Modern terminology, i.e. What is a 'Snowflake?' etc.

[PeteXXX]

Modern terminology, i.e. What is a 'Snowflake?' etc.
People not being able to cope with anything?... Possibly ??

Last one I heard on the News recently was 'Super Agers', older folk that can still jump over hurdles at 80 or 90 years old.

Another one on the wireless a couple of days ago was about people who go to back to live with mum & dad and are treated like they were when they were kids, i.e. Go and tidy your room. Eat your greens.. yada yada yadda. (Can't think of the made up name used at the moment..)

 

[marinyork]

Snowflake is the pejorative name given to millenials, my generation, previously known as generation Y. It's interesting that tit-for-tat after the snowflake name took off, a new name for boomers came about, the worst generation ever or the most selfish generation (which if you're wondering what the smeg it means is the american reference to the generation before boomers being 'the greatest generation ever').

You were thinking of boomerangs?

 

[Pale Rider]

According to wiki:

Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a neologistic term used to characterize the young adults of the 2010s as being more prone to taking offence and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own.

 

[cosmicbike]

I think the 'boomerangs' are those who return home to live, possibly after Uni or otherwise. One of my Brothers and his wife live with my Dad, with their 3 yr old child. I find it infuriating as they can comfortably afford to buy a house....

 

[PeteXXX]

You were thinking of boomerangs?

No, it wasn't Boomerangs, it was errrr.. something else.

 

[John the Monkey]

They tend to be ways of dismissing the views of other people without having to engage with or challenge what they're actually saying. Ime.

 

[FishFright]

It's prone to snow on here

 

[Tin Pot]

Err it’s not that complicated.

There is an idea that every snowflake is completely unique in shape and therefore special.

Calling someone a snowflake is accusing them of egocentrism, that they think they are special and should be treated differently to everyone else.

 

[mjr]

They tend to be ways of dismissing the views of other people without having to engage with or challenge what they're actually saying. Ime.

That's exactly what you'd expect a member of generation Muppet to say.

 

[nickyboy]

That's exactly what you'd expect a member of generation Muppet to say.

QED

 

[marinyork]

QED

A strange theory.

 

[rich p]

Modern terminology, i.e. What is a 'Snowflake?' etc.
People not being able to cope with anything?... Possibly ??

Last one I heard on the News recently was 'Super Agers', older folk that can still jump over hurdles at 80 or 90 years old.

Another one on the wireless a couple of days ago was about people who go to back to live with mum & dad and are treated like they were when they were kids, i.e. Go and tidy your room. Eat your greens.. yada yada yadda. (Can't think of the made up name used at the moment..)

Kidulting?

 

[Drago]

A snowflake is anyone who can't strip and reassemble an M203 blindfolded.

 

[mustang1]

I thought snowflake was an asterisk on a computer keyboard and I was getting excited about this thread.

 

[srw]

I'm not sure it's a particularly generational term. It seems to be an all-purpose insult thrown by the ultra-right at anyone who expresses compassion for someone else - or "humanity" as most of us call it.

I believe it derives from the claim that snowflakes melt easily, and the supposed idea that those with some humanity dissolve into tears at the least provocation. It's not a very good term, because individual snowflakes, when you group them together, are very robust and long-lasting.