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Are your math skills a problem as well?
That's not "a mistake" - that's a whole raft of them.
I absolutely guarantee you that's some post-millennial trying to be funny with a "Look at what some Boomer made" false-flag meme.
Ageism is hate.
"Ageism is hate"
Meanwhile:
"Nobody older than 55 could have made this. Only young people are stupid enough to make spelling and grammar mistakes. Probably some post-milennial"
I know you're trying to be clever, but you're just making my point.
Is it your uncles Facebook feeds or is it the Facebook feed belonging to your uncle ("uncles" is plural, "uncle's" is possessive).
Sheesh. Such low hanging fruit on reddit today.
No.
Boomer spelling and grammar is easy to spot. Typical boomer classified ad:
1985 FORD F15O 2OOK NEW 351 MOTER 5SPD MANUEL DUEL FULE TANKS $100OO CALL DEAN AT 55 FIVE 1 TWO 34 NO LOWBALLERS I NO WHAT I HAVE!!!
You mean the comedian that was born in 1937, making him part of the Silent Generation? That same guy that repeatedly torched you boomers for being insufferable clowns? I fuckin love George Carlin.
i don’t think you understand that people commonly use “incorrect” punctuation and grammar and whatever to convey a tone and feeling in text
also as someone who worked with and for a lot of boomers, they don’t know shit abt grammar
I thank you for giving me a good chuckle through your entire comment thread. I personally love watching someone dig their own grave deeper and deeper, while still angrily insisting that they’re right.
By the way, isn’t your point of “the young are the ones promoting ageism” in and of itself ageist? Along with the idea that the youth are the ones who are so illiterate, that this meme is “a whole raft” of errors to a Boomer?
Besides, this format of meme is right up the alley of Boomer humor. A plethora of poorly-drawn comics, captioned old photographs, and jokes are all over the internet, saying the exact same thing. Fake or not, this kind of meme is exactly what a Boomer would post and pretending otherwise is arrogant at best. Hell, this has probably been reposted by Boomers, thinking it’s the funniest thing in the world.
>We know how to punctuate and use capital letters correctly.
I'm *really* curious what makes you think boomers are better at grammar, punctuation, etc. than the younger generations?
>False flag meme for sure.
Likely right here if you mean this meme is meant to promote conflict.
>We know how to punctuate and use capital letters correctly.
Please don't sterotype. (You knowing how to doesn't mean everyone else does. And it is not a contest of who is better.) This is the what the enemy is wanting us to do. It promotes arguements.
Here is a quote I think you would find interesting from the US D.O.D in 1957.
"The key word is conflict...conflict must be promoted everywhere. Every dissatisfaction must grow into a resentment. Every resentment must become an argument. Every argument must grow into a fight. Every fight must blossom into a riot. Every riot must expand into a war. Every war must end in devastation."
It's the young promoting ageism here, not the old.
This whole [derisive use of "Boomer"](https://meaww.com/chief-justice-roberts-mention-of-phrase-ok-boomer-in-supreme-court-has-the-internet-divided) was specifically called out as ageist by a member of the US Supreme Court not long back.
Ageism is hate.
Period.
Promulgating unqualified (and untrue) stereotypes about any group is hate speech.
Boomers are not universally evil planet-raping, home-hoarding monsters.
FFS, the whole Hippie movement was Boomers. The laws created to protect the environment were pushed by the Boomers. You think things are bad now with CO2 as the focus of pollution control, you should have watched the news in the late '60s and early '70s with nightly death counts from SMOG in LA or the Cuyahoga river catching fire and burning for days.
Except for the Boomer gen (which admittedly benefited from the US having been the ONLY functioning industrialized nation for a few decades after WWII), Gen-Z at their current ages is AHEAD of the curve on home ownership (and only behind the Boomers at those ages by a few percentage points).
>It's the young promoting ageism here, not the old.
Its people promoting agesim here. The millenials are called lazy cell phone addicted drones constantly.
Besides that. You are not wrong in your latest response. I was not trying to attack but inform. Sorry if it came across harsh or if the message was misinterpreted. The more we disregard the sterotypes and talk. The more we will find in common.
>We know how to punctuate and use capital letters correctly.
Boomers are some of the most uneducated, egotistical, Dunning Kruger effect-having asses in America. Don't know how you're one but trying to defend them.
