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I don't think that's even really adjacent because they kinda invented the "wife swapping" thing or whatever gross terms they also use. I mean I'm sure humans have been making bad and weird relationship calls like that forever, but they were the ones who really sort of made a codified system out of it. Oh, I just remembered "hotwife" and had to puke a little. In the closet. As I watched.
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The Butcher posted:I don't think that's even really adjacent because they kinda invented the "wife swapping" thing or whatever gross terms they also use. Right, boomers codified and popularized wife swapping, and millennials and gen z realized you could do it and not be a huge creep about it
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Nov 4, 2022 00:54
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I've heard "don't leave your garage door half open lmao" a hundred times and it's all from boomers one step out of a retirement home.
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Nov 4, 2022 00:59
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My most boomer opinion is that I'm extremely, heavily against people bieng horny on the internet in public spaces or forums or whatever. If its your discord server, fine, sure but if its a public forums, I miss when we permabanned people for posting homegrown instead of mods glorifying them.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:12
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Elentor posted:I miss when we permabanned people for posting homegrown instead of mods glorifying them. Is this a thing? I guess I'm forums-naive. 
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Nov 4, 2022 01:17
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When somebody cooks a meal for you, you come to the drat table instead of continuing to play on your phone for ten minutes and then wondering why other people are halfway done.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:18
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Also, face somebody when you're talking to them, instead of starting to talk and then walking away in the middle of a sentence. It feels like you're dismissing me and I can't hear your rear end when you're mumbling in a different direction.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:23
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i just fuckin love the Band, man. also Motown/mid-60's soul was the apex of.....everything.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:24
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The Butcher posted:I don't think that's even really adjacent because they kinda invented the "wife swapping" thing or whatever gross terms they also use. swap my wife, please!
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Nov 4, 2022 02:19
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I'm sure there's some super loud minority that insists they make it work, but poly relationships just seem like too much drama. Like it's not even the jealously factor here-think of all the myriad challenges couples face in their relationships. Think of all the bizarre r/relationships stories. Now you want to add 50% MORE drama to that equation? Even people acting in good faith can have a hard time splitting responsibilities fairly-I've seen a fair share of couples where each individual thinks they are doing the lions share of the overall work. Now imagine trying to distribute that evenly among THREE people. Seems like a common breakdown of labor is one person gets all the work, one person gets all the leisure, and one person gets all the sex.
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Nov 4, 2022 02:52
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90% of the poly people i've met in real life use sleep apnea masks and can't stand at concerts cuz they'll get winded
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The Butcher posted:I don't think that's even really adjacent because they kinda invented the "wife swapping" thing or whatever gross terms they also use. Kink shaming? Oh my dear! The thing about boomers is that they married young and some people end up in un happy marriages no fault divorce helped deal with that.
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Nov 4, 2022 03:12
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I do safely spar with my partner, just good exercise and training for both of us. Adding a third doesn't seem conductive. This ain't professional wrestling. Let the elephant seals do whatever they choose in their beaches of hundreds. I'm not judging, but I'm not joining.
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Nov 4, 2022 03:14
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The Butcher posted:I don't think that's even really adjacent because they kinda invented the "wife swapping" thing or whatever gross terms they also use. Still will never forget how hard I laughed when after thinking about the term "sister wife" I Googled "brother husband" and the first hit was the obituary talking about how Ted Kennedy had been a great "brother, husband, and father" and oddly there was not a lot of multiple-male-spouse action going on in the results (the polyamorous people who make it work are the ones who just have low-key threesomes sometimes or similar; remember, monogamy does preclude threesomes, so it is objectively the wrong choice) (not actually trying to convince anyone monogamy is bad)
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Nov 4, 2022 03:33
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corn haver posted:Industrial work used to really destroy people physically and mentally (often still does) and automation has helped a lot. Robots, vision systems, etc. aren't that different from conveyor belts and mechanical sorting tools in their material consequences to workers (beyond increasingly impacting skilled workers and professionals), and there's basically no pushback on that kind of automation except for guys like the Unabomber. It's human civilization generally and industrial capitalism specifically that means that investment and increased productive capacity entails cutting people off from things necessary for their well-being. Also there's a huge amount of grift and waste around robots because of greed: over-application, overselling a technology, the novelty factor etc. that stands out even in the immense shame of business as usual. Yeah, I was going to make an exception for factory work but I’m not sure if that’s a popular opinion. Robots have made cars far more reliable and working in a factory sounds miserable, so in this case it might be better if that kind of work is automated.
