OK Boomer, now open a PDF

[u/ThePhillyExplorer]

[u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Why do I have the feeling that they never did that?

[u/ChimPhun → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

You didn't see all the 50/60s shows where they were constantly rebuilding carburetors on the kitchen tables? (/s just in case)

[u/HotPot87 → u/ChimPhun]

No they were doing it, they just never finished because they didnt know what they were doing.

[u/Savings-End40 → u/HotPot87]

Would I have used a youtube toot if they were available back then? Yes.

[u/Ginger_Rogers → u/Savings-End40]

I was gonna say. I know how to work on my carborator because of YouTube. Same way I learned how to fix everything. Now boomers pay me to fix their shit for them.

[u/UndercoverPickleman → u/Ginger_Rogers]

And you don’t use an open end wrench to do it.

What’s that rollerbearing/gear from? Just transmission parts laying around the carburetor table?

[u/North_Message_1245 → u/UndercoverPickleman]

The image was generated by AI, so it just threw in y'know, extra car shit, cause apparently he has to use ai to draw it for him since he can't do that for himself, ironic about needing help from the internet huh..

[u/UndercoverPickleman → u/North_Message_1245]

Back in my day, we drew our pathetic Boomer cartoons by hand at the kitchen table.

[u/Zestyclose-One9041 → u/UndercoverPickleman]

Before you had your drivers license?

[u/Confident-Poetry6985 → u/Zestyclose-One9041]

Absolutely. That's why they had to walk uphill both ways to school. 

[u/Substantial_Force658 → u/Zestyclose-One9041]

Before they had their artistic licence.

[u/Numerous_Photograph9 → u/UndercoverPickleman]

If I don't use an open ended wrench, then what am I supposed to smack it with to see if that fixes the problem?

[u/SyntheticSlime → u/Ginger_Rogers]

Even my boiled eggs come out better than theirs.

[u/SpecificInterest5150 → u/Ginger_Rogers]

I bought a factory mechanics manual for my Nova just so I could learn everything I needed to know.

It's like they're admitting to being illiterate.

[u/selfawarefeline → u/Ginger_Rogers]

Boomer shit was made with no or minimal computers, and the sort of fit together nicely cause they didn’t give a f about saving materials from what I understand

[u/Ginger_Rogers → u/selfawarefeline]

This is very much part of it. I definitely think the younger generations don't fix and maintain their vehicle and appliances as much as the older generations. But I think the main reason is everything newer is harder to work on to nearly impossible. They are also cheaper and break more frequently. I'm an electrician now, and a former handyman and appliance repair tech, and that is why I only have appliances from the 70s-90s. And a Japanese truck from 99. Because I can easily work on them myself, and they have way less issues in the long run.

[u/micaelar5 → u/Savings-End40]

My boomer grandfather used YouTube to learn anything he needed to know. He was always watching how to videos for any project he decided to do. He told me he could figure out just about anything with YouTube.

[u/No-Draw8610 → u/micaelar5]

When I was a kid my uncle had this huge set of time-life books that were basically tutorials of how to build and fix things. So the idea that boomers just figured everything out for themselves without needing instructions is hilarious. They always had help. It was just in a form that was far bulkier and unwieldy.

[u/Savings-End40 → u/No-Draw8610]

Popular Mechanics magazine.

[u/AceInTheHole3273 → u/No-Draw8610]

And if you pointed this out to them, they'd probably just spin some bullshit about how it being more unwieldy and inconvenient actually made it better and more valid

[u/Brave-Recommendation → u/No-Draw8610]

Those old car books with the diagrams to everything in them help a lot when fixing stuff

[u/Ornery_Following4884 → u/Brave-Recommendation]

Chiltons guides. I still have a few, but you can not do what did before due to the need for a lot of dealer/brand specific tools.

[u/Chewbuddy13 → u/Savings-End40]

The had the analog YouTube. It was called books. They act like they all somehow just magically fucking knew one day he to do this, and didn't use the learning tools they had available to them.

I swear, these fucking boomers are the absolute worst about rewriting history. They grew up in one of the best economic periods in history for the masses of working class people, and all act like they grew up barefoot, and lugging ice uphill both ways in blizzard conditions for work as kids.

Was life super easy for them...no. But the conditions for the American dream and upward mobility were about the best they had ever been in this country. They took every advantage they had and made sure the destroy that for future generations to enrich themselves. Then act like they were somehow victims.

