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Rush Limbaugh Goodtime Oldies Eating lovely quality and horrible food because some "lib" on TV said it was bad for you Lee Greenwood's opus "Proud to be an American" Fighting as hard as possible against a better future for their children and grandchildren Forcing their culture on the entire world for as long as possible
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SleepySonata posted:Price is right Just because boomers love it doesn't mean it's not good. TPIR and LMAD 4 lyfe
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Apr 8, 2019 14:33
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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. The first thing that really clued me into the horrible nature of the boomers was the Iraq war protests back in 2003 when the boomers and their proxies in the media complained that the protests weren't "legitimate" and it all led back to their protests (Vietnam and the civil rights movement) were righteous and good but these were just lazy, dumb people. This opened my eyes to the boomer and their way of thinking. Everything led back to the 60s. Best music, coolest people, best actors and actresses, all culture that came from the 60s was great and everything else was just crap. The Beatles will always be the best band, Pink Floyd, Zepplin, etc. the only music that mattered. These people would get on TV and radio and reinforce this over and over until a lot of younger people just believed it. Politically the boomers are monsters. After practically mainstreaming weed smoking and cocaine in the 60s and 70s they turned around in the 80s and made drug penalties so harsh that the US became the most incarcerated nation on earth. They complain that somehow minorities will hijack democracy and vote themselves benefits and then DO EXACTLY THAT by changing tax laws and adding medicare entitlements that benefit them as they age ignoring any impact these things have on anything else. Through the 90s and 2000s they did what they could to make themselves comfortable but when it started to look like younger people may be coming into power and changing the priorities of the nation they spearhead the election of the worst person possible for president because he will cater to them while making GBS threads on everyone else and that's their MO. The boomers are probably the first generation in American history to literally not care that their children and grandchildren will have it worse than they did. Other generations would have viewed this as a failure but boomers honestly don't care because they will likely be the last generation to retire comfortably while the rest of us work until we die and society collapses due to some boomer triggered nightmare event. I love my parents but they are solidly in this camp. They are clueless and think other people are just lazy or irresponsible and not burdened by crippling debt and problems caused by polices put in place by their generation. Also I don't think there's anything wrong with putting two spaces after a period, it's how I learned to type in HS and I'm not going to relearn just because someone thinks it looks weird. Get over it.
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Apr 9, 2019 09:43
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Rad-daddio posted:ITT, young people yell at olds because they have to work up the nerve to order a pizza over the phone. Don't you have to go check your answering machine messages?
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Apr 9, 2019 13:06
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Ben Smash posted:My mom's a boomer and she's pretty cool. My dad turned into kind of an rear end in a top hat but I yelled at him really good the last time he tried to "debate" politics with me. So my mom yelled at him and now he's not allowed to share his awful opinions with me anymore. So my boomer parents are pretty ok. Sure, they're near poverty because my dad refuses to get a living-wage job if it's not working for Mother Church and must drive a new pick up truck every four years but they're otherwise harmless. Hey my parents are alright too. Never mind that they've voted for a party and a president that would strip their own daughter of her rights and actively refuse certain things out of sheet spite... More efficient lightbulbs? Ridiculous plot by the liberals Coal power? Yes it must be great since when we were children it was used. Bring it back! How can global warming be real? Nothing a human can do will affect the whole planet! Etc... ... I don't think anyone is saying your parents as specific human being are bad people, but the boomers as a group hold some pretty destructive beliefs and are willing to act on those beliefs in ways that are sometimes hard to believe.
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Apr 9, 2019 13:36
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SeXReX posted:Lmao @ boomer apologists itt I mean I kind of get it, people don't want to think of their parents as contributing to the ultimate downfall of American (and therefore global) society but here we are. My old boss (straight up boomer) once admitted to me that he knew his generation had destroyed America, it was just happening slower than he thought. I think if I could talk to him now he would say it was definitely happening and happening fast. You can justify boomer thoughts and actions all you want, it doesn't change the fact that they carelessly drove the ship right into the iceberg then took all the lifeboats and split.
