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Boomers like to try and cut in line and mention how time constrained and busy they are, like everyone else in the line has nothing but free time.
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loving rear end in a top hat boomer at Costco yesterday, in the most crowded part of the store, as she tries to muscle her way past a group of very clearly special needs folks out on an outing BEEP BEEP BEEP EVERYONE'S JUST STANDING AROUND i said to her as i passed 'you got of a lot important stuff to do today, huh?' then sideyed to see her mouth agape. no response. goddamn was that satisfying, if petty as poo poo
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Feb 7, 2020 19:32
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Boomer next to me seriously ruining the quiet airport lounge vibe with his insanely obnoxiously loud phone notifications Thank god he’s at least not doing the poo poo where he has a full conversation with the speakerphone turned on
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Feb 7, 2020 20:27
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Fallom posted:Thank god he’s at least not doing the poo poo where he has a full conversation with the speakerphone turned on Next time this happens join in on the conversation. They must have it on speaker phone because they want everyone involved.
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Feb 7, 2020 20:57
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Fallom posted:Thank god he’s at least not doing the poo poo where he has a full conversation with the speakerphone turned on And yelling at the speaker like it's a loving Drive Thru window
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Feb 7, 2020 21:07
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MorrisBae posted:And yelling at the speaker like it's a loving Drive Thru window Holding the phone perpendicular to his head with the speaker next to his ear
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Feb 7, 2020 21:13
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boomers love having speaker phone convos in small town library computer labs
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Feb 7, 2020 22:41
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My wife got yelled at by a boomer while picking our son up from school earlier this week. The school has no parking for families so people park on the streets in the surrounding neighborhood. My wife got back to the car, and a woman was waiting to berate her for taking up “two”parking spots, which is extremely optimistic for that stretch of curb. Yelled at her that she should have lined up her mirror with the tree to make sure another car would fit, and then became hysterical that she was now going to lose “her” spot when another car drove by.
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Feb 7, 2020 22:41
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Kung Food posted:Shopping addiction is absolutely a thing so it isn't even a weird parallel to make, especially with gambling. I know this is from pages ago but I had to share. When I was a kid my family struggled with finances. My siblings and I all wore hand me down clothes, we got 1 pair of sneakers a year and were told to "make them last" my grandmother would even help us buy school supplies. We were only given one present each at Christmas because "money was tight." The thing is, my dad had a good job that paid decent and was union. The problem was, my dad is addicted to buying toys and comics. Aside from buying 30-40 comics a month, the big one was collecting G.I. Joes. Not the little ones that were new on the market at the time. He needed to relive his childhood, so he started buying the toys from the 60's and 70's. Everything in our lives was about GI Joe. Almost every vacation we went on as kids was to GI Joe conventions. When we moved in to a new house my sisters shared a bedroom because he needed a 'Joe Room. When I was a kid he had me lie about my eyesight so I would get glasses on his insurance so the ophthalmologist that was a GI Joe collector would give him a better deal on a trade. He ran up dozens of credit cards to buy GI Joes. He stole $3000 from my sister bank account to buy a single GI Joe. He stole my identity to open a bunch of credit cards to... you guessed, buy GI Joes. He's deep in debt but he still has over 2,000 GI Joes from around the world. His Joe room has a 8' by 6' standing sandbox so he can stage dioramas. He also has about 40,000 comics in boxes that he refuses to sell but doesn't have interest in anymore. I can't even begin to guess how much he's spent on comics and toys while my sisters and I ran around with holes in our clothes and Banquet Microwave dinners in our tummies (Those red boxes still give me PTSD). When I finally put 2 and 2 together as an adult I was livid. I remember confronting him about it and his only response was "Well, you're not getting any of the Joes I die then" These toys are barely worth anything now.
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Feb 7, 2020 23:00
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lol what in tarnation
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You're dad has severe untreated mental illness
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The gently caress. 