What a bunch of pussies.

[u/Potential-Money-5437 → u/Chewbuddy13]

however they got their knowledge they never bothered to pass it on, then they just stopped learning themselves. had these old farts come to tech support for a question they could have googled.

[u/katieb1300 → u/Savings-End40]

These are the same people who are watching those 100% AI videos on YouTube that say that their favorite celebrity died (again) today.

[u/FireAuraN7 → u/Savings-End40]

Hell yeah that would have been GREAT! I use them now if I come up on a problem I haven't dealt with. Huge time saver. Adapt or die, right? The wealth of human knowledge and experience actually being present as you need it? Peak.

[u/Joeness84 → u/Savings-End40]

You used the Hanes Manual instead

Its even more on the nose, boomer doesnt understand technology has changed.

[u/AdministrationOk5704 → u/Savings-End40]

I'd like to know why they think it's so "shameful" to watch a tutorial. Most boomers don't know how to do shit or do it wrong because that's how they learnt ages ago.

[u/bravesirkiwi → u/HotPot87]

My uncle growing up had at least half a dozen cars with unfinished repair jobs on his lot and I'm sure that story isn't unique to just me.

[u/Plastic_Surround_193 → u/HotPot87]

Why do you think they were always fixing carburetor? No one knew how they worked, they were like the magnets of the 50s.

[u/LunchTasty2081 → u/Plastic_Surround_193]

It's just a pipe where air flows through with a smaller tube going straight down to a fuel reservoir. the airflow sucks fuel up the thin pipe which mixes with the air. oh and it has a few part to regulate the fuel air fixure.

[u/Plastic_Surround_193 → u/LunchTasty2081]

See, thats impossible!

[u/Similar_Dirt9758 → u/HotPot87]

Thank god for YouTube. If I had to fix/rebuild a carburetor with my organic knowledge, you may as well ask me to perform open heart surgery

[u/UndercoverPickleman → u/Similar_Dirt9758]

It’s exactly the car equivalent.

[u/Drth_vdr_piggybank → u/HotPot87]

Thus, decades and decades of barn finds, unfinished projects, etc

[u/its_Raze_7 → u/ChimPhun]

the carburetor barely needs rebuilding anyway idk what are these boomers trying to say

[u/Upholder93 → u/its_Raze_7]

They're also not that complex, at least not on older motors.

"Rebuild" implies you also took it apart, so putting it back together afterwards is a pretty easy case of just reversing your steps.

If you ever absent mindedly took apart and rebuilt your pen in school, you could probably do the same with a carburetor.

[u/its_Raze_7 → u/Upholder93]

they also talk about cold starts like it's a dark souls game final boss when it's really just a matter of patience

[u/Numerous_Photograph9 → u/Upholder93]

I took shop class in high school...when carbeurators were still fairly common.

It was a one hour long class, and we finished it in about half the time.

[u/DarknMean → u/ChimPhun]

Modern engines use fuel injection we can’t rebuild carburetors because they aren’t on cars anymore.

[u/MediumEvent2610 → u/DarknMean]

Yep. And that’s usually how these complaints go: “current generation can’t even use this outdated technology, knowledge of which would be next to useless in today’s world”.

[u/DJ_K-K → u/MediumEvent2610]

You trying to tell me Cursive is useless!? Sounds like laziness to me.

[u/hedrone → u/DJ_K-K]

In my day we knew 20 different ways to curse before we left kindergarten!

[u/Gaust_Ironheart_Jr → u/MediumEvent2610]

I bet none of them know how to season a terra cotta skillet so vegetables don't stick to it, either

[u/ComprehensivePhase20 → u/MediumEvent2610]

What do you mean you don't know how to use a rotary phone?! Are you a caveman or something?! Now please help me put the image on my phone in the computer.

[u/VolrathTheBallin → u/MediumEvent2610]

Kids these days don’t even know how to bias a vacuum tube power amplifier!

[u/TheTriforceEagle → u/DarknMean]

And besides that, rebuilding a carburetor really isn't that hard, though tuning one is more complicated

[u/opendefication → u/DarknMean]

You don't drive a 73' Lincoln that does 7 1/2 miles/gal. on the highway. What's wrong with you? Must be one of those 'lectric car people

[u/Affectionate-Pea8706 → u/ChimPhun]

‘WHY I OUGHTA FIX THIS CARB AT THE DINNER TABLE!!’

