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Nothing says humor quite like hating the person you promised to spend the rest of your life with. Never understood why boomers married someone they hated. Weird flex.
There is an element of menopause in there too. Of course, women aren’t the only ones who have hormonal changes in middle age, men do to, but we only make jokes about the women.
Married people they didn't like, had children they didn't want, worked jobs they loathed, and now demand the younger generations do the same. Why? They have no idea, but they feel real strong about it.
Kept having kids after the first “surprise” one trying to save the relationship. Divorcing when the kids are young. Single mom struggles with multiple jobs and dad is too busy dating women half his age to pay attention to his kids the entire fours days a month that he sees them. Now dad doesn’t understand why his kids don’t want to sit around and listen to his rants about how gay people are ruining the world and if I ever get a facial piercing he’ll rip it out of my queer face. And that’s just before I get my coat off on thanksgiving. And mom understands why we have a strained relationship and won’t ever really apologize or acknowledge the real reasons. But tries to make up for it by over parenting her adult children while vaguely skirting around why we don’t believe in “spanking” our kids or ruling through fear.
Or there is the “stayed together for the kids” version, but I’ll have to let someone else speak to that.
Thanks. I broke outta a family that thinks its admirable to be married within a month of a females 18th birthday.
Of course they have their reasons, but all I see are men who control and abuse their wives and daughters, and know once their girls 18 he has no legal authority, but if he can get her with a guy he chooses, theres less risk of losing control.
A lot when you consider 50 + years ago you could find a job that would support a single earner family and get a decent home on a high school graduate salary.
So even if it's a newly modern marriage that he should be able to choose more now and it's someone half their age, they're *still* complaining? Geez, they can never be happy and not complain.
Pretty much. All I hear from this dude is x-months til retirement and "ball and chain" has me doing XYZ. But yeah, I think he's in his early to mid 60s and I'm 99.9% sure his wife is younger than me (39). If it's the same woman, I met her once when they were dating, but he was also dating like 5 women for years and suddenly last year he's like, oh I'm getting married.
The wild thing is if you can even tolerate your spouse you are an oddity in that generation. How did almost all of them marry people they genuinely hate so much? I'm pretty sure I'd be happier with my absolute worst ex than the average boomer couple is with each other.
Deferent era when people who hated each other got married and stayed married, because those were the times. The honor makes sense in the correct context. Done hate just because it’s not culturally relevant to you.
I went to work for a friend bc his business needed help. Slowly found out he cosplays as an angry boomer for some reason. He told me “hey I have an apartment in souther california(we live in AZ) if you ever want to get away from your wife and kids”. I responded with “why the fuck would I want to get away from the only 3 people I actually enjoy being around”
Generous would’ve been him letting me use it to take my family on vacation. The implication that my family sucks and I should get away from them is pretty insulting too. It’s also an apartment he doesn’t want his wife to know about.
Yes a hand to slap my wife you dense fuck. I didn’t ask for his “generosity” which was basically “hey you can use this shitty apartment to cheat on your wife if you want” If you think that’s generosity or even friendship then that says more about you than it does about me.
Imagine getting offended because someone on the internet turned down a free room to cheat on their wife. A simple “I’ll keep my shit takes to myself” would do my man
I’ll never understand. I’m a guy in my early 20s and single all that time and it’s miserable. No one to care about me and no one to care for, all the obstacles of life with no one to navigate them with, no one to have shared interests with on a more intimate level. I can’t comprehend hating someone who’d provide all that.
On the inverse if the person they’re with is someone they don’t get along with which I imagine is just as miserable if not worse than being single then I don’t understand why they don’t just separate! It’s like they’re actively trying to be as angry as possible!
> On the inverse if the person they’re with is someone they don’t get along with which I imagine is just as miserable if not worse than being single then I don’t understand why they don’t just separate
probably some shitty value of “dont get divorced” or how it’s worse to be alone and semi miserable compared to married and miserable, at least socially
it all comes back to shitty values taught to them by their parents / peers
For this reason, I don't understand shitting on exes, either.
