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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But my generation doesn't seem to understand good, non-racist jokes either.
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.
Upper left: little jerk's smiling. Now he's 75 and in a nursing home where "those ppl" are taking care of him.
Don't mean to offend. Ppl of all races work at care facilities. I was not raised to be racist. My late grandfather was African American.
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Ok, these are just a few photos, while you could find WAY more photos of people that are against segregation back then
I think that's beside the point. I mean, people who complain about current social justice issues likely have some overlap with people who would ask why the black rights activists were "helping those damn negroes" or something.
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SOME baby boomers. Certainly NOT all of us. The rest of us were marching against war, inequality, etc.
The desegregation of Little Rock Central High School (a good thing) started in 1957 when the oldest Baby Boomers were eleven years old. No one in the photo above is a Baby Boomer.
And I was thinking 1965, which would make him too young. Either way, he's probably too ornery to be in a home.
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I like how there is always someone blaming the jews. In this case, communist jews are behind the race mixing. --_--
And in case other people couldn't read it, i was merely making an observation on how white supremacists like to blame jew for everything. please note the squinty face of frustration
Load More Replies... You are confusing white people with boomers. White people love to complain about progress. Your also confusing unmitigated racism with triggered feelings. We never complained so vehemently of our elders.
What you just said is absolutely racist. You literally said white people love to complain. Some do, I'm sure some black people do too. Not all, that'd be like saying ALL Black people play basketball. Some do, not all. You're racist.
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Baby Boomers were the generation that left home to change the world. Millennials do it from their parent's house
Baby boomers had everything handed to them. The cost of living was nothing. Boomers messed up the world and made it so its damn impossible to leave home.
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That’s the generation before baby boomers. Baby boomers were like 10 years old at this time. The kids in these pics are teens
I was run out of my job for being "an old white man". I heard it spoken outloud by minorities and white millennials speaking to minorities, every week. Since then, I keep hearing things in my job interviews like: "You sounded younger on the phone" and "We were looking for someone who could increase our diversity". You guys just rebranded hate, it still exists and it's more popular than ever. You bothered to show the people with the signs, but did you ever stop to realize that the laws were passed in opposition to those people. Meaning that the overwhelming majority of us stood up for what was right.
Never got into racism where I was bought up and it was a bit before my time.just a little kid when all this c**p was going down..So don't blame all Baby Boomers...
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).
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).
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
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?
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 ;)
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?
I’m so glad the UK pays a decent minimum wage and tipping is rarely expected or needed.
Double standards and annoying hypocrites everywhere! It does get annoying after a while.
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.
free love and demonstrating injustice yet millennials are hypersexual and shouldn't protest
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.
That's how they made so many babies. They were impatient to find the best child.
Their generation protested nam, so it wasn't that one. But thegulf war, the Iraqi was, and the Afghanistan war are all on them
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
Boomer: doesn't tip because their well-done piece of shoe meat isn't on their table in 5 minutes.
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.
BusLady literally describes herself as 'Little old church lady', but don't call her old LOL! !
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.
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)
Is anyone else absolutely sick of BusLady? Her tin-earedness is the epitome of everything the post's about.
I always give my parents these "tech 101" classes ahah like how merge all jpgs into a pdf file or how their phones work
I swear "BusLady" is only making these comments to prove some of our points... :p
I am a Millennial and this is incomprehensible. Wish people, of any generation, would use proper punctuation and spellcheck.
umm... my baby boomer parents mooch off my Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO accounts...
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.
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?
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.
yeah, I dunno... It seems that a lot of people find it easier to blame the generation before, or before that. There's gotta be a point when we stop placing the blame and start making a change?
That's what I was thinking. There's so much blame and no trying to work together to resolve the issues. So much resentment and arguing.
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Wow... What a messy comments section... I feel like I should say that the millennials weren’t talking about ALL baby boomers, they’re referring to all the baby boomers who have been criticizing millinials almost all their lives. There shouldn’t be a war between generations, but it can’t be expected for millennials to sit still and quiet while they’re told they’re incompetent.
meh. I bet in several decades the Millenials will do the same for the next generation, whatever they will be called.
One thing I find interesting is that research into the human brain has found that the structure and the way the brain thinks changes as you age. So it's almost hardwired for us to be more idealistic and black-or-white in our thinking when we are younger, and more flexible in our thinking, able to see multiple points to a situation, and more conservative as we age. Theories also propose that the accumulation of experience changes the thinking because it requires the brain to broaden it's thinking abilities, which changes the structures in the brain, too.
