-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Boomer comics complaining about the kids and their damn cell phones
- Thread starter Sun's Resting Place
- Start date
The Gen Z'ers, I know, read more books than any Millenial or Boomer I've ever met (including me, as a millenial).
Isn't the young adult novel business booming?
Isn't the young adult novel business booming?
It's almost as if our military operations are slightly more morally questionable than they were back when we were fighting nazis that were crushing Europe under their heels.
Alternatively: Ah, the good old days, when 10% of our population was actively enlisted in the deadliest meatgrinder of a war ever seen on earth. Kids these days are spoiled by living in a relatively peaceful time instead of burning civilians to death en masse and dying by the hundreds of thousands.
They sure do, don't they? I never realized this but they really do act and feel like they should be given the respect of their parents which they never earned.
^This one made me chuckle. It seem like something that would actually happen if it already hasn't. I've accidentally trespassed into a private factory area that had clear signage not to trespass and then had security guards come to kick me out.... all because I was trying to catch a Magikarp.Well, not all these images are new. Some are from the 90s, some from the 80s, and the Pokemon Go ones were from the brief craze.
Example of what I mean:
Seems kind of twisted to be glorifying kids being sent off to war as if that's at all a good thing.
Early boomers got drafted to Vietnam and got spat on when they came back. Just FYI.
Opposite for me. I thought it was great. I'd meet up with friends I hadn't seen in ages locally, and we'd catch 'em together. Everyone out playing was so friendly and nice! We met a lot of temporary friends that way. Just teaming up with people to run around catching 'em. It was great. :)
Some people don't see the appeal of not carrying 1000-page books around?
Maybe don't give your 3 year olds a phone?
I find the appeal to "we read books, dumb kids are glued to their cellphones" especially hilarious because there have been several instances where I've met a supposedly well-read boomer, been to their house and seen their bookshelf filled with trashy Ann Coulter books.
But hey, they're books! As if the medium somehow makes the content smarter.
Who do they think invented Amazon
Pictured: a 55-year-old millennial
But hey, they're books! As if the medium somehow makes the content smarter.
Like
Who do they think invented Amazon
Pictured: a 55-year-old millennial
My girlfriend nannies for a wealthy family (wife is in her late 30s, husband in late 40s) and all they do is shove tablets in their kids' faces. Like we didn't just come out of the womb thinking "durr i want an expensive phone" but I understand that any older generation complaining about any younger generation isn't really in good faith.
Last edited:
Millennials are going to be entering their 40s, I like how we have been grouped up with gen Y.
Boomers are easily the worst generation.
"We destroyed the economy, the world, never got past being racist BUT LET'S COMPLAIN ABOUT CELLPHONES!!!!!!"
"We destroyed the economy, the world, never got past being racist BUT LET'S COMPLAIN ABOUT CELLPHONES!!!!!!"
The "millennials don't know how to use books" ones are the most galling for me, coming from the generation(s) that support a multi-billion dollar customer service industry and workforce because they can't be bothered to actually learn how to use a fucking printer.
Kids today with their got dang technologies. Why ain't they conversin' like we used to?
Last edited:
Exactly what I was thinking. It's so uninspired it's hilarious.
My dad used to be so pissed when I would stare at my PC and play games. Fast forward 10 years, now he owns a smartphone and a laptop and can't get off it.
Nowadays, sometimes I'll get pissed at him for staring at his cellphone instead of interacting with family.
Nowadays, sometimes I'll get pissed at him for staring at his cellphone instead of interacting with family.
This comic was part of a large museum exhibition about robots. The exhibition was amazing otherwise, but it was awful to see this included.
Help, I've fallen down the rabbit hole of awfulness!
But that would be going back to what you posted when you were younger. How is that the same?
Nevermind the fact that some of these are over-the-top stupid. A kid asking how many GBs of RAM are in a balloon? How the hell does someone even come up with that? Lmao.
No, it's not true, and it's not good. It's a really bad comic that only works at first glance.
Let's go through the statements:
1. All things on the "In you mind" side: True. These are purposes of a cell phone, which are fulfilled
2. "Charge me":
This is some bullshit right there. That's like claiming people are slaves to their cars because they need to put fuel in them, or like saying that I'm a slave to books because they yell "TURN MY PAGES" at me. It's hardly something that puts the machine in any sort of "master" position.
3. "Gimme some wifi! Now!"
What? I use wifi to save data at home or at work. Sometimes it doesn't work properly at work, and then... I don't use it. More importantly, I've also never heard of a phone telling anyone it wants wifi. Framing it like a phone is ordering you to give it wifi is like showing a PC that demands "more RAM", or a car that yells "WASH ME". It's not something that's required most of the time, and it shows how much the author was struggling to find things the phone makes people do.
4. "New Email! READ!" and 5. "Answer this call"
These are the best. I love them.
OH NO! The phone forces me to read a new e-mail. In reality, people put their email-account on their phone because they want to receive emails on there. You carry a phone, or at least that was the original purpose for me, because you want to be contacted and contact people, via calls and text messages.
Might as well show an old landline phone that screeches "A CALL! ANSWER!". These statements literally belongs to the upper image, as the phone is a servant, bringing you your mail because you want it, and letting other people call you because you want it.
Again a nice display of how thoughtless the whole comic is. I mean, many people don't even read their emails the moment they get it, and a lot of people don't even pick up calls from numbers they don't know. How's that for being a slave to your phone.
6. "A restaurant! Check in!"
This one simply baffles me a bit. I mean... I've been asked if I want to check in by my phone before. I always ignored it. Have you guys ever felt pressure to do this because the phone gave you the option? I didn't. Funnily, this is probably the most valid point the author makes, because the previous ones were so bad.
Probably not what Piraro intended, but a little kid understanding what RAM is (or at least how it's useful) would be pretty great on the part of the kid.
It's really about how the devices (and social media) have made us obsessive so that we're constantly minding the tech.
The phone (or whatever) isn't literally demanding, it's our priorities that have changed.
But have they? Stuff like "charging" and "connecting to wifi" are not priorities, they are minor things that I reckon take up a minuscule amount of time in most people's lives still. It's just part of owning the device, just like refueling a car or tying your shoes.
Maybe there be a point made about people being available for calls and emails all the time, but the comic does this very badly.
You're correct, our priorities have changed. We want to be able to have calls and emails instantly, and not when we check a mailbox or are in the vicinity of a landline. But the comic is portraying it like this is something we didn't choose.
In reality, it's the phone going "A call!" and "A new email!", and the human going "Cool." and then answering it or read it if they feel like it.
The pokemans under the bed one. /s
Okay yeah, I can see that.
Not in this country they didn't, and they're still always talking about how kids these days need toughening up, etc. Polls have shown them overwhelmingly in favour of bringing back compulsory military service, which ended in 1960 - so of course most of them didn't have to do it.
That's my new motto
HIBIKASE
"Dude's got zero tymes and zero maners"
These are so funny but in a sad way. Is the first one supposed to be saying kids today should be throwing themselves into war to get killed? Does the artist think that there aren't young generations enlisted in the army now? Do they think that people in the army don't play video games?
"Look at our dumb kids staring at screens we bought for them", says the mom staring at a big screen with her husband.
Natural dialog!
My mother and mother-in-law are both retired, but I swear they must spend all day on Facebook on their phones/tablets. Whenever I post something, they are the first two to comment every time.
