This is Facebook tier cringe
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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im 40+, probably the right target for that kind of humor i guess, though i found it on the Fediverse
Haha look at these old people laughing at old people memes
checks how old I am
FUCK
chuckles in back pain
Too much chuckle, there goes that disc again.
Older millenial here.
Lately I have started to realize, we are the new boomers.
The number of my co-millenials I see complaining about Gen Z with the exact same talking points that boomers had about us is kinda ironic.
Gen X'er here...thanks for forgetting us again. We really do appreciate being left the hell alone.
We’re the first generation who were given a cool letter for a name, and now all the me-too generations want in on it even though it’s already gone mainstream and therefore super uncool.
“Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and they love to chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
Socrates, about 2400 years ago.
It’s not ironic at all.
Gen Z will complain about the next generation, and blame problems on the previous generation(s).
Why is this surprising?
Everyone thinks they're different.
Ironic, maybe, but definitely not new. Literally as far back as we have written language, we have people complaining about the younger generations.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Source for the curious:
"Schools of Hellas" by Kenneth J. Freeman is an essay on the practice and theory of ancient Greek education written in the early 20th century. This scholarly work spans the period from 600 to 300 B.C., exploring various systems of education in ancient Greece, particularly in cities like Sparta and Athens.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/63644/pg63644-images.html
We're the new old farts, but the boomers were/are uniquely awful.
I predict at some point Fedibook will become the new Faceverse.
Alright grandpa time for your prune juice.
Honestly, your comment is cringe
As someone from Africa that had to go to America to get food poisoning for the first time, I disagree.
Despite taking the form of a Facebook meme, I believe that it's subverts the medium by actually being funny.
This ain't facebook
Can't wait for DOGE to find all the "waste fraud and abuse" in the FDA.
In Europe.
fair!
It's crazy how often Americans seem to have food poisoning, diarrhoea, bad stomach etc. Just the fact that it's a meme that you get it every time after eating Taco Bell says a lot. I have never had food poisoning, and can't remember the last time I had diarrhoea, same goes for most people I know.
??? Americans aren't getting food poisoning "often"
The Taco Bell meme afaik isn't about food poisoning at all, it's that it's a lot of oil-rich beans, which can have a certain effect.
Regarding food poisoning, I think you're right that it's worse in the USA, but the EU is not without food poisoning. My suspicion is that the media attention is different in part because food in Europe tends to come from smaller farms, whereas in the USA it tends to come from larger farms (is my understanding). So, an outbreak at a farm in the USA is bad because it potentially affects a huge number of people, whereas in the EU it may be a smaller farm with less of an impact (so any individual outbreak is less impactful). Just a guess, and it's in my opinion good to strive for lots of small farms rather than a few big ones.
People get "food poisoning" from taco bell because it's the first time they've had anything with fiber in it for a looooong time.
Germans trying to write punchlines
It's a good punchline
...or am I too German for this as an Austrian?
Here's some German humour for you:
Do you know how many Germans it takes to screw in one light bulb?
One, because they work hard and don't joke around.
I'm recently investigating the conspiracy theory (for lack of a better word) that the US is so religious because they are indeed not a (fully) developed country/nation/people (yet).
Of all the theories to pick, that one seems a bit lacking as the reason the US is so religious is that all the religious fanatics moved there when Europe were moving away from that sort of stuff
Amen. We have the most regulated Leitungswasser in the world in Germany.