🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 okay that's a good one

Funny idea, but I don’t think millennial is quite the right generation.

This person is addicted to memes from 2008, and is still snickering over avocado toast, i see

Yeah fuck those kids for not learning how to do a thing we never bothered to teach them

"Kids"? 😭 Millennials are 30-40 years old 😭😭 we have mortgages and teenage children

When are millennials going to give up on this ridiculous argument?!? Not everything has to be taught to you, ya know? Millennials are over 30. Take some responsibility for once and learn it on your own, or go get taught.

Are you actually serious Like please arriculate how someone is supposed to acquire generational knowledge from a youtube video or through vibes Or whose clutcu is it they should destroy trying to solo it? Is there a stick shift simulator like there is for airline pilots? Hmm?

Shut up nerd

When are older gens going to stop being judgmental, elitist assholes over differences in knowledge? Sure, some of us might not know how to write a check, but we have to handle tech-related problems for 4 other generations. And my first car was manual, so you're not even funny, just annoying.

Oh that's rich. To be so utterly clueless to think that the younger generation has any clue about tech. Gen Z Is Apparently Baffled by Basic Technology share.google/6RsgehsFuRXU... Gen Z has a tech skills gap at work. A Dell educator explains why share.google/xLjfG261wFSh...

Oh that's rich. To be so utterly clueless to think that the younger generation has any clue about tech. When shit gets handed to you, no, you don't know fuck all about tech. Gen Z Is Apparently Baffled by Basic Technology share.google/6RsgehsFuRXU...

Are you a bot?

Haha - Boomers are dissed ALL the time, and now y'all are getting tweaked over manual shift cars? I learned on my own, on a 1965 VW Bug. Mom couldn't drive a stick, parent's were divorced. Mastered it in 2 days. Easiest damn car to learn a stick on.

"Boomers are dissed all the time." That's funny. My generation has been bullied and judged by yours since we could barely walk. You know why everyone "disses" you now? Because no one likes Boomers. As a generation you're just bullies, we learned from you. Grow up kid.

Maybe look at my posts before you judge me, child.

Maybe mind your business if you're so different from the other Boomers. Otherwise, all you're doing is proving me right, lmao.

Ah, no sense of humor, and no clue about boomers, really. Try history, kiddo. Boomers fought the feds and won before, several times. Might have a few hints for getting through and staying alive.

Can you teach me how to crash the economy and tank the housing market while creating stagnant wages and skyrocketing costs of everything? Fought the feds? And then what? Set us up for an autocracy? Thanks Boomer!

Boomers also voted for trump both times. So like, maybe take a seat?

Boomers run a nearly 20 year birth range - so don't go lumping all the boomers into one pool. Most that I know vote progressive/social dem, while the younger generations I know mostly voted Trump or refused to vote at all, letting fascism in. I could lump you in with any of that crew, ya know?

And I was programming a "toy" computer to play games and leave rude messages on the TV for my sister when I was 16. BEFORE home computers were an affordable thing. BASIC was the bomb for a decade or more. My generation wrote the code behind the code you kids use. So get orffa my lawn, dammit.

How does a person learn it on their own or get taught if a manual object is not available to practice? I've asked people to teach me on their vehicle, I get a hard NO. I looked into schools in my area & the closest is an hour away & charges big $$$ per hour of instruction. I don't have goof off cash

As I've replied to someone else already, you have the world's knowledge at your fingertips. Dozens of websites and YT videos will show you exactly what you need to know to learn.

You still have to practice in the real world. YT is great for the tutorial, hands on the wheel is better. Happy to hear some suggestions on resources for irl training. Perhaps your knowledge of the car world could benefit us in the thread. I'll check your replies as well. My thanks in advance.

I literally bought my first manual car having only ever driven a manual car before a few hundred yards. Took it from the dealer lot on a multi-state road trip and put on hundreds of miles that first day. That's before the days of YT where you can learn just about any skill just watching others.

How to drive stick is a thing you were supposed to teach your kids you fucking deadbeat lmao.

Well, when you're a kid, you know when most people learn to drive, you need someone to teach you. You can't just go get a car and learn on your own You also can't just go get a manual car to learn if no one you know has one. Are you suggesting getting a rental car to learn how to drive it?

you should buy a manual transmission car and THEN learn how to drive it 👍

That was my first car experience haha I knew how to drive automatic already but my first car was manual. Peeled out in reverse the first time I tried to slowly back out of the driveway That was like 22 years ago. Ive driven maybe 2 sticks since then, none were mine. It's an unnecessary skill now 🤣

I didn't choose stick. That was just the cheapest POS car we could find

Why? Manual transmissions are essentially obsolete at this point unless you drive professionally.

