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Lamebot posted:My favorite soap opera is Deep Space 9. Most of the crap nerds like is a soap opera. Sci-f and superhero shows, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, etc. Ghost Leviathan posted:Turn on your monitor. Or maybe my monitor. We don't do self awareness here.
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Boomers absolutely NEED a bag for the item they just bought. They LOVE single use bags. They'll buy a keychain, demand a paper bag that's 200 times too big for it, then crumple the bag up and stick it in their purse or inner pocket on their coat. Sometimes they want two bags for two keychains and when you say you charge 50 cents each for each additional bag, they get furious and yell at you. Also you have to wrap the keychains in tissue paper or bubble wrap because "I'm travelling." I also had a lady boomer buy a mug in a little cardboard box and she asked me to wrap it in a layer of tissue paper to protect it. Boomers love to just waste resources for no good reason. Their whole life is "consume consume consume waste waste waste"
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Oct 19, 2019 06:39
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Picnic Princess posted:Boomers absolutely NEED a bag for the item they just bought. They LOVE single use bags. They'll buy a keychain, demand a paper bag that's 200 times too big for it, then crumple the bag up and stick it in their purse or inner pocket on their coat. Sometimes they want two bags for two keychains and when you say you charge 50 cents each for each additional bag, they get furious and yell at you. Also you have to wrap the keychains in tissue paper or bubble wrap because "I'm travelling." It doesn't matter to them because they're not going to have to face the consequences.
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Oct 19, 2019 07:13
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Barudak posted:Ham Radio was the anonymous internet message board of its generation and that turns out to be mainly people nobody wants to talk with powerful opinions on women and minorities trawling for the down low. Bingo. I work with a lot of ham radio boomers because I work in RF engineering, and had they been born 30 years later they would be programmers or something who spent all of their time online. They are mostly somewhere deep on the spectrum, and that was the outlet of the time.
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Oct 19, 2019 17:58
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Framboise posted:I've seen many people online speak very passionately of telenovelas and they're my age. Turkish soap operas are also apparently the poo poo. Watching Cypriot TV was like an endless parade of dubbed Turkish, Greek, Italian, and Mexican soap operas. Lots of really loud gorgeous tan people screaming at eachother. The waspy American soaps just can't compete.
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Oct 19, 2019 18:08
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Grape posted:Lots of really loud gorgeous tan people screaming at eachother. Get out of my house!
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Oct 19, 2019 18:55
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Grape posted:Turkish soap operas are also apparently the poo poo. when i was a kid i watched an american soap opera that had a witch and a little person in it. the rest of the show sucked
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Oct 19, 2019 21:01
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Blast of Confetti posted:when i was a kid i watched an american soap opera that had a witch and a little person in it. the rest of the show sucked that's Charmed baby
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Oct 19, 2019 21:04
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R.L. Stine posted:that's Charmed baby Nope, "Passions." It was notoriously bad even for a soap opera at the time. It got on the radar of people who liked cult movies, but wasn't good enough that anyone would actually watch more than one episode. Just imagine - soap opera poo poo, but with MAGIC!
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Oct 19, 2019 21:13
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I'm honestly shocked none of the broadcast networks have tried running 90s magical girl anime at like 10AM on weekdays, grandmas would go nuts for that poo poo.
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Oct 19, 2019 21:31
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Boomers love to tell you any little thing in the store. Sometimes its useful, like last night a boomer saw the guy who's been stealing our meat so i was able find him on the cameras. But most of the time its completely unnecessary. Like boomers always forget their rewards cards when I ask, but then pull it out when they're going to pay, so i have to cancel the transaction on the pad, then they always say "It says transaction not completed", no poo poo because i had to cancel it because you weren't paying attention when I asked. Or they'll tell me, who is in charge of the cashes, that we're low on gala apples or eggs, which are never actually that low. yea, that's not my job, and anyways, it is the job of the grocery or produce guys to fill that stuff. Hell they love to tell me anything involving the store, and when I tell them "talk to the owner or grocery/meat/produce manager" they tell me they don't want to, want me to relay their request. I never do, because gently caress you, i'm not paid to carry messages to you, plus you're in here every loving day, tell them yourself!
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Oct 19, 2019 21:36
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LabyaMynora posted:Nope, "Passions." gently caress you're right i knew i'd made a big mistake when i hit post. my mom watched passions a lot and it was insane
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Oct 19, 2019 21:50
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razorrozar posted:you know what i loving mean. Young and the Restless, Bold and the Beautiful, whatever other asinine alliterations they're peddling now. shows that have literally nothing going for them but unending personal drama among irredeemably lovely people. LabyaMynora posted:Nope, "Passions." If liking passions is wrong then I don't want to be right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM2GXbzLgVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsfbb3ctNuU Y'all motherfuckers don't know how to have fun. G-III fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Oct 19, 2019 21:52
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Is Passions the one with the possessed doll?
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Oct 19, 2019 21:59
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Boomers resent their children but desperately want their children to love them.
