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CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
-Racism

-Entitlement

-Talking to the manager

-Drinking from garden hoses, apparently

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CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
-Holding up the line at any grocery store or Walgreens by making a bunch of small talk with the disinterested cashier and/or slowly counting out coins.

-Gambling

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
Getting pissed off that the girl in Dunkin Donuts put slightly too much or not enough cream/sugar in their coffee.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
Buying guitars that are just severely overpriced vanity items that remind them of their high school glory days.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
-Always watching tv in standard def and somehow not noticing it looks like poo poo.

-Calling young people lazy even though most of my generation is working two or three jobs to even loving live.

-Complaining about people on welfare and food stamps, talking about how easy they have it, and saying that these programs should no longer exist because everyone on them is just abusing it.

CPL593H fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Apr 8, 2019

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

SeXReX posted:

The bad pink Floyd albums

-Going around telling everyone how there hasn't been any good music recorded after 1985.

-Crossing the street if they see a black guy.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
Complaining that every single retail worker that isn't absolutely thrilled about their minimum wage job at all times is rude.

Covering the back of their car with stickers about Jesus and their regressive social attitudes.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Bonzo posted:

Travelling 1200 miles by car to eat at Margaritaville when you have a Margaritaville that's only 10 miles from your house.

There's an outdoor concert venue in Massachusetts that has Jimmy Buffet pretty much every year. When you go to anything at all at this venue you'll see plenty of middle aged people tailgating before the show. When Jimmy Buffet comes to town, absolutely without fail people poo poo all over the parking lot. I'm not saying they leave garbage, they literally poo poo on the ground even though you're never out of sight of a portable toilet in this lot. This is only a problem with Jimmy Buffet concerts.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Wizard Master posted:

Whoa! When I created this thread I didn't expect this level of vitriol directed at Boomers. When I pause to think of people in the Boomer age bracket, I immediately think of my parents, the most compassionate, thoughtful and wise people I could ever hope to meet, not the Fox News-watching hateful archetypes being described in this thread. Boomers, Generation Xers, Millenials...... we're all part of Generation Human. How quickly we forget this.

I probably would have less disdain if they hadn't made everything unaffordable through their greed and entitlement, continued to choose the worst among us to be leaders, destroyed the Earth, and stole our future.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Rad-daddio posted:

ITT, young people yell at olds because they have to work up the nerve to order a pizza over the phone.



Cessna posted:

In fairness, he also jerked off to pictures of dead Russian kids.

Don't forget AIDS victims.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
Calling young people "snowflakes" or "oversenstive" because we think bigotry and sexual assault are bad but then completely losing their poo poo when the football man doesn't stand up.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Chomp8645 posted:

The last one seems more like a millennial thing tbh.

Every generation thinks they're the one that invented gross weird sex stuff.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Rad-daddio posted:

Harley Davidson motorcycles. Gotta get that bloatee bluesdad aesthetic maxed out!

Bonus points if they have one of those obnoxious motorcycle radios that you can hear from four blocks away.

LabyaMynora posted:

If only it was limited to him. A lot of 1960s rock and roll songs are 35 year old men singing about picking up high school girls.

And then there's Gary Glitter... a man whose entire career was basically singing, "Hey everybody! I am really unhealthily fixated on high school girls!" They used to play a few bars from his hit song, "Rock N Roll (Part 2)" at EVERY loving sporting event. And then he got pinched for having sex with minors, and they still played that song! It wasn't until after he served his prison sentence in the UK, then fled to Vietnam, and then got imprisoned in Vietnam for the same poo poo that sporting arenas were like, "Hmmmm... maybe we should stop playing that guy's song..." It helped that by then they could play "Seven Nation Army" instead.

This song is straight up about a grown man having rough sex with a fifteen year old girl. It's not even remotely subtext Mick Jagger striaght up says "I can see that you're just fifteen years old, I don't want to see your ID.".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOSYB38y2xA

In a live version he says "thirteen". It's a super gross song and I'm dumbfounded that this was ever deemed acceptable. The comments on the video are as awful as you'd expect.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Tip posted:

Every time I hear that Beatles song where they sing, "she was just seventeen, if you know what I mean," I'm pretty sure he means she was thirteen.

I always assumed that song was from the point of view of a teenager, but if that's the case, then ew. Stray Cat Blues is unambiguously sinister.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
Driving a convertible, a Miata, or a convertible Miata.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Weaponized Autism posted:

Driving.