Most trucks and even military vehicles are automatic. They are more resilient, more efficient, easier to operate.

Greetings from countries other than the US 🙂

Tell us you know nothing about cars, without telling us you know nothing about cars.

For normal people who just use their cars for commuting it’s obsolete. There’s no reason to have one.

Please do shut up about stuff you know nothing about.

Enlighten me then. You’re not gonna convince me by just saying “UHM, WRONG!!” What is the reason for someone who doesn’t drive professionally in any capacity, aside from personal preference, to have a manual over an automatic?

Extra control. More fun. Forced to pay attention - god forbid! Dramatically reduced brake wear. More involved in the driving experience, rather than being another brainless drone. Jumping it without needing a pack. Cheaper. Lighter. Fewer repairs. Fewer parts in general to break.

So it does just amount to personal preference. People who choose automatics have decided the trade offs are worth it.

Personally, I just like the extra control when you find yourself in difficult conditions and I get annoyed when a sudden incline takes an auto by surprise. It's niche, I grant you, but that's why I like manuals. I also don't much value the reduced effort of an auto but that's personal preference.

I get where you're coming from and that's why I use the paddles in non-commuter situations. I used to hate the idea of a CVT til I got my OBW. Now, especially in tricky offroad situations, I love what that + X-Mode unlocks Buuut I also fully realize that if the computers glitch, I'm fucked.

With my previous 5MT, sure, it sucked in a long ass traffic jam, wasn't as fun on some kinds of terrain, but... Manual. Post-crash dystopian America, the older manuals are the only cars that'll keep going. DIY on my 99 Forester was easy. On this one... yeah, I'd be fucked

I drive stick and it's literally less than 1% of cars in north America calm down

and we all know that "north America" = "the whole world"

You’ve popped into thread of Americans speaking with other Americans my friend. We tend to speak about things as they pertain to America because that’s where we live.

You've somehow simultaneously missed the point completely while also reinforcing the joke. Also I'm American.

lol

Would you like a cookie

Sorry latest stat is 1.8%

My track car is a stick. Grew up on a farm driving everything including tractors which were all manual. All our current farm equipment uses automatics. Nobody needs them. They can be fun to drive but offer no real advantages over other transmissions. Even F1 has abandoned them.

The benefits of a manual are the fun & control of rowing your own gears & knowing that you are controlling the vehicle. A manual is the difference b/w making your own food or building your own cabinets versus buying mass produced or overlay processed shit. Also cheaper, lighter, reduce brake wear.

No reason? I've been driving stick for 40 years, putting up to 265K miles on vehicles before retiring them. I've never had a transmission go bad. While theoretically it's possible for a standard transmission to go bad, they cost much less to replace & once replaced, they work. There's your reason.

Standards are superior. The driver has more control over the vehicle. Plus, having an Automatic Trans serviced or replaced is more expensive.

Car person here. You’re correct.

You're messing with "religion" beware.

True ‘dat! I know people that have more cash invested in stuff on their driveway than what they live in.

Not my first rodeo in that case

It's a skill most people don't have a routine need for, sure. Until you do. I have many stories but all come down to "it was problematic that many other people couldn't drive my car, so eventually I gave up and started buying automatics."

I would think that other ppl being unable to drive your car is a good thing.

If you are the only one that drives it sure. But many people have a car that they share.

I dont need to drive your car to steal your catalytic coverter...

I drive manual, it’s literally more difficult to get a new vehicle with manual transmission than automatic. It’s not 1982 anymore, the vast majority of cars are automatic transmission. People can very easily and comfortably go their whole lives without driving a manual

Aside from sometimes needing very fine control of your vehicle ... and feeling cool. What specifically are you gaining with a stick? And I've driven to stick for several years prior ...

Tell us you think you know about cars without telling us you think you know about cars

Tell me more about a "skill" you could learn in a day.

This is such a wild thing to read when you're from a country where there are almost exclusively manual transmissions.

And naturally, i'm sure there is a culture of mentoring new drivers that comes from that. Now imagine every employer, parent, and school just shrugged and said "fuck this teaching you is too hard, kid"

That’s fair. I’ve admittedly never left the U.S. but manual transmissions are not common here at all anymore.

