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revmoo posted:I too went to the one in Louisville. The food was bad and noon hit and people stood up above their pulled pork sandwiches and put their hands over their chests and sang the national anthem at the TV and we got up and left. It was unbelievably tacky and cheap. I found it surprisingly offensive. Like a stripper using the flag in their act. Actually worse. jfc That sounds terrible. Good on you for walking out of that culty bs, though. THING BOOMERS LIKE: The Cold War, judging from CNN.
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Apr 16, 2019 07:06
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boomers love printing things, signing them, and getting someone else to scan it and email it back to them
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Apr 16, 2019 07:22
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Caesar Saladin posted:boomers love printing things, signing them, and getting someone else to scan it and email it back to them I had a boss who gave me his email password so that I could print his emails, scan them in, and send them to another email address. I just went along with it because I knew he would throw a fit if I even asked why. The twist ending: my boss was a millennial.
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Apr 16, 2019 07:41
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Ginette Reno posted:If there's one thing I hope we Millennials kill it's poo poo mid-tier restaurants like Applebees, Chilis, etc. They're all such garbage and overpriced to boot. lovely chain restaurants are minmaxed to thrive in suburban and rural areas where it's hard to find a decent restaurant. Much like people who go to Paris and end up eating at American fast food joints, people will go to a chain restaurant in an unfamiliar location because they can "trust it".
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Apr 16, 2019 12:37
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The Applebeese cheese fried encrusted in bread is bomber, for the price.
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Apr 16, 2019 12:44
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Rad-daddio posted:lovely chain restaurants are minmaxed to thrive in suburban and rural areas where it's hard to find a decent restaurant. Much like people who go to Paris and end up eating at American fast food joints, people will go to a chain restaurant in an unfamiliar location because they can "trust it". It's this, when I went to Hawaii with my family (7 years ago now  ), my mom wanted to eat at Outback, because "That way we know it's good"At one point there, we stopped at a Subway, and I went next door to a little Korean style barbecue and got a SPAM based dish, because, it's loving Hawaii.
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Apr 16, 2019 12:48
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Ginette Reno posted:If there's one thing I hope we Millennials kill it's poo poo mid-tier restaurants like Applebees, Chilis, etc. They're all such garbage and overpriced to boot. Aren't some of those chains already in trouble? Turns out people don't want to spend $20 a head for lovely burgers, fries, and a coke.
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Apr 16, 2019 13:32
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Iron Crowned posted:It's this, when I went to Hawaii with my family (7 years ago now There's a lovely chain restaurant called Tahoe Joe's in California, and they sell your basic country-style ranch food only greasier and more expensive. I made the mistake of taking my inlaws there once for the sake of getting them to try something different. Now, it's all they want to eat whenever we go out. Also, watching my MIL order a well done steak and then send it back four times until the chef turns it into shoe leather is it's own special level of hell.
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Apr 16, 2019 13:50
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-Small businesses -Also, giant businesses that make the small businesses go bankrupt -Wondering why all the small businesses are going away -Asking how to customize their iPhone after being repeatedly told there is no customization before buying said iPhone
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Apr 16, 2019 14:16
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Tucking way-too-big t-shirts into a pair of jeans. Needing to know your ethnicity* Not understanding why I like the coffee from the local roaster instead of settling for Tim Hortons -- right before they dump a shitload of sugar and cream into their coffee. Asking "is it spicy?" the moment any vaguely "ethnic" food is even mentioned. (I once heard some woman tell her husband ten times to ask the waitress at a Swiss Chalet if their featured "butter chicken" was spicy. "Hon, is it spicy? Ask her-- ask the girl if it's spicy, hon. Hon?") Doing everything they can to scare away people from a volunteer organization that sorely needs new blood, then wondering why no young people are joining. Complaining about money and taxes despite never learning how any of it works. Worst is when they try to lecture me, an actual loving tax accountant, how tax brackets work  ."You're 23 years old! Why don't you have a job? You gotta pound the pavement, not use a computer." This was just after the 2008 meltdown. "You're over 30? Why don't you even have a girlfriend?" Then they try to give me hilariously outdated advice. Not nearly as often as the job thing, but it's happened. Same with owning a house, and why it's a "good investment." Again, I work with money and read about finance. The Canadian real estate industry is hosed for now. Really, really old jokes. I have more a few boomers (and a guy under 40 who acts like one) in my office, and they really like old "Oh, hardly workin', eh?" type of jokes. Nice people, but they really like those same old jokes. Wearing the same cheap suits to a fuction (like a wedding) they bought in the '80s that don't fit anymore. Golf. *this one may be because I know a lot of older European (mostly Polish) immigrants.
