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The guy in my office constantly radiating peak boomer energy also proudly talks about being in born in the first month of the first year of Gen-X.
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Feb 29, 2020 17:04
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Iron Crowned posted:This is my dad, except that he doesn't facebook. It's some combination of CNN and Netflix all day long. He'll forget what I told him 10 minutes ago and then get angry with me because I get frustrated after the third or fourth time telling him the exact same thing. My paternal grandma kept most of her faculties up till about 83 and for a nice old Catholic lady was a loving ruthless card shark. My maternal grandma is the same way and is still the scourage of her senior center card game and trivia nights. Of course they're all greatest generation. Meanwhile when I worked in rural Florida I was surrounded by mush brained boomers who never did anything but sit and watch TV.
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Apr 1, 2020 14:05
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Krispy Wafer posted:That Electric Agora motherfucker isn't even a Boomer. He's Gen-X and has the opinions of a 70 year old. It's been my experience that early Gen-X manage to be turboboomers.
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Apr 8, 2020 01:43
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Fartbox posted:the world of TNG could only exist because they invented magic machines that could materialize whatever you wanted out of thin air The world of TNG could only exist following the self destruction of capitalism in global thermonuclear war. The secret to their society wasn't replicators but a fundamental shift in philosophy from exponential exploitation to make number go up. The federation isn't post scarcity because magic technology but mostly post scarcity because they divert their resources into the wellbeing of their people instead of concentrating them into a .1% while the rest fight for scraps. Also echoing the personal journey from "upper middle class" teenage libertarian shitlord to fully automated luxury gay space socialism once I got far enough into adulthood. My real tipping points were my family wasting all their money on drugs and losing their jobs thus going from rich to broke as gently caress right as I entered the workforce during the great recession. The other was practicing foreclosure defense and bankruptcy law in a rural jurisdiction in the back half of the great recession. After seeing way to many people who did everything "right" get screwed out of what the social contract promised due to forces completely out of their control I couldn't really continue to reconcile it with the personal responsibility narrative that had been drilled into my head growing up.
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Apr 9, 2020 15:06
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Ghost Leviathan posted:As has been said, what made boomers what they are includes that they were the last generation for whom the system worked as intended, and so they immediately set about ripping the copper out of the walls to sell for crack. I suspect this is why early gen-X produces such turbo boomers. Some of them were started to be affected by the system breaking down and decided to triple down on emulating boomers rather than reflect that for boomers things worked in spite of, not because of the rampant narcissistic entitlement.
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Apr 9, 2020 16:17
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PipHelix posted:The Spanish and Dutch also declared war on Britain during the Revolution because they smelled blood in the water. Since they didn't put boots on the ground on the Eastern Seaboard, most Americans, who get at least 4 years of American Revolution focused history in school, have absolutely no idea. We were dicking around in the woods playing soldier while England was trying to fend off a three front gently caress fest of every major European power. Plus Catherine the great and the League of Armed Neutrality which greatly reduced the effects of the British blockade because the royal navy was dependent on naval stores from the Baltic. And the Spanish smuggling supplies and artillery to the colonists through French Louisiana to the great lakes. For that matter there are "American revolutionary war" battles in India between the French and British. I guess in one sense "shot heard round the world" was right because Europe heard someone was trying to kill the English and everyone wanted in on that hot lead on redcoat action.
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Apr 16, 2020 17:45
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wesleywillis posted:Wasn't the war of 1812 also something along the lines of "hey guys, the British are pretty busy fighting the French again, ya'll wanna see if we can take over this territory called Canada while they're not paying attention"? Well the British used impressment to meet the manpower needs of the royal navy. The British also refused to recognize naturalized American citizenship and considered any Americans born British subjects. As a result the royal navy captured and impressed thousands of US sailors into conscripted service in the royal navy. But to get this thread back on track, Boomers love complaining that with the economy shut down they can't "work overtime" at the office to avoid the spouse they won't stop complaining about but won't divorce.
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Apr 16, 2020 18:36
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Krispy Wafer posted:So all the Boomers who divorced and got remarried and had second families were the smart ones? Except they seem to repeat the pattern or make even worse choices the second time around.
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Apr 16, 2020 19:24
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The natural state of a printer is broken. It's their mating display. Once broken they await a second printer to be carried over by a goon.
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Apr 23, 2020 12:04
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The guys next tweet captured it perfectly.quote:It’s the Rosetta Stone for understanding MAGA boomers. They are the protagonists of reality and would prefer you to die rather than inconvenience them in the slightest. Be sure to note the subtext of the black service worker being forced to serve a white boomer who you know is going to stiff him on the tip for not being cheerful enough
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Apr 28, 2020 19:19
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In a weird case of two wrongs circling round, at my local grocery store the boomers taking this seriously are using their slavish devotion to rules and Karening the gently caress out of the ones who aren't. I've seen boomers turn their carts to block people goimg the wrong way, yelling at anyone not wearing PPE, going the wrong way, getting too close etc. On two occasions I've seen a boomer demand a manager make a store wide announcement reminding people to follow the aisle markings and social distancing
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May 4, 2020 13:56
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It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people.
