Ok Boomer
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From: Canton, MA
Ok Boomer
Have you heard this one yet? I'll admit, I had not. There was a short piece about this on Sunday Morning today. I had to wonder if the perennial morning-show-for-old-fogies felt they needed to let us know?
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/lifes...an-ncna1077261
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/lifes...an-ncna1077261
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From: Randolph, NJ
I just had this discussion with my two sons this weekend and they and I think that it is quite appropriate for millenials to use this term. For far too long many of us in the baby boomer generation have stereotyped those in the millenial generation with negative attributes and have with a broad brush referred to them as a monolithic population by referring to them as millenials. The backlash, of course, is for them to turn it around and refer to us as a monolithic group with negative properties by saying "O K Boomer".
I think they're right. Its about time they gave us back some of the nonsense we've given them.
I think they're right. Its about time they gave us back some of the nonsense we've given them.
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From: Randolph, NJ
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From: Long Beach, MS
I guess its ok. After all, some of my best friends are millennials. But I will not be stereotyped by any of those materialistic Gen-X-ers.
No need to worry about Gen-Y. Their attention span is so short they will forget the phrase "ok, boomer" within a month.
Meanwhile all the Gen-Z-ers will be too busy looking at all their screens to worry about mocking us boomers.
No need to worry about Gen-Y. Their attention span is so short they will forget the phrase "ok, boomer" within a month.
Meanwhile all the Gen-Z-ers will be too busy looking at all their screens to worry about mocking us boomers.
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Dave, I don't think that you are a Baby Boomer anyway.
I think that the years of the Baby Boomers are those born from 1946 to 1964.
I think you are probably part of the Silent Generation.
I think that the years of the Baby Boomers are those born from 1946 to 1964.
Baby boomers (also known as boomers) are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The Baby Boom generation is most often defined as those individuals born between 1946 and 1964.
The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. Demographers and researchers use mid-to-late 1920s as starting birth years and early-to-mid 1940s as ending birth years, with 1945 a widely accepted ending birth year.
