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  I am?!?! I thought I just adopted hep lingo. Really lean into that Ginsburg vibe, dig me?
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  My favorite is the participation trophy criticism. As if kids wanted the crappie trophies not parent’s demand their kid get one. >
  
  I had a discussion with a client one day. He was complaining that "these millennials, they all want cake for birthday, so now we have a cake every month." There isn't a goddamned millennial in the world who went into a job interview saying, "I'm not taking this job unless there's cake." They want fair wages, and to be able to afford a house, the cake is appeasement. >
  
  Nobody was looking forward to “unlimited overtime tonight since we had the office party earlier, remember to be a team player” I didn’t ask for the cake and I have meat thawing in the sink at home so I’m gone. I wanted my girlfriend to get me a cake, most normal people don’t care if the entire office acknowledges their birthday. We got the boss a cupcake once to suck up attempting to save our three person department, that’s it. >
  
  I do not like cake.  It's way too sweet for me.  Every goddamn time "You better get some cake before its gone!  Do you want me to get you a piece?" No thanks, I don't really like cake.  "YOU DONT LIKE CAAAAAKE!????". 
  Holy fuck Linda, they sell it at the store across the street.  You earn like 4 cakes an hour in wages.  Why are you acting like there is a wagyu stake and lobster buffet in the break room? >
  
  I’ve never encountered people baffled over someone not liking cake but I’ll take your word for it. This isn’t an extreme reaction cause I couldn’t care less but you do have to admit most people like cake, not many people outright don’t like cake, and people are going to be caught off guard with someone not liking cake in general. It’s not them thinking cake is the best thing in the world and completely confused someone wouldn’t like it as much as wondering why. 
  Again I’m not going “YOU DONT LIKE CAKE?!?!?” But I do think most people are going “oh, you don’t like cake?” it’s okay to be out of the ordinary but you gotta own that you’re out of the ordinary.
  I don’t like frosting on any kind of cake like products. I just eat naked cake and I eat pancakes without syrup. It’s weird and I own it. What desserts do you like my guy? Let’s start a new society outside of work where better foods are served. By which I mean separately but we talk about better or unique birthday desserts. >
  
  Yea I really wouldn't mind if it was just a casual, "oh you don't? Wow okay". It usually ends up being a whole thing. "How can you not like cake!?  Hey Steve! sl0play says he doesn't like cake!".
  Anyway, it's not the end of the world it's just the fact it's become so predictable.
  If I have a desert after dinner it's usually in the form of a nice port wine or scotch.  If I just want a treat at home I'm pretty fond of sorbet, or fruit covered in Tajin.
  I feel you on the pancakes as well.  When I had a toddler I used to eat frozen waffles without the syrup.  I don't even really like waffles but when you're standing in the kitchen, bleary eyed  after 3 hours of sleep, you really have no standards lol. >
  
  4 am toaster waffle fresh out of the freezer is the best >
  
  Do you mean how most people of that generation treated their children like they were going to get hurt by everything and now they're bitching about millennials being almost psychotically overly protective of themselves? >
  
  Boomers invented smartphones, also
  Boomers, ugh todays youth is always on their phone >
  
  Generations before me created indoor plumbing but it doesn’t mean I sit on the toilet all day. When it’s necessary, I use it. >
  
  It’s funny, this is the same analogy I use when older people say “we didn’t need xyz in my day!” I say, “once upon a time people didn’t have indoor plumbing but you’re not offering to go without that are you?” >
  
  I yearn to defecate among the trees. >
  
  I mean...no one is really stopping you. Be nice and bury it, I guess. >
  
  Video Games were made by the Silent Generation, not Boomers, Boomers ran with it, sure, but if you say “created” that honor goes to Silent. >
  
  I find it so cool that video games, WIFI, internet were made by the silent generation. >
  
  “I never got a participation trophy” yeah buddy you were too busy inventing them >
  
  Or only slightly better, raising the generation that would go on to be responsible for making up participation trophies. >
  