It's only going to get worse. Boomers are retiring, now they'll have all this free time to drive around. Stay off the road you old fucks. :argh:

I worked at a place that also housed a doctor's office that was either for old people or just heavily used by them. A large section of the parking lot (which itself was pretty big) was filled with gigantic cars covered in dents and scratches on a daily basis.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

shut up netface posted:

Gen x era may be worse than boomers because they saw everything that was wrong with the excess, consumerism, hypocrisy and homogeneity of boomer suburban “culture”



But did nothing to change it and hid behind apathy and a vague notion of being against “selling out”

Not to mention, Office Space is about a white guy with a girlfriend, a comfortable job that offers advancement ( they refer to him as “management material” at one point) this job also affords him a good sized apartment in his mid 20s, and voluntary flushes it down the shitter.

Not a particularly thrilling job, but who expects to be in love with their career 100% of the time. be pragmatic, you loving rear end in a top hat.

The movie ends with him getting a job he actually likes which presumably pays at least as much as his old job because ends up working with the guy in the apartment next to his. So ultimately he is making the right choice.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

SeXReX posted:

A big rear end diesel truck that the old ball and chain keeps putting regular gas into

On a related note, huge trucks covered in ornamental after market mods which have never been used to haul heavy things or touched the tiniest spot of mud.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

LabyaMynora posted:

Meh - glamorizing construction is pretty bullshit. Those guys end up with chronic ailments from doing their work, and a fair number of them can't work anymore by the time they hit 40. Jackhammering specifically is terrible for your knees, back, neck, arms and wrists. If the pay is equal, you'll come out ahead in the long run because you can do office drone work until you're eligible to collect Social Security.

Yeah it's not perfect, but the point is he actually does something to change his lovely situation. It's better at least in the short term, everybody else gets hosed over except for the people who just end up at an identical company which will probably end up with the same management after the ones running Initech were displaced.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Comrayn posted:

Boomers are the only ones who think that bikers are cool and tough though. Everyone else can see it’s just another white trash variety.

It's basically a bunch of nostalgia based around how cool the guys from Easy Rider were, even though the people who buy Harleys now have more in common with the guys who kill the main characters for being free spirits than the main characters themselves. That movie is a big part of what made motorcycles "cool" in the 60s.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

COMRADES posted:

Idk that movie was one if a slew that tried to capitalize on existing popularity. The Hell's Angels were formed in 1948.

You're right about that being the zeitgeist of the era but I'm guessing that your average boomer doesn't remember poo poo like the Glory Stompers and just picture themselves rebelling against the system like a young Peter Fonda zipping down the highway to Steppenwolf. Easy Rider is a perfect storm of Baby Boomer nostalgia poo poo. The look, the music, the actors.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

COMRADES posted:

Every time I see a Harley it's some fat old dude riding it.

I think these guys are starved for attention too because you can hear them coming from half a mile away. It'd be less annoying if they stood on street corners yelling "EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION ME!". with a megaphone. It's even worse when they have one of those radios like an ice cream truck for old douchebags.

edit: Unless there's some horrible aspect to them that I haven't heard yet, Bikers Against Child Abuse are pretty cool.

CPL593H fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Apr 14, 2019

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Barudak posted:

Isnt Harley-Davidson in a bit of a financial pinch since nobody under like 50 wants to be seen on one?

MILLENNIALS ARE DESTROYING HARLEY DAVIDSON!

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

The Dregs posted:

I can't tell who is worse, Boomers, or the seriousposters in this thread.

I would have thought that someone whose tree was a victim of baby boomer aggression would be more sympathetic.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

dee eight posted:

they are both terrible but in different ways


b-b-boomer snype https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5zw04WxCc

Only one of them managed to live up to this song.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

LabyaMynora posted:

Pete Townsend... said he was looking at child porn for "research." Didn't go to jail. Still gets booked to do things.

I think he said it was for a book or something about child exploitation. It must be a really long book because nearly twenty years later it's still not out.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

FlimFlam Imam posted:

They love to party. Whenever I go to visit my mom that lives in a 55+ community there's always some party going on everyday. "We're going to Bob and Sandy's for lunch, they're having a lunch party!". It's noon and Bob hands me a water glass full of scotch. I live in a college town and these people could drink any frat bro under the table. It's the only place in which I've seen where the liquor store is larger than the attached grocery store.

I like visiting my mother.

