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Caesar Saladin: Aug 15, 2004

Boomers love using leaf blowers on a saturday morning when they could just rake like a normal human and not brutally noise pollute a 100 metre radius around their driveway

# ? Apr 22, 2019 04:32

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 11:15

PyPy: Sep 13, 2004; by vyelkin

Boomers do this when starting an Excel formula: +=

# ? Apr 22, 2019 04:36

Kunabomber: Oct 1, 2002; Pillbug

Yelling "GOOD LUCK REPLACING THE BATTERIES IN 3 YEARS" when you mention you want to get an EV.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 04:43

homeless guy: Feb 23, 2019; by FactsAreUseless

Caesar Saladin posted:

Boomers love using leaf blowers on a saturday morning when they could just rake like a normal human and not brutally noise pollute a 100 metre radius around their driveway

Only slackers want to sleep in Saturday morning

# ? Apr 22, 2019 04:45

NoNotTheMindProbe: Aug 9, 2010; pony porn was here

Caesar Saladin posted:

Boomers love using leaf blowers on a saturday morning when they could just rake like a normal human and not brutally noise pollute a 100 metre radius around their driveway

My favourite are boomers who insist on mowing their lawn every Saturday morning even in the middle of an Australian summer when it hasn't rained in weeks and all the grass is dead and all they're mowing is dust.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 05:23

super sweet best pal: Nov 18, 2009

homeless guy posted:

Checking out at the register, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-rear end young person.

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...especially from a tattooed piereced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJbdHg3hpmI

# ? Apr 22, 2019 05:45

Ape Fist: Feb 23, 2007; Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.

homeless guy posted:

Checking out at the register, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-rear end young person.

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...especially from a tattooed piereced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

And Boomers hated doing all this poo poo so much they rapidly advanced disposable consumer culture and feasted on the resources of the earth to do so while calling everyone who objected to it a Hippie Democrat Liberal Communist lmao.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 06:47

Local Weather: Feb 12, 2005; Don't worry, I'll give you a sign. The sign will be that life is awesome

Ape Fist posted:

And Boomers hated doing all this poo poo so much they rapidly advanced disposable consumer culture and feasted on the resources of the earth to do so while calling everyone who objected to it a Hippie Democrat Liberal Communist lmao.

This sums it up for me. So sanctimonious about their way of life that they abandoned almost instantly

# ? Apr 22, 2019 07:15

SweetMercifulCrap!: Jan 28, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

jokes posted:

One need only look at most movies in the 70s, 80s, and 90s to confirm they really like their rape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pUXH1Bye88

# ? Apr 22, 2019 07:16

CPL593H: Oct 28, 2009; I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Local Weather posted:

This sums it up for me. So sanctimonious about their way of life that they abandoned almost instantly

Driving massive cars that got four miles to the gallon and ran on gasoline with lead in it was totally green.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 07:25

jokes: Dec 20, 2012; Uh... Kupo?

SweetMercifulCrap! posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pUXH1Bye88

Old James Bond are great examples. Other greats: Animal House, most/all John Hughes movies, Revenge of the Nerds, the list goes on. Chances are watching a movie made before, let's say, 1993 had a 92% chance of including and being cool with casual sexual assault which would be right about the time that Gen X came of age.

jokes fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Apr 22, 2019

# ? Apr 22, 2019 07:42

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

Kunabomber posted:

lol everything she listed was something boomers brought into the world

Also things that their parents had to do to survive the Great Depression/WW2.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 07:55

Ape Fist: Feb 23, 2007; Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.

This kind of poo poo movie had to take a break during the late 90s but made a triumphant return thereafter when Boomers targeted what we now call older millennials/xennials with hot poo poo like American Pie and Anything Seth Rogan Is In as we were blind-sided as unsuspecting dullard paypigs.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 07:56

Ape Fist: Feb 23, 2007; Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.

Also, Boomers suffering collective brain aneurysms and somehow believing they were all in World War 2 by noting the collective achievements of the previous generation in defeating European Fascism as something 'We' (see: they) did and therefore shut up anyone under 40.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 07:58

super sweet best pal: Nov 18, 2009

Ape Fist posted:

Also, Boomers suffering collective brain aneurysms and somehow believing they were all in World War 2 by noting the collective achievements of the previous generation in defeating European Fascism as something 'We' (see: they) did and therefore shut up anyone under 40.

I feel like the boomers should be trolled with a meme saying the Vietnam War was a hoax they invented because they couldn't measure up to their nazi killing parents.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 08:12

vyst: Aug 25, 2009

jokes posted:

Old James Bond are great examples. Other greats: Animal House, most/all John Hughes movies, Revenge of the Nerds, the list goes on. Chances are watching a movie made before, let's say, 1993 had a 92% chance of including and being cool with casual sexual assault which would be right about the time that Gen X came of age.

