A toy cannon launching orange peel curls beside a rumpled sock on a mint-green background.

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Mignon McLaughlin

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

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Our interpretation.

This is a pun on revolt and revolting. Young people are often full of rebellion, the speaker says, and they can be pretty unpleasant while expressing it. The joke lands because the same root word describes both the uprising and the disgust.

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