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Panfilo posted:Honestly, if there was some app that could magically diagnose some mystery electrical problem your car is having that would be fantastic.
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boomers love the tv show MASH
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Sep 27, 2019 16:39
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Boomers love keeping their toys in boxes. "I HAVE A 1968 MANSON FAMILY BARBIE AND ITS STILL IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING. NO I DIDNT ACTUALLY PLAY WITH MY TOY."
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Sep 27, 2019 17:02
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Mad Hamish posted:Asking the room, is that last speech bubble coming from the dad or the horse? Yes
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Sep 27, 2019 17:13
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Boomers love making jokes about idling cars being bad for the planet as 200,000+ climate Marchers walk past. Just learned this today.
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Sep 27, 2019 18:02
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The other day I got to watch a co-worker earn her boomer stripes. Our parking lot wraps around the rear of a small block of buildings on the corner of an intersection. One exit goes out to each road. Some guys had been hired to repaint the outside wall and fire escape of the building next to the entrance from Main Street. They had a big crane set up that blocked off the one entrance. Boomer lady starts whining at these guys that she needs to get out that entrance. They tell her they're sorry but she'll have to go out the other side. That's when she whines "I don't WANT to go over to that road. I gotta get to THIS road!" If she drove out the other way she could make two quick right turns and it would add maybe thirty seconds max to her trip. The painters then mockingly told her to have a nice day as she looks at me like I agree that they're being horrible monsters. Another example of why the few boomers left in our office are the biggest wastes of skin.
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Sep 27, 2019 18:36
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Oscar Wild posted:Boomers love keeping their toys in boxes. That's not exactly true, your hypothetical boomer didn't actually buy said 1968 Manson Family Barbie in 1968, it was bought in 1998 at a garage sale as an investment.
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Sep 27, 2019 18:56
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Gallow posted:The other day I got to watch a co-worker earn her boomer stripes. Our parking lot wraps around the rear of a small block of buildings on the corner of an intersection. One exit goes out to each road. Some guys had been hired to repaint the outside wall and fire escape of the building next to the entrance from Main Street. They had a big crane set up that blocked off the one entrance. Boomer lady starts whining at these guys that she needs to get out that entrance. They tell her they're sorry but she'll have to go out the other side. That's when she whines "I don't WANT to go over to that road. I gotta get to THIS road!" If she drove out the other way she could make two quick right turns and it would add maybe thirty seconds max to her trip. The painters then mockingly told her to have a nice day as she looks at me like I agree that they're being horrible monsters. Another example of why the few boomers left in our office are the biggest wastes of skin. They sure do love crying about wasted time, even if they have plenty and don't have anywhere to be, or are actively ruining the thing they're doing with their whining. Going out to a nice family dinner? Better spend the entire ride over almost shrieking about the roadwork and traffic and kill the mood entirely. The unemployed man is so irritated by this waste of his precious time that he'll ruin everything for the two people in the car who have full time jobs. Probably will lash out at someone later on too because he's just so angry. But when there is no roadwork, oh man what are they spending the gas tax on? It's a scam. Look at how bad the roads are.
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Sep 27, 2019 19:29
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A boomer getting a haircut at the barbershop I usually go to was complaining about kids not learning cursive being part of a plan to dumb them down. I didn't say anything but I thought of this thread. I had to learn cursive in third grade and it loving sucked. How does learning to write fancy translate to practical intelligence anyway? He went on to rant about how the way technology is going people "won't even have to think" in the future.
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Sep 27, 2019 19:42
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Goodguy3 posted:A boomer getting a haircut at the barbershop I usually go to was complaining about kids not learning cursive being part of a plan to dumb them down. I didn't say anything but I thought of this thread. I had to learn cursive in third grade and it loving sucked. How does learning to write fancy translate to practical intelligence anyway? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ballpoint-pens-object-lesson-history-handwriting/402205/ I've heard this a lot from boomers and other olds and i've used the above article to shut (some of) them up. Cursive only makes sense in a world of fountain pens, it's actually annoying and wasteful when using ballpoint/gel pens.
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Sep 27, 2019 19:54
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I literally haven't written in cursive besides my signature in decades. Meanwhile these boomers bitching about the lack of cursive are hunting and pecking while 3rd graders are typing 50 wpm. My narcissistic boomer uncle tries to say he can type just as fast with hunting and pecking as someone that can touch type.
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Sep 27, 2019 20:21
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The Little Death posted:https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ballpoint-pens-object-lesson-history-handwriting/402205/
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Sep 27, 2019 20:25
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Leon Einstein posted:I literally haven't written in cursive besides my signature in decades. Meanwhile these boomers bitching about the lack of cursive are hunting and pecking while 3rd graders are typing 50 wpm. I use about 6 fingers for typing and don't always put them in the same places. But I can still touch type 90 wpm with about 95% accuracy (which is as good as you need these days since fixing mistakes is easy). I've never taken a typing class. Turns out being on the internet all day for 20 years will teach you touch typing regardless of how you do it!