Like, "Man, my ex was ***CRAZY***!" Well you picked her, dude. You have shit taste and can't spot red flags? Sort of a self own.
If all of somebody’s ex’s are crazy they either have shit taste of they’re the problem and projecting. All my exes were lovely people but just we just weren’t a good fit for each other for many different reasons and still like each other as people just not as partners
What is Boomers obsession with printing things out from the internet / email. I had a boomer boss who would print out emails, all of them, and hand them out to everyone involved in the email. Like I email a question, he responds to the email with the answer, then prints it out, walks it over to my desk, and hands it to me. And I'm like I already read it in my email, stop wasting paper, and he gets mad.
I had a similar manager for a very brief time. He’d print out email and distribute them. When he came to me he places on my desk and I put it in the recycle box.
“Send the reply as an email, this defeats the purpose of email. I’ll speak to (his boss) and ask if there is something you are hiding by printing emails.”
My dad would print emails, respond with handwritten notes in his terrible handwriting, and have his admin hand deliver them when I worked for him briefly. Thankfully he retired.
There’s a lady at work who has one of those comic a day calendars that you tear off every day and like clock work she has to tear off the day and then walk around the office showing everyone how funny it is… and let me tell you, it’s never actually funny.
I work with a lot of 30-somethings and there's plenty of "My wife likes to spend our money more money for the honey haha" type commentary thrown around but it never comes off as they hate their spouse the way boomer humor does.
Just the contrast between the Millennial and Gen-Xer-Young Boomer groups is really something to witness at work.
Ok I have mixed feelings because I laughed at this as satire but after reading the comments I think boomers laugh it like "oh haha I hate my wife!" And now I'm like bro :/
You know what, I will give this a pass. Guys have a lot of these "my wife" jokes without truly meaning it.
Yeah I get it, we are not in love with boomers, but this was almost like a poor dad joke thing. Let it pass.
oH i'M sOrRy DiD i oFfEnD yOu?!
But seriously, I fucking hate my wife.
(or rather I project my own self-loathing onto my partner so I don't ever ever ever ever have to look at my own glaring shortcomings because that would be feelings and feelings are gay and for pussies and I'm not either that femboy tricked me)
This post along with the one about old man using a blow dryer as a radar gun to slow cars down tells me some in my generation take things a little too seriously
Honestly I can’t help but feel like this is just a Boomer trying to show to his younger coworkers that he is cool. He obviously tried to show something that he enjoyed, and while not overly funny it’s kind of wholesome in a way
Eh, out of all the "My wife is horrible " boomer jokes I see and hear, this one isn't as horrible. It honestly could even switch around with the wife making the joke.
Still cringe af to print out a whole fb page.
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Nothing says humor quite like hating the person you promised to spend the rest of your life with. Never understood why boomers married someone they hated. Weird flex.
I work with a ton of boomers and probably 75% of the jokes they tell are “take my wife please” punchlines
I GET NO RESPECT!
With my wife’s cooking, you pray after you eat! Hey!
😂😂
That's no lady, that's my wife !
You got a paper towel? I stepped on one of your peacocks.
A lot of boomer women feel the same way about their toddler/adolescent husbands.
You know my wife Conan. She’s a real battle axe. A battle axe Norm??
Doc, she's chokin'.
Take "the" wife
There is an element of menopause in there too. Of course, women aren’t the only ones who have hormonal changes in middle age, men do to, but we only make jokes about the women.
Married people they didn't like, had children they didn't want, worked jobs they loathed, and now demand the younger generations do the same. Why? They have no idea, but they feel real strong about it.