We moved from U.K. to Canada and I insisted on a manual transmission because there were ENOUGH changes in my life all at once to deal with. There’s only I guy at garage who can drive it when it’s serviced 😬

"Obsolete" pffffff

No one from the U.S. has told me I’m wrong for any reason that doesn’t boil down to “i prefer them”.

Don’t rent a car in Europe.

I can barely afford to travel to a state next to mine. I don’t think that’ll be an issue.

Don’t take a job as a valet

If i ever do it will probably be as part of a ruse for a heist.

Go anywhere in Europe (or most of the rest of the world) and try to get a rental car. The first question I got asked in Iceland was “can you drive standard?”

OK, how do they learn it on their own?

you’re right, name one good reason a millennial doesn’t go and buy a car they can’t drive off the lot so they can “figure it out themselves” my parents taught me to drive stick. they had cars that were stick so i could learn. it’s really not as simple as “just figure it out lol”

My 1st manual car, I had never driven a manual car more than a few hundred yards. Drove it off the dealer lot & took it on a multi-state road trip w/ a friend that same day. It really is as simple as "just figure it out" but I guess that involves putting a bit of effort.

Nobody is responsible for teaching obscure skills, no. It's not bad parenting not to teach stick especially when it's hard to even find one. You can't easily rent one (for good reasons) and it's impractical to buy one just to teach a teen. There are way bigger ways our parents failed us.

my parents drove American made family sedans of the 1980s and 90s, and that categorically excludes manual transmissions. my parents bought old cheap cars, but the insurance made frivolous extra vehicles inaccessible. The choice was really made by Detroit executives.

Yes. And we know how to drive stick, grandpa.

"When are millennials going to stop calling out our faults and inability to be parents??" Lol

The same day boomers learn to save their own pdfs.

When are boomers going to give up on this bullshit culture war?!? I never gave myself a participation trophy but I too often see people patting themselves on the back for knowing how to do something that other people don't.

It's all they have left. They increasingly need to feel superior because they're facing down a future full of medical bankruptcy, nursing homes, and a family that really doesn't want to go see them. And it's all their own fault.

Meanwhile people your age trying to teach you the internet: 😭😭😭

Millennials out here being more knowledgeable about the most relevant technology than every other generation just to be told "herp derp, you can't write a check or drive a manual." I can actually do both of those things, but haven't needed to for over a decade.

I’m sure you didn’t learn how to drive a manual on your own

I literally bought my first new manual car and from the dealer lot took it on a 4 hr trip through 3 states with a buddy having never driven a manual car more than a few hundred yards before.

My parents were Boomers. Dad drove a Manual but stopped long before I could drive. Mother claims she can but she’s a habitual liar that I’ve never seen drive a Manual. So therefore I haven’t drove a Manual. Get fucked.

You have all the world's knowledge at your fingertips. You could find a dozen websites or YT videos teaching the subject or go to a driving school. So really we come to the truth that only laziness keeps you from actually learning. Easier to blame others than putting in a tiny bit of effort.

Better question is WHY I would want to. There’s no call for it. You’re just being an asshole to people not doing things they don’t have to.

And also. Outside of some niche appeal and use ... made totally irrelevant. It's the same reason we dont teach Morse code in school.

It's not easy finding cars with a stick. When my last stick was killed by an inattentive driver (not me!) I was told that the closest manual model was like in the MidWest & I would have to pay $$$ for the transport,

You can’t get them on economy cars anymore. You pay a $10-20k premium for them on a top tier, low volume model of the economy car.

Yes. I had a lower end Ford, which I loved! It was about 30 years ago, and it got over 40 mpg on the highway! And was so excellent in the snow.

Replace this symbol with the “3 + R” on the column…see how many know that.

I'm a Millenial and I'm 39 years old. Half my peers were driving stick in high school.

This shit coming from a pro EV account is utter brain damage

Bonus lowjack with a double clutch.

Maybe Gen Z, but most of my cars have been manual.

Millennials learned to drive on stickshift. The generation that did not is gen-z. Boomers and gen-x would know that if they were not so stupid.

😆

I am way older than a millennial. My first car, a 1969 Pontiac LeMans, was equipped with Hurst transmission. Those were the days. Back then, in the days of the super patriot, people were slapping US flag decals on their car window. I was one of the people who applied an ecology flag instead.

