When it comes to understanding the younger generation, chances are it might take the elders a little time. From their fashion choices to slang like “rizz” and “no cap,” some things just don’t translate across generations and that’s perfectly okay. It’s natural for each age group to live in its own cultural bubble. But sometimes, those bubbles collide in the most unexpected and hilarious ways.
Today, we’ve compiled a list of moments where people shared the most hilariously out-of-touch things young people have ever said to them. Some are funny, some are mildly alarming, and a few might make you question reality. If you’ve ever felt ancient after chatting with someone under 20, this list is definitely for you.
#1
A 15 year old told me she wanted to join the army when she was older because she didn’t like being told what to do.
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#2
Told me he wanted to become a farmer because that seemed like a “chill easy job”. I think his only experience was from playing Farmville on his phone.
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#3
I was once stuck having to sit next to two kids on an airplane. This was when they still served decent snacks. I was taking the chocolate out of my snack box when the girl next to me asked for it. She said that her dad had told her that adults really didn’t like those things, and she should have it since she was a kid. She also said that reading books was a waste of time, and only math mattered.
I ate my chocolate and read my book.
#4
I’ve worked in education since 2008. The number of kids who literally think they’re gonna make it to the NFL, be a TikTok star, etc is mind blowing.
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#5
A teenage girl told me that she wasn’t worried about her GCSE/exam results because she would just marry a rich man. She wasn’t very happy when I asked her what would happen if she couldn’t find anyone who wanted to marry her.
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#6
“Poor is just a mindset”
Came from a young person who was born into wealth but constantly preached about how it’s all just about working hard and believing in your dreams.
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#7
“What do you mean you don’t have summer off? They make you work during summer?!?”
Yes child. Adults don’t get summer break. You know when you go to the grocery store or the movies all summer? Those people are working. I have to work just like them.
The child was 17.
Their mind was blown.
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#8
The girl that thought a credit card was «free money».
Anonymous:
There was a girl on Caleb Hammer’s YouTube show who thought that the numbers getting bigger on her credit card Bill was a good thing.
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#9
“Rich people have it harder than poor people because rich people are more ‘isolated’ hence lonelier”…
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#10
I asked an intern to help me enter data into spreadsheets for an environmental project we had due soon. This was at an environmental consulting firm.
Them: “I am going to pass on that work task because I don’t see that as something I need to do within the realm of what I plan for my career path.”
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#11
In college, I had a friend who was looking for apartments near our campus and she came across multiple listings that were close by and under $1000… While showing me pictures she said, “Wow look at this, $800 for this whole house.”
At first I thought she was joking, because I thought there was no way in hell she could think that a 4 bedroom, 2 bath, newly built townhouse would be $800.
I had to hold back my annoyance, as I calmly explained to her that these listings were for bedrooms with shared common spaces around the house.
She looked distraught and disgusted by the fact that people would “lie” on the internet and “lure people in with photos of the entire house, making them believe they could have it all.”
Not the smartest pickle, but she was a nice girl.
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#12
So I grew up in the South… middle of nowhere. Like, real nowhere. You know the kind of place where the gas station is also the town hall and possibly a daycare? That kind of nowhere.
Our town was so small, I graduated in a class of 35 people. And that included two dudes who didn’t technically go to school, but they’d just been hanging around so long we figured, you know what, give ‘em a diploma. They’ve earned it. Just… by being here.
They didn’t even pave my road until I was about 13 years old. Even then they only paved it about 3 houses past mine because not enough people lived further down the road to support the cost of paving the whole road.
So one night, like most Southern teenage boys do, we’re out by a bonfire, drinking’ some beers we definitely did not legally purchase. And we start talking’ about the “World’s Richest People.” And this was back in the day, before Elon Musk, before Bezos… back when we thought the Ask Jeeves guy was a real butler who just lived in the internet.
So someone goes, “Man, Bill Gates. That dude is loaded.”
And across the fire, from the shadows, someone just yells, “Bill who?!”
