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My former boomer boss who ostensibly uses fancy mechanical engineering software for a living typed no poo poo about one letter every 5s. Good help you if he called you into his office and said "let me finish this email". I've stood awkwardly no joke for 20 minutes because he needs silence to concentrate. At least it was easy to do almost no work and look like a genius there
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cool kids inc. posted:I made a living doing those phone calls. You learn to speak the language after a while... "Please open your web browser and I'll give you a URL when ready." "Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer, whatever you like." "Do you see a blue E anywhere?" "Open the internet?"
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Mar 20, 2020 03:02
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Squack McQuack posted:My boomer grandparents were actually really good people! Lifelong democrats, gave to charity, offered up their home to family friends who fell on hard times, etc. My gen-X parents on the other hand would always make sure to vote Republican "to cancel out their votes." Well anyway the grandparents are dead now and my parents voted for Trump. Chaos reigns. boomer is a state of mind caused by brain injuries. your parents are boomers and your grand parents arent poisoned by lead gasoline e.pilot posted:So I was in line at the Costco food court and everyone was standing a good 4ft apart in the line like reasonable socially distanced people, this boomer gently caress gets in line behind me, pushes his cart next to me for some reason, and proceeds to stand maybe a foot behind me, awkwardly close even under normal circumstances. social distancing = being alittle bitch? shove their cart away and tell them to gently caress off you dont need boomer remover snergle fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Mar 20, 2020 03:07
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Improbable Lobster posted:Boomers and gen xers loving hate learning how to do things instead of having their kids guide them through every single step of the way every single time This is a hilarious over generalization. I'm a Gen X'er that cooks for my family, reads voraciously on new topics and loves to learn new things, even if they are uncomfortable truths.
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Mar 20, 2020 05:19
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tango alpha delta posted:This is a hilarious over generalization. that's kind of the premise of the thread
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Mar 20, 2020 05:42
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Boomers love to tell you that you "need to order the supplies with the Staples account" and not give you the Staples account info. Boomers love to tell you that you have you make requests to order from the Staples account directly to them, and ignore the emails for two months, until you actually run out of printer paper. Boomers love to get upset that you spent three dollars of petty cash on a ream of printer paper so that the daily balance sheet, that gets emailed to them, was printed and put into a binder so that it could be thrown away at the start of the next month. Boomers love making you document poo poo that has already been documented.
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Mar 20, 2020 06:36
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Starting to see bus advertisements from the government of Canada telling old people to stop doing reverse mortgages so much lmao
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Mar 20, 2020 11:45
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The Butcher posted:"Please open your web browser and I'll give you a URL when ready." I changed my mom's chrome shortcut to "The Google"
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Mar 20, 2020 13:17
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AFewBricksShy posted:I changed my mom's chrome shortcut to "The Google" Mom has a Chromebook now but on her old Windows laptop I changed the Chorme icon to the one for IE and she never knew the difference.
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Mar 20, 2020 14:01
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:that's kind of the premise of the thread That's fair. It's just that "unwillingness to learn" is not a stereotype I've heard applied to Gen X'ers before, or noticed more prevalent than with any subsequent generation. After all, we grew up using non-graphic UI's and moved life onto the Internet: For most of us it was "learn or starve." Failing to stop boomers because we collectively decided apathy was cool? That's us. Not advancing culture because of nostalgia and recycling plots? Guilty as charged. But a 40-55-year-old stubbornly refusing to learn new things is not something I'm familiar with or noticed in the wild (beyond the ~30% of people in every generation who just hate learning)
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Mar 20, 2020 16:28
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I kind of wonder if it's a product of privilege too. If you are in a position of privilege you can get away with not knowing or refusing to learn things with little consequence. But if you don't have that privilege, those blind spots will really hold you back - you'll get passed over for someone that knows it, or won't have people with the patience to walk you through it if it's difficult to understand.
