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-Thinks his computer exploded because he downloaded a virus from using Facebook and not because the computer is stored in his woodshed. -Voting for Trump so the coal mines and family farms from their childhood that folded decades ago will come back -Whines about how nobody works hard anymore; took sick days from work while employed to drink all day -Won’t go to Europe because of chance of encountering a Muslim
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Apr 10, 2019 18:15
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Boomers are picky eaters but they spin it as a positive because they’re used to “real food” and not weird chi chi foreign dishes that overeducated urbanite foodies obsess about. Look how many people still use “latte sipping” or “sushi munching” to refer to effete liberals. In any case, my boomer parents were pretty cool besides insisting that the art of making good music was lost to mankind around 1980.
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Apr 16, 2019 16:55
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Panfilo posted:Soap? How about a whole goddamn room full of immaculate furniture woefully out of date and never once sat upon by anyone in the past 11 months? Gotta keep a spotless and never-used parlor at the ready in case the pope decides to pop in for a surprise visit.
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Apr 17, 2019 23:31
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CPL593H posted:I see a lot of boomer poo poo on Facebook about drinking from garden hoses. What's the big attraction there? “We used to go OUTSIDE to play rather than sitting around playing on our electric doohickeys! Today’s kids are too lazy and coddled!” *raises family in a gated community with no parks nearby*
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Apr 18, 2019 18:53
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Ape Fist posted:Also, Boomers suffering collective brain aneurysms and somehow believing they were all in World War 2 by noting the collective achievements of the previous generation in defeating European Fascism as something 'We' (see: they) did and therefore shut up anyone under 40. “My daddy was a war hero and ran a tight ship growing up, so I basically count as a wwii vet.” Greatest Generation types were pretty great. My grandparents grew their own vegetables, often complained about how wasteful society had become, and distrusted big business far more than big government. On the other hand, my grandfather was also furious about desegregation, but so was every other white guy in his town.
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Apr 22, 2019 18:07
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My in-laws put my wife and her siblings on their timeshare deed for convenience and now we’re gonna be stuck with it when the in laws die. They get screwed by exorbitant maintenance fees every month that they can barely pay and have no savings as a result. They refuse to sell it due to the sunk cost fallacy. Don’t buy timeshares, folks.
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Apr 23, 2019 17:38
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Beastie posted:Boomers love the crap out of overstuffed reclining leather chairs. I don't think anyone my age that I know has one. These own and I am totally buying one when I move out of my lovely apartment with no living room.
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Apr 23, 2019 21:27
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Voting for Biden in the Dem primaries because “we need a return to normalcy and decorum in Washington” and “we can’t have another McGovern.”
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May 1, 2019 15:30
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Do it ironically posted:I remember when my friends dad talked down to me and him about how kids nowadays don’t work hard enough and he, with only a high school education walked into a downtown office and got a job which turned into a career and owning a large home, three cars (no one lives there anymore just a large empty house), and why can’t kids nowadays just have initiative, this was in the early 2000s, boomers have been awful forever it’s not a recent thing Olds complaining that youngs are all lazy and spoiled is as old as time itself. GGs sure as hell said the same thing about boomers.
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May 6, 2019 17:16
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I’ve noticed a striking difference in red state vs. blue state boomers. The unadventurous chain restaurant loving behavior definitely reflects my red state in laws, but my Californian parents aren’t like that at all. They’re more into following dumb health fads (won’t eat bread anymore because A Book says gluten is toxic), and voting for centrist shitlibs because they’re so afraid of another McGovern happening.
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May 11, 2019 15:53
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Clark Nova posted:Boomers are terrified of another McGovern happening but never seem to worry about another Dukakis, Gore, Kerry or Hillary happening All those candidates were too liberal, you see. We just need to pander to suburban Republican boomers harder.
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May 11, 2019 16:26
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Dr.Smasher posted:Honestly, have you listened to anything she recorded? It was garbage then and it's even worse now. They hate her less for her lovely music and more because they think it’s completely her fault that the Beatles broke up. In reality, it was a small miracle the band didn’t break up much sooner (it came very close during the making of the White Album).
