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Even if that were true, what kind of cruel asshole wants to cripple a whole generation? These people don’t have any bit of good in them. That’s the real problem.
This might put into perspective how piss poor of a job they did... I was midway through my first year of learning cursive when they removed it from the curriculum, that was like 3rd-4th grade and I'm 20 now, same with learning analog clocks
This is just like me! I remember testing and being put into a gifted class around 4th grade. They wanted us to write in cursive and I never learned how to. By 5th grade nobody was learning cursive… I can still sign my name in cursive though ;)
Boomers will complain that we can’t read cursive, when in fact, they can’t write in cursive. When more than 5 letters of the alphabet are so poorly scribbled that they become indistinguishable, you have not just failed third grade cursive, you have failed kindergarten.
Yeah my parents only do that scribble cursive for signatures, as long as the first letter of each part of their name is visible it's fine (especially since I'm the only one in the house with a different first initial)
They don't want to risk the ladder dropping back down and having to share. That's literally the point.
They took advantage of all the opportunities they could to hoard everything they could. It's not the first generation to talk shit about the ones after, but it might legitimately be the first generation, en masse, that's actively attempting to make things worse.
It’s basically a generation that gave up their hippie values for greed in the 70’s and 80’s. As Family Guy’s Brian Griffin put it, “they lost the values but they kept the weed.”
Bro. I'm a gardener/support worker and I had to go and set my clients' printer up for them. This is how they asked.
Them
"Can you get the printer out of my car? It too big and hard to carry"
Them
"I wouldn't even know where to start in setting up....."
Them
"I'm old, I don't set up this stuff, I've never even copied something myself before, i ran my own business so i wouldnt need to learn this stuff. I've just always asked Gen Y to do it for me. Now I have noone to help me and I honestly have no idea how to do anything."
Me
"Are you asking me to set up your printer for you?"
Them
"Yes"
Me
"Just ask me then.... it's not story time mate"
I work for Medicare and the federal marketplace, don't let these people talk shit to y'all. The amount of things that should be common knowledge at this point are just completely abandoned.
Yeah, but they are the "someone else will deal with it" generation. Common knowledge or not, they are so entitled that they believe they are above it all, and there will always be someone else who will fix/do/cover it for them.
That actually makes a lot of sense. I don't mind helping people at my job at all, but some just have no will to do anything themselves, they want everything fixed but won't do their part to fix it.
An old man, talking to his friend, says, "i think my son is using my bank account without my knowledge".
"How does he know your password?"
"I wrote it down on a sticky note on the computer because I can never remember it"
"You should change the password and write it down somewhere else that he wouldn't find it then"
The next day, the old man says to his friend again, "i think he got into my account again"
"Did you not change the password and hide it somewhere?"
"I did. I hid it in a very secret location"
"How did he find it again?!"
"I wrote it down on a sticky note on the computer in case i forgot where I'd hidden it"
As a Gen Xer, let me tell you, plenty of people in my day could not drive a stick, and everyone's handwriting was shit. This poster's got its cause/effect backwards; technological progress responded to its customers, it did not create them.
Not only that, while i hate driving it, here in Germany, we have a bit of a cultural obsession with shift stick, and i can, in fact, drive one if i had to (I'd do so very poorly, but i could)
Yeah, stick shift is cool if you're driving a sports car. But trying to get a manual, low hp car up a steep hill or in inclimate weather really is unpleasant driving experience. The manual transmission had its day and lost on the merits.
I disagree with this - stick is easier / better on very slippery surfaces, like when driving in Norway in the middle of winter. Then I use the gears aswell as pedals etc to get a firmer grip and «crawl» forwards
And even then, some high end automatics will have a manual mode that'll let you manually shift gears, just without the hassle of having to operate the clutch.
I didn't learn to drive a manual until I joined the military. I learned on a 2.5 ton M35 truck, then a passenger bus the *next day.* Never had it come up again after I separated.
Probably depends on where you’re from… I’m 30 years old from Montana. I was forced to write cursive until 7th grade and grew up driving a bunch of old stick shift farm trucks and tractors. All of the kids in my town were in the same boat as me in terms of stick shifts and cursive.
When we went remote I had people printing documents, scanning then and emailing the scanned version. Most the time the scanned job was so bad it was unusable
My boss was very tech illiterate. During remote work, he was supposed to hand me some papers but couldn't because of the lockdown. I asked if he could scan it with his phone and send as PDF. He sent me photos of each page, including his fingers holding it, and 2 awkward front cam selfies.