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Mar 20, 2020 16:50
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The Boomer is a special creature that the world will never see again. If a boomer ever exists again, it has to be on another plant. - Yes they are a product of privilege, mind boggling post world war II privilege where the us became rich. - This weird culture where the US "Won World War II" - Living in a country that essentially a really big Island. - A product of switching from being a farmer to an industrial world. (80% of people were farmers at the beginning of 1900's) - Having a older generation probably being one of the most financially intelligent for their era, and socially progressive. - While growing up in the strictest mono-culture created by Radio-Movies-Television. - Having sheer numbers of population that allow them to talk to each other and reinforce that they are right. - Giving birth to Gen X a generation so few in numbers that Boomer crushed any political power they had. - An Extended life span from 55 to 80. And like a thousand other special things that happened. That future generations will look at the Boomer, and Gen X as very alien generations, and the Millennial will end up being their measuring stick. mazzi Chart Czar fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Mar 20, 2020 17:26
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my father in law's Facebook post posted:COVID-19 is definitely real, however, the events leading up to it have been interesting to say the least....
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Mar 20, 2020 17:30
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Drunk Nerds posted:Failing to stop boomers because we collectively decided apathy was cool? That's us. Not advancing culture because of nostalgia and recycling plots? Guilty as charged. But a 40-55-year-old stubbornly refusing to learn new things is not something I'm familiar with or noticed in the wild (beyond the ~30% of people in every generation who just hate learning) My brother-in-law who is not a professional button pusher like myself but is the same age, may be socio-politically CHUDdy, but he knows how to use an iPhone, play video game consoles, etc. Compared to my father, whom I gifted a Kindle Fire two years ago for his birthday. My wife spent an hour showing him how to do a bunch of stuff. He's never touched it. When he was in the hospital this past April, bored out of his skull, I dug it out from the shelf at my parents house where it had been collecting dust, charged it up, and configured it so he could look at all of the photos I have synced to Google Photo. "Here's something you can do; look at all of the photos I've taken for the past 10 years of all sorts of stuff that would be totally interesting to you like my family, my house, our vacations, etc." Didn't touch it once.
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Mar 20, 2020 17:57
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Sounds like someone who's checked out.
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Mar 20, 2020 18:03
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Anyone who starts off saying, "Pay attention folks," is an rear end in a top hat and a crank. It's kind of a handy tell to ignore everything that comes after.
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Mar 20, 2020 18:03
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Shaocaholica posted:Sounds like someone who's checked out.
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Mar 20, 2020 18:04
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There are different types of learning. It's one thing to learn whittling, paper craft or other such hobbies. It's another thing to learn how to trust political ententes, corporate ententes and history. Even learning what "trust" is. There was this old saying, "I wouldn't trust him farther than I could throw up." Most people couldn't even be able to metaphorically pick up that person let alone hurl them. Like let's say I know a guy who is going to steal from my business, but for some reason I need him to pick stuff up from the business. I know how far to trust the bastard, so I make sure everything that is loving important is far out of his reach, and maybe set out a box of pens for him to pinch. The guy picks up the stuff and steals the box pen like I predicted. I knew how far to trust the bastard and wrote off that box of pens from his paycheck and the time it took to hide all the important stuff. I got what I wanted, and he got what I wanted him to get. mazzi Chart Czar fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Mar 20, 2020 18:34
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:The Boomer is a special creature that the world will never see again. Don't forget all the huffing leaded gas fumes and chewing leaded paint chips throughout their childhood and teens.
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Mar 20, 2020 19:16
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And when we're all older the children will say social media broke our generation and they wouldn't be wrong.
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Mar 20, 2020 19:20
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Shaocaholica posted:And when we're all older the children will say social media broke our generation and they wouldn't be wrong.  Social media will only be a boogeyman whispered about around the village fire to scare the children into behaving by then.
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Mar 20, 2020 19:22
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Iron Crowned posted:
Wait wait, you told people about what you were doing all the time? Like ON PURPOSE?