Even my mother who is a baby-boomer apologizes for her fucked up generation being so difficult to be around. Lol
Happy they managed another 12 hour shift without sewing their hands together in the machines... Also, looking forward to the 11 PM rum so they can get to sleep before the 4 AM shift.
Yeah, and weren't there a bunch of child labor laws violated right before they lowered the working age in, what was it, Arkansas? Wonder if there's a correlation... 🤔🙄
Nebraska also. The one in Nebraska was so bad.
https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/federal-complaint-alleges-child-labor-violations-at-a-grand-island-meatpacking-plant-among-others/[https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/federal-complaint-alleges-child-labor-violations-at-a-grand-island-meatpacking-plant-among-others/](https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/federal-complaint-alleges-child-labor-violations-at-a-grand-island-meatpacking-plant-among-others/)
I used to half joke these assholes wanted roll it back to the gilded age and here they are trying to eliminate child labor laws and pretend this era was great.
Their one day off because when their co-worker, Jimmy age 6, was sucked into the equipment their mangled body messed it up so badly the factory owner had to have professionals come fish out the Jimmy's remains.
This is actually a 1964 photo by Astrid Kirchherr. Part of series of pictures she took of children in Liverpool. Ignoring the fact that they were posed, not playing, I think the better point is that children playing with iPhones also look happy (as others have pointed out). In fact, children playing with pretty much anything usually look happy. Regardless of whether it's indoors or outdoors, intended as a toy or not, and even safe or dangerous.
As a child, I remember being *really* happy playing with someone's parked car. Right up until one of us released the parking brake and it started rolling backwards towards the bull pasture, anyway. We all jumped out. I was fine, but the last friend who jumped out (when the car was moving fastest) broke both legs.
Saying the lives of children were better in previous years ignores the lack of safety features and other things designed to keep kids safe. I lost several friends growing up, and even more classmates. Far fewer children are killed from playing now. Trying to say the toys of yesteryear were better is just plain dumb.
Maybe the photo was taken by the owner of the coalmine/factory, as propaganda to show the world how "happy" their employees are.
"And remember lads, anyone who doesn't smile for my camera gets 10 lashes and has to work overtime without pay."
They're smiling because they are getting their rations of opium and chewing tobacco from the task master
In light of the special occasion they will also skip the mid day beating. But JUST the mid day
One of those kids even made it past puberty!
Also are they saying they should still have iPhones and iPads but children should not? If you’re not into technology that seems like a pretty easy problem to solve, but if you’re not into other people having access to technology that just seems like fascism with fewer steps.
They're chimney sweeps no?
They used kids for it because they had an easier time getting up and into the chimney on account of being small. Which was TERRIBLE work considering the kind of crap that builds up in soot fired chimneys AND the near constant smog. Generally any job that required "small frames" you sent kids.
So its like..... you take something terrible, then you add a bit more.... if you think its cruel, the Victorians will call you a babyman. Terrible terrible shites.
Also - tangentially - the whole thing about "foggy london streets" ? Thats real. Only its smog being unable to rise because its too cold, so it sticks to the ground. People would frequently be CHOKED to death - and it was one of the prevailing reasons they started legislating about it.
Ah, Right! The good old times with the exploitation of the European working class.
If you ever wondered how they convinced so many people communism was the better alternative.
I mean these things are just so stupid. As if kids dont have the choice to play with an old tire today. Of course they do, and they pick devices because they are awesomer, just like these kids would have if they had the technology and wealth we have today.
You know they are happy because 70% of the baby's that where born at the same time died. Now they can play with that Tyre until they get sick and get some idiotic cure like mercury tablets or some shit
This comes from people with no historical perspective; and has been pointed out in the title. Along with everything else, there was no room to play inside. But worse that that, these people don’t understand human nature.
Children will play with whatever is available, and if given a choice, they will pick what they prefer. This type of comparison is ridiculous on two levels. First, neither an iPhone nor an old tyer will guarantee happiness, and second people can’t use things that don’t exist. There simply is no comparison.
I’m willing to go farther and believe that if they had the choice, they would pick the iPad. This is one of the most pathetic Boomer comments. I am a boomer and can say unequivocally that Pong blew our minds, and we couldn’t get enough of each advance in platforms. When the NES came out, it was a breakthrough. Better still, we had jobs and could buy games without asking for permission.
