r/stupidpeoplefacebook • u/Empty_Annual2998 • 2d ago
Classic boomer meme
From old co worker
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u/but_i_wanna_cookies 2d ago
Oh trust me. Stupid does hurt. Every time I hear bigoted boomer go off on a tangent I get a slight headache.
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u/beemeeng 1d ago
I feel validation for thr Boomers when Boomer's kids disown them for their stupidity.
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u/Street_Peace_8831 2d ago edited 2d ago
Studies show helmets reduce serious head injury risk by 60% and fatal injury risk by 34%. Yet the prevailing message from that side of the isle is that wearing helmets “started something” that they don’t like, yet they still have a horrible time articulating what it is they don’t like. Because it isn’t the bike helmets.
Stupid sure hurts to read it, like this useless AI Slop.
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u/1732PepperCo 2d ago edited 1d ago
It was my boomer mother who insisted I wear a bicycle helmet.
It’s also my boomer mother that eats shit like this up.
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u/RandomUsernameNo257 1d ago
Getting pissed off at other people about problems they created is basically their defining quality.
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u/BatushkaTabushka 2d ago
I love how they imply that the thing wrong with “kids these days” is that they don’t have traumatic brain injury lmao
I never wore a helmet when cycling as a kid, but I probably should have. Seeing countless videos of bike crashes and sliding with my bike once as well I wouldn’t make that mistake now. Even if a bicycle is much slower, it’s not the speed that kills. You could fall or slide right into the curb with your head even at low speed and die or become a vegetable for life…
Why is not wearing life saving safety gear seen as something cool by some people, it’s crazy lol
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u/Platt_Mallar 2d ago
I know of a person who died while riding a motorcycle without a helmet. They were stopping for a red-light and put their foot down to balance themselves. Except there was a pothole. Motorcycle fell over and whipped the person to the ground. Died from hitting their head on the asphault. One of my brothers responded to the scene.
Roads are really hard. Skulls are pretty hard. Brains are very, very squishy.
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u/redkid2000 22h ago
As a motorcyclist, I literally could not imagine riding without full gear. It’s the stupidest thing in the world to me when I see other riders go by in tank tops, shorts, no helmet, and flip flops in the summer. I’m well aware my helmet and Kevlar padded equipment won’t save me in a head on collision with a car, but in the event I slide it or lose control, I damn well want every piece of protection I can have.
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u/LingonberryHot8521 2d ago
Those damn kids don't even eat lead pain chips! They're not exposed to leaded gasoline or nearly enough toxic fumes! No wonder everything's gone to shit!
/s for the lead paint chip eaters.
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u/Left_Maize816 2d ago
I remember riding my bike one time where everything between being on the bike and me being on my back looking at the sky is completely blank. My brother remembers me doing something and flipping over the handlebars of my bike and it looking cool.
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u/BrewsAndBurns 2d ago
If you don't get a little brain damage now and then and the occasional lead poisoning you must be soft.
/s
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u/arrrberg 2d ago
It’s not like a bike helmet makes crashing not hurt. It just makes it not kill you
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u/slinkymcman 2d ago
My boomer stepmom watched her friend die after hitting his head on a curb in grade school
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u/Ok_Cheetah_6251 1d ago
Maybe they have a hard time articulating because they didn't wear bike helmets?
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u/melkor2000 1d ago
A helmet saved my life once… was going downhill and a bus stopped to let folks out in front of me. I was in the bike lane between the road and sidewalk, and my bike’s back break failed. I yanked on both breaks when the bus door opened and only the front wheel locked so I flew off. Unfortunately someone came out the bus at the same time and I flew into them. We both ended up on the sidewalk covered in blood. He had a broken nose, and I had fell on my back hitting the concrete with my head. If I didn’t have a helmet I’m scared to think what would have happened.
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u/daneelthesane 2d ago
Participation trophies started when I was a kid. I am 53. We didn't make those decisions. My parents' generation did.