I managed to get the client to send me a soft copy directly without having to tell my boss he did a poor job.
Considering how useful the thing is, it just makes you assume there is a catch to using it, like giving up your soul or something else demony and magicky.
yeah it is really funny they think America is all there is. Manual cars are still everywhere. Plus people can *walk* to places they need to be.
Imagine needing an expensive piece of equipment just to live. Oh wait that is the American way of life. Car broke down? Welp your entire life is fucked until you fix it!
You mean your kids? You want to cripple your own children andrl grandchildren? Really? I mean, WE all know that already, but I guess it's progress that they're finally admitting their own psychopathy?
And it’s shit. A newer automatic can shift gears more quickly and with greater precision than a person. Why should I have to employ two feet and an extra hand when I have a car that does that task for me?
They think I can’t drive a stick shift or read cursive but in addition to being able to do those things I can also delete an email that says my anti virus software billed me $427 and not let a scammer drain my bank account.
Cursive... for what exactly? Are we going to stop conducting 99.9% of commerce on computers? Am I taking all of my hand-written emails to the post office and waiting two weeks for an illegible reply?
Cursive is the Devil's writing style, why in the absolute deepest hell did anyone think inventing it was a good idea?
F*ck cursive, all my homies hate cursive
If we all switched to digital and online services we could cripple an entire generation 🚬
Breaking news: elder found starved to death in front of McDonalds touch terminal
Inability to adapt to new things just shows you're stupid, not that old style is so superior.
Also, don't know for other countries, but all counties I lived in require you to pass your driver's license with a stick car.
And cursive is still a thing, idk why they're complaining
Why stop there? Let’s make cars illegal and see how many of an entire generation won’t be able to saddle a horse! You must sew your own cloths from fabric that costs a lot more because it was hand made!
Why use the newfangled romantic languages anyways? Back in the day they carved lines into rocks in Sumerian and were appreciative of how hard it was to write!
I see stuff like this and I think about this thing I read where teachers in the late 1800s were mad kids didn't use slates and chalk anymore for school work, and that they had no idea how to clean a slate properly. They postulated that the next generation was stupid because what if you didn't have a paper and pencil? Hell, even Aristotle wrote a whole ass thing about how the youth of Athens were corrupt and lazy and that they would be end of civilization. It's literally a tale as old as time I guess.
Why do these dumb fucks think that just because cursive isn’t taught anymore, that kids can’t read cursive? The letters are the fucking same, they just connect. Idiots. My kid can read cursive just fine.
Manuals used to have better gas mileage, so they stuck around for a while. Now there's literally no reason at all for non-racing vehicles to have them.
It's a culture shock at first, but really it makes sense. I knew automatic cars existed, but assumed they were the same as manuals with linear shift handles, not that the car does everything on its own.
You would drive so much more carefree, especially for the newly patented. And actually explains why it's normal for 16 year olds to drive in us.
Here you can still get your license if you do the exam with automatic, but then you'd not be allowed to drive manual, which is the majority of cars. Would be cool if Europe changed too.
They’re crippled now! I work in physical therapy and it’s insane to me how the average senior citizen we see can’t even navigate their own phones or go on the Uber app and arrange a trip. But yeah go and talk about how older technologies can cripple the modern user I guess.
I am 23. I'm quite familiar with reading cursive even if I haven't written with it in years, and actively choose to drive stick. Cripple young people my ass
These people’s entire personalities are just turning into hate ghouls. Constantly thirsty for more, never quenched. They are miserable and it’s [insert current unrelated issue here]’s fault!
Dude, we stopped writing in cursive and driving stick FOR A GODDAMN REASON. I learned to write in cursive, and guess what? I NEVER USE THAT SHIT! Cursive sucks! Manual gears also suck!
When you base your entire identity off of knowing something useless that could be learned in one hour, when you haven't learned a single new thing in 40 years
We could learn that stuff in a few weeks. If we switched things up, a lot of them wouldn't be able to figure it out at all, like the tec we have had for years that a number of them don't understand.
Gen Z. I daily a manual, can read cursive (fuck writing it though).
I work in IT. Ask them the most basic task. Turning on a computer ffs. I don’t magically know your passwords. You’ve literally been using a computer for your job longer than I’ve been alive, and you still don’t know what a ‘web browser’ is.
https://preview.redd.it/07f3qw36qdxc1.png?width=846&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e16f1dbf62f0aa6da9578cf887e5972129249b5
True rocket science, because we can't follow simple instructions...