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Mar 20, 2020 19:37
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Shaocaholica posted:And when we're all older the children will say social media broke our generation and they wouldn't be wrong. Yes and no. Nazis / white supremacists . That poo poo has been boiling in the united states since the civil war. The culture of white supremacy is planted into every US citizen, so to radicalize them - it's not as hard as people think. There is an episode of all in the family where the son in law is passed up for a promotion by his black friend because of a diversity law, and the episode is shot so that it is seen as unfair to the son in law. A white supremacist would say "you're all for diversity, but when you're better qualified and you have a family to feed at home, don't you think you deserve a FAIR shot. " The nazis tried to co-op every single cultural movement, from Movies like "birth of a nation." to punk bands. And to some extent there was enough power in structures to hold that stuff back or at least keep it down a minimum (black guy dies first). Turn to the 80's 90's - Isolate the kids from their local area / friends, (stay inside or you'll be shot by the blacks/ mexican gang members) despite the kid living in a suburb and has to be bused in and out of school. Combine that that up with Boomer soft brains who believe that racism is over, because they don't hear about it Television, while sucking up dog whistles (Trump saying China Virus). Let alone the boomers who are just straight out KKK members and want their kids to follow in their footsteps - a slave owner who was 20 in 1865 could live to 80 in 1925, be a parent for 20 year to a person born in 1905 and that 2nd generation slave owner died at 80 in 1985. The bed was made, and cut to the wild wild west internet - "Everybody should be free to say what they want." And boom, just like that internet nazis and parents who can't defend against them because the parents themselves are one step away from joining their kids in their views. https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map SwitchbladeKult posted:Don't forget all the huffing leaded gas fumes and chewing leaded paint chips throughout their childhood and teens. I apologize. Like 911, I forgot. mazzi Chart Czar fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Mar 20, 2020 19:41
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If the zoomers decide to off us if/when we turn in to boomers, I'll be first in line
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Mar 20, 2020 20:41
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Gf's mom just got back from a trip to Florida 
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Mar 20, 2020 22:17
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ElGroucho posted:If the zoomers decide to off us if/when we turn in to boomers, I'll be first in line 
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Mar 20, 2020 23:02
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Millennials aren't going to turn into boomers, except the rich ones who already are. Boomers sold out, some Gen Xers did did, millennials can't sell out even when they want to because there's no one buying.
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Mar 21, 2020 06:59
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Millennials aren't going to turn into boomers, except the rich ones who already are. Boomers sold out, some Gen Xers did did, millennials can't sell out even when they want to because there's no one buying. No they will evolve into something the next generation finds as abhorrent as millennials found boomers.
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Mar 21, 2020 07:21
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Scooter_McCabe posted:No they will evolve into something the next generation finds as abhorrent as millennials found boomers. Yeah, I don't think so. No one seems to hate Silents or GenXers with the kind of passion that every other generation hates Boomers. Boomers are the unique snowflakes they always claimed to be but for none of the reasons they thought.
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Mar 21, 2020 07:29
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Scooter_McCabe posted:No they will evolve into something the next generation finds as abhorrent as millennials found boomers. We're the generation that failed to kill the boomers while there was still time.
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Mar 21, 2020 07:29
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I had a Boomer when confronted with the new rules of how to line up at the grocery store (stay behind the red lines, just because there's space after the person being served does not mean you can just skip the line) go "I am not used to being told what to do". There's boomers in a nutshell.
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Mar 21, 2020 12:28
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quote:China's population control program has spread globally. The weak are now stressing, getting paranoid, and committing suicide.
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Mar 21, 2020 13:02
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Achtane posted:You'al I'm this
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Mar 21, 2020 13:18
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Nastyman posted:I'm this were'al this
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Mar 21, 2020 14:24
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Boomers don't like having consequences for their actions:well why not posted:On the balcony yesterday arvo, saw an old man yelling at a 30yo woman from his car. He’s stopped at the bottom of a driveway and it’s back and forth about visibility. He says some Nono Words. He’s telling her to come closer etc and she tells him no and drives off.
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Mar 23, 2020 04:48
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Yessss right in my veins
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Mar 23, 2020 04:50
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Boomers like to tell you about M*A*S*H and expect you to give a gently caress, especially about how emotional the last episode was. When you start to tell them about a real emotional experience you had in life, they blow it off and keep talking about themselves.
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Mar 23, 2020 05:14
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magikid posted:Boomers like to tell you about M*A*S*H and expect you to give a gently caress, especially about how emotional the last episode was. Sorry, bucko, M*A*S*H is good and most series would kill for a finale like it had
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Mar 23, 2020 05:22
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Learn the words to Suicide Is Painless and sing it at them.
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Mar 23, 2020 06:18
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My boomer dad heard me whistling that song, asked me if i was thinking of killing myself, if so he would go get his gun and help.
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