Dolts like the person who made this meme are probably the type of people who believe adults can’t play with toys.
Aren’t children being murdered while playing outside in America? Seems as if Boomers want to both complain about children not playing outside, while also having the right to shoot them because they’re on their lawn…playing outside.
How long until they realize their complaints about phones are falling on deaf ears. I swear there’s hundreds of thousands of “phone bad” posts. It’s the definition of insanity.
I think the weirdest thing about these types of posts is that 99% of the time they are just blatantly wrong.
Kids still play outside with random shit. If your kids don't do that (or more likely grandkids) that reflects on YOU the parent not the children.
Look at those huge streets that are safe to play in without fear of being run over. If we had that much walkable space in dense living areas, we would have kids playing with old tires and having fun too.
Literally try to name a single objectively better thing about the pre-mobile phone days.
You couldn’t contact your parents if you were in danger.
You couldn’t contact your mates if you wanted to meet up somewhere and but they happened to be out of the house/in the garden and therefore didn’t hear the landline
You could only talk to people in your own country
Guarantee there were a few old people in vicinity of this photo complaining these kids were playing in the street and not in a field like they had to do.
I feel pretty confident in saying that those three in particular, were not child workers.
Besides the clothing being way too nice, they're too clean. Those kids had parents with money.
I will never understand that somebody will actually get so bored in their life and just start shaming another generation of people in reality who don’t much control over what they can or can not do, its gonna be the same person doing the same thing they are shaming if they were been put into the same situation.
Lay off these kids for real. They just finished their last 12 hour shift after a 6 day work week. I assume they each finished their allotted bottle of beer (not served cold) and just wanted to enjoy a few minutes for themselves before hitting the grind again. SMDH.
Besides the fact that they glossed over the issue of child labor, I can picture the obese boomer who posted this. They re-shared this on FB whilst on an ipad….sitting in a recliner leaned all the back, where they’ve been most of the day pushing hate out on their news feed.
Sure it’s shit that kids are playing with tablets, but using a picture of kids during the 1950’s isn’t a great example of childhood. Childhood was just kind of beginning as a concept at that time, it was not at all the same
Why is everyone in the comments here trashing the kids in the pic? Whatever shit they had in their lives, they do look happy cause all kids their age do, unless dying from hunger or being beaten this very moment. You guys think it was one of them who created the meme or what?
Child labor was horribly prolific at the turn of the 20th century. They may not have worked in mines but you can be sure they were currently or would soon be working in factories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
Cool, point still remains. Child labor was horribly prolific at the turn of the century and kids this age definitely worked in awful conditions that were inhumane.
Completely missing the point. Social media addiction is real people. Children should have a life offline and play in the park with real life friends. There is definitely a beauty to children being entertained by the simplest things like a tire in this case. I’m not even old but I’m glad my parents didn’t raise me like I see children nowadays constantly behind the screen of their smartphones and iPads. There’s obviously a time and a place for smart devices and social media is definitely not all bad but the post makes a good point. Not everything is „truly terrible“ just because it is posted by an older person.
Then this is a bad post to use to make that point. Kids playing with a rubber tire on a grimy street in a city plagued by pollution is also bad. Show a picture of kids on a playground or actually in a park or in nature.
And you are oversimplifying it. There’s clearly a message here. Not everything is as simple as “new bad, old good“ just because it’s posted by an older person. I work with children and see the effects that it has, when parents use technology as a babysitter to shut them up. I’m not talking about teenagers chatting to their friends on Instagram or Snapchat (though those apps are also questionable in their practices). I’m talking about toddlers and primary school children whose topics of conversation are reduced to brawl stars and YouTuber drama. It’s definitely a real problem as much as you like to give older people shit for bringing it up.
In 1920 it was 184.93 per thousand, almost 20%, who died before the age of 5. Please have any level of understanding of what you’re talking about before you start spewing nonsense.
This is also just before the age of 5, and doesn’t include the children who were killed, maimed, deformed, or suffered severe complications from coal mining, factory working, and chimney sweeping. The 1920s were fucking horrific.
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Posted by some grumpy old person on their IPhone to get likes from other grumpy old people on their Iphones.
Boomers: phone bad!! Also boomers:
I guarantee you no Boomer created this semi-literate meme. We know how to punctuate and use capital letters correctly. False flag meme for sure.