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Oct 19, 2019 23:06
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G-III posted:If liking passions is wrong then I don't want to be right SwitchbladeKult posted:Boomers resent their children but desperately want their children to love them. Boomers love to give their kids poo poo for not exceeding them, but rarely know what to do when their child actually does outgrow their bullshit.
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Oct 19, 2019 23:13
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For a short period I fell in to watching Video blogs, and that was probably one step away sideways into soap operas. Edit: looking up soap operas and finding out that they started off in radio make podcasts seem more like the successor to Soap Operas, especially the true crime ones. mazzi Chart Czar fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Oct 19, 2019 23:38
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SwitchbladeKult posted:Boomers resent their children but desperately want their children to love them. I thought parents were supposed to be happy if their children did better than them. Not mine.
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Oct 19, 2019 23:55
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I guess I should clarify, Boomers recent their kids for existing but I guess, yeah, they resent them doing better than them as well.
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lunch in a crate posted:I thought parents were supposed to be happy if their children did better than them. Not mine.  
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Picnic Princess posted:Boomers absolutely NEED a bag for the item they just bought. They LOVE single use bags. They'll buy a keychain, demand a paper bag that's 200 times too big for it, then crumple the bag up and stick it in their purse or inner pocket on their coat. Sometimes they want two bags for two keychains and when you say you charge 50 cents each for each additional bag, they get furious and yell at you. Also you have to wrap the keychains in tissue paper or bubble wrap because "I'm travelling." Just this morning at work, an old lady bought just a hand mirror and after I completed the transaction, I went to hand her the mirror and receipt and she goes "Um, in a BAG???" all crabby. Sure, fine, gently caress you whatever. I used to work in Boulder where there is a ten cent plastic bag fee, and it does really cut down on the bags that stores give out, but it also results in hundreds of pissy old people complaining about the bag fee. All day, every day. It's the same conversation over and over again, the cashier says "would you like a bag for ten cents" and the person starts to say "sure," until you get to the "for ten cents" part and then they go "WAIT WHAT?? NO!!!" and then complain about how it's ridiculous, it's stupid and pointless, or it's illegal to charge for bags, "I NEVER VOTED FOR THAT!" blah blah blah. Boomers in Boulder really are a special breed of rich entitled whiteness.
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DorkusMalorkus posted:Just this morning at work, an old lady bought just a hand mirror and after I completed the transaction, I went to hand her the mirror and receipt and she goes "Um, in a BAG???" all crabby. Sure, fine, gently caress you whatever. i just moved to salem and the whole city quit allowing plastic bags in april. it's just paper and they cost a nickel. i always forget to ask for one when i need it and then i feel bad
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Oct 20, 2019 04:08
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Boomers love to just toss poo poo on the counter instead of handing it to the returnstress at their local Walmart
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Oct 20, 2019 07:09
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Passions also had a yearly episode which was just "the men in this show play a shirtless basketball game" Passions knew exactly who its audience was.
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Oct 20, 2019 07:14
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Dragon Ball Z was basically a soap opera. There's actually a podcast where a couple alternate between watching Gilmore Girls and DBZ together.
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Oct 20, 2019 07:19
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Boomers love to just toss poo poo on the counter instead of handing it to the returnstress at their local Walmart Boomers love to dump money right on the belt. My boss texted me saying she had to spend an hour trying to get this 100$ out from underneath because some old lady just dropped it down on the belt while it was moving in front of her stuff and the cashier didn't notice it until the boomer started squaking. And charging for bags, at our store its 5 cents so its barely anything, but a couple of boomers always get all sandy about it. One guy starts spouting off how its illegal and he was a lawyer for 40 years and its illegal to charge for it. I bet he goes into coffee shops and loads up on free sugar packets and then when they tell him he can't take all of them he spouts of some BS about how if you offer something you have to give the customer as much as they want. A friend used to manage a Second Cup before they closed and they would offer chocolate spinkles and this old guy used to come in and dump the entire container into his coffee and then get it filled up, do it again, and then ask for more. She told me that when she found out about this, she put a stop to it, and he started raising a huge stink about it and called the company and they told her to let him have as much as she wanted. Then when her regional manager saw this in action during a visit and told her no, he doesn't get to fill his cup full of free chocolate sprinkles no mater how much of a stink he raises, and if someone from the company tells her otherwise tell them to talk to him.
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Oct 20, 2019 08:30
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Boomer dads like to show their sons how to fix things, and then scream at them when they aren't immediately proficient at it.
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Oct 20, 2019 08:32
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Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can avoid his wife for the whole weekend.
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Oct 20, 2019 08:40
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Kung Food posted:Boomer dads like to show their sons how to fix things, and then scream at them when they aren't immediately proficient at it. They also refuse to think of any way to teach that isn't "sink or swim." Can't drive a manual immediately on their daily car? Well you don't get to learn at all because they're not going to let you "wreck their car." Hey do you think I could change the brake pads on this car so I don't have to pay out the nose in the future? No, no it's too important to let you toy around with the parts. "Just watch me do it and you'll know."