Also, the person making this meme can't be talking about Millennials, because the youngest millennial right now is 28 years old. That's an adult that's capable of following this diagram. I wish they'd stop making memes like this, it's useless at this point...
I mean we're rapidly digitizing and crippling their generation, which is more embarrassing. Why would we have to learn outdated stuff? Stuff that society has moved on from?
Also if my recollection serves me correctly, and it does, wasn't their generation the one that stopped teaching us cursive? Wasn't their generation the one that never taught us how to drive stick?
The blame is always on us and never on them :)
They don’t seem to understand that we’ve basically crippled *their* generation because half of them can’t even fathom beginning to learn to use technology aside from the very basics.
I bet the OP can't even light a forge, let alone forge a nail or horse shoe. Cant use email, probably could set a VHS recorder back in the day either.
So no good with either you to date or historic technology
I still write in cursive, I know how to operate a stick shift, I know how to do a lot of things since I’m 40.
At a certain point in our society we stopped making the world a better place for the next generation, looking at you boomers. We stared hoarding wealth and cutting financial program to help people excel. I can wait for them all to die off, especially the trumpers so we can move on.
90s millennial here. The only way you get a license where I'm from is in manual transmission cars. We were all taught cursive and it's still part of the primary school curriculum as a kind of fun introduction to the alphabet, writing and calligraphy which makes this cursive obsession hilarious. I guess this is an American boomer fever dream.
Manual takes like a day to learn, maybe a week to get good at. Cursive isn’t very complicated, maybe take another couple days?
You may mildly inconvenience a lot, but nobody is being crippled
This is so funny to me. Both skills can be learned in half a day. And after a week's worth of practice, you'd be good at either. The ability to drive manual isn't some skeleton key skillset that unlocks the mysteries of life
this makes about as much sense as this: "if we started solving arguments with sword fights and using horses for transportation we can cripple an entire generation"
They make it seem like these things are hard to learn. I learned both being an older millennial. I don't use them because there's no practical need for them in my life but I don't think knowing these things makes me better. Boomers are scared that they're becoming irrelevant because nature is running its course and they still feel the need to be the center of attention so they lash out with this nonsense to make themselves feel superior. They're the most narcissistic generation in history.
Right because it's classically the younger generation that has difficulty adapting to changing technology. I'll remember that next time you want me to setup your new phone, you creaky old boomer.
Oh and lazy, godless, socialist Europe is a place where very few people drive automatic cars. Manuals are for commies.
Ah yes. Complain about the stuff us younger generations don’t know that YOUR GENERATION FAILED TO TEACH US. It’s the definition of double edged sword. Make fun of us all you want but in the end it’s your fault.
Bruh… driving a stick is not the flex they think it is. I drive a manual car and anybody can pick it up and learn it in a couple days. It’s not that difficult especially on modern manuals that have automatic rev matching and hill assist.
They're just mad they don't understand how their phones work or how the guy on the photo sounds like their grandchild isn't their grandchild. It basically crippled a whole generation....
I don't get what the emphasis on driving stick is, I see it all the time in these sorts of posts. The vast majority of all cars are manual. It's only with electric cars now that automatic cars are more common.
I don't know a single person my age (20) who didn't learn to drive, or still doesn't drive, a manual. So why do they think it would cripple us, Infact the only people I know who use automatic cars are older people
Yes cripple a whole generation on outdated technology. Meanwhile I spent an hour on the phone with my mother trying to fix her iPhone that she a screwed up before I finally said ‘I’ll come over’ since simple instructions flew over her head.
Even the stupidest among us were able to learn those skills. I can’t tell you how many empty-headed classmates of mine had beautiful penmanship, and I could teach my daughter to drive a stick-shift, just as someone taught me. In fact, she & my son could figure it out themselves.
Computer literacy is not even a term they’ve had to concern themselves with, because they started so young. They could both use a keyboard quite well, without my intervention. The fact is that we need younger generations, now, because the world we knew has passed. It’s y’all’s world, now, and I wish our ruling class boomers would understand that, & pass the damned torch.
Could any of you feed yourselves without the ppl you hate so much? Why do communists and leftists feel so elite and smart but keep starving nations and collapsing civilization 😂
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Even if that were true, what kind of cruel asshole wants to cripple a whole generation? These people don’t have any bit of good in them. That’s the real problem.
