Does Gen x even exist is it even real? thread

The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Does Gen x even exist is it even real? thread

Should Gaj make his own thread This poll is closed.
Yes, make a new thread	6	54.55%
No, keep things just how they are	5	45.45%
Total:	11 votes

[Edit Poll (moderators only)]

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Shifty Pony posted:

They'll just run up massive debts and EOL care service companies will jack up their prices until they can maintain a healthy profit margin by liquidating the estates of the richer boomers. Some hedge fund will make a business model of buying struggling care companies then aggressively trying to con the next of kin of the poorer boomers into being jointly responsible for the expense their parents or grandparents run up.

Sign the guestbook that staff insisted you sign while visiting grandpa Joe? Congratulations on agreeing to pay his debts and be subject to mandatory binding arbitration!

Socialism or barbarism I guess.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2020 00:00

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 04:14

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

uvar posted:

My parents never turn the radio off, just put the volume to minimum, because they're afraid of wearing out the power button.

This is big boomer energy.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2020 05:27

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

PostNouveau posted:

No but my dad's phone is on speaker mode all the time even when he has it up to his ear, so mom can always chime in anyway

Goddamn do those motherfuckers love speaker phone.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2020 22:19

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Devonaut posted:

Is it a generation thing or just happens to all of us when we get older? gently caress I don't want to become one of these people when I hit 60.

Someone on social media a few months ago pointed out that part of the reason Boomers seem really conservative (and thus lovely) is that poor people, working class people, minorities etc. are way more likely to die younger. It's not a 1-to-1, but as a rule people who make it to 70, or 75, or 80 on average had more access to healthcare, more comfortable lives, and come from more privilege. The Boomer generation we're seeing now is likely already missing a healthy proportion of the people who learned compassion by struggling through the life of a common person, making them (on average) just aged entitled suburban middle class-to-rich kids.

Also, spite seems to be a preservative.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2020 03:31

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Framboise posted:

A little nice boomer news: I was playing games with my dad over Xbox the other night and noticed that he had a constant cough-- likely from the flu he's still recovering from from a couple weeks ago. I popped a text to my brother who still lives at home to keep an eye on him and the next day dad brought all his work stuff home so he could work from home, because he knows I was worried.

It's nice to see him start to take this a bit more seriously and genuinely listen to my worries.

My dad's a war baby/silent (1943) and I'm so grateful that he's taken this seriously from the beginning when I called in early March to say I probably wasn't gonna visit for his birthday in late March (this was before the CA shelter-in-place came into effect). I have so many friends whose parents are just blithely going about their business like they have a death wish. This is the first time I've ever been happy that he doesn't really leave the house much these days.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2020 09:29

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

limp_cheese posted:

I talked to my mom a few days ago and she was telling me how going out on walks she is meeting and talking to so many new people in her neighborhood and how she wishes it didn't take a pandemic for her to meet all these wonderful people. I told her that's great but she probably shouldn't be meeting new people right now or getting close to them. When I asked if she is keeping her distance she said "I guess I am, I mean I've only shaken hands with a couple of people. We were wearing gloves though so it was ok." She would then tell me how she has delivered food she picked up in Costco to a neighbor who is in her 80s. She just wouldn't understand that she shouldn't be doing ANY of that. Going on walks is ok, sure, but getting close to new people and then interacting with the elderly is not.

I then learned 2 of my aunts and a cousin went to Chicago for St. Patrick's day. Even though they learned turning the river green was cancelled and the city was going on lockdown they still went because the hotel room they booked was non-refundable. One of my aunts is in her late 60s and lives with my Grandmother who is 86 with a bunch of health problems that puts her in the hospital a couple of times every year for pneumonia. My aunt thinks this is all overblown. This feels like the year when my grandmother dies and even though she is already close to death her daughters are going to push her over the edge.

My bio dad also has a poo poo load of medical problems and my sister, who still talks to him, mentioned to me he is in the hospital with pneumonia/Corona. With both my mom and sister I've had to explain to them they probably won't be able to go to either funeral if this social distancing poo poo continues. My sister, who is pregnant, doesn't like it but is ok with it. My mom refuses to accept that and told me she WILL go to her mother's funeral regardless of what happens. Even when I explained that by doing that she would end up spreading the virus and possibly killing more people she said she didn't care, she will not miss her mom's funeral.