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Apr 10, 2019 10:50
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Wrex Ruckus posted:Wanting harsher sentences for possession of the same drugs they did in their 20s For years I thought this was the biggest political hypocrisy possible. Turns out I wasn’t even close!
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Apr 11, 2019 11:45
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Ape Fist posted:And Boomers hated doing all this poo poo so much they rapidly advanced disposable consumer culture and feasted on the resources of the earth to do so while calling everyone who objected to it a Hippie Democrat Liberal Communist lmao. This sums it up for me. So sanctimonious about their way of life that they abandoned almost instantly
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Apr 22, 2019 07:15
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Michael Corleone posted:My dad has been 'collecting' coins for awhile. He sorts through pennies to find the copper ones and also has a ton of other coins. Is coin collecting big with boomers? My boomer uncle sorted through and collected "wheat pennies" for years and years. He had a 5 gallon plastic water cooler bottle filled with wheat pennies as well as at least one big-rear end glass pickle jar filled with pennies. They were so heavy they warped the floorboards of his house in the closet where he kept them. He was absolutely convinced that when the government finally got around to abolishing the penny that he would end up rich somehow, that there would be a run on pennies and he would have thousands of them. Alas, he died before any of that happened. I know his widow took at least one of his penny jars down to the bank and cashed it in for a couple hundred bucks, I think they still have some of them just due to the fact that his kids kind of believe that one day the government will abolish the penny and they'll be rich...
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Apr 24, 2019 09:46
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:poo poo boomers watch: The loving Cosby Show. Dead on with the Me TV, I think it's on most of the day at my parents house and my one friend who's too young to be a real boomer but too old to be gen x loves it too.
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Apr 26, 2019 09:45
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Relevant Tangent posted:Beer. I don't know, I think a lot of people like beer.
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Apr 30, 2019 15:11
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Now you're just being some kind of contrarian.
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May 15, 2019 13:00
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My solidly boomer SIL and her husband just spent a couple of weeks at our house. It's amazing that they were able to retire before they were even 65 with like a $65,000+ a year pension each from being a public school teacher in NY state. They don't even seem to be aware of how no one after them will have the opportunity that they have. Do pensions even exist anymore?
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May 16, 2019 09:30
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TerraGoetia posted:I love Texas Roadhouse but no one will go with me They have outstanding green beans there.
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May 17, 2019 09:48
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Kurt Loadeater posted:I'm actually pretty glad my parents locked down tv viewing as much as they did. I went outside and had real experiences. You know, like drinking from a hose
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May 17, 2019 16:32
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The Cubelodyte posted:I always figured American quasi-hostility to the French was a result of France going Gaullist after WW2. I think I has a lot to do with the French being seen as arrogant for exercising sovereignty and not being continuously and eternally subservient to the US because we “saved their country” that one time. Then this get amplified and repeated over and over and then paired up with general American ignorance of anything outside of their home county and you end up with an irrational hatred of the French. It’s not just boomers, a lot of Americans have this idea. Of course it’s prevalent in boomer circles.
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May 20, 2019 05:46
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Chief McHeath posted:The Price Is Right and Let's Make A Deal. I unironically love both of those shows, I’ll just admit it
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May 22, 2019 17:00
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chupacabron posted:Calling the coffee maker a luxury, from the same people that scream that I can’t afford a house because they think I spend $5 at Starbucks every day and ask “why don’t you make it at home instead?” What makes you think you deserve coffee?
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May 23, 2019 17:49
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SniperWoreConverse posted:
We adopted a little dog from an older woman who was giving her blueberry Pop Tarts and coffee. She was not the healthiest little animal but after a while she got used to eating normal dog stuff.
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May 21, 2021 11:17
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HD DAD posted:Eh, I’ve known more than a few Gen X-ers who were tatted up and extremely “alt” in their youth that went hard boomer the second they started making a decent salary. I'm solidly GenX and as I got older it's almost like I didn't really know any of my peers at all. It seems like no matter how goofy and liberal we all were back in the day they're all conservative, religious, and pro-Trump to a sickening level. They're all from Louisiana so I guess that's a big reason why but still...