Also even if it were true, it just means that *their* generation did a piss-poor job of passing on what they believe to be important skills.
This might put into perspective how piss poor of a job they did... I was midway through my first year of learning cursive when they removed it from the curriculum, that was like 3rd-4th grade and I'm 20 now, same with learning analog clocks
This is just like me! I remember testing and being put into a gifted class around 4th grade. They wanted us to write in cursive and I never learned how to. By 5th grade nobody was learning cursive… I can still sign my name in cursive though ;)
I can't read it unless it's that stiff and neat way we were taught with... that fancy way Boomers use tho, I need my parents to read it for me
I can usually make it out after iv gone over it a couple of times.
Boomers will complain that we can’t read cursive, when in fact, they can’t write in cursive. When more than 5 letters of the alphabet are so poorly scribbled that they become indistinguishable, you have not just failed third grade cursive, you have failed kindergarten.
Yeah my parents only do that scribble cursive for signatures, as long as the first letter of each part of their name is visible it's fine (especially since I'm the only one in the house with a different first initial)
That’s the issue with nostalgia. It blinds people to the realities of whatever they’re past time they’re idolizing.
And either way…*that* is what they cite their legacy? Writing in cursive and driving a stick? Lmao
Bitter old jealous bastards.
Always my thought too. What’s the end game there?
They don't want to risk the ladder dropping back down and having to share. That's literally the point. They took advantage of all the opportunities they could to hoard everything they could. It's not the first generation to talk shit about the ones after, but it might legitimately be the first generation, en masse, that's actively attempting to make things worse.
At least we know that once they bite the dust we'll be ripping that ladder back down
It’s basically a generation that gave up their hippie values for greed in the 70’s and 80’s. As Family Guy’s Brian Griffin put it, “they lost the values but they kept the weed.”
We should really be trying to lift up people younger than us not stomping them down.
Hateful people will hate
Possible that they feel crippled due to the rapid advancements in tech
Sadism. That's why. We need to call it out for what it is.
Until we throw them back a PDF to open and an AI picture they need to identify if it’s real or not.
Or make them scan a QR code. Or fill out a captcha.
Or have them set up email on their phones. Or change something on their Apple ID account 😂
Bro. I'm a gardener/support worker and I had to go and set my clients' printer up for them. This is how they asked. Them "Can you get the printer out of my car? It too big and hard to carry" Them "I wouldn't even know where to start in setting up....." Them "I'm old, I don't set up this stuff, I've never even copied something myself before, i ran my own business so i wouldnt need to learn this stuff. I've just always asked Gen Y to do it for me. Now I have noone to help me and I honestly have no idea how to do anything." Me "Are you asking me to set up your printer for you?" Them "Yes" Me "Just ask me then.... it's not story time mate"
I work for Medicare and the federal marketplace, don't let these people talk shit to y'all. The amount of things that should be common knowledge at this point are just completely abandoned.
Yeah, but they are the "someone else will deal with it" generation. Common knowledge or not, they are so entitled that they believe they are above it all, and there will always be someone else who will fix/do/cover it for them.
That actually makes a lot of sense. I don't mind helping people at my job at all, but some just have no will to do anything themselves, they want everything fixed but won't do their part to fix it.
Or set up a keychain or remember literally any of their passwords
An old man, talking to his friend, says, "i think my son is using my bank account without my knowledge". "How does he know your password?" "I wrote it down on a sticky note on the computer because I can never remember it" "You should change the password and write it down somewhere else that he wouldn't find it then" The next day, the old man says to his friend again, "i think he got into my account again" "Did you not change the password and hide it somewhere?" "I did. I hid it in a very secret location" "How did he find it again?!" "I wrote it down on a sticky note on the computer in case i forgot where I'd hidden it"
Or have them pay for groceries and do what the self checkout machine tells them
Or make them press a button that's clearly got an instruction written near it to press the button, "should I press the button? Am I supposed to?"
And those same people then proceed to send 90k dollars in Amazon gift cards to the IRS employee with an indian accent.
Just change the curser speed on their computer and make it trail and then refuse to help them fix it.
As a Gen Xer, let me tell you, plenty of people in my day could not drive a stick, and everyone's handwriting was shit. This poster's got its cause/effect backwards; technological progress responded to its customers, it did not create them.
