Millennials are boring

[Architect]

The millennial generation - most of you - are growing up now and so we can get a handle on what they're like as a group, and unfortunately the defining characteristic seems to be boring. At work the Boomers are retiring and their kids are getting hired, and I'm having a heck of a time finding common ground because they have no sense of humor. Thinking it was just me I did some research and came to found out it's a common observation, college professors have been complaining about it.

For all of their other faults at least the Boomers were interesting. Us X-ers too, my most fond memories of working were in the 90's and early 2000's; we had a lot of fun. But now it's all boring.

I don't know about other observations, Martha Stewart says Millennials are lazy and self-indulgent, but that's what the Boomers like to say about everybody younger than them. It's what they said about us 'X-ers', which is a derogatory name in itself they gave us. Basically, other than having a sense of humor, Boomers as a group are a bunch of assholes. So I wouldn't take that seriously.

But really folks, lighten up!

 

[Turnevies]

Will it be the fault of facebook? Or the fact that our generation (I'm one of them) has been spoiled too much in our youth as the good old 'pedagogical slaps' got out of fashion?

 

[TheManBeyond]

i'm 26 years old and i'm waiting for nintendo to release pokemon go in europe to go out and catch some pokemons.
sad. because normally i stay at home.

 

[Brontosaurie]

This is so shallow i can't even pretend it's real.

Congrats, you broke me.

 

[TBerg]

Bronto, I would suggest that you think of the people of whom Archie is talking as SJWs, who are indeed bereft of many life-giving qualities.

 

[Rook]

^.^ amusing, the clans of age...these monikers are becoming more common here in south africa, as emulation of the visi-anglo culture and media no doubt.

As a human, classing others solely by age or wealth, or what have you, pulls the same strings within my mind that astrology or, to a lesser extent, things like mbti do.

Talk to different people, a purveyor of books, a collector of artifacts or a madman under a bridge. Some are boring, others are not.

Regarding the truth of generation vs generation, I don't know. Today I talked with a guy who is about 60+, he runs a shop of curious and artifacts, mainly African, though he does have a Swedish spirit-catcher there as well.

He was not boring. Others in his age group might be, in fact they may merely be old folk who have no eccentricity about them and sit around prattling about inanities.
The same standards apply to all generations, do not try to classify the majority but rather seek those that amuse you, regardless of their age.

 

[redbaron]

Lol, shutup dickhead.

Get out your smartwatch and neglect your kid while he sticks a fork in the toaster or something.

 

[Lot]

People 25-30 years younger than you boring? Really? No, that never happens. Don't you think that most of your peers are boring, too. I know you think most of them are dumb. Why would the majority of a younger generation be any different. Also, think about the field of work you do. Do you really think it attracts the most exciting people?

I'm sure you're just venting. I have boring friends that do nothing, and I have exciting friends that are always on an adventure. We are pretty poor, and grew up with a really shitty education system. You really lucked out with school.

 

[Brontosaurie]

Bronto, I would suggest that you think of the people of whom Archie is talking as SJWs, who are indeed bereft of many life-giving qualities.

Conformists are and have always been boring.

 

[redbaron]

Also, think about the field of work you do. Do you really think it attracts the most exciting people?

 

[Sinny91]

why is this in the politics forum?

 

[Absurdity]

In which Architect reaches peak grumpy old man.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

Crusty X-er

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

I'm having a heck of a time finding common ground

This is pretty much your problem. Just because their humor doesn't overlap with yours doesn't make them objectively boring (although you probably can't be faulted for being personally bored). Millennial humor is a lot edgier and more subversive than any humor that's ever come before. You probably wouldn't get it. It's like if you took irony incarnate and jammed a jar full of hilarity up its ass. It's not really something an old-timer like you would understand. (This whole paragraph was a joke. I know you have a hard time with millennial humor so I thought it might help for me to clarify on that)

i'm 26 years old and i'm waiting for nintendo to release pokemon go in europe to go out and catch some pokemons.
sad. because normally i stay at home.