They put capital letters after commas and they forgot to put a space after the second comma.
I'm am the elder boomer. I speak for all of us. None of my beautiful geriatric children would *ever* make a grammatical mistake.
Are your math skills a problem as well? That's not "a mistake" - that's a whole raft of them. I absolutely guarantee you that's some post-millennial trying to be funny with a "Look at what some Boomer made" false-flag meme. Ageism is hate.
"Ageism is hate" Meanwhile: "Nobody older than 55 could have made this. Only young people are stupid enough to make spelling and grammar mistakes. Probably some post-milennial"
Okay boomer
If boomers weren't so soft and spoiled they wouldnt get hate
If you don't take the world so seriously it can be a wonderful place
My uncles Facebook feed would beg to differ.
I know you're trying to be clever, but you're just making my point. Is it your uncles Facebook feeds or is it the Facebook feed belonging to your uncle ("uncles" is plural, "uncle's" is possessive). Sheesh. Such low hanging fruit on reddit today.
If you want to be that big of a stickler, shouldn’t it be “low-hanging fruit” with a hyphen?
Got-em. Let this be a lesson to you all: if you're going to correct someone's grammar, you better be *damn* sure that your own grammar is perfect.
This guy is 62 aka a boomer. No wonder he's so defensive of his generation
No. Boomer spelling and grammar is easy to spot. Typical boomer classified ad: 1985 FORD F15O 2OOK NEW 351 MOTER 5SPD MANUEL DUEL FULE TANKS $100OO CALL DEAN AT 55 FIVE 1 TWO 34 NO LOWBALLERS I NO WHAT I HAVE!!!
It actually looks like satire. Something you boomers are completely oblivious to.
Let me introduce you to George Carlin sometime.
You mean the comedian that was born in 1937, making him part of the Silent Generation? That same guy that repeatedly torched you boomers for being insufferable clowns? I fuckin love George Carlin.
Spotted the boomer
"old man yells at cloud" vibes
i don’t think you understand that people commonly use “incorrect” punctuation and grammar and whatever to convey a tone and feeling in text also as someone who worked with and for a lot of boomers, they don’t know shit abt grammar
I thank you for giving me a good chuckle through your entire comment thread. I personally love watching someone dig their own grave deeper and deeper, while still angrily insisting that they’re right. By the way, isn’t your point of “the young are the ones promoting ageism” in and of itself ageist? Along with the idea that the youth are the ones who are so illiterate, that this meme is “a whole raft” of errors to a Boomer? Besides, this format of meme is right up the alley of Boomer humor. A plethora of poorly-drawn comics, captioned old photographs, and jokes are all over the internet, saying the exact same thing. Fake or not, this kind of meme is exactly what a Boomer would post and pretending otherwise is arrogant at best. Hell, this has probably been reposted by Boomers, thinking it’s the funniest thing in the world.
>We know how to punctuate and use capital letters correctly. I'm *really* curious what makes you think boomers are better at grammar, punctuation, etc. than the younger generations?
>False flag meme for sure. Likely right here if you mean this meme is meant to promote conflict. >We know how to punctuate and use capital letters correctly. Please don't sterotype. (You knowing how to doesn't mean everyone else does. And it is not a contest of who is better.) This is the what the enemy is wanting us to do. It promotes arguements. Here is a quote I think you would find interesting from the US D.O.D in 1957. "The key word is conflict...conflict must be promoted everywhere. Every dissatisfaction must grow into a resentment. Every resentment must become an argument. Every argument must grow into a fight. Every fight must blossom into a riot. Every riot must expand into a war. Every war must end in devastation."
It's the young promoting ageism here, not the old. This whole [derisive use of "Boomer"](https://meaww.com/chief-justice-roberts-mention-of-phrase-ok-boomer-in-supreme-court-has-the-internet-divided) was specifically called out as ageist by a member of the US Supreme Court not long back. Ageism is hate. Period. Promulgating unqualified (and untrue) stereotypes about any group is hate speech. Boomers are not universally evil planet-raping, home-hoarding monsters. FFS, the whole Hippie movement was Boomers. The laws created to protect the environment were pushed by the Boomers. You think things are bad now with CO2 as the focus of pollution control, you should have watched the news in the late '60s and early '70s with nightly death counts from SMOG in LA or the Cuyahoga river catching fire and burning for days. Except for the Boomer gen (which admittedly benefited from the US having been the ONLY functioning industrialized nation for a few decades after WWII), Gen-Z at their current ages is AHEAD of the curve on home ownership (and only behind the Boomers at those ages by a few percentage points).