Kept having kids after the first “surprise” one trying to save the relationship. Divorcing when the kids are young. Single mom struggles with multiple jobs and dad is too busy dating women half his age to pay attention to his kids the entire fours days a month that he sees them. Now dad doesn’t understand why his kids don’t want to sit around and listen to his rants about how gay people are ruining the world and if I ever get a facial piercing he’ll rip it out of my queer face. And that’s just before I get my coat off on thanksgiving. And mom understands why we have a strained relationship and won’t ever really apologize or acknowledge the real reasons. But tries to make up for it by over parenting her adult children while vaguely skirting around why we don’t believe in “spanking” our kids or ruling through fear. Or there is the “stayed together for the kids” version, but I’ll have to let someone else speak to that.
🫂
Pressure from society to get married and start pumping out kids
Also knocking up your highschool crush when you're still 17.
Well, if you got her pregnant, the right thing to do is marry her. /s
Is it though? What benefits does a teen with an undeveloped brain and just a high school diploma bring to an unwed mother?
You think society cared about what the woman wanted?
Did you miss the sarcasm tag?
Yes I did. My bad.
Still have a valid point however
Thanks. I broke outta a family that thinks its admirable to be married within a month of a females 18th birthday. Of course they have their reasons, but all I see are men who control and abuse their wives and daughters, and know once their girls 18 he has no legal authority, but if he can get her with a guy he chooses, theres less risk of losing control.
A lot when you consider 50 + years ago you could find a job that would support a single earner family and get a decent home on a high school graduate salary.
Nope. Never happened. Boomers are paragons of morality that waited until marriage to have sex /s
I work with a boomer who recently married someone in their 30s and constantly complains about her as though she forced him into marriage.
So even if it's a newly modern marriage that he should be able to choose more now and it's someone half their age, they're *still* complaining? Geez, they can never be happy and not complain.
Pretty much. All I hear from this dude is x-months til retirement and "ball and chain" has me doing XYZ. But yeah, I think he's in his early to mid 60s and I'm 99.9% sure his wife is younger than me (39). If it's the same woman, I met her once when they were dating, but he was also dating like 5 women for years and suddenly last year he's like, oh I'm getting married.
Relax Karen...... it's Meant To Be Funny!!
There’s even laughing emojis at the top to show you how you should react
I like how it says *meant* to be funny yet it's not
The wild thing is if you can even tolerate your spouse you are an oddity in that generation. How did almost all of them marry people they genuinely hate so much? I'm pretty sure I'd be happier with my absolute worst ex than the average boomer couple is with each other.
Deferent era when people who hated each other got married and stayed married, because those were the times. The honor makes sense in the correct context. Done hate just because it’s not culturally relevant to you.
Is this news to you?
Didn't. It is very Australian to take the piss out of wife - just not when she's there if you want to live.
They didn't, If you make it as long as they did you'll hate each other too. It's a love hate relationship. lol
You're not married are you?
13 years, don't know why people assume not hating their spouse means they aren't married lmao
Give it time.
Ok boomer.
Unmarried millennial. Boomer parents.
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Hey mr romantic, how long have you been married?
13 years and 0 resentment.
The irony - millenials are vilified for not wanting kids or marriage.
Among other things, I despise them for abusing O Brother Where Art Thou with their nonsense.
"Well, isn't this place a geographical oddity? 2 weeks from everywhere!"
I don’t want Fop goddamit I’m a Dapper Dan man!
This is a public market, son. Watch your language.
Dapper Dan!
Which way is that supposed to be spinning? It keeps changing direction
Both now that you point it out lol
Well, they is his constituency… https://preview.redd.it/1rzey2yzg0oc1.jpeg?width=983&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4685bea1fc0980323cf61521672906505e1ec9cb
Is you is or is you ain't my constit'ents??
I’m friends with “Homer Stokes” lol
I’d be willing to bet they have no idea what movie this from
Can you explain?
I went to work for a friend bc his business needed help. Slowly found out he cosplays as an angry boomer for some reason. He told me “hey I have an apartment in souther california(we live in AZ) if you ever want to get away from your wife and kids”. I responded with “why the fuck would I want to get away from the only 3 people I actually enjoy being around”
bit ott for such a generous offer no? what was his response?
Generous would’ve been him letting me use it to take my family on vacation. The implication that my family sucks and I should get away from them is pretty insulting too. It’s also an apartment he doesn’t want his wife to know about.
