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Yeah it wasn't any army, more like a loosely established militia at best.
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Nov 15, 2019 22:29
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https://twitter.com/KartoonistKelly/status/1195445955106988033?s=19
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Nov 15, 2019 22:34
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I love the slightly cut off "oil crisis"
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Nov 15, 2019 22:36
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idgi half of the poo poo on the boomer list is unquestionably bad things?? e: oh i got onion'd lol
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Nov 15, 2019 22:39
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GenZ's apparently got a name for GenXers that act like Boomers now: Karens. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/gen-z-is-calling-gen-x-the-karen-generation
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Nov 15, 2019 22:39
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SwitchbladeKult posted:GenZ's apparently got a name for GenXers that act like Boomers now: Karens. That's a weirdly old meme to suddenly kick into the mainstream. EDIT: Whatever happened to Waterbeds, now that I think about it? They were everywhere, now they're nowhere.
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Nov 15, 2019 22:45
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Neito posted:That's a weirdly old meme to suddenly kick into the mainstream. Interest in them has deflated over time.
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Nov 15, 2019 22:51
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Neito posted:. Everybody realized they were a giant PITA to maintain, disastrous when they leaked, and sex on them was kinda weird and sloshy. Insurance hassles didn’t help either.
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Nov 15, 2019 23:00
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JnnyThndrs posted:sex on them was horrendously loud in a bad way
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Nov 15, 2019 23:04
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Krispy Wafer posted:And it wasn't just Boomers driving drunk. My wife's best friend in high school was killed by a drunk driver and since the driver was the police chief's son no charges were filed. I don't mean to  , and i know not everyone's good with technology, but boomers' complete failure to understand internet things and choice to call every form of electronic communication "email" is the result of an active decision to violate the modern societal social contract. To be so clueless in 2019 is 100% a choice
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Nov 15, 2019 23:06
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Neito posted:EDIT: Whatever happened to Waterbeds, now that I think about it? They were everywhere, now they're nowhere.
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Nov 15, 2019 23:10
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I somehow had a king sized waterbed for about a year as a young kid, my bedroom was an unfinished basement, with just the framing as the walls next to the furnace. I also had a pet rabbit that was kept behind bed springs leaning against the cement wall with boards placed over the sides to keep it inside the "cage". I had a weird childhood but I definitely loved that waterbed.
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Nov 15, 2019 23:18
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Neito posted:If it weren't by a scary emo band where the lead singer is a boy who wears dark clothes and makeup and sings about being unhappy, MCR's "Teenagers" would be a boomer anthem. I loved and still love the absolute gently caress out of MCR. My mom, on the other hand, thought they were a violent satanic band and made me keep my copy of the Three Cheers album in the closet. Which I'd take out whenever she wasn't home. 
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Nov 15, 2019 23:24
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Framboise posted:I loved and still love the absolute gently caress out of MCR. My mom, on the other hand, thought they were a violent satanic band and made me keep my copy of the Three Cheers album in the closet. Which I'd take out whenever she wasn't home. My mom absolutely hated Radiohead and thought they were going to make me kill myself. Joke's on her, it was the childhood abuse and gender dysphoria that made me want to kill myself.
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Nov 15, 2019 23:37
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As someone who was always naturally depressed, it still weirds me out the way some people get allergic to Radiohead's pixie wistfulness like it's staring into the Abyss.
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Nov 15, 2019 23:42
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mind the walrus posted:As someone who was always naturally depressed, it still weirds me out the way some people get allergic to Radiohead's pixie wistfulness like it's staring into the Abyss. I never really got how Thom Yorke and Radiohead got labeled as Dark and Brooding. Like, unless I'm just being ignorant, even poo poo like Optimistic was more wistful centrism than "Man, life really sucks", and Creep is more self-effacing than depressing. I think if I had a do-over on life, I'd've reversed my very, very stupid teenage theory that I was rebelling by only being into classic rock.
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Nov 15, 2019 23:50
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Neito posted:I think if I had a do-over on life, I'd've reversed my very, very stupid teenage theory that I was rebelling by only being into classic rock. "Yeah I like Greg Kihn what do you gotta say to THAT mom and dad?? And guess what -- I DONT EVEN SMOKE!" - the gooniest rebel
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Nov 16, 2019 02:03
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Picnic Princess posted:My mom absolutely hated Radiohead and thought they were going to make me kill myself. Radiohead and The Smashing Pumpkins are to my adult self as MCR was to adolescent me. I don't understand why they're so boomer-maligned. And like, yeah, Radiohead has some crushingly depressing songs, but it's not pessimistic for the sake of being pessimistic. Neito posted:I never really got how Thom Yorke and Radiohead got labeled as Dark and Brooding. Like, unless I'm just being ignorant, even poo poo like Optimistic was more wistful centrism than "Man, life really sucks", and Creep is more self-effacing than depressing. And then there's my childhood there. I was ALL ABOUT Van Halen and Queen until I got into stuff like MCR in middle school. I was so stuffy about genres and poo poo but I've branched out so much since college and I can find things I like in pretty much every genre except country, which makes me ill.
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Nov 16, 2019 02:09
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I never really paid too much attention to whatever Thom is warbling about, they just sound cool.