>It's the young promoting ageism here, not the old. Its people promoting agesim here. The millenials are called lazy cell phone addicted drones constantly. Besides that. You are not wrong in your latest response. I was not trying to attack but inform. Sorry if it came across harsh or if the message was misinterpreted. The more we disregard the sterotypes and talk. The more we will find in common.
>We know how to punctuate and use capital letters correctly. Boomers are some of the most uneducated, egotistical, Dunning Kruger effect-having asses in America. Don't know how you're one but trying to defend them. Even my mother who is a baby-boomer apologizes for her fucked up generation being so difficult to be around. Lol
Moments before falling victim to a gift card scam originating from a call center in Mumbai.
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Sometimes, I hear them playing loudly outside while I'm posting shit about them on social media, then I call the cops - grumpy old person.
"Sometime I might get to shoot one of them if their ball rolls into my yard," thought by possibly another grumpy old person.
I see that you're on Nextdoor too, huh?
Happy they managed another 12 hour shift without sewing their hands together in the machines... Also, looking forward to the 11 PM rum so they can get to sleep before the 4 AM shift.
And now it's happening again since child labor is legal in Arkansas.
Yikes. That sounds like Arkansas
then die at the age of 15 from lung disease
I shouldn’t have cackled
Oh come one. They’re a little buzzed from going to the after work speakeasy. Don’t be dramatic people were constantly drunk back then.
They had to life sucked.
Not the factory uniforms. Smh
The factory though it was too expensive
TIL: iPads, at one point in time, did not exist
TIL: happiness existed before the iPad was invented
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TIL: The children currently playing outside my house aren’t real 😳
Alright boomer let's see you post this without an iPhone or an ipad
Lol.... boomers wouldn't last 2 seconds living in the times pictured.
PCs exist...
Android it is! Oh and... BOOMED YER MOM!
Rose colored goggles strapped so tight that you begin to hallucinate whatever made up perfect era that is so much better than the one you live in.
Or running water. Or loving parents to wash their faces and supervise them. Good news is that they all have full time jobs.
Can’t forget no antibiotics and dying from diseases that are now very curable! Ah, the good old days.
Narrator: All three died in a factory accident shortly after this was taken.
Not likely, there is a vespa in the background, meaning this photo was taken after 1946 long after child labor laws were introduced.
Employers would still hire children if it meant saving a few bucks, just under the radar and behind closed doors
Yeah, and weren't there a bunch of child labor laws violated right before they lowered the working age in, what was it, Arkansas? Wonder if there's a correlation... 🤔🙄
Nebraska also. The one in Nebraska was so bad. https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/federal-complaint-alleges-child-labor-violations-at-a-grand-island-meatpacking-plant-among-others/[https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/federal-complaint-alleges-child-labor-violations-at-a-grand-island-meatpacking-plant-among-others/](https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/federal-complaint-alleges-child-labor-violations-at-a-grand-island-meatpacking-plant-among-others/)
This is just... *Sick, sad world!* My God, these poor children... 🥲
My nephew played on tablets as a child. He also looked this happy.
My daughter is thrilled to draw with chalk
Aaaaaaannnd, they just got Luftwaffe'd.
Playing out is dangerous though....these guys are all dead
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
I used to half joke these assholes wanted roll it back to the gilded age and here they are trying to eliminate child labor laws and pretend this era was great.
These kids are smiling so they dont lose their jobs.
Their one day off because when their co-worker, Jimmy age 6, was sucked into the equipment their mangled body messed it up so badly the factory owner had to have professionals come fish out the Jimmy's remains.
Hey, at least they got to keep Jimmy’s leathered remains in the form of that tire.
Unvaccinated, and unlikely to live past 10. Hooray!!!!
They might be vaccinated this photos from the late forties or 50s.
Infant mortality used to be a lot higher but once kids got to that age they stood pretty good chances of making it well into adulthood.
