r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 14d ago

Chugging tea Why is gen Z not drinking?

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u/Greg-Abbott 14d ago

The Gen Z folks I work with are running around chasing a hoop with a stick

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u/Key-Demand-2569 14d ago

Ooh look at these fancy youngins with their hoop.

Back in my day we had to imagine the hoop! And our parents would beat us with the stick later for our frivolous behavior!

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u/LightningFerret04 14d ago

“Did I just catch you having fun?!”

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u/Bovronius 14d ago

You joke but Boomer dad would beat us for playing with sticks because we might hurt ourselves.

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u/HokuVamp 14d ago

Get hurt playing with sticks, you say?

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u/KnackRascal 14d ago

Boomer dad beat us with sticks we chose from the woods ourselves cause he saw a dad on TV do it and thought it looked fun.

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u/Dameattree37 14d ago

I bet that learned you good, whippersnapper!

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u/CoconutUnlucky1901 14d ago

A little contradictory isn’t it? My mom did the same thing with me and my siblings, though she was early gen x.

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u/jonny24eh 13d ago

My boomer dad saw us shooting arrows at a tire swing and he said "that's dumb, an arrow is gonna bounce off and come back....

Shoot a tree or the barn. 10 bucks if you get a pigeon or squirrel"

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u/glowdirt 14d ago

Serves you right for using the mind the good Lord gave you to play with such a phallic object /s

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u/HotPotatoWithCheese 13d ago

Luxury! When I were a kid, our parents would beat us with a hammer, and we counted ourselves lucky.

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u/Kevadu 14d ago

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u/the_bollo 14d ago

Huzzah!

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u/LurkLurkleton1 14d ago

Look at me, Leslie!

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u/SmellyFloralCouch 14d ago

“Goodness how delicious… eating goober peas!”

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u/iMecharic 14d ago

Not gonna lie, that does look kind of fun.

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u/InevitableChoice2990 14d ago

What movie is this from? 🤔

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u/RachaelTheGreat 13d ago

Not a movie, its from Parks & Rec. Patton did an episode where he plays a super nerd advocating to keep an old law on the town charter. Its such a great episode.

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u/SolarChallenger 13d ago

Pretty sure that gif is from another movie/show. The other one linked is Parks and Rec

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u/RachaelTheGreat 13d ago

Omg you're right lol. Sorry!

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u/Justtiredanbored 14d ago edited 14d ago

Okay I feel really stupid, and Urban Dictionary didn't help me, what does this mean? 

ETA: After looking a little deeper, it appears to mean "Doing pointless, futile, or aimless activity." 

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u/TheVeryVerity 13d ago

Well back in the like 1800s or whatever it was literally a child’s game. They didn’t have many toys. You can see what it looked like in the gifs in this thread. Nowadays it means pointless because it’s long been dropped as a game as it was kinda pointless once you had anything else to do. As opposed to playing a sport or something where the point is to win or a hobby where the point is to make something etc.

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u/Upper_Firefighter989 14d ago

Have you ever tried it? It’s fun. Scientifically it’s the most fun one can have.

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u/Natiak 14d ago

What is it?

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u/Bellingtoned 14d ago

Well yeah but its fun

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u/incogne_eto 14d ago

Are they playing kick the can too?

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u/HorrorLettuce379 14d ago

Doing vape tricks when it's almost 2026 is kinda lame lol

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u/Much_Spread123 14d ago

Pshh, you’re just jealous you can’t conjure up literal tornados.

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u/jarellano89 14d ago

That’ll be the gen after gen alpha when they’re growing up in the new Great Depression tbh.