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They did an amazing study of U.K. boomers with gps trackers and it turned out that the average steps they took outside totalled 50 yards per week. They could see them all going front door to car, from nearest spot in the car park to supermarket and that was literally it.
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Apr 11, 2020 13:16
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Oh god my girl is 16 and those loving trophies turned her into an absolute monster when it came to playing and losing games as a child. The girl wasn’t athletic, love her loads but she was tubby and had no hand to eye coordination, so when it came to playing a game where there was in fact, a winner, she had full blown it’s not fair screaming tantrums and it took a lot of work to explain why school giving her medals and awards for things she had not earned was bullshit.
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Apr 11, 2020 14:51
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The boomers don’t want to be saved if it means changing one tiny little thing in their lives at all, they want to say the plague isn’t real and then have it not be real while gleefully listing all the young people who have died. It’s not even a class thing, I run a group for ex-miners and my parents are so unbearably posh that they now live in some super exclusive gated retirement community, and both sets of boomers repeat the same drat thing over and over again and it’s “why do I have to suffer”
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Apr 11, 2020 16:04
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loquacius posted:I am so mad about participation trophies and their place in our discourse that I literally wrote an op-ed about them and submitted it to the Boston Globe, and never received a response Would you like to know one thing worse than that, gala queens and princesses who were supposedly picked from a hat “come on girls anyone can enter and everyone has the same chance!” “can we watch the names come out” “no.” Who as if by magic always turned out to be the daughters of the organising committee with the most photogenic becoming queen. 30 years later and I’m still holding a grudge.
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Apr 11, 2020 17:18
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The Breakfast Sampler posted:Meaningless trophies are such a weird thing people latched onto in the cultural consciousness. There's obviously a lot of socioeconomic reasons that explain the circumstances of a lot of people born after around 1980 (ish, I guess.) Here’s the thing, it got worse like they have actually stopped awarding trophies for the winners worse so the kid coming in 10th gets the same “participation medal” as the winner. Makes the kids in 10th-7th feel ok but the top 3 feel somewhat aggrieved. This is how I ended up with a small child going nuts on the floor because “it’s not fair, you are supposed to”. No kid, this is monopoly and you lost.
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Apr 11, 2020 20:07
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I thought the lesson was “don’t trust bankers”
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Apr 12, 2020 00:35
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Pretty good posted:lmao I remember being like 5 and seeing the exact same It's So Hard To Open Those Goddamned Childproof Caps "joke" repeated in countless tv shows and newspaper comics and loving everywhere and being like Oh now british boomer humour was this very specific thing that lasted on television for about 20 years and then just vanished. Occasionally Gen X remembers how loving awful it was when someone dies, boomers however can’t stop banging on about “why can’t it be like” all the the drat time. Tommy cooper, Little and Large, Morecambe and wise, only fools and loving horses, dad’s army, faulty towers, last of the summer wine....it’s a horror parade of poo poo humour and bigotry - you were lucky if you saw a woman on TV who wasn’t a newsreader all evening.
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Apr 12, 2020 09:24
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:See you'd have a point about this but you also called Fawlty Towers "poo poo humour" so you're just a moron. When you have had your boomer parents show you the John Cleese marching and doing the Hitler tash thing over a billion times, and seen people of that generation repeat that and other lines in a bad German accent, while BANGING ON ABOUT THE loving WAR over ten trillion times you too will learn to hate Fawlty towers with the passion of a burning sword.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:21
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If you grew up in the U.K. in the 1980s then I’m sorry you have Stockholm syndrome I guess. John Cleese is literally the arch-gammon racist brexiteer.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:29
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My mum wouldn’t let us watch keeping up appearances because it was “mean” to the middle classes and “a horrible show”
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Apr 12, 2020 17:42
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Real ye oldie kings used to tour the kingdom all year long and basically bankrupt whatever Nobel house they were staying at this month, and only spent their own money on clothes, horses, dogs, and trinkets for the mistress.
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Apr 12, 2020 20:13
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I put my daughter in a “free school” which is where corporations and universities give the middle finger to the department of education and make up their own school curriculum and basically it owns - only thing she’s pissed off about is that they cram 2 years worth of school into 18 months to give them 5 months off when they are 16 (better headspace for the A level years) and they do it by increasing the hours. Lockdown and schools shutting means everyone else gets that time off as well now, so she’s ended up spending far more time at school than she needed to.
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Apr 12, 2020 21:29
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I didn’t let my kids watch the simpsons when they were young, didn’t want the white American heteronormative conservative church going Christian narrative being seen as “normal“/“the default” in my house.
