boomer

[pronounced bumer].

A term for a person who, when complaining about modern times, uses the term, “in my time”. In addition, he understands the modern world, modern technology, and technical progress differently than young people. He values the past positively because it has sentimental value for him. Thus, a boomer is not an older person, but rather one with backward, non-modern views, who does not understand the phenomena of the modern world. For this reason, the boomer successfully replaced the native, but too stigmatizing (age) or concretizing (parents, close friend) terms: stary, stara (father, mother) The phrase: Ok boomer is a “stopwatch” for tedious contact with an adult giving instruction. A synonym for intellectual “boomerism” and lack of knowledge of current trends can also be cancer or cancerous. Boomers meaning is often expanded when it is used to mark irony, to express disapproval, or disbelief caused of someone’s ignorance.

The word was coined from the phrase “baby boomers,” which describes the generation of people born between 1946 and 1964 (the post-war rise in births in the US is known as the “baby boom”). It is said that the expression became popular after a young politician (Chlöe Swarbrick) used the statement in Congress: “Okay boomer” to an MP who criticized her speech on the climate crisis.

The saying: OK boomer has entered the vernacular as a synonym for the phrase: “Nie truj, stary.”

Note: Bloomer is also a character widespread on 4chan, which represents a person with a highly optimistic approach to life and a feisty attitude, usually in his 20s. This character is often used in contrast to Doomer as an example of a person who has dealt with an unhealthy lifestyle and depressive state by learning to love and accept himself and by finding motivation. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bloomer ).

Examples of usage:

1. boomer is a state of mind.

2. He’s such a terrible boomer! When he saw my new phone, he said , “In my day” there were no such things, and somehow people lived.

3. Mój stary (my father) is only about childhood on the carpet beater. He’s, a real boomer!

4. -A: They used to make real music back then, not what they make now.

–Ok boomer. /from the statements of teenagers/

5 –Ok boomer! They call me not very affectionate / Tool and an old fool / What an old Boomer! Old Boomer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znDuxOGE08Q.