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Boomer as gently caress: Being smugly pro-smartphone in the face of a decade's (i.e. the technology's entire lifespan) worth of documented abuse, ignoring that society has in no way meaningfully improved since their invention and people easily did all the tasks of a smart phone just fine prior to 2008, the fact that a personal accessory that starts at around $300 for an absolute piece of garbage is now becoming a pre-requisite for engaging with society in any meaningful way in a society where most people don't have $400 to spare, and the telling fact that a capitalist economy has quietly but firmly eliminated all competing offerings, despite the fact that a demand exists among many people, including here on this thread, for a different, less expensive less invasive product that was mature tech 30 years ago and for which probably all patents are public domain. Just arguing from the status quo for lack of imagination. Boomers have lead in their brains, what's the excuse for the rest of you? Heath posted:The footnotes within footnotes do point to a brain poisoned by reading nested quotes in emails I've never misrepresented my brain as unpoisoned. In fact somewhere back in this thread I talked about how much I loved huffing the smell of gas in the back of my parents shitbox car while they filled up in the mid 80s and in the shed where they kept the lawnmower and snowmobile. But the nested footnotes are normalized from academia. PipHelix fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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PipHelix posted:Just arguing from the status quo for lack of imagination. Boomers have lead in their brains, what's the excuse for the rest of you?
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Jul 7, 2020 00:43
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mind the walrus posted:Being poor and thus not having much in the way of practical option, even when I know better. yeah, this is the trap for sure. i have no idea how to actually handle this side of it, short of avoiding social media and living a more analog life (cue everyone telling me to log off, and i probably should, lol)
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mind the walrus posted:Being poor and thus not having much in the way of practical option, even when I know better. I'm not talking about going along with it, I'm talking about being enthused about it to the point you've got to police other people complaining about it. Nothing wrong with being hosed by the system. If it was easy to not get hosed by the system it would be immediately replaced by a better-loving system.
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Jul 7, 2020 00:50
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PipHelix posted:Boomer as gently caress: B-b-b-b-but I can watch videos of pornography in high definition... FOR FREE!!!
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LabyaMynora posted:B-b-b-b-but I can watch videos of pornography in high definition... FOR FREE!!! In High Def? Then you're probably on WiFi and that WiFi is probably in your own home. Maybe it's a Pavlovian thing from when I was a teen but if I wanna yank my crank I'd rather do it looking at a screen that's a dozen inches (heh) or more on the diagonal. Not sure I've ever used a cellphone though I suppose it would work in a pinch (heh).
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Jul 7, 2020 00:57
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1redflag posted:Ok boomer Lol got 'em.
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Jul 7, 2020 01:25
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Boy oh boy this thread got real loving bad
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Jul 7, 2020 01:41
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Captain Yossarian posted:Boy oh boy this thread got real loving bad a minor 2020 sidequest
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Jul 7, 2020 01:46
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I don't even own a smartphone is the I don't even own a tv of the new generations
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Jul 7, 2020 01:46
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dee eight posted:a minor 2020 sidequest Lol right? Yikes
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boomer (and gen x) as gently caress: spending 400 dollars on a loving cellphone to use google maps, youtube, and texting also boomer: keeping birds as pets. They are supposed to be able to fly and you clipped their wings and kept them in a tiny cage so they could scream you awake every day at 7am for people looking to save money on cell plans, you can pretty much just pay for a year upfront for dirt cheap: https://www.ebay.com/itm/133058350672 Jokerpilled Drudge fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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Jul 7, 2020 02:35
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PipHelix posted:Boomer as gently caress: Things boomers like: hating mini-Satan Boxes.
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:also boomer: keeping birds as pets. They are supposed to be able to fly and you clipped their wings and kept them in a tiny cage so they could scream you awake every day at 7am Birds are highly social animals, so boomers love buying just one bird and ignoring it most of the time. Dogs are smart social animals that love having a job to do and training to follow, so boomers love buying one, barely training it, playing fetch with it for 10 minutes a day, and maybe taking it on a short walk. Then they wonder why it's tearing up their house(assuming they don't just chain it in the yard the rest of the time)/barking a ton/otherwise exhibiting symptoms of being bored out of its skull. Cats like to socialize to some extent and need to play, so boomers buy one and ignore it beyond cleaning the litter box and feeding it. When they get ignored back they assume that's because cats naturally just ignore people all the time. Fish generally need bigger tanks than you'd assume at first glance, and said tank needs a lot of care itself, so boomers like to cram a couple fish into the tiniest tank possible & only clean it when it's visibly scummy.
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Haifisch posted:Boomers love buying pets as decorations and never looking up/caring about the proper way to take care of them, especially since that involves prioritizing another living thing over themselves. Boomer men love hating cats for being “stuck up” because the cats sometimes want some alone time and don’t display affection like dogs. This doesn’t stop them from owning cats anyway, because having both cats and dogs is simply what you’re supposed to do as a homeowning suburbanite with 2.5 kids.
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Captain Yossarian posted:Boy oh boy this thread got real loving bad  Also what's up with y'all assuming all millennials are pushing 40???? I'm one and I'm 28, i remember 9/11 happening and everything. Jesus y'all are old fucks.