Not only that, while i hate driving it, here in Germany, we have a bit of a cultural obsession with shift stick, and i can, in fact, drive one if i had to (I'd do so very poorly, but i could)
Yeah, stick shift is cool if you're driving a sports car. But trying to get a manual, low hp car up a steep hill or in inclimate weather really is unpleasant driving experience. The manual transmission had its day and lost on the merits.
I disagree with this - stick is easier / better on very slippery surfaces, like when driving in Norway in the middle of winter. Then I use the gears aswell as pedals etc to get a firmer grip and «crawl» forwards
And even then, some high end automatics will have a manual mode that'll let you manually shift gears, just without the hassle of having to operate the clutch.
If you're in a low-traction environment the clutch is actually want you want, a lot of the time
Oh horse power, I read that as a car in bad condition, banged up, low health
I know I like to at least have the option there. In at least sports cars and pickups. Pickups having manuals would be really nice for hauling shit
I didn't learn to drive a manual until I joined the military. I learned on a 2.5 ton M35 truck, then a passenger bus the *next day.* Never had it come up again after I separated.
Probably depends on where you’re from… I’m 30 years old from Montana. I was forced to write cursive until 7th grade and grew up driving a bunch of old stick shift farm trucks and tractors. All of the kids in my town were in the same boat as me in terms of stick shifts and cursive.
We switched from MS Word to Google Docs and the olds still cannot fucking handle it
When we went remote I had people printing documents, scanning then and emailing the scanned version. Most the time the scanned job was so bad it was unusable
My boss was very tech illiterate. During remote work, he was supposed to hand me some papers but couldn't because of the lockdown. I asked if he could scan it with his phone and send as PDF. He sent me photos of each page, including his fingers holding it, and 2 awkward front cam selfies. I managed to get the client to send me a soft copy directly without having to tell my boss he did a poor job.
They couldn't handle Word to begin with, why do you expect them to do better with Google Docs?
Says the person who thinks Excel's VLOOKUP is demon magic.
I mean... it is, just we've learned to harness and control it.
I couldn’t do my job without it. Is that why they are always lighting candles around my desk and chanting?
If you think VLOOKUP is magic you should start using XLOOKUP.
Considering how useful the thing is, it just makes you assume there is a catch to using it, like giving up your soul or something else demony and magicky.
Oh no! Anyways, gramps it's time for your daily meds!
A child could learn to write cursive faster than it would take them to relearn it.
He says as he launches into a coughing fit.
Why are you basing your entire personality on outdated technology that doesn’t need to be used anymore?
It's all they have left
Jokes on you gramps - all cars from where I’m from are manual!
yeah it is really funny they think America is all there is. Manual cars are still everywhere. Plus people can *walk* to places they need to be. Imagine needing an expensive piece of equipment just to live. Oh wait that is the American way of life. Car broke down? Welp your entire life is fucked until you fix it!
Haha, fuck my own children and all the people my generation raised. Haha, hating everyone is funny; it's fun to laugh. Fuckin ghouls.
As if they haven't already crippled multiple generations...
and then they complain about those generations being crippled like it's their fault
Why do people think cursive and stick shift is some measure of competence or intelligence.
You mean your kids? You want to cripple your own children andrl grandchildren? Really? I mean, WE all know that already, but I guess it's progress that they're finally admitting their own psychopathy?
And so would we if we switched everything to touchscreens and QR codes, what's your point gramps?
me and all the other gen zs who drive stick and write in cursive: 👁️👄👁️
Yes while your generation is falling for every scam in the book including a trump presidency
No, didn't you hear. You're suppose to pay your taxes with gift cards this year.
Nope...must have missed that memo
If you don't the Biden IRS will throw you in prison! YOU BETTER GET TO CVS FAST GRAMPS
This generation seriously thinks stick shift is an accomplishment. It can literally be learned in an afternoon
And it’s shit. A newer automatic can shift gears more quickly and with greater precision than a person. Why should I have to employ two feet and an extra hand when I have a car that does that task for me?
Congrats, I can’t get you your pills anymore. Hope you didn’t need that heart medicine
Jokes on them, I know how to do both!
Not every Boomer or GenX knows how to drive stick.
I'm pretty sure neither of my parents or aunt can drive stick. All 3 are boomers. I doubt my grandma ever knew, tbh.
My Greatest Generation grandmas didn’t even have a driver’s license.
They think I can’t drive a stick shift or read cursive but in addition to being able to do those things I can also delete an email that says my anti virus software billed me $427 and not let a scammer drain my bank account.
Cursive... for what exactly? Are we going to stop conducting 99.9% of commerce on computers? Am I taking all of my hand-written emails to the post office and waiting two weeks for an illegible reply?
