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Generational differences (lemmy.world)
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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 143 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 37 points 11 months ago

Shut up and make juice for me or else I'll stop renting my 14th lemon loaf to you!

- Lemonlord

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[-] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 100 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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."

[-] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Don't forget punishing you for spending all your time and money on sugar, ice, water, pitchers, and practice learning to make lemonade.

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[-] Rand0mA@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Ufff. This hurts

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[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 90 points 11 months ago

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."

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

This is the only version of this idiom that I will ever use or subscribe to.

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[-] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 12 points 11 months ago

Is this a Cave Johnson quote or am I misremembering

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[-] missing_forklift@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Their parents and grand parents were literally getting into gunfights over worker's rights.

[-] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 60 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 55 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 12 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago

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[-] Bipta@kbin.social 41 points 11 months ago

Something something Cave Johnson.

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Something something house something something combustible lemon

[-] craigers@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

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!

[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 36 points 11 months ago

Greatest generation: has a lemon party

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[-] Kase@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

when you thought everything would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it's actually difficult difficult lemon difficult

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[-] millifoo@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

As a GenXer, i have no idea what "make lemon noises" even means

[-] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

As a GenZ member, I have no idea.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago

I thought that was the point. I've just assumed that gen Z realized there's nothing fun left so you gotta make your own fun whether or not it makes sense.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Insert "E" meme here.

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[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

I like that philosophy.

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[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I think the joke is that GenZ will do something random and unexpected.

[-] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

I figured Gen Z is the lemon in this case.

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[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

They're the noises you make while having sex in your lemon suit with an orange you barely know.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

As a GenXer, whatever.

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[-] flicker@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Then you are appropriately interpreting Gen Z.

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[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Bold of you to assume that life hands lemons out anymore. You have to rent them now.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lemon of the month club!

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[-] coaxil@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Lemons as a service?

[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

LAAS

[-] dsco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 11 months ago

When god gives you lemons, you FIND A NEW GOD!!

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Made with Lightning; REAL LIGHTNING!

[-] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

Why yes, i would like to spend the next two hours binging Power Thirst videos.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Alright, i've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, DON'T make lemonade!

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 8 points 11 months ago

Make life take the lemons BACK!

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

This is the internet. Don't mention lemons. It makes everybody think of on thing.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Edit: this is a very difficult gif to search for without ending up with some eye burners.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Oh, you lemon-stealing WHORE!!!!

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[-] The_Eminent_Bon@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Unless yer a lemon stealing whooorrr

[-] june@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Hey! Gen Xers! You weren’t forgotten!

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