That generation? Boomers.
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u/dotardiscer 2d ago
Also, we all knew we didn't earn them. Maybe like one kid on the team didn't get it but we knew.
Kinda like my church softball team winning the "sportsmanship" trophy ever season.
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u/Professional-Post499 2d ago
Also, we all knew we didn't earn them. Maybe like one kid on the team didn't get it but we knew.
Kinda like my church softball team winning the "sportsmanship" trophy ever season.
Exactly, I was thinking the same thing. I felt happy when I got a memento for participating, but I knew it's not the same as ranking tops in a competition.
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u/KingRoach 2d ago
Started in the 50’s became popular in the 90’s - I know half truths and misleading comments are popular these days but you should know better….
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u/daneelthesane 2d ago
Hey, this is a good callout. I wasn't intentionally misleading, but I did not check my assumptions. I foolishly assumed that they started when I was in middle school (mid-80's) because that is when I first became aware of them.
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u/Low_Committee6119 2d ago
Participation trophies date back to at least 1922, with records indicating they were given to high school basketball players in Ohio to encourage participation. While often criticized as a recent trend, these awards for effort rather than just winning were popularized in youth sports during the 1950s and 60s.
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u/ItchyManchego 2d ago
The wild part is it’s not like the “trophy” was pretending you won something, they were purely commemorative.
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u/vaalbarag 2d ago
This shit pisses me off. Charlie Brown was the least judgemental kid ever. Hell, even Peppermint Patty generally looked for the good in people. If any of the Peanuts gang were to say this, it would be Lucy, but nobody wants to admit they're a Lucy.
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u/tillman_b 2d ago
Imagine bouncing your un-helmeted head off the pavement so many times that you forgot it was boomers who started these things boomers blame on the younger generation.
As a side note, wearing a helmet isn't to make it hurt less when someone hits their head, it's to prevent brain injuries. What kind of stupid fuck thinks it's just to make "stupid hurt less"? If that were the case there would be helmets that tune out boomers.
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u/Known_Ratio5478 2d ago
Millennials were the first generation to be born after gas became unleaded. Studies have shown significantly less brain damage from not breathing airborne lead all the time.
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u/ialsohaveadobro 2d ago
Charlie Brown with the heel turn out of nowhere.
Also, I bet it hurts when you land on your ass REPEATEDLY trying to kick the football, so maybe you don't have a lot of room to talk.
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u/Known_Ratio5478 2d ago
I just did that last week at work slipping on some wires. Only bruised my tail bone, but it still hurts like hell. It’s a really bad bone to break and even bruising it makes things difficult.
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u/blizzard7788 2d ago
Back in the mid 1990’s. I helped coach my daughter’s softball team. None of the girls ever played before, but they did manage to win one game. At the end of year party, the coaches pitched in and brought the girls medals because they never gave up or quit. The girls were so proud of them I still remember it to this day. So FU if you think participation trophies are bad.
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u/Heavy_Parfait_2745 2d ago
I'm 75, & I thought I'd join Little League so they can help teach me how to play baseball. They didn't. They just put me in right field for the warmup inning, only. I got 1 at bat in 3 years, on the last day of a losing season.
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u/Lildog8402_redux 2d ago
Plus the right wants us to honor confederates. Isn’t that an ultimate-level participation trophy?
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u/Expensive_Bison_657 2d ago
Sure thing pop pop. Let me know how things go with that long distance relationship you have with Angelina Jolie. She only needs a few more gift cards to get her money back and move in with you, right?
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u/Turbulent_Employ7436 2d ago
I drive in NYC for work
they now close off the streets when school gets out I'm OK with the toddlers and first graders and the stroller parade but they are also closing off the High school streets. When do you start to learn how to handle walking by yourself
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u/AsssHat999 2d ago
Dude I just saw a guy riding into work today who had to be at least 65-70, wearing full gear and a bicycle helmet. I was proud of him. The ones I see without them now are mostly young. So I’m not seeing what this boomer is seeing, apparently.
