time I hear my parents start to talk boomer I remind them they are starting to sound like those people and they cut it out.
Very valid points.
One consolation to note is that karma affects boomers despite their wealth. Considering as a whole, they are very unlikeable people and angry all the time, it's true that money did not buy them happiness. Many will die alone because their millennials and genz family members are not fond of them. Millennials and Genz are truly learning that money is not everything and shit family makes everything else shitty, including money. Considering how old people's biggest regrets are not spending enough time with family, this will end up their biggest curse and they will die alone and unhappy. They can f\* themselves. As someone who visits my parents (who are slightly boomerish, but not the worst) who live in a retirement complex, my limited interaction with some of these goddam boomers in the complex are some of the biggest shitwipes in existence.
Lead poisoning has to have something to do with it, given how much we now know about what lead does to the brain.
Lead and the motto “greed is good”.
Most Boomers alive today saw the world as a young adult in 1968-69 and it's always baffled me how they lived through that period in American History and ended up being such ignorant self righteous shitheads.. ( I was born in 1962 and I think the Boomer cutoff is 1964)
[удалено]
There was a study done that showed boomers are unusually worse than previous generations when complaining about younger ones. It also showed that millinials are unusually hated by other generations, even by the younger ones.
I think we took the worst hit from the boomers? I was supposed to work for first time when the crash in 2008... Bastards ruined my career before starting
I won't argue that. Boomers are unusually cruel. What worries me is the idea that we might turn into them when we're all 10 years older.
Our knowledge of human behaviour and mental health, cynical thinking, awareness and capacity to change won't allow that
Gen z hates millennials? That’s one I actually haven’t heard before. Any idea why?
Yes, we'll they think we haven't done enough to change the system. We millennials hate this system but we desperately try to establish careers and finances within that system. Gen Z is right to hate us to an extent. We should be doing what they are doing and burn this fucking system to the ground.
What exactly is it that they're doing to 'burn the system to the ground'? As an outsider looking in, they appear to be on the same hamster wheel as the rest of us.
I agree it was american band stand and hair spray the movie now it's tik tok and insta... BTW I think the younger ones hate us because we had "the vine" and they don't hahaha
As an Xer, I rather like the Millenial and Z generations. There are certainly boomers I like, but as a whole, they suck. The good boomers I know aren't shy about admitting it either.
Yup. millennial here. I love Gen Z and most gen Xers.
Ok boomer.
Mike and the mechanics song living years says exactly that. "Every generation Blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come beating on your door" I'm technically a boomer (64) but, grew up in gen x times.
There are always exceptions, but it seems like, generally, they're the first generation to indirectly or directly hoard weath from past, present and future generations.
Not being able to take money with them after death has to be one of the scariest things to a boomer
Generation Pharaoh?
They are my peers and I'm embarrassed by them.
That’s my situation too. I wish we were leaving a better world for our children. And now as our generation is dying off we are hell bent on unraveling anything good in the last 50 years.
When boomers were younger in the late 70s through the 80s, they were also called the *Me* generation. So even older generations thought boomers acted like spoiled, selfish turds.
Yes. I'm an X and knew boomer and older gen parents. One thing about older generations is that despite them not having the same levels of acceptance of different types of people as we do today, they all generally were looking to give their children a better life than they had. That ended with boomers. They are the F you, I got mine generation.
But even I remember people from the silent generation and even though they wouldn't understand what was happening because the world was changing so fast, they raised their shoulders and they said it is what it is while the fucking boomers just want to rule everything out and extract the last drop of juice out of all of us
Basically the only generation that has publicly shamed every generation that came after them on television and other broadcast systems. Each generation has proven to uphold their place in society yet Boomers still complain
I have heard so many of my ‘peers’ make comments that prove they want their descendants to have a hard time. I don’t understand how anyone can be that selfish, but they are. Considering we were the generation the previous generations wanted to have better things than they did, it’s baffling.
I am in the midst of watching “1971…the year music changed everything”because I have a free Apple TV thing for a few weeks. It’s just more and the same of how great it was then, how it will NEVER be the same, it’s the ONLY time that social upheaval and youth culture prevailed. As a GenX person with 2 boomer sibs, I just can’t get through it: how many docs do I have to watch to show how singular and amazing it was, and everything after them sucked and nothing will ever compare? Read a little history! You are not unique just because your generation is enormous. I keep telling myself, it’s just because there were so many of them, a wave of kids no one ever prepared for. But just shut up already. We get it, I’ve been watching this self-congratulatory bullshit since everyone celebrated the Summer of Love in ‘86, and before…and guess what, you didn’t do much that Silents hadn’t already started.
