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Heres an interlude: I will describe Boomer Prime so you can picture him perfectly. Turn on MSNBC. Look at Bill Barr. Thats how fat my father is, hes 400 pounds. So maybe make Barr look a litte fatter. Now darken his eyes a bit, litte more weariness. Now add a large, unkempt, white Santa beard. Add bits of food for taste. Now imagine this 400 pound, Santa-beard Barr, and put him in a lazy-boy recliner. He is clothed in a 4XL white tshirt, and boxers. But he is so fat, the boxers are stretched to their limit, completely filled with fat. And while your eye may catch the one testicle escaping down a boxer leg, you will miss the ugly, bramble blackness that is his right shin.
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Jul 28, 2020 20:36
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Boomers love Ronald Reagan, because if not for him defunding mental healthcare, they'd all be locked up in insane asylums right now.
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Jul 28, 2020 21:30
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LabyaMynora posted:Boomers love Ronald Reagan, because if not for him defunding mental healthcare, they'd all be locked up in insane asylums right now. Reagan set the loonies free and now we have boomers, coincidence??
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Jul 28, 2020 21:31
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What does boomer prime do when someone tells him that no, in fact what he's asking for is impossibly stupid and not possible? Asking for something and then constantly refining the request is massively boomer. "I wanted this. No I wanted it like that, do it again. No I don't like that, do it again. No I won't pay for any of the additional work. No I actually have no loving idea what I want but I'm not going to admit that, do it again!"
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Jul 28, 2020 21:37
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Gaj posted:Heres an interlude: I will describe Boomer Prime so you can picture him perfectly. how is this man alive? and vigorous (enough) to be so involved in something so banal? (I'm sure it's because he's driven by seething boomer hatred and the boomer superiority complex. still a remarkable study.)
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Jul 28, 2020 21:52
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The Breakfast Sampler posted:how is this man alive? and vigorous (enough) to be so involved in something so banal? (I'm sure it's because he's driven by seething boomer hatred and the boomer superiority complex. still a remarkable study.) He can barely walk. Im trying to egg my friend who worked with us to post the story about how he fell and nearly killed her. Recently he told me he is actually TOO ill to just visit the house for a day.... for for every other checkup on the house will be an over night stay. Please check past posts about my wheelchair bound mother for lols. The normal logic in this situation, is that if you are too ill to drive 200 miles round trip to just check on a house for 2 hours...you should probably let your son be in charge of that since he can drive and likes the place. No. Boomer Prime logic states that since hes too ill to make a round trip like that in a day, he will then instead just spend more time at the isolated house. Sick wife can never go to the house because she is just too ill for that long of a ride and cant get up stairs.
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Jul 28, 2020 22:00
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Laugh at him... to his face... big belly laughs and pointing at the dumb poo poo he says I know this type all too well and the fact that people cater to them because they have money or influence is one of the main things wrong with this world. So you have to laugh at them
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Jul 28, 2020 22:01
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Gaj posted:Roof Saga Mega Update. Friend, your father has some legit metal health issues. Like, the kind that cannot be worked out in therapy.
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Jul 28, 2020 23:01
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Bonzo posted:Friend, your father has some legit metal health issues. Like, the kind that cannot be worked out in therapy. Nah this is the classic combination of sticking to now out of date stuff they learned in school/when they worked on a building site one summer, combined with those rogue trader reality (Made up bullshit that always happens to a relation of a friend’s friend) TV shows.
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Jul 28, 2020 23:16
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Gaj posted:So I got stoned and told the roofer all this and he also got stoned and laughed and told me gently caress it hes not answering the phone for 2 weeks. Hes still on the job hes just not going to talk to Boomer Prime until he settles down a little bit because holy lol 20k bond and acquiring permits which do not exist.
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Jul 29, 2020 01:15
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Collateral Damage posted:Since you and the roofer both are in on the joke, you're actually dealing with him getting the job done in a reasonable way and you're just feeding your father papers written in crayon that says whatever he wants them to say, right? Me and the roofer are getting this done in a reasonable way. If I we were to go up and start roofing tomorrow, Boomer would drop everything, leave my mother alone, and run up to "supervise" and probably insist I drive back with him home. I got rid of my car while moving to the city cause hey who needs that! Boomer Prime is also insistent that No One will tell me the right, good information for free. And that he needs to manage this project because he will tell me how to roof properly and hes the only one who will teach me for free. Im only letting this run on so he doesnt die on the drive up.
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Jul 29, 2020 01:18
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G-III posted:Make that "operating the senior euthanasia chambers from Soylet Green" and then it would be correct. I hope those sarco capsules are legal here when I’m ready
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Jul 29, 2020 01:28
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Have you considered sabotaging his car so he's stuck and you can get this done without him?
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Jul 29, 2020 01:31
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It is something that is on the emergency plan list.