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Jun 8, 2021 14:43
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JnnyThndrs posted:gently caress, I'm from NORTHERN COMMIEFORNIA and a bunch of my contemporaries are the same way, maybe not so much religious, but the conservative Trumpist assholery, definitely. I was friends with a guy in high school. We were two of the rare (at the time) computer enthusiasts at school and were pretty close friends. Not that close though because as soon as he graduated high school he joined the air force out of nowhere, then as soon as he got out of basic training he got married to the only girl he had ever dated. I didn't see him much for the next several years but by the time he got out of the military he was a totally different person, totally right wing and very religious, like a devout Catholic which are pretty rare. I know for a fact him and his girlfriend were screwing all the time before they were married, now they teach classes for teens at church extolling the values of abstinence until marriage. They have the priest from their church over to dinner and such. It's such a radical departure from what we were up to when we were younger that I really didn't feel too much connection with him and we don't really speak anymore. The breaking point was when he wouldn't stop harassing my wife and her friends on Facebook with his idiotic conservative talking points.
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Jun 9, 2021 10:14
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Mne nravitsya posted:Gen X here (I don't care what you think/feel about. That's sort of a Gen X calling card/label that got associated with us) Almost everything I was interested in as a kid was frowned upon by my parents that it actually gave me a complex where I can only really enjoy things if I'm on my own. Video games, D&D, computers, everything I was totally into my parents didn't understand at all and would give me poo poo about it. Even now when I find a game or something else that I'm into I tend not to tell anyone just from the unconscious memories of people giving me poo poo about my hobbies and interests.
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Jun 9, 2021 12:47
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veni veni veni posted:Also Satanic Panic was nuts. I was way young during all that poo poo, but everything about it was straight up Qanon levels of dumb. I poo poo you not my moms friend tried to get her to destroy my cabbage patch kid (who was football guy named after me) because they "put demons in them at the factory". Man I could talk about satanic panic all day. It's like a super fun version of modern conspiracy stuff, except for the people who's lives it ruined. I still have trouble believing all the poo poo that went on in the late 80's surrounding the Satanic Panic. The travelling evangelists who specialized in demonizing rock music, the Satanic warning shows on 20/20 and other news shows, all the pre-schools that were destroyed and the workers lives ruined. I thought we were beyond all that but then Qanon came along and proved me wrong by just pulling all that crap forward and then adding more trash to the heap. But yeah it's fascinating and hard to explain to people who weren't there.
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Mne nravitsya posted:I don’t know: Boomer parents would never discuss their finances with me. It was some hideous taboo for them to discuss their actual wealth. I didn't know how much money my dad made when he worked at Conoco until I was in my mid 30's. I was explicitly told not even to ask. I'm pretty sure that whole attitude was my mom's doing. But to her credit, she would never ask me how much money I made and even when my dad would ask he was very like "how much do you make if you don't mind telling me, you don't have to..."
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Jun 22, 2021 19:16
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sugar free jazz posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linndale,_Ohio The one I know of is/was Iowa Colony just south of Houston on 288. This is from another website but it covers the issue pretty well: Iowa Colony was incorporated for the sole purpose of a speed trap. The village designed its boundaries specifically for ticket revenue from Interstate 288. Fact: it has five short areas (fingers) of its city limits that cross over 288. Each finger has a patrol car waiting to pull over any car. Police make a post stop determination as to what the ticket will be. In fact; many times Iowa Colony police don't even know what they are going to write a driver up for until after they are pulled over. Texas State Law now prohibits the amount of revenue these "non-existent" cities can charge; however, they continue to operate unchecked. There is nothing in Iowa Colony except the Cattle Barn/Police BBQ Station combo metal building. They have no streets, curbs, fire, hydrants, not even a gas station. When you Google map Iowa Colony you get the photo of a cow pasture. This is because there is no Iowa Colony…. Only rural country side. When I say Cattle Barn/Police station; it’s no exaggeration. There are literally cows on one side and police cruisers on the other. No joke....except on you. They hold court on Tuesdays and Thursdays only, so the judge and bailiffs can drive in from Houston. None of them live in Iowa Colony. The Judges podium is actually on rollers so they can wheel it into the big BBQ kitchen. All the courtroom chairs are metal fold out cafeteria chairs. They fold up the BBQ benches during court sessions. Then the Judge actually barters with the public much like “The price is right”. Its something everyone should see in their lifetime. This is the real life Possum Court. Granny Clampett would love it. And actually I think I remember hearing that this had finally been shut down at some point in the last 10 years but I don't remember for sure.
