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Anybody ever hear the expression "OK Boomer"

chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
Did not hear about it until today. Also heard the expression "boomer remover". Both expressions are said to be very negative about the baby boomers. I'm wondering how widespread the expressions are.

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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,233 ***** Forums Admin
    Never heard such. When I saw the title, I thought it was something about an Okie.
  • JohnERebJohnEReb Member Posts: 113 ✭✭✭
    I first read about it on the internet about a month or so ago. Haven't heard it in regular conversation and my wife and I work with 400 other people, most of them millennial's.

  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,283 ******
  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,276 ✭✭✭✭
    Had a kid tell me that a year or so ago when I was explaining the finer points of tile setting and why it was important that things be as perfect as humanly possible.   I believe my reaction to his comment may have scared him somewhat...  Friggin' snowflake dweeb. 
  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******

    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
  • dunbarboyzdunbarboyz Member Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭✭
    If it wasn't for boomers you little bastards wouldn't be here.
  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    If it wasn't for boomers you little bastards wouldn't be here.

    Heh, shows what you know. My parents aren't boomers and neither were theirs.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
  • FrogdogFrogdog Member Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭
    I've heard the "Boomer Remover" phrase recently. The teens/twenty-somethings are all using it as the nickname for COVID-19, laughing it up as they continue about their normal "social routine,"  I actually overheard two college-age girls in the grocery store use the term yesterday. They proceeded to have a conversation in the check-out line about how they like their grandparents, but maybe its time to "let them go".......and hope they leave a lot of money for the girls. They said COVID-19 is actually a "blessing from nature," and how we need something like this to "cut out the dead wood of society" (i.e. older folks). I finally couldn't take it, and chimed in that THEY are the dead wood of society, before I moved to another line.

    They more I deal with these idiots, the more I am convinced the U.S. is doomed. 
  • tomh.tomh. Member Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭✭
    One of the less attractive features of growing old is being told what to do by children.
  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020

    My nephew (now my boss) called me boomer. Odd. He was on an SSN, and I was on a CVG.


    he should have known better.

    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
    My youngest daughter said this to me awhile back thinking she was being cute about it.  The look I gave her I think convinced her she bit off more then she could chew... :D

    Trinity +++
  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    It is a pejorative used by millennials.  I see it on the gun groups all the time on facebook.  Anytime someone with any age dare disagree with a millennial they are shouted down as boomer or fudd.  
  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭


    They more I deal with these idiots, the more I am convinced the U.S. is doomed. 
    Funny, every succeeding generation likely has thought that way about the next.  
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
  • mac10mac10 Member Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭✭
    wonder where that little gun grabber is now  bet he was trying to buy a gun recently 
  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    If anyone says that to me, I'm going to reply, "Okay, Tide Pod."
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • thunderboltthunderbolt Member Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭
    Boomers own bang bangs.  Do not mess with boomers.
  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,283 ******
    There’s going to be another generation of boomers born this winter. Think about it.
  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    Hopefully most of us boomers have a sense of humor about this.
    Something is only offensive if the receiver takes an offense.

    I know it is kind of dark, but the first time I heard 'Boomer Remover' in reference to the Covid-19 virus, I enjoyed it.  

    Government stepped in and stopped most vaping products targeted at the younger generations, or we could all be joking about the Millennial Massacre even today.

    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    OH how RESPECTFUL!  (Church Lady Voice)  I can lay it back on them jokingly just by asking whoever says it to PULL MY FINGER!

    I'll give em a BOOMER!  :D  
  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭✭
    What i have always said to those who call me a Boomer, If it was for us you wouldn't know how to wipe your butt! 
    This has taken on a whole new meaning now

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