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Jul 29, 2020 01:45
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Gaj posted:It is something that is on the emergency plan list. Ping pong ball in the gas tank, won't stall immediately but after driving for about 10 minutes. Almost undetectable unless you drain and lower the tank.
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Jul 29, 2020 01:57
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https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1281345629491322880
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Jul 29, 2020 03:09
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boomers love giving you insane medical advice like you should totally let your dog lick your wound they have healing properties in the spit. no they dont they have tons of bacteria in their mouth and i know for a fact she ate poop today.Krispy Wafer posted:
its not really dictating terms its hiring a lawyer to make sure your funeral is payed for out of your life insurance. noone is making the heirs jump through hoops its gonna be x gets the house y gets my jewelry and z gets nothing and my funeral is payed out of my insurance. what ever is left over the funeral home will cut you a check for which probably wont be much because if given free reign every funeral home will do the most expensive everything. snergle fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Jul 29, 2020 |
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Jul 29, 2020 04:48
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learnincurve posted:Nah this is the classic combination of sticking to now out of date stuff they learned in school/when they worked on a building site one summer, combined with those rogue trader reality (Made up bullshit that always happens to a relation of a friend’s friend) TV shows. Who in life teaches you to leave your MS ridden spouse, who requires 24/7 attention, so you can dictate instructions to a roofer and your own kid?
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Jul 29, 2020 15:30
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Dear Watson posted:I hope those sarco capsules are legal here when I’m ready Given how 2020 has gone and will continue to go, these capsules are looking to be a better idea as the days go by.
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Jul 29, 2020 17:02
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snergle posted:boomers love giving you insane medical advice like you should totally let your dog lick your wound they have healing properties in the spit. no they dont they have tons of bacteria in their mouth and i know for a fact she ate poop today. Yeah, but there’s nothing stopping you from choosing a $400 cremation versus a $10k casket and hiring those dancing pallbearer guys. Or be like me and pour your grandmother and father’s ashes into old paper towel tubes that you taped up and buried in an abandoned cemetery with a headstone you bought online. It took 4 tubes, which was surprising because they were small people.
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Jul 29, 2020 17:17
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I used to be pissed at Reagan closing the institutions, but then I learned more about them, and it was really a case where they were indeed horrifically abusive hellholes that needed to be shut down, and Reagan was able to use the wave of public furor at the mistreatment of the mentally ill to simply cut all infrastructure. He did it under the guise of ending an oppressive institution, which yeah he did - he just didn't replace it with anything either. Boomers believe that families should care for their own mentally ill folks with their own resources - family knows best! In general, they believe the family should provide, not society. All of that fits into their broke-brained narrative that the nuclear family needs to be the controlling unit in American society. It splits outside the family and inside the family into two easy-to-understand areas with a clean line. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jul 29, 2020 |
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Jul 29, 2020 17:21
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Krispy Wafer posted:Yeah, but there’s nothing stopping you from choosing a $400 cremation versus a $10k casket and hiring those dancing pallbearer guys. It seems like you could just hire a couple of dancers and the parade marshal guy if you're getting cremated?
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Jul 29, 2020 17:27
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Schadenboner posted:It seems like you could just hire a couple of dancers and the parade marshal guy if you're getting cremated? Hire a fire marshal instead of a parade marshal and have a ceremony/cremation combination.
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Jul 29, 2020 17:36
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I used to be pissed at Reagan closing the institutions, but then I learned more about them, and it was really a case where they were indeed horrifically abusive hellholes that needed to be shut down, and Reagan was able to use the wave of public furor at the mistreatment of the mentally ill to simply cut all infrastructure. He did it under the guise of ending an oppressive institution, which yeah he did - he just didn't replace it with anything either. This is why Boomer Prime stays home and monitors my mothers weekly infusions. Shes had the same nurse for 5 years and they get along fine. But Boomer Prime has to stay home and watches the nurse put in the IV, and then stays the entire time while 2 bags slowly drip in. Ill give you a hint the nurse is from Africa. We have to take care of our own. This is why they refuse to hire a home aide, and instead insist on hiring a cleaning lady. A Ukrainian cleaning lady. Who is ten years older than my parents, so that makes her 84. Oh and her cataracts, so shes half blind. Oh and shes shrunk a lot and is 5ft 3in? So the only stranger who they allow in the house is an 84 year old blind dwarf who cant really clean cause she cant see that shes leading black streaks on what she cleans cause she cant tell if shes got a clean towel. They had insisted that she is fine as a home health aid, and that there is no need to get a professional and someone else. So I brought up the possibility of my mother falling on this little old blind lady. That can very well happen if someone trips or slips while my mother is trying to get in/out of the wheel chair to use the bathroom. They would both be pinned to the floor and stay there until someone came home. Before the plague Boomer Prime wouldnt come home until 6 because he was "working". Mind you hes working at a failing business that he has to have my mother pay for. Like hey spouse can you spot me this months rent 3k honey k thankx? Hey employee 1 needs payroll can I get 2k? Oh man the Department of Buildings has a 100 dollar fee hey wife I need a check. No we cant afford to get a health aid or a visiting day nurse because we take care of ourselves and we are family. Strangers are dangers.
