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Iron Crowned posted:I did that for a while, then I was unemployed and cashed them in so I could eat. millenial.txt Sorry about how my peers have hosed nearly everything up (last-year boomer).
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Apr 24, 2019 16:09
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dee eight posted:Can I be my own individual generation? Like an outlier or weird hybrid or something? Nah don't worry dude there's a minority of cool, chill boomers who can talk about anything without having to constantly fact check trivial things on wikipedia, while getting blazed and listening to XTC. Shout out to my dad... If 80% of boomers died instantly the world would be a better place though.
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Apr 24, 2019 16:18
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My signature use to be legible until I bought two houses, a car, and was executor of my father's estate in the span of two years. You have no loving idea how many things I had to sign for all that so now all you can really make out if the initials. Cracker Barrel used to be legit good but has totally gone down hill. Bob Evans is just as bad and you can buy the same boil in bag crap they use at the stores.
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Apr 24, 2019 16:28
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Things boomers do not like: aging gracefully; dying
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Apr 24, 2019 16:30
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Bonzo posted:My signature use to be legible until I bought two houses, a car, and was executor of my father's estate in the span of two years. You have no loving idea how many things I had to sign for all that so now all you can really make out if the initials. My parents only eat at the following restaurants: Cracker Barrel, The Outback, and Little Caesar's. My dad will seriously rave about how amazing Little Caesar's is at the drop of a hat. Speaking of, boomers love explaining things you already know about and ignore you when you try to explain that you've heard it already
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Apr 24, 2019 16:32
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my dad hits a lot of the Boomer Bingo spaces mentioned in this thread - online correspondence filled with triple commas like "hey,,, just my opinion,,, but" - doesn't like being called "grandpa" and actually said this to my sister and her 2 year old: "don't call me that, i'm not old" - collects coins and inexplicably assumes i do too. one time a couple years ago he gave me a map with all the state quarters on it. i used them for laundry - loves chain restaurants
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Apr 24, 2019 16:34
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Boomers love to find white ooze spurting out of a crack in the ground, and they love scooping up the ooze in their hands, eating the ooze, and after thinking about it for a moment remarking "it's pretty good!" then they scoop up more ooze and shove it in their mouths
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Apr 24, 2019 16:47
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Bonaventure posted:Boomers love to find white ooze spurting out of a crack in the ground, and they love scooping up the ooze in their hands, eating the ooze, and after thinking about it for a moment remarking "it's pretty good!" then they scoop up more ooze and shove it in their mouths Enough is never enough!
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Apr 24, 2019 16:59
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Boomers love seeing or hearing of things, and commenting "that looks/sounds great!" but have no interest in actually trying it out for themselves when offered.
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Apr 24, 2019 17:03
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Bodyholes posted:Nah don't worry dude there's a minority of cool, chill boomers who can talk about anything without having to constantly fact check trivial things on wikipedia, while getting blazed and listening to XTC. Boomers, even cool ones, listening to rock music that came out after 1975???
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Apr 24, 2019 17:06
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Have a refrigerator crap out due to planned obsolescence, wax poetic about the good ol' days when a 1950 Frigidaire would last 35 years, then blame all the environmental laws for ruining appliances.
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Apr 24, 2019 17:08
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Bonaventure posted:Boomers love to find white ooze spurting out of a crack in the ground, and they love scooping up the ooze in their hands, eating the ooze, and after thinking about it for a moment remarking "it's pretty good!" then they scoop up more ooze and shove it in their mouths Not a boomer, but I am curious about the tasty ooze.
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Apr 24, 2019 17:09
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Kunabomber posted:Have a refrigerator crap out due to planned obsolescence, wax poetic about the good ol' days when a 1950 Frigidaire would last 35 years, then blame all the environmental laws for ruining appliances. Or OSHA for killing small towns because the paper mills had to install safety equipment.
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Apr 24, 2019 17:25
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Rad-daddio posted:Not a boomer, but I am curious about the tasty ooze. You're supposed to eat it, that's all. You eat it and eat as much as you can and you keep eating it!
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Apr 24, 2019 17:25
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The handwriting thing is hilarious to me, because I've noticed a lot of boomers with bad handwriting. My boss bucks a lot of boomer trends (like telling me I should buy a house), but his handwriting is awful. I've had to learn to translate it for other, newer coworkers.Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, my first job out of high school involved signing my name all day long. That'll take your signature from a complicated cursive work of art to a couple of scribbles in no time. For about a year, I was the financial secretary for an organization. Since most of the actual active members are boomer and above, it's mostly a cash & cheque business, so I had to write out and sign a shitload of cheques by hand. Long story short, I went through a similar thing that happened to Richard Nixon:  (Related to this, my mom has an annoying habit of just criticizing immaterial things, like how my signature doesn't have all the letters written out. She is just that pedantic about how things "should" be).
