Meanwhile the boomers built a Lemon Trust Score that says you need to start squeezing lemons from day one to be trusted to make lemonade, so the lemon bank will give you a lemon loaf that takes 30 years to pay back with twice as much juice as any lemon can make. All while the news tells us that outsiders who never had a lemon in their life want to take our juice, but really it’s juice lord propaganda against any new juicers.
We are drowning in lemons and can’t make lemonade without giving it all away, leaving us with all the labor and none of the juice.
Shut up and make juice for me or else I’ll stop renting my 14th lemon loaf to you!
- Lemonlord
Here we go again, focus on the class of people who did this, not an entire generation. That would be like saying all millennials are school shooters. All generations got out of college and thought they were doing good while the millionaire/billionaire class widdled away at everyone’s rights so they could make more money and pay less taxes.
“Egads! A short, simple joke that isn’t 100% fair to every party mentioned! Instead of enjoying the obviously oversimplified gag, I better write an exasperating comment!”
It’s not the joke I’m responding to, I actually liked it. Don’t you think the anti-(insert generation) is a distraction?
It can be, but in this case, no. It isn’t serious or mean-spirited.
Again, the joke I’m cool with, the person I was responding to seemed mean spirited to me. Maybe I read it wrong or I’m grumpy about the anti-generation stuff being so prevalent. IMO, generational hate is a made up shitpost by the upper classes.
Know who else generalizes huge groups of people and defends themselves with “it was just a joke”? Racists. Homophobes. Transphobes. That the company you wanna keep?
That’s a pathetically bad comparison. This distinction is key:
It isn’t serious or mean-spirited.
Bigots often makes “jokes” that are serious but hide under a thin veneer of humor, and those “jokes” are often discriminatory.
Some people might have trouble telling the difference. I don’t.
I don’t think your joke was that bad, what I took issue with was your justification for it. I’m sick of hearing “it’s just a joke, get over it”. It’s rarely used by good people.
Wow, I had no idea that making fun of boomers is the same as transphobia. Thank you for blessing me with your wisdom
It’s not the same. But using a line out of the transphobes’ playbook is a really fucking bad look.
I mean, legally it is in the US at least. Our age discrimination protections are only for 40+ people. I’m 40+, but I still feel like that’s an absolutely unacceptable limitation on protections. I can legally refuse to hire somebody under 30 “because they’re stupid millenial kids” but not a gen-X “because they’re entitled”
I used to feel the way you do. Now I’m a 40-something feel a lot less that way. You know why?
The same reason I blame “good cops” that watch bad cops murder a black man while politely saying “please stop, aren’t you afraid of your dash cam catching it? Just let him go man”… but don’t actually intervene.
The generation we’re mad at aren’t the ones who did this. They’re the ones who said “the billionaires are right. None of us are working hard enough for them. I’m going to teach my children to work harder for less”. The boomers/silent (even early-X) are the enablers, and enablers are guilty, too.
I’ll put it this way. I know a guy who thinks his daughter is lazy because she won’t pick up minimum wage work part-time at a factory to supplement her 6-figure salary. “It’s not about the money, it’s about work ethic”. I know another, a small business owner that’s mad he can’t keep a head chef at his mom&pop restaurant for $18/hr “because this generation is all too lazy”. The living wage here is in the $22/hr range. I know a third small business owner (this one technically a millenial) who gives his workers paycuts each year then calls them lazy princesses when they refuse shifts that require them to drive 2 hours at minimum wage.
NONE of them are the real villain. But ALL of them are still responsible.
So what are you doing about them taking away our rights then right now? You are an enabler right now if we go by what you’re saying.
Elder millennial here.
“When life promises you lemons as a child and drills into your head the importance of preparing to make lemonade because the lemons are coming and you’ve got to be ready and get the sugar and the water and the ice ready because you’re totally gunna get those lemons and have a lemonade-based future of stability and fulfillment and happiness, prepare to be blamed when the lemons don’t arrive.”
Makes me cry. The good luck I’ve had in my life should mean I could retire early. The bad luck I’ve had in my life means I still have no retirement fund. But at least I haven’t gone through foreclosures like a lot of people my generation have.
Don’t forget punishing you for spending all your time and money on sugar, ice, water, pitchers, and practice learning to make lemonade.
You should have studied orange juice instead. Why didn’t you predict the future!?
Ufff. This hurts
See I’m a younger GenXer and I’d have to agree with this 100%. Except the only addition for me would be there wasn’t even anyone around to tell me about the lemons, just a note left on the table vaguely mentioning them.
