You mean regular baseball?
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Yep. The tom-tom club are lamestain.
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In fairness, Bob never announced he wasn’t awful.
In fact, some could argue that by the nature of his comment he announced the opposite.
But aren’t we all somewhat awful now and then?
Also Bob’s so new he’s still sealed in bubblewrap…
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@Bob_Matteson
Welcome to BoingBoing.
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To paraphrase John Stewart, totally out of context “Keep fucking that avocado” buddy…
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As a member of Gen X, I wasn’t raised by Boomers, I was raised by Depression babies. (Ask me about lifelong obsessions with World War II sometime… or perhaps you’d like info about raw onions, lard and toast, the only snack foods anyone needs.)
Boomers were the older kids who terrorized us after school, then snapped up the best jobs while we were still in high school.
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Actually it just occurred to me though… I wonder if all of this stuff feels strange and unrelated to me because the generation boundaries are way screwed up already. When I was young, while I was in school, and from my first job at 14 to my first real career at 25 (so basically through the whole youth bracket) I was considered Gen X. Then they retconned the generation brackets and I ended up in the Millennial generation. I get irritated I guess because for me personally both are so removed from reality. When I was a kid I remember thinking how odd and alienating it was to have apathy aggressively advertised to you. Like I remember an entire soda that the Coca Cola Company put in our school with this intense advertising that was all about “meh… OMG THIS IS SO UNINTERESTING!” It just isn’t that great of an idea for an ad campaign. So the powers that be switched gears and decided they needed to invent a new idiotic myth to try to sell shit with.
Thus while I was working at some point, after I’d put myself through school despite it taking extra years, losing me a tooth or two due to inability to afford medical care, and literally doing anything for money… after I’d saved up enough to start my own life, after all of that I suddenly found myself lumped in with a group of people said to not work, blah blah blah. Yeah… you’re damned right it strikes me as bullshit. It’s awfully convenient isn’t it? I think due to fact that I happened to be born right in a zone where no one really understood the changes that would be happening I kind of got to see the mechanisms swing into action. I guess I’m just surprised so many people didn’t notice.
Basically, if you believe anything about “generations” that isn’t broad, vague, and mostly historic then you’re gullible at best and an active problem at worst.
Personally I wish they’d left me in Gen X though if they just have to class us all by distant bizarre personal metrics that have little to no bearing on our actual lives, at least everyone forgot about Gen X by their thirties.
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No, that’s the “No-Excitement” promotion, currently going on all season.
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Yep, absolutely as you see it: Everyone else is awful and less enlightened.
And NOW you can give yourself a nice pat on the back for announcing how wonderful you are for disapproving of anything that offends.
I bet you’re a RIOT at parties.
Obligatory:
@Avery_Thorn: When grandpa wanted to take an afternoon nap in the summer time, he turned the TV on to a baseball game.
@ugh: Paul Ryan clearly has never listened to RAtM lyrics. He is The Man they are raging against.
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You’re really not much better. Glass houses and all that.
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Making a joke is good, harmless fun.
Making a funny joke is hard, anxiety-inducing, intelligence-requiring work.
If you’re going to write jokes in a professional capacity, you’re hoping for laughter but also inviting criticism. Making sure they’re funny is not optional. You have to work at it. Get it right. Get a second opinion from someone who isn’t your spouse or infant.
The irony of this situation is that whoever wrote the jokes in question is apparently lazy as fuck.
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I’m sorry, but you two are being naïve, childish, and prejudicial. It doesn’t even sound like you are coming to this discussion in good faith. It’s people like you who don’t take the concerns of others seriously, that put Trump into office (it’s it isn’t clear to you, that was a bad thing). Wake up! Stop being complicit, and try on some fucking empathy for once in your life!
Believe me, Millenials can take a joke; in fact, we’re funnier than your generation could ever be, because we’re smarter (and therefore wittier). But that doesn’t keep us from understanding and feeling compassion for your problems. So why don’t you stop treating us like shit and treat us like god damn human beings who deserve the same respect everyone else does!?
Whatever, it doesn’t matter, you’re on your way out. We’re taking over, and we’re woker than you. But we’ll still fight for you and everyone else to have a better life. I wish I could say your generation was willing to do the same thing for us.
You might think “you youngins ain’t smarter than we the all-wise High Elders of Civilization”, but you would be wrong. Here’s one reason why:
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Okay, this was weird but english isn’t my native, so at first I thought a minor league was baseball played by kids or something like that. Boy do I feel stupid now.
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Ooh let me try. Because their generation learned that the only way to be cool is to be an asshole.
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Not for one second did I say that. What I said, actually, was that they were clearly marketing to people who thought that mocking young people deserved a big thumbs-up.
As others have pointed out, this is sort of like a dance club announcing they’re having a “boomer day” and inviting old people to come to the club, fart a lot, watch Fox News on a TV in the corner while wearing a tank top, and yell at the kids for being too loud. They aren’t actually inviting parents to a club, they’re talking to kids who think all old people are gross out of touch conservative jerks.
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Are you the kind of person who yells “All Lives Matter” to Black Lives Matter protestors? Cuz you’re coming off as that type of person.
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That’s not always the case. I’ve encountered jokes that would make any decent human disgusted and depressed for weeks because they come from a place of sheer absolute hatred for people who are different. Jokes can be weapons.
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You’re right. I should have said making a joke can be good, harmless fun.
I don’t think the jokes in this case are disgusting or depressing on that level. Just hackneyed, uninspired, tone-deaf and lazy.
If a joke needs to be defended on the grounds of the “right to make a joke” it’s probably because the joke sucks. It’s from the same bucket of bullshit as the “it was only a prank” excuse for being an asshole.
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Agreed, though I think this instance of tone-deafness and lack of creativity is indicative of certain harmful trends in contemporary society. We can’t be tone deaf and uncreative if we are going to make things better!
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My friend, do you cook? Avocado oil is the best. Super high smoke point!
Of course, I don’t expect this to convince you to buy avocados and squeeze the oil out, but do know that the humble avocado does have uses beyond guac and toast!
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