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SpartanIvy posted:My grandad was a WWII vet and I'm early 30s. Aka from the generation of Steam(punk). 
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HD DAD posted:Boomer truly is a mindset. I have one guy who I went to high school with who, if you didn’t know him, you would take for the boomeriest of boomer men in their mid-60s if you just saw his social media posts. Except he’s 31. Just a slurry of “sleepy Biden stole the election”, photos of burnt steak, “BLM should be shot on sight”, and “wife bad” memes (he’s single). My older brother is like this - he's 42 but you'd think he's 70 given his refusal to use email and his weekly tantrums about random social issues/trends. Archie Bunker cosplay definitely got passed down to Gen X.
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Aug 3, 2021 17:12
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Professor Shark posted:I know people who had grandparents in WWII who are between the ages of 35-40, so it's possible he's just some weird Millenial/ Gen X My eight year old cousin has a grandfather who was in WW2. His father-my uncle-was a surprise baby who was born when our grandfather was 43, while my uncle was in the Coast Guard and didn't get married until he was 40, and was 45 when his son was born.
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Aug 3, 2021 18:54
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My favorite boomer is the guy who I used to get rides home from work with, and who'd point at every set of plane lights above us and say "Another drone! They're all over the place now and who knows what they're doing!" The fact that we live right near Logan International Airport and most days are under takeoff/landing approaches doesn't faze him one bit. He can tell they're drones and who knows what they're doing.
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Aug 3, 2021 19:47
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Howard Beale posted:My favorite boomer is the guy who I used to get rides home from work with, and who'd point at every set of plane lights above us and say "Another drone! They're all over the place now and who knows what they're doing!" The fact that we live right near Logan International Airport and most days are under takeoff/landing approaches doesn't faze him one bit. He can tell they're drones and who knows what they're doing. He's talking about the passengers.
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Aug 3, 2021 20:50
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Iamyourking posted:My eight year old cousin has a grandfather who was in WW2. His father-my uncle-was a surprise baby who was born when our grandfather was 43, while my uncle was in the Coast Guard and didn't get married until he was 40, and was 45 when his son was born. That is pretty impressive
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Aug 4, 2021 00:57
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Aren't there still a few people around whose grandfathers fought in the civil war? I know my dad (79 years old) his grandfather fought in Dubya dubya 1 and his dad, my grandfather fought in dubya dubya 2.
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Aug 4, 2021 02:02
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This Op Ed from 1984 is peak boomer: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/03/...n89yov317vG-4pY  Driving drunk is OK!
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Aug 4, 2021 02:10
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yeah i mean my grandfather was in ww2 sortof (artilleryman in Alaska) so i guess i'm steam generation
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Aug 4, 2021 02:22
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appropriatemetaphor posted:yeah i mean my grandfather was in ww2 sortof (artilleryman in Alaska) so i guess i'm steam generation I guess I am too. drat! I never even considered. These newfangled DIEsel locomotives are crap. They'll never replace coal fired boilers.
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Aug 4, 2021 03:05
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Steam Generation gangtag when?
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Aug 4, 2021 03:56
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My father was 9 when WWII broke out in the UK, and I’m firmly a Millennial. I definitely skipped a generation or two.
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Aug 4, 2021 04:10
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what is steam generation? it's hard to google for..... My parents were in the actual baby boom in that both their dads came back from theaters of war and came in their wives. Parents ain't had me until they were 39 tho so I'm a mid-30s millennial.
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Aug 4, 2021 04:15
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:Aren't there still a few people around whose grandfathers fought in the civil war? President John Tyler, born in 1790, still has a living grandson.
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Aug 4, 2021 05:18
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If we're talking about weirdly old grandparents, I'm "only" 50 and I had a grandfather born in 1869. But he wasn't in any wars that I know of.
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Aug 4, 2021 06:48
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Didn't a buncha boomers have kids when they got old during their second/third marriages, often to much younger women?
