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When we were kids parents taught us to be respectful towards older people than us and we did, because they had more knowledge and experience, so it seemed that they knew better and we couldn’t disagree with them or oppose their views. But growing up you start to realize that actually, adults don't actually always know what they are doing, how things work and their knowledge might be expired.

So we get frustrated when older people than us still try to pretend they know better and criticize our way of living. There are things that they like to repeat all the time and Reddit users shared what they are when baker10923 asked them, “Younger people of Reddit. What are you tired of hearing from older generations?”

Do you get annoyed when you hear older people say these things? What other things you personally are tired of hearing? Let us know in the comments!

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#1

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community I'm 64 and I'm really tired of listening to people my age whine about stuff that younger people do.

* It definitely was NOT better when we were kids;
* a phone isn't that f-ing hard to figure out;
* It's not that nobody talks anymore; it's just that nobody wants to talk to *you.*

Philcoman , Curtis Foreman Report

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Zophra
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They just remember the good parts of "back in my day..." the horrible stuff has been conveniently forgotten.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "Don't believe everything you see on the internet"
~ my parents when I was a teenager in the late 90s

Now I have to tell my parents that.

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#3

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community I'm tired of people complaining about how younger people are terrible as though they weren't the ones that raised those younger people to be what they are.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This! I'm Gen X myself, but this never made sense to me. You don't get to complain about the generation you raised!

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community I'm not younger, but I'm a fed up with some older people expecting gratitude "for all that they have done" while taking zero responsibility for the problems that they will leave future generations.

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#5

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community They're so judgemental and rude. I'm a restaurant worker and I swear young people are way more polite and easy going while older people have zero patience (even though they're the ones who are already retired), oftentimes make racist, sexist, homophobic and bodyshaming comments and still act like they're above the younger generation simply because they've been alive for longer.

dreamingofhogwarts , Mike Arney Report

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#6

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community That I’m wasting my entire purpose as a woman because I don’t want kids.

Fairyburger , libraryrachel Report

#7

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community Pull yourself up by your boot straps and work harder.

Buddy, I’ve been working 60+ hours a week and prices keep going up and my pay is not and I actually cannot afford to change jobs, change my living situation, buy a more fuel efficient car, or go to college. There actually is no out. There is no work harder and I’ll make it. I’m literally in the poverty trap. I’m slowly making my way out of it but it’s going to be a long a*s time unless some other opportunity magically appears. College isn’t the price of a McDouble anymore old man.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People need to keep up with how the economy shifts in the US and to some extent in Canada. For example, prices have gone up far faster than minimum wage, wage disparity has gotten more extreme, job security barely exists, etc. All one has to do is check the news, listen to people, etc. It makes no sense to stay frozen in time and offer platitudes.

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#8

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community - I don't work hard enough (I've been employed as long as I've legally been able to work, balancing up to 3 jobs at a time...but sure)

- I'm old, i.e., too old to be loved (tons of problems with that, but also, I'm 31?! That's not old)

- I expect too much (yea, decent pay, decent and affordable housing. Totally a spoiled brat).

- I'm immature because I don't want bio children (I'd argue it's a sign of my maturity that I know myself well enough to not have kids)

- My standards in relationships are too high (not to be abused by partners/friends/employers...if that's high bar, I'm speechless).

greensandgrains , Ali Edwards Report

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#9

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "You kids and these damn phones..."

My parents are on their phones more than I am by a lot.

RedSoxNation09 , rayand Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid in the 70's, no one had cell phones. Or other screens. But we did get in trouble for wanting to spend vacations reading comic books. Drove my grandma esp. crazy. Something I remind my brother of when he complains about his daughter and her phone use. And yes, we are on our phones as much as she is...

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Stephanie Wittenberg
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, I, too, got the comic book lectures. And remember being criticized for "always" watching TV?

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muffin woman
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom always says that she is doing productive things on her phone but she is always playing Solitaire.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My boomer dad lives on his phone and makes posts on Facebook at least ten times a day. If he hasn't posted a picture of the sunset by the time it gets dark, I call to check if he's still alive..

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Stephanie Wittenberg
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I confess to being a boomer. When my sisters and I were teens, we were constantly being harangued by our Mom for always being on the phone. Fair cop, we were. Biggest problem was that we had one phone, fastened to the wall in the kitchen, and the handset attached by a cord. So, busiest room in the house always crowded and having voices in the background all the time. Now, my teenage relatives each have their own phone and can go somewhere private to use it. No noise, no crowding, and the rest of the family still gets all their calls, plus texts and emails. IT'S WONDERFUL!

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CCLoos
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was watching a series set in the 1980s and I forgot how irritating the constant ringing of traditional phones is.

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Zophra
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But to have all communication and knowledge at your fingertips - that is so alluring!.