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As a Gen-Xer, I'm stuck in the middle having to listen to both sides whining and bitching, while my generation busts a*s to scrape a living and still manages to accomplish jack all productive or useful XD
Somehow everyone forgot about Gen X and moved onto hating millennials.
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There is too much spite in the world anyhoo. Stop being horrible to your grandchildren or your friends grandchildren. Stop being horrible to your grandparents and the elderly. Stay classy internet and make the sauce awesome.
I liked these, and I'm a crotchety old gen-x. Hopefully ageism will be soon be the new racism (as in the new no-no) and we can stop denigrating others because they happen to be born later than us.
I saw the humour, frustration and sadness in many of these and laughed at a lot of it! Perhaps because I am GenX and in the middle generation? I have experienced many of the struggles of the Millenials (overpriced housing, student loans etc) but also remember a time before the Internet when duck-faced selfiies were not an art form. Patience and understanding has to be practiced on both ends of the spectrum. The Boomers seem to struggle with their reliance and addiction to a technology that their own generation created. Remember Millenials - take it with a grain of salt, for some of it is self-loathing projected outwards. The more things change, the more they stay the same!
I don't see how this got posted under the the "Funny" category. Not much humour here. A lot of hatred and anger. And apparently, I'm the Poster Child. I can just picture people going to this site to see what "BusLady has said now. LOL
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Millennial journalist trying to explain me what first person shooter means. I grew up on Doom, Duke Nukem and Quake...
So when did Bored Panda become Buzzfeed? I come here to AVOID this ridiculous “Millenials vs. Boomers” c**p. Clicked hoping for something uplifting, but no, just buzzfeed on steroids.
This article. "Idealistic and uncynical, this generation was able to buy a house and a car, and to go abroad not to fight a war, but to chill on a beach instead." I understand that millennials aren't so great at history because they're so obsessed with NOW, but you guys have at least HEARD of Vietnam, right? I'm Gen X, so I don't have a dog in this fight, but my Baby Boomer dad lost two high school friends and my friends' dads served there. So... maybe chill?
Angela, I'm sorry to hear that about your Dad. I'm sure it still bothers him. And a lot of the men came home with "hidden" disabilities, like my Uncle. And they were forced to go BC of the draft. That's why there were so many demonstrations. When they came home, they didn't get a hero's welcome. They were criticized for serving in a war they never wanted to go to in the first place.
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Am I the only millenial that thinks that we create our own outcome. Not sure who these people are with 3 part time jobs that cant afford rent. I went to the cheapest college I could find, bachelors costed less than 10k. Thats easily affordable over 4 years while working
As a boomer I want to thank you Panda. Until I read this I didn't even realize there was any animosity between millennials and boomers. This is what America needs, more polarization. We need to come together. Against the Gen Xers!
Yep, Kenny, the only way is to stop the animosity and the blaming, and see what is/was good about each other. Polarization has never brought anything positive, just more war and grief.
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Sorry, I quit reading after a few posts because I saw a lot of baby boomer bashing going on. And I dislike the generalization of generations or anything. Lots of baby boomers worked very hard in their youth to build the society as it is now. Lots of baby boomers are ripped of their pensions, many live in poverty. And I also see lots of millennials going through financial hardtimes. But they all have a phone with internet, they get free health care (at least here in the Netherlands), they can get social security. Things that weren't there when I was young.
my grandparents could strive living while actually facing daily physical threats from different regimes--and could still say they're happy with their lives. And hey..I'm still in awe that my parents done papers and thesis without Google.
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I just don't enjoy seeing my generation, or the one below me, disrespecting our elders. I get it that they say messed up stuff, but we will probably say the same stuff about generations below us at some point...it's like a rite of passage...suck it up, don't be ugly
Irrational. I disrespect anyone who deserves it, regardless of what age they are.
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Say what you want about Baby Boomers...at least their not eating Tide Pods or snorting condoms up their noses!
These "generation wars" are hilarious. People are d***s no matter when they're born. Get over it, weaklings.
How can a narcist blame himself? Trump is a product of many unfortunate events, does not know what he is doing, but somehow he found a way to climb to the top. Somebody voted him into the white house...
