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Before and after the work-hard-play-harder Generation X came two sets of people who seem to be at constant war with each other. Baby Boomers and Millenials have their differences and are prepared to defend their colliding points of view by all means. At times, this Millennials vs. Boomers conflict gets really emotional, and it seems that both are prepared to take it to the streets.

Baby Boomers are typically considered to be born between the mid-1940s and mid-1960s. They were the result of the end of World War II when birth rates spiked. The Boomers became healthier and wealthier than any generation before them. They are thought to be work-centric, extremely hardworking and motivated by position, perks, and prestige. Mentally focused and competitive, the generation grew up in turbulent times (consider the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis or the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.). Because of that, Boomers began to fight for social, economic and political changes. Idealistic and uncynical, this generation was able to buy a house and a car, to chill on a beach, instead of fighting a war.

However, since the Baby Boomers sacrificed a great deal to get where they are, this generation believes that others - mainly, the Millennials - should pay more dues. Millennial generation (also known as Generation Y) are people born between roughly 1980 and 2000. They are thought to possess a great deal of confidence and tolerance, but also entitlement and narcissism. Refusing to comply, they blame the Baby Boomers for wrecking the economy and having zero understanding of the Millennial definition of work-life balance, necessary in the workplace. To shed some light on the conflict, Bored Panda has decided to collect some of the most memorable comebacks the Millennials threw back ant the Baby Boomers. Some are lighthearted and funny, while others try to reason and inform. Scroll down to check our list of Millennial jokes and their clapbacks in this Baby Boomers vs. Millennials war.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They talk about neat handwriting like it matters. I don't trust a doctor whose writing I can read.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But my generation doesn't seem to understand good, non-racist jokes either.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where I live in Oregon, it's the Baby Boomers who are out PLAYING Pokémon Go, including me and my husband. Our 18-yo son rolls his eyes at us. He and his friends think no one plays Pokémon Go anymore so I had to take a picture of the 80+ people at a raid a few weeks ago. Plenty of people are still playing but because it's not the kids themselves, they think NO one is playing.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Upper left: little jerk's smiling. Now he's 75 and in a nursing home where "those ppl" are taking care of him.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am 32 and I have never had a permanent job even though I spent over 5 years to get an education to become a chef. Because you can't work in a kitchen here in Finland if you don't have the chef's education.Then I watch a TV docomentaries about famous chefs and they tell how they started working at a kitchen when they were 13 years old and they did non stop chef's job over 50 years and now they are millionaires and they have many Michelin stars and restaurants all over the world...I just struggle with the unemployment benefits money (500-700 € per month).

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Forgive me: I'm a Boomer and I don't even know what that means (Rotate a PDF)

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's difficult to make a living and support yourself. A young family basically needs 2 salaries.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 15 and facing the same problem. Getting amused looks by my grandmother and co-students for saying that if I don't accomplish my goal to get a job in field zoology, I would be comfortable becoming an English-Bulgarian translator of scientific books. What the hell is wrong with them? I'm just trying to be innovative and different. I'm looking for any satisfactory(I refuse to work in an office. I'd rather be poorer, than a prisoner of a job I hate) career path possible, that would bring me modest but sufficient salary to live with, while they either struggle(the former one)or are completely dependent on technology(the second ones).

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mom: "You are always on your phone!" Also Mom: "Why do you never have your phone?!"

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my God this is too true. I always find it so funny how these artists then rely on social media and technology for their "art" to be seen. "The sad truth about today's world" shut the f**k up

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't even tell which Generation this rips into more?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see this as something good. We are slowly eliminating the problems in society, starting from the most pressing. Now that they got equal rights for men and women, we can focus on something else, like gay rights. Yes, the discrimination of the LGBTQ community is a lesser problem than the descrimination of women was. But thats Good! That's progress! Why should we stop trying to help and fix, just because the problems aren't as big any more?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when my mom always commented on me like "Why do you have to share your entire life on FB etc.?!?!" Today, I am happy if I do not wake up to a notification that my mom uploaded 456.405 pictures to the new album called "Sunday morning walk around the lake" or stuff like that... I see double standards coming in ;)