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Oct 20, 2019 09:00
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I did QA at a meat manufacturing plant, and using gloves isn’t clearly good or bad. I fall on the side of if you can get everyone to wash their hands regularly (difficult) it’s better to not use gloves in some circumstances. The main trade off is in pathogen control vs foreign material. Depending on your other sanitation procedures gloves can go from critical to extraneous in terms of pathogen control. The risk of introducing foreign material depends on what actual process is being performed. We made pepperoni and had basically two areas, raw and ready-to-eat. In RTE gloves make sense because it isn’t going to be cooked again and it’s already been ground. In the raw area they were stupid. The meat is going to go through USDA validated lethality treatments (fermentation, cooking, drying). The gloves had no benefits and increased our risk of blue plastic being ground into the product, but it was in our procedure because why not, gloves! In a factory the customer perception angle is in executives from other companies coming to audit our factory before buying from us. I wonder if from their angle they’d look at that and think “oh good, gloves” or “why are these idiots using gloves while grinding raw meat?”
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Oct 20, 2019 10:15
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Oct 20, 2019 10:35
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My Grandma watched every soap every day and I distinctly remember she enjoyed Passions.
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Oct 20, 2019 10:58
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I've been laid up I'll for the past few days, so I've had all the Boomer-aimed daytime TV ads thrown at me. One for a funeral plan is particularly obnoxious; it starts with Boomer-man up a stepladder, clad in 'man doing practical man things around the house' garb fitting a smoke alarm in his kitchen. This is clearly meant to be a bonding experience with his 'millenial' grandson (actually born in about 2005) but he's just standing there looking at his smartphone while wearing baggy jeans. Boomer-man asks grandson to pass him a screwdriver (even though he has several in the toolbelt he's wearing...) but the Youth of Today doesn't hear him. Boomer-man throws a real 'Kids These Days, Amiright?' smirk at the camera and gets off the ladder. He then starts talking about funeral costs and how great this plan is, walks into his study to show how he's got his documents neatly filed away. And the per-month costs are so very reasonable - "I pay more than that for a cup of coffee these days!" Suddenly the fire alarm goes off. In the 15 seconds he's been out of the room his feckless grandson has tried to make toast but the coddled snowflakes of 2019 can't use basic kitchen appliances and he's still looking at his phone so it's burning! We get the voiceover 'small print' as Boomer-man looks exasperated but amused and they start fanning the smoke away from the alarm. Such jolly family japes! I mean, you can't say the ad doesn't know its target market, but god it's such high-octane Boomer Energy. BalloonFish fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Oct 20, 2019 11:31
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Someone find this poo poo on YouTube
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Oct 20, 2019 13:15
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Kung Food posted:Boomer dads like to show their sons how to fix things, and then scream at them when they aren't immediately proficient at it. My greatest generation grandfather did all maintenance work on his logging truck, renovated their POS farmhouse purchase nto a livable home. In his retirement he would work on his lawn tractor and briefly had a hobby of doing some kind of small woodworking. My father grew up in this environment and for a few years in his 20s worked part time for a carpenter. He and my mother ran a rental business and I grew up hearing my mother telling me he was doing work there on weekends. I assumed he had to know how to do stuff. Recently the truth had come out that he doesn't know anything. Ten years ago at age 60 he started working on rehabbing one of the rentals. If my livelyhood depended on it and maintaining my rentals was my full time job, with my meager carpentry and handyman skills, it's hard for me to imagine that rehabbing talking more than 6 months tops. He not only never finished it but did all sorts of bizarre poo poo like hanging a double hung SIDEWAYS and an exterior door with a window UPSIDE DOWN. I asked my mother about this and she confirmed he's never been good about this stuff and always incredibly incurious. They'd hire plumbers and electricians to do work and they'd attempt to help my parents out by explaining how easy a fix was, how much money they could save if they did it themselves, and would show my father how to do it. He'd never bother paying attention to learn.
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Oct 20, 2019 13:20
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Dragon Ball Z was basically a soap opera. My favorite slice of life shoujo anime is Scrubs
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DorkusMalorkus posted:Just this morning at work, an old lady bought just a hand mirror and after I completed the transaction, I went to hand her the mirror and receipt and she goes "Um, in a BAG???" all crabby. Sure, fine, gently caress you whatever. I went through the same thing, we didn't have paper bags, just reusable for $2. I would ask "Are you okay to carry like this, or did you want to buy a reusable bag for $2?" And they would say "I want a plastic bag." Bitch, that wasn't an option. So I'd tell them we don't have single use bags, we phased them out years before it became a trend, and they get so goddamn mad.
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Oct 20, 2019 13:41
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Achtane posted:They like producing and mailing this out. what exactly is "radical" abortion? like super cool abortion?
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Loky11 posted:what exactly is "radical" abortion? You gotta collect the letters S-K-A-T-E while doing it
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