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Harvey Mantaco posted:Boomer fathers put down your family pets to spite your mom after losing an argument with her and never admit it was a reprehensible thing to do because they were "his property". OOOOF
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Nov 8, 2020 16:56
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Boomer fathers put down your family pets to spite your mom after losing an argument with her and never admit it was a reprehensible thing to do because they were "his property". 
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Nov 8, 2020 17:09
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Boomers then say “growing up in the country makes you look at animals differently” as they drown a cat in the ditch
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Nov 8, 2020 17:11
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LifeSunDeath posted:OOOOF Remember this when the time comes to choose a nursing home.
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Nov 8, 2020 17:20
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As much as my dad was a horrible rear end in a top hat, and he hated animals, and all our pets, keeping the bar set so low, he at least never hurt them or put them down to "teach us a lesson." Jesus Christ that's insane. Fun Boomer question of the day: my mom asked me if it's true Biden wants us to close down all our oil fields. Because she read it on Facebook, and doesn't want a lecture. Boomers and the right are already confusing Biden for Bernie.
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Nov 8, 2020 17:41
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Yeah that's crazy it's not like anyone from his party is suggesting retribution lists or reeducation or any crazy communist poo poo like that
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Nov 8, 2020 17:52
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print this handy chart out and hand it to any boomer, thank me later:
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Nov 8, 2020 17:53
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RC and Moon Pie posted:My mother has been watching Fox News this week. thats how it starts. hate watching something ironically then next you thing you know qanon.
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Nov 8, 2020 17:55
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Greg12 posted:Things boomers like: taking credit for and identifying as the things their parents did, especially cars, the moon landing, and ww2. Boomers love to reminisce about the Summer of Love (1967) and being a hippy at the time, even though a majority of Boomers were still in high school in 1967, the oldest Boomers were only in their very early 20s and were most likely still dweebs, much like the high school Boomers. Most, if not all hippies were the Silent Generation through the ‘60s, and only until Woodstock would Boomer hippies show up, but Boomers gotta Boom about “we were there for everything!!!”
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Nov 8, 2020 18:03
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Boomers also love to reminisce about ‘50s rock & roll and pop music like it was the music of their generation. They were loving kids at the time. Again, that’s a Silent Generation thing. That’d be like me reminiscing about Wham! And Men At Work. Although they do own 
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Nov 8, 2020 18:10
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JonathonSpectre posted:Remember this when the time comes to choose a nursing home. He might already be dead, who knows! 
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Nov 8, 2020 18:27
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I feel like the % of people posting ITT from a room in their parents' basement would be a fun statistic.
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Nov 8, 2020 18:28
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Cold on a Cob posted:Oh, I just thought of one. Boomers love Yahoo! years ago Yahoo deleted a bunch of dormant email accounts. This made is possible to get my firstnamelastname@yahoo.com account which I use for spam. However, that means I get email for the person that used to have that account. So I get Trump spam and also multiple password reset emails and I am realllllly tempted to action some of those to teach people a lesson. Scrotum Modem posted:It was a legit search engine in the 90s that I used then in addition to the 4 or so other popular ones, and I used to have a yahoo email address (it was free!!!). Just like how I used to have a hotmail address. I also remember using Yahoo instant messenger right along AIM while still using ICQ to chat with friends and asl strangers. Ah, the 90s/early 2000s. Yahoo sports is very popular with people that play fantasy football. Yahoo was run into the ground by CEO Marissa Mayer, who left Google. She was in her mid 30s but ran the company like a Boomer. Yahoo had a lot of customer service jobs that were held by people working from home. She told them that they now had to work in an office or be fired. Most of these positions were held by women who were working from home to care of children or other family members. Mayer also announced that she was pregnant the day after she became Yahoo CEO. She worked from home for weeks and then had her office turned into a nursery and was tone deaf on why all the other employees had an issue with that. She instituted a Bell Curve review type system which means all managers had to rank their employees once a quarter. If you were on the bottom of the list you were fired. Many of companies that Yahoo acquired during her reign were failed startups by her friends and former Google colleges. There were lawsuits against her for hiring biased hiring practices. tl;dr She bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIrAN4JneY
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Nov 8, 2020 19:08
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I always liked Yahoo, but then they took over my company's portal page and put me out of a job. They manage a lot of ISP homepages and email servers. When they had that massive data breach 5 or so years ago it was actually much more serious than they let on, because it impacted yahoo.com email, att.net email, and so on. Before they laid us off we were making about 40 million a year with a small team. But then AT&T realized that instead of all the ad money they could get half the ad money. AT&T lost on that deal, but that's their business model. Doing ISP tech support was like a Boomer cattle call. Think about the kind of person who never leaves the ISP portal page. They install their DSL and the first page they see is my.att.net and that's good enough for them. We had games, we had news, we had forums. If they did leave the site it was to find porn if all the emails from mothers complaining about obscene banner ads and pop-up's were any indication. "no ma'am, AT&T does not have MILF pop-up's on our homepage. No ma'am, you really probably don't want to look at the browser history on the computer you share with your son/husband.
