old man yelling at a cloud

English

Noun

old man yelling at a cloud (plural old men yelling at a cloud)

1. Alternative form of old man yells at cloud.
   • 2016 May 20, Chad Finn, “NESN’S broadcast team has been talking a good game”, in The Boston Globe, volume 289, number 141, page D5, columns 2–3:

     The website Fangraphs recently crowd-sourced fans to rate baseball broadcast teams; NESN’s rated 11th, down from fifth last year, but the comment on Eckersley was perfect: “When [Dennis Eckersley] is in the booth, it’s prime time. He’s an example of what Hawk Harrelson could be if he wasn’t an angry old man yelling at a cloud.”

   • 2019 November 2, Chris Tonn, “Made to be used and abused”, in Saturday Star, page W4, column 3:

     I’m sure that I’m just an old man yelling at a cloud here, but I hate the proliferation of glass roof panels across so many cars.

   • 2021 August 1, Adam White, “Why we’ll always have Paris”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

     One bizarre incident occurred in Bristol, where artist Banksy replaced hundreds of copies of Paris with doctored versions bearing airbrushed topless photos and notes reading “Race to the bottom of the pile!”, “What am I for?” and “Why am I famous?” Today, the doctored CDs are worth around £6,000 each, but the stunt also bears the stench of an old man yelling at a cloud.

   • 2022 July 6, Larry Stone, “The Pac-12 will never be the same again, and that’s sad”, in The Spokesman-Review, 140th volume, number 28, Spokane, Wash., page B4, column 3:

     No matter what happens, though, it will never be the same. Maybe that’s just a sign of our times, and the price of progress. Maybe I’m just an old man yelling at a cloud. But for this child of the Pac-8, it still hurts my heart.

   • 2023, Victoria Smith, Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women, London: Fleet, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:

     The trouble is, the message has been pitched in a novel way, making it easy to cast the likes of Moore in a Boomer-bashing Simpsons meme: she’s the old man yelling at a cloud, or Principal Skinner asking himself ‘Am I out of touch?’ before concluding, ‘No, it’s the children who are wrong.’