This went longer than I thought and I'll stop with the rant.

I'm really sorry dude, it sounds so stressful to have to deal with family that are being so irresponsible around things like this right now.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2020 21:39

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Courtesy of the Schadenfreude thread, every self-righteous STEMlord rear end in a top hat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OoAVSYoJM0

# ¿ Mar 27, 2020 05:53

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Drunk Nerds posted:

Things Boomers Like: Well you arent getting any of the jobs when I die then

# ¿ Mar 30, 2020 22:50

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Lord Stimperor posted:

Well boomers like giving lots of firm handshakes it seems

Crossposting from the USPOL thread via the Schadenfreude thread:

CommieGIR posted:

https://twitter.com/onionweigher/status/1246928763935494145?s=20

# ¿ Apr 7, 2020 00:03

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

PipHelix posted:

John Jameson was a Scot, and a Prot. And yes, whoever is at the top of whatever conglomerate owns Jameson (probably Unilever) is some danish princeling, and likely also Protestant, if it matters.

American Irish are the worst. Every loving half Italian plastic paddy wearing a kilt (Scottish, Prottish) and playing bagpipes (like loving wise) and too rah loo rahing over some corned beef and cabbage. In my head every one of those people is a racist Boston cop with a buzzcut and hotdogneck, yell singing along to Jump Around (including the bits about a pig is a cop) the second it comes on the jukebox, five minutes after explaining to you that rap isn't actually music, since it's just samples and talking.

Even with my brooklyn grandpa explaining, among other things, that Corned beef was some Jewish poo poo, the Irish moved into their ghettos just as they were moving out and 'Oh you like it? The recipe is boil the absolute gently caress out of this hank of beef and some potatoes and cabbage' is right up your average Irish Mother's alley, I still bought into a lot of that nonsense until like, college. I took Gaelic for the hell of it senior year and my grandma told me that 'My dad used to curse in Gaelic around us kids, if you ask me making us talk English is the only good thing the Brits ever did to us'.

Jameson is owned by the French (and thus, presumably Catholic) company Pernod Ricard. Until 2014 Bushmills was owned by the British (and thus, presumably Protestant) company Diageo. In 2014 Diageo sold Bushmills to Casa Cuervo, which means that Bushmills is probably Catholic now, but more importantly, it's the Mexican Irish whiskey.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2020 10:23

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

That's big K*ren energy.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 00:17

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Arcane rules of etiquette, like formal silverware usage, formal dress code (black tie vs. cocktail vs. garden party), elbows on table, etc. etc. are all just the deprecated norms of the ruling class of 50 years ago, repurposed as the bourgeois virtue signaling of today. The actual ruling classes very rarely follow these forms of etiquette, because by the time they find their way into manners books being read by suburban wannabees they've lost their value as shibboleths. Here's an example: extremely high-end dining, the sort enjoyed by the highest echelons of society, almost never involves setting all utensils out at the beginning of the meal anymore. The value of huge table settings in the 19th century was that silverware was expensive, and it was extremely prestigious to show off every single piece of it you owned. In modern elaborate dining the table is usually totally cleared and re-set between courses, with appropriate utensils being provided per course. The ruling classes still know the rules about silverware usage of course, but because silverware is no longer an actual symbol of power and prestige it's never actually used.

200 years ago it was universally understood that the working classes had completely separate systems of ethics and courtesy from the ruling classes, and the two groups would snipe at each other like goths snipe at jocks in high school. One of the remarkable class phenomena of the 20th century (in the West at least) was the almost complete elimination of a formal working class identity, as bourgeois virtues managed to become essentially universalized. The Boomers were the absolute high water mark of this phenomenon, since they were permitted a level of material comfort that was unparalleled compared to that of the working classes of any generation before or since. That's why so many people have the deeply weird experience of their grandparents attempting to enforce rules of etiquette that seem completely alien to their actual position in society.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 02:05

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

To be fair playing Monopoly at all was the first mistake.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 20:46

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Solar Coaster posted:

Wife and I were at the store picking up the last of a few supplies before going back into lockdown. We had a full (large) cart of items and the checkout person says to me, "Keep the cart here so I can walk around and scan things, it'll make it easier and I dont have the risk of getting hurt". A completely reasonable request. A boomer in a completely different checkout line just had to chime in with "Well if you get hurt, you can get paid leave for 2 weeks of not doing anything! hyuk hyuk hyuk"

None of us responded.
The cashier was wearing one of those boot / cast things already.

