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.
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.
“Egads! A short, simple joke that isn’t 100% fair to every party mentioned! Instead of enjoying the obviously oversimplified gag, I better write an exasperating comment!”
It’s not the joke I’m responding to, I actually liked it. Don’t you think the anti-(insert generation) is a distraction?
Know who else generalizes huge groups of people and defends themselves with “it was just a joke”? Racists. Homophobes. Transphobes. That the company you wanna keep?
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.”
Don’t forget punishing you for spending all your time and money on sugar, ice, water, pitchers, and practice learning to make lemonade.
“Why are millennials killing the lemon industry? We asked 10 boomers for their opinion, and the top answer will SHOCK you”
The Silent Generation: "When life hands you lemons… Don’t Take the Lemons! GET MAD! Demand life take the lemons back! Ask to see life’s manager! Do you know who I am? I’M THE MAN WHOSE GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN. WITH THE LEMONS.
I’ve tasked the boys down in the lab to assemble some incendiary lemon grenades."
This is the only version of this idiom that I will ever use or subscribe to.
I like the Bruce Greenwood version from Fall of the House of Usher.
Yeah more or less, I wrote it down by memory so a few words might be off.
factually correct, as long as you have enough lemon peel you can steam distill limonene from it. it’s so cheap in citrus producing countries it’s used as a paint stripper. and yes it’s pretty flammable
Factually correct - in many countries steam distillation is illegal because you can also steam distill tasty things that make you feel good.
what are you talking about, because moonshine manufacture is not steam distillation and you can’t exactly distill off anything psychoactive this way. this is only really useful for fragrances and please don’t use this bs in modern lab this is 100+ years old technique, it’s an unbelievable mess, vaccum pumps and column chromatography exist please and thank you
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.
Hey I’m not gonna bitch about it. In fact, I’mma bitch if you don’t give me lemons with my fish & chips for free.
