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Just watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off and I wonder if it's got anything significant to say about Boomers. Uptight dads whose only love in the world is the classic car they never let anyone touch certainly seems to have been a theme. Though I think the protagonists are more Gen X? Probably something about how Gen Xers realised early on they're going to spend their entire lives trying to get out from under their overbearing self-obsessed boomer parents.
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Ferris Bueller was 1984ish so yeah, he was gen x because the character was a high schooler and to pull that off as a boomer he'd have been portrayed as 20 instead of 16. Ferris would have probably been born in 1968, balls deep in gen x. Also he didn't have half a dozen siblings.
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Nov 27, 2019 02:58
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Bonzo posted:These new porn categories are getting confusing I love your post so much that I want to date it, grow close to it, move in with it, move away from it, and then become emotionally distant from it
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Nov 27, 2019 03:10
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I've had generations silent through millennial get in my car and not buckle up
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Nov 27, 2019 03:15
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When millennials dont buckle up its because they know perfectly what the consequences could be and are secretly hoping for them.
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Nov 27, 2019 03:22
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I only started regularly wearing my seatbelt after my stint in the army. Wear it every time ever since.
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Nov 27, 2019 04:13
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Ferris Bueller was 1984ish so yeah, he was gen x because the character was a high schooler and to pull that off as a boomer he'd have been portrayed as 20 instead of 16. Ferris would have probably been born in 1968, balls deep in gen x. Also he didn't have half a dozen siblings. Late 60s is the absolute earliest point of Gen X, then continues throughout the 70s and ends in 1980. Yeah, Ferris Bueller is very much Gen X.
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Nov 27, 2019 04:16
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Boomers like to stand way too close to strangers when they are talking. They will walk up to an employee at a store and ask where something is, and get uncomfortably all up in that employee's personal space. I complained about this to a coworker who suggested that the old people might be hard of hearing, and they stand too close so they can hear you better. So, many boomers are probably losing their hearing but are stubborn and refuse to acknowledge it or take any action to fix it such as getting hearing aids. Or maybe they just enjoy making service workers feel uncomfortable. Or maybe both.
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Nov 27, 2019 05:48
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DorkusMalorkus posted:
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Nov 27, 2019 06:02
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CPL593H posted:When I was a kid my dad use to tell me to wear a seatbelt as soon as I got in the car or "You'll fly out the windshield if we get into an accident." (he also just wouldn't even turn the car on unless everyone had a seatbelt on) which was true and it worked because at age 33 I still put a seatbel on the second I get into a car without even thinking about doing it. My mom also did the car doesn't start until everyone has their seatbelt on, and yeah, like it is just natural the second I sit down I'm putting it on. Like wtf who doesn't wear a seatbelt in 2019 it takes half a second to put on and will save your life jfc. I feel like Boomers read The Jungle and think that Jurgis is the bad guy
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Nov 27, 2019 06:06
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Nooner posted:My mom also did the car doesn't start until everyone has their seatbelt on, and yeah, like it is just natural the second I sit down I'm putting it on. Like wtf who doesn't wear a seatbelt in 2019 it takes half a second to put on and will save your life jfc. Speaking of not following basic safety rules, is it a boomer thing not to wear helmets when riding a loving Harley Davidson?
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Nov 27, 2019 06:16
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Solkanar512 posted:Speaking of not following basic safety rules, is it a boomer thing not to wear helmets when riding a loving Harley Davidson? That's just a dumb Harley rider thing. Even when they do wear helmets, it'll be nearly useless open-faced varieties.
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Nov 27, 2019 06:30
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http://imgur.com/a/4O0Ilu5
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Nov 27, 2019 06:49
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DorkusMalorkus posted:Boomers like to stand way too close to strangers when they are talking. They will walk up to an employee at a store and ask where something is, and get uncomfortably all up in that employee's personal space.  Not a boomer, but same energy.
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Nov 27, 2019 07:40
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And they touch you. They put a hand on your shoulder, if you're a woman the men will try amd find a reason to hold your hand somehow. your hand. They'll grab you by the wrist and start pulling you through the store. They'll crack jokes about how they slept with you the night before then get annoyed when you don't find it funny. I've had a lot of lovely experiences with boomer men at work.
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Nov 27, 2019 07:54
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Picnic Princess posted:And they touch you. They put a hand on your shoulder, if you're a woman the men will try amd find a reason to hold your hand somehow. your hand. They'll grab you by the wrist and start pulling you through the store. They'll crack jokes about how they slept with you the night before then get annoyed when you don't find it funny. My favorite at the moment is my boss telling me not to swear so much around the ladies then trying to crack jokes that border sexual harassment the next, good on ya champ
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Nov 27, 2019 08:01
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Solkanar512 posted:Speaking of not following basic safety rules, is it a boomer thing not to wear helmets when riding a loving Harley Davidson? I see a bunch of under-40 people riding around my city on scooters (like Vespas, not the electric scooters) without helmets, so no, it's just a very, very dumb thing that cuts across generations
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Nov 27, 2019 12:35
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Harleys in general are extremely boomer though.