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May 5, 2020 13:38
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah I don't know how you could argue with a straight face that SovCits are about anything else. In fairness there is also the virulent racism.
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May 15, 2020 19:13
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mind the walrus posted:Or are pisstakes made 30 years after the "Golden Age" pointing out what a crock of poo poo the Boomer Western Fantasy was. Thanks for reminding me I still need to show my girlfriend Blazing Saddles.
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May 22, 2020 13:56
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Ghost Leviathan posted:...there's a story how you adopted a dog from an elephant sanctuary. Was it raised by elephants? Did it think it was a very small elephant? Reminds me of when I was at the zoo in Canberra, and there was a cheetah and dog sleeping cuddled up against each other in the same enclosure. The cheetah cub was the only one of it's litter to survive birth. Since cheetah cubs need to be socialized to grow up healthy they introduced the cub to a puppy. They grew up as together and still see each other as siblings to this day.
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May 27, 2020 17:48
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I figured it's because after the great recession hit computer touchers were one of the few groups with disposable income so they started getting pandered to. Boomers like telling you that comp sci and IT are low status, low wage professions and wouldn't you rather go into something lucrative with a future like law?
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May 27, 2020 19:39
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Solkanar512 posted:Christ, being able to teach other people skills is one of the best ways to stay employed or get promoted at a reasonable employer. Hold everyone else back so you come out looking better is boomer as gently caress though
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May 27, 2020 20:25
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Many laws for the ox, none for the lions.
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May 29, 2020 11:48
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I quit the cub scouts when the eagle scouts leading our camping trip mixed up the trail and the river. They mocked my dad who grew up in a farm as a useless suburbanite who obviously didn't know the first thing about nature every time he pointed out the trail was supposed to run along the top of the canyon and not the river we were hiking in at the bottom.
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May 29, 2020 15:01
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I spent about 2 years living about 20 minutes a Florida Natural orange juice factory. When the wind blew right the entire town smelled like orange glow. Living in that part of Florida ruined orange juice for me because I always associate with that sticky sweet pungency floating on the breeze. Also because when you could walk 5 minutes to a farmer selling oranges straight off the tree and squeezing them yourself nothing else can compare.
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Jun 3, 2020 01:33
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:Unless you are one of those freaks that eats only chicken nuggets or you have some sort of unique vitamin related pathology, the idea of taking a vitamin is 100% bullshit. Our current (lack of a) regulatory system is largely to blame for people with this mixed up belief that vitamin taking is normal. My parents absolutely enabled my sister and I to be super picky eaters and justified it because they gave us a multivitamin every night. Pills being easier than parenting is definitely very boomer.
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Jun 4, 2020 12:32
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LifeSunDeath posted:Boomers love SWEET tea. Like syrupy sweet tea. It's so loving gross. Nah, this is an all generation southern thang.
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Jun 4, 2020 18:14
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Boomers love talking about how work's diversity and inclusion initiative is racism against white people.
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Jul 7, 2020 19:43
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A White Guy posted:To say the quiet part out loud:All Lives matter, especially the white ones. It was fun a few years ago explaining to my super maga Catholic step mom that many white nationalist groups don't consider her and her family truly white because they're Papists not Christians. Not that it changed her behavior at all:, but it was funny.
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Jul 7, 2020 20:21
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Eldercain posted:it's incredibly Boomer to try to direct your kid's career because it's "prestigious" or because of salary My family is still mad at me for quitting as an attorney to go work in IT. In their minds I traded a high status, high paying job for menial low wage work because I'm lazy or something.
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Jul 20, 2020 19:26
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Achtane posted:Boomers like to cheer on unidentified federal agents who are kidnapping people in unmarked vans, adding that "I'd like to shake their hands and say, 'club one or two for me.'" Black man tries to give them healthcare. Or they go full sovcit and set their own house on fire so they can murder the responding firefighters.
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Jul 28, 2020 18:31
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Kenning posted:I understand that this behavior will certainly take place in the short term, but the only reason you purchase an asset in that context is to sell it at a later point. Between the glut of ex-Boomer houses and the fact that I suspect COVID-19 is somewhat reducing the appeal of American real estate as an investment vehicle, I can't imagine there not being downward pressure on both housing prices and rents over the next 15-20 years. Unless they all get bought up by people with money and turned into perpetual rentals.
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Aug 12, 2020 23:44
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When I was in Australia my coworker and I were pulled over at 10:00 AM Saturday morning for a DUI checkpoint. Once he picked up on our American accents I joked that it was a little early in the morning to start drinking and the cop told me he was there to catch people still drunk from the night before.
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Aug 14, 2020 15:58
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BigDave posted:Y'all. Bless your heart, but y'all need to be less jealous we gave English a workable second person plural.