The constant needing to interject your stupid vapid comments, to complete strangers for whatever reason is infuritating for me. No one wants to talk to you, gently caress off.

I think that sort of thing is mostly a desperate attempt to connect with another person because they've alienated most people in their lives.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2020 23:55

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

My middle school band was prevented from playing an arrangement of the cinematic score to Harry Potter by the mom of one of the tenor saxophonists because it was witchcraft.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2020 10:41

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Chomp8645 posted:

Lazy millennials don't want to put in the time and hard work it takes to meticulously plan a series of brutal killings over years. They just want to walk into a place with a gun and get all their killing done in one go. How about taking some pride in your work???

No, it's because serial killing is a leisure activity and none of us have sufficient free time or resources to really explore the hobby.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2020 19:20

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

sugar free jazz posted:

i also have a few latinx family members. the last quincenera i was invited to was pretty well integrated gender wise but was definitely a bit strange it got rowdy towards the end of the party

It's a pretty piss-poor quincea�era if it doesn't get at least a lil' rowdy by the end.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2020 22:58

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

limp_cheese posted:

Mom: A Covid-19 vaccine wouldn't work and isn't necessary. Besides, all vaccines do is lessen the symptoms of the disease, they don't stop it.
Me: Mom, that's not how vaccines work.
Mom: Yes it is. I had to get the Shingles vaccine in doses, but after the 1st dose I had some shingles symptoms even though I was vaccinated against it so I didn't take the 2nd dose.
Me: Mom, that means you're not vaccinated against shingles. If it takes 2 doses and you didn't take the second one you never got vaccinated.
Mom: Yes I am! Some people's bodies react to vaccines in different ways and I believe my body only needed the one dose! I'm vaccinated against Shingles because of the 1st dose.
Me: No you're not! You didn't finish the vaccinations so it didn't work! If it takes 2 doses and you didn't take the second one it didn't work!
Mom: I guess we just have to agree to disagree.

This is spectacular.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 20:36

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Plan Z posted:

Being able to nap as a kid must have been rad. My mother hated the idea of people sleeping, and would wake anyone up if she was up. She chilled out on it a few years ago after she passed out in public from sleep deprivation. It turns out a woman she knew from church who was a "nurse" (actually just answered phones) told her that "Nobody actually needs sleep" and no attempts to convince her otherwise, even from a doctor, could change her mind.

Plan Z posted:

I used to tell these stories like "Aren't WASP Boomers just the wackiest?" but lately when I talk to people about them, I get a pretty unfamiliar perspective about my family life.

EDIT: Nice coincidence going on is that I'm typing this while visiting my parent's house. My diabetic father is starting to nod off and she's in the kitchen passive-aggressively slamming cabinets and rattling dishes to keep him awake.

Your mom loving owns.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 00:04

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

People get so loving mad about other people pointing out antiziganism, it's consistently equal parts amazing and baffling.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 09:06

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Kaiser Mazoku posted:

bro who says i'm not closer to the earth i spend every waking minute in my basement shitposting on the innernets

jw but is it weird if I find poo poo like Chief Wahoo and the "red man" song from Peter Pan genuinely hilarious? It's just too goofy and over the top for me to be offended by it.

Important question: are you part of the group of people being caricatured/described in the media you mention?

# ¿ May 5, 2020 20:50

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Kenning posted:

Important question: are you part of the group of people being caricatured/described in the media you mention?

Wait don't answer, I can guess.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 20:55

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Kaiser Mazoku posted:

Eskimo/Pima

Oh no my online self-righteousness has backfired.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 22:42

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Flowers for QAnon posted:

He responded in good faith to your question, and your response is to preemptively reply the equivalent of, �it was only a joke bro�?