Revenge of the Nerds was cruel because it gave unwashed nerds hope they would end up with the hot cheerleader one day

# ? Apr 22, 2019 13:09

Weaponized Autism: Mar 26, 2006; All aboard the Gravy train!; Hair Elf

Rooster Cogburn

# ? Apr 22, 2019 13:25

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

jokes posted:

Old James Bond are great examples. Other greats: Animal House, most/all John Hughes movies, Revenge of the Nerds, the list goes on. Chances are watching a movie made before, let's say, 1993 had a 92% chance of including and being cool with casual sexual assault which would be right about the time that Gen X came of age.

It's one of those things where I remember watching those movies in the 90's or so and it wasn't noticeable, but in the last 10 years, if I ever watched one of those it gets really uncomfortable for a while. It's especially jarring in the "classic" comedies where sexual assault is played for laughs.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 13:37

Michael Corleone: Mar 30, 2011; by VideoGames

Do kids in school today not have to cover their books or something? Also, brown bags were cool, but the neon colored plastic adhesives were the best book covers.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 13:58

Bonzo: Mar 11, 2004; Just like Mama used to make it!

Michael Corleone posted:

Do kids in school today not have to cover their books or something? Also, brown bags were cool, but the neon colored plastic adhesives were the best book covers.

Lots of schools are now handing out Chromebooks to students but some reports are that the kids are pissed because they just stare at a screen instead of interacting with the teacher or each other.

Since boomers don't have school aged kids anymore then don't like when taxes go to things like modern books are smaller classes.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 14:05

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Bonzo posted:

Lots of schools are now handing out Chromebooks to students but some reports are that the kids are pissed because they just stare at a screen instead of interacting with the teacher or each other.

Since boomers don't have school aged kids anymore then don't like when taxes go to things like modern books are smaller classes.

Boomers hate paying taxes, to a level beyond sanity.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 14:09

Bonaventure: Jun 23, 2005; by sebmojo

Gabbo

# ? Apr 22, 2019 14:10

Rod Hoofhearted: Jun 18, 2000; I am a ghost

Iron Crowned posted:

Boomers hate paying taxes, to a level beyond sanity.

My mom just moved to a city where the whole city is a retirement community. They don't pay anything for public schools in their taxes. My mom thought this was such a great deal because her kids have been out of school for almost 20 years. I told her it's bullshit because her entire community benefits from public education in the form of all the service people/employees they rely on for goods and services. She said that the cash registers are so advanced these days the employees don't even need to count change anymore. I asked her without public education, how would the employees know the difference between a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter?

Never mind the fact that when she did have kids in school, there were plenty of old fogies in the area paying taxes towards our education.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 14:18

Bonzo: Mar 11, 2004; Just like Mama used to make it!

# ? Apr 22, 2019 14:25

STrooperTK421: Aug 1, 2010

Ape Fist posted:

And Boomers hated doing all this poo poo so much they rapidly advanced disposable consumer culture and feasted on the resources of the earth to do so while calling everyone who objected to it a Hippie Democrat Liberal Communist lmao.

You goddamn right, thank you. Leave it to some shitbag boomer to spew that responsibility dodging bullshit while looking down their noses judging everyone else for the poo poo they created. Anytime some old fart starts in with this ..."back in my day..." poo poo, I immediately tune out.

This kind of poo poo plus the faux-christian "I'm better than you, so you should be made to adhere to my version of moral standards that I can't even be bothered to follow" poo poo is the reason I told the vast majority of my family to gently caress right off.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 14:26

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

super sweet best pal posted:

I feel like the boomers should be trolled with a meme saying the Vietnam War was a hoax they invented because they couldn't measure up to their nazi killing parents.

but it was?

# ? Apr 22, 2019 14:42

Leon Einstein: Feb 6, 2012; I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

I asked my dad why he considered it fiscally responsible for Scott Walker to borrow 800 million to pay for roads rather than raising the gas tax a bit and he furiously started googling on his phone to come up with a weak rebuttal about the state deficit.

He tries to do this on Facebook and you can literally see his google string in the links he posts. It's hilarious.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:08

sudonim: Oct 6, 2005

I unironically enjoy how this thread transformed from "things boomers like" to "things I hate about boomers." Tapped into a rich vein of intergenerational angst (justified angst imo).

Right when I graduated college in 2005, a bunch of my fellow early 20-somethings got brainwashed by boomers into thinking that buying property was the best thing to do with our newfound working-adult money. A lot of them also bought BMWs and other expensive cars right out of school too. Wonder how that worked out for them...

# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:11

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Leon Einstein posted:

I asked my dad why he considered it fiscally responsible for Scott Walker to borrow 800 million to pay for roads rather than raising the gas tax a bit and he furiously started googling on his phone to come up with a weak rebuttal about the state deficit.

He tries to do this on Facebook and you can literally see his google string in the links he posts. It's hilarious.

