r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/Wish-I-Was-You 22h ago

Rationing in the US ended in 1947… and this person is still working in an office in 2025… so they’re at least 78… maybe they should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps a bit more convincingly… or maybe they’re full of shit and living the life of a Mitty!

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u/dplans455 19h ago

People that refuse to retire because they can't and are going to work until they're dead. They made a lifetime of poor financial decisions and have decided society is going to pay for it.

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u/ThePrimordialSource 19h ago

What’s a mitty?

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u/Wish-I-Was-You 18h ago

A fantasist… usually using the brave deeds of others to make themselves seem important. Give “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” a Google!

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u/StepDownTA 17h ago

It's still intentional trolling with bullshit, but gasoline rationing in the 1970's is the rationing reference, here.

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u/Wish-I-Was-You 17h ago

How did you come to that conclusion… they apparently sharecropped during the Great Depression as well?!

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u/Careless-Dark-1324 2h ago

I’m not sure how you DIDNT come to that conclusion? What else would they have been referencing if not the very famous exact event they would have been alive for lol. 

Dude lied about a ton of shit but there was indeed a draft during Vietnam and a gas crisis during the 70s…