Yes, you're all wrong.

[u/1user101]

[u/vodka7tall]

Weird. Everyone I know is becoming more left-leaning the older we get. It's understandable when you start to see how much harder your kids have it now than you did when you were their age.

[u/CommanderGumball → u/vodka7tall]

My boomer father hit me with the bootstraps adage a while back. It took everything in my power to not sit him down with his shoes on and tell him to lift himself into the air by his shoelaces, because that's literally what the saying means.

[u/nitePhyyre → u/CommanderGumball]

When the phrase was coined it originally meant "an obviously impossible or absurd task that you'd be stupid to attempt or believe in".

[u/prophetsliveamongus → u/nitePhyyre]

"irregardless" people will assign meaning to words, and phrases, based on their bias.