Re: (ot question)

James Wrote:
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> hank Wrote:
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> > But hey, if
> > that's the way you roll, OK Boomer.
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>
> Since you used it: Where'd this one pop up from?
> I've been seeing "boomer" increasingly used in
> that manner around the internet for about the past
> six months or so. I assume it started as
> push-back from millennials who're presumably tired
> of their own generational designation being used
> as an insult but correct me if I'm mistaken in
> that assumption. Since I'm a generation X-er (aka
> the generation everyone else seems to forget
> about) I suppose that means I can be annoyed with
> both boomers and millennials at the same time. On
> a similar note, I haven't seen any catchy terms
> coined yet for today's young children.


"Okay boomer" is more of a joke. It means "What you say is out of touch, irrelevant or outdated, but I'm not going to argue with you about it." Various news outlets have tried to ascribe sinister intentions or discriminatory behavior to the use of the phrase but really, it's just young people being tired of older folks acting like the world still operates the same way it did in 1985.