You need to see more stickers

yes...because when the millennials were 5 they demanded that car manufacturers stop making standard transmissions available... in 2002 i looked for a pickup with standard, not a single dealer had one on lot, special order only who was supposed to teach them to drive a standard? who taught you?

Look man. If someone really wants to steal ur car. They can drive manual.

Nearly every millennial I know can drive a stick

Or an anti-American, manual transmissions (or stick shifts) are pretty common outside the USA. Most people I know that drive, use a manual gearbox, unless it’s for health concerns like my dad who struggles with a manual on long trips due to his arthritis.

ha ha what a hoot!

6 on the floor?

Until they go on YouTube for tutorials.

boomer go open a pdf

I'd call it an American Anti-Theft Device. Outside of the US, most people are fully capable of driving with a gear shift.

I live in a European country, and that’s changing very quickly.

I just got back (to the US) from France, and I was pleasantly surprised that my little Renault rental was still a manual.

I mean automatic cars are getting much more common but I don't know a single person that has a diving licence that is only for automatic cars... sure a lot of people have restriction B197 in Germany (me included) but the ability to drive manual is still the norm.

I know a few in Sweden.

I've never understood this argument. I don't know if it's specifically an American thing, but automatic cars are just... NOT a thing in the UK. We've all got Euro cars that are, like, fifteen years old. We know how to use a sodding gearstick, we're not dumb.

Lucky! We have to go out of our way to find manuals. Everybody wants trucks or SUVs so now everything sucks.

You see the odd truck, especially as I grew up in a rural area, but even then that's usually just stuff like this.

Now see that's a reasonable truck. Only know one person with a truck that actually needs it. I don't get the appeal of having a big huge truck that you can't park anywhere and costs a mortgage to own and operate. My next car is gonna be a lil Miata cuz you have to look for an automatic.

Big trucks don't even fit on the roads round here, why do people think they REALLY need a big daft Range Rover?

It makes them feel better about themselves? Idk. I think they look like dorks. Trucks are made for working and a lot of them are doing not that.

My uncle referred to his Jeep this way when I asked him to move his car. I had to remind him that my first car (I bought it in 2007) was a manual and that I currently drive a manual. It's becoming a lost art, but it's not dead yet. Enthusiasts know what's up.

It's nowhere near a "lost art". You and OP are just out of touch.

It's becoming a lost art simply because fewer and fewer cars are being made with manual transmissions these days. I had to go out of my way to find a manual for my current car, because you can only really find it as a performance option on certain models. Automatics are the baseline now.

Then I guess this is the boomer anti-theft-device?

Cute, except I know more millennials with manuals than other generations, but sure lol

Kinda silly. I have a millenial and a Z and both were taught on manual transmissions. 1.8 Turbo VW, 4.0 Jeep TJ and a 7.3 Superduty.

True story. A LOL friend of mine was carjacked at gunpoint in a parking lot. She got out of car, kid got in. Kid tried to drive away. Stick shift. Meanwhile, LOL called 911. Kid got out of car and ran. Cops grabbed him 3 minutes later.

I swear to fuck boomers and gen x are convinced "millennial" just means "young person." I'm a millennial and I'm 37. most of us are around 40. we're not kids!

I have at least two millennial coworkers who would laugh at the stupidity of this sticker.

If i was a millenial car thief, i would surely appreciate this humoruous sticker, and totally it wouldn't even cross my mind to try it. Car thiefs are notorious for thier lack of skill regarding cars. That's like the one thing they have in common.

Another younger ish millennial that first car to learn to drive was stick. Now that being said I’m sure of the still under 30 younger millennials a lot don’t know stick because they never had one growing up. That being said this joke just feels dumb to me even if it were mostly true.

This millennial has owned a stick shift car but my boomer parents can’t drive a stick….

i had several friends in high school who drove manuals lmao.

I wonder when boomers will understand that Millennials are objectively better than anyone else alive today. Vs Boomers and Gen Z, I'd take a 30 y/o millennial every time.

I’m a millennial and I can sure as hell drive stick

i’m 43

I've installed a Boomer anti theft device on my car. You have to call a kid of yours and tell them you love them as you tip a server 20%. It's still in beta testing.

Soo... telling the world you failed to teach your kid a basic life skill. Interesting flex.

