Noun. A banal thought terminating cliche used by boomers and boomer sympathizers to convey the failed "conventional wisdom" of their generation. These cliche sayings are typical political or economic in nature and are refutable by hard real-world evidence.
The burden of evidence required to refute a "boomerism" is often substantial, requiring reference to the CPI (Consumer Price Index), Wage Index, or other economic data available on FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).
Millennials and Zoomers are too busy working their jobs as senior economic analysts, program directors, or serving coffee to pay off students loans, to refute boomerisms.
None the less, entitled boomers feel obliged to be provided with hours of high valued consulting work, at no cost, to disprove them. Millennials and Zoomers have adopted a strategy of responding to boomerism with the much less costly "Ok Boomer".
The burden of evidence required to refute a "boomerism" is often substantial, requiring reference to the CPI (Consumer Price Index), Wage Index, or other economic data available on FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).
Millennials and Zoomers are too busy working their jobs as senior economic analysts, program directors, or serving coffee to pay off students loans, to refute boomerisms.
None the less, entitled boomers feel obliged to be provided with hours of high valued consulting work, at no cost, to disprove them. Millennials and Zoomers have adopted a strategy of responding to boomerism with the much less costly "Ok Boomer".
Boomer: "Well hello there youngster, what are you doing?"
40 y/o balding senior management wage slave: "Doing my taxes. It looks like I might be able to pay off my student loans and mortgage by the time I'm 83."
Boomer: "I see you are eating avocado toast there! You know, if you ate less avocado toast, and lived in a shoe, you could be free of debt by now!"
Waitress: "Now that's a boomerism, if I ever heard one."
40 y/o balding senior management wage slave: "Ok, boomer."
Boomer: "STOP! Ok Boomer is the new N-word!"
40 y/o balding senior management wage slave: "Doing my taxes. It looks like I might be able to pay off my student loans and mortgage by the time I'm 83."
Boomer: "I see you are eating avocado toast there! You know, if you ate less avocado toast, and lived in a shoe, you could be free of debt by now!"
Waitress: "Now that's a boomerism, if I ever heard one."
40 y/o balding senior management wage slave: "Ok, boomer."
Boomer: "STOP! Ok Boomer is the new N-word!"
by neoproletariat November 10, 2019
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So many young people's ideas are shot down today without a second thought despite the fact that it will ultimately be their job to fix the issues created by the same group that is largely still in power; what a blatant display of Boomerism!
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When you completely shank a kick or a shot on goal in soccer. It's a complete fail. You might even cost your team the game. You feel like a total jackass afterwards!
Fan #1 : "Here it goes! The game winning kick!"
Fan #2 : "Let's hope she doesn't do a boomerism!"
*PLAYER SHANKS BALL*
Fan #1 : "Way to jinx that man.."
Fan #2 : "Let's hope she doesn't do a boomerism!"
*PLAYER SHANKS BALL*
Fan #1 : "Way to jinx that man.."
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Carl is getting way too old. Said some real Sonic Boomerism stuff. He keeps calling the kids AntiFa & screaming about Joe Brandon or some shit. That ol' fool has gone full Sonic Boomerism.
by anonymous October 1, 2022
Get the Sonic Boomerism mug.Karl thinks that vaxes cause autisim & antifa is ran by joe brandon. everything that comes out of his mouth is a Sonic Boomerism.
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Get the Sonic Boomerism mug.The set of behaviours and beliefs that boomers gravitate towards when they lose touch with the non-boomer world.
Includes things such as:
- All caps facebook posts and comments that should be private messages
- Hating one's children or considering them to be entitled despite having to compete in a 10x harsher field
- Loving all ideas when said by a talking head on TV, but hating the same ideas when formulated differently (TV says we must fight Iran, but we cannot increase taxes or cut medicare for it)
- Drawings of skeletons riding motorcycles, for some reason
- The Myspace aesthetic, without even knowing what it is
Esoteric boomerism often takes the form of well-meaning advice that turns out to be so retarded it elicits the opposite reaction from its audience
Includes things such as:
- All caps facebook posts and comments that should be private messages
- Hating one's children or considering them to be entitled despite having to compete in a 10x harsher field
- Loving all ideas when said by a talking head on TV, but hating the same ideas when formulated differently (TV says we must fight Iran, but we cannot increase taxes or cut medicare for it)
- Drawings of skeletons riding motorcycles, for some reason
- The Myspace aesthetic, without even knowing what it is
Esoteric boomerism often takes the form of well-meaning advice that turns out to be so retarded it elicits the opposite reaction from its audience
Did you hear that Mike's grandparents charge them for Thanksgiving dinner while expecting them to fly to their mansion in California?
Oh dude, I thought my parents kicking me out of the house at 18 was peak boomerism, but this is esoteric boomerism
Oh dude, I thought my parents kicking me out of the house at 18 was peak boomerism, but this is esoteric boomerism
by Miss_chievous December 22, 2023
Get the Esoteric boomerism mug.The most self-righteous, self-important, incredibly arrogant generation of all time. The progeny of the Greatest and Silent Generations, who grew up with the hardship of the Great Depression and won World War 2, the baby boomers had everything handed to them on a silver platter from day 1.
They act as if the world (particularly THEIR progeny, Generations X and Y) owes them a gigantic debt of gratitude for how they perceived they changed society. They romanticize their promiscuous, drug-induced escapades as having been some sort of Earth-shaking cultural movement that changed the course of history. As if they were the first and last generation to get fucked up and have random sex, and as if that somehow changed the world.
By the 80s every hippie had somehow lost touch with his values of altruism, free love, and selflessness, and had transformed into a suit-wearing, cutthroat yuppie. By now he's a middle-class suburbanite slob. Growing increasingly irrelevant, the baby boomer is trying to insist that his generation was God's gift to the world when in reality it was a selfish, petty, hedonistic generation that turned its back on everything it once stood for.
With modern medicine and a society that is increasingly health-conscious, the boomers are guaranteed to live on for decades beyond their utility, leeching off their posterity (a younger generation smaller than their predecessors, the first Americans who failed to reproduce at a sustainable rate) to the very end.
They act as if the world (particularly THEIR progeny, Generations X and Y) owes them a gigantic debt of gratitude for how they perceived they changed society. They romanticize their promiscuous, drug-induced escapades as having been some sort of Earth-shaking cultural movement that changed the course of history. As if they were the first and last generation to get fucked up and have random sex, and as if that somehow changed the world.
By the 80s every hippie had somehow lost touch with his values of altruism, free love, and selflessness, and had transformed into a suit-wearing, cutthroat yuppie. By now he's a middle-class suburbanite slob. Growing increasingly irrelevant, the baby boomer is trying to insist that his generation was God's gift to the world when in reality it was a selfish, petty, hedonistic generation that turned its back on everything it once stood for.
With modern medicine and a society that is increasingly health-conscious, the boomers are guaranteed to live on for decades beyond their utility, leeching off their posterity (a younger generation smaller than their predecessors, the first Americans who failed to reproduce at a sustainable rate) to the very end.
Baby Boomers: You punk kids should show some respect for your elders!
Punk Kid: Weren't you the ones who invented the phrase "Don't Trust Anyone Over 30?"
Punk Kid: Weren't you the ones who invented the phrase "Don't Trust Anyone Over 30?"
by Hubert Cumberdale Jr. July 25, 2010
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