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Nov 8, 2020 20:14
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The hedgehog thing came to a close today after my mom came in while I was working on aquariums, and told me I would have to print out an application to submit in order to adopt. Keep in mind we work with a cat rescue and one of our foster cats finally got someone interested, so for the past hour we've been discussing how to do a meet and greet setup with this person. I asked her why I had to do any kind of paperwork at all for this, and her reply was oh just like you did for urchin, which should have tipped me off this wasn't about the cat at all, after a humorous who's on first bit I finally figured out she was talking about the hedgehog Amy. I finally snapped and told her I did not want to adopt a hedgehog, I had told her before I was uninterested in that hedgehog, and she quickly backed down and apologized: unfortunately the peace did not last long because when I was finished with my stuff she said she did not appreciate the tone I had used and felt like I was lecturing her, and after a few pointed sniffles, told me she did not feel like talking about it anymore because she did not again like the tone I had used. I'm pretty sure that's another boomerism, having a disagreement or someone proves you wrong or corrects you, makes you feel as though you're being lectured, and no matter if you were right or wrong, the thing to focus on is the tone of the other speaker and how it made you feel, as opposed to admitting you might have been incorrect in what you said or did.
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Nov 8, 2020 22:03
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I used to work at Margaritaville but they fired me for constantly hiding the salt shakers. I was just trying to provide an authentic experience.
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Nov 8, 2020 23:07
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I still have a Yahoo email account that I've had since probably 99. Another from 2001 or so, and one that I got in like 2009ish. I'm old "AF" as the kids say. Guy I work with has a lycos email address.
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Nov 8, 2020 23:08
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wesleywillis posted:Guy I work with has a lycos email address. OH MY GOD
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Nov 9, 2020 00:26
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and here I was thinking the aol address I’ve kept since I was like twelve/since the Windows 3.1 machine my school loaned my family way back when was pretty ancient I still have my uses for that address, though. heck, the ElfQuest character it’s named after is still one of my favorites 
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Nov 9, 2020 02:43
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Cowslips Warren posted:As much as my dad was a horrible rear end in a top hat, and he hated animals, and all our pets, keeping the bar set so low, he at least never hurt them or put them down to "teach us a lesson." Jesus Christ that's insane. The right's already been doing this, on purpose, from day one, and they didn't need Bernie.
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Nov 9, 2020 03:23
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Boomer fathers put down your family pets to spite your mom after losing an argument with her and never admit it was a reprehensible thing to do because they were "his property". Boomer parents will put down your family dog because they can’t be bothered training the dog to not piss indoors, and will arbitrarily decide that the dog is clearly a nuisance and a lost cause since they don’t obey nonsensical screaming and violent slaps.
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Nov 9, 2020 03:31
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Boomer parents will put down your family dog because they can’t be bothered training the dog to not piss indoors, and will arbitrarily decide that the dog is clearly a nuisance and a lost cause since they don’t obey nonsensical screaming and violent slaps. Happened twice, didn't figure it out until I was 20. Cool and normal.