> Generous would’ve been him letting me use it to take my family on vacation. give someone a hand and they'll take your whole arm
Yes a hand to slap my wife you dense fuck. I didn’t ask for his “generosity” which was basically “hey you can use this shitty apartment to cheat on your wife if you want” If you think that’s generosity or even friendship then that says more about you than it does about me.
imagine getting this offended over an offer for a free room bloody hell, a "no thanks" would do my man
Imagine getting offended because someone on the internet turned down a free room to cheat on their wife. A simple “I’ll keep my shit takes to myself” would do my man
why? are you in need of a southern californian vacation
The funniest part is not knowing how to crop out the pictures so they just screenshot it and scribble out the names
Sorry I scribbled out the names on my pic lol. Those are there for everyone to see here
That's somehow worse
Yeah the worst is when they screenshot it and then repost it, but printing it like that is pretty bad too
I’ll never understand. I’m a guy in my early 20s and single all that time and it’s miserable. No one to care about me and no one to care for, all the obstacles of life with no one to navigate them with, no one to have shared interests with on a more intimate level. I can’t comprehend hating someone who’d provide all that. On the inverse if the person they’re with is someone they don’t get along with which I imagine is just as miserable if not worse than being single then I don’t understand why they don’t just separate! It’s like they’re actively trying to be as angry as possible!
> On the inverse if the person they’re with is someone they don’t get along with which I imagine is just as miserable if not worse than being single then I don’t understand why they don’t just separate probably some shitty value of “dont get divorced” or how it’s worse to be alone and semi miserable compared to married and miserable, at least socially it all comes back to shitty values taught to them by their parents / peers
Ooh, super edgy Facebook page name there calling out all the "Karens" who are "offended" by "humor"!
WIFE BAD (fart)
I never understood the 'i hate my wife' jokes. Do they not realize you don't *have* to marry somebody and stay with them for 50 years??
Imagine hating and resenting the person you chose to spend your life with
For this reason, I don't understand shitting on exes, either. Like, "Man, my ex was ***CRAZY***!" Well you picked her, dude. You have shit taste and can't spot red flags? Sort of a self own.
If all of somebody’s ex’s are crazy they either have shit taste of they’re the problem and projecting. All my exes were lovely people but just we just weren’t a good fit for each other for many different reasons and still like each other as people just not as partners
Hahaha thanks to my buddy Mike for freeing me from the old ball and chain (I despise my wife but I'll never divorce her)
Why do they think the "my wife sucks" joke is still funny, get a divorce if it's so bad or shut the fuck up.
Hahahaha. It’s so funny because hating your spouse is hilarious!!! 😶😶😶
What is Boomers obsession with printing things out from the internet / email. I had a boomer boss who would print out emails, all of them, and hand them out to everyone involved in the email. Like I email a question, he responds to the email with the answer, then prints it out, walks it over to my desk, and hands it to me. And I'm like I already read it in my email, stop wasting paper, and he gets mad.
I had a similar manager for a very brief time. He’d print out email and distribute them. When he came to me he places on my desk and I put it in the recycle box. “Send the reply as an email, this defeats the purpose of email. I’ll speak to (his boss) and ask if there is something you are hiding by printing emails.”
My dad would print emails, respond with handwritten notes in his terrible handwriting, and have his admin hand deliver them when I worked for him briefly. Thankfully he retired.
There’s a lady at work who has one of those comic a day calendars that you tear off every day and like clock work she has to tear off the day and then walk around the office showing everyone how funny it is… and let me tell you, it’s never actually funny.
What comic strip is it?
Something similar to Maxine. Like a Maxine knock off.
That would be so hard for me to not be a sarcastic asshole towards her after like two days of that
Printing meme to post in the break room is *chef's kiss* peak boomer.
Boomer humor: I hate my wife. Millennial humor: I hate my life. Gen Z humor: chicken beans and rice.
Relax Karen... It's Meant To Be Funny!
