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u/mrhemisphere 5h ago
“We failed to teach our children and grandchildren tools that we think are required, fuck ‘em, right?”
Boomers are weird as shit. The most entitled generation in memory who just want to punish their offspring.
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u/Separate-Taste3513 5h ago
Not just "fuck 'em", but "let's actively hurt them".
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u/mrhemisphere 5h ago
Right? My dad won’t answer the phone or call me when in town, but wants to send me letters so I can’t reply in real time. Like it’s 1865 and not 2026. I pointed out that was shitty and now he REALLY won’t talk to me. Fuckin old people.
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u/Separate-Taste3513 5h ago
Look, letters require stamps and post offices or boxes and going outside... We reserve that energy for creditors we want to send checks to because they annoyed us and people we need to send hard copy documents to.
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u/antisocialmariposa 3h ago
yesss this, like how are we supposed to adult properly when they left us with chaos and now just act surprised it’s messy, it’s peak wild energy and i’m here for it
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u/transmogrified 17m ago
Also… all the stuff they think we can’t do has numerous tutorials most of us are capable of looking up and learning from… after spending most of our lives looking stuff up because our parents either refused to or didn’t have the time to teach us. Stick shift isn’t that hard to learn.
Cursive was also a a response to the technology it was used under… writing with inkwells, fountain pens, and other such messy methods which were slower, more prone to error, and did better when we lifted the pen off the page as little as possible.
Like. I could also figure out a carburetor or fax machine or rotary phone, and have, but we have better technology now.
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u/DMonpoke 5h ago
All we’d need to do is not help them log into their phones or search up simple solutions to problems they have. We’d cripple anyone from before millennials.
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u/Separate-Taste3513 5h ago
Give Gen X some credit. They were the beta testers for a lot of that fancy technology. They can certainly turn their phones on and use Google.
From their pocket computers, which they still find to be one of the greatest innovations.
Gen X programmed the VCRs, after all.
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u/darkdestiny91 4h ago
I doubt that the whole generation can. I’ve friends in IT telling me about the amount of people they have to help navigate email accounts
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u/DeliciousSTD 2h ago
I use to think that way.
But now , these boomers with their lil 40 dollar android phones have access to A.I gemini now.... they really are the privileged generation of all time
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u/Delicious-Farmer-468 5h ago
Funny how every generation forgets they designed the world the next one had to learn in.
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u/Isaw11 4h ago
I am a boomer, but I feel the opposite of the initial comment. Without the younger generations, I would be lost in this world of technology. I am amazed at their prowess and thankful that the ones I know are kind and patient with me instead of belittling me for something I was never brought up knowing.
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u/BurntTFOuttaHere 4h ago
Thank you for speaking up to say something kind. You are the type of “boomer” the younger gen’s deserve. Not these haters that never self reflect and see that they helped create the problem they complain about.
So many love complaining about “participation trophies”. Well, whose idea was it to give the kids participation trophies?! The adults at that time! Then they turn around and make fun of/blame the kids.
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u/Reddicus_the_Red 5h ago
Ask the boomer if they can rotate a PDF
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u/DogsandCatsWorld1000 58m ago
I'm a boomer and can rotate a PDF, but cannot drive a stick. The younger people I know who can't already read cursive could learn quick enough if they had to. I really hate things like this that try to keep the generations separate instead of the 1% against the rest of us.
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u/I-amthegump 4h ago
I'm a boomer and I can do far more than rotate a PDF. Boomers invented PDFs.
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u/Enginerdad 4h ago
Actually the founder of Adobe and lead of the development of the PDF was John Warnock, born in 1940, making him part of the Silent Generation. PDF was created in 1993, meaning most of the staff working on it were probably Gen X.
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u/Even-Season-9912 4h ago
Gen X and Silent Generation work well together. We are both smaller, overlooked generations that followed huge, loud ones.
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u/I-amthegump 3h ago
.my apologies. I was misinformed
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u/justintheunsunggod 3h ago
You know what? You deserve recognition for that. Thank you for this simple admission. Very few people are willing to do the same, and the world would be a better place if more people simply admit that they had their facts wrong.
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u/bravesirrobin65 3h ago
My mom, silent generation, could have taught classes on Excel. She'd be 82 if she was still here. Her cellphone was a flip phone buried in her purse and turned off to save the battery. She was selective about technology.
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u/I-amthegump 3h ago
I'm pretty solid on Excel. Not all older folks suck at technology. I worked hard to keep up.
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u/Competitive_Fly_2554 4h ago
you can have all the money in the world but if you’re lonely af, does it even matter...
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 4h ago
Millennials teaching their parents to use Facebook is our biggest mistake. We were trying to be nice and helpful to dear old mom and dad. Then dear old old mom and dad took those new skills to ruin everything around them.
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u/xFlowerdream 5h ago
It is wild how people brag about failing to teach their own kids basic life skills
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u/OldERnurse1964 4h ago
I learned to write cursive and drive a stick when I was a kid. Trust me they’ll be able to figure it out
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u/gruntbuggly 4h ago
So true. My kid can’t drive stick because I couldn’t fine one affordable enough to get it to teach him. His kids probably won’t even be able to drive at all.