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Apr 12, 2020 22:39
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I just thought of another very specific one: “Dead children in fiction” and “calling people snowflakes because they like their fiction without dead children in it” 70s and 80s detective fiction is the stuff of nightmares, and my dad once went off because I refused to borrow some Donna Tartt book because the blurb said some nine year old got hung “oh don’t be so stupid” “I don’t read books with dead kids in it is all, why would I want to?” “[outraged boomer hurf bluff noises]”
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Apr 14, 2020 11:15
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They caught some dreadful old boomer who had been burying his victims in giant plant pots last year https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/29/world/toronto-serial-killer-guilty/index.html
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Apr 14, 2020 18:37
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Ziv Zulander posted:All I’m saying is, this old sci fi book from the 60s could have had better queer representation They would have been banned, in the 1960s if a gay character wasn’t evil then the pornographers laws kicked in basically
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Apr 16, 2020 09:49
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Dad's Army
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Apr 16, 2020 21:31
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I live in Derbyshire and our police ran out of all fucks, because drat it if literally all you do is mournfully look down at bits of broken Kawasaki at the bottom of snake pass and round up escaped cows then they may as well have some fun. So they’ve started chasing them around the place with drones, posting the footage on YouTube and going “no apologies, no regrets lol”
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Apr 16, 2020 23:08
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Cheesus posted:Every spring around this time my wife goes on a jag about how she needs $150 of fertilizer or soil or whatever the gently caress for her ridiculously small garden and how drop everything to go RIGHT NOW to Costco to pick the stuff up. Yeh see I’m with your wife, you *have* to either add chemicals, literal poo poo, or fresh soil to your beds each spring or you get bad growth and the big places tend to get a huge delivery once a year which goes very very quickly because, boomers. In ye days of yore it would have been midden/the contents of the cesspit/dung/rotten leaves and so on.
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Apr 17, 2020 13:43
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I live on the site of an old Victorian brick factory which was bombed out in the war. The locals have a competition going as to the weirdest thing that’s been dug out of garden that isn’t bricks. (Although in years gone by one guy would pay a penny per 10 bricks to local kids and built himself a cracking wall) One of the identical twins was winning for about 40 years because of the Victorian wheelbarrow, which was restored to fully working order, until a new guy found a small underground room.
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Apr 17, 2020 14:27
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Outrail posted:Was it full of secret nazis or Spanish gold? We think the walled up ghosts of Black Death victims.
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Apr 17, 2020 15:20
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Yeh ok I take it back, that’s weird and she would be better of spending the money on a pair of awesome expensive gardening boots each year.
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Apr 17, 2020 15:27
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Aghhh oh I’m not sure if I said it in this thread or not but in normal times I run a group for elderly ex-miners and I’m always massively surprised I don’t end up screaming and shoving one old dickhead’s walking stick where the sun don’t shine each week - he has this thing, Instead of just accepting what he’s given on a market stall, which should be the merchandise closest the server like everyone else, he loving picks the absolute best bits, checks and handles them then haggles over the price I had to get someone to have a quiet word about his overuse of the word “treat” because I was about to tell him if he used it one more time I’d kick him out of group. I can take many things but a dreadful old boomer gleefully rubbing his hands together and going “oh I like a bit of belly pork as a treat”/ “oh I like to make myself a bowl of custard and eat it on me own as a treat”/ and so on week after week after bullying some poor sod on the market was just too much. I could write a book on this whole group.
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Apr 18, 2020 19:02
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sticksy posted:My wife went to the store last week and happened to chat with the store manager (not in a Karen way) - he was openly griping about how all the Boomers are the ones outside at 530am pushing to get in and it was the same ones over and over every morning like the store was going to run out of food in 24 hours that were being bossy/grumpy/complaining like they actually had nothing to do with this getting worse because their lack of social distancing etc. Oh now we have boomer hour (8-9am)at our local supermarket and the NHS hospital workers get 7-8. There they all are, hundreds of them hanging about outside at 6:30am all wanting to be first in the queue... Supermarket restocks shelves at 11am and always has done 2pm in the afternoon and there is no one at all in there.
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Apr 19, 2020 16:03
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When my dad first got a home computer he didn’t know how search history and clearing your search history worked, so there was this list of sports teams, news sites, and then “playboy”
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Apr 20, 2020 07:54
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Oh for fucks sake Susan, learn the god drat difference between a stand mixer, a blender and a food processor will you fuuuuuck This post was brought to you via the food processor section of amazon reviews, no it’s not going to make a loving cake or pastry, it’s 400w and designed to chop things into a 0.8l bowl. Special mention to the silly fucker who tried to blend frozen berries in a food processor with a plastic bowl.
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Apr 21, 2020 17:42
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Anne Whateley posted:Food processors are perfect for pastry and reverse-creaming cakes. Get on Stella's level Food processors are pain in the arse to clean and being a magimix food processor it’s more expensive than a stand mixer WHICH IS USED FOR BAKING and won’t cut your hands to ribbons, amazingly that’s three times more expensive than the equivalent kenwood food processor and has less wattage. Stella is rubbish.
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Apr 21, 2020 18:29
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Iron Crowned posted:
What do you think a food processor is? They have two very very sharp naked blades at the bottom of the bowl and are a pain in the arse to clean. Anyone not sponsored by magimix is going to tell you to use a stand mixer for baking.
