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Cheesus posted:My father sleeps 18 hours a day, watches either CNN or NCIS the remaining hours. Clearly he's depressed but of course won't work through any kind of therapy at all. My dad would call my cell phone at 4:58pm and ask me what I was doing after work. If I didn't answer my cell he'd call my home, then office. A co-worker over heard me saying things like , "I'm wrapping up for the day....I'll call you when I'm home....I can't tonight...**SIGHhhhhhhhhhhh**...FINE!" for a few days and thought I was talking to an ex. "Nope, just my Dad!"
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I've posted about this before but I think there are essentially two kinds of people: we all suffer in life, but some of us will suffer and say "nobody should have to suffer like that ever again" and some of us will suffer and say "if I had to suffer, by God everyone else has to suffer too". Boomers overwhelmingly fall into the second camp. A little further down that path is "man I can't wait until it's my turn to cause this suffering" which is why so many millennials are hosed up from abusive childhoods
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Feb 20, 2020 18:32
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Bonzo posted:My dad would call my cell phone at 4:58pm and ask me what I was doing after work. If I didn't answer my cell he'd call my home, then office. A co-worker over heard me saying things like , "I'm wrapping up for the day....I'll call you when I'm home....I can't tonight...**SIGHhhhhhhhhhhh**...FINE!" for a few days and thought I was talking to an ex. This poo poo is why my mom learning to text is the best thing ever. I mean, now I get random texts in the "voice" of my nieces complaining that my wife travels for work too much, but it's worlds better than the constant phone calls.
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Feb 20, 2020 18:32
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Bonzo posted:My dad would call my cell phone at 4:58pm and ask me what I was doing after work. If I didn't answer my cell he'd call my home, then office. A co-worker over heard me saying things like , "I'm wrapping up for the day....I'll call you when I'm home....I can't tonight...**SIGHhhhhhhhhhhh**...FINE!" for a few days and thought I was talking to an ex. What is it with boomers having no concept of other people's time? Like they expect me to not do anything but sit around at home and wait for them to call me 24/7. Recently my dad got offended that I was busy driving home, because I stopped to pick up some food, on the way home, and sounded irritated. There was another time when my mom called me as I'm pulling into the parking lot at work. Because it's about 7 in the morning, I'm thinking someone died, so I called back immediately. She wanted to ask me what my plans were for Christmas, this was September. There was also the time that I was working in a restaurant, so I didn't have a set schedule, and my mom threatened to call the police for a welfare check because she hadn't heard from me in 3 weeks. So I called her at 11:30 at night to let her know that I had to work when normal people are not. On the flip side, right now I call them most weeks, it's always on Sunday within 15 minutes of noon, and they're always surprised by it.
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Feb 20, 2020 18:58
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I'm seeing a newish trend of tv and radio ads that are lawyers that specalized in getting out of your (parents) timeshares.
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Feb 20, 2020 19:07
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Whoria Discordia posted:related to the whole brand loyalty thing, remember when brands would wage "wars" against eachother? Like the "cola wars", or "console wars" ? And people would actually get invested in it? Boy that was some bullshit. True, and looking back it's such an obvious marketing ploy. Framing it as a 'war' invites people to pick a side and get personally invested in the products mazzi Chart Czar posted:Mission of Bruma Guitarist Roger Miller one described his Fender Lead 1 guitar as "a Chevrolet, you get rid one chevy and then just get another one. " Buying products that you feel are the best for you isn't brand loyalty as you're just looking out for yourself. 'Loyalty' suggests that even if the product was inferior you would still buy it simply because you support the company. CaptainSarcastic posted:It does seem like there is less "brand loyalty" and more "this brand is part of my identity" or "this brand makes me look rich/important/cool." LOL I like that description, said it much better than I could
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Feb 20, 2020 19:18
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Does anyone's parents still have old phones where they can both talk at the same time?