But american can‘t Drive manual

This is the dumbest boomer humor shit ever, nobody's after your shitty Honda that's 25K overdue for an oil change.

I'd have that vintage of Civic Si in a heartbeat, if you know you know. :)

Is 2008 vintage now lol

Yeah, that was one of the last of the time. :)

Only pussies drive automatics....

Civics are regularly in the top 10 most stolen vehicles. 6th most stolen in 2024 according to a quick search.

well civics would also be very common as well so this stat is very misleading

It’s primarily because the parts are common across a lot of model years so they’re a lot easier to sell.

How would that be misleading. If anything, it completely disproves the original comment that “nobody wants” one.

Pipe down nerd

🤣🤣🤣

Hysterical, but do they make cars like that anymore?

Not true with gen z

An Si that dope. Nice car.

bsky.app/profile/abdo... is why 22,000 children and 17,000 women were killed, and 158,000 had their legs or hands cut off.

bsky.app/profile/abdo...

Love my manual shift. Car broken into but not stolen. Felt sorry for the guy wasting his time. Not.

I'm a millennial that has only ever owned manual cars. Every single friend I have also knows how to drive manual cars. This joke was funny 20 years ago maybe.

😂

Joke's on you, I don't even drive! Oh wait...

Get out more often

I wish there were a way to learn to drive stick. Kids who grew up with manual were so lucky

As a zoomer who knows stick I hope you feel confident in that thought process

"Hur hur hur! Young people are dumb! Hur hur hur!"

I also don’t know why some people are so freaking proud of being able to drive a stick. The rest of the world still do. Most drivers in history did. It’s really not that hard. It’s a skill that’s declining in demand but that doesn’t make it especially hard.

Hah... My first car was a stick, so my son's first car was a stick. Although my commute in the Bay Area with no public option was so bad, I got my first automatic in 2016. Since 2019, I don't even drive the car except twice a month so the car engine stays lubricated.

😅! Remind me of this!

That’s hilarious! In fact a pile of folks literally have zero idea what it is even!!

🤣😂 For my 19 yr old daughter, yes. Not for my 17 yr old son… and neither my wife’s car or my car are manual gear stick. Fair play to my son…

I built a 30-something Mom a classic high-end turntable system because she has (gasp!) discovered vinyl. "Now the 'on' switch goes here when you're playing a 33, and it goes here for a 45." "Uh... what's a 45?" (Amazingly, I did not kill myself🤦)

There is no special feeling than driving a manual. I still drive one.

I'm a millennial and I still drive stick.

Same joke was thrown on GenX. I think the point is a lot of people do not know how to drive stick since automatic has been a thing. Its a commentary on lost knowledge and joke at the same time.

Uh... How young does this person think millennials are? Sticks weren't that uncommon when I learned to drive them in the early 2000s.

If I was the car-thieving type I would take this car and leave the sticker behind with my confession on a PDF. Isn’t this kind of generational humor fun, ha ha ha

My actually car......

I’m a millennial and I’ve been driving manual cars for 28 years.

*Only works in USA

This sticker is so Boomer, it just asked to speak to the manager

It works in the inner city as well.

I grew up driving manual and automatic, gave up manual as soon as I could. I both disliked it and wasn't good at it. Twenty years after that, I married my second wife, who owns an manual 07 Honda Civic that will last forever. irony

Im having a hard time imagining anyone but a Millennial buying a newish Civic SI

Dude most likely bought this decal like 15 years ago

Geriatric millennial here: my first 2 cars were stick.

Two issues here... 1) Millenials are old now. Leave us out of this. 2)Only Americans have issues with manual gear boxes. The sticker should say "Anti theft device for America"

😂😂😂😂😂

Yup.

Millenials here, in high school when me and my friends started driving half of us had manual transmission because we could get the cars for cheaper, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

*Europe has entered the chat, laughing*

My FL mechanic said its the best anti-theft device you can get.

Been reading too many books on demonology. At first glance I thought this was a demonic sigil and was about to grab my Lesser Key of Solomon to look it up 😂

I need this for my Miata.

Wrong gear pattern.

True but I'm sure I could find one that's right. Besides, they won't even know what they're looking at anyway.

😄😄😂

When millennials are literally in our 30s and up. But people still think we're teenagers for some reason 🤔 🙄

OMG🤣😂!