Like they’d never heard of him. Which, I get it—we were in a town where I’m sure some people still thought microwaves were magic. So someone tells him, “Bill Gates, man. He invented Windows.”
Now, to most of us, that made perfect sense. We got it. Microsoft…Windows probably 95 at that point, maybe 98 who knows?
But not to this guy. He sits for a second, takes a sip of his beer, looks around real serious… and goes,
“Well… no wonder he’s rich. I mean, if we didn’t have windows… we’d all just freeze.”
And here’s the thing—I can’t even argue with that logic. I mean, he’s technically not wrong. But also very wrong. But also—maybe kind of a genius for even coming to that logic on his own?
I don’t know. That’s the South for you. This guy may not have understood not one thing about computers…but he definitely understood the enormous importance of insulation and keeping warm.
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#13
My work colleague (22m) who still lives with his parents was so confused why i (32f) hadn’t bought a house yet. I had to remind him that I left home at 18 and haven’t had the luxury of living with parents to help save for a house deposit.
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#14
“They won’t arrest me I’m homeless.”
Yeah they will. Do you not see the constant flow of police cars showing up here 3+ times a week.
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#15
“I guess there are poor people in Jamaica, but they are so happy! They’re used to being poor. They’re not hungry. They can always just eat a coconut!”
We were both around 19 years old and I was at a party at her house. We had just met. After we were done talking I wasn’t invited back, which was fine by me!
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#16
“I don’t care if I get Covid…. “ till she did, she regretted it then.
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#17
Overheard from 19 y/o coworkers, “i think i’m going to wait to get botox until i’m old, like 25.” i’m not sure what they think is going to happen in 6 years, but if they lay off the tanning beds and the vapes they should not be needing botox.
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#18
I had a new temp tell me he doesn’t get why I wouldn’t give my social security number on the phone to the power company in the staff breakroom. He laughed at me and said I was being too paranoid and no one cares what some government number is.
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#19
I work at a university. A 20 year old student came to see me to ask if I would be his dissertation supervisor in the next academic year. I said I couldn’t, since I would be leaving at the end of semester (to work at another university). He looked me up and down with dawning realisation and said ‘Oh right yeah, I guess you are retiring?’.
I was 35 at the time.
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#20
“You mean phones couldn’t take pictures?”
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#21
It was a Reddit poster, so I guess he wrote it rather than said it. He thought because I didn’t pay to listen to music I was pirating it even though I clearly wrote in my post I watch music videos on YouTube or listened to the radio. He didn’t understand that musicians distributing music in that format got their money from advertisers rather than from subscriptions. The whole thing would have been hilarious if it hadn’t been so sad the younger generation thinks the only legit way to consume content is through subscriptions. They have no clue how to be frugal and find free and completely legal means to listen to their music.
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#22
I told a couple of 18 year olds that I don’t have Instagram. They called me a liar and said if I didn’t want to be friends, I should just say so.
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#23
This person is only 2 years younger than me (mid twenties) and I was explaining how working full time is the standard for an adult, they thought I worked 5 days a week because I’m “good at that” and insisted most people in the US work like 1-2 days…. They were trying to get my pity by saying I’m just an overachiever who loves work. Not true!
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#24
“Millennials never take responsibility for anything, the housing market, environment, economy. They blame everything on boomers.”
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#25
I’m not sure if it counts as ‘out of touch’ as it’s just ‘massively dumb’ but I have to tell someone.
Apparently until he was 23, my cousin believed islands floated on water. One day I told him we were going to a Greek island on vacation and he got this big happy face as he proudly said “Did you know islands are actually stuck to the seabottom? They don’t float! Sometimes they have thousands of miles of rock below them!”. He looked so proud of sharing this revolutionary fact.
We were with some family members. All of us looked at him with a look that said “are you for real?” and we said that yeah, we knew. We’ve always known. Everyone does. It didn’t shame him as much as it should’ve.
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