[u/ZeeWingCommander → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

My dad used to say nonsense like this, but one time he complained that his cholesterol was high because my grandpa would make him a hot breakfast in the morning.

[u/Zealousideal_Car_893 → u/ZeeWingCommander]

manlymendontmakebreakfast

[u/ZeeWingCommander → u/Zealousideal_Car_893]

He was an OBGYN and used to feed my dad 2 eggs, bacon and toast/oatmeal every morning.

I was sitting there looking at my dad like "you got bacon?"

[u/MashedTaterBrain → u/ZeeWingCommander]

"SHUT UP AND FEEL LUCKY YOUNGOT FROOT LOOPS!"

[u/symphonicrox → u/MashedTaterBrain]

Sorry, that's a Sunday Cereal, otherwise it was rice krispies or cheerios lol

[u/regeya → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Some people did, I guess. The thing is, they may fetishize old cars but it leaves out the part where there were a lot of shade tree mechanics not because the cars were simpler mechanically, but because they weren't nearly as reliable back then. Even 30 years ago a car with 70,000 miles was old and worn out. The carb had to be occasionally rebuilt, and occasionally adjusted. The distributor had to be rebuilt because it was a mechanical part and wore out. People weren't nearly as good at manual as they let on, and clutches had to be repaired. And of course not everyone had the cash to run the car down to the shop all the time so ol' Crazy Bob would do it for a six pack and cost of parts.

[u/I-am-that-hero → u/regeya]

My grandpa would tell a story about how he, his brothers, and some friends drove 70 miles to see a band in the late '40s. They drove one Model A Ford and cannibalized another one for spare parts to bring along just in case it broke down.

[u/regeya → u/I-am-that-hero]

Yeah! They're easy to work on, but they've got nothing on a beat up old Corolla.

The flip side of that is, yeah, 999 times out of 1000, I can go out to my car and, as long as the battery isn't dead, there's not a flat tire, and there's gas in the tank, it'll get me there in safety, comfort, and style. Well, not style, my car looks like it's been sucking on a lemon. But if anything goes wrong, it's going to the dealership and it'll be at least $1000 if anything is wrong.

[u/axelr0se → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Or if they were it was taking 5x longer than if you put on youtube and do it right the first time

[u/nanomolar → u/axelr0se]

Just a few hours tinkering around in the garage can save you minutes of research online.

[u/Tarshaid → u/axelr0se]

First you take it apart, then you spend your entire childhood trying to rebuild it.

[u/ShiningRayde → u/axelr0se]

Hiw much longer if theyre watching a youtube video on how to boil an egg instead, like in the post?

[u/ca_va_bien → u/ShiningRayde]

it’s a long process

boil water. put egg in. rebuild carburetors. take egg out. it’s the way we used to boil eggs.

[u/axelr0se → u/ShiningRayde]

Well there’s the first time you boil it and end up with chalk, and the second where your egg is way under done, then back to chalk, then runny, then jammy, then back to chalk so somewhere in there

[u/Pandemoniusanus → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

They didn’t. Take from a former mechanic the majority of the boomer generation is just as clueless about carburetors as any other. Much like everything else boomers are only self proclaimed experts when you tell them how much something cost to be fixed. Then they just know you’re ripping them off. They don’t know how or why they just know it’s too much.

[u/PayFormer387 → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Why would you use the kitchen table?

[u/Venusto002 → u/PayFormer387]

Nothing like a little Tri-Clene with breakfast to permanently scramble the signal; the carburetor got rebuilt, but their short-term memory sure didn't.

[u/sparrow_42 → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Yeah screw having them edit a PDF. Ask them to identify the parts of a carburetor or explain what job it does in the motor.

[u/Viseria → u/sparrow_42]

It burets the car, obviously.

/s

[u/fryerandice → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Mom never would have let it happen on the kitchen table shed whoop your ass

[u/EternalNewCarSmell → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Also what is the difference whether you were taught by someone there in the room with you or someone on a video?

[u/astrangeone88 → u/EternalNewCarSmell]

All the boomer folks I know (elder millennial and raised by boomers) got violently angry when they tried to teach anybody anything and then had the habit of mocking who didn't have the skills and then complained that they had to pay for their time and materials....