American spotted lol, In most places everyone starts driving a manual afaik

Good news. As a millennial…I can steal that car…and go zooom clutch shift zoooooooooom clutch shift Zoooooooooooooooooom in it

Ok boomer

We're like fucking 40, our first cars were beaters from the 90s, tons of us can use a stick shift lmao

This the millennial cringe that the kids talk about

Came for the Millennial defensiveness and general inability to laugh at themselves. 😉

I learned to drive stick as soon as I could find someone to teach me, which bizarrely was college rather than my childhood occasionally "working" at the family's auto recycling business. But then I encountered a Model T and could not figure the interface out at all.

They're a bit different but it's fairly possible to adapt. The braking/reverse pedal's.... interesting that way. Allow distance if you ever get any speed up. :)

Raise your standards of “best” please. I’ve seen this for every generation.

I think they forgot millenials are in their 40s and not 20 years old

The oldest millenials are approaching 45 jfc

It's been a few years, but I've driven a manual for years. I could probably pick it back up in a matter of hours. Most millennials have had some exposure if you learned to drive between 2001 and 2010

Geriatric millennial here. Only recently and very reluctantly gave up manual cars when I switched to full electric. Still prefer manual when I use hire cars because I like to keep my hand in.

After driving manuals my whole life, my claim is that my EV is still a manual because I have to specifically put it in each 'gear'. It just doesn't have a clutch.

I'm allegedly a Millennial!™ and I learned how to drive stick before automatic. It was a '92 Ford Ranger and I think my uncle still has that truck.

Damn. Old Rangers are *so* cool. Shame we can't have reasonably sized trucks in America anymore.

Millennials are almost 70 years old now

My Millennial daughter learned to drive on a manual, drove a 5MT Toyota for three years before it died. My GenZ niece had a 6MT Impreza for four years. I know one guy in my age group that drives stick Funny sticker though

I am a millennial, and I remain completely unbothered by my inability to shoe a horse when I need to go somewhere.

Hey, you wanna pay extra for outmoded parts that modern cars are not equipped to use, that's on you, and good on ya for having that much extra money to waste on inconvenience, especially when it comes time for service and warranty work.

Cars will become obsolete anyways lmao

About five years ago here in Cleveland a guy was carjacked on video. Wasn't hurt, but it's overall not funny. But, yes, the thief was foiled by the stick. Really happened.

Don’t make us stop fixing your computers for you, you smug old fucks.

The true millennial anti-theft device was the manual choke.

Ugh. Yes let’s blame younger generations for not knowing how to do something that wasn’t ever a thing for them 🙄

Gen Z maybe. I still drive a manual. Every other guy I went to high school with did too. I don’t think the person who designed that decal knows what a millennial is.

I don't get it

The military is being deployed against citizens.

it is good, but the placement and orientation is pretty triggering ngl

This is funny. My 3 children are Gen Z, ages 16 to 26. I taught them all how to drive standard (stick). But it wouldn't surprise me if most Millennials didn't know how to use a clutch.

😂

Well done!

I donated my E91 6-speed to my granddaughter, she loved learning to drive a stick.

LOVE it!

Every 17 yr old outside of North America is laughing.

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Are people still going to use “millennial” as a synonym for “teens” when millennials are in their 50s in a couple years?

Boomers’ idea of millennials, in perpetuity.

Ah yes...peak boomer humor. "Let's make fun of our kids for not learning things we didnt teach them"

lmao. more like genz though.

M Gen z nephew drives a stick. An old 60s beach buggy, yet. I think more kids know how if they are interested in cool old cars. And fun.

Wow, a six speed floor shift. Loved my Hurst four speed.

Let’s goooo! We’ve entered the millennial economy!

In Europe, most people still drive manuals.

Gen X has no culture or relevancy in society so stuff like this is their magnum opus

Here's to hoping that a 43 year old millennial who has been driving stick for 25 years steals this Honda...

We millennials learned to drive stick, hotshot. Might be thinking gen Z.

All this means is that adults failed them.

*laugh in European*

That's old fashioned... now all you need is a clock ⏰️ with hands!

I thought driving a manual car was something which almost no one in the US could do.

How many boomers still drive stick? Seriously, I don’t know any that do.

Boy do I got bad news for them.

Millennials are in their forties. I also don’t know a millennial who can’t drive stick. So this is an odd sticker.

The driver may well be a Millenial who meant it the other way.

