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I don't have time right now to pull out some of the good ones, but the thread itself is right here and is some pretty primo pharmaceudical-grade Boomer Forwards type poo poo. (Warning: D&D)
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I loving hate this artist's style. The lines are so needlessly wobbly it looks like an arthritic Boomer drew it. The milk jugs weighting down the pool cover is just an odd detail.
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Nov 25, 2019 20:51
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alphabettitouretti posted:Has The Thanksgiving Letter ever been posted itt? That's got some big boomer energy. I feel a bad saying it, but when I watched that video of Marney, all I could think of was Quint's monologue about the U.S.S. Indianapolis from Jaws. That person has no life in their eyes.
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Nov 25, 2019 20:56
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Pulchritudinous posted:I feel a bad saying it, but when I watched that video of Marney, all I could think of was Quint's monologue about the U.S.S. Indianapolis from Jaws. That person has no life in their eyes. she is absolutely the sort who would plow through a line of protesters and get rich off the ensuing media circus.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:00
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Please enjoy the incredible Boomerness of Mindset lists. These are, in theory, a good idea. It's a list of stuff the incoming college freshman class isn't old enough to remember, and it's meant to help professors make references that their students will get. Unfortunately because Boomers are the least observant people who ever lived, it's full of insanely out of date poo poo and bizarre assumptions about what's culturally relevant. Class of 2023 posted:
My favorite is from the Class of 2021 though, written in 2017, talking about students born in 1999: quote:37. Ketchup has always come in green. 
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Nov 25, 2019 21:12
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I love that you only have to contribute at the ~adult level~ once you are a married woman. Also the very specific 5-10 USD wine order.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:21
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extremely online posted:Please enjoy the incredible Boomerness of Mindset lists. These are, in theory, a good idea. It's a list of stuff the incoming college freshman class isn't old enough to remember, and it's meant to help professors make references that their students will get. Perusing some of those is really bizarre, because there are things on those lists that not even I would know and I'm 38. These aren't for boomers, they're for litches, I'd be surprised if boomers even knew what some of those old references were. quote:20. They have always been searching for Pokemon. 
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Nov 25, 2019 21:24
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Canadian boomers love the Avro Arrow. Find a youtube video or thinkpiece suggesting it was anything other than the second coming of Christ in airplane form, and the comments will be full of enraged old farts calling Diefenbaker a traitor and insisting that the Arrow would have been better than the F-15 and F-22 and that the program wasn't full of KGB spies.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:24
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Iron Crowned posted:Perusing some of those is really bizarre, because there are things on those lists that not even I would know and I'm 38. These aren't for boomers, they're for litches, I'd be surprised if boomers even knew what some of those old references were. They're full of stuff that's technically correct but not exactly news, like "to a student born in the year 2000, JFK has always been dead." We're still having trouble remembering that one, boomer profs?
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Nov 25, 2019 21:26
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extremely online posted:Please enjoy the incredible Boomerness of Mindset lists. These are, in theory, a good idea. It's a list of stuff the incoming college freshman class isn't old enough to remember, and it's meant to help professors make references that their students will get. 2019 posted:10. Charlton Heston is recognized for waving a rifle over his head as much as for waving his staff over the Red Sea. jfc grandpa this is why I left all the malware on your computer
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Nov 25, 2019 21:27
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C.M. Kruger posted:Canadian boomers love the Avro Arrow. Find a youtube video or thinkpiece suggesting it was anything other than the second coming of Christ in airplane form, and the comments will be full of enraged old farts calling Diefenbaker a traitor and insisting that the Arrow would have been better than the F-15 and F-22 and that the program wasn't full of KGB spies. There was a film about that plane with Dan Aykroyd I believe. All I remember is that the US were assholes and trying to torpedo the Canadian aerospace industry and kill some twin engined cold war fighter that was supposed to be amazing for its time. Dunno how inaccurate it was.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:30
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2008 List 1. Most students entering college this fall were born in 1986. What the gently caress?