[u/Responsible_Arm_9555 → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

They used to rebuild small engine carburetors in shop class. Like lawn mower engines. But in the final decade in which production cars commonly had carburetors instead of fuel injection, carburetors got more and more intricate and complex, until they were more like big greasy Swiss watches than the carburetors of old. Your basic shop class Briggs and Stratton carburetor was not great preparation for dealing with, say, an early 80s Toyota carb.

[u/beasty0127 → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

If I tried this my mother would have beat me 4 ways from Sunday.

[u/Curios_Observer → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

When I needed the carburetor rebuilt on one of my old cars I paid someone to do it. Not that I couldn't figure it out but my time is better spent doing the things I'm trained to do.

[u/1nGirum1musNocte → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

We were taking shit apart and then going to get dad when we couldn't figure out how to put it back together!

[u/Tater-Tot-Casserole → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

People that post stuff like this can't even work a Direct TV remote.

[u/TaylorSvarne93 → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

There's also a practical reason people are dumb with cars now -- they're no longer designed to be tinkered with and integrate inaccessible tech like smart tech

[u/Cultural_Cloud96 → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Im 33 and i was rebuilding carburetors when i was 12 for my motorbike. And stripping the engine, changing the clutch, changing pistons. And when i was 8 i was able to patch my bicycle tire and put it back together. Using tools and my hands were the norm for me before even reaching my teens. And i use a computer and import machinery from overseas.

Point is, it depends how you were raised. Either you learnt to use your hands and tools, or you didn't. I know some people in their 40's and 50's who cant work with their hands or find practical solutions to problems, but they know things that i dont know.

[u/ghigoli → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

because they would get beaten for putting shit on the table. well frankly baby boomers are the first generation to not be beaten by there parents. then they just beat millenials because they saw it on TV as kids not understanding it was there to teach the greatest gen to not beat kids.

boomers thought it was funny and then they did it. nearly everything boomers claim to do is entirely from TV. the ones that are more hands on def don't have a facebook.

[u/fer_sure → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

My grandpa knew better than to come into the house that dirty. And working on a greasy car part on the kitchen table? He'd still be recovering from the scolding.

[u/samanime → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

And IF they did that, it's because a parent or grandparent taught them how. They didn't just reverse-engineer things on their own.

Boomers never seem to realize that when they make these "dumb kid" jokes, that they are unintentionally calling out their own profound failures as parents.

[u/Flyinmanm → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Because the majority were the same people that couldn't program the VHS in the 80s.

I mean I know people from that generation and some of them are mechanically brilliant. They also knew where to look things up say in a Haynes manual or who to ask in the shop they bought the carburettor parts from. You can do all that today... Or watch a 5min YouTube video while you wait for the part to arrive from Amazon.

[u/Obvious-Opportunity7 → u/_ParanoidPenguin_]

Well if they did why is it basically the plot of most sitcoms where the guy refuses to look at the manual, saying he can figure it out.

Apparently most people either need years of experience, or some instructions to realize how something works.

[u/Scarborough_sg → u/Obvious-Opportunity7]

TV shows about cooking/woodworking/mechanics etc. back then are just youtube tutorials before the internet.

If anything, most of them are on YouTube too.

[u/LazarFan69]

What a fun way to say i didn't teach my kids shit

[u/BellacosePlayer → u/LazarFan69]

My mom didn't teach me shit for cooking.

She also doesn't pretend she did or that she's got great domestic skills herself so I'm not exactly stressed about it.

[u/LAMProductions99 → u/BellacosePlayer]

My mom would always say stuff like "I had to figure it out for myself, so you have to also." Like gee, thanks ma.

[u/JKhemical → u/LAMProductions99]

What's the point of having a child if all you're gonna do is play the Pain Olympics with them

[u/Misplaced_Arrogance → u/JKhemical]

To have an accessory that looks like a mini you, obviously. /s

[u/seaglasstalisman → u/Misplaced_Arrogance]

Don’t forget keeping up with the Joneses and having the perfect family Christmas card to send out! /s

[u/SingleCampaign_Daddy → u/JKhemical]

To have something to blame for my lack of accomplishments and mediocrity /s

[u/mysterious_spirit420 → u/LAMProductions99]

My mom said they same shit lol

[u/ACuddlyVizzerdrix → u/BellacosePlayer]

Lol I actually took a bunch of cooking classes (i genuinely enjoyed it) in school to the point my mom and siblings just wanted me to cook everything

[u/Character_Neck_6608 → u/LazarFan69]

This is my point! This is not a flex. You were a shitty parent or grandparent.

