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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by excessive on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:48AM (#21443448)
> Some boomer should have some “OK SLACKER” t-shirts

As part of Gen-X, I feel like that's appropriating from my culture. I was proudly on the "slackers" mailing list as an adult in the 90s when the millennials were being born. Give millennials a new pejorative, don't steal ours.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by mc32 on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:58AM (#21443586)
Eh, don’t fret too much, you’ll be a boomer soon...
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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by excessive on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:54PM (#21445018)
I didn't think it worked that way. After that, can I be the Silent/Greatest Generation?

Maybe the word "Boomer" will just get redefined to mean "old people with more money than me". Kind of the same way "meme" got redefined from "idea permeating society" to "cartoon or cat picture with sarcastic text", and how "troll" got redefined from "someone who tries to antagonize" to "someone who says things I don't agree with".

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