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I'm sorry, that story's sad as hell from a human standpoint but I cannot stop laughing at "well you're not getting any of the joes"
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dad joe. so what
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speaking of shopping addicted boomers, one of them was bitching about running out of stuff he wanted to buy. hes also broke from buying dumb poo poo he doesnt need so hes been floating the idea of starting a gofundme to update his im sure multi thousand dollar gaming pc he was also complaining about how a 15 year old game "broke his video card" which goes for $1500 since its new. he later realized he plugged it in wrong Robo Reagan fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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Feb 7, 2020 23:15
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It is your solemn duty to tie your dad to a chair and make him watch you feed every piece of Joe paraphernalia into a woodchipper one by one.
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Feb 7, 2020 23:15
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The belief that if you're not throwing up you're not sick.
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Feb 7, 2020 23:16
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Goodguy3 posted:The belief that if you're not throwing up you're not sick. i can throw up on command and i believe allah graced me with this gift just for that situation. also helped enable me when i was popping pills like candy
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Feb 7, 2020 23:18
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Robo Reagan posted:one of my favorite boomerisms is that kids these days arent reading as if were just staring at a blank phone screen. dont even tell me they think were all watching pewdiepie they dont know who that is I'm a boomer, and I get this all the time. You only look at your phone, or your laptop, you're not reading a book, therefore you don't read or write anymore. On the contrary, I've never written or read more in my entire life. People of my generation really, truly don't understand the Internet. They're like "yeah, we used libraries, this new technology is just ruining everything!", and I'm like "You basically have 10 billion loving libraries at your disposal via the Internet, and you think that's somehow bad?" It flat out doesn't make sense. I have a close friend who's a newspaper columnist. He laments the day when print media will be tossed away for newer tech. I tell him, "So this somehow eliminates the need for writers and creativity? No, only the medium has changed, the content is just as important on a webpage as it was in print. The art hasn't changed, but the medium has. What's the problem?".
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Feb 7, 2020 23:23
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Carth Dookie posted:It is your solemn duty to tie your dad to a chair and make him watch you feed every piece of Joe paraphernalia into a woodchipper one by one. I have daydreams of breaking in to his Joe room and taking a sledge hammer to the whole thing.
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Feb 7, 2020 23:28
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serious lols if you think browsing reddit or cycling between 5 threads on SA is the same as reading long form prose
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The people that say "Kids don't read anymore" don't read.
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Ocean Book posted:serious lols if you think browsing reddit or cycling between 5 threads on SA is the same as reading long form prose yeah im not reading longass flowery poems or ancient epics but any time i learn about something new i check wiki and go from there. its okay boomer i promise im still reading worthwhile stuff
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Feb 7, 2020 23:30
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Helen Skelter posted:I have daydreams of breaking in to his Joe room and taking a sledge hammer to the whole thing. When the inevitable decline in health happens and he's too weak to resist, dumpster the lot of it.
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Feb 7, 2020 23:33
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Carth Dookie posted:When the inevitable decline in health happens and he's too weak to resist, dumpster the lot of it. tell him the only money hell get for healthcare and nursing home stay is the money you make from sellin the joes no matter the answer hes hosed
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Feb 7, 2020 23:35
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Melt them all down and cast the plastic into a giant dildo, present it to him and tell him to go gently caress himself.
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Feb 7, 2020 23:39
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Helen Skelter posted:I know this is from pages ago but I had to share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo
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Feb 7, 2020 23:45
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https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx Boomers who never read are the ones that complain that kids these days never read. I swap book recommendations all of the time with my friends, and my daughter and her friends are the same way.