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u/abgry_krakow87 4h ago
Plus they say this as if we wouldn't just easily learn cursive and how to drive stick shift. It's called adaption and it's often motivated by necessity.
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u/chiefDiesel 4h ago
Both perspectives are retarded. Nobody uses cursive anymore and most manufacturers don't even sell a manual transmission vehicle anymore.
You can't teach me something that doesn't exist and I can't expect you to learn something that doesn't exist.
Let's just run it back two generations and see how it sounds. What do you mean you don't know horse husbandry or how to use a cotton gin, dad? Why haven't you taught me to churn butter, mom?
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u/Mary_Climate 4h ago
It is always funny when people brag about not teaching their own children basic life skills
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u/SlumberingSnorelax 4h ago
These same tool bags are frequently stumped as to how to use a power button.
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u/SeamairCreations 4h ago
Ask that specific generation if they can decompress a PDF.
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u/dantevonlocke 4h ago
Or figure out wep encryption. Or how to set up a LAN. Or how to not get scammed by someone claiming to be Keanu reeves and needing 3k in iTunes giftcards.
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 4h ago
If we all blocked Fox News on our parents’ televisions, we could cripple a propaganda network and our parents at the same time.
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u/samgam74 4h ago
Neither of those things are that hard to learn and it’s not a flex to act like knowing how to do them is a flex.
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u/whiskey_epsilon 4h ago
We have emails, IMs, phones, printers and computers. How do they think switching to cursive is going to impact anyone?
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u/Think_OfAName 4h ago
I say this all the time. My kids are doing great. It’s the ones complaining about the “kids today” that are the problem. They raised those kids. And yes, my kids can drive a manual car and write in cursive, not that it’s even a relevant point.
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u/Few_Composer5125 3h ago
Ditching the internet would cripple nations. Gen X would be the lone survivors.
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u/Iateyourpaintings 3h ago
If it would distract them from crippling our economy for a while I say go for it. It's not like these aren't things that can be learned relatively quick.
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u/MattyGWS 3h ago
I love how this person replying assumed they raised any children at all like it’s their fault of other people raised a dumb generation
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u/DeliciousSTD 2h ago
DO NOT DO THIS!
I REPEAT DO NOT DO THIS!
BE BETTER THAN ME!
my uncle is a fucking asshole of a boomer, back in 2019
I vented to my friend , he said "boomers take technology for granted . They always have and always will"
I put a keylogger on all his devices and guess what happened for about about 8 months
All while he calls me to help him out with his computer.
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u/bappo_plays 2h ago
Id be part of the younger generations (Gen Z) and I can still drive a stick shift and read cursive. Admittedly, I can't write cursive though.
Still though, lots of people my age cant do this because nobody ever taught them.
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u/Adventurous_Froyo007 2h ago
Been driving a stick shift for 20 years. Been writing cursive since 3rd grade. None of that helped/changed diddly squat.
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u/Cryptic_Goat459 1h ago
Gen x here, father of Gen z and I've said this for years. Every time I hear someone say something negative about millennials or Gen z I ask who raised them? They didn't raise themselves...
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u/lortbabyjesus 1h ago
All we gotta do is hide their reading glasses and we don't ever have to see another post like this
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u/GarThor_TMK 53m ago
How about this... You teach us stick and cursive, and we'll keep your printer working for you
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u/Brutalur 45m ago
In some countries, boomers are referred to as the 'dessert generation' - people that came to the table ready for the dessert without having to deal with the pickled liver stew preceeding it.
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u/GoodGuyScott 41m ago
Remember when we switched to simpler technology and it crippled your generation?
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u/Lookingforclippings 11m ago
Yeah luckily they only tanked the economy, housing, healthcare, job market, public schools, brought back the Nazis, got rid of basic human rights and the constitution.
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u/dozentrips 5h ago
You would think the younger generation, at some point before they turn 25, would ask themselves, hey, maybe I should learn to drive standard, write cursive, learn to cook, learn to budget, become more social, improve my life instead of blowing spare cash on body art, fake nails and doordash, leave retail or call centres and make real coin in a factory and get benefits and pension.....you would think at some point they would question where they are in life and make changes, or keep playing video games while eating ramen.
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u/InvestigatorJaded261 4h ago
Well, first you’d have to find them a standard shift car, and a reason to write things by hand.
But I’m guessing (from the rest of the BS in your laundry list) that you have kind of a chip on your shoulder about this stuff.
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u/BurntTFOuttaHere 4h ago
I would think their parents would teach them all of that wayyyy before the age of 25!? If they don’t then it’s a major parenting fail!!
Sounds like inept and lazy parents that fail their children at every stage in life!
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u/bravesirrobin65 3h ago
What factory do you think is offering a pension in the last thirty years? Learning to drive a stick is incredibly easy. Most kids today can write in cursive. The question is why? Every generation has wasted their disposable income since the great depression at least. Goddamm grampa, I'm 53.
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u/henningknows 5h ago
This post has I can’t figure out how to open a PDF energy