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Should Gaj make his own thread
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Yes, make a new thread 6 54.55%
No, keep things just how they are 5 45.45%
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Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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There should be a thread for celebrating reading this entire thread. It changes you. I've come out the other side with calluses on my heart and maybe some brain damage.

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Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Play posted:

that sounds more like a support group

I told my wife. "I finished it". Got a big hug.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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I enjoyed the best delivery of my entire life and thought of this thread. Getting groceries, old guy standing in front of me says something I don't hear to woman in front of him in line finishing being rung through. Sounds snarky but might be my bias. She rolls her eyes and says "whatever".

Old guy: "well, at least you had enough class not to say OK boo-"
Her (interrupting): "SHUT YOUR loving MOUTH YOU TEDIOUS IDIOT. HOW'S THAT?"

It was just eviserating.
It was really great.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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PeterCat posted:

Did everyone stand up and clap?

No, everyone talked about how rude it was after she left though. I left that part out as it didn't sound as cool.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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LabyaMynora posted:

Not fake rear end "I'm just here to shock people!" LeVey-style Satanism. I mean, like, literally worshiping the adversary of man and God - Prince of Lies poo poo. Blood sacrifice, doing whatever you want to people, stealing, lying, raping, torturing, maiming, murdering-style Satanism.

You're thinking of devil worshipers, Satanism is a troll religion for cool kids and it's own thing.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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PipHelix posted:

I have an ongoing group email* thread** with like, five other people I know from highschool/college/gradschool **blanked for humblebrag** who are as lefty, interested in this stuff, and knowledgeable where we basically just bitch about how the internet is over and which one of us is gonna die in the camps first cause liquidation order is going to have been the true mark of the true lefty in future history. Once upon a time I had a blog that people thought was funny but it was also lovely and misogyinst and racist in the way that SA used to be and Magary apologized for KSK having been and basically the whole internet used to be when we were all shithead 20 year olds instead of 40-pushing milleniolds. Too much of an asspain, how poorly it aged makes me leery of committing further opinions to text under my own name, and the only people who read it are the same people on the email thread.

*Before some brain-addled zoomer/libertarian gives me poo poo about using email as a BBS, most of these dudes and dudettes have led pretty wild lives***, and even if spying weren't literally a life or death problem for them (Google, for all its data hoovering is actually pretty good about not letting Azeri black-baggers through unless you do some dumb poo poo like open a blank Word Doc sent by someone you've never heard of) the intricacies of Russian cell phone networks are literally incomprehensible so we send emails back and forth like An Old. Anyway, it's a good way to stay super informed and very scared, as well as get eclectic year end book/music/movie reco's. I recommend cultivating such a friend group highly.

** it's not actually one continuous thread because, uh, if you haven't noticed I tend to run at the mouth and always 'and another thing!' every conversation. We are privy to the obscure knowledge that Google will actually chop any email exchange at 100 replies and spin off a new thread. We stopped marking the passing of 'hundos' somewhere back in 2013. I literally have almost filled my gmail account with literal 1MB or less emails (I've already filtered and deleted any large attachements) and am now deleting photos from google drive as quick as I can to stay ahead of it while researching safe reliable alternatives. Apparently protonmail threatened to delete my friends' account over a $2 dispute in which protonmail was in the wrong. A guy who got shook down by the FBI for creating Diaspora, the super secure social network used exclusively by ISIS, apparently, once explained to me how to set up my own secure server and it was like he was trying to teach calculus to a hog but if someone wants to give it a try (in an appropriate thread) I'd be more than grateful. I own my own domain if that helps.