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Sep 27, 2019 20:31
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Also when you look at older handwriting examples and even current examples on twitter by smug boomers, It's done on blank sheets of paper. Or lined paper with wide margins. Try to make your handwriting look nice on college ruled paper for a full page. Your hand will get lazy. Little 'a' become little 'u'. 'd' become 'ol,' and the second they look back at a double 'oo' they will see that they look different. They are notes they're meant to be read again, and not having a person sit there wondering if the word is boomer or Loosnin. Hand writing can be hard to read even when it is nice. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/BL_Royal_Vincent_of_Beauvais.jpg
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Sep 27, 2019 20:32
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Goodguy3 posted:A boomer getting a haircut at the barbershop I usually go to was complaining about kids not learning cursive being part of a plan to dumb them down. I didn't say anything but I thought of this thread. I had to learn cursive in third grade and it loving sucked. How does learning to write fancy translate to practical intelligence anyway? In the mid 90's in 3rd and 4th grade we wasted a lot of time learning cursive. Then when I hit 5th grade in the same school district the attitude went 180 and became, "Print everything. If you try to use cursive we'll chop your miserable little hands off." Another fun one is the pledge of allegiance. The whole idea is loving whackadoodle when you give it the slightest thought but it's another thing boomers flip out about when they find out us backwards youngins aren't doing the needful anymore. Fabulousity fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 20:37
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Fabulousity posted:Another fun one is the pledge of allegiance. The whole idea is loving whackadoodle when you give it the slightest thought but it's another thing boomers flip out about when they find out us backwards youngins aren't doing the needful anymore. I was at a baseball game and putting toppings on my hot dog during the national anthem. Some middle aged lady grabbed my arm and told me to stop and wait until after the song was over. I don't remember my exact words to her but there were lots of forms of the word 'gently caress' in there.
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Sep 27, 2019 20:44
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Fabulousity posted:In the mid 90's in 3rd and 4th grade we wasted a lot of time learning cursive. Then when I hit 5th grade in the same school district the attitude went 180 and became, "Print everything. If you try to use cursive we'll chop your miserable little hands off." I had an opposite experience about a decade earlier - 3rd and 4th grade taught cursive but it was kind of half-assed, then in 5th grade the teacher was some kind of extremist cursive nazi and dedicated over 50% of the entire school year to drilling us on perfect cursive over and over and over again literally never used it in my adult life other than my signature which is just the letter J
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Sep 27, 2019 20:49
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Fabulousity posted:In the mid 90's in 3rd and 4th grade we wasted a lot of time learning cursive. Then when I hit 5th grade in the same school district the attitude went 180 and became, "Print everything. If you try to use cursive we'll chop your miserable little hands off." It wasn't print for me, but about 7th grade, middle school switched from handwritten reports in cursive to "type everything, we even have computer labs for you to use if you don't have one at home." Fabulousity posted:Another fun one is the pledge of allegiance. The whole idea is loving whackadoodle when you give it the slightest thought but it's another thing boomers flip out about when they find out us backwards youngins aren't doing the needful anymore. Pledge of Allegiance disappeared about the same time. I really don't remember when it disappeared, it was just gone, and no one I knew gave a poo poo.
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Sep 27, 2019 20:53
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the pledge of allegiance is creepy as hell and i remember i once looked into whether that sort of thing was "normal" in any other country and iirc the only other one was like north korea, of course
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Sep 27, 2019 21:04
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Earwicker posted:the pledge of allegiance is creepy as hell and i remember i once looked into whether that sort of thing was "normal" in any other country and iirc the only other one was like north korea, of course To defeat the commies, we had to learn to think like them.
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Sep 27, 2019 21:05
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Fabulousity posted:Another fun one is the pledge of allegiance. The whole idea is loving whackadoodle when you give it the slightest thought but it's another thing boomers flip out about when they find out us backwards youngins aren't doing the needful anymore. They stopped reciting the Pledge at St Louis Park City council meetings because why would you still do that? Then the boomers caught wind of a city full of LIEBRALS DISRESPECTING ARE FLAG!!! They brought it back to shut up the protesters and Trump.
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Sep 27, 2019 21:11
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Free people don't need to pledge their allegiance.
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Sep 27, 2019 21:16
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I watched the film Time Bandits for the first time today. The main kid's parents are the platonic ideal of British boomers, it was a little shocking to see how aware of it people were even in the 80s.
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Sep 27, 2019 21:32
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LabyaMynora posted:Free people don't need to pledge their allegiance.
