17 Brutal Jokes About Things Boomers Do That Are Actually Very, Very Accurate
Welp, they're not wrong.
People on the internet love calling out baby boomers for the things they do, and let's just say they don't hold back AT ALL.
So, here are 17 painfully accurate tweets about things boomers say or do:
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1. Baby boomers think everyone else is *overly sensitive*:
It's always funny to me when Boomers accuse young people of being overly sensitive "special snowflakes" who can't handle the real world.
— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) April 21, 2023
My dudes, we all worked in retail. We know which generation is most likely to fly off the handle over the most minor inconvenience imaginable.
2. They also like disapproving of your career choices:
On my way home from a bustrip to Italy with my mom. It's always interesting traveling with Boomers 😅 they will usually ask me what I've studied/what I do for a living, and as soon as I mention being an artist, they will grimace and not ask further, and talk about their highly
— 💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄👹🩸 (@ArtOfMaquenda) April 19, 2023
3. Boomers really love giving financial advice:
Sorry guys, I took the boomers’ advice and sold all my #Bitcoin. Just going to eat less avocado toast, and worship my 401k until I retire when I’m 85.
— Roy⚡️ (@OrangeTruth88) March 18, 2023
4. Like, someone should seriously document this:
someone please make a reality TV show where boomers apply to jobs with the wildly outdated advice they unsolicitedly give millenials/Gen Z I am begging
— Allison Perry (@allisonperryart) March 13, 2023
5. Boomers love asking younger generations why they're *always* on their phone:
“always on your damn phone”
— Ulysse Carrière (@inherent_itgirl) February 21, 2023
only boomers still believe that a phone is an object. for everyone under 40, it’s a prosthetic extension of your transcendental unity of apperception.
6. Boomers do not like therapy:
Nobody needs therapy more yet refuses it more strenuously than boomers.
— Jennifer Public Radio 💎 (@AmbientSynthy) February 5, 2023
7. Boomers like pretending that today's cost of living is manageable:
Why do boomers so confidently tell us that the cost of living is manageable because they were able to do it 40 years ago? What’s not clicking
— Pistachio (@HarleyShah) January 19, 2023
8. They like adding suspense in their text messages:
Why do boomers use "..." in their text messages all the time???
— Emily is writing a book (@EtheHerring) December 14, 2022
9. Seriously, they really love ellipses:
boomers are right about ellipses, keeps people on their toes…what’s coming around the corner…………………
— am rod (@arod_twit) April 22, 2023
10. Boomers like leaving bad reviews on Yelp for minor things:
I hate it when baby boomers are like "your generation is too sensitive!".
— Eden Dranger (@Eden_Eats) February 1, 2023
Okay, Phyllis, I'm not the one writing 6 paragraph Yelp reviews because you didn’t like the colors of the restaurant’s chairs.
11. They reeeallllly hate self-checkout:
I hate everything the way boomers hate self check out.
— natalayhehoo (@highprobably1) December 12, 2022
12. And whether it's a wedding or baby shower, they enjoy buying things you didn't ask for on the registry:
Boomers have a truly astounding capacity for sending useless, polyester, off-registry “gifts” to the parents of a newborn. I am absolutely taken aback at what has arrived and will continue to arrive at my house.
— Jo (@junker_jo) April 19, 2023
13. Boomers really like not caring about what happens to future generations:
Boomers are so smug with their “I’ll be dead so it doesn’t matter” rhetoric like it makes me want to steal their social security money
— Mr. Flintstone🍆 (@sagistarbb) March 10, 2023
14. Boomers like complaining to their kids:
Boomers will complain to their Millennial kids—most of whom own nothing and exist to service their debt—about how much their post-retirement healthcare costs while they sit on multiple cars and houses that they don't need.
— 🔺remnant. (@remnantposting) March 23, 2023
15. Boomers enjoy "working hard"...
Boomers love telling you to “get a real job”, then go get paid 6 figures to send 5 emails a week
— tim (reboot edition) (@HydrationChimp) April 17, 2023
16. ...and telling other generations to work harder:
boomers whenever millennials and gen z-ers refuses to grin and bear it, work five jobs, pinch pennies and live a life that makes them miserable, all to experience an american dream that barely existed to begin with. pic.twitter.com/uIApR2EttB
— Flirt Cobain (@MAD_lines) March 26, 2023
17. And finally, they enjoy asking for help...and then giving advice:
yesterday at work a boomer asked me a somewhat involved reference question; as I was searching for the answer (apparently not quickly enough), he helpfully suggested "you know I see some people ask things into their phones, maybe you could try that."
— St. Vincent Price (@muddaub) April 8, 2023
thanks man. pic.twitter.com/NGdNaXzaQk