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Nov 9, 2020 03:56
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Boomer parents will put down your family dog because they can’t be bothered training the dog to not piss indoors, and will arbitrarily decide that the dog is clearly a nuisance and a lost cause since they don’t obey nonsensical screaming and violent slaps. Or just “take it on a car ride somewhere”
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Nov 9, 2020 04:01
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I still have a working Netcom email address from the mid-90s, even though Netcom as a consumer ISP ceased to exist in like 1999 (absorbed by Mindspring and later Earthlink). I keep wondering when it's going to stop working.
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Nov 9, 2020 06:06
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Boomer parents will put down your family dog because they can’t be bothered training the dog to not piss indoors, and will arbitrarily decide that the dog is clearly a nuisance and a lost cause since they don’t obey nonsensical screaming and violent slaps. My boomer mother in-law put their family dog down before any of their family could see it one last time and make their peace with the situation and was flabbergasted as to why anyone was mad at her. "It's just a dog and was dying anyways"
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Nov 9, 2020 06:07
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Boomers like to pronounce QAnon like it rhymes with Rhiannon.
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Nov 9, 2020 07:14
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Boomer fathers put down your family pets to spite your mom after losing an argument with her and never admit it was a reprehensible thing to do because they were "his property". Not quite as wretched, but when my parents had their first baby they had a dog that was very sweet - I forget the exact breed, I think a bull terrier? Anyways, my mom came home one day to find my dad had given the dog away, because "it would probably become vicious one day and hurt our baby"
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Nov 9, 2020 07:41
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My Boomer parents were great about animals - pets were part of the family, and random animals were to be cared for. It sounds like some of you were dealing with stone-cold psychopaths. Dad did some hunting when I was a kid, which seems weird in retrospect because he would also do poo poo like rescue a baby deer caught in a fence and wrap it up in a blanket while getting hold of animal rescue.
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Nov 9, 2020 09:42
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Bonzo posted:years ago Yahoo deleted a bunch of dormant email accounts. This made is possible to get my firstnamelastname@yahoo.com account which I use for spam. However, that means I get email for the person that used to have that account. So I get Trump spam and also multiple password reset emails and I am realllllly tempted to action some of those to teach people a lesson. Don't forget that, as Yahoo was hemorrhaging money and laying off a massive amount of people, she spent 7 figures on a vanity project book that was just glamor shots of her and some bullshit about how "the yahoos will rise again" and gave a copy to every employee. I'm sure finding that book on your desk while people were being fired all around you was very motivating. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Nov 9, 2020 |
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Nov 9, 2020 12:50
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CarpenterWalrus posted:Boomers like to pronounce QAnon like it rhymes with Rhiannon. among all of the soul destroying capitalism and literal animal abuse, this loving snapped my brain.
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Nov 9, 2020 13:05
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CaptainSarcastic posted:My Boomer parents were great about animals - pets were part of the family, and random animals were to be cared for. It sounds like some of you were dealing with stone-cold psychopaths. when I was growing up, my pets used to always go missing if I did something wrong and it took me a really long time to piece together that it wasn't god's judgment or exceptionally smart lizards, but the bar for "did something wrong" was actually "how did my mom feel that day and did I do anything within her field of vision" so after awhile I just started refusing pets when she offered to buy them for me the worst thing is she kept heavily explaining to me that the pets were to "teach me some responsibility" except it seemed like the actual lesson was "you will randomly suffer and so will the things you care about, you can't predict when or why this will happen and nothing you do can stop it, this is your fault" which honestly is a pretty solid life lesson in my experience edit: I wonder if this would be better off posted in the rejected parents thread, in retrospect it's kinda bleak edit2: spoiler tagged, trigger warning really hosed up animal stuff blatman fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Nov 9, 2020 |
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Nov 9, 2020 13:08
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Wow your mom was a serial pet killer
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Nov 9, 2020 13:10
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Cowslips Warren posted:I'm pretty sure that's another boomerism, having a disagreement or someone proves you wrong or corrects you, makes you feel as though you're being lectured, and no matter if you were right or wrong, the thing to focus on is the tone of the other speaker and how it made you feel, as opposed to admitting you might have been incorrect in what you said or did. It's just part and parcel of the overall emotional immaturity they have. It's normal to feel bad about being corrected, and it's quite possible that the other person was unnecessarily mean about correcting you. But it's purestrain boomer to act like feelings aren't important until it's their feelings that get hurt. CarpenterWalrus posted:Boomers like to pronounce QAnon like it rhymes with Rhiannon. An-teafa. there wolf fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Nov 9, 2020 |
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Nov 9, 2020 13:13
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Colonel Cancer posted:Wow your mom was a serial pet killer honestly I never had it spelled out like that before, i'm not a big fan of this new insight if a mod wants my post gone just delete it or pm me and i'll delete it but in the meantime i'm going to leave it up as good "good lord what is wrong with these olds" content
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Nov 9, 2020 13:14
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Fallom posted:Boomers then say “growing up in the country makes you look at animals differently” as they drown a cat in the ditch Growing up in the country does make you look at animals differently, but that's not the same thing as being a complete sociopath.