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Apr 16, 2019 15:16
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Saying "Is it Friday yet?" literally every day, including Friday.
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Apr 16, 2019 15:19
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are we having fun yet?
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Apr 16, 2019 15:27
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Rad-daddio posted:lovely chain restaurants are minmaxed to thrive in suburban and rural areas where it's hard to find a decent restaurant. Much like people who go to Paris and end up eating at American fast food joints, people will go to a chain restaurant in an unfamiliar location because they can "trust it". I dunno man you go on vacation some place and you'll still see these places and they're all always disturbingly packed. Hell you'll see some of these chain places in loving New York City of all places where you can fall rear end backwards into good local food and people will still go there. I hate America. Jose Oquendo posted:Aren't some of those chains already in trouble? Turns out people don't want to spend $20 a head for lovely burgers, fries, and a coke. Man, I hope so.
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Apr 16, 2019 15:28
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big mouth billy bass is the essence of boomers focused into a vessel.
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Apr 16, 2019 15:33
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Ginette Reno posted:I dunno man you go on vacation some place and you'll still see these places and they're all always disturbingly packed. An Applebee's will be an Applebee's, if you go to New York City, or Tulsa, and boomers are notoriously terrified of new things.
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Apr 16, 2019 15:34
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I wonder why they like chain restaurants so much? What were non-chain restaurants like in the 70's that made them avoid them like the plague?
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Apr 16, 2019 15:39
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The Dregs posted:I wonder why they like chain restaurants so much? What were non-chain restaurants like in the 70's that made them avoid them like the plague? Chain restaurants are made to be really, really consistent. They may not be great, but boomers also grew up in an era where being skilled with cooking wasn't exactly something to be expected. You only had access to basic staples, and learned to cook those. For what it's worth, I've been able to break my dad of wanting to go to a chain restaurant all the time (which are pretty much everywhere where my parents live), but he still doesn't like trying new things -- unless it's his idea. He really likes the new all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant, but he'll sit there eating mostly appetizers.
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Apr 16, 2019 15:44
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Consider this : chain restaurants concentrate Boomers away from the hip hole-in-the-wall places. Far better they clog up a booth at Applebee's than take up a table at a unique Ethiopian, Cambodian, or other fusion restaurant while loudly complaining about the service, asking how spicy is the food, tipping poorly, and just generally making the dining experience unpleasant for everyone else.
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Apr 16, 2019 15:56
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For all the poo poo that boomers give millennial's for just existing on any level, they really are the pickiest of eaters out there.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:00
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They love to party. Whenever I go to visit my mom that lives in a 55+ community there's always some party going on everyday. "We're going to Bob and Sandy's for lunch, they're having a lunch party!". It's noon and Bob hands me a water glass full of scotch. I live in a college town and these people could drink any frat bro under the table. It's the only place in which I've seen where the liquor store is larger than the attached grocery store. I like visiting my mother.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:00
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I think it should also be clarified that boomer experiences and preferences refer to white people in the age bracket, because I've observed that boomer aged people of color are completely different. I'm sure they have their own annoying traits, but in general the degree of self entitlement enjoyed by white people is obviously absent. Like my in laws immigrated from Mexico four decades ago and in a lot of ways don't share most of the annoying quirks that most Boomers have. But like a lot of first generation immigrants they had to work their rear end off just to get to where they are and this can leave a few chips on a person's shoulder.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:07
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FlimFlam Imam posted:They love to party. Whenever I go to visit my mom that lives in a 55+ community there's always some party going on everyday. "We're going to Bob and Sandy's for lunch, they're having a lunch party!". It's noon and Bob hands me a water glass full of scotch. I live in a college town and these people could drink any frat bro under the table. It's the only place in which I've seen where the liquor store is larger than the attached grocery store. Boomers can loving drink, I’ll give them that. Usually halfway decent hooch too, due to their hoarded wealth.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:07
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Iron Crowned posted:For all the poo poo that boomers give millennial's for just existing on any level, they really are the pickiest of eaters out there. If I grew up in the 50s where veggies came out of a can and dinner out of the freezer, I'd have a poo poo pallet too.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:20
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Iron Crowned posted:An Applebee's will be an Applebee's, if you go to New York City, or Tulsa, and boomers are notoriously terrified of new things. It's true. It's still shameful.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:23
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food back then was generally garbage compared to today, chain restaurants probably were actually the best food available to most people
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Apr 16, 2019 16:25
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Magnitogorsk. posted:food back then was generally garbage compared to today, chain restaurants probably were actually the best food available to most people Chains are just fast food places that you don't have to order from the counter.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:32
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Boomers are picky eaters but they spin it as a positive because they’re used to “real food” and not weird chi chi foreign dishes that overeducated urbanite foodies obsess about. Look how many people still use “latte sipping” or “sushi munching” to refer to effete liberals. In any case, my boomer parents were pretty cool besides insisting that the art of making good music was lost to mankind around 1980.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:55
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Bonzo posted:If I grew up in the 50s where veggies came out of a can and dinner out of the freezer, I'd have a poo poo pallet too. All the "new" houses from like the 50's on had some tiny rear end kitchens because people were really not liking the idea of cooking food.
