And nott so many fcukin cars on the streets
And yet they get all quiet and upset if you ask how many of their childhood friends are still alive
is this referring to the boomers surviving or teenagers getting the cops called on them?
Can be both
“I was beaten as a kid and I ‘turned out fine’” vibes
Back in my grandma’s day her sister drank a bottle of something in the barn and died. Back in my grandpas day he lost all the fingers on one hand in shop class.
And I can confirm “kids these days” is the general mentality of them now, and yet the shit my grandpa did as a kid/teen would of landed him in jail or on a list today.
Back in my day kids played outside! Go to the park! Get some sun!
Good thing they turned the park into a parking lot for the newest CostCo/WalMart/Whatever. But why are all these kids playing on the road! I Can’t even see the younger ones, why are they so short they can hide behind my oversized SUV!
Or, more commonly, the park is still there, but kids can’t go and play alone. Society’s expectations have changed and a kid is supposed to have a parent watching them constantly while they’re outside. And, if a kid does go and play and gets injured or killed, the blame lands squarely on the neglectful parents who will now be charged with a crime.
From 1975 to 2015 “deaths are down 92 percent among children ages 15 and under, and down 44 percent annually across all cyclists.” – https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20043115/kids-bike-fatalities-down-92-percent-but-theres-a-catch/
“You” personally might have survived, but about 12-13 times as many kids died from “No helmet, no fear”. (At least very least, 2x as many did.)
“Thus, the decline in bicyclist mortality among children might be attributable to fewer child bicycle trips rather than a result of safer road conditions,” the report reads.
I believe the comparison was between to “good old days” and “now”, so the 92% number remains valid, even if there are multiple contributing changes.
But, sure, maybe the 44% number is closer to correct.
Ignore deaths and just do brain damage statistics. It will all start to make sense.
Haha we got fucking head injuries and it was fine because we could afford to raise an entire family on one salary from the spatula factory and that only requires 67 IQ points.
If “we” were white, male, straight, lived in the US immediately following WWII when every other developed country’s economy had been absolutely devastated, and still had a lot of the union strength and worker protections that had been put in place during the great depression.
A few head injuries wouldn’t separate you from the leaded gasoline poisoned brains of the masses.
Coming of age in the 1970s was peak Selection Bias.
Either Vietnam got you or the poisoned air and water got you or AIDS got you or traffic fatalities got you or poverty got you or you lived just long enough to tell your kids and grandkids that things were better when you were young.
It’s why a good chunk of older folks tend to be on the wealthier side. The poors get forgotten and don’t get to live as long to tell stories about how it really was.
Wait! Are you telling me The Simpsons is satire?
Wow. Those wings sure get hit a lot. They should really make sure they ar well armored.
/s
This is actually a Japanese WWII psyops paint scheme that made one Japanese plane look like dozens.
And also trick americans into thinking the war is over.
I thought it was to trick Americans into rejecting chicken pox vaccines.
1000 words
fuck you’re right i need 22 inch woofers on my ebike give myself rectus excavatum while i ride around
Survivor
shipplane bias.
The rich love it when you pit young against old, black vs white, Muslim vs Christian, urban vs country and academics against labor.
As I grew older, I started complaining about “the youth,” as in all the ridiculous stuff I would see online. And then it hit me as the conversation began about how we all did stuff like this as kids. We just weren’t publishing it online for all to see and become permanent. So I’ve learned even more that if someone or something isn’t hurting me or anyone else, I need to shut the fuck up and mind my own god damned business.
Moral of the story: I don’t care how much you don’t like it. If you or anyone else is not being harmed, then shut the fuck up and mind your own god damned business.
Thank you
I’ve been practically melting my brain trying to reconcile the thoughts “we said dumb shit as kids” and “holy fuck if I hear the world ‘skibidi’ one more time I’m going to lose my mind”
I’ve just taken to explaining in detail why I think skibidi is so cool and why they’re right to use it. “Wow, you adopted a word from the internet? When I was a kid, no one had the internet besides the government. You know, the spread of information and global homogenization of vernacular is such a fascinating thing that your generation is part of…” and so on. If they can cause me agony with their verbal garbage after I ask them to chill, I can reply in kind.
I legitimately think meme culture brain rot is actually dumber though. Think about what kind of shit you quoted as a kid and young adult. Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, Cheech and Chong, Pulp Fiction… A lot of it isn’t exactly high art but it at least has the standard elements of conflict in fiction, or expresses some vague social commentary, or requires a functional attention span to comprehend a plot, or even synthesize themes.