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Nov 9, 2020 13:18
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CaptainSarcastic posted:My Boomer parents were great about animals - pets were part of the family, and random animals were to be cared for. It sounds like some of you were dealing with stone-cold psychopaths. Unless he was a hunter like the idiots in Bambi, shooting everything on sight, it's good hunting mindset not to shoot or hurt young animals, if only for the pragmatic reason you want them to grow up and possibly be a good target someday, or sire or mother future ones. Or because it's a baby animal and even some of the nastiest people in history like those. Actually, poo poo I remember my dad was horrible to our rottie pup, deciding that teaching her to swim involved him throwing her in the pool over and over while she screamed and cried and broke her nails trying to climb out of the pool. She never learned to swim, but she did learn if we kids got in the pool, to run around barking and trying to grab us out, by pulling at our arms and heads. And the same dude freaked the gently caress out when a visiting neighbor picked up a baby tortoise, and dropped and killed it; my dad never spoke to the dude again and kicked him the gently caress out of the house. Of course that reasoning may have been more along the lines of "we could have sold that baby and you cost me $120." Growing up with a lot of animals, working with an animal rescue, working at a loving zoo, makes you look at animals differently, but that doesn't mean you view them as disposable.
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Nov 9, 2020 14:14
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hofnar posted:I feel like the % of people posting ITT from a room in their parents' basement would be a fun statistic. Lol, and you know why that % is so high?! Bc their generation is poo poo and pretty much ruined the US economy to make stock go up, so all of us who got hosed by those decisions had to move back home. Much of the rage almost certainly comes from having a decade or so of freedom, then having to move back in with them and realizing “holy gently caress my parents are utter trash wtf”
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Nov 9, 2020 15:54
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Slothful Bong posted:Lol, and you know why that % is so high?! Bc their generation is poo poo and pretty much ruined the US economy to make stock go up, so all of us who got hosed by those decisions had to move back home. Yeah, their generation chose to deregulate the student loan business and also chose to cut the poo poo out of the money going to many state universities, directly leading to the student loan debt crisis of today. They told us we would fail if we didn’t get a college degree and they told us we would have to do it on our own and to just take out a loan. My specific mother isn’t to blame for societal pressure on me for all of this, but I do blame her generation for it. And that’s just one aspect of the things they hosed up along the way that has made life drat near impossible for millennials.
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Nov 9, 2020 16:12
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The_Franz posted:Don't forget that, as Yahoo was hemorrhaging money and laying off a massive amount of people, she spent 7 figures on a vanity project book that was just glamor shots of her and some bullshit about how "the yahoos will rise again" and gave a copy to every employee. I'm sure finding that book on your desk while people were being fired all around you was very motivating. Was she the one paying a six figure salary to that 'digital prophet' Twingy? The Asian dude with the stupid hair?
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Dr.Smasher posted:Was she the one paying a six figure salary to that 'digital prophet' Twingy? The Asian dude with the stupid hair? That's Shingy and he's actually a marketing executive, the "digital prophet" stuff is a ploy to get attention.
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