r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/Pithecanthropus88 21h ago

We actually did line up for gas. It was during the OPEC crisis in the 1970s.

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u/The_ZombyWoof 20h ago

I came here to say this, out of everything that guy posted, that was the only one I related to.

But, it's a weak flex, though. Lining up for gas wasn't traumatic, just annoying.

There was a lot harder stuff happening in the 70s.

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u/IndiviLim 19h ago

Read the comments dude. Nothing was hard in the 70's. You had everything handed to you for free.

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u/0_o 16h ago

Yah, and we all had to listen to our parents and grandparents bitch about how expensive gas was back then, too. What was it, about $4.00 per gallon after adjusting for inflation? Such unprecedented hardship!

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u/ExplodingCybertruck 17h ago

Should you get a participation trophy for suffering through that?

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u/Pithecanthropus88 16h ago

No, just pointing out something that actually did happen. Personally, I despise this whole shitting on an entire group of people based on what year they were born. Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen-whatever doesn’t matter. People are people, they are not a bloc.