Interesting approach

Sorry to be misunderstood, I was trying to jokingly back away from my point without being like, "I give you permission," which also seemed like a lovely tack.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 22:58

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

winterwerefox posted:

Ive used ... ellipses... as mental pauses as I gather my thoughts while typing a text message to someone. There is no reason to do so, but I do it from time to time.

Oh my god I think that's it. Boomers just don't understand asynchronous communication, and feel the need to convey that it's taking them 2 minutes to think between each sentence fragment.

# ¿ May 11, 2020 19:23

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

PostNouveau posted:

Yeah, I doubt these old games get a lot of play with the younger cohorts. There's a much wider variety of games available, and they're pretty much all more engaging and fun than the garbage like Monopoly or Life people used to play.

Game design, much like other fields of human endeavor, has enjoyed significant theoretical and practical developments over the last 50+ years. Boomers complain about games with thoughtful rule updates that serve a specific purpose in gameplay in the same way they complain about new cars, even though they're superior to the dogshit trash that was on the road in 1972 in literally every way possible. They want to have frustrating board games for the same reason they want to be impaled by solid steel steering shafts: Because that's the Way it was...,

# ¿ May 12, 2020 03:13

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

That casino was just on step 2/15 for creating a major world religion.

# ¿ May 12, 2020 09:09

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

hawowanlawow posted:

this is cringe

OK zoomer.

# ¿ May 12, 2020 22:52

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Specifically, they are a hereditary nobility, which is a parasitic class in any context.

# ¿ May 14, 2020 04:28

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Real life that kicks so much rear end.

# ¿ May 14, 2020 18:42

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Sorry about your mom, goon.

# ¿ May 17, 2020 10:00

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

veni veni veni posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOH37W0jPpA

This is an extremely pro click.

# ¿ May 18, 2020 10:37

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Solkanar512 posted:

I�m just hoping this is some d/s fetish but we clearly aren�t in the good timeline.

It's absolutely a d/s fetish, it's just unconsciously sublimated through establishment conservative Christianity and patriarchy, rather than being consciously enjoyed through the the stylized aesthetics of 20th century fascism and 18th century aristocracy.

# ¿ May 18, 2020 18:25

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

purple death ray posted:

It's recursive mobius masochism, where abuse makes you hot but you don't get off on it because you've been trained not to take any pleasure in life, which is itself abuse, which would be super hot, except that you don't get off on it because you've been trained not to take any pleasure in life

Sounds p. hot tbh, maybe she's onto something.

# ¿ May 18, 2020 19:58

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

AceClown posted:

Things Boomers Like:

Blunt too small knives that you have to saw a potato with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j9GGW6KsAo

The struck me directly in the soul. It's exactly right.

# ¿ May 20, 2020 18:44

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

PostNouveau posted:

My grandmother subscribes to something called Reminisce Magazine

It's some sad poo poo.

I'm not sure I can exactly name the emotion this is producing in me, but it's not great.

# ¿ May 25, 2020 05:52

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

I try to find a generous place of being like, "Well, sometimes it's very meaningful for older people to reflect on their lives and remember things that have gone away" and then I remember that people have to loving write these articles and it's probably some poor intern just drafting garbage and I just can't deal.

# ¿ May 25, 2020 07:05

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

I love imagining their inner life.

# ¿ May 27, 2020 21:35

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

It's just fun to say Okay Boomer tho

# ¿ Jun 8, 2020 06:50

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 04:14

Kenning: Jan 11, 2009; I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.

Barudak posted:

A very boomery thing:

I had a distant relative buy tons and tons of silver in the 80s and bury it in on his property. He forgot where it was buried and was too paranoid to get a surveyor out to find it, but kept calling it his retirement. When he died family paid the surveyor to find it and the stuff was so oxxidized and poor quality when it started that apparently they lost money on digging it up.

This is fantastic and I love it. Like, did he just stick a bunch silver in the dirt? Not even in like a container or anything? I super hope so.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2020 01:18

The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Does Gen x even exist is it even real? thread

«‹›5 »