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Nov 25, 2019 21:46
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Live Free posted:2008 List They were too young to have memories of the glory of their god, Ronald Regan.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:48
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https://twitter.com/KBAndersen/status/1198653456581562368
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Nov 25, 2019 21:48
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Iron Crowned posted:They were too young to have memories of the glory of their god, Ronald Regan. I started college at 18 in 2008, and I was born in 1989. All of my peers were born in 89 or 90 with few exceptions.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:49
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Actually the entire 2008 list is loving insane
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Nov 25, 2019 21:51
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Live Free posted:I started college at 18 in 2008, and I was born in 1989. All of my peers were born in 89 or 90 with few exceptions. Those lists are based upon the 4 year college graduation year, not the high school graduation year.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:54
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that entire list are just boomer pop culture references lol
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Nov 25, 2019 21:55
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Bonzo posted:The milk jugs weighting down the pool cover is just an odd detail. I had one of those pools when I was a kid, its a detail that resonates with me.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:01
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C.M. Kruger posted:Canadian boomers love the Avro Arrow. Find a youtube video or thinkpiece suggesting it was anything other than the second coming of Christ in airplane form, and the comments will be full of enraged old farts calling Diefenbaker a traitor and insisting that the Arrow would have been better than the F-15 and F-22 and that the program wasn't full of KGB spies. I worked at home today so had another dose of Boomer-aimed daytime TV ads. Some company with a pompous official-sounding name like 'Royal Britannia Mint' is hawking 22-carat gold quarter-sovereign coins [pre-decimal currency for those extra Boomer points!!!] commemorating 50 years since Concorde's first flight - "still the greatest airliner ever and one of Britain's greatest achievements...  "That would be the plane we designed and built in collaboration with France, and we spent most of the development phase desperately trying to renege on the deal and get out of the project. 'Limited edition' of a mere 5000 coins and yours for just £99.99. Boomers have so much wealth in their retirement that they need to spend it on pointless trinkets which their children will sell off at the first opportunity. Daytime telly ads really are a window into another world of disposable income, lots of assets and endless leisure - cruises, vineyard tours, golfing holidays, conservatories, loft conversions, equity release, ride-on lawn tractors, pointless gold coins, classic car hire firms etc. I don't really begrudge anyone a pleasant, idle, fun-filled retirement after years of work... it's just that I literally know nobody under the age of 40 who expects to get what was basically a guaranteed endgame for a lot of the Boomers.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:08
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quote:27. Rogaine has always been available for the follicularly challenged. High on the list of concerns for incoming college freshmen. Well, maybe Stephen Miller.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:09
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Boomers love having giant pensions, 401ks and IRAs to retire on, so that they can use their Social Security money to go to the casinos and gamble. The market crash can't happen soon enough for these worthless fucks.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:23
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Panfilo posted:There was a film about that plane with Dan Aykroyd I believe. All I remember is that the US were assholes and trying to torpedo the Canadian aerospace industry and kill some twin engined cold war fighter that was supposed to be amazing for its time. Dunno how inaccurate it was. Practically the Avro Arrow was just a clone of the F-106 Delta Dart. The stats were a bit different but they were functionally very similar aircraft. The main difference was that the Arrow was twice as heavy. The real thing that killed it though was that it was being developed at the same time as missile development was really hitting it's stride and programs like Nike Hercules/Bomarc presented a more cost effective option for a country with the population of California but with a much lower GDP, while both the US and USSR were moving away from bombers to ICBMs and submarine-launched missiles which reduced the importance of single-role bomber interceptors like the Arrow and F-106 which were intended to fire a large unguided nuclear rocket into a enemy bomber formation and then pick off any survivors with the handful of guided missiles they carried. BalloonFish posted:I worked at home today so had another dose of Boomer-aimed daytime TV ads. Some company with a pompous official-sounding name like 'Royal Britannia Mint' is hawking 22-carat gold quarter-sovereign coins [pre-decimal currency for those extra Boomer points!!!] commemorating 50 years since Concorde's first flight - "still the greatest airliner ever and one of Britain's greatest achievements... AM radio is similar. I've been listening to it somewhat because I'm on a night shift that ends a hour after Coast to Coast AM starts, and in the extremely long advertising breaks it's nothing but life insurance, mortgage refinancing, the Franklin Mint/goldbugs, "STOP THE IRS FROM TAKING YOUR MONEY CALL TODAY", prostate pills, memory enhancers, catheters, "male enhancement supplements", etc. Amusingly the local "progressive talk" station is running ads for OAN.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:35
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quote:50. M.A.S.H. was a game: Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House. I don't even... what the gently caress are you rambling about you dumb boomer? What I love about these lists is that they assume there's no possible way for college freshman to know about things that happened before they were born or be influenced by them.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:41
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I don't even... what the gently caress are you rambling about you dumb boomer? It's SHACK, house, and it's a paper "predict your future" game that little girls played decades ago, that I, a millennial, only know about because I had a GenX babysitter. https://mashplus.com/how-to-play-mash/
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Nov 25, 2019 22:43
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93: ALF has always been in Pog Form.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:43
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I don't even... what the gently caress are you rambling about you dumb boomer? to be fair the average college freshmen barely knows about anything that happened since their birth let alone before it, but if your big cultural touchstone for connecting with the kids in 2015 is Charlton Heston you literally have dementia
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Nov 25, 2019 22:46
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:to be fair the average college freshmen barely knows about anything that happened since their birth let alone before it, but definitely no kid in 2015 is giving a gently caress about Charlton Heston what is wrong with your brain Yeah it would be great if the list was like, "kids entering college in 2015 most likely had parents who were deeply affected by the 2008 crash, they didn't grow up with paper routes since those aren't a thing anymore, all of them have peanut allergies..."