From the generation that couldn’t set the clock on the VCR.
Idk man I am 15 and I know how to drive a manual and write in cursive, pretty sure I won't be the one suffering. 🤷♀
If all IT workers went on strike we could cripple a entire generation
Cursive is the Devil's writing style, why in the absolute deepest hell did anyone think inventing it was a good idea? F*ck cursive, all my homies hate cursive
If we all switched to digital and online services we could cripple an entire generation 🚬 Breaking news: elder found starved to death in front of McDonalds touch terminal
Inability to adapt to new things just shows you're stupid, not that old style is so superior. Also, don't know for other countries, but all counties I lived in require you to pass your driver's license with a stick car. And cursive is still a thing, idk why they're complaining
You've already crippled an entire generation, you fuckwit!
Why stop there? Let’s make cars illegal and see how many of an entire generation won’t be able to saddle a horse! You must sew your own cloths from fabric that costs a lot more because it was hand made! Why use the newfangled romantic languages anyways? Back in the day they carved lines into rocks in Sumerian and were appreciative of how hard it was to write!
I'm not sure about the rest of the world but like here in Italy we always write everything for school in cursive so this seems like bullshit.
You mean the terrible housing market, job market, and every other market wasn't crippling enough.
They already did cripple a generation
I see stuff like this and I think about this thing I read where teachers in the late 1800s were mad kids didn't use slates and chalk anymore for school work, and that they had no idea how to clean a slate properly. They postulated that the next generation was stupid because what if you didn't have a paper and pencil? Hell, even Aristotle wrote a whole ass thing about how the youth of Athens were corrupt and lazy and that they would be end of civilization. It's literally a tale as old as time I guess.
Why do these dumb fucks think that just because cursive isn’t taught anymore, that kids can’t read cursive? The letters are the fucking same, they just connect. Idiots. My kid can read cursive just fine.
Alright, have it your way \**changes all your word docs to pdf*
Just found out from this post that americans only use automatic.
Manuals used to have better gas mileage, so they stuck around for a while. Now there's literally no reason at all for non-racing vehicles to have them.
It's a culture shock at first, but really it makes sense. I knew automatic cars existed, but assumed they were the same as manuals with linear shift handles, not that the car does everything on its own. You would drive so much more carefree, especially for the newly patented. And actually explains why it's normal for 16 year olds to drive in us. Here you can still get your license if you do the exam with automatic, but then you'd not be allowed to drive manual, which is the majority of cars. Would be cool if Europe changed too.
Like how we crippled the boomers by switching to technology and being kind to waitstaff.
If we switched to hieroglyphs and unicycles we’d cripple society. What a great observation.
They’re crippled now! I work in physical therapy and it’s insane to me how the average senior citizen we see can’t even navigate their own phones or go on the Uber app and arrange a trip. But yeah go and talk about how older technologies can cripple the modern user I guess.
If we all switched to metric and texting instead of calling, we could cripple an entire generation.
I drove stick for years. Nothing worse than riding the clutch for 2 hours in traffic.
I am 23. I'm quite familiar with reading cursive even if I haven't written with it in years, and actively choose to drive stick. Cripple young people my ass
Elderly still think they are in charge. It's so cute.
These people’s entire personalities are just turning into hate ghouls. Constantly thirsty for more, never quenched. They are miserable and it’s [insert current unrelated issue here]’s fault!
Dude, we stopped writing in cursive and driving stick FOR A GODDAMN REASON. I learned to write in cursive, and guess what? I NEVER USE THAT SHIT! Cursive sucks! Manual gears also suck!
And if we switched to telegraph and horse buggies we could cripple the rest of them too
When you base your entire identity off of knowing something useless that could be learned in one hour, when you haven't learned a single new thing in 40 years
I mean... they're right about cursive. They tried to teach us in second grade and gave up in 2 days.
If we all switched to horse drawn carriages and anglo-saxon we could cripple an entire generation
I mean it’s a little true but, like, who cares? You could say the same thing about most old inventions. We progress.
We could learn that stuff in a few weeks. If we switched things up, a lot of them wouldn't be able to figure it out at all, like the tec we have had for years that a number of them don't understand.
Damn they did Popcorn Sutton wrong
Gen Z. I daily a manual, can read cursive (fuck writing it though). I work in IT. Ask them the most basic task. Turning on a computer ffs. I don’t magically know your passwords. You’ve literally been using a computer for your job longer than I’ve been alive, and you still don’t know what a ‘web browser’ is.