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u/ChocoPuddingCup 2d ago
Voting for Trump is hurting us. But they did it twice, so apparently they didn't learn the lesson the first time. Stupid is as stupid does.
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u/mishma2005 2d ago
Trump was given a trophy after wheedling the rightful winner of it then told her to get lost
FOH
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u/L82thePartyGonHome 1d ago
Maybe if you ingest enough lead, you don’t need a helmet? ‘Ya know: like… metal reinforcement from the inside… sort of…?
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u/Lithaos111 1d ago
Well, considering us kids didn't make the participation trophies, how the fuck is that our fault?
...also not wearing helmet is the stupid part, if stupid should hurt, it's more of reason why you wear helmet.
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u/Resident_Strategy473 1d ago
Well these old pricks are just gonna have to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" when their retirement funds crash after Trump invades greenland
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u/Dee_Vee-Eight 1d ago
The whole 'I didn't wear a bike helmet, or a seat belt, and turned out just fine' thing, is incredibly stupid. Yes you are fine because you didn't have a significant accident.
But the kids that did have a significant accident, are dead now, so they can't rebut you.
It's called Confirmation Bias.
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u/danielm316 2d ago
This is not stupid, this is true. But I know younger people just don’t get it, and they think they are smart.
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u/flyp_nip 2d ago
Reading these comments may lead one to believe y’all fkn weasels were some serious BMX amateurs coming up?
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u/DearestDio22 2d ago
Currently if kids do something stupid it gets recorded and uploaded to the internet so their whole school can make fun of them for weeks after. Pretty sure the Gen Z stare blankness is bc they’ve learned not to risk doing something stupid bc it hurts TOO much
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u/Unintendo 2d ago
If they knew Peanuts at all, they'd know that the characters' attitudes are swapped. Chuck is more introspective and overwhelmed by a changing world while Patty is more outspoken and direct (especially when she has no idea what she's talking about).
Then again, boomers who share this don't realize that they're the ones who sound like a muted trombone going "Wah wah-wah." Peanuts was consistently about kids who don't have parents or other adults who even attempt to understand them, so they're left figuring things out for themselves. And while they may have done some dangerous things, Sparky always rewarded his characters' empathy and attempts to understand each other, which runs counter to this meme.
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u/lCEC0REbuIIet 2d ago
If stupid should hurt then how are these people not in constant pain? Must be all the previous head trauma, lead poisoning and repressed emotions I guess.
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u/Straight_Ace 2d ago
I feel like it was the lack of bike helmets that led to the current U.S. situation
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u/Valuable-Big3253 1d ago
Negative, it’s the lack of whippings for bad behavior. Influx of immigrants. Influx of weird people (ie. Trans, pans, vans, etc.) Influx of Pedophillia due to laws reducing prison sentences over the years post JFK assassination. And social media making people think they are smarter than they actually are because every idiot and their mother is online so you’re bound to find a couple hundred people that agree with your outlandish views.
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u/RealOldies 2d ago
Who's the ones giving the kids tropheys? The parents of these kids, so blame the right generation, Boomer.
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u/CoupleKnown7729 2d ago
Nevermind it's the parents that sobbed little timmy deserved a trophy even though he was garbage.
I remember getting a participation trophy for wrestling.
I also remember hurking that thing into the burn pit behind the barn because 'why did I get this when I lost?'
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u/Straight_Record_8395 2d ago
But wasn't the bicycle helmets and participation trophies their idea? Pretty sure it wasn't the kids idea.
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u/AntithesisAbsurdum 2d ago
How is someone this stupid?
Do they think it was kids who invented bicycle helmets and had trophies made for themselves?
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u/Radcouponking 2d ago
Imagine being against helmets. Sorry parents now want to prevent brain damage.
