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.
This may not be as snappy as you think.
“Put the game controller down and create one, then.”
“OK Boomer” has a shelf life of…actually I think it expired last week. Believe me, I’ve been observing internet catchphrases for a long time. This one is a flash in the pan.
That’s 100% true, but the backlash is going to live longer than Matlock’s syndication run.
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This is one circumstance in which old people will have to be content with living well being the best revenge.
Kick up your feet in your house that’s fully paid for and have a few drinks of Scotch that kids can’t afford while you watch the Rockford Files on your VCR. It will all be fine.
“Ok boomer” reflects the ignorance but also the frustration of the young generation.
Let’s face it, the older we get, the more knowledge we have and the more self-aware most of us are. Not so with everyone, I admit, but in general. Explaining to the millenials just how much disfunction the boomers inherited is frustrating. They want solutions, not listening to boomers whine about their own problems and sometimes without understanding that many boomers are trying to find solutions as well. It feels helpless. So “Get off my lawn.” Will it go away? Certainly, when the millenials are in their 50s and up, they’ll get it. But, says this tail-end boomer who needs a job and can’t find one because Gen X managers think my knowledge must be useless, my current priority is basically the same as theirs - find a job so I can pay my bills.
Talk to the hand.:rolleyes:
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.
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?!”
A snappy response to a snappy response?
And crying about ageism, from the generation that has spent the better part of the last two decades bemoaning “lazy millenials”?
It is to laugh.
Well, I can’t really argue with you about that. OTOH, we don’t get articles and postings about them several times every day.
But…Ron Dante still tours, so you’ve got me there.
One of the largest and most consistent lapses of self awareness I see in older people is their incorrect beliefs about how intelligent and self-aware they are.
I have every expectation that when I reach my fifties and up (in less than a decade :(), rather than ‘getting it’, that’ll be when I start to lose it.
Agreed.
One of the things I’ve noticed in this disdain that Millennials and Baby Boomers have for each other is the massively overinflated sense of self importance on both sides.
I’m a middle child in a middle generation. Actually, I’m not even really Generation X. I’m in the “Oregon Trail” or “Xennial” micro-generation. It’s amusing anyone thinks “irrelevant old people” or “kids these days” is a new thing. Gen-X and the Greatest had similar conflicts, as did everyone in history going back to Ancient Greece at least.
That usage sounds like he’s a “boomer” because he doesn’t know how to operate something on his phone. It’s a pretty normal “old person” stereotype that they can’t handle technology.
Fifty is not usually old enough for dementia to kick in. 
I’m a millennial, and I say he has a point. Boomers inherited these problems from the previous generation. The idea that it was a single generation that fucked us over is silly. Gen X got in there, too, and even some millennials and Gen Z are fucking shit up: I mean, the alt-right skews young, after all.
Sure, the response works to all that bullshit about how millennials are fucking everything up. Or just as some sort of light ribbing, same as “get off my lawn.” And the frustration that previous generations left us with this mess to clean up is real.
But this idea that Boomers or Gen Xers should apologize every time this phrase is uttered is silly.
And I’m all for this thread. “Ok boomer” is, more often than not, a silly teasing remark. It’s silly snark. So a game of coming up with replies is on point.
Check out this instructional computer build video to get the right tone to “ok boomer” as it is usually used. And check out how Linus gives as well as he gets. (I know it’s long, but the girl is great!)
Which my father, a boomer, fits to a T. 
(Seriously, he can hardly handle the TV remote!)
And us Gen-Xers seem to be getting lost in the shuffle. So I’m content just to sit back, crack open a beer, and enjoy the fireworks.
Read this and maybe we’ll all learn a little today… What does “OK boomer” mean? The meme, explained - Vox
I’m 69. If a younger person said “OK, Boomer” to me I’d chuckle and say “Good one.”
This’ll be a great help to all the Boomers who read Vox