Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 16, 2019

Danae, you don’t have the power or authority to say “Ok Boomer” yet. Maybe you will be able to when you’re a little older and a little wiser.

This one has gone over my head. What does “OK, Boomer” mean?

If she survives, she may have a future in “politics”, as a pundit.

Theorem: Snark is only okay IRL if everybody agrees it’s acceptable. Corollary: Snark is never okay in the presence of a bureaucrat.

At least she didn’t use the OK sign which some people think is a white supremacist symbol.

And like us your generation will make the same mistakes, learn the hard lessons and repeat it all.

I would like to think the teacher said “Bye, Felicia” as she sent Danae off to the office.

Danae reminds me of a certain cartoonist who hid a few words in a cartoon once.

Boom, Danae.

I bet Danae single-handedly created the position of Vice Principal at that school.

The secret, of course, is that the boomers have contributed a great deal to the education of today’s young generations. If they are then treated in this way, it is the result of their own failure.

One of these day these snarky brats will realize that if it wasn’t for “boomers” they would have all the fancy toys they invented and that if not for them they wouldn’t even exist.

It’s funny the way the “little ones” started using that OK BOOMER comment. They often mean it as an insult, but it backfires. I’m so proud to be a boomer and grew up in the best era with the best music and man on the moon and so on. I have fear for those born today…What kind of world will they grow up in with politicians becoming more bolder to lie and self-serve.

And blaming my generation on pollution is silly. That stuff started up long before my time. Look up “U.S. industrial era”. If anything, my generation fought for fighting pollution and preventing the endangering of species with over-hunting, over-fishing and over-developments of wild lands. We made “ecology” a household word! My generation tried to bring the world together, only to see it all fall apart in the new century, with the most damage caused since 2016.

MY generation invented the internet. Good or bad…hard to say ;-)

Wanna call me Boomer? OK “Millie”, I’m good with that. VERY good.

Didn’t THAT little “Catchphrase” come and go pretty quickly? A HELL of a lot faster then “Where’s the Beef”…

Good luck with that.

My 8th grader says many of his classmates say “Ok Boomer”. He also say they don’t know what it means.

WHATEVER-R-R-R-R-R-!

Something tells me I’m going to be MIGHTY SICK of that phrase before I croak !!! lol

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and enthusiasm any day.

It used to be that the people born during WWII were called War Babies. No one mentions them anymore. Guess they got sucked up into the misnomer of the Silent Generation. They were lots of things, but I don’t think they were silent.

To be honest, I’ve not heard that term — my initial thought was that Danae was making a comment about a previous flatulence event…

My Mom worked for many, many years as a school secretary in a Junior High School. There was a similar bench in front of the Vice-Principal’s office. My mother called it the Amen Pew because lots of prayer and reflection took place on the part of the miscreants sitting there, awaiting their fate.

The existence of >60 replies alone answers the question quite nicely….

Snark is Life.

The narrator of one of the podcasts I listened to went on a rant about boomers being evil. I left a comment that I was sorry I was polluting his space and increasing his income, then I unsubscribed.

My rule of thumb for deciding how I feel about some issue is substituting one group for another. Substitute any race or age group into “Okay, boomer,” and, yes, it is offensive.

F you little snot.

All right, then, I’ll take your OK as agreement. Now, as I was saying ….

“Hope I die before I get old – talking bout my generation” The Who, 1965

“Don’t trust anyone over 30” Jack Weinberg, 1964

“OK Boomer” Millenials, 2019

Funny how it was ok to dismiss the older generation in the 60s, but now that those people have aged, we must respect our elders.

We rebelled against our parents, our parents rebelled their parents, and so on. Youth rebelling against their elders is a natural step toward maturity.

When I was a kid, we often used the phrase “OK Mother.”

I was born before the end of WWII making me technically, a War Baby rather than A Boomer. Ironically, I grew up resenting the kids who followed a year or so behind me in school. It always seemed to me that those kids got the newest textbooks, the newest advances in education, the new classrooms etc. Probably wasn’t true, but to a kid, it seemed that way.

Sage advice, Danae

Well, Peter Townshend of The Who sang “Hope I die before I get old” in My Generation, but that didn’t happen, did it, Boomer? Pete’s 74 now and Millenials don’t even know who he is.

“What does ‘OK, Boomer’ mean?” It’s 21st century newspeak for “don’t trust anyone over 30”. What goes around, comes around.

OK, so my birth year qualifies me as a “boomer”. The term, as I understand it, comes from the rapid rise in birthrate as WWII veterans returned home. However, both of my parents were still in elementary school at the end of WWII, so they didn’t have that ‘incentive’ (ifyouknowwhatImean). Who did this accounting, anyway?

“OK, boomer.” means no more than “OK, Grandpa.” from someone not related to you. “Boomer” doesn’t make it smart, relevant, or deep.

It is considered a put down on “old” people by the youth of today

“Boomer” is a term young people use to deflect attention from their ignorance and inexperience.

It’s also a way to reply to the Boomers who don’t understand that the world is not the same one we grew up in.

Words to live by.

She’s also got to learn to tell ages.

That Teacher is much older than a Boomer. It says so right there on the Girls’ Room Wall.

Do you really want see an instantaneous back hand from someone who has had enough insults?Don’t push peoples buttons. They may be armed!Just sayin’.