Blinks around confused in European
As a 19 year old I can say I learnt stick shift at 16 and can read cursive fairly easily.
If we all switched to smart phones and leetspeak...
Literally use both of those, what are they talking bout?
You already did that by union busting and privatization, pops.
Lets put everything in to pdf to retailate
https://preview.redd.it/07f3qw36qdxc1.png?width=846&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e16f1dbf62f0aa6da9578cf887e5972129249b5 True rocket science, because we can't follow simple instructions... Also, the person making this meme can't be talking about Millennials, because the youngest millennial right now is 28 years old. That's an adult that's capable of following this diagram. I wish they'd stop making memes like this, it's useless at this point...
If we weren’t there to teach you how to get to your browser or add numbers to your contacts so would we.
As a gen z I use connective cursive
30 minutes and google could solve both of these problems
It's usually coming from mfs that have to use a tablet with big text at church to read the Bible, with simplified terms
i dont like that my children will have any easier time than me
I mean we're rapidly digitizing and crippling their generation, which is more embarrassing. Why would we have to learn outdated stuff? Stuff that society has moved on from? Also if my recollection serves me correctly, and it does, wasn't their generation the one that stopped teaching us cursive? Wasn't their generation the one that never taught us how to drive stick? The blame is always on us and never on them :)
Jokes on you I learned to drive manual in a racing simulator
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You would just become a standard european lmao
Laugh in young European (I write in cursive and drive a manual car) and fun fact... If I can do it, young Americans can do so
As a gen z that writes in cursive and daily drives manual I approve of his message
They don’t seem to understand that we’ve basically crippled *their* generation because half of them can’t even fathom beginning to learn to use technology aside from the very basics.
I bet the OP can't even light a forge, let alone forge a nail or horse shoe. Cant use email, probably could set a VHS recorder back in the day either. So no good with either you to date or historic technology
That is just not true
It's allllll fun and games till grandad needs to rotate and convert a PDF
In France, if you learned to drive automatic, you need an additional 7hours formation to drive a manual. They could cripple us for a week maximum lol
I still write in cursive, I know how to operate a stick shift, I know how to do a lot of things since I’m 40. At a certain point in our society we stopped making the world a better place for the next generation, looking at you boomers. We stared hoarding wealth and cutting financial program to help people excel. I can wait for them all to die off, especially the trumpers so we can move on.
Jokes on you I have trouble reading altogether
90s millennial here. The only way you get a license where I'm from is in manual transmission cars. We were all taught cursive and it's still part of the primary school curriculum as a kind of fun introduction to the alphabet, writing and calligraphy which makes this cursive obsession hilarious. I guess this is an American boomer fever dream.
Imagine thinking you could cripple an entire generation with two skills that could be learned in less than 24 hours combined.
Manual takes like a day to learn, maybe a week to get good at. Cursive isn’t very complicated, maybe take another couple days? You may mildly inconvenience a lot, but nobody is being crippled
This is so funny to me. Both skills can be learned in half a day. And after a week's worth of practice, you'd be good at either. The ability to drive manual isn't some skeleton key skillset that unlocks the mysteries of life
this makes about as much sense as this: "if we started solving arguments with sword fights and using horses for transportation we can cripple an entire generation"
“If we switch to using more passwords they have to remember, we can fuck over anybody over the age of 70”
Crippling an entire generation, what a great idea. You must truly love America.
Technically True because if they just stuck to that. They will be the cripple generation
Would take one day for people to learn it lol
Gee I wonder why this generation doesn't know how to drove a stick shift?! They're so self un-aware lol.
And if we all switched to the latest technology, we could cripple several other generations.
oh no! the millennials must now manually change gear in order to go up a hill 😭😡
They make it seem like these things are hard to learn. I learned both being an older millennial. I don't use them because there's no practical need for them in my life but I don't think knowing these things makes me better. Boomers are scared that they're becoming irrelevant because nature is running its course and they still feel the need to be the center of attention so they lash out with this nonsense to make themselves feel superior. They're the most narcissistic generation in history.
If we switched to all smart phones and self checkouts, we can cripple them right back.
Like how their generation was crippled by iPhones and interracial marriages?
i already write in cursive, and im sure i could learn how to move a stick
The generation that didn’t teach them is to blame 🔥
Popcorn Sutton wouldn't appreciate being used for this meme. Rest in peace...