Skibidi toilet has none of that. It has no point to make. It has no world to build. It’s literally just random shapes, colors and noises on a screen. The “episodes” are only a few minutes long and even within that constraint there is nothing resembling continuity at any scale.
I’m gonna hard disagree on you there, Skibidi Toilet actually has incredible worldbuilding. With practically no dialogue, there is a coherent plot that forms. It is still just an escalating war story, so not like a super in depth plot, but there’s reoccuring characters, back and forths driven by technical advancement/alliances, and I think you could derive the basic “war and oppression bad” themes from it that you can get from most war stories. That’s honestly pretty impressive to achieve purely visually.
It’s not high art either, but the shit I was watching as a kid were youtube poops that were literally just “cartoon character says something vulgar and stupid.” compared to that, Skibidi Toilet is fine. The only thing I don’t understand is how Skibidi as a word got derived from it.
You finally managed to make me look up skibidi toilet and it feels pretty similar to transformers. I don’t care to watch more, but it didn’t seem absent of story.
The minimalist absurdism does say a lot about current society though, no?
This is a pretty broad age range though. I definitely wasn’t quoting office space until like late high school. Are there really that many 17/18 year olds quoting skibidi toilet?
The shit I quoted when I was younger, close to the “skibidi” age was like home star runner and the like. Perhaps not quite as dumb, but still stupid as shit.
I think the algorithms are driving worse engangement, certainly, and profit driven creations are at an all time high rather than just weird shit being made. But newgrounds, addictinggames, hell, ytmnd, were all sort of brainrot
Granted I grew up with some computers in schools in elementary school, and the internet being relatively available in middle school (though things like Google and Wikipedia were just born / in their infancy)
Skibidi is hilarious in a sad kafka-esque way. I’m a millennial, and remember enjoying Scatman John as a kid, and the adults complained about it being gibberish.
Now I’m an adult and watching adults complain that Scatman John is gibberish. It’s a little surreal.
When I was in grade 9 we were saying dumb shit like “awesomesauce,” so “skibidi” gets a pass from me.
Stibidi koilet
I can take “skibidi”. “Chicken jockey” is what’s getting me right now.
that’s what drugs are for i think
I for one am really glad none of the stupid shit I said as a kid is still around. I was a complete dumbass, to the bone. If I saw a post from past me, I would be so triggered.
I’m in the second half of my fourth decade of breathing, and I’m rather proud i made it this far before something “the kids do” being completely incomprehensible to me.
I do not understand brainrot videos. I can’t wrap my head around why anyone would watch it. I am officially old now.
I don’t get Snapchat. It’s the most obnoxious piece of shit app with a UI that makes untangling a plate of spaghetti look like a straightforward task. If you mistakenly open it, it will take this as an indication to spam your notifications hourly with drivel until you shut it the hell up with a shotgun. The avatar decoration bundles are obviously exploitative, preying off of kids who get bullied for being “basic”. Fuck Snapchat.
You don’t understand the disappearing naked picture app? That one seems pretty self-explanatory
B-b-b-but, they’re using different words, listening to different music, and wearing different clothes than I did! Am I just supposed to take that kind of offense lying down?! They’re not even lynching the queers no more!
A lot of them didn’t. They were also murdered, raped, and kidnapped at a tragic rate.
Judging by the car in the background, these are not boomers, but gen-xers.
Shhhhh! We don’t exist. Remember?!
That’s cos the kids posting this stuff aren’t smart enough to tell the difference. For them “boomer” is just a term for anyone older than themselves and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it starting being used for millennials.
the whole concept of categorizing everyone by 2 decade increments at birth is stupid….
the Boomer generation made sense as there was an event that cause a baby boom and such….
there’s no single thing that ties gen x, millennials, zoomers or whatever together….
….
i am somewhat fond of the “oregon trail” generation for everyone that remembers playing that game on computers in elementary school….
and the whole information age coming online was a big unifying event for the kids growing up in it, distinct from previous and future humans….
….
but like, “people born from 1980-2000” is absolute horseshit and just another way “the man” uses to divide and conquer us.Okay, boomer.
bokay, humor
Yeah, if we’re going to assume that an entire age cohort is some sort of philosophical and political monoblock, we should at least get the cohort right.
Boomer is a state of mind.
Might as well be at this point.
I mean it has been since “OK Boomer” became a thing.
“No fear” and then being afraid of the slightest change like just not being aggressive towards LGBT…
It’s kinda like people are hypocrites. Wouldn’t pin it on a generation. “Do as I say, not as I do” I wear a helmet whenever I’m going over 15 on a scooter. Will never buy another bike.