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Aug 4, 2021 06:53
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Guardian has been doing a thing this week where boomers and zoomers ask each other questions. Today, it's the boomers turn. https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2021/aug/04/do-you-blame-us-for-house-prices-gen-zers-answer-baby-boomers-biggest-questions Les thinks zoomers are loving too much to vote quote:Why do many of you seem reluctant to vote? Is hedonism more important than politics? but it's prob virtual loving: quote:Is it true that zoomers prefer to engage in virtual sex rather than the real thing? (This is the same person that thinks we'll move underground to avoid the impact of climate change.) Trisha just wants to air a personal grievance: quote:Why do zoomers find it impossible to thank or even acknowledge receiving money, gifts or cards when it is so easy on the internet? Whole article is pretty amazing, recommend it. it dont matter fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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Aug 4, 2021 08:35
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quote:I think we will always be remembered as the first generation to experience the internet
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Aug 4, 2021 09:48
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i like nice words
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Anne Whateley posted:oh my God, get off my lawn, you were barely even alive for away statuses and Worth1000 Thank god SA is still keeping Web 1.0 alive for future generations.
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Aug 4, 2021 11:36
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it dont matter posted:Guardian has been doing a thing this week where boomers and zoomers ask each other questions. Today, it's the boomers turn. I like the one boomer tackling the hard-hitting issue of "Oi! Why don't you young blokes play snooker anymore?!"
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Aug 4, 2021 15:49
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lol The very first answer to "What can Boomers do for you?" is "Please have empathy for younger people"
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Aug 4, 2021 16:23
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quote:Why do zoomers find it impossible to thank or even acknowledge receiving money, gifts or cards when it is so easy on the internet? I've had this argument with many. Why does thank you have to be so extravagant? Can't you just say thank you? Thank you
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Aug 4, 2021 16:48
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When I was a child in the 1980s parents tried to make you write thank you letters to everyone who ever sent you presents, and they even had branded letters you could buy to encourage kids, like scented strawberry shortcake letters with thank you on the top so they couldn’t use it for anything else. Boomers are still super mad that their kids thought it was psychotic.
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Aug 4, 2021 18:11
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learnincurve posted:When I was a child in the 1980s parents tried to make you write thank you letters to everyone who ever sent you presents, and they even had branded letters you could buy to encourage kids, like scented strawberry shortcake letters with thank you on the top so they couldn’t use it for anything else. you're just lazy
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Aug 4, 2021 18:14
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I have a low-level distaste for anyone who tries to use snail mail to communicate with me. If someone somehow tried to send me a thank you letter, I'd just be annoyed that they didn't say thank you in a way that I'd actually see and read Half the time parents would try to get you to write a thank you letter for something you weren't even thankful for and the whole thing was just pointless top to bottom
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Aug 4, 2021 18:25
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learnincurve posted:When I was a child in the 1980s parents tried to make you write thank you letters to everyone who ever sent you presents, and they even had branded letters you could buy to encourage kids, like scented strawberry shortcake letters with thank you on the top so they couldn’t use it for anything else. There's nothing wrong with making your kids take more than 20 seconds to show appreciation for gifts they've received. Particularly when it was sent from afar, somebody took their time and money to send it, they can take the time to say thank you appropriately. In fact it's a useful skill for later in life. cheetah7071 posted:I have a low-level distaste for anyone who tries to use snail mail to communicate with me. If someone somehow tried to send me a thank you letter, I'd just be annoyed that they didn't say thank you in a way that I'd actually see and read Expressing irritation or distaste with a friendly hand-written letter is some weird poo poo. I don't get some of you people.
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Aug 4, 2021 18:47
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learnincurve posted:When I was a child in the 1980s parents tried to make you write thank you letters to everyone who ever sent you presents, and they even had branded letters you could buy to encourage kids, like scented strawberry shortcake letters with thank you on the top so they couldn’t use it for anything else. That sounds like a cute little thing you do for grandma so she can put it on her fridge Jesus some of you are so bitter
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Aug 4, 2021 18:52
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It wasn’t 20 seconds, it was them dumping you at a table on Boxing Day and making you write endless notes for hours, often to people who had handed you a present and had already been thanked.