***The kind of guy who deals with privacy to the point he has a hardcore 'gently caress protonmail' opinion literally told me about a dude he worked with getting fed up with his charity's engagement with red tape, and doing stuff I won't put on the internet cause the poor dude has issues enough. Couple weeks later I see this and there's enough details that I'm like, no loving way *this* is that same guy right? Sure enough he replies with 'yep that's ol Afghan'.
https://www.voanews.com/press-freed...d%20be%20killed


Anyway I'll conclude the humblebragathon and say there's nothing more Boomer than flattening all discussion into a dumbass either-or 'love it or leave it!' dichotomy. There's nothing that says being able to look up directions to your friend's house also requires you to agree to have your every move be traceable by unaccountable and literally innumerable secret police agencies, and there's nothing about respecting civil liberties that requires us to live in some stone-age pre-technological state.

I encourage everyone on here bitching about the average age of a site that crested in popularity over a decade ago to get on TikTok and try to lure some teens to your cool guy internet forum. Once you've all been grabbed by FBI honeypots and thrown in pervert jail maybe we can get back to doing what we came here to do; bitch, as people younger than boomers plus a few generational traitors, about people who are 60 or older.

I'm incapable of reading this, I really tried.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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It's hard to find a working whack-a-gently caress machine now a days.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Id feel like I'd be a lovely cadaver they'd all make fun of then roll into the corpsetrash. This is a new anxiety to have.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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mind the walrus posted:

Starting? You guys had a loving huge footprint in the 80s and 90s and to this day a huge chunk of the nostalgia market is squarely based on poo poo you guys valued. Do you really think Millennials grew up with Ghostbusters, G1 Transformers, or goddamn She-Ra? Do you think DOOM coming back now was a coincidence? What the gently caress did you think Grunge and Alt.Rock were? Ready Player One is entirely based on Gen-X backwash. Did you grow up very far outside the US or are you somehow even more boring than all the poo poo I just described?

This is a bit much.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Boomers like to hurt you, but sometimes you love them.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Leaving your evil boomer daddy to die in lonely piss feels so loving good sometimes I'll just think about it and be like "yes, nice, nailed it", start singing in the shower or air boxing n poo poo.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Scotch tape mean something else where you're from? Like... the poo poo kids use for crafts that barely holds construction paper together?

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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A White Guy posted:

To be fair to an older generations way of thinking, I don't think there's a child whose lived who hasn't deserved getting smacked at least once.

This loving sucks

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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My in-laws have a cabin and boomers in the area let their dogs run all over the place. Some of them are old and mean though and walking around a corner to a dog or two barking or snapping at you sucks (especially for my MIL who has a lot of trauma from a mauling). Anyway, people have been calling animal control now after years of asking these fuckers to control their dogs and they are. Flipping. The. gently caress. Out. over Facebook about it. " My dog has been a free spirit for almost 6 years how dare you ask me to stop now", "you're stepping on my rights (???)", "you're all liberal pussies." Etc. Full boomer tantrums. The weird complaining about their made up rights being oppressed thing tickles me, that's more of an American thing than Canadian.

Edit: its a lake community, mostly old timers retired there, not really big open spaces or anything really.

Harvey Mantaco fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Sep 18, 2020

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Outrail posted:

"Hello Conservation Officer? I've been threatened and attacked by a feral dog in my area. There's kids playing here and...yes here's the address. Thank you!"

Yeah, that's what people are doing now after trying to work to convince these people for years not to let their dogs just roam around. How is this a loving problem.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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G-III posted:

It's a common boomer trait to somehow be absolutely helpless around computers despite having worked with them in an office setting at least 10 years prior to most of us being born. I sometimes think it's a ruse just to get an excuse to force their kids to interact with them / dole out more abusive control because their lead brains demand that they be the center of attention at all times.

The best answer to this is a competent Boomer. My mom is very anti-boomer and will call up my aunts with a "what are you stupid you're bothering everyone, click a button, figure it out."
And then they do!

Boomers understand bullying and personal attacks as motivation.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Cowslips Warren posted:

Get ready guys, we're in the last days of the election. Peak boomer ahead.

Has anyone else seen all these reports that it's not boomers and the elderly who won't wear masks, but the drat millenimums who won't! Because at least what I've seen, the anti-mask seems to run older.

