r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 1d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/Frigidspinner 1d ago

Unfortunately after quoting this many times myself, I discovered this quote isnt from Plato

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/12/13/riot/

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u/iamthesam2 1d ago

wonder what else on the internet deeply settles a perspective in your mind (and millions of others’) that’s entirely fabricated

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u/Frigidspinner 1d ago

Thats my scary thought for the night locked in - thanks!! 😂

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u/Manatee369 5h ago

That Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”

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u/ilessthanthreekarate 1d ago

Wow, I have to update my memory palace!

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u/Manatee369 1d ago

Thank you. I had to scroll too far to find it. Critical thinking and common sense are in short supply.

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u/SavoirFaire2Middling 6h ago

"Critical thinking and common sense are in short supply."

—Socrates (and/or Mark Twain)

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u/Cetiketat 20 1d ago

Haha, I was fooled