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Aug 4, 2021 18:52
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If it'd hand written now I have to interpret your handwriting, too. Just send an email or a text if you want to say thank you beyond the times you already said thank you in person
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Aug 4, 2021 18:53
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i think its nice to receive a handwritten letter, but the idea that a handwritten letter is somehow more appropriate or meaningful than simply saying thanks in person or via text or email is dumb boomer poo poo
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Aug 4, 2021 18:56
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Thank you cards somehow passed me (Gen X) by. It was a little weird to me that my wife (Millennial) was brought up so into it and tried to make our 5 year old write them for his birthday and Christmas. Just call and say, "Thank you"? What did stick with me from my Boomer mother was sending birthday cards. That seems more important to me than thank you cards. I did it for years for my family when I was living across the country, and it was just like putting an old hat on last year with Covid instead of our usual birthday get togethers. While my wife reliably sends birthday cards to her direct family (mother, sister, father), she never sends her father's wife a birthday card. The woman is great, and as much as a grandmother to our child as my wife's mother, but my wife never sends her a card (*). I have reliably sent her a card with gift card ever year that my wife and I have been married. My wife is oblivious to it. (*) My wife's Boomer father has sent me maybe 3 birthday cards in the past 7 years....so I unfortunately get where it comes from.
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Aug 4, 2021 18:59
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as a millennial, I would rather mail a letter than pick up a phone and call some auntie or cousin to thank them for a Taco Bell gift card
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Aug 4, 2021 19:27
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My dad is the worst for wanting multiple thank yous. I'll thank him for anything once. If he wants a second at some point, I'll say it sarcastically. A third ask get a solid "go gently caress yourself".
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Aug 4, 2021 19:29
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I took it to mean those big thank you posts on things like Facebook where everyone can see, instead of a smaller more personal thank you like a phone call that can’t be posted online.
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Aug 4, 2021 19:50
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This reminds me of when my mother suddenly wanted me to write to her cousin. She kept demanding that I write her a letter, with no other reason than “she’s your cousin!” I have never met this person. I don’t know this person. This person has never written me. Add that to the simple fact that all my “cousins” are usually 20-30 years older than me, and I told her “no way in hell”. I kept refusing because I didn’t want to write a complete loving stranger and after a week of arguing she finally gave up. Blood relatives mean pretty much nothing to me since I grew up 8000mi away from all of them. I think she’s finally figured that out. But man, that Boomer obsession with blood relations makes NO sense to me at all.
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Aug 4, 2021 20:11
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Boomers are obsessed with family and doing things as a family, for no other reason except “we’re family”. It’s bizarre and uncomfortable.
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Aug 4, 2021 20:55
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"I've met our family. Inside's fine thanks"
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Aug 4, 2021 21:04
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lol goons competing to see who can be as goony as possible on this page The battle between "I resent people sending snail mail" and "I resent thank you cards" being edged out by "boomers invented families and it was a mistake" those boomers, weirdly obsessed with interacting with family for some reason unknown to past or future generations 
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Aug 4, 2021 21:17
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it dont matter posted:Guardian has been doing a thing this week where boomers and zoomers ask each other questions. Today, it's the boomers turn. I suppose I'll have to go back and look, but somehow I don't think there's quite as much passive-aggressive sniping and begging the question from the zoomers' side. e: ok tbf there's some of that, but less of it and questions presuming all boomers do [x] are often answered with a defensive "Well all zoomers do [y] so" A HUNGRY MOUTH fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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Aug 4, 2021 21:43
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Enfys posted:lol goons competing to see who can be as goony as possible on this page All boomers are racist and anti gay. Therefore, associating with your family, or thanking someone for a present is also racist and anti gay. Be woke by never thanking people for ANYTHING regardless of what it is. And be never talking to, or associating with your family.
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