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Feb 20, 2020 19:21
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Iron Crowned posted:What is it with boomers having no concept of other people's time? Your daily schedule is dominated by work or family responsibilities. If you're old and retired your schedule is suddenly wide open. You can volunteer or pick up a hobby or surprise your kids at odd hours. After retiring my mom found herself waking up in the middle of the night and like, doing poo poo before going to bed again. Ends up that is how we used to live prior to our more rigid, scheduled lives. People would go to bed at dusk, wake up at 1am, have a bite to eat, visit neighbors, have sex, go back to sleep, and wake up again at daybreak. Once she lacked all the things that pigeon hole us into our adult time tables she reverted back to this weird pre-industrial sleep schedule. https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shifts-maybe-we-should-again
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Feb 20, 2020 19:24
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Bonzo posted:My dad would call my cell phone at 4:58pm and ask me what I was doing after work. If I didn't answer my cell he'd call my home, then office. A co-worker over heard me saying things like , "I'm wrapping up for the day....I'll call you when I'm home....I can't tonight...**SIGHhhhhhhhhhhh**...FINE!" for a few days and thought I was talking to an ex. I had to get my aunt to stealth delete my work number from my Grandma's phone because she kept calling my cell 3-4 times during work hours then calling my work phone and leaving vague messages about it being extremely urgent I call her back ASAP. So I'd dip out on whatever I was doing thinking it was an emergency and it'd be something like, "Macy's has a sale on cardigans, I need you to look online right now and tell me what ones you like so I can go get them while I still have a coupon." 13Pandora13 fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Feb 20, 2020 |
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Feb 20, 2020 20:00
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The cycle of suffering /abuse thing probably happens because if the suffering /abuse is passed down, it kind of normalizes it. If it's happening to everyone, it can be easier for an individual to deal with it. Some people will feel resentment at the idea that they were the last generation to have to put up with being spanked or treated like some slave so they'll have this crab in a bucket attitude about it. It's like that for other things too. My job is seniority based, and unusual in that early on your lack of choice of schedule means the first 2 years will be chaotic but steadily improves to the point that 7 years in you'll be able to pretty much work when and where you want. Around when I started they started this two tier system where the lower tier was the actual entry job and you moved up to the upper tier as openings came available. The lower tier paid half what the upper tier paid yet because the starting schedules were way nicer the boomers in the union threw a fit that all these new people were getting weekends off right out of the gate when the old timers had to slog through horrible split shifts with Tues/Wed off for years. They didn't get that the catch to those nice schedules was far less pay, and the boomers in the union decided if they couldn't have decent schedules the first two years of their career, nobody could.
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Feb 20, 2020 20:15
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It does seem like there is less "brand loyalty" and more "this brand is part of my identity" or "this brand makes me look rich/important/cool." If you haven't read it yet, I'd recommend reading No Logo, which goes a bit into how this is something those companies spent billions of dollars to drill into people
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Feb 20, 2020 20:29
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Bonzo posted:Does anyone's parents still have old phones where they can both talk at the same time? No but my dad's phone is on speaker mode all the time even when he has it up to his ear, so mom can always chime in anyway
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Feb 20, 2020 20:36
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Bonzo posted:Does anyone's parents still have old phones where they can both talk at the same time? A landline? Mine do, but only because my grandpa needs it for his pacemaker or some poo poo. Also, after 43 years of busting his rear end in a limestone mine, my dad retired yesterday. He told off everyone he hated on his way out. I love my dad. By far the hardest working man I have ever met.
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Feb 20, 2020 20:38
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:If you haven't read it yet, I'd recommend reading No Logo, which goes a bit into how this is something those companies spent billions of dollars to drill into people Sounds interesting. Consuming, or not consuming, has always been a fundamental part of people's identities, it's just something that's gone into overdrive with the late capitalist mode of production, which emphasizes constant fluctuation, personalization, and differentiation.
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Feb 20, 2020 20:39
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It's not about consumption per se it's about making brands like Nike synonymous with vague aspirational concepts of athleticism or street cred instead of, like, shoes, that you put on your feet, and maybe they're better at doing shoe things than Reeboks or maybe they're not. If you identify with those ideas and let their mass media saturation-bombing percolate into your head, you're a Nike wearer, that's your identity now.