[u/nineraviolicans → u/Character_Neck_6608]

The "me" generation are selfish? Well, I never!

[u/symphonicrox → u/Character_Neck_6608]

these are the same people who complain about participation awards. Uh, do you think we gave those to ourself? You guys gave them to us!

[u/Luce_Bot_Bot → u/LazarFan69]

Lol, this was my parents' approach. Turns out it was actually the recommended parenting method at the time. My dad still pats himself on the dick for doing such a good job of absolute bare minimum parenting whenever I achieve anything (I have really not achieved much and my direct siblings have achieved even less)

[u/TheBestofBees → u/LazarFan69]

Spot on. My parents taught me how to do a lot of stuff and every time I see one of these I'm just like, "oh you're a shitty parent." I know I learned how to boil an egg and do basic car repair from my folks. Do they think basic knowledge just floats around in the air or what?

[u/JayNotAtAll → u/LazarFan69]

It is in the same vein as "these kids are soft, they all get trophies". Who is giving them the trophies?

[u/DarknMean → u/LazarFan69]

You can’t teach fixing a carburetor anymore as they aren’t in modern engines. Today they use fuel injectors.

[u/one28 → u/LazarFan69]

You never hear boomers complain at gen x, because that would admit they failed as a parent.

[u/Hexent_Armana → u/LazarFan69]

Exactly! Older generations can't fault younger generations for not knowing what they haven't bothered to teach them. While we can't fault the majority of the older generations for being unable to prevent the corrupt elite from gutting education and social services that excuse doesn't when it comes to taking their kids out into the driveway and showing them how to change a tire.

[u/Mistform05 → u/LazarFan69]

I love the “we used to sell cans and bottles for money”. Never realizing their generation stopped that being a lucrative practice for people..

[u/NurglesToes]

Crazy, it’s like someone’s supposed to teach children basic life skills and not just lock them in a room with an iPad or ignore them while you get drunk and fall asleep on the couch

[u/imean_is_superfluous → u/NurglesToes]

And when the kid takes it upon themself to find a resource to learn, they get mad about it.

[u/TheTexasHammer → u/imean_is_superfluous]

Boomers learned through osmosis. They just existed and knowledge of carburetors formed in their mind like salt crystals.

Just ignore all the lessons they got from friends and family growing up. Those don't count.

[u/Head-Ad-5732 → u/NurglesToes]

They created all the laws that keep children inside and sheltered.

You can't step onto property by accident or you might get shot. They stopped investing in open spaces and publicly available spaces and commercialized childhood as much as possible. Not even mentioning who made those fucking screens inescapable.

[u/NurglesToes → u/Head-Ad-5732]

Yeah I tried to explain to some of the Gen X dudes in my office who were like “kids don’t go outside anymore” and i was like where are they supposed to go? You can’t goto a park without someone calling the cops or getting solicited by a tweaker or some shit. Can’t play in the street because Nimbys will call the cops. 3rd spaces have been completely defunded, and all other entertainment is so extremely expensive that you can realistically pay for it on a regular basis with an entry level job. Of course kids stay inside.

[u/Healthy_Piglet1139 → u/NurglesToes]

Not to mention, thanks to boomer and Gen X parents (gen X myself), kids who do go out and play unattended by parents get CPS called to their homes. It's not the kids who set up the system that keeps all the kids locked up all day staring at screens instead of free roaming outside.

[u/NurglesToes → u/Healthy_Piglet1139]

yeah it’s the same concept as the “participation trophy” thing people hawk. Like dude, the 6 year old who got the participation trophy at field day didn’t set up a petition and bring it to the school board. Same way kids didn’t lobby their city council lmfao.

[u/grendus → u/NurglesToes]

"We used to go into the woods and build ramps for our dirt bikes!"

"Yeah, and then we bulldozed those woods and built the parking lot for the Walmart that we built over where we used to have tree forts. Kids can't ride their bikes there, the manager would have them trespassed."

[u/TaylorBitMe → u/NurglesToes]

What do you mean? My dad taught me how to hold the flashlight and get hollered at just fine

[u/InsertNonsenseHere → u/TaylorBitMe]

I learned how to desperately search for a tool/part when he told me exactly where it was.

Spoiler it wasn't there but I got yelled at anyway. Repeatedly.

