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.
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.
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!?
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.
"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
We should have rioted in 2008.
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.
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.
I think about this image literally every other day since I saw it.
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
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
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.
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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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.
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!!!!
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...
I squeeze my lemons onto my avocado toast, fuck you very much though.
I like Lemons.