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Nov 25, 2019 22:48
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I checked the list for 2005 (I started college in 2001  ) it's loving insane how dumb they assumed I was.And also there's a bunch of ones that just aren't loving true like not knowing what Beta tapes were or always having access to email. Motherfucker I didn't have email until I was a teenager.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:54
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I checked the list for 2005 (I started college in 2001 And that's one of those tech things where the pendulum's swung so far the other way that most teens barely use email and find it about as unnatural as phone calls. Edit: quote:They want to be PHAT but not fat. This was written in 2001 quote:God has never been a “he” in most churches. extremely online fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Nov 25, 2019 |
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Nov 25, 2019 22:58
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I checked the list for 2005 (I started college in 2001 A bunch of geriatric assholes posted:36. They do not know what the Selective Service is, but men routinely register for it on their financial aid forms. Bull-loving-poo poo we didn't know what selective service was, we were all paranoid that it was going to be reactivated after 9/11.
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Nov 26, 2019 03:26
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I once had a Boomer act surprised that I knew who The Beatles were. I was just like uhhhh I have ever consumed mass media? They're on the radio and tv and stuff? Also: guessing millennials ages as like 17. Lady I'm 35 years old with 2 kids. gently caress off acting like I just got out of high school.
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Nov 26, 2019 03:41
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Uncle Enzo posted:I once had a Boomer act surprised that I knew who The Beatles were. I was just like uhhhh I have ever consumed mass media? They're on the radio and tv and stuff? yeah, I've heard that. lady, I'm 38, i was IN the beatles.
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Nov 26, 2019 04:24
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Boomers like to keep talking to you, the cashier, even when you get basically unresponsive and are busy helping the next person in line. I don't care about your dinner plans, Bernice. Go home already.
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Nov 26, 2019 04:50
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Picnic Princess posted:Boomers like to keep talking to you, the cashier, even when you get basically unresponsive and are busy helping the next person in line. I don't care about your dinner plans, Bernice. Go home already. Too late, you already made eye contact, that boomer has now designated you their surrogate for the estranged daughter that doesn't answer their calls anymore.
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Nov 26, 2019 05:10
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Pulchritudinous posted:I feel a bad saying it, but when I watched that video of Marney, all I could think of was Quint's monologue about the U.S.S. Indianapolis from Jaws. That person has no life in their eyes. "I told you you to bring only one serving spoon and you brought two 'Just in case.'. You didn't obey my instructions to the letter, June. What happens to your family is your fault. Remember that, June. You made me do this."  quote:10. Charlton Heston is recognized for waving a rifle over his head as much as for waving his staff over the Red Sea. I'm amused that a boomer thinks that a 20 year old would even know who Charleton Heston is the second part is a giant  . I skimmed more of that list. It's kind of hilarious how out dated a lot of these things are:quote:39. Heaven’s Gate has always been more a trip to Comet Hale-Bopp and less a film flop. These two really stuck out to me. What 20/21 year old kid knows about the Heaven's Gate cult? And camcorders that used full size VHS tapes were placed by a whole bunch of less cumbersome and formats way before a 2019 grad's parents would have been recording their first steps or whatever bullshit. I read the list for 2009 and I was going to post some highlights but there are too many that are noteworthy for being stupid or just dystopian. But the irony of the last entry on that list is hilarious: quote:They have always been challenged to distinguish between news and entertainment on cable TV.
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Nov 26, 2019 09:07
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Uncle Enzo posted:I once had a Boomer act surprised that I knew who The Beatles were. I was just like uhhhh I have ever consumed mass media? They're on the radio and tv and stuff? my life is old music, i own boomers all the time at their own game
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Nov 26, 2019 14:39
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Picnic Princess posted:Boomers like to keep talking to you, the cashier, even when you get basically unresponsive and are busy helping the next person in line. I don't care about your dinner plans, Bernice. Go home already. Also for non cashiers they like to walk in the back room/employee only areas to find someone or look for an item that they’re sure the store has but it’s not set up in the store for some reason.
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Nov 26, 2019 14:45
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bobjr posted:Also for non cashiers they like to walk in the back room/employee only areas to find someone or look for an item that they’re sure the store has but it’s not set up in the store for some reason. As someone who worked in a superstore for a minute, I love when people ask me to check in the back room. The back room was always so disorganized that even if we had whatever they were looking for, there's no way in hell I could find it, so I'd go back there walk around a minute, maybe look where it should be and come back and tell them it wasn't there. The bigger issue was people looking on the app and seeing it listing two in stock. If it's not on the shelf, someone either stole it, or did the boomer thing of deciding they didn't want the item and leaving it behind some towels in housewares, never to be found again.
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bobjr posted:Also for non cashiers they like to walk in the back room/employee only areas to find someone or look for an item that they’re sure the store has but it’s not set up in the store for some reason. Oh my god do they ever do this with our shirts. Our shirt racks will be fully stocked in all sizes because we don't suck at our job, and then a discontinued style will have like 1 small and 2 large left, and they ask us to go to the back to check for a medium. We tell them "this is all that's left, there's none in the back" and they think you're lying because you're stupid and/or lazy and tell you to go anyway. Alright, fine, I wanted to check my phone anyway. I'll go do that. Oh surprise! No mediums in the back! I sure do appreciate the assumption that I'm an idiot who's bad at their job, thanks.
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