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Boomer comics complaining about the kids and their damn cell phones
- Thread starter Sun's Resting Place
- Start date
I don't get it. The kid is holding a water bottle. Saying that she has an "even smaller wireless device" means that the kid is also holding a wireless device. What?
Is bottled water wireless water? So from the tap it's wired?
Is she suggesting the girl should drink swimming pool water?
you know how kids are always ordering bottles of water with their phones? well with a pool pass you can drink an entire pool of water. checkmate zoomers.
Is the girl supposed to be holding a bottle of water or smart phone? Whichever it is that punchline doesn't make sense. If it's a water bottle, I'm not sure how acting like having access to a pool full of Chlorine that people swim in daily is some kind of comeback to someone needing a portable drink. If it's a phone then that punchline is even more out there because, why the fuck are you even brining up access to a pool for someone carrying a phone?
this is signed 2010. what was happening in 2010 with water and technology.
is this how hbomberguy accidentally makes an hour long video essay. does it start like this
edit: well, i came back after a bit of digging. good on you, edit-maker.
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This has gotta be an edit. "GALLONS OF WATER" is quite blurry which it shouldn't be, even with emphasis. Also "POOL PASS" looks way more aliased than the rest of the text.
This one criticizes a thing that I don't like which makes it goodGood Boomer humor
The only thing I can think of is the kid is asking the mum to buy her a bottle of water.
Bottled water is seen as some kind of millenial extravagance.
Instead of pulling out her bank card, which would be what the child needs her to use to buy the water, she pulls out the pool pass.
While also slipping in a "kids are always using electronics" too maybe (in the clunkiest way).
I've a feeling the answer is going to be simpler and my brain is just unable to translate this for some reason, lol.
Or it's an edit.
Replying to myself. I remember this comic now. The girl's holding a phone or Kindle or something and it's actually: "...thousands of books." "It's a library card."
Oh, yeah. The water bottle is probably an edit, too. The original joke is probably about a library pass and books.
It literally is. The original is about library cards:
Yall are the real boomers here
Ahh, yes, I remember this too.
It literally is. The original is about library cards:
Yall are the real boomers here
Why is the grammar different on these?
"i have even a smaller..."
"i have an even smaller..."
Access to all of these "SMART" phones and we still cant string a sentence together... SAD... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🥹
This is a genius edit because it feels authentically incomprehensible
It literally is. The original is about library cards:
Yall are the real boomers here
Hey man I don't got time to look this stuff up.
To avoid confusions, that edit should have been posted in this thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/boomer-comic-edits.152889/
Does STAHLER know you can access libraries on tablets? Who's to say... 🤔It literally is. The original is about library cards:
Yall are the real boomers here
Oddly wholesome, dad's son gets to help him just as he did as a child.
My Boomer dad sent me this one via email.
My Boomer dad sent me this one via email.
I think I actually like this one. It's not talking down one way or another, but shows how things change with the passage of time.
Like it fits because we've all been there! For me with the toy of some sort needing batteries, then as a teen, helping my parents with the new DVD player or what not.
Edit: And to add to THAT. Even though I think I have my pulse on technology, my kids are doing stuff that it's taking me longer to get around or realize how to do.
Yeah, I think it's a cute comic. I like posting the good Boomer comics to help offset all the "Father, why can't I tap the book?" ones.
this is the first time something in this thread has sparked joy so ty