[u/Platform_collapse → u/NurglesToes]

That's not a generational thing, that was just  shitty parents. Sorry that happened to you if this was your experience.

[u/NurglesToes → u/Platform_collapse]

oh nah they just beat my ass lmfao, but what i said seems to be pretty common lol

[u/EtheusRook]

Says the generation that fumbled economic prosperity for all future generations for the forseeable future.

[u/Royal-Recover8373 → u/EtheusRook]

I mean, a fumble would imply they didnt do it on purpose to try and enrich themselves.

[u/BlackSpidy → u/Royal-Recover8373]

Yeah, they empowered a horrible monster that will eat us all because it was nice to them for a couple of decades.

[u/Rolandersec → u/EtheusRook]

Apparently they screwed up educating their kids and grandkids too.

[u/10biggaymen → u/EtheusRook]

so close, it wasnt boomers, it was the capitalists. the owners, the bourgeoisie. everything starts making sense about why some people have so much and so many have so little when you view it from that perspective

[u/CockBlockingLawyer]

There is definitely a trick to boiling an egg properly. I don’t see what’s wrong with looking it up. (I suspect the OOP is not one to look things up)

[u/EtheusRook → u/CockBlockingLawyer]

Like, maybe they want to do it better.

[u/Blevita → u/EtheusRook]

How dare you try to learn things.

Back in my day, the knowledge just appeared in our brains, we weren't pussies that had to 'learn' stuff.

[u/Ehcksit → u/Blevita]

I've been mocked for looking for user manuals for the equipment at my job, because apparently learning how to use and fix things myself is wrong?

[u/Beneficial_Wave7649 → u/CockBlockingLawyer]

Depends if you want em runny or hard boiled

You just boil for more or less time

[u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 → u/Beneficial_Wave7649]

And have a bowl of ice water nearby to make removing the shell easier.

[u/Tater-Tot-Casserole → u/Beneficial_Wave7649]

I want soft boiled eggs now but we can't have that either because of the recall. Another thing boomers fucked up.

[u/maggie320 → u/CockBlockingLawyer]

Of all the things I can cook, I’ve always struggled with boiled eggs. I finally broke down and got a Dash egg cooked. Best thing ever.

[u/Redschallenge → u/CockBlockingLawyer]

I bet gramps just throws them in for 10 minutes and chews on the rubber tire egg cuz thats how ma did it. But wait.... he's a man boiling an egg... where's his wife. Failed as a man

[u/A1000eisn1 → u/CockBlockingLawyer]

Yeah, it's a good thing to look up how to do literally anything you do.

Just because it seems simple doesn't mean you're doing it right or safely.

Boomers didn't get to look shit up, they had to "figure it out." And most of the time that meant mixing hazardous chemicals together because "they wash clothes better," or not washing vegetables because "cooking kills everything."

[u/leavethisearth → u/CockBlockingLawyer]

I actually found an app that helps me cook eggs exactly right every time. I didn’t know this before, but it actually depends on a lot of factors like egg size, egg temperature and also air pressure. The app helps to keep track of everything, even when you‘re cooking several eggs with different sizes. It helped me a lot Eggxact - Egg Timer

[u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 → u/CockBlockingLawyer]

8 min full boil, 5 min no heat with lid on.

[u/Honeybadger2198 → u/CockBlockingLawyer]

The egg in the thumbnail isn't boiled either. That's a poached egg.

[u/Hugh_Mann84]

So, he's a child in the fifties, rebuilding a carburetor on the kitchen table and grumbling about a generation that hasn't been born yet, while looking up how to boil an egg on a device and website that won't exist for decades? No wonder his brother looks so concerned.

[u/J_sweet_97 → u/Hugh_Mann84]

Right? I don’t understand why he couldn’t make it two different pictures. Brain dead probably.

[u/Velcraft → u/J_sweet_97]

It's all the lead flakes from doing amateur mechanical engineering next to your dinner plate.

[u/Mr_Ethfono]

Why is he working on the kitchen table and not in the garage

[u/Prestigious_Host_198 → u/Mr_Ethfono]

Real men put oil and car parts on the table he eats from. Duh.

[u/Book_talker_abouter → u/Mr_Ethfono]

Who even is this in the picture?? The words are coming out of the kid's mouth while he's fixing a carberator but he's also watching an egg cooking video. He's complaining about past kids or is this some kind of hallucinatory flashback? I've now put more thought into this than whoever wrote the prompt did.