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Feb 20, 2020 20:45
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sending texts that just say "Call me"
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Feb 20, 2020 21:04
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loudly discussing what the person at the next restaurant booth is wearing
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Feb 20, 2020 21:11
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a positive one: all boomers love Red Green
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Feb 20, 2020 21:12
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:It's not about consumption per se it's about making brands like Nike synonymous with vague aspirational concepts of athleticism or street cred instead of, like, shoes, that you put on your feet, and maybe they're better at doing shoe things than Reeboks or maybe they're not. If you identify with those ideas and let their mass media saturation-bombing percolate into your head, you're a Nike wearer, that's your identity now. im so glad i was raised with the idea that the only reason i should cover myself in logos is if im getting paid for it. nipped the idea of brand loyalty in the bud when you have a parent explain that its less than free advertising because youre paying apple to be able to show off their logo.
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Feb 20, 2020 21:18
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Robo Reagan posted:im so glad i was raised with the idea that the only reason i should cover myself in logos is if im getting paid for it. nipped the idea of brand loyalty in the bud when you have a parent explain that its less than free advertising because youre paying apple to be able to show off their logo. Millennials disrupting the advertising industry with new "reverse advertising" trend!
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Feb 20, 2020 21:19
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ghost emoji posted:sending texts that just say "Call me" leaving voice mails that say, "CALL ME BACK ASAP! " and when you call back they say poo poo like, "Do you recall the brand of TV we had in the basement in 1982?"
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Feb 20, 2020 21:35
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ghost emoji posted:sending texts that just say "Call me" RE: No.
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Feb 20, 2020 21:36
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Robo Reagan posted:im so glad i was raised with the idea that the only reason i should cover myself in logos is if im getting paid for it. nipped the idea of brand loyalty in the bud when you have a parent explain that its less than free advertising because youre paying apple to be able to show off their logo. I always felt this as a kid and have no idea where I picked it up. When I went through a phase of being "that guy with the hat" I spent forever trying to find an unbranded cap. They almost dont exist at this point.
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Feb 20, 2020 21:43
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boomers love rageposting on facebook that they saw a homeless person with a cell phone
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Feb 20, 2020 22:02
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CrowdControl posted:I always felt this as a kid and have no idea where I picked it up. When I went through a phase of being "that guy with the hat" I spent forever trying to find an unbranded cap. They almost dont exist at this point.
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Feb 20, 2020 22:04
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ghost emoji posted:boomers love rageposting on facebook that they saw a homeless person with a cell phone Or a computer, or... Wasn't there some dumb infographic from like, Fox News or something that complained that like, 96% of poor households had fridges or something?
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Feb 20, 2020 22:11
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Krispy Wafer posted:After retiring my mom found herself waking up in the middle of the night and like, doing poo poo before going to bed again. Ends up that is how we used to live prior to our more rigid, scheduled lives. People would go to bed at dusk, wake up at 1am, have a bite to eat, visit neighbors, have sex, go back to sleep, and wake up again at daybreak. Once she lacked all the things that pigeon hole us into our adult time tables she reverted back to this weird pre-industrial sleep schedule. I'm ok with being past the era of waking up at midnight to go gently caress the neighbors
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Feb 20, 2020 22:14
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PostNouveau posted:No but my dad's phone is on speaker mode all the time even when he has it up to his ear, so mom can always chime in anyway Goddamn do those motherfuckers love speaker phone.
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Feb 20, 2020 22:19
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:could we go back to when they had wars instead of now, when Planters kills Mr. Peanut for the Super Bowl and all the other brands hold a wake for him on Twitter For real this was so perfect it should've killed both super bowl marketing and brand twitter forever. https://mobile.twitter.com/Duracell/status/960352900546547712
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Feb 20, 2020 22:22
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shame on an IGA posted:For real this was so perfect it should've killed both super bowl marketing and brand twitter forever. Holy gently caress I'd accuse you of faking that if it weren't a real, actual blue checked tweet.