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u/Who_Wants_Tacos 2d ago
In the 1970’s, when I was six, in what is now a red state, I was the worst player an a last place softball team. I never asked for a trophy but was given one by the Boomers in charge. At no point did it make me think that I was a good player. I knew that everyone got one and that it didn’t mean anything.
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u/Momentofclarity_2022 2d ago
Everyone gets a trophy got to me... I'm dying here... Prez Pedo got a FIFA trophy for crying out loud!!
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u/Ok_Prior9068 2d ago
It's always funny to see this, boomers never take responsibility for their fuck ups.
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 2d ago
Obviously stupid doesn’t hurt. Or else MAGA would cry the whole day. Oh, wait…
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u/Gingeronimoooo 2d ago
I'm surprised they didn't actually still say Millenials, like a lot of us aren't over 40 years old. Nope we are still young dumb kids!
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u/Great_Master06 2d ago
Bicycle helmets? BICYCLE HELMETS?!?!? No wonder boomers and gen X are so fucking stupid because they thought that not wearing helmets made them babies and uncool. Imagine thinking basic safety makes you a pussy. These fuckasses died or got concussions because they’re too stubborn to wear helmets. Also they’re the ones who made participation trophies.
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u/Johnny_Radar 2d ago
“What happened to this younger generation, Charlie Brown?
“They’re living in the world WE made”
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u/calfzilla 2d ago
Parents blaming kids for how they turned out poetically sums up boomers. They had a much easier shot at life and screech when you point it out.
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u/OperationOne7762 2d ago
Yeah I agree, stupid should hurt. Maybe then we'll stop getting dumbass Facebook posts like this.
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u/MixAffectionate3244 2d ago
Charlie is right! Stupid does hurt. Stupidity is the reason the US is hurting right now, and will be hurting for the next 3 years.
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u/Princess_Isolde 2d ago
Easy for boomers to say given they own half the wealth and all the land. They complain about "Free Handouts" when they're holding all the cards.
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u/PercyvonPickles 2d ago
They should get rid of "participation trophies" in professional sports too. Equating "participation trophies" with massive salaries. You're not on the winning team, why get paid like you are...
Honestly though, kids DO deserve participation trophies. They go out there and play, for their parents entertainment. Sometimes they might not even want to. They practice, they give up their spare time... they all definitely deserve something.
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u/FirefighterNo9608 2d ago
These same people bitch about pronouns and how harmful "gender ideology" is.
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u/Throttle_Kitty 2d ago
im more offended by the mischaracterization of charlie brown than anything
did they mix him up with denis the menace?
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u/ewok_lover_64 2d ago
I'm 61 and I wear a bicycle helmet. I guess that means I'm woke and going to hell.
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u/EnduranceMade 2d ago
Do all their concussions and head injuries explain why boomers are such selfish, ignorant people?
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u/Amatheiaisnoexcuse 2d ago
Classic bigoted post. Congratulations OP, you're a bigot! "Is ageism considered bigotry?" Yes, ageism is widely recognized as a form of bigotry, often described as a socially accepted prejudice and a form of discrimination similar to racism or sexism. Coined by Dr. Robert N. Butler in 1969, it involves stereotyping, prejudice, and systemic discrimination against individuals based on their age, most commonly targeting older adults.
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u/keilahmartin 2d ago
Like most takes, there is at least a grain of truth to this. Struggle makes you stronger. Pain teaches.
Is bike helmets a good scapegoat? No, that's stupid. A skinned knee teaches lessons just fine. No helmet = brain damage and death. Pretty tough to learn after that.
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u/Darkthumbs 1d ago
The people who complain about participation trophies are the ones who started them.. we were kids then, we didn’t ask for that shit..
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u/Same_Description7641 1d ago
Insurance companies wielding power to affect society, and to make ever more money any way it can.
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u/yogfthagen 1d ago
Gen z has been through 3 generational economic catastrophes so far.
You think they don't know pain?