  And the things they take credit for were done by their parents. >
  
  I'm from  northwest Europe.
  Our boomers "we rebuilt the country after the war"
  No you silly, your parents did. You were in diapers when your parents rebuilt the country, then when you were 18 you went to university that was entirely free thanks to your parents, then after graduation you took a sabbatical to tour Europe in your hippy van, then landed one of the many jobs with a good salary that was available because your parents succeeded in rebuilding the country.
  Then you retired as early as 55, because there are many of you, even though everyone knew there was no way the next generation which was much smaller wouldn't be able to support your pensions or even the cost of an ageing population, but there were many of you so your vote counted. 
  And when you had it all, and the next generation was getting to the retirement age, you increased the pension age. And that still wasn't enough, so the younger generation had to bankroll their own pension instead of the next generation as with the boomers.
  And now they're dying off. But don't expect an inheritance, because they're making sure it's all spent. >
  
  Silent Generation gets no fucking credit. Babies in the Depression, kids in WW2, drafted in Korea, were actually the ones to start the Vietnam protests when the oldest Boomers were still in high school. Led second-wave feminism. Collectively the best musicians of the 20th century. And they got named for being told to STFU. >
  
  The oldest boomers were 20 when Vietnam started... >
  
  And they were teenagers when the Vietnam PROTESTS started >
  
  The Vietnam protests started before the American Involvement? >
  
  Protest dates are always subjective (was it one person holding a sign? a major riot?) but they generally do post-date action. If you wanted to most generously credit Baby Boomers for having some adults involved in the earliest Vietnam protests, sticking to the original definition of Baby Boomers and being the babies of the returned GIs, yes there would have been a sliver of the absolute oldest Baby Boomers but they were born around 1946 and the first protests happened around 1963 and at that time they were considered teenagers and not adults. They couldn't vote. Could they march? Sure, and some of them did. But still you are talking about the margins. The majority of protestors against Vietnam in the 1960s were Silent Generation because most Boomers were high school students. >
  
  It's a stupid take because :
  
  
  high school students are known to partake in protests.
  
  
  the main antiwar movement was in the late 60s after the Tet Offensive, when first boomers were in their 20s. >
  
  A stuped take if you’re trying to define a generation on the margin of a few years yes. Oh hi, a fraction of college freshman, you are now responsible for marching the children into the streets! That’s not how generational protests work. >
  
  Even if the silent generation participated in anti war movement, so did the boomers, the anti war and anti draft started in colleges, when boomers were students in them. >
  
  I like it when boomers talk about other generations being entitled. >
  
  A perfect opportunity to tell this joke!
  “Those holes in your jeans, did you make those yourself?”
  “Those holes in the ozone, you make those yourself?” >
  
  I actually did make my holes in my jeans. From crawling under desks and carrying printers. I never knew IT would destroy pants like this. I treat them super nice too. 
  But you know boomer companies made them weaker, so they kinda made the holes in my jeans too. Jeans from even 15 years ago could take a literal beating. >
  
  These jeans do still exist! They are just not made by any popular companies these days. >
  
  It sucks. I used to buy Wrangler jeans and could work all day in them without issue. Shoveling mud, swinging a pick or cutting tree branches, no problem. Now I can't walk out my front door without getting a tear in them. >
  
  Check out some brands like Sugarcane, Bravestar, or TCB. They are a good bit more, but made crazy well compared to modern Levi's or Wrangler. >
  
  I mean technically boomers created the the generation so yea. >
  
  Every generation is the product of previous generations after all. If they don't like how we turned out they should blame their upbringing. >
  
  The fact that the economy is rigged against us so instead of buying houses we have to live with our boomer parents >
  
  in the spirit of rigged economy, I recently learned what eminent domain is. Never heard of a more parasitic way of making money. >
  
  There's always civil forfeiture.   That's pretty parasitic, too. Thers a small sliver of circumstances where I don't personally have a problem with it, but the remaining high percentage of incidents is problematic at best. >
  
  I understand the idea, but it has been totally abused. Originally for the prohibition to be able to confiscate barrels of booze when the bootlegger had fled. Sure, crime was committed and can't actually charge property with a crime. But just carrying cash qualifies as something for civil asset forfeiture, give me a break. Poor vet in Nevada had his life savings confiscated. Just disgusting. >
  