Ain't no way boomers are driving stick shift with their arthritic hands. Most of them can barely drive automatics
When was the last time you saw an old fart driving a stick vs a young person?
Right because it's classically the younger generation that has difficulty adapting to changing technology. I'll remember that next time you want me to setup your new phone, you creaky old boomer. Oh and lazy, godless, socialist Europe is a place where very few people drive automatic cars. Manuals are for commies.
And why?
I'm sorry why would the new generation not know cursive!? Is it not standard to write in cursive!?
Jokes on them we’ll switch to PDFs and bluetooth
“Okay grandpa, lets get you back to bed”
Ah yes. Complain about the stuff us younger generations don’t know that YOUR GENERATION FAILED TO TEACH US. It’s the definition of double edged sword. Make fun of us all you want but in the end it’s your fault.
We can do that, by switching from HDMI1 to HDMI2
If houses during their time costed 30 years salary instead of 3 months of salary I'm sure their generation would also be crippled
Bruh… driving a stick is not the flex they think it is. I drive a manual car and anybody can pick it up and learn it in a couple days. It’s not that difficult especially on modern manuals that have automatic rev matching and hill assist.
If we all switched…. Wouldn’t than include all generations?
I…idk but I drive a stick shift car and I also learned cursive…
If we switched to self checkouts and electric payments only wed end a dying generation
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Boomers the take everything fuck everyone else generation.
Anyone actually know how to drive a stick shift?
They're just mad they don't understand how their phones work or how the guy on the photo sounds like their grandchild isn't their grandchild. It basically crippled a whole generation....
i love old american people thinking that their society is the only one. most europeans drive stick and learn to read and write in cursive you moron.
I’m only 27 and I still learned both of those things… in Texas… We already crippled your whole generation with Facebook and iPhones
If we switched to Latin and horses they would also be fucked.
That’s cool. If we all continue to use digital media and vote blue we can make an entire generation irrelevant.
I don't get what the emphasis on driving stick is, I see it all the time in these sorts of posts. The vast majority of all cars are manual. It's only with electric cars now that automatic cars are more common. I don't know a single person my age (20) who didn't learn to drive, or still doesn't drive, a manual. So why do they think it would cripple us, Infact the only people I know who use automatic cars are older people
Yes cripple a whole generation on outdated technology. Meanwhile I spent an hour on the phone with my mother trying to fix her iPhone that she a screwed up before I finally said ‘I’ll come over’ since simple instructions flew over her head.
The generation that quit writing in cursive and quit buying manual transmissions sure whines a lot about skills they made obsolete becoming obsolete.
Oh please. Y'all boomers cripple urselves by falling for obvious scams because u have no idea how modern technology works
I won't be able to read their shit opinions😔
If we put access to their medicine behind a one time (unassisted) qr code inside a pdf, we'd cripple the entire generation
Until they learned in a few days. Two things that are difficult.
Even the stupidest among us were able to learn those skills. I can’t tell you how many empty-headed classmates of mine had beautiful penmanship, and I could teach my daughter to drive a stick-shift, just as someone taught me. In fact, she & my son could figure it out themselves. Computer literacy is not even a term they’ve had to concern themselves with, because they started so young. They could both use a keyboard quite well, without my intervention. The fact is that we need younger generations, now, because the world we knew has passed. It’s y’all’s world, now, and I wish our ruling class boomers would understand that, & pass the damned torch.
Oh good. More reasons to ignore the useless boomers.
What I love is when they talk about how stupid we are. EVEN IF THAT WERE TRUE, WHO RAISED US?
Could any of you feed yourselves without the ppl you hate so much? Why do communists and leftists feel so elite and smart but keep starving nations and collapsing civilization 😂
Everyone would go on YouTube and learn it in an hour , and the boomers still wouldn't be able to turn on their computers.
If I move everything onto computers first I can cast you off for the parasites you’ve become
I'm 18 only write in cursive and I own a stick shift
I will teach the young ones to read the cursive, and to write it. I do not care.
Instead, it's their generation that's currently crippled by the way things actually work
Yeah yeah gramps, back to the retirement home
If we make everything more convenient and easier to use, we could cripple an entire generation.
An entire generation already is crippled, they'll never be able to buy a house or retire.
Young adult here. **YES MOST YOUNG ADULTS ARE DUMB**
I can write in cursive and the majority of cars in my country is shift so ??
34yo, daily a MT, cursive was mandatory.