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Apr 24, 2019 17:27
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I don’t know if this is in any way a boomer thing but my mom constantly quotes Big Bang Theory to me. Whatever the situation is, she will somehow relate it to something some nerdo on that show did. I don’t have the heart to tell her I can’t stand Big Bang Theory. She also loves Geico ads.
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Apr 24, 2019 17:42
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mojo1701a posted:(Related to this, my mom has an annoying habit of just criticizing immaterial things, like how my signature doesn't have all the letters written out. She is just that pedantic about how things "should" be). change your signature to "gently caress u mom"
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Apr 24, 2019 17:44
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Ralph Hurley posted:I don’t know if this is in any way a boomer thing but my mom constantly quotes Big Bang Theory to me. Whatever the situation is, she will somehow relate it to something some nerdo on that show did. I don’t have the heart to tell her I can’t stand Big Bang Theory. She also loves Geico ads. My parents love The Big Bang Theory. Whenever I tell them how much I hate it, my dad just says that I don't understand the science, and insists that I should watch it.
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Apr 24, 2019 17:47
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Kunabomber posted:Have a refrigerator crap out due to planned obsolescence, wax poetic about the good ol' days when a 1950 Frigidaire would last 35 years, then blame all the environmental laws for ruining appliances. My mum went on a long monologue about this recently, except it was about food mixers rather than fridges ("I still have the Kenwood mixer that your grandmother bought in 1967 for £80, you shouldn't buy cheap crap that only lasts two years"). Except that cheap, plastic Chinese-made food mixers didn't exist in 1967 - that Kenwood Chef Major was the equivalent of buying a food mixer for £1500 today. Like, yeah, there are still fridges from the 1950s that work fine but a Stor-Mor fridge back then cost as much as a top-spec BMW 5-Series does today. I'd hope that if you bought a fridge for £50k today it would last six decades! And which generation was it that didn't want expensive, solidly-made, repairable appliances that cost a small fortune but lasted for ever and instead bought cheap, disposable, sealed-for-life, rivetted-together poo poo? Oh yeah...
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Apr 24, 2019 18:03
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Oh boy, boomers. Every time I e-mail her at work, she prints it out, walks across the office with the printout, and talks to me in person about it. Not only inefficient, but now theres a gap in the communication chain. Whenever myself or others point this out, we get a  "well that's how i've always done it".She's been there 27 years and makes 80k as a secretary.
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Apr 24, 2019 18:11
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BalloonFish posted:My mum went on a long monologue about this recently, except it was about food mixers rather than fridges ("I still have the Kenwood mixer that your grandmother bought in 1967 for £80, you shouldn't buy cheap crap that only lasts two years"). Except that cheap, plastic Chinese-made food mixers didn't exist in 1967 - that Kenwood Chef Major was the equivalent of buying a food mixer for £1500 today. Like, yeah, there are still fridges from the 1950s that work fine but a Stor-Mor fridge back then cost as much as a top-spec BMW 5-Series does today. I'd hope that if you bought a fridge for £50k today it would last six decades! I'd love to have a coach-built fridge that I can fine tune like a Swiss instrument. The repair tech(who would rarely need to come by since the fridge is loving awesome) would be a burly dude with a beard and suspenders and a leather apron. He'd pull out a bunch of clockish repair tools and set to work with little wrenching and tapping noises while whistling jaunty tunes to himself. When finished with his work, he'd hand me an invoice on parchment and I'd sign it with my fountain pen.
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Apr 24, 2019 18:18
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I feel like I want to know more about non North American boomers. What about poo poo like Japan? I know the business culture there is still operating like it's 1965 when it comes to procedures or signatures
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Apr 24, 2019 18:32
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BalloonFish posted:My mum went on a long monologue about this recently, except it was about food mixers rather than fridges ("I still have the Kenwood mixer that your grandmother bought in 1967 for £80, you shouldn't buy cheap crap that only lasts two years"). Except that cheap, plastic Chinese-made food mixers didn't exist in 1967 - that Kenwood Chef Major was the equivalent of buying a food mixer for £1500 today. Like, yeah, there are still fridges from the 1950s that work fine but a Stor-Mor fridge back then cost as much as a top-spec BMW 5-Series does today. I'd hope that if you bought a fridge for £50k today it would last six decades! It owns that people got paid enough to buy stuff like that lol
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Apr 24, 2019 18:37
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Saying a brown person they actually like is "one of the good ones".