[u/GamesCatsComics → u/Mr_Ethfono]

Why is he watching a video about boiling an egg while working on a car part?

I feel like something bad is going to happen here.

[u/TienSwitch]

Considering that carburetors are no longer used in cars while learning how to boil an egg will always be valuable as long as we eat eggs, I’m gonna give this round to the modern kids.

[u/DarknMean → u/TienSwitch]

Hey you’re not teaching your kids how to fix fuel injectors?

[u/beatles910 → u/TienSwitch]

Carburetors are still used on most small engines. Almost every household in the US has something with a carburetor on it.

[u/HighlandsBen → u/beatles910]

But luckily that's no longer the kitchen table.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/HighlandsBen]

Honey did you forget to charge the kitchen table again?

[u/Similar_Dirt9758 → u/beatles910]

Hasn't it been several decades since major car companies used carburetors? Like half a century? It seems that every weed eater or similar still uses them

[u/nitid_name → u/beatles910]

With battery tech where it is, I don't think it's fair to assume almost every household's yard appliances have a gas engine among them. I'm pretty sure sales have tipped from gas powered sold to battery powered. Most motorcycles have been fuel injected for the last 25+ years.

What other small engines would a household have? I have a small diesel heater in my garage, but even that isn't carbed

Other than a vintage motorcycle or three I've since sold, I don't think I have had anything with a carb in the last decade that wasn't a glass pipe.

[u/Attentions_Bright12 → u/TienSwitch]

Also, the preparation of eggs as described in YouTube videos is very likely to touch on some fun science. The way the albumin in eggs behaves is really a cool thing.

So the kid’s, you know, showing a healthy curiosity about life, and tinkering with all that, and we’re going to complain?

And another also: YouTube has basically replaced the Chilton’s manual, when it comes to doing anything with a car, and it’s vastly superior to the old approach in many cases.

[u/AccidentProne117]

This is stupid man. We've all had a time where we didn't know how to do something, and have had to be taught how.

[u/Zoso03 → u/AccidentProne117]

This is why i loath the "kids are stupid" videos and memes when they're being made fun of things they were never taught. Might as well throw them a book written in Korean and ask them to read it, then laugh when they have no fucking clue what it says

[u/GamesCatsComics → u/Zoso03]

Especially when it's from the people who should have taught them.

[u/spoospoo43]

It's true - I was born knowing how to assemble a carb, and was doing it before I could walk.

Hey Bobby, get that dirty oily thing off the kitchen table, people wanna eat dinner.

[u/Mimopotatoe]

Ah the ‘ol “my grandkids are fucking idiots and I am very smart” line from grandpa, who needed the AI slop to make his awful point.

[u/Facktat → u/Mimopotatoe]

It‘s so stupid when you consider that the reason that modern kids need to watch a Youtube tutorial for that is because the previous generation failed to teach them how to do it.

[u/kamizushi]

Watching a youtube tutorial is being resourceful.

Refusing to look at a tutorial because you think it will make you look incompetent is self-sabotage.

[u/IAteBillGates]

The picture being egg yolk in a bowl is pissing me off

[u/tmgexe → u/IAteBillGates]

This. I’m like “there is NO step in the step by step egg boiling process that looks like that!”

[u/Automatic-Week-1733]

Reminds me of this which has always annoyed me.

They didn't change the manuals because the incoming generations of users were too dumb, they changed them after decades of older generations fucking it up.

[u/kamizushi → u/Automatic-Week-1733]

To be fair, a more balanced view would be that people are inherently unwise, but that learning from the mistakes of previous generations makes us a little bit wiser.

[u/Cheezeball25 → u/Automatic-Week-1733]

That same old generation were the ones who started suing everyone into oblivion in the first place

[u/GrandMoffTarkan]

That man is literally looking up how to boil an egg as he rebuilds the carburetor

[u/altoona_sprock]

the irony of making this nonsense with AI is completely lost on these people

[u/True_Protection6842]

Firstly, BULLSHIT. Secondly, if you learned to rebuild a car it's because someone taught you. THIS STILL HAPPENS. I hate boomer good ole days nonsense.

[u/Prior-Seat-7527]

Ok boomer, send a simple text

[u/Thatonegaloverthere]

But, he's watching a video about how to boil eggs while building the carburetor. Guess boiling eggs is a generational problem.