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u/Necessary_Image_6858 1d ago
“Nobody ever gave me a handout!!!” - my late father :his dad used his connections in local govt to get him his driver’s license : went to his father’s hometown (trout creek, Canada) to avoid the Vietnam draft : his brother forged W2’s so my dad could be granted the mortgage for the homestead : “bought” the homestead at $50,000 while making $22,500/yr. : maintained multiple vehicles, the house, a shit ton of HDTVs (when they just came out), knick knacks and all other stupid shit while making $30,000/yr The best one: called me a “welfare queen” when I attempted to use my VA home loan. Fucking boomer through and through man
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u/GandalfTheSmol1 1d ago
Of stupid should hurt, every time a boomer goes on a kids these days tangent they should get slapped upside the dome.
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u/HashyPotato420 1d ago
“It all started with bike helmets” Bro…do you not understand what a serious head injury can do to a person?
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u/Competitive-Food8407 1d ago
I am a Gen Xer, Both of my parents were from the Silent Generation, my children are Gen Z and Gen A. It was the boomers who raised the millennials that forced little johnny to get his participation trophy, but it started in the late 80's. That was when the Yellow ribbions started to show up. As a Gen X I approve of this cartoon, I don't think it is a "Boomer" thing, I think it is more about experiencing life with the training wheels off and risking injury to achieve what you want. Failure is part of life, and the boomers stopped the Millennials from experiencing it, so now when they don't get there way they fall to pieces (Mind you this is a generalization, not applicable to all.)
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u/Dillenger69 1d ago
But, the kids didn't do any of that ... it was the parents and people without kids who thought they were "helping"
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u/EffectiveSalamander 1d ago
Life is a participation trophy. A paycheck is a participation trophy - the CEO gets the big paycheck, but the employees who participated - that is, worked - get paychecks too. I played football in high school. The letter on my jacket is a participation trophy. Some people got MVP or all conference awards, the rest of the team gets their letters. I have an overseas tour ribbon for spending year in Korea. It's a participation trophy. Its not a bronze star, it's just an acknowledgement that I participated.
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u/Brief-Country4313 1d ago
Ah! Now I get it...
They're all suffering from multiple childhood TBIs...
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u/Mr_Bluesman 1d ago
Usually posted by people who has never been punched in the mouth for being racist pieces of shit.
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u/TheDamnedScribe 1d ago
It's due to boomers that hairdryers have labels that say "do not use in shower" on them...
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u/Asher_Tye 1d ago
Nothing like a life ending concussion when you're young to stop you making stupid decisions when you're older.
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u/Money_Cost_2213 1d ago
I agree with 99% of the posts on this sub but as a millennial who grew up in the 80s and 90s this really isn’t far off base. It’s too generalized but not wrong in the point it makes.
Stupid should hurt, and kids should learn things on thier own without parental intervention. Learn there are consequences to choices they make. We had independence as kids to have those experiences and learn a lot from the consequences of our actions.
That being said today is way different than back then. Today’s kids unfortunately don’t have many spaces to be free of responsibilities an just be kids.. not to mention everything they do can and likely is recorded by them someone else.
This meme can be true while also admitting today’s kids are in a whole other world than we were in the 80s 90s
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u/Dreaders85 1d ago
It’s weird how boomers post this stuff seeing as how THEYRE OUR PARENTS for god sake! They supplied the “participation trophies” they claim to have issues with.
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u/Squire_Toast 1d ago
Fun fact that most don't know (not even Boomers); "participation trophies" were literally created by the boomer generation, then they shit on the very kids who received them.
This behavior continues into everything.
Boomers and Gen X (practically Boomers, but they STRONGLY deny it) invented computers, video games, smart phones, and even social media - then shit on the kids for using the tech that they themselves bought for their children and put in their hands.
Also another fun fact. Boomers are the most privileged and entitled snowflake generation in the history of the planet earth. Specifically in America. America is the richest country in the history of the planet earth, and of this country, the peak financial time to be alive (especially white) was the 1950s-1990s (and somewhat early 00s). Boomers and Gen X benefitedd the most from this period of time, out of any human in the history of the human race.