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When something is hard to understand or is not agreed upon it is easier to make fun of or alienate it, then it is to try and understand what is confusing. We all have something to teach, all we have to do is listen to one another.
Well... Judging by everything I read so far, my grandma is a stereotypical baby boomer. Confused, racist, complaining, occasionally too arrogant, yet, if you ask her, presumably always right. I'm her loved granddaughter... But who, according to her, must think about her looks more(like wearing a lip stick?!), is weird for valuing her dog and degus above the state of her household, is participating in "manly" sports(like climbing, bouldering and shooting with bow, crossbow and air riffle)which is inappropriate and should learn to clean her room(and she's referring to messy-looking at first, but actually orderly room, where I never searched anything for more than 10 seconds)because some day she would have children and "we don't want them to pick on bad habits". The fact that she never loved a pet and doesn't know how I feel about them, the fact that it's my face, my house, my life, doesn't f**cking cross her f**king narrow mind.And then she wonders why I see her less and less these days.
The same baby-boomers who b***h about the generation THEY helped raise?
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I'm pretty sure your generation did some f****d up s**t as well. The only difference is that social media didn't exist so it couldn't be spread around.
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Dear lord... I really hope millennials don’t end up like you...
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LOL. Holy brainwashing batman. Of course it's the liberals. Conservatives NEVER, EVER victimize themselves. Conservatives never made a huge issue about gay people getting married and said it would "ruin their marriages." Conservatives never whine about how having an education is "liberal indoctrination." Conservatives never whine about people who aren't white, people who aren't Christian, and people who don't believe exactly like them. Conservatives are the whiniest little brats out there. Just look at yourself, Tyler.
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yeah, I dunno... It seems that a lot of people find it easier to blame the generation before, or before that. There's gotta be a point when we stop placing the blame and start making a change?
That's what I was thinking. There's so much blame and no trying to work together to resolve the issues. So much resentment and arguing.
Load More Replies... Wow... What a messy comments section... I feel like I should say that the millennials weren’t talking about ALL baby boomers, they’re referring to all the baby boomers who have been criticizing millinials almost all their lives. There shouldn’t be a war between generations, but it can’t be expected for millennials to sit still and quiet while they’re told they’re incompetent.
meh. I bet in several decades the Millenials will do the same for the next generation, whatever they will be called.
One thing I find interesting is that research into the human brain has found that the structure and the way the brain thinks changes as you age. So it's almost hardwired for us to be more idealistic and black-or-white in our thinking when we are younger, and more flexible in our thinking, able to see multiple points to a situation, and more conservative as we age. Theories also propose that the accumulation of experience changes the thinking because it requires the brain to broaden it's thinking abilities, which changes the structures in the brain, too.
Load More Replies... As a Gen-Xer, I'm stuck in the middle having to listen to both sides whining and bitching, while my generation busts a*s to scrape a living and still manages to accomplish jack all productive or useful XD
Somehow everyone forgot about Gen X and moved onto hating millennials.
Load More Replies... There is too much spite in the world anyhoo. Stop being horrible to your grandchildren or your friends grandchildren. Stop being horrible to your grandparents and the elderly. Stay classy internet and make the sauce awesome.
I liked these, and I'm a crotchety old gen-x. Hopefully ageism will be soon be the new racism (as in the new no-no) and we can stop denigrating others because they happen to be born later than us.
I saw the humour, frustration and sadness in many of these and laughed at a lot of it! Perhaps because I am GenX and in the middle generation? I have experienced many of the struggles of the Millenials (overpriced housing, student loans etc) but also remember a time before the Internet when duck-faced selfiies were not an art form. Patience and understanding has to be practiced on both ends of the spectrum. The Boomers seem to struggle with their reliance and addiction to a technology that their own generation created. Remember Millenials - take it with a grain of salt, for some of it is self-loathing projected outwards. The more things change, the more they stay the same!
I don't see how this got posted under the the "Funny" category. Not much humour here. A lot of hatred and anger. And apparently, I'm the Poster Child. I can just picture people going to this site to see what "BusLady has said now. LOL
Load More Replies... Millennial journalist trying to explain me what first person shooter means. I grew up on Doom, Duke Nukem and Quake...
So when did Bored Panda become Buzzfeed? I come here to AVOID this ridiculous “Millenials vs. Boomers” c**p. Clicked hoping for something uplifting, but no, just buzzfeed on steroids.
