O/T When will all this crap end.

[John2]

Not bad until the last paragraph. There you go again classing a generation as boomers. What should we class you as? Don’t tempt me.

Bloody hell, the world's gone mad, you can't say anything these days without upsetting someone. It's political correctness gone mad! What is the world coming to when you can't say boomer without some snowflakes getting all upset? When will it end!?

No problem with the term boomers, nor gammon for that matter. It’s quite amusing that john2 thinks it’s a phrase that insults folks on this board

Playground stuff really

What's funny in this post is that:

a) I don't actually use boomer derogatively. I used it descriptively.
b) It might not wind you up, but it clearly winds up sota and masboroughstreet!

To answer sota's question, boomer is just a name used to describe a demographic cohort, shortened from "baby boomers" - those born after WW2. To answer your question, which may have been genuine, I belong to the demographic cohort of millennials... those who became adults in the new millenium.

These are terms used academically by demographers. I use them to highlight generalised differences in attitude between different cohorts. Of course such blanket terms do not represent everyone. I know full well that one day millenials will be grumpy and cynical and complaining that everything is different. Some of my peers already are. It's a pattern as old as civilisation and I'm determined not to become one of those people, but who knows what the future holds.

If people are taking offence at negative connotations used towards their demographic when they are used descriptively, that more reflects their own insecurity I suspect - such a dumb boomer mindset.

I don't commonly use gammon except ironically, as the people mostly likely to take offence are the ones who like to most loudly complain that you "can't say anything these days without offending someone".

I make no attempt to hold myself to any certain level on here. Playground humour is certainly not beneath me!

[Masbroughstreet]

b) It might not wind you up, but it clearly winds up sota and masboroughstreet!

It doesn't wind me up, I'm only 37 so well out of that age range. Like I said, I agree with the rest of your post and I generally agree with a lot of your arguments, i just think using terms like Boomer is unhelpful. Even if you don't mean it in a derogative way, I'm sure you know full well that a lot of people do use it an insult and that your posts may be taken that way.

[John2]

It doesn't wind me up, I'm only 37 so well out of that age range. Like I said, I agree with the rest of your post and I generally agree with a lot of your arguments, i just think using terms like Boomer is unhelpful. Even if you don't mean it in a derogative way, I'm sure you know full well that a lot of people do use it an insult and that your posts may be taken that way.

I'm fully aware of that, it's just my motivations aren't necessarily to persuade these people of my arguments at this stage, so I use it playfully.

As I said, I'm not below a little playground-level humour. Some boomer snowflakes can dish it out but can't take it!

[sota]

I’ve been called a lot of things in my time John, but insecure is a first ha ha ha. As far as gammon is concerned, I’ve never heard that term before, must be summat new.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I’ve been called a lot of things in my time John, but insecure is a first ha ha ha. As far as gammon is concerned, I’ve never heard that term before, must be summat new.

That's the problem with insults, the targets have to be upset by them for them to work. When you get to be a "mature gammon" you tend to be amused rather than insulted. John2 and Geetarman haven't quite grasped that yet so they keep up the stuck record approach.

[John2]

First, I've not been using the expression gammon. Also, I was originally only using boomer descriptively it wasn't supposed to "work", that's just a happy, but an unintended side effect. Thanks for taking the time to tell me how not bothered you are that I managed to not insult you when I wasn't even trying to. Nice to know I live rent-free in your head!

[rolymiller]

O/T when will all this crap end?

Simple when Camiller closes this pointless thread down. Job done!

[sota]

O/T when will all this crap end?

Simple when Camiller closes this pointless thread down. Job done!

Says one of the main contributors to stuff like this.

[great_fire]

"Gammon" is a reference to skin colour, therefore it's racist, simple as that.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

First, I've not been using the expression gammon. Also, I was originally only using boomer descriptively it wasn't supposed to "work", that's just a happy, but an unintended side effect. Thanks for taking the time to tell me how not bothered you are that I managed to not insult you when I wasn't even trying to. Nice to know I live rent-free in your head!

This " rent free" business is it something else you've read somewhere?

Doesn't seem original but that's par for your course

Originality 1/10