  Boomers didn't create entitlement, but they damn sure perfected it. >
  
  The majority of things people dislike about other people are often projection. >
  
  Plastic.  
  The number of old fucks you hear saying “I remember when milk was in glass bottles and chairs were made of wood”.
  Yeah….then you stopped all that and now the fish are come pre-packaged right from the sea. >
  
  Well the boomers created the younger generations technically so I guess you’re right >
  
  They always complain about the younger generation having it easier...in some cases they're right but that's the fucking point. Now we're seeing some negative issues and they refuse to take ownership. At least as far as I've witnessed on SM. >
  
  They bitch about Gen Xers but never think about who raised Gen X. >
  
  As someone born right on the dividing line between two of these “generations,” from parents who were also born on one of the other dividing lines, I’ve never understood the urge to pretend they explain the key differences between people. 
  Seems to me, urban vs. rural, liberal vs. conservative, region of the country, religious vs. non-religious, educated vs. uneducated — these are all far more valid ways to generalize human behavior. >
  
  I was a ride or die for my divorced boomer parents. They hated each other and inverted parenting was the rule. I saw them drink and smoke their salaries away, and my sibs and I were in second hand clothing and totally on our own. We weren't allowed to have our own identities and we weren't allowed to ever be angry about it. Self esteem, what's that, again? Yet, boomers studying Jung, et al, felt they were reinventing the parent wheel (in their heads). (You got organic baby food, so fuck you!) They obviously didn't even want children; they felt obligated, some leftover '50s shit. And in exchange we were supposed to be support staff to their 'forever young' greatness. And we were shit out of luck for having to teach our feral selves EVERYTHING to participate in advanced stage capitalism. Think we were ready for that? >
  
  That's the more eloquent version of:
  "Today's generation don't know how to fix things themselves!"
  "Who the fuck do you think was supposed to teach us?" >
  
  Clearly we are supposed to teach ourselves, after all we have the internet, duhh. /S
  On another note my dad who was raised in communism kept banishing me to the computer/internet anytime I had a question as a child because he was too busy watching tv, my mom didn't try to get me involved in household stuff, helped me with homework and cleaned the whole house by herself while working as much as my dad. All he did was work, come home and watch tv, go fishing and rarely do stuff around the house that my mom didn't know how or wasn't strong enough for (like construction related things, furniture, electrical etc.) And even then my mom usually helped out.
  Now my dad is constantly complaining I spend time at the computer (while he still watches tv or tick tok/plays candy crush almost all his free time) while he taught me to do that, complains I do not help my mom as much as he'd like around the house because I should do that as a girl, complains I do not know how to cook, sew, work with wood etc because I wasn't taught and he thinks school should've taught me all that (he was taught various life skill at school during communism), basically just another proof for me of how uninvolved and unaware he was of how school was going.
   Oh and he also complains that I don't drive, I explained to him that I'm scared of starting his old car (which drives worse than the driving school car i learned on) on our hilly street because if I don't react in time when the engine stops I could damage the cars behind, he went twice I think with me to drive his car and decided that was enough and it was better I go alone from then on. I didn't drive since then because I'm scare if driving this car and have no other. Meanwhile my boyfriend's mom's boyfriend (no really stepfather as they are not married) literally spent a few nights/evenings (less traffic) teaching him to drive his older bad car. 
  The month I went horseback riding as a teenager my dad drived me there once or twice, saw how long it took and considered it was boring to be there and I had to find a public transport method which involved 2 hours one way of waiting around for busses/trams in the summer sun (no shade) instead of 20-30 minutes of driving. Meanwhile now every time he is available he drives my way lazier and entitled sister around, picks her up and when he isn't my mom sends a bolt for her 
  And after all of this he still thinks he is such a great person that has done so much for us but doesn't understand that occasional (sometimes necessary, such as phones after the old one stopped working) expensive gifts don't make up for time not spent with us. >
  
  Boomers don't want to "be square", but no one talks like that anymore not even Boomers >
  
  ……I do. Wait….am I the square? >
  
  Worse, you're a boomer