[dmarti1973]

I actually get a kick out of reading TOTV daily just to see what reactions some of the posts get. It amazes me at times how incredible some of them actually are.

[BS Beef]

I guess I’m in the minority here. Most of the time they seem to be more in fun. A poke at me. I give it right back. My 15 year old granddaughter gave me an eye roll and an “Ok, Boomer”. We had a fun back and forth, but then ultimately led to us to having an interesting in-depth conversation.

[Stormlover]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Me? I'm a boomer. 1961, near the end of the generation. Too young to have been a hippie, too young to understand how the bulk of my own generation can't figure out how to fix a computer, but too old to have much empathy for the middle generations complaining that work is hard.

Gen-X here. Cynical slacker, resigned mid-lifer, living between caring for elderly parents and idiotic spoiled children (of which I have none). I'm unsurprised and accepting of whatever bad things happen in the world because I'm pretty used to it by now.

But I tell you what: When I see that "OK Boomer" phrase, my thought is, "And don't you forget it, child. I'm well aware of the power I have to **** you off royally and I'm happy to use it whenever the mood strikes me. Stop being so easily controlled by your peers and your own inability to think for yourself."

Ignore that ****, folks. Crybabies have rarely ever contributed anything meaningful to society and the only emotion I waste on them is the occasional eyeroll.

[karostay]

Originally Posted by MorTech

Seeing more like this one:

"OK Boomer...Hurry up and die" -Your Grandchildren

Seems the young are blaming the old for destroying their future.

Sad...I suspect they are going to live to hate us.

Whats their future they have absolutely no social or life skills
If it doesn't come pre packaged or in a text it doesn't exist

[Ronnieslager]

Oh my, how wrong you are!

[mydavid]

Sounds like we done a really good job.

[clwahlstrom]

Now, why even post that. That’s pretty depressing. Unnecessary.

[Heyitsrick]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

"We" (the baby boom generation) didn't create pollution. We didn't create hate, we didn't create the pandemic. We didn't create the poverty, or homeless, and we didn't create climate change. Inept/corrupt governments are not a new thing. (etc.)

Great post.

The notion that "Boomers" are exclusively responsible for the ills of this nation is absurd. There's no perfect generation. There's no generation that hasn't contributed to where we are as a nation, for both good and bad.

If you're wondering who that includes, that means you, your children, your grandchildren and your grandparents. You can keep going back in time to earlier generations, as well. Everyone has had a hand in it all.

That's the truth that I'm "OK" with.

[karostay]

Originally Posted by Heyitsrick

Great post.

The notion that "Boomers" are exclusively responsible for the ills of this nation is absurd. There's no perfect generation. There's no generation that hasn't contributed to where we are as a nation, for both good and bad.

If you're wondering who that includes, that means you, your children, your grandchildren and your grandparents. You can keep going back in time to earlier generations, as well. Everyone has had a hand in it all.

That's the truth that I'm "OK" with.

Far more easier to crack a genetic code than figure out what the real truth is in anything these days

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by maggie1

I don't quite get the meaning of the statement. Are they blaming us for the hate that festers against one another, the pollution we've created and continue to spread, the current pandemic, the poverty, the homeless, inept government, global warming..........wait, I believe I've answered my own question.

................and when was the world any different?

[NFRicaS]

Originally Posted by Choro&Swing

I think the origins of this “OK Boomer” saying, said with en eye roll by people much younger than us, is weariness with people our age telling them how much more wonderful we were when we were young, how much better our music was, how much cooler we were, how much more . . . Fill in the blank. Is it offensive? You bet! Are we to blame for everything wrong? No, of course not!

However, can you remember back to the late sixties and early seventies? A lot of us thought our parents and grandparents were hopelessly old-fashioned. They didn’t like our attitudes toward the war, racism, poverty, capitalism, white collar jobs. We were eager to take over the country and make it better. Really, we weren’t all that different from young people today in our impatience with people older than us. We were highly offensive, too. When I started college in 1972, the Dean of Students had a sign on his desk reading “Vote, but get a haircut.” I thought “Pig” was an acceptable term for a police officer. Times change!

Remember when our parents and Ed Sullivan hated the twitching hips of Elvis Presley? Makes me laugh at what we look at now!!

[Fenster]

Again, a neutral term has been turned into an epithet. It should be treated like any other pejorative designed to convey disdain and sometimes hate.

[asianthree]

Everyday our 3 children text, and say

We don’t have time from our 16 hour shift 7 days a week, to say a prayer for those we just lost.

So, Don’t make me come down there to make sure you are following the guidelines.

So this generation in my family is taking care of those in our generation

[daveczo]

Ok Karen.

Originally Posted by NFRicaS

Remember when our parents and Ed Sullivan hated the twitching hips of Elvis Presley? Makes me laugh at what we look at now!!

Or married couples on TV in twin beds, and the only expletives were “gee” and “egad.”