old man yells at clouds

plural old men yell at clouds

1. alternativeAlternative form of old man yells at cloud.

   Despite the old-man-yells-at-clouds aspect to this piece so far, its eventual intent is actually to offer a little bit of hope.

   2025 April 23, Patrick Higgins, “The Replacements”, in Anthony Mariani, editor, Fort Worth Weekly, volume 20, number 52, Fort Worth, Tex., →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2025, page 21, column 3

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   Yes, I’m veering closely into “old man yells at clouds” territory, though that’s the point. The joy of that old-school unlock process isn’t some relic amplified by the allure of nostalgia.

   2023 April 12, Matthew Byrd, “Resident Evil 4’s Microtransactions Ruin One of the Remake’s Best Features”, in Den of Geek, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2023

   Somewhere in all the discourse about how the candidates looked and sounded—“old men yell at clouds” comes to mind—we forgot to examine the substance of their words.

   2024 July 2, Adriana E. Ramírez, “The search for substance in this year’s election”, in John Robinson Block, editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 97, number 336, Pittsburgh, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A-14, column 3

   You want an Old Man Yells at Clouds Hot Take? That’s it. There are going to be millions of young men driving off the financial cliff because of sports betting.

   2024 November 17, Mike McFeely, “Sports gambling at our fingertips? Bet it goes bad”, in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Fargo, N.D., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A5, column 2

   Author and music YouTuber Rick Beato occasionally rants against the low quality of modern popular music and these are entertaining in an old man yells at clouds kind of way.

   2025 May 21, Scott Barlow, “Market Factors: Dividend increases and mediocre profit growth ahead as bank earnings reporting begins”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 21 May 2025