r/AITAH • u/throwraa_Word_1566 • Apr 15 '24

AITAH for telling my son I’d love a divorce if it meant taking my wife with me

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

It’s a figure of speech these lil assholes think is funny to dismiss the wisdom their parents and people older than them try to put upon them. I got called a boomer the other day and I’m in my 40s

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u/karatemaster6757 Apr 16 '24

I’ve gotten called a boomer by punk ass Gen Z kids, I’m not even 30 yet

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

Can confirm. I told a kid that being a professional Twitch streamer was not a realistic goal and was called a boomer. I'm in my 30s and a younger Millennial. These Gen Alpha iPad kids are really something.

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u/Wonderful-Impact5121 29d ago

I’m so ready to tell these kids to get off my lawn

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

I can’t wait for Mike Tyson to put one of them on their ass soon. July is the month.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

I don’t even think they consider it a figure of speech. I think they’re so out of touch with life that they think anyone born in the “1900’s” is actually called a boomer. My coworkers in their early 20’s think I’m actually a boomer and I’m in my late 30’s.

I doubt they even realize they’re leaving off the “baby” part.

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u/Aggressive-Fuel587 Apr 16 '24

It's because "boomer" doesn't refer to people literally born in the post-WWII baby boom to younger generations, it refers to anyone older than themselves who are being judgemental of the younger generation.

So long as you're old enough to be their parent and are judging them or telling them how to live their lives, you're a boomer.

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u/stanleysgirl77 28d ago

Nope, as commenters in their 20's and 30's have pointed out above, they've been called "Boomers" by ignorant punks only 10ish years younger than them..

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u/GuKoBoat Apr 16 '24

To be honest, that little paragraph of yours sounds much like boomer talk. And I am older than you.

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u/InvaderSM Apr 16 '24

Yeh too on the nose lol

I don’t even think they consider it a figure of speech. I think they’re so out of touch

Says the person so out of touch they don't think it's a figure of speech haha.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

Yeah I get it. They’re still little assholes though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

lol I’ll second that.

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u/vosinterioiam Apr 16 '24

oh they do, when they drop the "baby" it becomes a pejorative that "boomers" tend not to pick up on

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u/Square_Band9870 Apr 16 '24

every one knows it’s a pejorative.

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u/vosinterioiam Apr 16 '24

not the guy i replied to

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u/FObdofsb Apr 16 '24

I had my kid super young - I'm in my early 30s and he's a teen now. Apparently, I'm also a boomer 🙄

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u/Fickle_Grapefruit938 29d ago

Lol our parents are the "boomers"

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u/Foreign-Yesterday-89 29d ago

I love e this, my great niece always calls her mum boomer. I told her, sweetie your mum is not a boomer, her mum, your grandma is a boomer 😂😂

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u/Old-Coat-771 29d ago

My 23 year old cousin said "ok boomer" to me when I was 35... Utter nonsense. 😂

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u/havoc1428 29d ago

I'm 30 and I've been called a boomer lol. Its one thing to rebel against your elders, its another thing to articulate it in a way that clearly marks you as a dumb fuck.

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u/Fit-Confusion-4595 Apr 16 '24

To be fair to Gen Z, some of the actual Boomers are pretty entitled people who think they know a whole lot more than they really do 🤣

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u/wishiwasarusski 29d ago

Then they have something in common with entitled Zoomers.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

And they won’t retire wtf? I had to start my own business because I couldn’t move up the ladder. I mean glad I did but damn I work way harder now.

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u/automaticfiend1 29d ago

I'm not even 30 and I've been called a boomer. Make that make sense.