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Jul 29, 2020 18:27
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The same logic led to my husband's mother slowly rotting away by herself from Alzheimer's while my father-in-law kept firing nurse after nurse that we would arrange. He insisted he could take care of her by himself, but he couldn't do it. The family shattered from it, unfortunately. We don't really talk to him anymore.
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Jul 29, 2020 18:37
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He thought he could cure her with coconut oil and would send us YouTube videos about the curative effects, meanwhile she's getting the shits from such an oil-heavy diet and her poor body can't hold in nutrients to save its life, literally
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Jul 29, 2020 18:38
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boomers love to pretend family is everything while sabotaging all meaningful family ties by being awful. boomers never have any friends because they're awful, so they have to use genetics as a basis for relationships because otherwise nobody will talk to them at all. i have never had a family member who was as good for me as friends and the nuclear family blood related garbage can piss off
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Jul 29, 2020 18:39
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Like he actually thought he was conducting 'experiments', that he would find a cure and prove it to the world, he just had to believe hard enough. Telling him that's not how scientific testing works and that it's incredibly immoral to use your disabled wife as a guinea pig for your pet theories when she cannot consent fell on deaf ears and would in fact infuriate him into doubling down. He'd gotten her power of attorney squared away so we were pretty powerless.
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Jul 29, 2020 18:42
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Eldercain posted:boomers love to pretend family is everything while sabotaging all meaningful family ties by being awful. boomers never have any friends because they're awful, so they have to use genetics as a basis for relationships because otherwise nobody will talk to them at all. I have a near-boomer coworker, and when she overheard me telling someone else that I quit talking to my father 10+ years ago she had a little mini-freakout. She even said, "blood is thicker than water," and since it was work, I basically just had to sit there and smile and be like, "Yeah, okay. Whatever."
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Jul 29, 2020 18:47
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I have heard that the whole phrase is 'the blood of the covenant is thicker than the waters of the womb', meaning people you fight next to on the battlefield and who protect you are closer to your heart and greater family than anyone you are genetically related to. If you're willing to fight and die alongside/for someone, or trust them with protecting your life - that's pretty much the strongest bond there is.
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Jul 29, 2020 18:55
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Boomers will die the way they lived. Screaming and crying as they don't get their way.
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Jul 29, 2020 19:00
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BigDave posted:Boomers will die the way they lived.
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Jul 29, 2020 19:12
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mind the walrus posted:Wisdom Is the domain of the wiz, which is extinct
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Jul 29, 2020 19:13
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purple death ray posted:Is the domain of the wiz, which is extinct Somebody beat the Wiz?! I thought nobody beat the Wiz! https://youtu.be/pRf_A07Elyw
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Jul 29, 2020 19:47
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Just finished reading Friedan’s “Feminine Mystique” she called it in 1963 that a generation of mothers who did nothing but serve their kids and give them everything they wanted was creating a generation incapable of maturity and self-actualization. The mom’s desperate to fill the emptiness in their dull housewife routines created a generation of monsters bent on destroying their world as a means of filling the emptiness in their own hearts.
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Jul 29, 2020 20:44
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Gaj posted:This is why Boomer Prime stays home and monitors my mothers weekly infusions. Shes had the same nurse for 5 years and they get along fine. But Boomer Prime has to stay home and watches the nurse put in the IV, and then stays the entire time while 2 bags slowly drip in. Ill give you a hint the nurse is from Africa. We have to take care of our own. This is why they refuse to hire a home aide, and instead insist on hiring a cleaning lady. A Ukrainian cleaning lady. Who is ten years older than my parents, so that makes her 84. Oh and her cataracts, so shes half blind. Oh and shes shrunk a lot and is 5ft 3in? I like your father less and less with every post.
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Jul 29, 2020 22:12
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Gaj posted:Im only letting this run on so he doesnt die on the drive up. Why
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Jul 29, 2020 22:32
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Because I would have to tend to my barely mobile mother, while also arranging for Boomer Prime's apartment and office to be cleared out. Hes an art/document pack rat and Ill have to rush though a literal loft of stuff. Id had to make sure my mother has 24/7 caretaker while I rush to clear out a factory space, and get a roof repaired. Heres an old, lovely picture of the office. It used to be an old boys club until the 60s. Its an entire floor space for your basic NYC tenement. All the walls are covered in art and historical papers. Boomer Prime may be a horrible monster, but he has very good taste. One of my friends compares him to Jabba, a horrible disgusting personality you wouldnt want to sit down with, but boy he has good taste in Rancor pits. Those are original 30s art deco globe lighting. The shape on the left is Boomer Prime. 
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I worked very very briefly at an ancient lawyer's office inside an old used car dealership that looked exactly like that but shittier
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