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Jul 7, 2021 09:57
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HD DAD posted:In several of my corporate workplaces, vacation was treated as the butt of a joke. Like it’s something lazy people do. One of the most culturally surprising things about moving to Europe was the fact that people here regularly take 2+ weeks off in a row and that management will actually tell you to take days off if you haven't. At one of my old jobs in Texas my boomer boss would always try to discourage you from taking time off and almost inevitably he would ruin your vacation by pulling some poo poo on your last working day. I still have nightmares about that. I hated my last job but at least no one did their best to ruin all my time off. I had never taken more than a week off since I started working in the late 80s and even though all of my colleagues were doing it there was a significant mental barrier for me to overcome before I would actually take two weeks off in a row. Where I work now we get 25 days off, I think where my dad used to work you had to have worked there over 10-15 years to have that kind of vacation days.
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Aug 20, 2021 13:14
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SniperWoreConverse posted:My mom is absolutely "not prejudiced" and will luridly recant tales of Asian gutter oil, "they poison their own people," and the nightmare narcostate which starts exactly where the border patrol stops and ends in the antarctic. A couple of years ago my family in America wanted to come visit me here in The Netherlands. My parents offered to pay for my nieces (under 18) to come along but their mom absolutely would not allow it. She insisted that it was dangerous here, that Amsterdam was like a "third world country" and that the girls would certainly be kidnapped and sold into slavery. Admittedly she was a very stupid person and that's an extreme view but it's not far off from what Americans who have never travelled believe about the world outside of the US.
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Sep 9, 2021 14:53
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Dameius posted:By today's standards literally everything back then was poo poo tier ditch weed. This is definitely true, it's one of the "yeah buts" that boomers throw up when they inevitably fight the legalization of weed in their state. The first time I ever got high was in 1991. I think that pretty much every bag I bought between 1991 and 2005 was garbage. If you put some of them in front of me now and asked $40 I would laugh in your face. All brown and full of sticks and seeds, compressed to hell.
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Sep 30, 2021 09:07
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Vampire Panties posted:The one thing I cannot possibly understand about boomers is their fetish for high school nostalgia. Its not even about peaking early or whatever, even wildly successful boomers look back wistfully at their teenage years. Why? These people have had careers and families and wealth effectively handed to them in one of the most prosperous times in human history, and all they care about is thinking about the time they almost hosed that person next to them in Home Ec. Of the people I know my age, a few of them are neutral about their high school experience. Most of them (like me) hated every second of it. Boomers are having 50 year high school reunion with everyone attending during COVID, and nobody in my class would be caught dead at a reunion. I went to my 10 year reunion and it was great. The whole time after high school I just assumed because I never graduated college that I was a loser and probably the worst person at my school. Going to my 10 year reunion cleared that up real quick. There were people who had just totally given up, alcoholics, people with the same haircut as the day we graduated, people who had never left the parish. I wasn't even close to being the worst person and it really picked me up mentally. Went to my 15 year reunion and it was terrible, boring, I was not interested in most of these people, the people I wanted to talk to weren't there. I've not been back. And now that at least half of everyone I went to HS with being some form of a right-wing Trump chud I don't think I'll ever go back.
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Oct 12, 2021 13:35
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LRADIKAL posted:It's "the only way to" "keep up" "with certain people"???? What kept me on Facebook for a long time was the lie that it would make it easy for people to find me. Well guess what, nobody was looking. Turns out I cared a lot more about finding and reaching out to old friends from the past way more than almost any of them did. Find someone you were friends with in 8th grade on Facebook, send a couple of messages then pretty much never speak again except you get to see what kind of a garbage person they are now by what they post etc. Quitting Facebook had no negative effects as far as I can tell and I'm going on 4 years. And I do own a TV and watch almost exclusively garbage programming.