Aw dude, do you guys still not have it over there? I got it a few days ago and it's like all I've been doing. I never even played much pokemon when I was younger but now I can't stop.



(Edit: No but for real, I hate millennials as a group/concept. Like all my friends are all millennials and I think they're great, but I'm not a fan of the generation in a general sense)

 

[Minuend]

Ed: I see cheesepuffs brought up the difference in humor as well while I wrote this

I wouldn't want to befriend most people because they aren't interesting to me, but I see that as a result of them having different interests and lives, not because they are -insert negative word-. There's plenty of people who find nerds drowning in books boring, or people passionate about sports boring.

Perhaps there's a larger gap between older and younger humor, though. Younger humor is in some cases more knowledge and reference based, in which you have to know memes and other types of internet themes not commonly learned elsewhere. Older people generally wont know much about these, and the younger can't starting talking about it anywhere because it requires a certain type of knowledge. Perhaps those who are older never had that type of distinct interests/ humor/ perspectives they had to hide or leave behind when talking with their elders. Which, if you only look at the surface, make people seem boring.

If we are pointing blame, however, remember who raised the current generation. Hmm, there might be some issues related to an older generation not knowing how to raise children to adopt to the new types of technology and social sphere. I mean, just raising your children with facebook existing changes what you need your children to understand. And if your children grows up in such good conditions where they never learn suffering by experiencing, they still need to be taught emotional coping mechanisms. I think a lot of parents fail there, they don't consider sad occurrences an opportunity to learn how to handle emotions, they rather consider it an entirely negative thing to reduce the impact of as soon and as much as possible. Leaving the child helpless to handle real crisis in later life.

 

[Seteleechete]

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/nianti...lease/pokemon-go-0-29-0-android-apk-download/

There you go, now go catch em all or w/e.

i'm 26 years old and i'm waiting for nintendo to release pokemon go in europe to go out and catch some pokemons.
sad. because normally i stay at home.

 

[Tannhauser]

Millennials don't have time to joke around. We are the first generation in modern history which is economically worse off than the previous one. Boomers will never understand that, they have been living in a different kind of reality all their life.

“This generation will be permanently depressed and will be on a lower path of income for probably all of their life -- and at least the next 10 years,”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...an-dream-fades-for-generation-y-professionals

 

[redbaron]

Welcome back loser.

 

[TheManBeyond]

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/nianti...lease/pokemon-go-0-29-0-android-apk-download/

There you go, now go catch em all or w/e.

hey, cool man thank u

 

[Pyropyro]

If Archie says that he had fun during the 90's-early 2000s then it might be a good idea for him to get Pokemon Go to get his nostalgia up.

 

[Black Rose]

Millennials are boring

try going to chatbox more often Archi

dry humor is not random enough for them

glitterbomb chatbox

Obsolete Asimo and the NWO

https://youtu.be/2a1LV1IeG8U

 

[xbox]

dont generalize. youre going to make me cry. ((((

 

[The Gopher]

Architect. The other people have explained or insulted you appropriately so let me set you a challenge. Find out why they are boring. It could be they are not yet comfortable being humorous in a work environment as the least senior members. It could be they are using a different humor set or perceive you as someone who doesn't like humor/isn't funny. Now don't go around asking people why they are boring but finding out why someone is boring or even if they are boring could be the key to unlocking common ground and making life more fun. Unfortunately as the older person the responsibility lies mostly with you to understand them and make any compromise necessary if you wish to find common ground. You are like someone who has always used a hammer to nail in planks but have run into your first screw. The rules are different now, adapt like the generation above did for you or become a grumpy old man with no perspective die.

 

[Sinny91]

And the generations before us, left us this world.
Just look at the state of it.

Congratulations, you suck.
And you're boring af from our collective perspective too.
Get with the times.

 

[dang]

And the generations before us, left us this world.
Just look at the state of it.

Congratulations, you suck.
And you're boring af from our collective perspective too.
Get with the times.

I am only 41. Don't blame me or my generation for the world you inherited. I was born in 1975. You think the world was perfect in 1974? Not exactly. Plus, for the record, every generation sucks. So there.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Wow dude, you look like you're in your late 20s / early 30s.

 

[Sinny91]

I am only 41. Don't blame me or my generation for the world you inherited. I was born in 1975. You think the world was perfect in 1974? Not exactly. Plus, for the record, every generation sucks. So there.

Listen yea, it only takes twenty years to shape society, ask the societal engineers.
But yea, I give you your latter point.

 

[onesteptwostep]

I'm guessing it's because in the 90s and early 2000s Americans actually had a local culture. With the internet millennials don't have a localized feel for a lot of things. Millennials in corporate America and general millennials in Europe or Australia are probably different too.

Also millennials in corporate settings probably aren't that funny because they aren't in a position of power. If they were, and if they had some people under them or at least had a lot of peers, their humor would probably shine. Why would we risk being funny with people who haven't had the same development as us? It could come off as rude or it might not get through as well. But it's the same other way around too though, so meh.

 

[Hadoblado]

Like attracts like.

The vast majority of people I find truly funny are depressed. That's not a group you would associate with good sense of humour, but it resonates with me.

I do agree in a way though, but I think it's less the generation and more the media they're exposed to. The availability of humorous content is way up, which means that there's kind of a barrier to entry, since a sense of humor is more defined by how a person navigates humour over-saturation, than what they actually come up with themselves. For example, if I linked a dank meme, some people might find it funny, but probably only the ones that were exposed to its ancestors who could recognise it as an improvement of an old formula. In this way modern humour is likely more refined, though also more specific and alienating.

 

[Rook]

One aspect of this topic that may be valid is where millennials(ugh-such a bastard of a word) or younger humans or firsttech-socializers etc. have an altered mode of socializing, where they were taught from a young age that one can communicate with humans countrywide/worldwide within minutes/seconds.

My father's gen had landlines but not the sms, I partly grew up with it. Extrapolating upon that, my cousin's children now grow up with skype and the whole interwebnet.

No doubt then that these generations will approach communication differently, with the argument being that older generations socialize face to face in a deeper manner, perhaps investing more into non-virtual communication and therefore being more proficient at it.


These are all generalizations though, with factors like culture, wealth, vocation and the usage of technology being further determining factors along with date of birth.


ed**One note that I like to add here is the primal factor, where there is a clear relationship between true tribal cultures and emotional purity, they show when they are happy/sad and are very good at knowing when others in their group are as well. Communal aspects, for instance lessened privacy and a clear need for co-operation, play a large part in this

 

[xbox]

You really lucked out with school.

What he said.

 

[Vrecknidj]

Just keep watching Danger 5 until your head explodes.

 

[Helvete]

Warning, boring post ahead:

Generalisations are boring.

 

[Yellow]

First, you have to realize that the nuances of generation patterns vary between global/socioeconomic regions. Comparing [US] gen-x and millenials on an international forum is kinda retarded.

But since we're doing it anyway!

I'm in the crack between millenials and gen-x. We are the 2-10 year (depending on the expert) missing link who were entering college around the year 2000. We're the boring ones. We're conservative and fiscally responsible because we've had to be. We moved out, cut coupons, got married, and hold down sensible jobs in practical fields. (if it weren't for the drastic cultural changes that cut our generation short, we would have been another "silent generation" we still are, but we're super-duper silent as a result)

Gen-x gave us boomerang "kids". That was a hoot. Adults who couldn't figure out how to handle the ups and downs of adult life without mommy and daddy helping. An entire generation moving back in with their parents in their 20's and not leaving until they were nearly 40.

That means Millennials were partially (or entirely) raised by exhausted grandparents who couldn't even manage to raise their gen-x's well enough to get them to go and stay gone.

In any case, there's such a cultural and technological gap between millenials and those that raised them that it's nearly impossible for you two/three (can't forget grandma!) to relate to one another.