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Nov 27, 2019 12:38
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I lust for boomer death https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcperna/2019/11/26/ok-boomer-this-is-how-to-respond-to-gen-zs-new-meme/ CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Nov 27, 2019 13:09
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I lust for boomer death quote:I'm a boomer and proud of it... couldn't close fast enough while making the finger gun to the temple gesture
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Nov 27, 2019 13:18
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My twitter got shut off because I told a 60s people page I can't wait for them to all die. Less than a minute from post to ban. I almost feel like I accomplished something.
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Nov 27, 2019 13:21
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Things I wish for boomers: Their houses burn down Their bank accounts are looted by nigerian princes Their harleys being fed to a crusher Them being fed to a crusher All of the cancers
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Nov 27, 2019 13:28
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Nah, you give their houses to immigrant families, their money taxed to pay for healthcare and their harleys recycled into public transport
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Nov 27, 2019 13:43
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imo we would make boomers more proud of us if we made the guillotines for-profit, and just threw them in a hole until they were ready to buy a ticket to the stocks
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Nov 27, 2019 13:49
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Feast your eyes upon this boomer energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHci6cklrQ0
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Nov 27, 2019 13:56
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I lust for boomer death Not for nothing, but the article's ideas are "be civil", "show respect", and "start listening". I too wish for the boomers to vanish, but at least this dude is saying "hey, don't be a gently caress".
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Nov 27, 2019 13:57
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I don't need a boomers' respect or pride. But I am all about making them suffer at the hand of bureaucracy.
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Nov 27, 2019 13:58
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rotinaj posted:Not for nothing, but the article's ideas are "be civil", "show respect", and "start listening". I too wish for the boomers to vanish, but at least this dude is saying "hey, don't be a gently caress". Yeah, the article isn't typical Boomer, but I'm still wondering where all these decorum people were when snowflake, safe spaces, Tide pods, and participation trophy jokes were being tossed around. It's a 99 to 1 Boomer lead and they're aghast Millennials managed to score one on them.
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Nov 27, 2019 14:26
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Krispy Wafer posted:Yeah, the article isn't typical Boomer, but I'm still wondering where all these decorum people were when snowflake, safe spaces, Tide pods, and participation trophy jokes were being tossed around. It's a 99 to 1 Boomer lead and they're aghast Millennials managed to score one on them. Millennials are also boomers
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Nov 27, 2019 14:27
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It’s actually important to wear the seatbelt even if the engine isn’t on (like if you’re sitting in a parking lot or something) because Newton dgaf.
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Nov 27, 2019 14:35
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just make wearing a helmet mandatory for driving a car
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Nov 27, 2019 14:42
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Not wearing a seatbelt just feels alien to me. Unfortunately I need to not wear one when I'm taking out the trash, because otherwise I'll just drive right to work, and 10 hours later I come home in a car that smells like rotting trash and/or cat piss.
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Nov 27, 2019 14:43
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gently caress it, just abolish seat belt laws and let the bodies fly. Darwin at work.
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Nov 27, 2019 14:49
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Iron Crowned posted:Not wearing a seatbelt just feels alien to me. Unfortunately I need to not wear one when I'm taking out the trash, because otherwise I'll just drive right to work, and 10 hours later I come home in a car that smells like rotting trash and/or cat piss. Why not carry the bags to the dumpster, throw them out, get into your car, then drive to work? Why did the bags have to be in the car at all?
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Nov 27, 2019 14:50
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Schadenboner posted:Why not carry the bags to the dumpster, throw them out, get into your car, then drive to work? Why did the bags have to be in the car at all? Because the dumpster is by the entrance of my complex, and it's 6:30 in the morning, and it's more efficient to just stop by there and go to work?
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Nov 27, 2019 14:51
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Roll down the window. Drop tbe bag outside the door of your car. Get in, put on seat belt, grab trash bag through window. Use those muscles (lol) to hold that bag off the ground while you drive to the dumpster. Casually whip that bitch CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Nov 27, 2019 14:57
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spins garbage bag outside car window spraying trash and coffee grounds everywhere eh close enough
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Nov 27, 2019 15:00
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It's even worse when you consider Boomers had bench seats for most of their childhood/big chunk of adulthood. Bench seats in vinyl. If you don't buckle in you're sliding all over the place. Maybe that was fun and they're just trying to relive those moments.
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Nov 27, 2019 15:00
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Krispy Wafer posted:It's even worse when you consider Boomers had bench seats for most of their childhood/big chunk of adulthood. Bench seats in vinyl. The mild g force of the turn forced more blood into their dick than has ever been there in the past decade.
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Krispy Wafer posted:It's even worse when you consider Boomers had bench seats for most of their childhood/big chunk of adulthood. Bench seats in vinyl. I still cannot fathom how anyone thought vinyl on the inside and outside of cars was a good idea.
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