1) The youngest millennials only just turned 30 2) I'm a millennial who has never even had a manual in the family my entire life But I agree it's a weird sticker, feels like it could more accurately have said gen z

I know more boomers who can't figure out why the computer wont turn on if you flip the little switch than I know Millennials who can't drive stick. Hell I know folks younger than our millennial gen who can drive stick. But show me one boomer who can naviagte a torrent site, without getting a virus.

My Silent gen Dad can, and growing up with a father that was ahead of the game was a pain in the ass. On the otherhand, I'm not really worried about him falling for a scammer.

A silent genner? Dude is a dinosaur basically, where did he learn to be so tech savvy?

MACSOG- CIA- VP of software company. The response to the first time I got caught sneaking out was motion detector flood lights in the late 1980s. He had a remote that could shut down any electronic in the house by the time I was in middle school. I'm a Gen Xer w a millennial dad who loved tech.

I'm so sorry. My gen X parents were equal to boomers in the tech dept. So I got away with so much when it came to electronics.

It also meant we had tech long before anyone else, and you just went over to our friend's houses to do shit. It probably kept us alive, because as an Xer, most of my childhood friends are gone due to the stuff they got into. And you just learned the dead zones if wanted to get out.

Lol its like the opposite issues I faced, though I do have regrets about introsucing them to the internet. They fell down the right wing chriatofascist pipeline 😓

Dad is as liberal as it comes. I tried/failed to block MSNBC bc Maddow riled him up so bad. It lasted 2 days and he's still mad I thought it would work. As a GenXer, we're some of the worst due to our shitty schooling/neglect, so don't feel too bad about the intro. They would have found it anyway.

You're likely right, but still, its really on another level when it jusy so happens I represent nearly everything they hate about the liberal left.

Yup! 100%. In fact, in 1999 when I was 15 my dad made me learn how to drive on a manual transmission car. I didn’t even own an automatic car until my son was born when I was 33. The only reason I don’t own a manual now is because of all of the dad cars that exist, none of them come with a stick. :(

My dad drove a 95 Nissan pickup that he taught me how to drive stick with. Car I drive now is a automatic, but it's my partners, who got it from their grandfather when he passed.

Lol

I only drove stick when kids were living at home.... no jacking my car, ladies.

For some reason people forget how old millennials are. The youngest ones are 30. Every millennial I know can drive stick, my first 3 cars growing up were stick.

If every millennial you know can drive stick, then you are clearly not American. About 1% of American cars are stick. Most American Gen Xers can’t drive stick, and almost all millennials can’t.

You underestimate rural America in the 70s and 80s. Most reports say around 20 percent of Americans can drive a manual. Thats 1 in 5,and you really think an age group between 30-60 (the age range of millennials and gen x) has about 0 percent of those? lol not a chance. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

I think I only had one friend who drove a stick shift. Hell I haven’t seen a car with one for like 20 years.

I was going to say, my first two vehicles were sticks

I didn't get this at first, I thought the sticker was saying the driver was a millennial who has an "anti theft device" - I forget millennial still means "kids these days" to people 50+

Everyone again forgets Gen X exists. :) Such is our lot. :)

Yet we can laugh it off, unlike… 😀

they said "50+" which is a lot of GenXers

Perhaps but it's still mostly framed as 'Boomers vs Millenials' when it's probably a Millenial that put that sticker on. :)

It's a civic si so you might be right on the driver being a millennial

I'm a millennial and drove an automatic for the first time this year

Same, and my gen x husband can’t.

Always driven stick and I'll always jam in bottom right gear once I reach cruising speed on the highway.

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this is an excellent example of boring boomer humour

this sticker would be zero effective in europe

I kinda wanna steal this car just so I can strip the clutch and leave it in a ditch

good sticker, i'm a millenial with a manual transmission 2021 car no one's touching it but meeeee

re: learning nobody taught me so i got my own

"Re:Fw:Re:Re:Fw:Re:Re:Re:The kids these days" Boomer

UK drivers be like…

It’s amusing how much hate millennials still get. Do people forget that there have been two generations since millennial? Millennials actually grew up with stick shifts so the few who’ve never driven a manual did so by choice. Now you have to actively hunt to find a new stick shift.

I've got like 24 nieces and nephews and none of them want to inherit a Porsche 911 because it's a stick.

Oh, wow, that would be so fun to drive!

Oh it is. About 50 years old, only 35k on a new motor, updated chassis, all new suspension. No dents. Guess I'll be selling it.