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Aug 21, 2020 19:13
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I was talking about participation trophies with some friends and remembered some poo poo when I played soccer as a kid. My parents would buy me a toy every time I scored a goal. It didn't matter how the team did, only whether I personally scored. So if I scored a goal and the team lost I got a toy, but the team winning with me scoring a goal meant no toy. I just had the epiphany that this is boomer as gently caress because the actual lesson is that it's all about me and helping others work towards a shared goal is meaningless compared to individual gain
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Aug 28, 2020 17:20
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah, there's a slew of people who just make their money scamming storm victims with roofs that are 10x cheaper than the real contractors. They're long gone by the time you realize they hosed you. In Florida this was a common scam after hurricanes. Scammers would drive around, find people with water damage, say "this happened because your previous contractor was a scammer. We can fix it up and they'll have to pay for it because of their negligence." Then they get substandard materials and do unpermitted work. The lawfirm I worked at represented several roofing and windows companies that would get sued by scam victims after every hurricane. We had to explain to the plaintiffs that 1) the work was up to code but some water intrusion is normal during a loving hurricane, 2) if there was a problem any evidence has been destroyed by the renovations you undertook before letting our client back in to inspect the damage, 3) the work you had done was unpermitted and will need to be repaired. Boomers love insisting they're too smart to be scammed and throwing tantrums that they will refuse to comply with court orders when reality catches up to them. Let me tell you, the tantrums were magnificent when a boomer found out their insurance company was prepared to drop coverage unless the unpermitted work was repaired, and then the mortgage company was prepared to foreclose if the lending contract was breached by leaving the home uninsured.
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Aug 28, 2020 17:46
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PostNouveau posted:Oh god, now you got me feeling bad for these idiots because it sounds like they'd really dig themselves a hole after getting scammed. Don't feel bad. Not a single one of the ones I litigated against should have been struggling financially. Like they might have been due to other life choices, but I didn't feel bad telling say, the retired pharmacist that the bank will foreclose on their $900k mcmansion if they don't take responsibility and unfuck things. Especially when they dug their own hole by refusing to listen to any experts, including their own attorney and ran the bill up for themselves. In one case in a pretrial mediation we laid things out and their own attorney straight up told them, "based on all the records presented you got scammed, if you try and take this to trial you will lose and owe them five figures in attorney fees on top of what you are going to have to pay to fix the house." This led to an hour of screaming at their lawyer, at us, and at the mediator about how we're all liars, their lawyer is incompetent and going to lose their license over this, and increasingly insane explanations on how they will hide their assets to keep a court from taking them. At that point you can't do anything but sit back and watch the show of their "not my responsibility field" collide into reality at terminal velocity. E. The hardest part of recovering from a scam is the ego threat of admitting you were scammed. Boomers are particularly bad at this because they can never admit they were wrong. The same is also true in educated professionals like doctors, engineers etc. So much self worth and identity is tied up in being "smart" that the ego threat makes them double, triple, and quadruple down on the scam rather than suffer the humiliation of admitting they have a problem to correct. Soylent Pudding fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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Aug 28, 2020 18:10
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Splicer posted:Nobody is too smart to fall for scams. If you think you're too smart to fall for scams it just means you've never noticed all the times you've fallen for scams. Scams rely on emotionally short-circuiting your ability to think clearly and information asymmetry. The best way to check this involves knowing people who have different knowledge sets and listening when they tell you you're being stupid.
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Aug 28, 2020 21:13
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This is violence
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Aug 31, 2020 00:42
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My grandparents both learned to use a computer in their late 80s. It always infuriated me when boomers say it's just too confusing to learn when at the age of 86 my uneducated corn farmer grandad said "I need to learn how to use a computer" and then sat down and figured it out.
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Aug 31, 2020 15:49
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I think in some ways it's easier to forgive faults arising from adversity and destitution than faults arising from affluenza.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:44
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Boomers like having a MAGA boat parade despite not knowing how to use their boat, wasting our tax dollars on their rescue. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/lake-travis-trump-boat-parade/269-ffc4056e-59d1-4ac6-8f98-285a82b4e62f
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Sep 5, 2020 21:05
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Also it's Colonel Lee. No recognized government ever promoted Lee to general. Lee himself resisted the promotion and wore his colonel rank insignia for the duration of the war.
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Sep 6, 2020 01:17
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Goldie The Mack posted:Interviewed a guy that had just retired from the military. He had an entire binder of stuff. Compared to the guy that broke down about his wife just dying, the binder wasn't so bad. That's unfortunately closer to the expectation in federal gov positions. It's also becoming incentivised to do so to get through whatever assinine keyword matching HR does on resumes. I know a guy who interviewed a fantastic candidate with expertise in a particular technology stack at a job fair. HR rejected the resume and wouldn't let them hire because the candidates resume didn't show proficiency in the technology stack in question. This would have been like a candidate listing accomplishments with MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel but getting rejected because the resume didn't list experience with MS Office.
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Sep 10, 2020 17:08
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I've had the opposite experience. Can't find 2 litre bottles but plenty of diet coke cans.
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Sep 14, 2020 15:56
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