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APL
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And before phones it was tellies, and before that it was comics, and before that it was books, and in Ancient Greece it was theatre...old folks are the same every generation.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate when they say that. Yes, I may be on my phone a lot but it's because 1) I'm gay and there's people in my phone who support me. 2) Even if I wasn't gay, people seem to be really busy and you can always meet up with people, but this was you can still communicate with them. 3) don't act like you wouldn't be glued to this thing as well if you'd had it when you were my age.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your parents might just be trying to figure out how to use the d@@m phone.

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Stymied Egan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay phone use bugs me. When you're invited to a home and the hostess picks up a phone to read a text, can't it wait? Or your talking to someone and they have to answer their phone mid conversation. I have a son with epilepsy, at times I want to be sure he can reach me. I'll tell you that's why my phone is out. Otherwise, I don't need it all the time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid it was too much tv, then it was video games ( I missed that one I’m old but young enough to remember it ) now it’s phones .. people have been distracting themself with mindless garbage forever Before technology it was rampant gossip lol I dunno what it was before that but it was something

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Scott Crowell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No we are not. We are just checking the weather to see if we need an umbrella.

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Mosheh Wolf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They conveniently forget the phone battles, as their parents fought to get them off the landline.

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Raccoon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got my dad to stop this by actually monitoring both out screen time for a month… mine was 10% related to school.his was random s**t online,and he was on wayyyy more

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I noticed this once when I went out to lunch with my parents, some cousins their age and my great uncle. When we got seated everyone got their phone out and set it on the table except for me. I was on vacation and had left my phone at home...in another state.

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Isaac Harvey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see my dad on FaceBook at least four times a day. It can take anywhere from no less than 30 seconds to 5 minutes to get his attention.

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Kate Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

before phones it was tv and before tv it was radio then newspapers and books. Everyone gets annoyed by the next generation for what they're into and somehow have amnesia that their parents gave them the same c**p about their thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So true! My mom and my in-laws (who are all retired age) are constantly glued to their phones and I know most of the time they're just playing games or shopping online despite the at fact that it might be a holiday gathering and one of the few times of the year when they can spend time with extended family. So much for quality time!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was at a funeral a week ago, for a fairly distant acquaintance. I watched people in the congregation to see how long they could go without looking at their phone. One person never looked up from their phone, almost everyone in the 75 or so people looked at their phone. The vicar had to tell everyone three times to turn their phone to silent.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is specific to the 50-65 age group. 35-55 Sse their phones for their intended purposes, Phone calls. FB is dead, twitter is toxic, insta is the same thing all the time and Tiktok is for the kids. The least tech-savvy use this stuff the most. Take Any IT pro and you'll see them using it for a call, an alert or some Spotify. The end.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When old people say they didn't waste time on their phones all day, they were outside playing with friends, I reply "That's because smartphones didn't exist. If they did, you would have been on them."

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got it last week from my step-granddad, he’s a hippy too, but he winged how I’d been on my phone all morning and I was applying for jobs, updating my resume and paying bills 😆 and not funny, as an entertainer I train at public pools, not one mum is watching their kids as they are on the phone…. Which I think is dangerous and stupid at a pool

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I frequently have to ask my 64 year old mother to put her phone away during meals. I don't mind if there's an emergency, but a shoe sale text isn't one.

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#10

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community “No one wants to work” we want to work just not for poverty wages

Reasonable_Ad7619 , Mike Mozart Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"No one wants to be taken advantage of for poverty wages, in order to make corporations richer". Fixed it for ya.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community I’m 32 so not young not old but definitely hate hearing s**t like for example my bfs dad saying he didn’t know he raised 3 girls when he found out my bf and his brother drink tea.

zingingcutie30 , Patricia Barcala Report

#12

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community How we can't fix anything ourselves. Then promptly ask us to fix their WiFi, set up their new phone and figure out why their computer is running slow.

We can do plenty, we just have a different skill set!

alehel , Coryn Wolk Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm Gen X, I can do both! I've had a computer since I was a child, and was taught all the basic practical stuff. I'm always surprised when people can't hang a lamp or change a tire. If you weren't taught - google it, most things are pretty simple.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community Just had someone the other day ask me "so why arent you married?"
I'm like.. if i met someone worth marrying, then I would!

datmarimbaplayer , Shyn Darkly Report

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community I hate how we've gone from me getting facebook as a teenager and my parents being like "DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON THE INTERNET" to them sending me "medical research" from unverified/unreputable sources.

y4mat3 , HS You Report

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community “just start saving! you’ll be able to buy a house in no time”

lilasantanico , Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How out of touch do you have to be to say that? I've never heard anyone say that in the last 10-15 years.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community Anything to the effect of "young people can't have back pain (or any other physical disability)." Like, dude, I *wish* being in my twenties made me immune to being injured. But that's literally just not how the human body works.

dumbest_thotticus , Jasmine Kaloudis Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. I wish that I had a healthy body. My grandaunts are 93 and 92 and they can walk longer than me and are healthier...