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May 14, 2019 20:08
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KiteAuraan posted:It's an Italian grandma thing, which has been passed down to Boomers who are also Italian grandmas. Also a Dutch thing. They have a pathological cleanliness culture passed down from their dairy farmer ancestors (in which sanitation was extremely important). It’s also a way to low key flex on those slovenly papists.
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May 14, 2019 22:29
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They also refer to zoomers as millennials despite both generations being different from each other in key ways.
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May 15, 2019 17:30
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Move into an urban neighborhood to smoke dope and write lovely poetry and make just enough to afford a 1 bedroom in perpetuity thanks to rent control. NIMBY the poo poo out of anything that threatens “neighborhood character”, such as new housing. Write off millennials as a generation because the ones that can afford to live in San Francisco are “too obsessed with their square jobs”. 2019 North Beach in a nutshell.
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May 16, 2019 00:53
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Making Monica Lewinsky jokes in tyool 2019.
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May 17, 2019 06:58
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My boomer parents forbade me from buying a motorcycle when I lived with them because they saw them as death traps and could both list friends who got turned to jelly in road accidents while riding them. Also, bet you anything the maker of that list doesn’t even ride. Every cyclist I’ve met thinks Harleys are style over substance.
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May 21, 2019 22:33
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Did we mention Islamophobia yet? Even liberal boomers will casually refer to Muslim looking people as “ragheads” or “camel jockeys” and insist hating Muslims is a perfectly liberal position because Bill Maher hates them too.
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May 23, 2019 15:35
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CPL593H posted:Islamophobia is just racism against brown people with some fancy window decorations. And I think you're also giving people way too much credit here because they absolutely will say nasty poo poo about Arabs and trans people and not feel bad about it. I saw a trans woman walk into a small breakfast restaurant and immediately turn around and leave because the second she stepped in there multiple people were staring at her and laughing. And I live in "liberal" Massachusetts. Libs will hide behind being iconoclastic to counter accusations of racism when being anti-Muslim. “I don’t hate brown people, just their dumb moon god that tells them to knock down skyscrapers. I don’t like Christians either!” Their eyes glaze over when I tell them about Sufis or the Islamic Golden Age or how ISIS primarily targets other Muslims. To be fair, I get this from other generations, too.
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May 23, 2019 20:10
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Minor league games rule. Nice way to spend lazy summer afternoon on the cheap. They’ll even let you bring your own booze sometimes.
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May 24, 2019 16:23
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Boomer libs love blaming millennials for Hillary losing. Bernie voters didn’t fall in line enthusiastically enough, and we all better support Biden with big smiles this upcoming year.
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May 28, 2019 15:48
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Picnic Princess posted:Boomers love the say "the weather has been so much nicer lately, so many hot sunny days! It didn't snow until February! When I was young it snowed on Halloween! Man that sucked eh?" Whining about any rain or any temperature under 70 is a pastime for Californian boomers. Even when it’s the middle of winter and they spent all summer whining about the drought. Referring to a mild downpour as a “storm”.
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May 30, 2019 01:21
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Lol, I got pulled out of school that day. My stepdad was in a stupor all day and completely petrified with fear. He became a Bush supporter for a few years and cheered at the television during the Iraq War as tanks rolled into Baghdad. He of course stocked up on Bin Laden wanted posters and terrorist hunting licenses as well. Fun times.
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May 31, 2019 01:44
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Seconding 1950s nostalgia, especially if they were loving four years old in 1960. Or weren’t even born yet.
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Jun 1, 2019 02:23
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Bonzo posted:You forgot Bill Cosby, Dean Koontz and Paul Harvey. Ah, Paul Harvey. The one who said genocide of Native Americans was justified because crushing people into the dust is what virile, strong nations do.
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Jun 2, 2019 23:49
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:fygm is the boomer bible Now that Our Kids are all grown up, why not legalize pot? For similar reasons, let’s defund the schools. I want that extra spending money for another round of shrimp.
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Jun 3, 2019 15:55
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sudonim posted:to be fair to your dad, DS9 is great television and objectively the best star trek series. Boomer Trekkies tend to be insufferable TOS purists in my experience so that’s not so bad.
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Jun 4, 2019 15:20
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mind the walrus posted:They really do even though if you asked they couldn't remember poo poo about it. I remember when Discovery was announced and before anybody knew anything about it there were people going on about how it didn’t have Shatner and Nimoy (whose chemistry and acting skills apparently can’t be surpassed) and would therefore be complete poo poo.
