# Snappy responses to "OK boomer"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 19, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651 "2019-11-19T15:03:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/61 "2019-11-22T22:41:46Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Fifty is not usually old enough for dementia to kick in. 😛

It ain’t just dementia; as one gets older their ability to cognitively adapt calcifies and they stop being able to appreciate unfamiliar perspectives. I’m not just talking racism and such here; even people’s [tastes in music](https://www.iflscience.com/brain/we-stop-discovering-new-music-at-a-certain-age-heres-why/) lock in on what they experienced in their youth and everything that comes later tends to wash over them without effect like water off a duck’s back. This intensifies as one gets older, until it becomes difficult to see value in things too dissimilar from what one is familiar with.

Obviously a person can fight against this somewhat with concerted effort, but I’m a lazy-ass, so I expect my opinions and advice to be permanently based on society in the eighties and nineties until I die. Which, as we inch ever further away from the eighties and nineties, will make my ‘aged wisdom’ ever more a joke.

Old folks who think old folks are wise just have their minds locked into an era when society didn’t change very fast, so their parents and grandparents’ advice wasn’t so grossly out of date. But that was a long time ago.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/62 "2019-11-23T04:28:13Z")

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**Snappy responses to "OK boomer"**

OK Snowflake

No, I wanted a soy milk latte

Call me whatever you want, your paying into MY Social Security

When Jimi Hendrix was your age, he was already dead. What have you done?

Funny, that’s the same thing your mama said to me last night

Get off my lawn

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/63 "2019-11-23T06:13:45Z")

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> [@Kent\_Clark](#):
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> When Jimi Hendrix was your age, he was already dead. What have you done?

I liked that joke better when Lehrer did it.

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> No, I wanted a soy milk latte

Leaning into the “confused old person” trope isn’t really a clap-back.

(BTW: Clap-back isn’t what happens when you have sex with your wife twice.)

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/64 "2019-11-23T12:01:21Z")

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> [@naita](#):
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> > [@DaveRaver](#):
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> > Your mom’s a Boomer"
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> Odds are good that if someone OK boomers you their mom is gen-x. So now you’ve thoroughly proven their point that you are as clueless as you are old.
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> Unless you were trying to imply their mom is a Ballistic Missile Submarine, in which case I have to ask “WTF is wrong with you?!”

Your mom’s full of seamen and long cylindrical objects, like a ballistic missile submarine.

> [@RioRico](#):
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> Because I put my ass on the line for the nation and if they didn’t, fuck-em, their opinions really don’t matter to me.

So have other people in this thread, but for some reason they don’t need to use their service as shoe lifts to make themselves superior to others. Get over your entitled self already.

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/65 "2019-11-23T18:38:24Z")

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“Did a fly fart?”

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**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/66 "2019-11-24T00:17:40Z")

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Say “Hey, I got you an early birthday present,” reach into your pocket and pull out your hand w/middle finger raised. Everyone laughs & you get the last “word”. Try it, you’ll like it!

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**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/67 "2019-11-24T01:02:15Z")

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The best part of the _OK Boomer_ meme is that Millennials finally accomplished something.

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/68 "2019-11-24T01:19:56Z")

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Oh man. [Oh, man.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/11/23/climate-change-protesters-swarm-harvard-yale-football-game-with-chants-ok-boomer/)

> [@WaPo](#):
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> More than 100 climate change protesters swarmed the field during halftime at the annual Harvard-Yale football game Saturday, delaying the action for nearly an hour as students chanted “OK boomer” and police made arrests.
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> Players from both teams joined demonstrators on the field in a showstopping escalation of long-running campaigns for the two schools to stop investing their endowments in fossil fuels and forgive Puerto Rican debt.  
> …  
> “They’re all supposed to be intelligent people. It looks like there’s a lot of common sense that has missed their generation,” said Chuck Crummie, 68, who attended the game with his son, a former Yale football player. “It goes to show that this generation is all about themselves and not a football game.”