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "You just have to work harder if you want to buy a house, that's what I did"

Yeah well I don't make 50% of the price of a house, a year, like you did

oliferro , popofatticus Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents' (Silent-Boomer cusp) first house was 1 year of my dad's salary. My (GenX) house cost more than 3 years of my salary. And I was only able to buy it because I worked 6 months of overtime (60-80 hours a week) and, at the time, it was a buyer's market. I still could only afford a small 2BR house.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community how sensitive we are

I made a comment on a YouTube video calling a gay couple cute and some f****n boomer stalked my YouTube channel and felt the need to insult me several times

like I’m not the sensitive one in this situation

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are insensitive morons in every age group. I'm sorry that happened to you.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "The young people always just want to Drink and go to partys"
1. No
2. Don't pretend like you didn't do this too lol

TheCrazySandshrew , Mike Burns Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't the stats say that the kids these days drink a lot less than previous generations?

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "You should really buy a house and settle down"

I'm bloody well trying Karen. Just cause you bought your house in the 60's for 40k and a blueberry, off your husbands salary, whilst you were a stay at home mom, then sold it for 600k this year to retire off of- Doesn't mean that it's the same for this generation, right now. Far from it infact. Just. Shut up.

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#21

30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "stop eavesdropping"

I'm not eavesdropping you're just talking loud because you're deaf and I'm not

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community I'm sick of hearing about them b******g about participation trophies. I got one in middle school and was told to appreciate that I got it. I didn't want it. I knew that I hadn't done anything to deserve a trophy. It went into a drawer and was forgotten.

People love complaining about how participation trophies have ruined children when it was the adults that decided to hand them out. How idiotic is it to basically say "here's your award for existing." followed by "You f*****s need to be awarded for just existing!" in nearly the same breath?

photoguy423 , waferboard Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My bro-in-law coaches kids' soccer. He wouldn't be keen on participation trophies. He blew off an email from a couple who worried about their kid's self-esteem if they didn't play in every game. My BIL explained to the kid why they weren't playing in one of the games and the kid was fine. He's very good with children, but he doesn't treat them like delicate hothouse plants. He definitely has more patience with the kids than their parents!

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community Tired of people referring to their significant others as the old ball and chain or just talking s**t about their wives to friends a lot. It’s like their wives are a burden to them?

RealBrownPerson , nick farnhill Report

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "Your generation is sensitive and weren't taught hard work" yall literally raised us, how is it our faults.

Tuba_Crusader , Henry Burrows Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People have been sensitive about different things throughout history. Now people are more open and have a vocabulary to express difficult emotions and situations.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "When I was your age, I already had 5 kids and two grandchildren" or "My granddaughter is your age and she already has 3 kids. When are you going to give you mom some grandkids?!".

I'm 30. Not that old, not that young. But this kind of comment? Definitely old for me. I'm so tired of older ladies saying this. I think I wasn't even 18 when they started! They don't accept any reasonable answer that isn't a "I'm working on it". A "maybe later" or "I'm doing my best to get a steady career before having kids" or "we are saving"? Gets them on a rampage saying some bs about kids not costing a thing and that I'm getting old or that women were born to be mothers or whatever... So I started being rude. Sorry, but not sorry.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another option is to straight-up lie. It could be a polite lie, "I'll certainly give it a thought" or it could be a ruder one, "I'm having as much unprotected sex as my vag can handle!"

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "Video games are a waste of time."

Says the boomer dips**t sitting on the couch, sitting on his phone with Fox News playing in the background.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

you could spend a whole day doing anything. Gardening, baking, reading, working, you name it. a whole day. no one says squat. but the MOMENT you sit down to play some minecraft its 'a waste of time' or 'invaluable to your day'...

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community "When you're older you'll agree with me."

Ffs just because you're older doesn't mean you're always right or that you know the answers to all my life's problems. You grew up in a different time period, with different problems, and different social views. Your problems might be similar, and you might be right some of the time, but that is no excuse to shut down every logical point I make against your beliefs with this line.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. Still don't like cooked carrots. Still think you shouldn't be crappy to people because they're different. Guess I'm still an idealist. Now I'm mad that you thought that was an insult.

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“I have more life experience than you…” then proceeds to go on an emotionally stunted rant based on their own personal bias due to trauma they refuse to process because “they know best.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Alot of people need to know this, especially older ones: If you talk down to someone's feelings due to having gone through similar trauma and "came out fine" - you didn't in fact come out fine.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community I'm an older millennial. I have a good job, own a house, am married, and have two kids.

It is 2022 and at least half the times I hear someone older reference "millennials" it's talking about people who are currently the age my cohort was 22 years ago when the millennium was a thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are they going to go straight to talking about Gen Alpha, and just skip Gen Z? Just like nobody ever talks about Gen X? It's all Boomers and Millennials.

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30 Examples Of What Young People Have Had Enough Of Hearing From Older People, Shared In This Online Community I'm 55 I still get tired of my parents telling me to find a good church home.

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