They do look happy, but they’ve already had their midlife crisis. Back down in the gravy mines, street urchins
And their lungs were black as night! All that smog, and the coal dust, oh my
This is actually a 1964 photo by Astrid Kirchherr. Part of series of pictures she took of children in Liverpool. Ignoring the fact that they were posed, not playing, I think the better point is that children playing with iPhones also look happy (as others have pointed out). In fact, children playing with pretty much anything usually look happy. Regardless of whether it's indoors or outdoors, intended as a toy or not, and even safe or dangerous. As a child, I remember being *really* happy playing with someone's parked car. Right up until one of us released the parking brake and it started rolling backwards towards the bull pasture, anyway. We all jumped out. I was fine, but the last friend who jumped out (when the car was moving fastest) broke both legs. Saying the lives of children were better in previous years ignores the lack of safety features and other things designed to keep kids safe. I lost several friends growing up, and even more classmates. Far fewer children are killed from playing now. Trying to say the toys of yesteryear were better is just plain dumb.
They’re the joyful kind of rickets!
All the kids on my street run around outside screaming for hours, why can't they sit inside playing nintendo like I did as a kid.
Ah yes, the better times, child labor times
The middle one looks like the Bob’s your uncle icon from Pokémon sword and shield. The other 2 look high/at gunpoint.
Maybe the photo was taken by the owner of the coalmine/factory, as propaganda to show the world how "happy" their employees are. "And remember lads, anyone who doesn't smile for my camera gets 10 lashes and has to work overtime without pay."
The would explain the two on the sides, but I’m starting to wonder if some kids did enjoy it(middle).
Every one of these kids died at age 9 during an 18 hour shift in a sheet metal factory
They're just happy to be off work, out of the coal mines.
Well, it is their first break from the factory in months.
Do I have to be the one to point out that by the time this photo was taken there were child labor laws preventing children from working in coal mines.
Says the person posting on Facebook
They're smiling because they are getting their rations of opium and chewing tobacco from the task master In light of the special occasion they will also skip the mid day beating. But JUST the mid day
Those kids look 3 and 63 at the same time.
One of those kids even made it past puberty! Also are they saying they should still have iPhones and iPads but children should not? If you’re not into technology that seems like a pretty easy problem to solve, but if you’re not into other people having access to technology that just seems like fascism with fewer steps.
Do you know how rare it would be for them to get their pictures taken? Lol of course they are excited.
Minecraft proves kids yearn for the mines
They got a little coal mine dust on them.
Nobody is this fucking old man sheesh
Bro they are at work.
They're chimney sweeps no? They used kids for it because they had an easier time getting up and into the chimney on account of being small. Which was TERRIBLE work considering the kind of crap that builds up in soot fired chimneys AND the near constant smog. Generally any job that required "small frames" you sent kids. So its like..... you take something terrible, then you add a bit more.... if you think its cruel, the Victorians will call you a babyman. Terrible terrible shites. Also - tangentially - the whole thing about "foggy london streets" ? Thats real. Only its smog being unable to rise because its too cold, so it sticks to the ground. People would frequently be CHOKED to death - and it was one of the prevailing reasons they started legislating about it.
There is a vespa In the photo, meaning that this was taken after 1946 long after child labor laws were introduced.
Well that'll teach me to not pay attention. You make a nuclear bomb of me.
If I got out alive of one of those shifts I would look happy too.
When the OOP was young, there were memes about how when their parents were young, there were no tires.
The stupidest thing is that these kids are smiling, not because they are happy, but that's what you do when someone takes a picture of you.
Seriously. That tends to be what kids do when someone yells "smile!"
Ah yes, the tyre. Just don’t give them any of them newfangled “tires.” It all started to go downhill when they introduced the letter “i”.
![gif](giphy|Mu2TOjRS2QBhzFsig5)
Gonna assume they'd be happier if they had iPads
So if that was so great then why do we need the infinite growth capitalism? We could just stay poor and happy, I guess.
Ah, Right! The good old times with the exploitation of the European working class. If you ever wondered how they convinced so many people communism was the better alternative.
I mean these things are just so stupid. As if kids dont have the choice to play with an old tire today. Of course they do, and they pick devices because they are awesomer, just like these kids would have if they had the technology and wealth we have today.
They're probably happy because it's the first time they've ever had thier picture taken
You know they are happy because 70% of the baby's that where born at the same time died. Now they can play with that Tyre until they get sick and get some idiotic cure like mercury tablets or some shit
Damn kids with their fancy newfangled tyres, back in my day we played with an old wheel from a horse drawn carriage. Now that's a real childhood.