This article. "Idealistic and uncynical, this generation was able to buy a house and a car, and to go abroad not to fight a war, but to chill on a beach instead." I understand that millennials aren't so great at history because they're so obsessed with NOW, but you guys have at least HEARD of Vietnam, right? I'm Gen X, so I don't have a dog in this fight, but my Baby Boomer dad lost two high school friends and my friends' dads served there. So... maybe chill?
Angela, I'm sorry to hear that about your Dad. I'm sure it still bothers him. And a lot of the men came home with "hidden" disabilities, like my Uncle. And they were forced to go BC of the draft. That's why there were so many demonstrations. When they came home, they didn't get a hero's welcome. They were criticized for serving in a war they never wanted to go to in the first place.
Load More Replies... Am I the only millenial that thinks that we create our own outcome. Not sure who these people are with 3 part time jobs that cant afford rent. I went to the cheapest college I could find, bachelors costed less than 10k. Thats easily affordable over 4 years while working
As a boomer I want to thank you Panda. Until I read this I didn't even realize there was any animosity between millennials and boomers. This is what America needs, more polarization. We need to come together. Against the Gen Xers!
Yep, Kenny, the only way is to stop the animosity and the blaming, and see what is/was good about each other. Polarization has never brought anything positive, just more war and grief.
Load More Replies... Sorry, I quit reading after a few posts because I saw a lot of baby boomer bashing going on. And I dislike the generalization of generations or anything. Lots of baby boomers worked very hard in their youth to build the society as it is now. Lots of baby boomers are ripped of their pensions, many live in poverty. And I also see lots of millennials going through financial hardtimes. But they all have a phone with internet, they get free health care (at least here in the Netherlands), they can get social security. Things that weren't there when I was young.
my grandparents could strive living while actually facing daily physical threats from different regimes--and could still say they're happy with their lives. And hey..I'm still in awe that my parents done papers and thesis without Google.
Load More Replies... I just don't enjoy seeing my generation, or the one below me, disrespecting our elders. I get it that they say messed up stuff, but we will probably say the same stuff about generations below us at some point...it's like a rite of passage...suck it up, don't be ugly
Irrational. I disrespect anyone who deserves it, regardless of what age they are.
Load More Replies... Say what you want about Baby Boomers...at least their not eating Tide Pods or snorting condoms up their noses!
These "generation wars" are hilarious. People are d***s no matter when they're born. Get over it, weaklings.
How can a narcist blame himself? Trump is a product of many unfortunate events, does not know what he is doing, but somehow he found a way to climb to the top. Somebody voted him into the white house...
Load More Replies... When something is hard to understand or is not agreed upon it is easier to make fun of or alienate it, then it is to try and understand what is confusing. We all have something to teach, all we have to do is listen to one another.
Well... Judging by everything I read so far, my grandma is a stereotypical baby boomer. Confused, racist, complaining, occasionally too arrogant, yet, if you ask her, presumably always right. I'm her loved granddaughter... But who, according to her, must think about her looks more(like wearing a lip stick?!), is weird for valuing her dog and degus above the state of her household, is participating in "manly" sports(like climbing, bouldering and shooting with bow, crossbow and air riffle)which is inappropriate and should learn to clean her room(and she's referring to messy-looking at first, but actually orderly room, where I never searched anything for more than 10 seconds)because some day she would have children and "we don't want them to pick on bad habits". The fact that she never loved a pet and doesn't know how I feel about them, the fact that it's my face, my house, my life, doesn't f**cking cross her f**king narrow mind.And then she wonders why I see her less and less these days.
The same baby-boomers who b***h about the generation THEY helped raise?
Load More Replies... I'm pretty sure your generation did some f****d up s**t as well. The only difference is that social media didn't exist so it couldn't be spread around.
Load More Replies... Dear lord... I really hope millennials don’t end up like you...
Load More Replies... LOL. Holy brainwashing batman. Of course it's the liberals. Conservatives NEVER, EVER victimize themselves. Conservatives never made a huge issue about gay people getting married and said it would "ruin their marriages." Conservatives never whine about how having an education is "liberal indoctrination." Conservatives never whine about people who aren't white, people who aren't Christian, and people who don't believe exactly like them. Conservatives are the whiniest little brats out there. Just look at yourself, Tyler.
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