 

[Sinny91]

Gen-x gave us boomerang "kids". That was a hoot. Adults who couldn't figure out how to handle the ups and downs of adult life without mommy and daddy helping. An entire generation moving back in with their parents in their 20's and not leaving until they were nearly 40.

Could you expand on this and why it was?

 

[Kuu]

Really, it's hard to understand how you can say that when your posts are as arousing as Hillary Clinton's shriveled tits.

So we're trying to be serious after a lifetime of being told to grow up, never being good enough, trying to deal with all the mess in your wake, and *now* it's a problem we're not as much of a joke as you are? Go suck a corporate dick, grandpa.

We're too goddamn busy having our prostates stimulated by the government while being blessed by mass unemployment, debt to last a lifetime and soul-crushing ennui during the 15 seconds between netflix episodes. It's pretty hot, you should try it with the ladies. I bet it lifts up your mood.

Seriously though, if we had no sense of humor the Boomers would be hanging from branches by now. But we're waiting for the great crash to come so we can instead burn them in a big pyre with all the worthless money they gave us instead of, like, parenting and shit. The undying hope of their final crispiness is the only thing that keeps us from mass suicide.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

Really, it's hard to understand how you can say that when your posts are as arousing as Hillary Clinton's shriveled tits.

rekt
r.i.p. architect

 

[~~~]

I find them interesting generally to the extent that one can make generalisations.

 

[Yellow]

Could you expand on this and why it was?

Gen Xers learned independence early in life and turned it into a valuable hallmark as they progressed in the working world. Just as Gen Xers were about to hit the workforce to make their mark in the world, the economic decline at the end of the 1980s occurred. Suddenly the future looked crowded. Competition for jobs was tight. The American dream had changed. For the first time, this generation was being told that they would not be able to replicate the lifestyles of their Baby Boomer cousins and parents. Ungraciously dubbed the “boomerang generation,” many Gen Xers were forced to move back in with parents while in their 20s.

Basically, they had prosperous, middle-class childhoods and hit a wall when they became adults. They didn't know how to live in a fiscally conservative way. They suffered from their parents' failure to teach them more practical skills, and their own entitled upbringing. They are the reason for all the housing bubbles, the debt trading, enormously abused public welfare systems, and other services that allow people to live beyond their means. Rather than having to earn a comfortable lifestyle, they made it okay so simply demand it.

So the Millenials grew up watching that as if it's normal and totally okay. They bounced between self-entitled parents and exhausted grandparents. Now, throw in enormous changes in what childhood entails, and changes in the workforce due to technological advances. We have Gen X's confused bastard children wading through the mess, trying to make sense of it all. They're basically on their own, and it's impossible to say how they'll handle it.

 

[Jennywocky]

Basically, they had prosperous, middle-class childhoods and hit a wall when they became adults. They didn't know how to live in a fiscally conservative way. They suffered from their parents' failure to teach them more practical skills, and their own entitled upbringing. They are the reason for all the housing bubbles, the debt trading, enormously abused public welfare systems, and other services that allow people to live beyond their means. Rather than having to earn a comfortable lifestyle, they made it okay so simply demand it.

So the Millenials grew up watching that as if it's normal and totally okay. They bounced between self-entitled parents and exhausted grandparents. Now, throw in enormous changes in what childhood entails, and changes in the workforce due to technological advances. We have Gen X's confused bastard children wading through the mess, trying to make sense of it all. They're basically on their own, and it's impossible to say how they'll handle it.

Geez. As a Gen X, I find that amusing since it wasn't my experience.

But there's definitely been a lot of social shifting going on that makes it hard to even know what to teach one's kids. Jobs that were viable have stopped being viable; the value of education has shifted; teens tend NOT to work (whereas I had to work when I was finishing high school and during my summers at college, to pay bills) because they don't necessarily have to; a lot of the practical skills learned in one's spare time by going out and doing things in the world have become subsumed into more passive tech/online pursuits. I remember appreciating getting money from relatives; my kids tended to not really want much and usually had what they needed, although now two of the three had been working jobs before high school graduation and they know what it means to use money on bills versus fluff.