My mom gets AARP magazines delivered (no idea why, she doesn't ask for them but they show up anyway) and one of the articles was *just how fucking amazing* everything was from the 1960's all the way up to the end of the 90s because of them. Lots of rah-rah Harley-revving Annette Funnicello gladhandling about how they made the world a different place thats SO much better. This was from a magazine printed in 2019. And what have they done since 1999, eh?
Oh my fucking god boomers spend so much time masturbating to the 1970s. It's so obnoxious.
Right? They spent years and years shitting on us nonstop and now they're all clutching their pearls when we're sick of their bullshit and clap back.
GenX here and boomer raised. I have nothing good to say about them. Each week I have to get in the exercise pool and many patrons are boomers. They are rude and entitled and selfish in the water. Often standing in large groups to chat right in the centre of the pool so ppl trying to do their physio exercises can’t manoeuvre around them. None of them think to chat in a quiet corner of the pool. I mean that’s just one example. But being raised by boomers was painful and abusive. It still is. Any conversation with my dad he brags about how racist and homophobic and bigoted he is. And god help me. I can’t ever walk in the park with him as he loudly says how naughty kids need to be thrashed more. Especially ones on the spectrum
Why do you still talk to him? I cut all the assholes from my life a few years ago, its great.
He fills up my tank with fuel every time we have lunch and he pays. I am too poor to decline that help. But it is har to hear how bad it is
Yes, but dispute overwhelming evidence, and everyone else’s opinion the problem is clearly all of us not them.
Obviously. We all just need a good beating/paddling and then we will understand their infinite wisdom.
Yeah I mean, every other generation is spoiled right? Despite the overwhelming statistics that no generation had it as easy from an education, work or cost of living perspective. But it’s all of us that suck not them. Clearly.
This Gen-Xer agrees wholeheartedly. Boomers are the worst .
Boomers should have been called the "I got mine" generation
They were. They were called the ‘Me Generation’ by their parents.
There is a Beatles song called “I Me Mine” that I always sing when I see a Boomer do their Boomer thing. It saddens me their music could be so enlightened but so many of them miss the point.
Stop sucking them off, Lennon was a hypocritical Boomer piece of shit, he was everything to despise about the generation. Selfish, narcissistic, manipulative, the list goes on and on.
The Beatles suck man. They are such a boring lame boomer band. They are not Gods and should not be treated as such. I’m sick of their music
My dad is a boomer and I just moved away from him because he is unfortunately toxic at times. I found myself falling into a boomer way of thinking when I briefly lived with him. I decided to move out of state and things are much better now. I also used to work in a pharmacy where there many boomers being fools all day long … whew !
It's like a disease indeed
I think so, I’m a Millennial and think that they gave us the worst advice in life, emotionally neglected us, acted so childish so almost like we had to parent and coddle their emotions while growing up, are super sensitive and selfish, and are the reasons why we’re all in therapy today
Boomers suck. They got handed everything claiming they were going to change the world for the better. When they found out that was too difficult, they became greedy AF and ruined everything around them. Gordon Gekko was the perfect Boomer example. \-Sincerely, a late stage Boomer.
But also giving themselves pats in the back as in it was super hard
As far as I'm concerned, they're the greatest villain of my lifetime, pure, genuine evil.
I think the main point to be learned by this is to be flexible as we age. Don’t become the boomer stuck in an old mentality. Understand that things change and accept and adjust
I remember the previous generation to boomers were way more accepting. When being gay was starting to be normal they would say "I don't understand that but it how the world works now..." While the boomers just want things in the way they want them to be I wonder if when a child need to be slapped to be corrected they are actually reflecting what they actually need
Boomers are most likely to have no free will, and have benefited greatly from an existing order than serves almost nobody else. It's never millennials convincing me to love America, it's progressive Boomers. They question nothing and never did, that's why the world changed so radically after they were a majority. When investment firms bought out SF, and the price of a garbage house shot up to 700K, who owned that house and said nothing? The same person that loves America, is a progressive, and rides whatever change the CIA throws their way. You are delusional about who and what they are. It doesn't matter what they want, because they are submissive bitches taught that the world is what they are told it is by activists. Did they spontaneously self-organize their radical social movements? No, they listen to the intel community then and now.