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Sep 27, 2019 21:38
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That reminds me how Olympus has Fallen is the ultimate boomer movie. It even has one of the Secretaries reciting the pledge of allegiance as she's taken away to be shot. That's more boomer than the scene in red dawn.
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Sep 27, 2019 21:44
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I work with a lot of older people who are losing their vision, and one thing that frustrates them is that they can’t write in a straight line or read their handwriting anymore—they’re still trying to write grocery lists with tiny little cursive writing and getting mad when they can’t read their own writing. When I would print letters and words out extra large they could read it just fine, so naturally I would suggest to them that they print extra large rather than write in cursive if they want to write down a note or something, and probably about 60% of the time they look at me like I just asked them to drown a puppy and say “you want me to print????”
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Sep 27, 2019 21:46
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I was motivated to Google the Pledge of Allegiance and just learned that the 'under God' section was strong-armed into it in freaking 1954. So getting upset when people don't say it that way is literally a Boomerism and only a Boomerism. 'indivisible' is the original wording, all the way back from the 1890s. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 21:46
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I was motivated to Google the Pledge of Allegiance and just learned that the 'under God' section was strong-armed into it in freaking 1954. So getting upset when people don't say it that way is literally a Boomerism and only a Boomerism. yeah it was part of the cold war but even without the "under god" part, the entire idea of making children pledge allegiance to a nation is still some creepy nationalistic bullshit and im glad its less common now
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Sep 27, 2019 22:05
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I was motivated to Google the Pledge of Allegiance and just learned that the 'under God' section was strong-armed into it in freaking 1954. So getting upset when people don't say it that way is literally a Boomerism and only a Boomerism. Under God was also added to our bills and coins then. Got to fight those commies.
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Sep 27, 2019 22:09
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Iron Crowned posted:It wasn't print for me, but about 7th grade, middle school switched from handwritten reports in cursive to "type everything, we even have computer labs for you to use if you don't have one at home." I got sent to the principal's office about my poor handwriting in 3rd grade in 1993 and he was like "what are you going to do, type everything for the rest of your life?" and I just said yeah I was. Bitch it's 2005 I type my phone calls
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Sep 27, 2019 22:10
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Beastie posted:Under God was also added to our bills and coins then. Got to fight those commies. My boomer dad says that the fact that "in God we trust" on our money means we're a Christian nation. Not sure how to even argue with that logic.
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Sep 27, 2019 22:12
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SwitchbladeKult posted:RE: work for leisure- This is one of the few Boomerism I kinda understand. I like to keep busy and building things is fun, at least to me. The main issue I have with the way Boomers are always doing it in the most wasteful way possible, ex: taking care of a patch of grass that doesn't produce anything useful or even interesting to look at. There is nothing inherently wrong with working in the yard for fun but grow some vegetables or flowers or something other than grass! It's absolutely this. You would not believe how pissed off it made my neighbors when I was like "nah, I'm letting the grass die. Next spring I'm going to turn over the surviving bits and put in raised vegetable beds". There isn't any HOA old man gently caress offffff. HOAs are another thing boomers love because it allows them to build these sterile homogeneous neighborhoods that are unappealing to everyone except them.
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Sep 27, 2019 22:12
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Leon Einstein posted:My boomer dad says that the fact that "in God we trust" on our money means we're a Christian nation. Not sure how to even argue with that logic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
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Sep 27, 2019 22:16
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That's another thing Boomers love, homogeny. That's why they hate fun, travel, good food and POC.
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Sep 27, 2019 22:44
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SwitchbladeKult posted:That's another thing Boomers love, homogeny. That's why they hate fun, travel, good food and POC. Stirring fruit-in-the-bottom yogurt until there's no variation in flavor or texture. filling the ocean with tiny plastic sticks they used to stir their coffee because it would be stupid to wait 30 seconds for the creamer to naturally mix in.
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Sep 27, 2019 23:04
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it's creamy and it's sexy and is fruit and it's in the middle fruit in the middle shakalaka -DAG
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Sep 27, 2019 23:08
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https://twitter.com/BillHolohanSolr/status/1177631604186996737 this twitter thread is literally just a boomer email
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Sep 27, 2019 23:29
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Kanine posted:https://twitter.com/BillHolohanSolr/status/1177631604186996737 Wow I thought history was totally useless and unimportant but this critical information has really changed my opinion of the whole thing.
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Sep 27, 2019 23:36
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Iron Crowned posted:It wasn't print for me, but about 7th grade, middle school switched from handwritten reports in cursive to "type everything, we even have computer labs for you to use if you don't have one at home." we were still being forced to do the pledge when i graduated high school in 2014. i got suspensions multiple times for refusing to do it
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Kanine posted:we were still being forced to do the pledge when i graduated high school in 2014. i got suspensions multiple times for refusing to do it My high school was doing the same. This was going back to 04. I remember kids getting in trouble if they didn’t stop in the hallway For it.
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