Your parents and all their friends are swingers and when you're not around it's probably one non-stop old people gently caress party.

Zelder posted:

I do think that millennials genuinely dislike calling people on the phone for the most part. I say this as a millennial surrounded by millennials lol

This irritates the poo poo out of me because I know a whole bunch of people that talking on the phone is a huge problem for them for some reason. I find it way faster to just tell someone a thing than typing out a series of loving texts. I don't get why speaking into a phone is such a huge ordeal for some people.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Quaint Quail Quilt posted:

I just heard a group pull the "good old days, drinking out of a hose"

Don't they know that unless you buy an expensive human grade hose it contains small amounts of lead and stuff.

Leaded gasoline delayed onset symptoms do explain a lot as well.

I see a lot of boomer poo poo on Facebook about drinking from garden hoses. What's the big attraction there?

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Iron Crowned posted:

Boomers don't really remember why they could just spend all day wandering a mile down to the creek playing with friends when they were 8: White flight.

When boomers were kids, their parents moved out of the cities, and into housing developments in the suburbs, two things that were new at the time. Everyone else on the street was a young family with kids, so there was always a horde of children around. A quarter mile away the housing development ended and there were the woods you played in, a half mile in the other direction was the local general store. It's definitely a rose colored vision of what childhood should be like.

Fast forward to 1989 when my parents moved into one of those housing developments. That area kept expanding, so those empty lots where the boomers played in the woods are now more houses. Most of the residents stayed around, and are now in their 60's. Of course a few of them moved out over the decades, as I do remember some teenagers, who would have no interest in hanging out with 8 year old me. There were 3 other kids that were my age, and none of us got along.

I hear a lot of poo poo about how Kids These Days don't go outside. My neighbors kids must be the exception because they spend the entire summer hanging around outside screaming at the top of their lungs for six to ten hours a day.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
Crossposting from the Harley Davidson thread (which I feel is just a spin-off of this one anyway):

One of my uncles bought a brand new motorcycle in the 80s. He rode it once, fell off of it, and then left it in my grandmother's garage for 30 years until she died. Multiple people offered to buy it over the years and he refused every one of them. It's collecting dust somewhere else now, but I'm not exactly sure where. Another uncle was keeping a 1966 Ford Thunderbird in the same garage (which took up almost all of the space in there) for about 25 years. He bought it in the early 90s with this big idea that he was going to restore it. He also didn't know anything about fixing cars at all. He never looked at it again until he had to haul it away. Similarly people offered to buy it and he refused them all. He also had some guy keeping a parts car for it in his yard for about ten years until that guy got sick of it and made him get rid of it. Both cars ended up being sold to a scrap yard.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Panfilo posted:

It also taps into that irrational part of our brains that gets really emotionally invested in personal convictions. For example, a religious person isn't going to instantly abandon their belief just because some Dawkins zealot terms them God doesn't really exist - they'll fight the change in belief tooth and nail. A major reason for this is that it really sucks to realize everything you thought was true is actually a lie. It's just easier to stick to your guns than completely abandon your own beliefs. Another thing that makes it difficult to change is that the truth is often much more complicated than what they were believing up to that point.

This manifests in stupid boomer old wives tales where they refuse to give up old stupid beliefs. The misconception that age =wisdom also means that the longer a boomer believes something, the more 'right' they think they are about it. So of course a boomer isn't going to change their mind about a fact that got debunked by a 10 second Google search-they have been believing it for 40 years at that point.

:smug: You'll understand when you're older.

When I was in my early 20s I remember more than one middle aged man telling me I'd become more conservative as I got older and being in my early 30s now all I can say is lol.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

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LabyaMynora posted:

Not gonna lie, I once searched the internet to make sure I wasn't wiping my rear end wrong my whole life. It turns out, there does not seem to be consensus on a "right way," because you have motherfuckers who stand up to wipe their asses.



quote:

See - where the conservative movement hosed up is they rigged things so that they're always in charge. Winning presidencies without the popular vote, winning control of state legislatures even though they got significantly less than 50% of the vote... If they could just let themselves lose, they could pull the :smug: well, our way would've been better :smug: bullshit. But when you're always in charge, and you're always wrong, there's really nowhere for you to hide your rear end.

Also at the end of 2018 there was an article about people under 35 abandoning the Evangelical movement - only 10% of Evangelicals were under 35 - and the Evangelical guy they interviewed is just like, :smug: they'll be back :smug:

Yeah, good luck with that.

