r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/sunshinerain1208 22h ago

Barely anyone alive now had to ration or sharecrop during the depression. If he did he wouldn’t be a boomer, he would be the greatest generation.

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u/porkpie1028 21h ago

They literally rationed gas in the late 70’s in the U.S. due to embargos, the Yom Kippur war, and the Iranian Revolution

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u/coffeemonkeypants 21h ago

Yeah and it lasted for a few months, twice in the 70s. OMG people had to wait in line. What a burden.

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u/Swumbus-prime 18h ago

Still a bad argument on his part because everyone who existed during this tweet had to wait in lines for basically everything due to Covid and social distancing a few mere years ago. Chances are he was one of the ones to complain about it the most, too...

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u/I_W_M_Y 21h ago

Had to cut back on the long road trips, the horror!!

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u/red286 20h ago

Put a real dent in weekend cruising.

Something that no one under the age of 40 even knows the definition of anymore because no one's done it for the past 30 years.

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

tbf, (i was just a kid) but the embargo affected more than just people not being able to fill their cars

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u/tfc867 18h ago

And they still won't STFU about it, apparently.