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Apr 24, 2019 18:52
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Running the sprinklers on a day where the entire city is under a flood warning
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Apr 24, 2019 18:55
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Noslo posted:Oh boy, boomers. One of the reasons I always try to email clients, so I at least have a record of their word for most of the information that I need. Especially if my boss ends up asking me, "Where did you get that number?" Hell, I finished an auditing course months ago, and one of the primary mantras was, "If it isn't documented, it isn't done." I don't mind calling to clarify or follow-up, but in an email, I at least have a written list of things I need to refer to. Inept posted:change your signature to "gently caress u mom" Aww, I already changed it to "No you shut the gently caress up dad".
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Apr 24, 2019 19:27
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mojo1701a posted:One of the reasons I always try to email clients, so I at least have a record of their word for most of the information that I need. Especially if my boss ends up asking me, "Where did you get that number?" Seriously. I work with so many product codes and quantities that I always prefer emailing. My boss is always asking why no one uses the phones. How easy for you is it to copy down 50 different 16 digit numbers by hand? Good because that's why I keep emailing. Plus when a customer tries to BS their way into extra stuff I can pull up an email and say "Nah, you got that stuff, here you are asking for it, and here I am responding."
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Apr 24, 2019 20:15
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Having incredibly loud conversations in a movie theater in the middle of the movie
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Apr 24, 2019 20:29
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Bodyholes posted:We need a thread about 30 year old boomers. OH, you've met my brother? He seeded a massive lawn in his backyard and bought himself a riding lawnmower. He's got a 125 mile commute but insists on driving a jacked up diesel truck to work every day.
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Apr 24, 2019 21:12
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Panfilo posted:OH, you've met my brother? He seeded a massive lawn in his backyard and bought himself a riding lawnmower. He's got a 125 mile commute but insists on driving a jacked up diesel truck to work every day. I bet he also backs into parking spaces.
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Apr 24, 2019 21:21
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They also fought tooth and nail to be able to keep firing people for being gay.
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Apr 24, 2019 21:25
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Bonzo posted:I bet he also backs into parking spaces. Up until the truck nutz are teabagging the hood of the car behind him!
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Apr 24, 2019 21:47
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Beastie posted:Seriously. I work with so many product codes and quantities that I always prefer emailing. My boss is always asking why no one uses the phones. I know I posted that "boomer complains about online filing" link earlier, so I'll follow it up by reiterating that I really, really love online access to clients' tax info for just that reason. It's literally right there in front of me to print off for confirmation. Mind_Taker posted:Having incredibly loud conversations in a movie theater in the middle of the movie I saw Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in a theatre when it came out years ago, and this boomer couple sat in front of me, and would not shut up trying to figure out what was going on in the movie. It's not exactly that difficult of a movie, but it does require more attention than your average blockbuster. Bonzo posted:I bet he also backs into parking spaces. If you ever want a fun time, go to your nearest Costco parking lot, find a car that's backed into its spot (ideally a big car), and wait until the owner comes back and tries to figure out how to get their groceries into the trunk.
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Apr 24, 2019 21:50
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Panfilo posted:OH, you've met my brother? He seeded a massive lawn in his backyard and bought himself a riding lawnmower. He's got a 125 mile commute but insists on driving a jacked up diesel truck to work every day. That just sounds like the kids southerners or the kids of parents who have "conservative values."
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Apr 24, 2019 21:53
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:That just sounds like the kids southerners or the kids of parents who have "conservative values." Neither of my parents were like this though. It's hard to explain, he's like some redneck weeaboo.
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Apr 24, 2019 21:57
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Panfilo posted:Neither of my parents were like this though. It's hard to explain, he's like some redneck weeaboo. It's like; you know how like the world has a low amount of radiation that is constantly mutating stuff. Your brother got irradiated at some point. Edit: like there is actually this loving meme poo poo going around. Like a bunch of mid 20 year old are trying to carve out this identity that gives them this "I see the world for how it really is." They call themselves doomers, and are actively trying to turn 30 year old Millennial (Trophy kids per-recession) into boomers. Also trying to show how they are different from the younger kids by mocking them, the zoomers. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doomer mazzi Chart Czar fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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Apr 24, 2019 22:01
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Panfilo posted:125 mile commute can you please elaborate, this seems crazy
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Apr 24, 2019 22:01
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sudonim posted:what the gently caress Not that crazy, some people "like driving" and really want a huge house in the middle of nowhere even though all they do is sleep in it.
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Apr 24, 2019 22:05
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sudonim posted:what the gently caress where the hell else you gonna find a house you can actually buy
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Kunabomber posted:Not that crazy, some people "like driving" and really want a huge house in the middle of nowhere even though all they do is sleep in it. That's gotta, at best, 2.5hrs car commuting each day, not factoring in weather or traffic. I'd lose my mind. sudonim fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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