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Feb 20, 2020 22:25
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purple death ray posted:I've posted about this before but I think there are essentially two kinds of people: we all suffer in life, but some of us will suffer and say "nobody should have to suffer like that ever again" and some of us will suffer and say "if I had to suffer, by God everyone else has to suffer too". Boomers overwhelmingly fall into the second camp. literally_every_issue_in_the_US_explained.txt
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Feb 20, 2020 22:25
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CrowdControl posted:I always felt this as a kid and have no idea where I picked it up. When I went through a phase of being "that guy with the hat" I spent forever trying to find an unbranded cap. They almost dont exist at this point. https://www.amazon.com/Goorin-Bros-Slayer-Baseball-black/dp/B0037OVDA2?ref_=ast_bbp_dp&th=1&psc=1 Best cap I've ever owned. There's a logo, but it's small and tasteful and hardly visible with the dark color options.
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Feb 21, 2020 00:09
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ghost emoji posted:boomers love rageposting on facebook that they saw a homeless person with a cell phone My mother saw a man in an electric wheelchair charging his chair in a public park and was furious that he doesn’t pay for that electricity.
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Feb 21, 2020 00:15
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RadioPassive posted:My mother saw a man in an electric wheelchair charging his chair in a public park and was furious that he doesn’t pay for that electricity. sever
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Feb 21, 2020 00:21
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purple death ray posted:I've posted about this before but I think there are essentially two kinds of people: we all suffer in life, but some of us will suffer and say "nobody should have to suffer like that ever again" and some of us will suffer and say "if I had to suffer, by God everyone else has to suffer too". Boomers overwhelmingly fall into the second camp. Totally. I've had more than my share of suffering in life and been in some pretty dark places but in the end that's actually what fuels my love and compassion for humanity and my desire that no one should have to suffer without cause. If you let your pain make you into a worse person you've made a huge mistake. I feel like the Boomers who have suffered the least are probably the most cruel
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Feb 21, 2020 00:39
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Bonzo posted:edit: actually how many of you have to take vacation days AFTER you've had a visit with your parents? Hi. Literally every time I visit my family I need to either leave early or bake in some time to decompress. It has only been since I got married and a neutral observer (my wife) has been around that I've started to actually see the insanely hosed up poo poo my family does and it's made me wonder if literally every child of boomers has these issues or is it just me. edit: Literally the biggest stumbling block during the runup to my wedding was my mom (60s) causing increasingly large problems by likely having an untreated anxiety disorder and injecting her fears and whatnot into our wedding planning. gently caress. why the hell are boomers allergic to talking to a drat therapist? I did and it was the single greatest decision I've ever made save for marrying my wife. edit 2: it was also extremely hosed up that at my grandma's funeral the only people who ID'd all the weird poo poo going on family-wise was me, my wife, my cousin's wife and my cousin who is an actual licensed psychologist. all of us either from outside the family or having received enough therapy/insight to finally see how hosed up everything was. axeil fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Feb 21, 2020 00:42
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axeil posted:Hi. Literally every time I visit my family I need to either leave early or bake in some time to decompress. It has only been since I got married and a neutral observer (my wife) has been around that I've started to actually see the insanely hosed up poo poo my family does and it's made me wonder if literally every child of boomers has these issues or is it just me. It is definitely not just you. My wife opened my eyes to a ton of poo poo that I just never paid attention to before.
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Feb 21, 2020 01:07
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Play posted:I feel like the Boomers who have suffered the least are probably the most cruel
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Feb 21, 2020 01:30
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Bonzo posted:It is definitely not just you. My wife opened my eyes to a ton of poo poo that I just never paid attention to before. I think that happens to a lot of people - their spouses are not only showing them the love and support that their parents never gave them, but encouraging them to draw boundaries and stand up for themselves for the first time. That's why you have so many posters on those Estranged Parents boards seething with rage about their evil son-in-law/daughter-in-law who corrupted their baby with lies.
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RadioPassive posted:My mother saw a man in an electric wheelchair charging his chair in a public park and was furious that he doesn’t pay for that electricity. God drat that’s so much boomer energy she could have charged his wheelchair.
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