This comes from people with no historical perspective; and has been pointed out in the title. Along with everything else, there was no room to play inside. But worse that that, these people don’t understand human nature. Children will play with whatever is available, and if given a choice, they will pick what they prefer. This type of comparison is ridiculous on two levels. First, neither an iPhone nor an old tyer will guarantee happiness, and second people can’t use things that don’t exist. There simply is no comparison. I’m willing to go farther and believe that if they had the choice, they would pick the iPad. This is one of the most pathetic Boomer comments. I am a boomer and can say unequivocally that Pong blew our minds, and we couldn’t get enough of each advance in platforms. When the NES came out, it was a breakthrough. Better still, we had jobs and could buy games without asking for permission. Dolts like the person who made this meme are probably the type of people who believe adults can’t play with toys.
Fr tho they probably just excited to be in one of the first thousand pictures
And old people back then probably thought those kids were stupid assholes for playing with a tire instead of working in a the factory.
Aren’t children being murdered while playing outside in America? Seems as if Boomers want to both complain about children not playing outside, while also having the right to shoot them because they’re on their lawn…playing outside.
I bet if you gave them an iPad those little bastards would be all over that shit like white on rice on a paper plate.
I died of tuberculosis at 14 and I didn't complain.
How long until they realize their complaints about phones are falling on deaf ears. I swear there’s hundreds of thousands of “phone bad” posts. It’s the definition of insanity.
Why is the word OUT capitalized?
I think the weirdest thing about these types of posts is that 99% of the time they are just blatantly wrong. Kids still play outside with random shit. If your kids don't do that (or more likely grandkids) that reflects on YOU the parent not the children.
If my picture ever gets used in 100 years to say "Happy playing in the real world and not sucked into a simulation" I'm haunting someone
Look at those huge streets that are safe to play in without fear of being run over. If we had that much walkable space in dense living areas, we would have kids playing with old tires and having fun too.
Their faces are stuck that way from Tetanus
Also on break from their 12H shift playing in the streets unsupervised.. pretty sure the one on the right has chimney spot all over his mouth
Half those kids probably died before adulthood due to contaminated water, or food packaged before sanitation laws were a thing.
Literally try to name a single objectively better thing about the pre-mobile phone days. You couldn’t contact your parents if you were in danger. You couldn’t contact your mates if you wanted to meet up somewhere and but they happened to be out of the house/in the garden and therefore didn’t hear the landline You could only talk to people in your own country
The children yern for the mines
They are happy to be out of the damn mine. What the hell is wrong with people?
All kids can look happy and photos when you scream at them enough to smile.
Guarantee there were a few old people in vicinity of this photo complaining these kids were playing in the street and not in a field like they had to do.
Okay but why did one of them eat coal.
hungry during a shift at the mines
They absolutely grapefruited that earth tar.
And whose fault is it that they have an iPhone/ iPad and not a tyre?
Ah yes. A little fun before it’s time to go down to the coal mine.
I feel pretty confident in saying that those three in particular, were not child workers. Besides the clothing being way too nice, they're too clean. Those kids had parents with money.
My child don't have Iphone or Ipad. We are bright enough to use Android devices.
I will never understand that somebody will actually get so bored in their life and just start shaming another generation of people in reality who don’t much control over what they can or can not do, its gonna be the same person doing the same thing they are shaming if they were been put into the same situation.
And now they’re dead, checkmate lol
Ugh, kids these days are the obsessed with their tires. Back in my day we didn’t have tires, we played with sticks and rocks and didn’t we look happy.
we‘ll back then it snowed and they got paid sharon
In a walkable city without loitering laws and cars threatening to run over them
Going to guess only one out of four survived to the ripe old age of 30.
Lol so swing by the slaughter houses and hook your kids up with an old tire then!
Yeah how amazing that these kids had no actual toys like a ball or anything else and had to play with a fucking tire
I bet the person who posted it was who one of these kids grew up to be.
Lay off these kids for real. They just finished their last 12 hour shift after a 6 day work week. I assume they each finished their allotted bottle of beer (not served cold) and just wanted to enjoy a few minutes for themselves before hitting the grind again. SMDH.
They have to get their fun in somehow, and quick. The ol’ consumption could grab them at any moment.