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Feb 7, 2020 23:47
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Ocean Book posted:serious lols if you think browsing reddit or cycling between 5 threads on SA is the same as reading long form prose In that case, nobody's doing any reading anymore because they're most certainly not either
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Feb 7, 2020 23:59
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Helen Skelter posted:I know this is from pages ago but I had to share. Reminds me a lot of meat dad from the r/relationships thread. Dad was so obsessed with rare, exotic, and illegal meats that he basically ruined his entire family trying to secure them. May or may not be true but served as a wonderful parable. Day Man posted:https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx I happen to read a lot and I've still been accused of this. Pretty sure I've read more words than 99% of people in this country, but because I'm young I don't read I guess The only thing they tend to get right about me is that I'm a socialist and I hate America. spot on with that one Ocean Book posted:serious lols if you think browsing reddit or cycling between 5 threads on SA is the same as reading long form prose I read news articles, longform, ebooks, etc. on my devices. On my tablet alone I have like 2,000 books and I've read a good portion of them. Just saying, people do a lot of different things on their phones/tablets. I would say reading SA counts because, at the end of the day, it's still reading and will improve your spelling and grammar and maybe even help you learn something Play fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Feb 8, 2020 00:02
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Boomer parents yelling at me for having myself in books all the time. Boomer mom yelling at me for not being around to help her with building a fence, or move wood, or load hay or something. I was at school.
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Play posted:Reminds me a lot of meat dad from the r/relationships thread. Dad was so obsessed with rare, exotic, and illegal meats that he basically ruined his entire family trying to secure them. May or may not be true but served as a wonderful parable. The latest update has him arrested in a Chinese (??) prison for being part of an exotic meat smuggling ring.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:I'm a boomer, and I get this all the time. You only look at your phone, or your laptop, you're not reading a book, therefore you don't read or write anymore. On the contrary, I've never written or read more in my entire life. People of my generation really, truly don't understand the Internet. They're like "yeah, we used libraries, this new technology is just ruining everything!", and I'm like "You basically have 10 billion loving libraries at your disposal via the Internet, and you think that's somehow bad?" It flat out doesn't make sense. I have a close friend who's a newspaper columnist. He laments the day when print media will be tossed away for newer tech. I tell him, "So this somehow eliminates the need for writers and creativity? No, only the medium has changed, the content is just as important on a webpage as it was in print. The art hasn't changed, but the medium has. What's the problem?". They’re used to “screens” implying either television or video games and therefore the medium is mindless by default as far as they’re concerned. Unrelated, but boomers also love fighting over their parents’ stuff after they die. Not just money and houses, but spoon collections and chatchkas and furniture. They’ll try to hoard it all to themselves out of mindless sentimentality or to flip to get quick cash. I’ve heard of people fighting while their parents are still alive. I’m glad my family more or less worked it out civilly, but there was a lot of waspy passive aggressive anxiety bubbling under the surface.
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Rondette posted:exotic meat smuggling ring Please refrain from posting about my bhole
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Feb 8, 2020 01:10
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ProperGanderPusher posted:Unrelated, but boomers also love fighting over their parents’ stuff after they die. Not just money and houses, but spoon collections and chatchkas and furniture. They’ll try to hoard it all to themselves out of mindless sentimentality or to flip to get quick cash. I’ve heard of people fighting while their parents are still alive. I’m glad my family more or less worked it out civilly, but there was a lot of waspy passive aggressive anxiety bubbling under the surface. My grandfather died in 1997 at the age of 80. Before his body was even room temperature, my well-off Boomer aunt and uncle were rifling through his closet and dressers looking for clothes and personal items.
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Feb 8, 2020 01:19
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Regarding Millennials and reading: https://www.bookweb.org/news/survey-finds-millennials-prefer-print-books-physical-bookstores There's numerous articles floating out there probably citing the same survey as this one, but apparently we're the ones keeping physical books and bookstores afloat.
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Feb 8, 2020 01:19
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Helen Skelter posted:"Well, you're not getting any of the Joes" Things Boomer Like: Let the Kids Pay For Their Own Joes
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Feb 8, 2020 01:57
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redgubbinz posted:Please refrain from posting about my bhole
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Feb 8, 2020 02:22
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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Things Boomers Like: NNOOOOOOO Joe!
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