r/MadeMeSmile • u/Damiana1111 • 18d ago

Good Vibes Two generations. One pocket. 🥁

I dont know who had more fun :)

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u/SoftConsideration82 18d ago

oh my sweet summer child... thats what every generation thinks... the free love acid and heroin hippies from the 60s became boomers...

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u/nea_fae 18d ago

Lol so true, I thought my disco cocaine mom was never going to grow up, now she complains about customer service and can’t access online banking 😩

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u/V65Pilot 17d ago

I'm 61. I mentioned to the youngsters that I work with that I'm going to go fly a glider next summer. The room got really quiet. Christ....wait until they figure out all the crazy shit I've already done.

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u/Electrical_You_6557 18d ago

No, my boomer age parents are total hippies. They exist, even if Austin and SF are now 9:1 Chads

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u/base43 18d ago edited 18d ago

You just missed the good ones. There are/were some legit boomer badasses out there. As a gen xer, those old hippies and disco bunnies were the ones that were worth listening to. The one who got it. The ones that passed the torch of 'live and let live' to us.

That lady on drums gives no fuck what race the dudes banging the drums are. She got that rhythm from somewhere. She could probably tell you some stories from "back in the 70s" that would make pornhub blush. Listen to what those type boomers have to say. You might be amazed at how cool they are.

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u/Impossible_Way_3042 18d ago

The thing is though that, like every generation, the cool ones tend to be the minority. I knew some boomer bad asses who were hippies back in the day. I even knew some people who made it to Woodstock. They were the vast minority of that generation though. Looking back it's all we see because they were the interesting ones, but most boomers were just boring normal people who turned into boring old people who focused mostly on themselves and their own. And that's now the generation that's running shit. The hippies are still cool, you just can't find many of them because there weren't many to begin with.

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u/SoftConsideration82 18d ago

It's nuance brother, of course not everyone is bad. Just an example of "we are going to be a fresh new generation that will change everything" that every single generation thinks

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u/base43 18d ago

"Nuance" and "sweet summer child" back to back, you are on fire now!!

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u/skoltroll 18d ago

Whatever