epsilon posted:

Lmfao

Bonaventure posted:

Boomers love skittering into warm, dark places to lay a clutch of eggs. They're attracted to the carbon dioxide you exhale during sleep, so that's why their bites tend to cluster around your mouth.

Leon Einstein posted:

I went to a church youth group thing and they talked about this and played a bunch of "examples" of it. It didn't pass the sniff test for my 9 year old self, but these grown adults honestly believed this warbly nonsense was going to convince us kids to worship satan and smoke marijuana.

Chief McHeath posted:

Jimmy Buffett just introduced Jimmy Buffett(R) branded Coral Reefer weed since Florida made it legal.

Boomers love to say weed is bad for you, but it's definitely okay for me, even Jimmy Buffett says so!

Moridin920 posted:

The city of Riverside is basically entirely a commuter town in which people regularly drive 1-3 hours one way to get to work in San Diego or LA. That's one half the city, anyway. Everyone else living there is probably poor and/or on meth. UC Riverside is smack dab in the poo poo part of town although they've been gussying it up of late.

Southern California is a hell nightmare of driving.



Also most students at UCR commute home on the weekends so it is a dead lovely school on weekends with nothing to do and there isn't even a football team

CPL593H posted:

It's kind of like the D.A.R.E. program.

CPL593H posted:

The hilarious irony is that this poo poo probably turned all kinds of kids into "bad behavior" and "devil music" by making it seem way cooler in comparison to their boring uptight bullshit. It's kind of like the D.A.R.E. program. Nothing's cooler than having a cop come to your school telling you that smoking weed ends with you dying in a flophouse after ODing on heroin. By the time kids get to high school they already knew that "gateway drug" thing was utter bullshit.

mojo1701a posted:

Genesplicer posted:

I drive an hour from the desert to get into Riverside for work. My school is within walking distance of UCR. The area has changed a lot in the last 25 years, mostly for the better. As UCR expands, the area around it improves to support it.

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

DARE came to my grade school and told us that those evil drug dealers were putting LSD on temporary tattoos

of course for the next week or so the cool thing was to come to school w/ a bunch of temp tattoos on

A Pack of Kobolds posted:

Is the Salton Sea nice this time of year?

Bonzo posted:

In 8th grade (so 1987ish?) they showed up a filmstrip about drugs and one of the scenes was with lyrics from Smokin' by Boston overlayed on a still shot of a large rock festival crowd. Since this was the south I guess it was some attempt to keep kids form smoking which LOL because this was Kentucky and we had teachers hand out pop quizzes just so they could grab a smoke in the lounge.

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

DARE came to my grade school and told us that those evil drug dealers were putting LSD on temporary tattoos

of course for the next week or so the cool thing was to come to school w/ a bunch of temp tattoos on

Leon Einstein posted:

I remember then coming to my school when I was like 7 or 8, and they had a huge display with like every kind of drug you can imagine. It just made me think drugs looked awesome. Then they tried to get kids to rat out their parents.

CPL593H posted:

The hilarious irony is that this poo poo probably turned all kinds of kids into "bad behavior" and "devil music" by making it seem way cooler in comparison to their boring uptight bullshit. It's kind of like the D.A.R.E. program. Nothing's cooler than having a cop come to your school telling you that smoking weed ends with you dying in a flophouse after ODing on heroin. By the time kids get to high school they already knew that "gateway drug" thing was utter bullshit.


Boomers were doing drugs and loving casually but when they got to middle age suddenly those things were evil and none of their kids should do them ever! This is probably the genesis of their whole "gently caress you, got mine." attitude that is so pervasive in their generation.

jokes posted:

The cop that did DARE knew my dad and they went shooting guns together sometime on the weekends. I believe my dad sold drugs when he was younger.

Genesplicer posted:

I don't live near there, thankfully. During the summer, when the temp is high and the wind is just right, I can get a whiff of it. I live closer to Palm Springs, and can see the windmill farms from my back yard.





Pity the poor teachers who have/had to teach that poo poo. At least I tried to downplay all the absurd nonsense that was in the script the district/state required me to read.

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

DARE came to my grade school and told us that those evil drug dealers were putting LSD on temporary tattoos

of course for the next week or so the cool thing was to come to school w/ a bunch of temp tattoos on

Genesplicer posted:

Pity the poor teachers who have/had to teach that poo poo. At least I tried to downplay all the absurd nonsense that was in the script the district/state required me to read.