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Jun 4, 2019 16:48
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Iron Crowned posted:It's my understand it's just complete poo poo for other reasons. Oh, it turned out to be a stinker for sure, but as I said, the purists refused to even give it a shot because all modern Trek sucks by default because it’s not what boomers grew up watching.
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Jun 4, 2019 20:31
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Weaponized Autism posted:Cigars, and cigar lounges. Brocken clock. Cigars rule.
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Jun 6, 2019 19:47
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You Are A Elf posted:...the Boomer yells from their Medicare-provided scooter on their way to the social security office. They also love reminding younger generations that there won’t be any social security for them because “the money is running out” and “you can’t just tax the rich to fix everything”. They then vote Democrat as hard as they can when the Republicans hint even slightly at reforming social security.
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Jun 9, 2019 15:43
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I know some metal fans that vote straight ticket Republican because “the Dems and Tipper Gore tried to take away our rock music,” as if the Republicans weren’t behind the effort as well. Ditto gamers who are still mad at Lieberman and thus the Dems at large. That’s more Gen X of course, though.
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Jun 12, 2019 07:05
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Kunabomber posted:Delving into the comments... “Boomer” is basically a lazy catch-all for olds and “millennials” is now a lazy catch-all for anyone under 50, including children. This allows boomers to pretend that the GGs and boomers are the same group of people even though there was as least as much tension between those two generations as there is now between boomers and millennials back in the day.
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Jun 12, 2019 18:08
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In regards to boomers and vegetables, their hatred of them isn’t entirely their fault. Their parents idea of vegetable dishes involved boiling them until they were gray and wilted and then threatening beatings if their kids didn’t force it down. I never understood that American tradition of boiling vegetables to the point they’re disgusting. Is that a holdover from Victorian times where it was assumed all good tasting things were inherently bad for you?
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Jun 13, 2019 00:32
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On that note, I feel Carlin hasn’t really aged well. His rants, especially from his later years, are standard poo poo you hear from boomer libertarians who think not going to church or not caring about global warming is the pinnacle of maverick edginess.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:54
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Karl Ontario posted:Boomers love complaining about anyone who dares park a car in front of their house. Forget that it's a public street, that spot needs to remain empty so they can see and complain about the current state of their neighbor's lawn across the street. There’s no more street parking on my street because all the boomer homeowners (they’re mostly olds with grown kids so I assume boomers) put out big potted plants and boulders.
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Jun 13, 2019 22:51
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I find it very interesting how there was almost none of the dark side of the Summer of Love shown when the DeYoung Museum in SF had an exhibit on it two years ago for the 50th anniversary. No mention of the drug abuse, exploitation, and general bad behavior of the boomer young adults who flooded the city looking for free grass and tang and wound up homeless and strung out. An old guy I know who lived in SF and actually worked for a living remembers it being a giant pain in the rear end.
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Jun 18, 2019 17:21
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Bonzo posted:I can totally vouch for the narcissism poo poo. My Dad wasn't a huge one but enough that it rippled relationships all around him. I've tried to justify him losing an older brother when he was 5 or 6 and being in Viet Nam might have screwed with his head but I think he was just always that way. My stepdad was constantly reprimanded due to calling his underlings names and being a general rude grouch to the point where he decided to retire early rather than not be an rear end in a top hat. He said he couldn’t help it because he worked blue collar jobs in his 20s and 30s and was therefore set in his manly man ways. He always complained about how lazy and unprofessional his millennial coworkers were too, of course. He worked IT though, so I don’t blame him for wanting to bail early.
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Jun 18, 2019 18:00
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Car culture in general is very boomer. The he two things my boomer family friends love talking about more than anything are the time they saw Jim Morrison back in high school, and the kicking rad mustangs they were able to buy brand new from their summer job pay.
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Jun 22, 2019 19:13
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CPL593H posted:A few years ago I was looking at records in a flea market and a boomer asked me if I saw Rush on some tour they were on in the mid-late 80s. I'm 32 years old. “I was a baby at the time, lol.” *Boomer gets very quiet and sad as he is reminded of the passage of time and the grim specter of death.”
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Jun 30, 2019 03:37
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