It’s creepy how many places air Fox News 24/7 in their lobby/restaurant/bar/waitingroom/etc.
It's a boomer world, you are just living in it. And as you know the boomers are the main characters, you are just an NPC
I hate how right this is. It’s been a boomer world since before I was born, and I’ve spent the past 4 decades waiting for it to end already. Not only my generation, but the one before it and the two after have been completely passed over. Our elders are too busy being completely addled with their addiction to relevance and self-importance that they actually believe anyone younger than them is just a child that needs a firm hand and ‘tough love’ to ‘straighten them out’. ‘News reports’ like this further enforce this idea; the world is full of idiot kids that they, mighty boomers, need to stand in front of in order to ‘right the ship’.
Apparently the world is going to hell in a hand basket kids, and the only way to fix it is to revert back to a world that makes those over 60 feel comfortable and righteous in.
Our elders are too busy being completely asked with their addiction to relevance and self-importance
When the media started harping about how self-involved millenials were because they were taking selfies, my first thought was, "These are the same fuckers that made Forrest Gump and the Wonder Years.
The Wonder Years premiered in 1988, set in 1968. That's like if someone today produced a TV show about how nice and wholesome it was to grow up in 2006. (Except it's not, because even when the show was inevitably rebooted in 2021, it was still set in 1968. Because Boomers still needed that nostalgia hit.)
100% agree with you. My childhood was so steeped in the nostalgia of a generation that hit its prime before I was born that I legitimately knew more about 60’s and 70’s popular culture than I did about the popular culture in my own time because of how hijacked it was by boomer nostalgia. Even in media designed for my generation, the message was clear: boomer culture was the peak culture and anything that came after was a cheap imitation or flat out ‘wrong’.
Let me be clear: millennials have their own issues with nostalgia, and I also see some of us giving younger people the same treatment: ‘oh you don’t remember that song/movie/actor from when I was growing up and you weren’t even born yet?! Did you even have a childhood?!’ type of crap. While this isn’t ok either, I can’t help but wonder if because that’s the attitude we received from our elders growing up, some of us use it for a template to handle our own feelings of irrelevance as we age. My message to these people as well as a reminder to myself as I get even older: let the youths be. Let them enjoy being young and see it simply as that. It has nothing to do with you, and your job is to listen to them and nurture their efforts to improve their world so they can continue to do so for those that come after them.
It’s a boomer world, you are just living in it.
But finally, they're dying in it. Today the youngest boomers are 62 and the oldest are 80. Over the next two decades we will watch as their numbers finally wane, and hopefully with it the monopolizing stranglehold they have over society.
When all the boomers are dead we will still be living in a fascist nation. I know it is popular to hate on them, but they are not the real enemy.
Yeah I definitely wrote the above off the cuff, seems silly now and I agree with you completely.
At the very least, it's a convenient indicator to know when you should avoid returning to that business.
Anytime I see fox on public TVs like this, I try to change the channel if I can.
It's to keep people from loitering
Not died. Dying. The country is dying.
And the fascist oligarchy who run propaganda operations like Fox — now, most of Americas media — are to blame.
Not like, the system that enabled it? Was the country good when it was built on genocide and slavery? Was it healthy when it invaded colonized countries that elected governments who wanted to challenge its global imperialism? Prison industrial complex was a good workout routine was it?
Boomers, this you?
Oh my word, now there’s another generation saying things for the explicit purpose of upsetting the adults, oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
It’s like older people actually forget they did the exact same thing as they were growing up, and it didn’t mean anything then either.
And just like the first image, many of the words in second image are rarely if ever used by the generation being stereotyped and are more often used by older generations to do the stereotyping, inventing a largely imagined culture for the generation they're completely out of touch with.
This is so real. I remember being a preteen when pagers were a big thing, and seeing a newspaper article written for parents that listed all of these ‘pager codes’ so parents could decode what their kids were saying to each other. Out of a list of perhaps 20, I only recognized 3 and the rest were so elaborate and clearly made up for this article. A few years later, I saw a nearly identical article listing largely the same ‘codes’ but for AIM chats. Shit like ‘2219’ means ‘parents nearby, pick the drugs up at Sally’s instead’. Like wtf?
Like you said, inventing a largely imagined culture for the generation they’re completely out of touch with.
Instead of ‘decoding’ what kids are saying, how about actually talking to them?
Oh wait, forget the slang - the kids aren’t alright! The kids we raised are ruining everything!
Lol why did they explain 'bringing me down' to mean 'taking off a high', to then later explain 'taking off a high' as 'sobering up' 😂
They had no idea what they were talking about is my best guess.
Now for a whole new generation to blame and words to ban and make scaries! (Yeah I’m on a tangent and switching perspectives ffs)
Oh wait this you too?
I still say all of this
I still say a lot of it too, dweeb and grody being choice to use at opportune moments.
I personally love slang, without it our language skills would remain static and even degrade. IMO slang helps language evolve.
"Skirtcurious" is such a funny term, i kinda love it. Its like bicurious but for skirts
I wonder what that Karen hairstyle is saying about it.
Probably something balanced and informational, right?
padmehopeful.jpg padmelesshopeful.jpg
Karen-bashing is mysoginist, change my mind.
Karens are to feminism what scabs are to labor.
Hey, I have you tagged as Rhyme Lord because of your awesome lyrical skills! Wanna do a poem about Karens? 😊🙏
I can NOT stand my landlady-neighbor!
Never once worked a day
In her life, since she may
Rely on her battered man's labor
Her will is the law!
She's a vulture, a scavenger
She WILL speak to the manager
Tell him what she saw
She's a shrewd and unlikable Karen!
But if you just switch the pronoun
He's a man of renown
A Noble, a leader: a Baron
Wooow, 👏👏🙏🤝🫵🙇♂️🙇♂️
That was great! Put a wide smile on my face on my otherwise pretty dim day. 😄❤️
Hoping we keep crossing paths! 👋💐
We may.
I now have you tagged as "has me tagged as Rhymelord", so I know my lyrics will be appreciated as replies.
Oh my gosh, haha, great! Find me around as "@Bananskal@nord.pub" as well. 😁 It's my Piefed account. 👋
God forbid they report on any actual news.
The actual news is very bad for their side right now.
FAiR aNd BaLaNcEd
I repeat, Fox is not news
Of course they're not. You're preaching to the choir with this one, but the fact is that 'news' is in their name and the majority is stupid enough to both believe it and that watching it makes them informed. So you wind up in a conversation where you're worried about war, inflation, the files, the forests, etc etc etc, and they don't know anything about that but they're worried about a small handful of trans athletes. Are they stupid? Of course. Do they still deserve to be informed rather than indoctrinated and radicalized? Of course!
Let's try to get them to add "Kirkenuinely"!
lowkirkenuinely egging rn
Holy shit lol. I remember when egg was just a stupid joke, and yeah it's morphed into the general term, but it's really funny watching terminology that came from dweebs on the internet find it's way into news publications because your people have been demonized so much.
Fox ain't news lol
True
Has Fox started to bridge the gap?
Oh hell no. This is exactly like when the sheriff came to my school to burn a bunch of marijuana twigs in a coffee can to teach all the narcs the smell.
The gap between here and hell? Like I’m sure this was played for laughs, right? They are making fun of ‘woke’ as usual. I mean I would guess, I’m not the photographer’s mom.
Hopefully the shock was at how ridiculous this is.
TBF they are all bitchin’.
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