Can I be your nephew? I’ve got a strong desire to inherit a 911.

Anyone else sick of the gen name. I don't remember it growing up other than boomer, the baby boom after the war. Now all older peeps are boomers younger are mil. no one could tell u the same dates for who is who. Thinkin u know a whole group of people because of made up age range just seems lazy.

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As a European took me a moment to understand this.

They work! Some dipshit kid stole my jeep, literally got it one mile down the road before abandoning it.

Lol

In China, they have an automatic-only license and a regular license that requires driving manual on the driving exam. Automatics (and EVs, obviously) are become more common in the cities, but reliable, economical manuals abound in the rural parts. Many other countries are manual majority.

Same in UK - need to do your test in a manual if you want a licence to drive both automatic and manual cars

I’m an elder millennial. I learned to drive on a manual & think it’s best to learn on one, even if you’ll buy an EV, because it fosters a closer connection with machine & road & greater situational awareness. Cars are machines, not appliances. But one-pedal EV driving is best for daily driving.

I bet those boomers can even drive a horse and buggy like their grandparents could.

Cringe 😬

I always laugh at the stick shift elitists because as a genz-millenial cusp I couldn't drive stick to save my life and I never want to learn. like please go ahead and laugh at me I don't care 😂

Most Americans can’t drive stick, so this is actually quite stupid. But my millennial daughter can so…

only works in america i think. here in the free world we all drive cars like they should be driven, only a few are automatic for when people are having difficulty understanding how to drive.

This is like being mad at people for not learning cursive in an age of texting. There's always gonna be enthusiasts... The need for differentiating ones' self just for a sense of superiority is white and baffling.

I love it. I miss manual transmissions.

Can drive stick. But if im stealing cars, I won't drive stick well purposely. Gonna fuck your gearbox up in pure malicious spite. Have fun with the repairs!

Matter of fact you're gonna wish it wasn't stick, cause manual is harder to fuck us as quickly with my ass playing a symphony of whines, grinds and scratching from the gearbox

You clearly have a low standard for humor.

I’m a millennial, and I’ve been driving a manual for 22 years. I taught my friends, 2 past girlfriends and my wife to drive a manual. My oldest sister drove a manual, and her husband drove a manual.

It wild to live life by stereotypes. Don't understand.

I miss my stick shift.

I get this, but also- Boomer automakers - eliminate most manual cars Boomer parents - don’t teach their kids how to drive manual vehicles Boomers: “stupid millennials”

(Though actually the Millenials are also most of the 'fast and furious' kids so they may have meant it the other way. When most of us X'ers were coming up automatics almost always took all the fun out of anything, took too much of limited power away. As well as at the time, MPG.

Also how young do they think we are? I grew up in manual cars. I dont drive but like... Ima very young millennial and still know what manual drives are and how they work

Ok. But all too often, ppl say "Boomer" when they're referring to Gen X. So, so long as everyone younger than me keeps calling me a "Boomer", I'm going to keep calling them "Millennials" even if they're Gen Z.

"I know what I'm doing is wrong and I'm gonna keep doing it" sounds like a boomer to me. Gen Xrs wouldn't care.

Remember when millennials kids were buying and purchasing participation trophies to give to themselves

My milliennial kids learned to drive in a 1951 Chevy, that has 3 on the tree and my VW with a 5 speed, with the advice of, "never buy anything you can't fix yourself"

Born in 1950. I have never been without a vehicle with a manual transmission, even though the other vehicle is an automatic. My son learned to drive in a 5-speed manual (on purpose). I love my 20-year-old 6-speed manual Nissan Frontier, which at ~187K miles still runs like new.

who cares

87 kid here. This is a weird sticker because people our age were the last gen to learn both. Once again Boomers and Gen X'ers confuse us for Gen Z because they can't accept how ancient they themselves are now.

Judging by some of the replies, I'm a rare breed among Millennials. I can pretty easily infer how manual transmission works, but I have zero experience driving cars with it.

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Fucking stupid sticker ... Millenials know how to drive stick 😄 Probably 40% of cheap used cars in 2000-2005 were manual in US/Canada. (Were still 10% of all new vehicle sales across the board) These were the first cars owned by millennials.

Lol, old people can't use modern technology. Needs a picture of a laptop with 100 virus warnings, AI slop, and a GOEBBLES LOL WAP AMEM Facebook post.

My first car was a stick shift and I’m over 40. Millennials are old now