Millennials Too Lazy To Eat Cereal – IOTW Report

Millennials Too Lazy To Eat Cereal

Wednesday, 24 February 2016, 23:27 BFH Uncategorized 36

Cereal companies are experiencing a downtick in sales. They did some poking around and they’ve found that the Sanders generation finds it too hard to eat cereal because they have to clean the bowl afterward.

Newser-

the fact that young people aren’t eating cereal because “bowls don’t clean themselves” should worry both cereal companies and “anyone who has a stake in this country’s future,” according to the Post. “Is a generational shift in how families raise their kids turning even the most mundane of responsibilities, like doing the dishes, into unthinkable nuisances?” the Post asks, pointing to a 2014 study that found only 28% of parents make their kids do chores.

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I think this is the worst generation.

My pants are not around my chest, I don’t kick people off my lawn, and I don’t have nose and ear hair, so I can say this without being an old fogey- these kids today are the worst.

36 Comments on Millennials Too Lazy To Eat Cereal

  1. Imagine an attack on our soil that requires this generation to drop the California Burrito and take up arms. WE’RE FOOKED!

    No apology necessary for describing them as the worst. They are completely PUSSIFIED!

  8. Remember when neighborhood kids would come around asking if you needed your lawn mowed, trying to earn a little money?

    I can’t even get my grandkids to rake my leaves anymore. It must be part of the indoctrination in the school systems, I’m pretty sure my kids didn’t raise them that way.

  9. These millennials are apparently so lazy they haven’t even bothered to look in the grocery store for disposable paper or plastic bowls or cups. When I was in college, I ate many a cup of generic cereal out of a 16 ounce “Solo” cup. But I was so tight with money that I actually rinsed them out and used them again. And I didn’t even need an app to tell me how to do it.

  11. Mr. Illustr8r works with a few Millennials who vehemently claim they are GenXers. He thinks it’s hysterical especially when they can’t name one grunge band from that era and they live in Seattle.

    Macklemore ain’t Nirvana, babe.

  12. What’s so hard about doing dishes. I’m almost 63 and I wash my dishes by hand. What a bunch of namby pamby lazy slobs a lot of Millennials are. Wash your damned dishes and quit bitching about how unfair it is or would you rather be a slob with no chance whatsoever at earning a living ever. And the world doesn’t owe you a living just to make it fair, get over it!

  13. FDR that there’s funny!

    And I just showed this to my sons, 12 & 13. Told them theres a reason why we make them DO stuff around the house.
    One of them remarked ” Now THAT’S lazy!” Yeah, pals, we’re raising MEN here. Not spoiled brats.
    I’m doing what I can to make their generation, well… at least so-so!

  15. Ha. Millenials thinking they’re Gen X.

    So, these kids who are too lazy to rinse out a cereal bowl so they just don’t eat cereal – what do they have for breakfast?

    Pop Tarts? A granola bar and a red bull? DRIVE to starbucks and get a $5 ‘coffee’ and a 800 calorie ‘muffin’?

    I don’t understand why they even bother to rinse out the bowl, just let mommy do it.

    The story seems weird I don’t buy it.

    More likely they are too lazy to MAKE the cereal. Too many steps involved.

  17. BTW you don’t get to call yourself Gen X unless you first hand lived through the Challenger blowing up, first gulf war, Bill Clinton getting BJs in the oval office, the GWB Hanging Chad debacle, the dot com bubble, and 9-11.

    Unless you personally understand the difference between 14.4 and 56k you aren’t gen X.

    “56k, what’s that, wireless G?” BZZT not gen x.

  23. Dad of 4
    I am father of 4 also. With all due respect, may I implore you to not teach your kids disposability? Teach them ownership. Build character through the necessity of the completion of mundane chores. “Sticktoitivness” is a trait to be fostered not abandoned.

  24. Good Gawd,
    What will these people do when their parents die off?
    About a hundred years ago I was a musician on tour in Germany.
    Some asshat from the nightclub we played at threw a bunch of beer bottles into the street.
    The drummer and I were up early (never went to bed), saw it, so we went out to pick it up (I hate that crap)
    Then an old woman came out from her house across the street and handed me a broom and the drummer a dustpan and supervised our clean up efforts.
    She shook her fist at the nightclub, gave us a big smooch on the cheek and then made breakfast for us.
    We spoke no German, she spoke no English but we understood each other. We connected on the Law and Order level.
    Brav gemacht! she shouted at us as we left.
    (That either means Good work!, or I have two daughters!)
    The rest of the band had to make do with hotel breakfast pastries while we were full of sausages, eggs and strong German Coffee.
    The rewards of being industrious.

  25. Lazlo said: “Good Gawd,
    What will these people do when their parents die off?”

    Well, this parent is spending money on cruises, vacations and enjoying the fruits of our labor. Fortunately, both of my kids have jobs, homes, and no children. Yep, I think they were smart enough to see what a generation of numb nuts brought to the table and they said “no thank you.”

    Now we know why there’s so many homeless people on the street, their laziness put them there.

  27. @Bob Anon: You said: “Unless you personally understand the difference between 14.4 and 56k you aren’t gen X.”

    I must be Gen Z, as I’ve lived through Viet Nam, gas lines, rationing under Nixon, BJs in the oral office, and now under the worse President this country has ever had. Worked our asses off, raised two children to be responsible adults. We weren’t the types to coddle our children, now we’ll have generations of it. I won’t care because DH and I will be gone. My kids will have to suffer through it but they will be prepared at least emotionally. They see what’s going on.

    I had two huge boulders hauled onto my property to keep people who think they are entitled to use my driveway out. They are millennials. Stay off of my ROCKS! 🙂

  28. Lazlo — Great story! And it reminded me of a time while traveling through Europe I spent a few days with a friend in a Dutch town of fairly good size. Across from her apartment was a small park that was completely littered with paper and bottle trash. It was the strangest thing. A perfect, little triangle of green with little benches to rest on, filled with everyone’s discarded wrappers, paper coffee cups, empty bottles and assorted detritus. And you could see it all perfectly from the only window in her living room. It drove me nuts, so one early morning I went down there with some garbage bags and cleaned it all up. I was hoping to shame them. I left the next day for somewhere else on my travels so I’ll never know if anyone cared. I didn’t get a breakfast out of it.

  30. The Millennials that are claiming to be GenXers know their generation has a bad image. Too bad they can’t help themselves and show their true selves. First job in the industry, they expect to be running the show, because they know more than anyone else. They whine and have hurt feelings when their work is critiqued. Do they hunker down and get back at it? No, they go to HR to complain that Mr Illustr8r is mean.

    Seriously.

  36. Well, I don’t eat cereal because I have a rather deep dislike of cereal products. My favorite brekkie is scrambled eggs. For that I have to wash a bowl, a pan, and a plate.

    May some Milenial’s head explode over this.

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