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Nov 16, 2019 02:14
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Framboise posted:I loved and still love the absolute gently caress out of MCR. My mom, on the other hand, thought they were a violent satanic band and made me keep my copy of the Three Cheers album in the closet. Which I'd take out whenever she wasn't home. I had to return the first CD I ever bought with my own money when my parents listened to it: Rage Against the Machine's The Battle of Los Angeles. Until that point, I listened to whatever they did when they were driving (NPR, classical) and Radio AAHS.
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Nov 16, 2019 02:16
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my baseball coach confiscated my Fear of a Black Planet tape. fucker
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Nov 16, 2019 02:45
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Grape posted:I never really paid too much attention to whatever Thom is warbling about, they just sound cool.
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Nov 16, 2019 02:56
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I’m in Vegas for work and you know what boomers like? loving slot machines. Morning, noon and night.
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Nov 16, 2019 03:04
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Solkanar512 posted:I’m in Vegas for work and you know what boomers like? My silent gen grandma owned a Super Nintendo and played exactly one game constantly: Vegas Stakes.
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Nov 16, 2019 03:14
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Animated Nerd posted:Boomers love to complain about cancel culture, how "no one can take a joke anymore", and "what ever happened to sticks and stones?" If you counter that maybe tolerating awful speech and actions is a bad thing, they will tell you to "just wait until it happens to YOU then we will see how you like it." It's like the same argument weirdo MRA types use for why you can't trust women because they'll accuse you of rape at anytime!!! But maybe don't get into situations where you rape and sexual assault people? It's not too challenging and maybe you won't get accused of rape if you don't rape.
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Nov 16, 2019 03:20
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:It's like the same argument weirdo MRA types use for why you can't trust women because they'll accuse you of rape at anytime!!! But maybe don't get into situations where you rape and sexual assault people? It's not too challenging and maybe you won't get accused of rape if you don't rape. Or the bullshit “Falwell” rule where you can’t be alone in a room with a woman “to protect their reputation and yours”.
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Nov 16, 2019 03:31
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Solkanar512 posted:Or the bullshit “Falwell” rule where you can’t be alone in a room with a woman “to protect their reputation and yours”. This comes straight from a place where Boomer men literally can't interact with women without there being a sexual element.
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Nov 16, 2019 03:46
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boar guy posted:my baseball coach confiscated my Fear of a Black Planet tape. fucker Welcome To The Astrodome
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Nov 16, 2019 04:11
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Grape posted:This comes straight from a place where Boomer men literally can't interact with women without there being a sexual element.
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Nov 16, 2019 04:21
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:It's like the same argument weirdo MRA types use for why you can't trust women because they'll accuse you of rape at anytime!!! But maybe don't get into situations where you rape and sexual assault people? It's not too challenging and maybe you won't get accused of rape if you don't rape. Chuds are really good at telling on themselves.
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Nov 16, 2019 05:26
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I had boomer parents and I miss them dearly. They were assholes yes but at least I didnt survive as an rear end in a top hat. Mom is still alive thankfully and she loves me to death. She absolutely loves the OK boomer meme
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Nov 16, 2019 05:31
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Mom died a while ago and Dad is going on 62 now, but his entire life was spent as a hard laborer biker dude who now just chills on weed all day and gave up on Fox News, so he's always been pretty cool and not a card-carrying boomer shitbrain who hates his children, despite his untreated trauma causing him and us a lot of grief throughout the years I got loving lucky, when I look at literally every other member of my extended family, who are horrifically greedy backstabbing psuedohumans with glassy-eye smiles that mask neverending hate
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Nov 16, 2019 06:09
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Things my dad did as a boomer to discipline me growing up. I got a couple of these stories so I don't mind sharing. I was about 10 / 11 and I remember getting so mad at a game I threw the controller down in anger. My father comes in, snatches the controller from the ground and breaks it in front of my eyes. I had to pick up every single fragment of shard broken because of my father found one I would have been beaten. He came back in my room an hour later to examine and found nothing. Told me I was working with him in the morning to pay off the controller. When I worked for two days I got a new one but was immediately shattered again in front of my eyes yet again. "Now buy your own." He basically taught me not to be mad at videogames and treat it as it only is. A loving videogame. I can be happy, sad, but angry enough to be an idiot and break a controller? That is childish. And it will cost money.
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Nov 16, 2019 06:17
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Katamari Democracy posted:He basically taught me not to be mad at videogames and treat it as it only is. A loving videogame. I can be happy, sad, but angry enough to be an idiot and break a controller? That is childish. And it will cost money. Wait, are you defending him here? Because he’s a loving psycho
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Nov 16, 2019 06:39
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irpoweroutlet posted:Wait, are you defending him here? Because he’s a loving psycho Defending him on his choice of discipline? No. Defending him for being my dad? Yes.
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Nov 16, 2019 06:47
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There's a lot to unpack there and I for one am not gonna touch any of it.
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Nov 16, 2019 06:48
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Katamari Democracy posted:Things my dad did as a boomer to discipline me growing up. I got a couple of these stories so I don't mind sharing. wow what a valuable lesson #blessed
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Nov 16, 2019 06:55
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Katamari Democracy posted:Things my dad did as a boomer to discipline me growing up. I got a couple of these stories so I don't mind sharing. *what*
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Nov 16, 2019 07:03
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My dad just did normal things like shake me over the bannister over a 10 ft drop onto the stairs below
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Nov 16, 2019 07:05
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I feel like the only poster here who likes their parents. Also: That one story there. 
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Nov 16, 2019 07:06
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