Tbh millennial age group getting together in groups has actually been a big issue here, but I'm sure it's different all over.

Edit: I'm not being pro-boomer, just anti-everyone

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Anyone else's dad want to lead the revolution against the socialists but can't shoo without a scooter

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Barudak posted:

My dad is shitfaced on some workers co-op(?) made whiskey and my mom is doing metaphorical donuts on the lawn of the seminary where she works.

I can't tell if they're celebrating or not

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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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".

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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JonathonSpectre posted:

Remember this when the time comes to choose a nursing home.

He might already be dead, who knows! :slick:

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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thathonkey posted:

i appreciate the people who have used spoiler tags over the terrible animal abuse poo poo that i dont want to read can we get back to making fun of boomers in more heartwarming ways

Boomers like to buy things for gifts that they found deals on that no one would ever want.

Cool, a cupcake train. I'm... sure we'll find a use for it. At our uh, cupcake parties?
Mom, what the gently caress?

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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What the gently caress? That's insane.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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This isn't the place to try out your kinks.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I mean, you obviously know him better that I do but this attitude could also just be a sad resignation to something he considers inevitable. I suggest this because I've had this exactly reaction to every single article or mention of how lots of people are going to spread COVID around this Thanksgiving because they insist on having big family get-togethers and traveling around to do it. It's not that I'm not upset by it, but there's absolutely nothing I can do about it so beyond sigh at the madness of it all.

Have you considered screaming at people all the time?

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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If you're not stealing from Applebee's you're stealing from your family.

- Wayne Gretzky

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Boomers like walking their dogs off leash because don't worry she doesn't bite.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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I go where phone says go


Is fine

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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I was at a Walmart and some older lady asked me if I could unlock the spray paint cabinet. I was wearing a black t-shirt and jeans. She didn't... seem senile, but I guess you can never know.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Boomers are good kissers with tight pussies and/or rock hard cocks who make guitars squeal and hotrods purr. They know the magic of the cube and can convert the blackstream into real energy. Boomers found the song but don't need to sing it and they'll be there at the end when it starts again. Boomers forget through annihilation and so remember all and curse through their blessing. Don't speak their name, but don't forget it. Ever.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Panfilo posted:

My wife on the other hand will just have some random show playing on TV that she's not even watching/listening to because she needs the background noise to concentrate :psyduck:

This is really common.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Merry Christmas damaged children of abusers ♡

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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A Wizard of Goatse posted:

Sure but who wouldn't be jelly of californians' ability have a barbecue at a moment's notice wherever they happen to be standing

*looks outside at mountain of snow*

Is this a joke? Are you joking? If want the BBQ.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Do I have the brain worms where everything is loss or is this loss please help

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Sabotaging things to injure people is a lot more reprehensible than stealing. What a gross thing to suggest.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Lib and let die posted:

Every now and again I catch myself working volunteering overtime and try to stop myself, but there's this little prickly point of pride that rears its ugly head because it's usually some sort of special task involving flexing my excel/sql knowledge and either i enjoy doing it or i've run far afield of the output i expected and i refuse to throw my hands up and look at it again tomorrow (did i mention the pride?).

it's worse than the post-stroke shame honestly

Overtime is different I think. Like gently caress yeah I'll take 2.5x pay, I play warhammer I need that poo poo to buy my dollies.

Edit: oh you probably meant unpaid

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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If my kid saw blazing saddles i'm sure he'd miss a lot of the nuance and be super uncomfortable just hearing the slur, it's just not appropriate for (most) kids that age because the context for parody can be lost on them.

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Nooner posted:

Was out having a cig and a neighbor who is gen-X told me how the government was going to use the vaccine to put chips in all of us. now I am not the smartest man, bust jfc even I can tell you how *R*-word that idea is

If you referred to people with dark skin as "n-words" how would you expect us to react?

Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Basically all boomer music is poo poo especially that one exception you like.

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Harvey Mantaco
Mar 6, 2007

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Boomers named Rush like to live up until today :)

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