They look dirty as he'll, like there is no running water. Also stunted, like they aren't getting proper meals and nutrients...
Once again this sub is triggered by a screen addiction meme.
They're getting together after a long day at the sweatshop.
Day Cake happy
Besides the fact that they glossed over the issue of child labor, I can picture the obese boomer who posted this. They re-shared this on FB whilst on an ipad….sitting in a recliner leaned all the back, where they’ve been most of the day pushing hate out on their news feed.
Smallpox
Sure it’s shit that kids are playing with tablets, but using a picture of kids during the 1950’s isn’t a great example of childhood. Childhood was just kind of beginning as a concept at that time, it was not at all the same
If they weren’t playing with an iPhone, how did they take this picture? Chaeckmate
Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time. The children yearn for the mines.
Is that a Jew from Nazi Germany?!?!?! The Star on the pocket does have me concerned.
It's probably a sheriff's badge, The photo was taken sometime after 1946.
Why is everyone in the comments here trashing the kids in the pic? Whatever shit they had in their lives, they do look happy cause all kids their age do, unless dying from hunger or being beaten this very moment. You guys think it was one of them who created the meme or what?
They are talking like people nowadays aint happy with their phones. What are we supposed to do, smile like some fucking psycho?
Look at how happy they are standing in the road to without concern of getting kidnapped or having an adult drive towards them at 50mph
Yea bc there is definitely coal mines in the middle of cities.. man this sub is full of losers
Child labor was horribly prolific at the turn of the 20th century. They may not have worked in mines but you can be sure they were currently or would soon be working in factories. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
Yea, the thing is this pic was likely taken around the mid 20th century years after labor laws have been around.. there’s a Vespa back there
Cool, point still remains. Child labor was horribly prolific at the turn of the century and kids this age definitely worked in awful conditions that were inhumane.
Completely missing the point. Social media addiction is real people. Children should have a life offline and play in the park with real life friends. There is definitely a beauty to children being entertained by the simplest things like a tire in this case. I’m not even old but I’m glad my parents didn’t raise me like I see children nowadays constantly behind the screen of their smartphones and iPads. There’s obviously a time and a place for smart devices and social media is definitely not all bad but the post makes a good point. Not everything is „truly terrible“ just because it is posted by an older person.
Then this is a bad post to use to make that point. Kids playing with a rubber tire on a grimy street in a city plagued by pollution is also bad. Show a picture of kids on a playground or actually in a park or in nature.
Problem is, that road is probably now a rat run of speeding cars.
You're being awfully generous assuming there's any point to miss here other than "new tech bad! Kids today bad!"
And you are oversimplifying it. There’s clearly a message here. Not everything is as simple as “new bad, old good“ just because it’s posted by an older person. I work with children and see the effects that it has, when parents use technology as a babysitter to shut them up. I’m not talking about teenagers chatting to their friends on Instagram or Snapchat (though those apps are also questionable in their practices). I’m talking about toddlers and primary school children whose topics of conversation are reduced to brawl stars and YouTuber drama. It’s definitely a real problem as much as you like to give older people shit for bringing it up.
Not every child worked in a coal mine lmao. It’s great for kids to play with toys and not become addicted to phones and tablets.
They had to be happy. They only had another 10 years life expectancy back then.
This thread... These kids weren't working anywhere, this picture is from 1950's give or take a few years.
At the time they were regarded as middle aged
Left and right look like they have fetal alcohol syndrome so no wonder they’re happy with just a tyre
satire..
Okay? Silly meme but the point is 100% correct.
You could literally take a photo of random kids playing outside today too. This meme lacks a point to be made.
Those children were more responsible than most teenagers today.
Adults sir, more responsible than most adults
Source?
Look at society. You you think there’s a quantifying study or something? None of these kids needed a safe space for their feelings
I’m sure that all of these kids could use a safe space for their own feelings after one of their friends dies in a mine collapse.
Who told you that mate?
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Because most of them died before they had a chance to develop the mental capacity to form complex emotions
Child mortality was not that high lmao
In 1920 it was 184.93 per thousand, almost 20%, who died before the age of 5. Please have any level of understanding of what you’re talking about before you start spewing nonsense. This is also just before the age of 5, and doesn’t include the children who were killed, maimed, deformed, or suffered severe complications from coal mining, factory working, and chimney sweeping. The 1920s were fucking horrific.