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Apr 16, 2019 21:20
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nuance? yeah, i've got plenty of new aunts, thanks to my Boomer uncles constantly remarrying
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Apr 16, 2019 21:23
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I’ve been married for 10 years and it confuses the gently caress out of older people because we don’t have any kids by now to use as an excuse as to why we’re still together. It’s like marrying someone you’ll actually like 10 years later just not compute for some people. But maybe they’re just lovely people that are actually impossible to like for more than a few years, which might not be a generational thing.
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Apr 16, 2019 21:38
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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 I do think that millennials genuinely dislike calling people on the phone for the most part. I say this as a millennial surrounded by millennials lol
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Apr 16, 2019 21:46
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Bonaventure posted:nuance? yeah, i've got plenty of new aunts, thanks to my Boomer uncles constantly remarrying What amazes me is these guys managing to find not one, but multiple women willing to put up with their poo poo. They often don't cook, clean, have a very good work ethic, and a bunch of other faults yet 5 minutes after getting divorced they'll find another woman willing to say "I do." 
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Apr 16, 2019 21:47
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My office is full of millennials and no one communicates verbally like doesnt mater if person is on other side of the desk we just all google chat eachother lol
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Apr 16, 2019 21:54
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Panfilo posted:What amazes me is these guys managing to find not one, but multiple women willing to put up with their poo poo. They often don't cook, clean, have a very good work ethic, and a bunch of other faults yet 5 minutes after getting divorced they'll find another woman willing to say "I do."
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Apr 16, 2019 22:01
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Laslow posted:I’ve been married for 10 years and it confuses the gently caress out of older people because we don’t have any kids by now to use as an excuse as to why we’re still together. It’s like marrying someone you’ll actually like 10 years later just not compute for some people. I think this comes form of how things just were. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that GenX sort of started the idea of having no kids. When I asked me grandmother how she met my grandfather, I got a generic story of how they were friends and then all the neighborhood then everyone seemed to "pair off" (for lack of a better term) so they started dating, had kids, etc. After WW2 everyone was told to have kids so I guess that idea got passed to boomers. But as a childless (none of my own anyway) person, people of all ages LOVE to tell you about why you should have kids or "You'll change your mind!". The wife and I now tell any strangers that ask that we have fertility issues and that usually shuts them up and they stop trying to tell us how to live.
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Apr 16, 2019 22:17
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Having fewer children is more so the result of economic change . A few generations ago a person could support their entire family on one income. Unfortunately that kept obscene wealth out of the hands of the job creators, so the boomers rectified that by voting against their self interest for decades and finally realizing that unions are actually bad.
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Apr 16, 2019 22:21
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Zelder posted:I do think that millennials genuinely dislike calling people on the phone for the most part. I say this as a millennial surrounded by millennials lol drat straight "whoops, I'm getting a call, I guess if I want to find out what it's about I probably need to pick it up at exactly this second whether that's convenient or not, and I don't have my headphones handy so I guess I'm just going to hold this hot slab of glass to the side of my face for however long this takes. Yes hello. Hello? Hello! Hi. Yes this is he. No, I couldn't hear you before, but I can now. It always seems like the first second-and-a-half after you connect is just silence, for some reason. What was that you said? What? One more time? Oh, yeah, I agree, plain voice traffic has literally never sounded any loving worse, I swear these carriers must be converting from analogue to digital and back a dozen times while they pass these signals around. Oh, sorry, did I say something to offend you? No, it just sounded like it in your voice; I can't see your body language. Oh no, I hear it now, you're just getting distracted by some other loving person over there that I can't see or hear. Uh huh. Yeah, hello again. Yeah, I know, it's fine. But why do you sound so distant now? Did you put me on speakerphone? No, it's okay I guess, you definitely shouldn't go gently caress yourself, but hey listen, I'm about to go through a tunnel here, so uh why not just shoot it to me in a text? thanks."
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Apr 16, 2019 22:32
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Boomers like to walk as slowly as possible in the very middle of the aisle/sidewalk/staircase as if they’re the only loving people on earth.
