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* ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'': After Picard tells LaForge that something feels off about the ''Enterprise'', LaForge finds a 12 micron misalingment in the torque sensors. LaForge is amazed that Picard was able to hear the misalingment. Picard responds that back when he was a young ensign he could hear a three-micron misalignment in torque sensors.

Compare ScrewPolitenessImASenior, WhileYouWereInDiapers, MiseryPoker, IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow, GloryDays (for a distorted view saying that their suffering makes their generation better than the current one).

Obviously, this is a very toxic mindset, as they are essentially saying that [[InsaneTrollLogic having it bad during their time makes for a better livelihood]] while their suffering gives them an inflated sense of entitlement in present day. If you hear any older person rambling about this, ''shut them up'' and try to remove their NostalgiaFilter before they make people undergo unnecessary hardships.

* ''WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007''. Beowulf grumbles to his young mistress that when he was her age, he thought being a king was all about fighting, feasting and wenching. Now he is a king, it's not as fun as he imagined. She coaxes him into admitting that maybe the wenching is still fun.
* On ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', Fowler would carp about his days at the Royal Air Force whenever he felt the chickens went out of line. [[spoiler:Then when they build an airplane to escape, they expect Fowler to pilot, but then he reveals that he was only a mascot at the RAF, and never actually flew a plane. Ginger gives him an inspiring speech about how "today ''is'' your day" to get him into the cockpit.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', Max tries to tell his dad that he can't go on a fishing trip since he's going to a party with his crush, only for Goofy to interrupt him with this:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', Lord Business's rant to Emmet is [[TakeThat pretty much a copy and paste of editorials complaining about Millennials.]] [[spoiler:"Well guess what. No one ever told me I was special! I never got a trophy just for showing up! I'm not some special little snowflake!"]]

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', this combined with SeenItAll was why [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarf]] Longbeards were immune to Panic tests. Because back in ''their'' day, Orcs were proper monsters, not these weedy little things that wouldn't pass for Goblins back then, when they had to march uphill through snow for miles just to get to the battlefield, and of course no one complained because Dwarfs were ''real'' Dwarfs in those days, [[RamblingOldManMonologue and had quality weapons, not the shoddy things that modern Engineers try to pass off as wargear...]]

* Webcomic/SlightlyDamned: [[EvilOldFolks Dakos]] the fire demon complains that [[spoiler:Iratu's]] use of complex plans, working in groups and allying with [[spoiler:rogue angels]] are [[NoTrueScotsman unnatural]] for demons and even refers to the younger demons as a "[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain generation of cripples]]"'

** The entire point of this article: http://www.cracked.com/article_19109_6-things-our-kids-just-plain-wont-get.html where he outlines all of the things that modern kids and teenagers won't understand about technology and culture from only a few years ago. Unlike most examples, he actually seems happy that his kids won't grow up with all the frustrations he had to endure.

* ''WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007''. King Beowulf grumbles to his young mistress that when he was her age, he thought being a king was all about fighting, feasting and wenching. Now he is a king, it's not as fun as he imagined. She coaxes him into admitting that maybe the wenching is still fun.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007''. King Beowulf grumbles to his young mistress that when he was her age, he thought being a king was all about fighting, feasting and wenching. Now he is a king, it's not as fun as he imagined. She coaxes him into admitting that maybe the wenching is still fun.

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* ''WebVideo/DoorMonster'' did a ''VideoGames/{{Pokemon}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf5MHkSBhiU parody]] with two elderly Team Rocket members complaining about, and picking fights with, the villains from newer Pokemon games, who are represented by stereotypical Millenials and Gen Z-ers.

* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' used to have to have [[http://www.karatebears.com/2012/05/back-when-i-was-kid.html to walk to school through all types of weather and 10 miles and there were even scorpions!]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-10-13 Uncle Sam to Slick]] -- who asks him about the uphill both ways.

-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "When I Was Your Age"

* Both averted and played straight in ‘’Literature/GoneWithTheWind’’, Scarlett is frantic about her finances and tells Rhett she wants to make money so her children, Wade and Ella, won’t have to scrimp like she had to after the War. Rhett replies that some hardship toughens people up. However, after his and Scarlett’s daughter, Bonnie, is born, he wants to make her path smooth. Rhett was always fond of Scarlett’s children, but things seemed a lot different once he had a child of his own.

** From ''Bill Cosby - Himself:''

* George Hrab's ''When I Was Your Age'' is a mild version, culminating in a NotSoDifferent view.

Obviously, this is a very toxic mindset, as you are essentially saying that [[InsaneTrollLogic having it bad during your time makes a better livelihood]] while their suffering gives them an inflated sense of entitlement in present day. If you hear any older person rambling about this, ''shut them up'' and try to remove their NostalgiaFilter before they make people undergo unnecessary hardships.

Compare ScrewPolitenessImASenior, WhileYouWereInDiapers, MiseryPoker, IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow.

* In ''Series/BlueBloods'', Nicky manages to convince her mother Erin to let her stay out until 11 PM. Erin's grandfather points out that he was "out on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific at her age!"

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Grandpa Simpson is fond of these.