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Once they discovered it really triggered Xers they totally leaned into it.
I mean, of course they did!
I was thinking of putting something in the playing music thread about the insults that modern shredder guitarists use to describe the playing of older blues rock based guitarists “boomer bends”.
I will but I’ll have to provide video evidence. Plus my spicy hot take*.
(* it’s all good. You do you and dig what you dig. And a paragraph on string technique through history)
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Yeah, and your mother! 
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… as the actor said to the bishop.
(Typically it was the actress said to the bishop but I always disliked job titles being gendered)
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“Mind if I fart?”
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yes! Steve Martin! that was the response i thought of, immediately.
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“I am a neuroscientist, let me just insert some electrodes into your brain to help me understand why you just said that”
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Et ta soeur!
An oldie I nicked from Iggy Pop, “I’ve been called worse by better than you!” is also good. So are variations thereof:
“I’ve been called better by worse than you!” usually confuses fuck out of 'em.
I was once forced into a long insult-trading exchange with another young woman who was immediately way in over her head. Took her some time to realize it; she kept thinking she’d best me, but I was really on form that night, and proved too many for her. Her feeble insults made me laugh, and I gave far better than I got. We were outside a club I frequently frequented, and there was even a crowd of fellow punkly witnesses.
It was completely unprovoked - I didn’t know her ass from Eve, and had been minding my own business, chatting with friends. She finally left, looking suitably defeated and embarrassed, esp since she’d started the whole thing.
A guy who turned out to be the worst sort of fake friend warned me when I initially rose to her bait, but he obviously had overestimated her, and V much underestimated my mental gymnastics ability.
Never saw her again. 
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… and later wrote down what you had said. Superior arrows for her poor quiver.
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I doubt she remembered any of it by the time she reached her vehicle.
The only thing I remember is her insulting my (cool AF gothy) appearance, and she looked so boring. She looked more like a realtor (ETA: or a stockbroker) than someone at a hip punk club. WTF?
I said, “Gee, I wish I had long hair and lived in the suburbs,” and she LOL’d and fired back with the absolutely brilliant, “I bet you do!”
I laughed louder and replied, “Right! That’s why I live in the city and have short hair!”
Fish in a barrel, I tells ya. /shrugs
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Maybe she was a realtor, an occupation where the most interesting thing a realtor could say is. “Just look at these parquet floors!”
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What’s the best way to insult a neuroscientist?
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it’s not what you think…
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I’m a Gen Xer, too. My social circle goes Gen Z to Boomer. It’s great for getting a wide range of viewpoints on topics or events.
I get “Ok Boomer” from the twentysomethings trying to get under my skin after, for example, when I am quicker than they are to answer questions about tech or video games that my first-grader also plays.
I remind them my parents are boomers and leave it there. It works because no one is really trying to be a dick; it’s just playful banter among friends.
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Bursting into laughter at their comment and walking away is particularly devastating to the person hurling the insult. They are typically terrified of not being seen as smart and witty.
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You’ve got a lot of nerve!
Just kidding.
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Call them a rocket surgeon?
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Laughing at evil is also effective. It throws them off balance on all levels.
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