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Oct 21, 2021 09:36
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One of my grandfathers worked at a munitions plant in Texas during WWII, the other worked at a shipyard in Port Arthur, TX. I had some older relatives who fought, my great uncle was on some of those islands in the Pacific where horrible battles took place and never really spoke of it to anyone. This was something that really affected me: I was at my great-aunt's house a few years ago. We were BBQing and a couple of old friends of hers joined us. Towards the end of the day I while packing up my car to go home I dropped the end of a cooler in the garage and it made a big bang as it hit the floor. The older man just froze and stood there with a shocked look on his face, he just kind of swayed back and forth and gasped for air. I didn't know what to do until his wife came over and told me it was ok, it was just something left over from the war. So this guy was like in his late 80's and still suffering from the war. Anyway I just don't think people who worship the troops and worship warfare and the military ever consider things like this.
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Nov 8, 2021 11:32
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hawowanlawow posted:9/11 hadn't completely destroyed America and ushered in the rule of stupid hicks yet This is the main point.
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Dec 3, 2021 15:09
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For a long time I tried to resist the "your music/modern music is crap" cliche but in the past couple years it finally broke me. I'm not saying all modern music is crap, I listen to new stuff and it's fine and some of it is excellent but there is certainly a fat streak of horrible that runs through today's music and I think a lot of it is the result of this whole school of Swedish producers that pretty much run the pop music industry these days. There's always a certain formularity to pop music but these guys have taken it to a whole new level. And what's worse is they bring in new people and essentially send them to school of how to make catchy pop songs so it just gets perpetuated. Plus there's the whole concept of songs being focus grouped and such, it takes the wild card out of music which sometimes gives you some really great results.
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Dec 7, 2021 15:25
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Adolf Glitter posted:
Wolf Alice really are good. And not just one but three really good, listenable albums plus they're great live.
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Dec 9, 2021 14:46
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I can see two sides of the lotto/gambling thing. One is that it's essentially a legal scam, the house always wins and they're taking money a lot of times from people who don't have that much money to be giving up. The fact that gambling is now legal and available to almost anyone across the US is a social experiment that no one really knows what will happen (except that the companies running the apps will get rich and everyone else will lose). The other side is that it's my money and if I'm stupid enough to throw it away on lotto/gambling then that's my right.
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Dec 16, 2021 14:56
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jazzyhattrick posted:When do you guys think schools will catch up to the *checks notes* mid 1990s, realise that pretty much everybody works with a computer now and start teaching kids to touch type? When I was in high school (late 80s) I took a touch-typing class and it was easily the most practical and useful class on any subject I have ever taken from that point forward. Aside from reading and general math it's the only school-taught skill that I have used every day since I learned it. I can't believe that touch typing is not taught as a required course in some capacity now in high school or even middle school. As an aside, we learned on IBM Selectrics which were weird and loud and I have only recently broke the habit of the double space after a period. Also, I was the first person at my high school to compose, print, and hand-in for a grade a paper on a word processor.
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Neito posted:Teachers with Extremely Specific Note-Taking Systems that you Must Follow, or Bad Things will happen, always struck me as control freaks mad that nobody recongized the genius of their personal systems. Oh god I had an English teacher in high school in a class that was focused on research and reports and that sort of thing. She made us write everything we used as a reference on 4x6 index cards along with all the citation information and hand all that in with the report. The bits we used in our paper had to be underlined and then we had to re-word it all but not copy what we had written or she would mark it as plagiarism. Her underlying reason for this was that "this was how it was going to be in college so you better get used to the idea." I went to college and I have been to college and take a lot of college level classes over a period of 20 years and I never once was asked to write anything on a 4x6 index card for any reason. I have no idea what Mrs. Brown was on about. I was/am very hard-headed and I resisted her for as long as I could, I don't remember what I got in that class but it certainly wasn't an A or B (probably a low C).
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