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember once I bought this big piece of cork bark for my lizard (I buy it cause that way it comes clean the stores have bigger, thicker pieces) and my mum says to me "why don't you just go outside and get a piece of bark for free?" Like okay mom, you're the one who had a pet rock, why didn't you just go outside and get a rock for free?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m so glad the UK pays a decent minimum wage and tipping is rarely expected or needed.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Climate change has been in the making since the industrial revolution.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Double standards and annoying hypocrites everywhere! It does get annoying after a while.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really irritating when some dumbass leaves his cart blocking a perfectly good parking space, especially if it's a handicap parking space. Like the disabled person can get out and move it, then get back in their car, and then park.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a friend (Boomer) who keeps sending those FB msgs like, "send this to 500 of your closest friends or your soul will burn in Hell". I've heard some of those can cause a virus. True?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I owned a home some years ago, and when we pulled up the old, awful carpet, we found beautiful hardwood floors under it. Needless to say, we didn't install new carpet.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, is it really generational? Maybe it's somewhat more common attitude with older people, but all the a******s in Charlottesville that I saw were pretty young.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So true! I'll never understand how they get to pick and choose what is or is not offensive.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

free love and demonstrating injustice yet millennials are hypersexual and shouldn't protest

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Generations since the dawn of man have complained about "kids these days" and you will do it too, only your kids will have your social media history to use against you.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry baby boomers, but I'm a millennial and I used the library for projects too. I also know cursive, in case you're wondering.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's how they made so many babies. They were impatient to find the best child.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Their generation protested nam, so it wasn't that one. But thegulf war, the Iraqi was, and the Afghanistan war are all on them

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Buslady, we weren’t talking about you specifically, just your generation. If you’re not part of the problem, that’s fantastic, but don’t get personally offended when someone complains about your generation, it makes you look petty

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Boomer: doesn't tip because their well-done piece of shoe meat isn't on their table in 5 minutes.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always tip more than that, especially for a haircut. So the cut costs $12, figure the stylist can do 3 per hour (if they are always busy), bringing an income of $36/hr. That sounds pretty good until you realize that they have to rent the chair, pay for their own equipment and supplies, they have to spend more time & money on their own appearance (because who wants a haircut from someone who isn't put-together enough to do their own hair nicely). In my area, a stylist actually gets a check for around $9/hr BEFORE TAXES. I know my stylist just had a baby because she kept getting more and more pregnant until she suddenly got less pregnant, and that is sure as hell not cheap. I round to $20.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BusLady literally describes herself as 'Little old church lady', but don't call her old LOL! !

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We don't want to ban anyone in particular. We just want our immigrants to go through the process and have background checks. I've been through various parts of Africa and had to show my documents at every checkpoint. I certainly never felt a tinge of racism, just due process.

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F**k with me punk a*s b***h. I guarantee I can beat your soy eating a*s.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What do you think we do most of the time on our phones? It's definitely not read (fanfics, blogs, messages, etc) and write! (Texts, blogs, fanfics, etc)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is anyone else absolutely sick of BusLady? Her tin-earedness is the epitome of everything the post's about.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always give my parents these "tech 101" classes ahah like how merge all jpgs into a pdf file or how their phones work

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If you didn't get a useless degree, you'd have a good paying job and a house. As for the environment: how many times in the last month did you order something for next day delivery and it shows up at your door in a giant truck.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I swear "BusLady" is only making these comments to prove some of our points... :p

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a Millennial and this is incomprehensible. Wish people, of any generation, would use proper punctuation and spellcheck.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

umm... my baby boomer parents mooch off my Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO accounts...

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, BusLady, your generation is the single richest one in the history of Humanity. Not only in cash, but assets. You had the ability to buy a home on minimum wage, afford a college education, buy a car and hundreds of other luxuries that the huge majority of my generation can only dream of. I've ridden 83 miles in a day on my bike, not because I wanted to, but because I simply can't afford a car, and there was no sale on train tickets.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't believe the number of old rednecks I see on the road in their giant trucks who have their phone up to their faces and not looking at the road. What the heck happened to old rednecks hating cell phones! Am I in the upside down?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Literally put signed in via Facebook to downvote all of BusLady's clueless comments. These DO make sense and this IS out daily lives when meanwhile you don't get why it is harder for our generation and at the same time don't realize that 30s means 30 seconds. Wow.

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