We should have rioted in 2008.
“Why are millennials killing the lemon industry? We asked 10 boomers for their opinion, and the top answer will SHOCK you”
There used to be a chrome extension that changed “millennial” to “snake people” and it made those articles way more fun
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This is the only version of this idiom that I will ever use or subscribe to.
I like the Bruce Greenwood version from Fall of the House of Usher.
Is this a Cave Johnson quote or am I misremembering
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Regardless, good quote and good execution :)
factually correct, as long as you have enough lemon peel you can steam distill limonene from it. it’s so cheap in citrus producing countries it’s used as a paint stripper. and yes it’s pretty flammable
Factually correct - in many countries steam distillation is illegal because you can also steam distill tasty things that make you feel good.
what are you talking about, because moonshine manufacture is not steam distillation and you can’t exactly distill off anything psychoactive this way. this is only really useful for fragrances and please don’t use this bs in modern lab this is 100+ years old technique, it’s an unbelievable mess, vaccum pumps and column chromatography exist please and thank you
moonshine manufacture is not steam distillation
It’s almost the same thing, but if you use a thump keg it is the same thing. It was intended as a joke more than anything.
Their parents and grand parents were literally getting into gunfights over worker’s rights.
I’m gonna have to say it? Lemons are crossbred between a citron and a sour orange. Life never gave us lemons. We made that shit ourselves.
TIL. And oranges, limes, and grapefruits as well? Interesting.
Hmm. Well that’s neat. 📸
Love me some nuclear oranges.
Also bananas.
That one I knew about thanks to Ray Comfort.
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What I learned recently:
Lemons are a hybrid of citrons and bitter oranges. Which means life never gave us lemons. We gave ourselves lemons and then proceeded to bitch about it.
Hey I’m not gonna bitch about it. In fact, I’mma bitch if you don’t give me lemons with my fish & chips for free.
Fish and chips without at least one decent lemon wedge should be illegal
You can have my lemon. Ketchup for me thanks.
Something something Cave Johnson.
Something something house something something combustible lemon
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I’m going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Greatest generation: has a lemon party
Hey that sounds fun! I wonder what kind of stuff you would bring. If only I had some ideas for a Lemon Party 🤔
Lots of helpful info on that here, lemonparty.org
Brain: you should click that link, we haven’t been traumatized in a while, it could be fun!
Clicks link
“Why the fuck do I do these things to myself”
when you thought everything would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it’s actually difficult difficult lemon difficult
“Stressed depressed lemon zest”
As a GenXer, i have no idea what “make lemon noises” even means
As a GenZ member, I have no idea.
I thought that was the point. I’ve just assumed that gen Z realized there’s nothing fun left so you gotta make your own fun whether or not it makes sense.
Insert “E” meme here.
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I like that philosophy.
that’s actually pretty fucking brilliant lmao
can’t be called crazy if everything is already crazy too
I think the joke is that GenZ will do something random and unexpected.
I figured Gen Z is the lemon in this case.
Yes, bunch of sourpusses.
They’re the noises you make while having sex in your lemon suit with an orange you barely know.
As a GenXer, whatever.
Gen x and millennials are flipped here I’m pretty sure. Genx would say “meh” when given a lemon. Millennials would open a startup called “L3monz”
It’s called “Lemn”, and it’s a crypto based AI fintech
Then you are appropriately interpreting Gen Z.
Probably means we’ll just make memes about it or something like that
it means lemon noises
Bold of you to assume that life hands lemons out anymore. You have to rent them now.
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Lemons as a service?
LAAS
When god gives you lemons, you FIND A NEW GOD!!
Made with Lightning; REAL LIGHTNING!
Why yes, i would like to spend the next two hours binging Power Thirst videos.
Alright, i’ve been thinking. When life gives you lemons, DON’T make lemonade!
Make life take the lemons BACK!
Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I suppose to do with these?
Demand to see life’s manager.
Make Life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who i am???
This is the internet. Don’t mention lemons. It makes everybody think of on thing.
Edit: this is a very difficult gif to search for without ending up with some eye burners.
Oh, you lemon-stealing WHORE!!!
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Is this a lemmy joke? Are lemmy users lemons?
I meant lemon stealing whores. But it also applies to lemon party. You can Google what these mean.
Unless yer a lemon stealing whooorrr
Hey! Gen Xers! You weren’t forgotten!
It’s too late now. Y’all had your chance. We’re taking our lemons and going home!
Lost Generation was though…