IOW, the word seems to have been static for a lot of the Boomer generation, then things got weird for Gen X with both parents out working and having to self-manage, and then tech/society did some heavy shifting from the late 80's onwards. There's no dictated path forward, whereas I think there used to be; it's hard to make choices when you're not sure how they will pan out because all the pathways have changed.

 

[Yellow]

Geez. As a Gen X, I find that amusing since it wasn't my experience.

I was making sweeping generalizations about generations. Individuals will vary.

 

[Jennywocky]

I was making sweeping generalizations about generations. Individuals will vary.

oh yellow... You missed a great wordplay opportunity -- Generational Generalizations.

what has happened to you

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

tongue twisters nooooooo

 

[Jennywocky]

I would claim this is one of the completely useless skills my busting baby boomer parents taught me, except it's mine... all mine.

I wish they had taught me how to actually balance a checkbook.

tongue twisters nooooooo

My mangy millennial non-magnanimously manufactured mostly marginalizing generational generalizations
Many marginalizing generational generalizations my mangy millennial non-magnanimously mostly manufactured.
If my mangy millennial non-magnanimously manufactured mostly marginalizing generational generalizations
then how many mostly marginalizing generational generalizations did my mangy millennial non-magnanimously manufacture mainly in Montague, Montana?

Do you dare the Generational Generalization Challenge? Vocaroo or bust!

 

[Black Rose]

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/nianti...lease/pokemon-go-0-29-0-android-apk-download/

There you go, now go catch em all or w/e.

Remember only you (yes you specifically, no one else) can prevent forest fires. You know how to deal with people who try and take away your job. Yes, that's right, only you, only you. (sete secretly plans elimination of wilderness firefighters). The NWO plan to imprison us in the matrix is backfiring.

https://youtu.be/N8RtqxGM8TQ

I don't play games and i take meds cawz of existential crisis when graduated in 2007. So many time i think ams me stupidz? I devolved cuz no purpose in life. not happy fun timez for me.

Spoiler

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/nonverbal-learning-disabilities/understanding-nonverbal-learning-disabilities

Symptoms May Change as Children Get Older
Young children with NVLD may seem bright and precocious because they have good verbal skills. They’re like little professors, asking adults lots of questions and spouting off information they’ve heard. Some children may have good memory, but they also can have trouble interpreting and drawing conclusions from what they read.

But as kids get older, the symptoms of NVLD may become more obvious and create more problems. Kids realize they perceive social situations differently than their peers, but don’t know what to do about it.[10] Some develop anxiety, which can lead to compulsive behaviors such as touching a doorknob a certain number of times before opening it.

The earlier you know about your child’s issues, the sooner you’ll be able to find treatments and strategies that can help build social skills and relieve anxiety.

 

[Seteleechete]

#FuckRealityItSucksAnyway


*goes back to playing Pokemon*

No but seriously, I gave up on reality long ago and all I have left are temporary amusements. If not pokemon or a bad piece of fiction or an utterly pointless twitch stream then I would just get lost in my own minds fantasy land. Fuck reality.

 

[TBerg]

What is the strength that is the most enjoyable of yours, Sete?

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

My mangy millennial non-magnanimously manufactured mostly marginalizing generational generalizations
Many marginalizing generational generalizations my mangy millennial non-magnanimously mostly manufactured.
If my mangy millennial non-magnanimously manufactured mostly marginalizing generational generalizations
then how many mostly marginalizing generational generalizations did my mangy millennial non-magnanimously manufacture mainly in Montague, Montana?

Do you dare the Generational Generalization Challenge? Vocaroo or bust!

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0nd64kHANrL

 

[Reluctantly]

I'm in the crack between millenials and gen-x.

Haha. the crack.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

Haha. the crack.

HA!

Nice!

That's a great joke. 10/10 not boring at all.

Reluctantly is confirmed not boring.

You all should follow his example.

Heh. Crack. Fuckin' classic.

Heheh.