Musical theater and I don't always agree.

Still, much better than the prequels.

Speaking of children and pop culture, my son said "O.K. Boomer" to me yesterday. I think I'm going to make him watch "Heathers" until he has a feel for Gen X. Plus, he'll understand the dangers of Ohio.

And why to fear girls who wear blazers to high school.

1: Poke your knees.

I just have such a soft spot for people doing funny or entertaining things that aren't mean and don't have an obvious profit motive. It just seems so pure and wholesome and the kind of world I want to live in.

Bad lip reading and mash-up videos are my favorite thing on Youtube. "Jaboody Dubs" is a guilty pleasure. Bert and Ernie rapping "Ante Up", all that stuff.

For a more inexplicable appeal, there's an account that started out remixing Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons into gibberish and evolved into fun music videos with Robotnik singing. The masterpiece "Hedgehog Stew"

At Thanksgiving my brother was going on some stupid ramp and my son laid down the perfect "OK Boomer" on him and I was so proud.

Pride goeth before a boom.

Yeah, he ok boomers me all the time but its not very effective.

So far I haven't seen anyone use the phrase in real life. Do they have any concept of who the boomers are, or is just a term for "people older than me"?

6: https://www.reddit.com/r/SharedBPM/comments/erenw3/110110_another_one_bites_the_dust_by_queen_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

11. That's it, boomer.

I like the video too, though I think when you get to the point of lip-reading R2D2 you may have lost sight of what made Bad Lip Reading funny in the first place.

11: I've read account of kids saying it to other kids. It's become an all-purpose putdown, but mostly said by younger people to older people.

I take "Boomer" to mean anyone older than me + NIMBY.

Do they have any concept of who the boomers are, or is just a term for "people older than me"?

I assure you the distinctions between Gen X and Boomers are entirely lost on my son.

It's not really an group in our family. Grandparents are Silent Generation and parents are Gen X.

I have cousins that qualify.

The shibboleth is singing "okay smarty."

I've read account of kids saying it to other kids. It's become an all-purpose putdown

This reminds me: I've heard several anecdotes of kids using "triggered" in a weird way.

Example: Kid 1 takes the ball away, and Kid 2 gets upset; Kid 1 says, "You're so triggered." It doesn't make sense to me, but children are the future so they must be right.

21 sounds like an extension of the way the Trump people and other right-wing types use the term. It's the title of Don Jr.'s book.

It's also the way it was used by counselors and therapists 10-20 years ago. Something happened and you had an outsized reaction? Let's unpack this and see what triggered you.

though I think when you get to the point of lip-reading R2D2 you may have lost sight of what made Bad Lip Reading funny in the first place.

I had this thought with respect to Yoda, but R2D2 is even better.

I'm not sure they've put out any song quite as catchy as this one. The "Bushes of Love" one with Obi-Wan was funny, but not catchy.

I dunno about the kids, but it looks like my immediate family is alright, because Iberian Fury was just approved for tenure. Full Professor Fury, woo!

21, 23: If "kids shoving/punching each other on the playground" is replaced by "kids passive aggressively psychoanalyzing each other on the playground", I'm not sure that's really a step forward.

As a GeXer, we shoved and punched each other on the playground, but we did it ironically.

Although it would be kind of great if things like "Sally needs a trigger warning!" and "Haha! Timmy's going to his safe space!" became common playground taunts used by grade school kids.

26: Congrats to you and IF!

Congrats on the tenure. Not as good as being ABD since 1996, but probably workable.

My son just wrote "if you can read this you are a boomer" on the whiteboard in our office. I'm thinking of trading him in for a daughter.

Now he's yelling at me about how the prequels are too canon. I admit that may have been a bit of a troll on my part.

I've never even seen the part where they tell me about the tragedy of Darth P(something) the Wise.

Tell him all the prequels are canon except I.

Darth Vader built C3P0 and then forgot how to recognize him.

What, you never read that comic book about how Vader secretly did recognize C3PO and out of loyalty somehow arranged to have Chewy discover his dismembered body when they were all at the Cloud City in Empire?

It seemed a little far fetched. My theory that the prequels aren't real makes a lot more sense.

My theory is that Han fired first, but thought the safety was on.

My son just walked into the cane of a man who is blind. So I guess I'll have to believe him when he says he doesn't notice stuff very well

Magister Furiosa!

No. The guy was very gracious.

25 is right. The "Bushes of Love" was funny.

and don't have an obvious profit motive

Originally, sure, but now the Bad Lip Reading creator is making enough for BLR to be a well-compensated full-time job. As well they should! I don't begrudge it.

I thought she was referring to George Lucas.

$300,000/year is real money, but I imagine the production costs are also significant. That's computable work and talent going in, not one person spending 80 hours a week at their computer.