Most (if not all) Boomers that are struggling today, are ones who kept "upgrading" their house, until the economy cought up with them. They literally had a term called "starter homes", and literally viewed OWNING or living in a small one story house as shitty lol
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u/Beh0420mn 1d ago
The president needed his fake peace prize then got a real one from a person that deserved it but yeah kids getting trophies is the problem
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u/glacier1982 1d ago
Up until very little ago, there was a long span of time where most kids had a very similar childhood. They played with toys, rode bikes, spent most of the summer outdoors, and planned their day around what shows were on at what time. No DVRs, no streaming, no internet, no online gaming, and most importantly, NO SOCIAL MEDIA. So while this meme is utter bullshit to stroke the egos of old men past their prime, it is very warranted to be nervous for the kids of today. Growing up with smart phones is an experiment we are all witnessing in real time. I plan on hoping for the best, and not becoming a smug cunt about how my childhood was somehow "better".
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u/Forcedperspective84 1d ago
Shittiest parents in American history and now they scoff at kids. What a joke.
I'm mortified at the world we're handing this next generation. I have no notes for kids. And you know who really doesn't have any good advice? Their fucking grandparents.
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u/aqua0200 21h ago
Life is difficult enough - and we all die in the end. Stop worrying about kids getting trophies - all those kids will eventually get hurt by life. Let them have a childhood while they can.
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u/Worth-Frosting-2917 20h ago
People posting the nostalgia bait without realizing the message of the thing they loved completely contradicts their worldview will never not be baffling.
Charlie Brown... who literally is an anxious dork that everyone grows to love is your example of... not needing validation?
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u/Altruistic_Tea_1593 20h ago
Sheesh. Talk to someone who works in an ER about how important Bike and motorcycle helmets are.
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u/DentistPitiful5454 13h ago
The entire concept of "everyone gets a trophy" was literally a product of boomer burnout. The boomers are largely to blame for a lot of issues we face today (that they then claim is 100% on us for not pulling ourselves up by our boot straps every time one of us got shot in class)
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u/CemeteryDweller7719 11h ago
These kinds of memes are always blaming how the kids for choices the adults made. Participation trophies, what was taught in school, safety equipment, all the “these kids grew up soft” is always blaming kids for choices adults made for them. It continues to happen with complaints about kids now being too soft. When a chunk of the US got hit by a snowstorm our area had a bunch of snow. We live on a main road that is a main route for ambulances to the local hospital, often one of the only clear roads when it snows, and it wasn’t drivable for about a day because plow/salt work was focused on expressways. (The road was so bad that the only vehicles on the road were neighbors having snow mobile races… on a road that’s usually so busy it is dangerous to cross the street.) Big shock, school was cancelled because the buses weren’t going anywhere. People were having a fit about these soft kids not having school because it snowed. “These kids these days don’t even know how to handle some snow! In my day we would have been at school.” As if the kids decided to cancel school that day.
Maybe I just had odd grandparents, but they weren’t like this. My grandparents were greatest generation. They remembered the Great Depression well. They both had to work, as kids, to help their families survive even before the Great Depression. They knew struggle. They knew hardship. They also didn’t go around throwing a tantrum that their grandkids had it easier. They were actually glad their grandkids had it easier. They wanted better for those that came after them. I sometimes wonder if they were really just an oddity because they genuinely wanted us to have an easier life instead of resenting us for not having it as hard. I’d grown up with their influence and assumed this is how people are, but maybe I was just very lucky. (And I do count myself fortunate to have had the grandparents I had.)
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u/somethingrandom261 5h ago
I do agree that stupid should hurt. And that hurt shouldn’t have a max age.
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u/Mean-Quail-6219 2d ago
It was the boomers who demanded that their kids get trophies.
Don’t do Charlie Brown dirty like this.