PipHelix posted:

Gedankenexperiment: The world is about to be destroyed by an asteroid. You have a spaceship that can only take a small number of people that will need to create a new, self sustaining colony. Name a demographic less desirable than "selfish elderly male professional opinion complainer for a conservative newspaper"

learnincurve posted:

It’s to indicate truncated text. In the past it was mostly used as a device for newspapers to edit what people said without falling foul of the old libel laws. Old school dick move basically.

02-6611-0142-1 posted:

I thought prepping sounded like an interesting hobby and I tried to find books on the topic by reasonable people but sadly there are none. All of them are bugfuck crazy. It’s sad because the basic premise sounds good but the reality is redneck power fantasy. They’re all preparing for their favourite imagination scenario but they don’t believe in climate change or viral epidemics

Synthetic Dreams posted:

My mom loves collecting Nazi memorabilia. She says she doesn't support Nazism, that she's just a simple conservative woman, and her interest seems to have seeped into my older brother and younger sister's political leanings. She was also rather mean to me, but I haven't lived with them for half a decade and tbh they're all dead to me given how well the lot of them treated me since I came out as LGBT in junior high school.

My mom let me know I would not be inheriting any of her collection when she died, after my dad thankfully died last May, and I sorta just laughed at her until she hung up. I'm kind of an rear end in a top hat.

phasmid posted:

It's sad to see victims turn into people who enable abuse. I wonder if it's the psychological aspect or if she just got a big chunk of change and went into the game herself and was corrupted by money?

Or maybe she was always a shithead? Who knows?

mojo1701a posted:

Someone posted an op-ed from the local paper in my local subreddit. It's just radiating with boomer energy over the idea of a cell phone:



The actual online version link. I just thought I'd include the screenshot for posterity.

Greader posted:

My personal favorite was someone doing this a tlike 4AM, trying it every couple minutes for half an hour straight. I dunno what can bring a person to try and send a fax at 4AM, try to send it repeatedly when something did not seem right on their end, and never bother to check if they got the right number throughout the several attempts it takes

A White Guy posted:

Seriously, what civilization has done to get all variety of wild plants to be edible is kind of mind boggling. Most wild cultivars of virtually every modern vegetable and fruit are barely edible at best, or downright impossible to eat at worst.

Barudak posted:

Every company I work with eventually installed print software that caches your print order but does not actually print it until you swipe your id card at your preferred printer. I always thought it seemed like an expensive way to ensure security but now I see its a cost savings tool

Julius CSAR posted:

What does this even mean? I don’t need a “data set” to know that Gone With The Wind is a lost cause myth film that’s racist as hell. What a crock of poo poo dude.

Bonzo posted:

You know that scene in Ferris Bueller where he reads the password off a post it note? That poo poo still goes on man.

Captain Yossarian posted:

I have trouble remembering the lower limits of "boomerism" because I am pretty sure they are all in their 50s, or would be if living. Gonna have to listen to some GWAR and investigate

PipHelix posted:

So, here's a question. Guy who used to work in this lab I worked in, a Dane, he'd come through once in a while (we were in NYC, he was doing the tourist thing, he's not so nuts as to go intercontinental to say hi to old work friends) and on his way out dude would buy massive amounts of tools. Said that the VAT or whatever made it worth his while to do it that way instead of just buying at home. Is that normal/reasonable?

Arven posted:

That explains why they are slapping the name on everything. I saw a Remington brand chainsaw last year.

AlphariusOmegon posted:

This was from 400 pages ago but it makes me mad so I'm replying. As a Millennial that rides a Harley, I did actually no poo poo get a recognition plaque (And other tat) just for buying one, the expensive ones aimed at boomers actually do have touch screens, some of the aftermarket aimed at boomers also has air conditioning, and Harley is making a lot more money on trikes now because boomers can't hold the bikes up any more.

Andrast posted:

This thread is definitely showing that millennials are also boomers

Gaj posted:

So I got stoned and told the roofer all this and he also got stoned and laughed and told me gently caress it hes not answering the phone for 2 weeks. Hes still on the job hes just not going to talk to Boomer Prime until he settles down a little bit because holy lol 20k bond and acquiring permits which do not exist.

Gaj posted:

Its incredibly easy to bait him into a screaming fit these days, he always needs to dominate and win a conversation so I just keep saying "no" in a soft tone while smiling and then he just screams more and more until his face goes red and he starts to hyperventilate. He has almost passed out twice this year screaming at me because he cant think to stop, he has to win the screaming match even if hes the only one screaming. It is physically impossible for him to stop screaming because he thinks louder=more dominance and when I point out hes a fat, weak, sick man and Im not afraid of him any more he starts foaming at the mouth and cant even talk or breath.

VideoTapir posted:

Fun for ten minutes then the realization sinks in.

PipHelix posted:

anyone can pose as a one-man contractor company type gig and should. I've done it multiple times for friends.

goatsestretchgoals posted:

Can we at least agree that pistachio ice cream is loving garbage?

Bonzo posted:

The Beach Boys are playing a Trump fundraiser. That is peak Boomer

Cheesus posted:

Do Millennials and beyond have any kind of "gotta have them all?" physical collecting urges fueled by nostalgia?

super sweet best pal posted:

Don't they know about ?

priznat posted:

I find with a few exceptions most times when I go back to revisit old games I enjoyed I don’t like them as much as I remembered.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Game of Thrones audience? Didn't the series end something like 3 years ago? That crowd has scattered to the wind.

JUST MAKING CHILI posted:

I feel personally attacked.

My boomer dad convinced me to put a $40k insurance settlement I got at age 18 into a mutual fund with a 10% broker fee.

Truniht posted:

The hippie movement was always bullshit. Boomers want to sell the narrative to their kids that they were with MLK or getting jailed for draft dodging. Instead, they were joining cults like the Children of God and using counter culture as a narrative to justify their narcissism and drug abuse.

RC and Moon Pie posted:

Mum-of-8 has 90 grandchildren in only UK family with 6 generations alive at same time. Every single generation in this story was 17 or younger when they gave birth.

CPL593H posted:

Holy poo poo I can't even begin to imagine the screaming that would happen if they even tried to do this in the US.

Clavavisage posted:

Work gave me a rental 2021 Altima recently and it was my first exposure to auto breaking. I had to discover the hard way that when you're using cruise control it would keep you no less than two car lengths, which isn't a big deal except two car lengths is a huge space and whenever someone would cut in front of you the car would try to reclaim that follow distance. So if you were following me at 70mph the car would jam down without warning which was super cool.

life is killing me posted:

When they start putting cameras on TVs I’m loving out

CPL593H posted: