Citations:old man yells at cloud

English citations of old man yells at cloud and old-man-yells-at-cloud

Noun: "(slang, humorous or derogatory, often attributive) one who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance"

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• 2015, Glenn Fleishman, The Magazine: The Complete Archives, unnumbered page:

  It shouldn't bug me that Bruce Jenkins, the baseball beat writer whom I grew up reading but who has now become the sort of “old man yells at cloud” columnist who invites parody and routinely peppers his columns with diatribes about "stats-crazed dunces" who are ruining baseball for all right-thinking people.

• 2015, Adrien Potvin, "Album Review: Sleater Kinney - No Cities to Love", The Ontarion (The University of Guelph), 29 January 2015, page 9:

  This is the doing of a post-capitalist, post-9/11 America, and for Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney, their new album, No Cities to Love, is less of an “old-man-yells-at-cloud” sentiment found in most lamentations on the state of culture and more of a wake-up call for us to start building a new culture from the rubble of the old.

• 2016, Tim Petruk, "Alternate juror not surprised trial ended with hung jury", Kamloops This Week, 14 April 2016, page A5:

  “The outbursts, most people found it comical,” the juror said. “It was interesting. Old man yells at cloud.”

• 2016, "On the Stereo with FACT", London in Sound, June 2016, page 9:

  Not to get all “old man yells at cloud”, but video games were just better back in the halcyon days of 16-bit, when picking up a console controller seldom meant you being abused to the point of psychiatric care by a racist, energy drink-huffing fifteen-year-old in another timezone.

• 2017, Joshua Lyford, "The Lyford Files", Worchester Magazine, 20 April 2017 - 26 April 2017, page 69:

  People have a tendency to rip down it at incredibly high speeds (that was a bit of an ‘old man yells at cloud moment,’ eh?), which again, is a dick move, but not the most obnoxious thing.

• 2017, Liam Konemann, "Choose Your Own Agenda", Upset, October 2017, page 56:

  But this isn’t an ‘old man yells at cloud’ type of deal. The Bronx use anger to move past the things that bite.

• 2018, Emma Dibdin, Though His Eyes, unnumbered page:

  'Did I come off as a completely out-of-touch fool in that rant? Old Man Yells At Cloud?'

• 2018, Liz Cook, "Check-in Time", The Pitch, February 2018, page 26:

  I'm incessantly railing, in the old-man-yells-at-cloud tradition, against Big Beautiful Burgers stuffed into wispy buns that leave nothing to the imagination.

• 2018, Ben Peterson, "The dongle problem", The Other Press (Douglas College, New Westminster, BC), 23 October 2018, page 2:

  The dongle problem is the equivalent of “old man yells at cloud” for me. It fills me with a fiery burning rage that I'm happy to spill all over anyone standing too close to me, especially anyone defending AirPods.

• 2019, Ben Johnson, "Social media platforms—and their proverbial influencers—are changing how we find out about new craft beers - and probably not for the better", The Growler: B. C. Craft Beer Guide, Fall 2019, page 14:

  And I know, coming from someone who has been writing about beer for almost a decade, this might all seem a little Old Man Yells at Cloud, but I’d argue it’s not just the quality of beer criticism that’s deteriorated, it might just be the beer, too.

• 2019, Jared Ipsen, "Instagram Likes", Nexus Magazine (University of Waikato), Issue 17 (2019), page 15:

  But as I started thinking about it more, I realised that maybe I was being a bit too 'old man yells at cloud' about the people that make money off Instagram.

• 2019, Chris Dick, Decibel, October 2019, page 57:

  Åkerfeldt feels like the kids these days aren’t experiencing or participating in the joy of music. Certainly, this has an “old man yells at cloud” feel, but the generational shift in discovery and exposure has happened, whether Åkerfeldt chooses to accept it or not.

• 2020, Anthony Castrovince, A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics Why WAR, WHIP, WOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball, unnumbered page:

  Gossage, whose “old man yells at cloud” interviews became a tired rite of spring in baseball writing circles, was wrong about a lot of stuff—but not this.

• 2020, Matt LeMay, Product Management in Practice, page 148:

  If you will allow me an “old man yells at cloud” moment...back in my day, the only tools we had to make documentation were plain ol' spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents.

• 2021, Dan Falloon, "Creating Happier Habits", Squamish Chief (Squamish, BC), 11 February 2021, page 12:

  Even though I document the goings-on of the Seak to Sky by writing stories and taking photos, I'd failed to do much of that in my own life, often espousing a "do you need to record everything you're doing?" attitude in a very old-man-yells-at-cloud manner.

• 2022, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook, page 131:

  Everyone has their own Old-Man-Yells-at-Cloud gripe that they just can't let go. Some people can't get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge; other people can't stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.

• 2023, Emily George, A Half-Baked Murder, page 70:

  Bertram Bottom was the epitome of "old man yells at cloud" — if there was something insignificant for him to be upset by, he was.

• 2023, Peter Simpson, "Skua, Edinburgh", The Skinny, May 2023, page 61:

  At the risk of going all Old Man Yells At Cloud, you can't get anything for £3 in these days of the cozzy livs.