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Apr 16, 2019 22:33
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Beastie posted:Boomers like to walk as slowly as possible in the very middle of the aisle/sidewalk/staircase as if they’re the only loving people on earth. Every once in a while at a grocery store one of them will park their shopping cart perpendicular to the aisle to peruse the merch, thus blocking all traffic. This might be more of a "stupid people" thing but every time I see it it's a 55-or-older person.
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Apr 16, 2019 22:38
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I can confirm boomers don't like different food. My mom's somewhat-friend will only eat fried chicken fingers, everywhere they go. Even if it's a nice restaurant, she will order chicken fingers even if it's not on the menu. On the rare chance she doesn't eat chicken fingers, she eats well done hamburgers and make a very firm point to tell the waiter that she doesn't want lettuce, onions, pickels, or you know, anything that should go on a burger. Also she loves lovely cookies like chips ahoy. She has the pallet of a two year old. She is loud, short and fat, talks poo poo about everyone and has only read Harry Potter. She is like boomer prime, and I loving hate her. Linux Pirate fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Apr 16, 2019 22:53
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Boomers love people who jump in to defend their honor in joke threads on comedywebsites
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Apr 16, 2019 22:56
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SeXReX posted:Boomers love people who jump in to defend their honor in joke threads on comedywebsites Yeah, I bet the AARP will send them a 65yo diabetic stripper to thank them for their service tonight
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Apr 16, 2019 23:10
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Stopped at a grocery store on the way home from work and saw a boomer woman arguing with the stocking guy behind the refrigerated dairy. "What do you mean you don't have Silk in gallon containers?! I don't like the half-gallon containers! I like the gallon containers!" She was holding the refrigerator door open and absolutely SCREAMING at the guy between shelves of milk substitute. Absolute unreal entitlement on display. Does this woman think this guy is hiding the gallon jugs just to spite her? Wouldn't it be better to talk to a manager about this rather than the millennial stocking the shelves for minimum wage? Her husband is just gonna take one sip and mutter "tastes funny" before leaving the rest to rot, so who gives a drat? The best part was there was an even older woman not too far from scream lady who was staring at her with absolute disgust. So #NotAllBoomers, but YMMV of course.
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Apr 16, 2019 23:16
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Not giving a poo poo about the cost or logistics for the children that will probably need to take care of them in a within decade or so. Handwaving away any discussion of their finances and laughing about how uptight their millennial children are about money.
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Apr 17, 2019 00:05
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Clark Nova posted:Yeah, I bet the AARP will send them a 65yo diabetic stripper to thank them for their service tonight AARP is getting desperate. I turn 40 this year, and have officially started getting the "Join AARP" spam. I think they fail to realize that no one my age or younger is going to retire.
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Apr 17, 2019 00:14
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BadSamaritan posted:Not giving a poo poo about the cost or logistics for the children that will probably need to take care of them in a within decade or so. I didn't know we were the same person
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Apr 17, 2019 00:20
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RFC2324 posted:AARP is getting desperate. I turn 40 this year, and have officially started getting the "Join AARP" spam. There was some mistake with my dad and now Im getting "time is running out to pre-enroll in AARP" stuff and I'm not even 30 yet lmao
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Apr 17, 2019 00:38
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Paying me loving crap and demanding I be grateful and work like my life depends on it.
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Apr 17, 2019 00:39
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Bonzo posted:"You'll change your mind!". Heard that admonition so many times. Married 9 years. Haven't changed our minds yet.
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Apr 17, 2019 01:29
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loving up on social media
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Apr 17, 2019 01:39
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Boomers like dating Filipino women.
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Apr 17, 2019 02:11
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Negrostrike posted:loving up on social media Wasn't there a comedian that had "I just heard the unfortunate news. LOL." and finding out their mom thought it meant "lots of love" as part of their routine? I forget who it was.