I mean yeah that's relevant but I think it's more because I'm not a hateful entitled baby that wants poors and black people to die.

Ape Fist posted:

Honestly I basically associate all of the absolute meaninglessness cultural filth of the last 3rd of the 20th century or so bar the mid 90s onward as a burning car wreck of Boomer horseshit. Almost every single cultural contribution Boomers have made have been unveiled as utter garbage in the last 15 years or so. Blonde girls with bolt on tits? Boomer poo poo. Big box stores? Boomer poo poo. Motorcycles? Boomer poo poo. Pretty much anything on TV? Boomer poo poo. Any realm of politics right of center? Boomer poo poo. Car culture outside of Japanese imports? Boomer poo poo. Big game sports? Boomer poo poo. Chain restaurants? Boomer poo poo. The entire gear house of the Western economy? Boomer poo poo. It's all vile plastic trash and it'll die with them but not before they've penned a billion articles mourning the loss of it all and how nobody respects their cultural institutions and why would we? They built nothing. Nothing but McMansions with plasterboard pillars modeled in the style of cultures they have no connection to or understanding of hidden only slightly by the obnoxious SUV highride piece of poo poo they've got which has undergone metastasis and somehow spawned itself on the adjacent properties which are also somehow owned by boomers. I loving hate Boomers.

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

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

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Local Weather posted:

This sums it up for me. So sanctimonious about their way of life that they abandoned almost instantly

Driving massive cars that got four miles to the gallon and ran on gasoline with lead in it was totally green.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

vyst posted:

Revenge of the Nerds was cruel because it gave unwashed nerds hope they would end up with the hot cheerleader one day

Revenge of the Nerds is proto-incel if anything. One of the nerds is an actual rapist.

Michael Corleone posted:

Do kids in school today not have to cover their books or something? Also, brown bags were cool, but the neon colored plastic adhesives were the best book covers.

When I was in high school most people didn't. A few people had those stretchy book covers but other than that I don;t recall seeing anyone cover their books. Like with everything else the school had a severe case of not giving a gently caress. This was the early 2000s. I guess it's possible that if you're not in a big lovely public school it's different.

Iron Crowned posted:

How else will all your friends remember to shout "where's the salt! Where's the goddamned salt!"?

In an emergency the hot tub can be made into a giant communal margarita.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Rad-daddio posted:

I'm gonna stand in this checkout line and ask the cashier to tell me how much money is left on all of these gift cards.

Slowly counting out a bunch of coins on the counter and slowing down the line so they can have the exact amount that something costs down to the penny and then also getting into a lengthy conversation about a stack of coupons that would only save them ten cents.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

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RFC2324 posted:

if they weren't expired

God help you if the coupons are expired.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

Ape Fist posted:

Inexplicably ending every sentence on a Facebook post with 3 commas and the letter h. ,,,h

Excessively using ellipsis on Facebook.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

They also fought tooth and nail to be able to keep firing people for being gay.

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

where the hell else you gonna find a house you can actually buy

1974.

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CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.

You Are A Elf posted:

Was talking with a Boomer at work about a movie that had Jane Fonda in it.

"You couldn't pay me 500 billion dollars to watch a movie with ~*HANOOOI JAAANE*~ in it!"

Dude, that poo poo is like half a loving century old. I nearly lol'd at the mention of "Hanoi Jane" in TYOOL 2019.

Look at this loving loser who deprived himself of Barbarella.

Iron Crowned posted:

What even is the point of these anyway? It's not like I know who your dumbass kid was, let alone why dedicate your entire car to them?

I once saw a car that had the ultimate dead kid sticker. It was this tiny purple Honda that was rusting to poo poo and in addition to some oversized "RIP [dead kid]" decals, the entire hood of the car was covered by a massive sticker that was a picture of his face. Dead people stickers are sad, weird, and tacky as gently caress. I don't even think it's specific to boomers. When I was in high school people wore dead kid t-shirts too, that was sort of the start of when people started doing the stickers on their cars.

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

There are two types of boomers, The early ones who are the 60's people and the second group who are the people who were 20 in the 80's
and yeah that 70's stuff is what they like, but they don't like genre's or even bands; it's just a never ending deluge of songs that only exist on the radio that nobody knows the name of because Djs never tell you. So a lot of Fleetwood mac and the Eagles with some of carol king's Tapestry throw in.

All this talk about lovely dad rock bands and not a one of you mentioned Journey or Boston.

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