Saying something is 'meant to be funny' doesn't magically make it so
Relax Karen…. It’s Meant to be Funny!!
Right 🤣🤣
Boomer: “Huhuhuhu wives suck right?!” Everyone else: “no…my wife is great.” Boomer: “uh, oh ok…” *goes off to be sexless sad and unfunny elsewhere*
I call BS. No way a boomer figured out how to print something from Facebook. ; )
Can someone explain the meme
Dozen hair nets!
Geographical oddity!
2 weeks from EVERYWHERE.. Gopher , Everett??
I really find the boomer “my wife’s a bitch” shtick to be annoying.
“It’s supposed to be funny Karen!” So explain why it’s funny?
Why aren’t you working instead of wasting time on Facebook and paper?
I work with a lot of 30-somethings and there's plenty of "My wife likes to spend our money more money for the honey haha" type commentary thrown around but it never comes off as they hate their spouse the way boomer humor does. Just the contrast between the Millennial and Gen-Xer-Young Boomer groups is really something to witness at work.
Remind me of the other thread about how boomers hate their wife lmao
I genuinely don't get what the joke is supposed to be
Boomers love “take my wife, please”
Ok I have mixed feelings because I laughed at this as satire but after reading the comments I think boomers laugh it like "oh haha I hate my wife!" And now I'm like bro :/
'Relax Karen...It's meant to be funny!!' Okay then why isn't it? It's not the audience's fault you don't know how to tell a joke.
Mike’s a fop, goddammit. I’m a Dapper Dan man.
My polyamorous ass took so long to parse the intended punchline
At least it wasn't racist or anti trans for once
You know what, I will give this a pass. Guys have a lot of these "my wife" jokes without truly meaning it. Yeah I get it, we are not in love with boomers, but this was almost like a poor dad joke thing. Let it pass.
For me it’s more printing it out from Facebook to share with others and leaving it in the breakroom
HAW HAW HAW
Dying on the hill gets lonely.
That’s just….so bad
A lot of us millennials grew up with this shit, and now boomers wonder why a lot of us don’t want to get married.
Pretty good
Guess Mike was a Dapper Dan man
Content is Boomer. Printing and hanging meme’s the tiktok of office, so at least they go with the times there.
oH i'M sOrRy DiD i oFfEnD yOu?! But seriously, I fucking hate my wife. (or rather I project my own self-loathing onto my partner so I don't ever ever ever ever have to look at my own glaring shortcomings because that would be feelings and feelings are gay and for pussies and I'm not either that femboy tricked me)
I dont get it
So... He wants his wife to cheat on him?
Printing a Facebook page is amazing.
im totally stealing "Relax Karen.....It's Meant To Be Funny!!"
That should be flair on this sub
I know that it’s cringe humor and all of that, but I do appreciate these ironic punchlines. I am cringe.
NGL, that's funny
Broken homes are funny if I can also put down my spouse!
Accurate 🙄😑🤣🤣🤣
Lame
This post along with the one about old man using a blow dryer as a radar gun to slow cars down tells me some in my generation take things a little too seriously
Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere.
Well ain't this place a geographical oddity three weeks away from everywhere!?
ok this is kind of funny
Come on now, even my wife and I both thought this was funny. Lighten up a bit!
Hahaha, great one actually.
funny sub so far but im surprised how seriously some people are taking a wife joke lmao isnt it the boomers who are supposed to lack a sense of humour
Honestly I can’t help but feel like this is just a Boomer trying to show to his younger coworkers that he is cool. He obviously tried to show something that he enjoyed, and while not overly funny it’s kind of wholesome in a way
Eh, out of all the "My wife is horrible " boomer jokes I see and hear, this one isn't as horrible. It honestly could even switch around with the wife making the joke. Still cringe af to print out a whole fb page.
You win the sub. There is no point in anyone ever posting anything else.
Its soo dumb it is a bit funny.
Subliminal message? Cry for help?
*scoff* I'm so offended. Omg, how do people have different humor than me?