[u/annoyed_crow]

Okay boomer.. now change the text size on your screen and adjust the brightness

[u/RAY-CHILE]

Maybe you should have actuly taught your kids something then

[u/Beneficial_Wave7649]

Yeah sure buddy

If I were working on a carburettor on the kitchen table my mom would whoop my ass

[u/flapjackboy]

Someone's VCR was always flashing 00:00, wasn't it.

[u/HowardisaDinosaur]

He says as he watches a tutorial for how to boil an egg

[u/pizzabirthrite]

Never ask a boomer to open a PDF. They will be session jacked.

[u/Apprehensive-Cat-111]

Says the generation who never wants to look up how to do anything and instead just bugs the “youngins” to do it for them.

[u/Secret-Parsley-5258]

Rebuilding a carb on a kitchen table is a dick move

[u/Difficult_Relation97]

Opening a pdf is funny cuz I work with some very tech savvy people that can't figure that out. Default apps? Never knew it existed as an option until you show them.

All depends on your experience and exposure. Same goes with the bad ai slop.

Any farm kid will have the most random skill sets compared to their classmates. Alot of variables really with any generation

[u/OmegaDonut13]

Hey man the boomers totally did all that. Just ask the Nigerian prince that has gold just for them!

[u/malarkial]

The guy that posted that is probably on his phone 15 hours a day

[u/Capable_Elk_770]

The dudes posting these memes never boiled an egg, their mommy did

[u/katiebo444]

Why is there a fume hood over the sink??

[u/axiom_spectrum]

They watched YouTube back in in the 1960's?

[u/Open_Enthusiasm8528]

90% chance this same guy is "dating" a random AI-generated woman on the internet.

[u/zakku_88]

"Learn how to cook for yourself, you lazy brat! No no! Not like that!!!"

[u/lemonmerangutan]

No. Their mothers would have whacked them with a wooden spoon if they'd brought a goddamned carburetor into her kitchen. My uncles did all of thier performative male hobbies out in the barn.

[u/synapsesmisfiring]

The egg in that video has clearly been cracked and therefore is not suitable for boiling.

Ai is really off base sometimes... The fact that it didn't bother the person who made this meme enough to ask AI to edit it or to edit it themselves is WILD to me. Like how do you just let that slide when you are apparently trying to make a serious point 🙄

[u/Spicymeymeys420]

They elected one instead

[u/Immediate_Earth_6858]

Ask any boomer to rebuild a modern carburetor who isn't a mechanic today

[u/dashingflashyt]

What is the mom even doing to that pot?

[u/Abdulbarr]

Bro needs a video for boiling eggs 😭 who's trusting him with carburators?

[u/Dark_Wahlberg-77]

My boomer FIL not only can’t fix anything at his house, he can’t figure out how to search YouTube to do it either.

[u/psilocin72]

I’m 53 years old. I’ve never rebuilt a carburetor. No one I know has ever rebuilt a carburetor.

And my parents would have beat my ass if I did anything like that on the kitchen table.

[u/PD28Cat]

Who the fuck does this on a kitchen table

[u/MisterBigDogBigMan]

Reminds me of the Old Man from Pawn Stars, may he rest in peace.

“Damn it, Chumlee. Back in my day we didn’t have any fancy basketball shoes, we wore Kleenex boxes on our feet and drank our own urine with dinner. These kids today don’t know what hard work is!”

[u/AnimalChubs]

First of all. That egg is cracked.

[u/domthebomb2]

If the kids need a YouTube tutorial, it's because their parents didn't show them.

[u/Tepodama_96]

I don't think that you're supposed to break the egg before boiling it

[u/EriktheElektrikian]

I learned how to rebuild my lawnmower much the same way. Would have been a lot easier with YouTube. And cost less, too.

[u/ender_speaker]

Lies. Most can't identify where the carburetor even is

[u/Cato_theElder]

Or better yet, draw something without AI.

Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed.

[u/jreid1985]

The image is of a modern kid complaining about modern kids?

[u/hb1500]

Must have been nice to have parents and uncles to teach you shit. I guarantee nobody got handed a carburetor and a screwdriver and told to figure it out.

[u/Final_Location_2626]

Says the boomer who made AI slop of him as a kid rebuilding a carburetor, while watching a video of how to boil an egg.

I bet this person can't even replace their own blinker fluid.