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Jul 7, 2020 03:49
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Sillybones posted:Nice boomer thread. nah, just an ok Boomer thread
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1986 was the most important year in history I'll have you know,
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:also boomer: keeping birds as pets. They are supposed to be able to fly and you clipped their wings and kept them in a tiny cage so they could scream you awake every day at 7am My in-laws have a parrot. gently caress birds.
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Eldercain posted:nah, just an ok Boomer thread 
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I am exactly 40 and the saying goes, “never trust anyone over 40.” So I’m still hip and with it for a few more months 
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Heath posted:1986 was the most important year in history I'll have you know, hell yeah best year
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Death to Xers, and to old Millenials. Post-crash Millenial/Zoomer supremacy.
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my friend's (relatively young) boomer parents kept a Galah as a pet and it would bite everyone except their dad, screech constantly, emulate the sounds of their phones and poo poo everywhere the minute it left the cage. Cruel animal in a cruel situation. Not it's fault but a classic case of being a jerk due to nurture and nature. I'd never keep a pet bird, least of all a bigass cockatoo or parrot.
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:for people looking to save money on cell plans, you can pretty much just pay for a year upfront for dirt cheap: https://www.ebay.com/itm/133058350672 Haifisch posted:Dogs are smart social animals that love having a job to do and training to follow, so boomers love buying one, barely training it, playing fetch with it for 10 minutes a day, and maybe taking it on a short walk. Then they wonder why it's tearing up their house(assuming they don't just chain it in the yard the rest of the time)/barking a ton/otherwise exhibiting symptoms of being bored out of its skull. No lie, in high school running XC in my white trash hometown you could always tell which houses had insane neglected yard-dogs cause the rusty chainlink fence (it was always chain link, it was always rusted) around the front yard would have a foot wide dirt strip along the inside of it from the pooch sprinting the length up and down barking and lunging over the top at any stranger who got close. My family wasn't much better but when we had a dog it was before we moved, when we lived rural. If he's being annoying just put the dog out in the couple acre yard with woods all around it and no fences. He'll get the stimulation he needs. Sometimes the stimulation comes from a skunk or porcupine but that's part of the learning process. He was perfectly nice and friendly to all humans, so it can't have been traumatic as the the city yard-chainers. PipHelix fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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Captain Yossarian posted:Boy oh boy this thread got real loving bad thank god you’re here!
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ProperGanderPusher posted:Boomer men love hating cats for being “stuck up” because the cats sometimes want some alone time and don’t display affection like dogs. This doesn’t stop them from owning cats anyway, because having both cats and dogs is simply what you’re supposed to do as a homeowning suburbanite with 2.5 kids.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:ps, eat my entire rear end with fries and a shake don't threaten me with a good time boomers like to be lovely even if you threaten then with a good time because they're not enjoying it unless everyone else is miserable
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i’m so fuckin tired of seeing boomers be the only people in stores not wearing masks. it’s a fuckin mandate but they gotta put it on at the door, then take it off. why? how is wearing some cloth over your goddam nose and mouth so goddam difficult
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being alive and not dying miserable in a pile of your own juices is a lot easier than wearing 1 piece of clothing I've recently been comparing it to having to wear pants into a public space. pants are a lot bigger too
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PipHelix posted:I was honestly eyeing it, seems like a good deal, but TOO good, and on eBay? Then I noticed they make a bunch of contradictory claims (3G, 4G, 5G, LTE, and 'Up to 2G' speeds) on the data. Honestly think I'm gonna go dumb phone once the current cell craps out on me. It might be the '20s version of the teens' "I don't even own a TV" but, uh, who the gently caress owns a TV nowadays? I'm fine being obnoxious but prescient. And if I'm wrong I'm out 20 bucks for the phone and I'm not locked into a plan cause again, 20 dollar phone. I so regularly encounter dogs in my semi-rural area let loose to roam the streets and it is loving annoying. Most free roaming dogs are chill puppers who follow me around for part of a day, others are a wrongful death lawsuit waiting to happen. I pulled up next to a home today and was about to get out of my truck when someone's dog came all the way down the street to growl at me, bear his fangs, and generally tell me to gently caress off. Yeah, messaged received bud. I don't get paid nearly enough to get mauled by a dog. I'm sad that I actually kind of agree with police murdering people's animals as standard operating procedure. If people didn't buy animals as a status symbol, I wouldn't have to fear for my safety from every loving stray pooch I encounter. Buying animals with zero intention to actually engage with them is flat out abusive as gently caress and I hate purse dogs with a loving passion.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:i’m so fuckin tired of seeing boomers be the only people in stores not wearing masks. it’s a fuckin mandate but they gotta put it on at the door, then take it off. why? how is wearing some cloth over your goddam nose and mouth so goddam difficult because it’s what the “experts” say to do, and what have these so called “experts” ever done remember GLOBAL COOLING what ever happened to THAT  checkmate millennial libtard
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PipHelix posted:
That smell of half rotten wood, grass and gas? gently caress that poo poo.
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It's hard to find a working whack-a-gently caress machine now a days.
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Captain Yossarian posted:Boy oh boy this thread got real loving bad That one's on me guys. I showed up in a thread about "Things Boomers Like" and drove us down the unrelated tangents of "Facebook", "Racism" and "Steady Erosion of Civil Liberties". I'll sit the next couple pages out while we get back on topic.
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Global Cooling does exist! How do you explain why it snowed in the end of October last year?????? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex#Climate_change boomers have a hard time imagining that the rest of the world is different than the 100 mile radius of where they live
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