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Apr 21, 2020 18:38
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what kind of rube goldberg device are you calling a food processor?
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Although clearly I’m not a fan of the food processor - I have invested too much money in kenwood chef attachments and am now Committed, my point was that boomers shouldn’t be expecting some bottom of the range 400w food processor with a 0.8l plastic bowl to act like a stand mixer and give it 1 star when the motor burns out the first time they try to dust 600g of nuts.
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Apr 21, 2020 18:48
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I’ve just been comparing U.K. and US kenwood stand mixers and oh wow are the Americans being ripped off and short changed on the wattage. I see the confusion now - mine cost half the price and comes with double the motor. It also has a thing on the front and thing on the top you can attach lots of different stuff to like a slicer/grater attachment or meat grinder. Edit: I did a currency conversation and paid the equivalent of $270 for a machine that would cost over $1000 learnincurve fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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Apr 21, 2020 19:34
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Nastyman posted:I'm no expert but I've been told by someone who knew more than me, specifically on the subject of stand mixers, that raw wattage doesn't necessarily mean everything, but rather AC vs DC motor. They’re selling them with a “European motor”, which makes me think they’ve deliberately turned everything down and taken the top fast attachment point off which means you won’t get the blender for free with it like we do as well. Piss taking on the price, it really is, no way I’d pay £500 for a gimped kenwood chef.
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Apr 21, 2020 19:45
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ProperGanderPusher posted:They can never, ever seem to figure out muting or understand how sensitive their mics are. Couple this with the boomer love of being clear across the room from their phone while on speaker mode and loving around with some other task during calls and every zoom meeting is a cluster. You can hardly finish a sentence without someone rattling dishes or belching into the mic or not shutting up their barking dog. British boomers love buying the cheap lovely Bluetooth headsets, they get them off the market for £15 and think they’ve “got a bargain” and then swear blind “well Ah’ve got mah use out of them” when they break in 2 months. They simply cannot comprehend that they sound like they are shouting into a toilet down the end of a tunnel to the person on the other end of the phone.
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Apr 23, 2020 08:02
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LabyaMynora posted:Boomers love injecting disinfectant directly into their veins because their big, wet president told them to do it. Washing up liquid will literally laugh and roflstomp the rona the moment it makes contact, disinfectant....will not.
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Apr 24, 2020 08:57
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Oh lord, loving Italy was in full lock down, Italian doctors were writing letters to the U.K. going “we are two weeks ahead of you this is what we wish we had done...” and the U.K. decided that it would be totally cool to have a massive Coldplay concert and this huge horse racing event that weekend. Two weeks later and whomf, we shot up to the worst per capita death rate in the world. Don’t go off our official daily figures, they have a massive disclaimer saying “tested hospital deaths only” , the office of national statistics say it’s more likely double so this tiny lovely island is losing around 1500 people a day.
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Apr 24, 2020 18:12
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This is going to be one of those things where it turns out it was actually Sister Rosetta Tharpe who invented it and there was some rear end in a top hat in the crowd taking notes who got the credit isn’t it?
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Apr 24, 2020 19:53
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Burberry set fire to all their surplus stock rather than put it on sale or give it to the homeless. In all fairness they are currently in a battle with mulberry to see how much PPE they can give U.K. hospitals for free now though.
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Apr 26, 2020 15:30
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U.K. boomers absolutely adore modern war movies staring Chris Hemsworth, he’s in all of them now and they are all total shite. Special mention to the one where North Korea invaded a small town in America and they got into serious difficulties because the cop father wouldn’t keep guns in the house so they all had to drive to a cabin in the woods for shotguns, and the pretty blonde cheerleader of the high school football player got taken because of it AND THATS THE ACTUAL PLOT
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Apr 27, 2020 10:59
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Do it ironically posted:I feel like living in one of those mega boomer retirement complexes in Florida like the villages would be worse than going to hell My parents live in a retirement complex for boomers who bought houses for 100k when they were 22 and sold them for a million at 62 and I assure you whatever you are imagining it’s worse. Put it this way they had a residence meeting and the ex-policeman brought A List of grievances and was still going two hours later. Edit: oh and the building manager thought it would be lovely to build a deck and outside BBQ area for them all, for free, and they all bitched and moaned because a skip was taking up three parking spaces in the permanently half empty car park. learnincurve fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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Apr 29, 2020 19:54
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Are you all ready for your daily dose of being justifiably pissed off at a comments section? https://twitter.com/GKeile/status/1255941571113033728
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May 1, 2020 13:15
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Panfilo posted:She isn't held to the same cultural standards society expects from my wife, so if she doesn't care about makeup or having her hair in anything beyond a messy ponytail she isn't going to get the same type of blowback that my wife gets. So to some degree it's poverty related, but I think privilege definitely plays a big part. You could legit play a game “Duke or Tramp” where I grew up, it really was 50/50 if the man wandering about the moors in rags was camped out in an abandoned cottage, or actually owned the moors themselves.
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May 2, 2020 20:51
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