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Apr 17, 2019 02:21
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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. Your parents and all their friends are swingers and when you're not around it's probably one non-stop old people gently caress party. Zelder posted:I do think that millennials genuinely dislike calling people on the phone for the most part. I say this as a millennial surrounded by millennials lol This irritates the poo poo out of me because I know a whole bunch of people that talking on the phone is a huge problem for them for some reason. I find it way faster to just tell someone a thing than typing out a series of loving texts. I don't get why speaking into a phone is such a huge ordeal for some people.
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Apr 17, 2019 02:29
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CPL593H posted:
All us millennials have autism, sorry.
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Apr 17, 2019 03:09
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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.  and now you get to wait for a month before you get your refund, by all means go wild. Also making some snide comment about Trudeau as a joke to break the ice. I'm getting real tired of those.
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Apr 17, 2019 04:49
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Clark Nova posted:Yeah, I bet the AARP will send them a 65yo diabetic stripper to thank them for their service tonight met the wife, have you?
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Apr 17, 2019 07:40
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GOD IS BED posted:Paying me loving crap and demanding I be grateful and work like my life depends on it. Also not paying people anything and expecting them to be grateful.
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Apr 17, 2019 10:05
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Animated Nerd posted:Yeah, I'm working part time at H&R for the season and we get a couple of people a day asking for the paper tax packages, since they can't find them anywhere. One guess for the demographic. A few of them love paper so much that they insist we paper file for them, since they can't trust computers. Fine, we charge a you extra Oh, man that reminds me: Trudeau jokes. I'm not a fan of the man by any means, but holy gently caress does everyone over a certain age like making really bad and over-used jokes about him. Specifically him. I never remember derision about a previous prime minister or political leader in Canada like I did now. I usually think that "___ derangement syndrome" is bullshit, but in Trudeau's case, it's real. I've had older extended family members start barking at his mere image on TV more than once. Also: facebook groups that share these jokes and similar political stripes. I know it's obvious to blame Facebook, but these groups really serve to isolate boomers among each other where they reinforce all their stereotypes with bad memes. This one's not as universal since it's mostly white boomers, but: thinking you will agree with them right off the bat. I can't tell you the amount of times boomers will assume that, since I'm white like they are, that I'm a safe space (ironically) for them to say whatever they want and not be criticized. Like, a racist or sexist joke out of nowhere, and they become offended if you don't laugh. I've never really experienced that with anyone under the age of 50.
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Apr 17, 2019 14:48
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mojo1701a posted:Oh, man that reminds me: My wife's family is 100% Canadian but some of her boomer relatives (one is ex OPP) are in love with Trump. They assume I'm for Trump because I used to live in Kentucky. They just can't grasp why I don't like him and support his policies. Once I remind them that I was brought up by rural God fearing, Kentucky people who taught me to never discriminate against someone because of color or creed, their eyes cross and the subject gets changed.
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Apr 17, 2019 15:19
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SeXReX posted:There was some mistake with my dad and now Im getting "time is running out to pre-enroll in AARP" stuff and I'm not even 30 yet lmao When my mom turned 50, she was pretty stoked that she would get an AARP enrollment. They sent it to me instead, I was 23.
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Apr 17, 2019 15:20
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Asking "Who's calling me?" when their cell phone custom ring tone goes off, then staring at the screen for an incredibly long time before answering.
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Apr 17, 2019 16:07
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mojo1701a posted:
Believe me, it's hilarious when this poo poo happens as a half-Mexican.
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Apr 17, 2019 16:14
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Wall to wall carpeting which had to be replaced every couple of years because they refuse to take their shoes off inside their own home
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Apr 17, 2019 18:20
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Clavavisage posted:Wall to wall carpeting which had to be replaced every couple of years because they refuse to take their shoes off inside their own home This but wallpaper on walls
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Apr 17, 2019 18:32
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Signing their names at the end of (very long) text messages
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Apr 17, 2019 18:46
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speaker phone. They love speaker phone.
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Apr 17, 2019 19:22
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Nuts and Gum posted:speaker phone. They love speaker phone. Not only do they love the speaker phone, they love wandering away from it while talking as if you'll be able to hear them 3 rooms away.
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Apr 17, 2019 19:28
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