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Apr 16, 2019 17:02
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Boomers like chain restaurants because the local diner used to be run by a guy who bought the entire restaurant, including the building itself out of a catalog and then used the skills he learned cooking in the army to design the menu. If you go to any lovely dying fly over city you might still find some of these places and the food is bland and fuckin terrible. These places make TGI Friday's look like a James Beard winner.
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Apr 16, 2019 18:43
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You know what boomers don’t like? Snopes. Or doing any other bare minimum fact check of scare mongering clickbait, urban legends, feelgood hero stories or obvious photoshops. When you post the snopes link in their dumb Facebook thread, then snopes becomes the thing they are suspicious of.
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Apr 16, 2019 19:22
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I'm in the middle of tax season, and as an accountant I coincidentally read an article written by a local boomer about how it's getting harder to file my self-employed taxes via pen and paper. As a professional working in the field, I'm glad they're moving to mostly-online filing because it makes my job so much easier. Fun fact: the Canada Revenue Agency's budget was slashed a few years ago by boomer-loved prime minister Stephen Harper, and unsurprisingly could not deal with the influx of calls from tax rules he had changed that same year.
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Apr 16, 2019 19:26
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mojo1701a posted:I'm in the middle of tax season, and as an accountant I coincidentally read an article written by a local boomer about how it's getting harder to file my self-employed taxes via pen and paper. As a professional working in the field, I'm glad they're moving to mostly-online filing because it makes my job so much easier. The IRS cuts have been very severe and guess what age the majority of their workforce is?
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Apr 16, 2019 19:48
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Having literal tantrums in retail stores
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Apr 16, 2019 19:50
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Jose Oquendo posted:Aren't some of those chains already in trouble? Turns out people don't want to spend $20 a head for lovely burgers, fries, and a coke. Nah they figured out how to get millenials interested again by putting a tablet at the table so you dont have to interact with anyone to order
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Apr 16, 2019 20:25
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Nooner posted:Nah they figured out how to get millenials interested again by putting a tablet at the table so you dont have to interact with anyone to order I always thought that was more the little kids but I think you're onto something.
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Apr 16, 2019 20:29
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Nooner posted:Nah they figured out how to get millenials interested again by putting a tablet at the table so you dont have to interact with anyone to order No that's so they can reduce the number of waitstaff and have runners wordlessly drop off food
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Apr 16, 2019 20:30
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The Slack Lagoon posted:No that's so they can reduce the number of waitstaff and have runners wordlessly drop off food It's this. I'm pretty sure that Millennials aren't afraid of interacting with other people, that's just what Boomers say to make themselves feel better about how they're a decrepit piece of poo poo
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Apr 16, 2019 20:35
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Iron Crowned posted:It's this. I'm pretty sure that Millennials aren't afraid of interacting with other people, that's just what Boomers say to make themselves feel better about how they're a decrepit piece of poo poo
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I don't think Boomers are nearly as picky eaters as goons claim, since there's going to be a rather sour selecting group of people on SA. Folks like Andrew Zimmern are Boomers yet they'll eat anything with legs that isn't a table. After all, we are aware of plenty of picky Millennials. Did they get their pickiness from their parents? If so, how do you explain the goons bragging about how adventurous they are compared to their parents? Another thing to factor is medical issues, which Boomers are going to be more affected by compared to millennials. My boomer mom has intermittent issues ever since she had her gallbladder removed, she also gets severe gastric reflux and possibly as a result of the powerful acid reducers she has to take, also gets severely ill from certain foods (she spent 2 separate Christmas eves in the ER due to severe vomiting). As a young woman she loved trying new food and loved spicy stuff, but much of what she used to enjoy now makes her seriously ill so she's kind of paranoid about ingredients. Taken out of context, this can make her seem rather insufferable in restaurants as she is asking if food is spicy or asking about ingredients, but the reality is that she is just trying not to make herself sick.
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