Christ almighty, Chuck. How did you not immediately ascend into the heavens as the divine avatar of OK Boomer at that moment?

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/69 "2019-11-24T22:43:33Z")

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> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> If somebody said it to me id pedanticly correct them. Im a gen x-er, dammit, and i refuse to labeled!

But, you just labeled yourself anyway.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/70 "2019-11-25T00:38:18Z")

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“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.” -David Mamet.

I’m assuming the other person won’t know who this is.

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/71 "2019-11-25T01:05:29Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> “Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.” -David Mamet.
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> I’m assuming the other person won’t know who this is.

That’s not a quote from Garak on Deep Space Nine?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/72 "2019-11-25T01:42:01Z")

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I’d probably either say “I’m glad the SSBN is doing well,” or pat the youngling on the head and say with an indulgent chuckle, “That’s _adorable_.”

Either way, I wouldn’t give much of a damn.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/73 "2019-11-25T01:55:33Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> 😕 Why would any “snappy response” be needed for an expression that’s basically saying _“I’ve heard enough out of you already and I’m neither impressed nor interested”_? Did we ever have a “snappy response” to _“Talk to the hand”_, for example?
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> Either laugh at it and shut up, or laugh at it and keep on talking. Any snippy patronizing “snappy response” just sends the message _“You hurt my feelings by implying that I’m old, and I’m going to retaliate by being condescendingly insulting, exactly how your stereotype of my generation predicts I’ll behave”_. Not very effective IMHO.

Yeah. I’ve been in conversations where us old folks were being "ok boomer"ed.

stop and think, “did I just say something out of touch?” If so, maybe shut up and listen. Or laugh and finish making whatever point you wanted to make. Either is fine.

> [@jaycat](#):
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> I gave my parents an awful hard time for a lot of things they had nothing to do with. According to 16-year-old me, they were responsible for LBJ, Nixon, and the Vietnam War. So if young’uns today want to repay the karmic debt, I really can’t complain.

Yeah, this, too.

I have a lot of millennial friends. I’ve never understood the “millennials are ruining X” meme. I think it’s a terrific generation, that cares more about being kind to each other and taking care of the planet than any earlier generation I can recall. I’m not too worried that I will be "okay boomer"ed in a way that actually hurts me. I don’t need a snappy response.

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/74 "2019-11-25T03:26:13Z")

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Depending on context:

You so woke! (with faux admiration)

or the lawn thing

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/75 "2019-11-25T11:44:23Z")

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Internet meme:

Luddite: “You Industrial Agers are ruining society!”

Young person: “OK Loomer”

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/76 "2019-11-25T13:09:04Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I’d probably either say “I’m glad the SSBN is doing well,” or pat the youngling on the head and say with an indulgent chuckle, “That’s _adorable_.”

Not “That’s adorbs.”?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/77 "2019-11-25T14:37:24Z")

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Yeah, that could work, too.

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/78 "2019-11-25T15:27:03Z")

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In the past few days, we’ve had [politicians](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/471794-matt-gaetz-to-kellyanne-conway-over-marijuana-legalization-ok-boomer) and [businesses](https://www.businessinsider.com/slack-shades-microsoft-ok-boomer-similar-ads-2019-11) using it to sound hip so I guess I’d just laugh at the person saying it for using a dead meme to sound cool.

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/79 "2019-11-25T21:07:37Z")

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“Say, why don’t we finish the rest of this Harvard-Yale game?”

1. Environmental issues matter.
2. I’m amazed people are upset by this meme.
3. Because it’s kind of silly.

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**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snappy-responses-to-ok-boomer/843651/80 "2019-11-25T21:19:19Z")

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> [@BlankSlate](#):
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> The best part of the _OK Boomer_ meme is that Millennials finally accomplished something.

This is probably the ONLY snappy response on this thread that made me laugh.

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