CPL593H posted:

How the gently caress did people believe this. People are totally going to give away drugs for free, for no reason!

CPL593H posted:

I once saw a car that had the ultimate dead kid sticker. It was this tiny purple Honda that was rusting to poo poo and in addition to some oversized "RIP [dead kid]" decals, the entire hood of the car was covered by a massive sticker that was a picture of his face. Dead people stickers are sad, weird, and tacky as gently caress. I don't even think it's specific to boomers. When I was in high school people wore dead kid t-shirts too, that was sort of the start of when people started doing the stickers on their cars.

Tip posted:

My boomer aunt is super-Christian and obsessed with death. 90% of her Facebook posts are pictures of angel gowns/tuxedos and memory bears that she has sewn.

Angel gowns and tuxedos are little white outfits custom made for your stillborn child. People dress the dead babies up, and take pictures with them. It's horrifying, I can't imagine when I would want to pull out a photo of my dead baby in a tuxedo.

Memory bears are stuffed animals made out of the clothing of a child's dead parent. My aunt takes the dead parent's favorite outfit, and then cuts it up and constructs about 8 bears of varying sizes, and then gives them to the kids. This really seems like the perfect way to traumatize your child and make sure they never get over their parent's death.

Tip posted:

My boomer aunt is super-Christian and obsessed with death. 90% of her Facebook posts are pictures of angel gowns/tuxedos and memory bears that she has sewn.

Angel gowns and tuxedos are little white outfits custom made for your stillborn child. People dress the dead babies up, and take pictures with them. It's horrifying, I can't imagine when I would want to pull out a photo of my dead baby in a tuxedo.

Memory bears are stuffed animals made out of the clothing of a child's dead parent. My aunt takes the dead parent's favorite outfit, and then cuts it up and constructs about 8 bears of varying sizes, and then gives them to the kids. This really seems like the perfect way to traumatize your child and make sure they never get over their parent's death.

CPL593H posted:

The hilarious irony is that this poo poo probably turned all kinds of kids into "bad behavior" and "devil music" by making it seem way cooler in comparison to their boring uptight bullshit. It's kind of like the D.A.R.E. program. Nothing's cooler than having a cop come to your school telling you that smoking weed ends with you dying in a flophouse after ODing on heroin. By the time kids get to high school they already knew that "gateway drug" thing was utter bullshit.


Boomers were doing drugs and loving casually but when they got to middle age suddenly those things were evil and none of their kids should do them ever! This is probably the genesis of their whole "gently caress you, got mine." attitude that is so pervasive in their generation.

Rad-daddio posted:

That reminds me of the Victorian tradition of propping up your dead relative to get one last pic together with them.

Tip posted:

My boomer aunt is super-Christian and obsessed with death. 90% of her Facebook posts are pictures of angel gowns/tuxedos and memory bears that she has sewn.

Angel gowns and tuxedos are little white outfits custom made for your stillborn child. People dress the dead babies up, and take pictures with them. It's horrifying, I can't imagine when I would want to pull out a photo of my dead baby in a tuxedo.

Memory bears are stuffed animals made out of the clothing of a child's dead parent. My aunt takes the dead parent's favorite outfit, and then cuts it up and constructs about 8 bears of varying sizes, and then gives them to the kids. This really seems like the perfect way to traumatize your child and make sure they never get over their parent's death.

marijuanamancer posted:

hunter s thompson was a good boomer

Laterite posted:

Cursed comment. HST was getting beat up by the Hell's Angels when most boomers were still in diapers. I'd ask you not to sully his name like that.

Panfilo posted:

Everybody mourns differently. I can't imagine how devastating it would be to have a stillborn child, so it's kind of unreasonable to pass judgment on how parents might cope.

Usually people have photos of a loved one before they pass away, but this isn't the case for a stillbirth. People get sentimental about other people who have died imagine that?

redgubbinz posted:

...When the last Cracker Barrel closes and the company folds, you will know the Boomers are truly gone.

CPL593H posted:

I was referring to the aunt's behavior which seems kind of ghoulish. And for what it's worth my father died when I was very young and I would not have liked someone giving me a bunch of teddy bears made out of his old clothes.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Untimely death of close family, let alone children, can easily make people crazy. We've had at least one case in this thread of someone who outlived their wife and child and consensus basically was 'You have a license to drink yourself to death, goddamn'.