It's the principal of government saying they know how to spend that extra ten cents better than you do.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:12

BlackStar: Aug 21, 2004

sudonim posted:

I unironically enjoy how this thread transformed from "things boomers like" to "things I hate about boomers." Tapped into a rich vein of intergenerational angst (justified angst imo).

# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:15

Leon Einstein: Feb 6, 2012; I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

Iron Crowned posted:

It's the principal of government saying they know how to spend that extra ten cents better than you do.

Having future generations pay for your current needs (along with interest) is completely unethical. It gets me so mad. Way to saddle my children with your debt, assholes. Never mind the fact that we've been in a record long bull market. If we can't afford our obligations now, when will we be able to?

"The government can't do anything right!

Yay, I'm now eligible for Medicaid!"

# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:26

Shamino: Mar 14, 2008; I am weary of loitering about Britain. There is much we could be accomplishing! Where hast thou been, anyway?

# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:46

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Leon Einstein posted:

"The government can't do anything right!

Yay, I'm now eligible for Medicaid!"

They were of course complaining about paying those taxes since 1965.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:50

STrooperTK421: Aug 1, 2010

Leon Einstein posted:

I asked my dad why he considered it fiscally responsible for Scott Walker to borrow 800 million to pay for roads rather than raising the gas tax a bit and he furiously started googling on his phone to come up with a weak rebuttal about the state deficit.

He tries to do this on Facebook and you can literally see his google string in the links he posts. It's hilarious.

HAAHAA then they start spinning some bullshit about how they can't find "their facts" because it is one big KikeJew conspiracy so them nigg...err Urban's and those fags and the left can "take more of what they shouldn't be getting" (though nevermind that these same poo poo-mouth failures of humanity are sucking on that very same government titty...) and all of their bluster and bullshit comes right down to pure willful ignorance and racism.

Oh, then they get even more butthurt when this is pointed out and you rub their filthy rear end noses in it.

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# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:52

mycomancy: Oct 16, 2016

Back to the Chitown Frozen Pipes Goon:

The reason why your hot water line froze is because the water in the pipes between your water heater and your taps doesn't stay hot. Even if they're insulated, they'll lose heat and drop to ambient. So, when it dropped that low this past winter, they froze because your water heater doesn't heat up all your pipes in your house...

...unless you have the hot taps drip. :cripes:

# ? Apr 22, 2019 15:57

Rad-daddio: Apr 25, 2017

Kunabomber posted:

Yelling "GOOD LUCK REPLACING THE BATTERIES IN 3 YEARS" when you mention you want to get an EV.

If I'm not mistaken, battery pack maintainenece and replacement is somerhing you have to factor into owning an ev.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 16:04

Shamino: Mar 14, 2008; I am weary of loitering about Britain. There is much we could be accomplishing! Where hast thou been, anyway?

Rad-daddio posted:

If I'm not mistaken, battery pack maintainenece and replacement is somerhing you have to factor into owning an ev.

It's $1800 for a 10 year old Prius to get new batteries at 150,000-200,000 miles. It's not a huge amount of money.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 16:11

Leon Einstein: Feb 6, 2012; I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

My sister is infected with the boomer mentality. She is always trying to keep up with her friends and wants to constantly upgrade to bigger houses. She said if she had the extra money I have, she'd buy a bigger house. Why would I want a bigger mortgage and another 30 year mortgage? It's not like I even make much more money; I just don't spend it on stupid bullshit to impress others.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 16:11

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

LabyaMynora posted:

My mom just moved to a city where the whole city is a retirement community. They don't pay anything for public schools in their taxes. My mom thought this was such a great deal because her kids have been out of school for almost 20 years. I told her it's bullshit because her entire community benefits from public education in the form of all the service people/employees they rely on for goods and services. She said that the cash registers are so advanced these days the employees don't even need to count change anymore. I asked her without public education, how would the employees know the difference between a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter?

Never mind the fact that when she did have kids in school, there were plenty of old fogies in the area paying taxes towards our education.

When Sun City was getting started it was zoned into a school district which meant they paid taxes to fund it. It also meant they were eligible to vote on district funding measures. So they proceeded to completely strangle the schools by stonewalling any spending whatsoever, until the district agreed not to include them so they couldn't vote them dry.

# ? Apr 22, 2019 16:11

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 11:15

Bonzo: Mar 11, 2004; Just like Mama used to make it!

Leon Einstein posted:

My sister is infected with the boomer mentality. She is always trying to keep up with her friends and wants to constantly upgrade to bigger houses. She said if she had the extra money I have, she'd buy a bigger house. Why would I want a bigger mortgage and another 30 year mortgage? It's not like I even make much more money; I just don't spend it on stupid bullshit to impress others.

What does she think of reverse mortgages?

# ? Apr 22, 2019 16:21

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