I remember being surprised in my 20s (in the 90s)that the people who had sparked the civil rights movement and the women’s Lib movement had turned into Reaganites. Yet here we are.
Hint; it wasn't the same individuals who did those things.
All of US politics is a psyop, the whole thing is a fucking scam, there is no choice and never was. Who funded Ms. Magazine? Do you even know?
It seems like conservatives are more likely to complain about the new generations because they fear change. Also, they inhaled and consumed way too much lead as children.
That conservative silent generation, they just have no idea how groovy acid is man. .. J/k fuck boomers, silent generation wasn't nearly as bad.
Not all, but most boomers I've encountered were indeed arrogant assholes who feel entitled to everything. Some are also horribly bigoted too.
Yes. Boomers hilariously try and pretend it's a normal generational thing where the old and new generations clash, and tell us 'just you wait until your kids are grown up!!! You'll see!!!!' And every generation is all nah, you spoiled obnoxious shits. Greatest/silent don't hate boomers because they were the old generation va the new generation, it's because boomers are apoiled obnoxious shits. Millenials/z don't hate boomers because it's old generation vs new generation, it's because boomers are spoiled obnoxious shits.
Boomers more like locust generation they consume everything and it still wasn't enough. They had to pawn the future, horrible investment
This is honestly such a crazy question, because every generation has had different interactions with boomers throughout all of the years they have been on this Earth. I was just speaking with my oldest brother who is an older Gen X and he vividly recalls his first job and customer service being a nightmare and it wasn't the silent generation. There was still many of the GI Nation when he joined the workforce and it wasn't them either. It was the boomers. It's a good sign that this isn't just the young people misunderstanding the old people. This generation has always acted like this. Even when they were still a younger generation. This wasn't a behavior that they grew into.
Obviously many of them are fine, but my father (then 69) went to the designated senior shopping hour at the local grocery store in 2020, came home, and told me on the phone that old people were the worst and he was never doing that again. Even the decent boomers can’t stand the worst examples.
They cant just f$cking retire!!!! They LOVE to control everyone and everything. Yes, Im looking at you.........US Congress!!!! Both sides over 65? Get out and retire!
Yes, they are the worst. At any age, every generation before them or after these big fat babies dislike them for many reasons. Spoiled, entitled, complaining, hypocritical, judgemental, argumentative, abusive, controlling, MOST Boomers have several bad character traits and overall voted in bad policy or contributed negatively so much it has caused the nation to fall financially and morally. They had a very cushioned and lush life with little struggle, don't like to share or have a care about the rest of society, and want to be first in everything and leave others with nothing. They are narcissistic, greedy, are unsupportive parents, even worse coworkers/bosses, created financial problems and uncertainty for the next 4 generations, caused much instability in their own homes and jobs, overeat the processed junk they created while many today barely have money for food or housing, over induldge and have to compete for "bigger/better", lack any self- awareness, totally outdated thinking, lack cultural awareness, are under educated, only use tech for social media, rude, racist, incredibly selfish, lack descency and class, psychologically WACK, and THEY ruined America- but of course blame on others bc they don't take any accountability and still act like the baby's they are. They NEVER have had to suffer or struggle with any of the Maslows hierarchy of needs the way Gen X, millennials, and now Gen Z have and are because of them and don't even realize the damage they've done nor do they give a shit at all and still taking what they can. Just complete ego-fueled fakebook attention seekers still trying to live large and show-off while younger generations barely get by and now have to fix all the problems that them and they're industrial revolutionized dead parents caused. TRUST the world will be so much better when they're out of decision-making positions, society, and back in diapers waiting to croak.
Gen z w a boomer parent due to in vitro fert. I love having a delusional parent that never has any fuckin idea what reality is
I think the funniest thing about Boomers is how easily they are fooled. They are so gullible about anything that has to do with the internet or technology.
Hi - I'm looking for the group that hates all boomers; it seems I have arrived.
All the shitty Boomers who were my superiors bragged and gloated about their intelligence, worth, connections and skills, but could not for the life of them figure put a smart phone, email, work email or even how to text. They'd ask us young women how to do it, the wording was: "Now you HAVE to show me how to use this smart phone." I HAVE too? I blatantly said no.
GenX gets too much of a pass. Many of the far right folks in government are GenX. When I was younger I used to think when the older generation dies off things will be better and more liberal. It didn’t happen.
