Commentary: 'OK, boomer' not an insult, it's a badge of honor
You OK, boomer?
After all those anti-establishment placards and slogans, the years of controlling the vernacular and riding herd on the culture, it's tough to be reduced to a catchphrase. Sent your way, you might add, by people "discovering" corduroy hip huggers and bong collections.
I mean, you made youth culture a thing, your thing, and now look what's happened. You, mercifully, did not die before you got old, which means you got old. And despite your insistence that 70 is the new 30, 30 is not the new 10 and 20-year-olds still exist. Which means that, on top of all the knee problems and hip problems and weed getting legalized with no one thanking you for it even though you basically invented weed, you have to deal with a bunch of whippersnappers throwing
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