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Boomerang effect

Whenever a boomer does something that turns out to backfire completely.
My old boss felt the boomerang effect good the other day. He voted to remove immigrants from the country, but now there are none to wash his house.
Boomerang effect by Sløvnes November 4, 2020

Boomerang Effect

When it's a joke or a pun and you miss the main punch line but catch it later and it hits you in the back of the head at a random time
Ohhhh I just got that joke from earlier

Sorry my minds like a boomerang effect lately
Boomerang Effect by IVESOLE February 26, 2021

The Boomerang Effect 

When a college student graduates and leaves college, only for him/her to end up living back at his/her parent's house. This is usually because after college they have to pay their tuition, loans, etc., and they're so freaking high that Bill Gates couldn't even pay it off, and the job they currently have is not enough to pay for it and an apartment.
I could have gotten an apartment but instead my parents and I suffered the boomerang effect because of my tuition and bank loans. Now I live at my parent's house.
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A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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