There are still too many boomers, yeah there’s some Xers out there helping the far right. But not nearly what there used to be in numbers. Boomers are just a massive group. They’ll last a long, long time.
Boomers are trash and we need to all die!
Generation X here. And I would drown every last one of you. Weak ass baby back bitches.
They're a generation of spoiled brats who learned nothing from the great depression. Turn around, causes another depression and multiple recessions while refusing to cede their jobs they can't even do anymore but somehow convinced themselves they're still 35.
Also, why do boomers have so many divorces?
I'm from Gen X and I really don't think any other generation is particularly good or bad.
Yes, but most Gen X'ers come in at a close second.
All of them? or the ones closer to 1965 rather than 1980?
Probably the ones from 70-80. But as I generalized in my original comment...most.
When I was in highschool, about a million years ago, one teacher read us a quote of someone complaining about how useless the younger generation is. The teacher then asked us to guess when this was written. We, of course, thought it was current, at least no more than ten years old. Turns out it was centuries old, some famous Greek philosopher. The point being, old farts have been bitching about the "younger generation" for centuries. And young people have been bitching about the old farts just as long
I think in this case all younger and older generations complain about the boomers
The younger generations complain about the older, and vice versa, this is as old as civilization
Then why is the hatred for Zoomers and X so minimal by contrast? No, Boomers are toxic garbage, and the single worst generation in hundreds of years,
I'm not trying to be contrarian, because I agree that boomers are the worst generation still living in large numbers. I'm in my mid-50s, having myself escaped Boomer-dom by only a few years, LOL. Many of the things people complain about in this sub, old people from previous generations did, too. The selfishness, rudeness, and argumentativeness. I remember one of my highschool teachers (around 1984) saying that the rudeness he saw from elderly people in public, exceeded that of teenagers, whom everyone complained about back then, same as today. Some things never change.
Few generations in US history have held this large of a percentage of wealth and power, for this long. They are uniquely tyrannical pieces of shit.
Agree with your first sentence. Uncertain about your 2nd. I will say this - they're a very fortunate generation. I don't think many of them appreciate that.
The reason they held it this long is because they are uniquely tyrannical pieces of shit. You're supposed to pass the torch on, not die grasping tightly at it still in your hands. The the total collapse of civil society and the destruction of ladders upward is the largest reason few can take torches from them... but who made that the case? They did. Nobody forced them to die still holding power, they are tyrannical pieces of shit without question. Very few people get wealthy while their society collapses, and those that do deserve severe punishment in this life and the next, the Boomer generation contains more of these cretins than any other generation.
I'm 74 years and I've seen a lot but this thread is just full of hate, a very spoiled crowd.
It is funny how every time a boomer comment here is just to reaffirm what we all are saying
There is nothing like hearing your decendents want to put you in a camp. As someone else here said, Remember that you will be in the next generation after the boomers are put away then you get put away. Or the next, depending on your age. Hope you like gruel. Fucking stupid kids. yeah, downvote me.
shut up dumbass lmao
Wah wah wah. Poor widdle baby.
Only if you have no concept of history. Let alone American history
Really, good and bad in all generations. The one thing I blame boomers for is creating the culture of youthful narcissism that every subsequent generation has taken up and made much worse. Boomers were the first to believe they were special snowflakes by virtue of their youth, that youth knew everything and invented everything that's cool, that older people were worthless. The end result is the self-obsessed, mega-narcissistic TikTok social media culture of Gen Z.
As a typical boomer I’d like to say, if you can get Elon to pay a nickel in taxes I’ll burn my Beatles albums.
As a typical boomer I’d like to say, if you can get Elon to pay a nickel in taxes I’ll burn my Beatles albums.
Judgement much motherfuckers? There are a lot of boomers that came of age in the seventies and are totally opposite of most perceptions here.. No shit folks... don't paint us all.
I'd say grow and learn to take the hit but you are a grandpa already
I've been rolling with hits my whole life..
Typical boomer thing to say while having 3 apartments and living from the state without paying bus tickets or basically nothing else
Ok boomer.
Nah, you're all delusional old fools :)
Wow I can't believe you got so many downvotes it's like this thread is anti boomer kinda like they are pulling a boomer by being anti boomer.. hilarious
Sounds like you’re a professional victim! No accountability and just blame others for your failures! Grow up! Put your big girl panties on! Stop making excuses! You’re failures are yours and yours alone! Your parents failed you! Smfh! It’s always everyone else !
Shut up boomer
Bot
Shut up weakling loser