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Nov 4, 2022 08:39
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That loving Sned posted:Yeah, I was going to make an exception for factory work but I’m not sure if that’s a popular opinion. Factory work ain't that bad, in fact I'm hanging out with 4 robots right now (it ain't that bad specifically because of the robots)
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Nov 4, 2022 08:50
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Ralph Hurley posted:I also miss the days when ads were straight forward “buy this chewing gum, it’s the best” instead of every ad trying sooo hard to be either subversive and surreal or just way too intimate and gross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQjyKr84cHU
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Nov 4, 2022 13:49
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Jag taler bara lite Svenska med jag might be even more confused about that commercial due to this. Why is Juicy Fruit called like "Naughty Gnome's Chewing Gum" (not sure what an English equivalent for a Nisse would be) or am I reading too much into a brand name Still I watched that whole drat thing and was definitely feeling it
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Nov 4, 2022 14:22
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There are too many commercials. Just in general.
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Nov 4, 2022 15:38
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Das Boo posted:There are too many commercials. Just in general. I agree with you. There isn't a day that goes by where I think about the logistics of getting rid of all advertising. I think it would be worth it. However I think boomers like commercials because they are the only people I know who can watch cable. I guess sports fans like commercials too.
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Nov 4, 2022 16:02
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There's a boomer at work who makes references to "funny" cable TV commercials. When I don't laugh because I don't watch cable he gets flustered. I think he likes the commercials.
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Nov 4, 2022 16:08
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I'm not quite sure how anyone manages to use the internet without at least one adblocker.
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Nov 4, 2022 16:15
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I miss infomercials
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Nov 4, 2022 16:24
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I think people in the ads like Flo from progressive or Jake from state farm are Chesty Laroux from AT&T should be taxed at a rate of 99% because gently caress YOU GO AWAY I HATE YOU.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Jag taler bara lite Svenska med jag might be even more confused about that commercial due to this. Why is Juicy Fruit called like "Naughty Gnome's Chewing Gum" (not sure what an English equivalent for a Nisse would be) or am I reading too much into a brand name lol  It's a parody from 1989 by a comedy group.Nisse here is just the nickname version of the common name Nils (like Nick for Nicholas), so it's like 'Nick's Chewing Gum'.
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SamDabbers posted:There's a boomer at work who makes references to "funny" cable TV commercials. When I don't laugh because I don't watch cable he gets flustered. I think he likes the commercials. My dad does this despite my constant telling him that I don't have cable and don't see commercials. He will also mute the TV during commercial breaks and then proceed to comment on the commercials anyway ("What the hell kinda pill is zymoplaxilon? It sounds like a Star Trek alien.") If I have to play Boomer's Advocate, I guess I would say that commercial breaks offer opportunities to reinitiate conversations with the people you're visiting (like a holiday get-together where you're watching a football game). That's being awfully generous, though.
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Nov 4, 2022 16:54
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kntfkr posted:I agree with you. I'm a sports fan and we all hate ads. Especially because these days every minute of the broadcast is sponsored. They're interrupting at-bats of baseball games to shove more ads at you. And it's usually gambling ads.
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axolotl farmer posted:lol Extra Large Marge posted:I'm not quite sure how anyone manages to use the internet without at least one adblocker.
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I haven’t seen a tv ad in a long time cause I pay out the rear end for non-ad supported streaming. This works cause I live alone. But when I had a gf saying over a lot…Dr. Gojo Shioji posted:If I have to play Boomer's Advocate, I guess I would say that commercial breaks offer opportunities to reinitiate conversations with the people you're visiting (like a holiday get-together where you're watching a football game). That's being awfully generous, though. …yeah, commercials allow for a nice break and change of convo or whatever. But by the 12th one in 10 minutes my brain starts twitching.
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Talking about ads I'm not sure people in the US realize how insane their ad density is. Sometimes I'd watch a US tv show online with ads still in for some reason and it goggles the mind. 4 ad breaks in a 30 minute show is ridiculous.
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Nov 4, 2022 19:11
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Not really a Boomer opinion, but definitely out of style: I don't care about stories in video games. Like a nice solid narrative helps hold the whole experience together and makes completing it more satisfying. But it's really easy to go too far. I'm currently playing Cyberpunk 2077, and enjoying it but all these cutscenes are making my rear end tired.
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zakharov posted:I'm a sports fan and we all hate ads. Especially because these days every minute of the broadcast is sponsored. They're interrupting at-bats of baseball games to shove more ads at you. And it's usually gambling ads.  DraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKingsDraftKings
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zakharov posted:I'm a sports fan and we all hate ads. Especially because these days every minute of the broadcast is sponsored. They're interrupting at-bats of baseball games to shove more ads at you. And it's usually gambling ads. And Stadiums are getting named after dumb loving companies now that the bigger ones are laying off the bidding wars for rights. Oh boy, I can't tell if I want to go to Crypto.com arena or Acrisure stadium.
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Nov 4, 2022 19:58
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Rutgers stadium is High Point Solutions LLC Stadium
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Place a bet now! Don't think! Just bet your rent money on whether some guy makes a field goal! It's the only way to not feel dead inside! What are you, chicken?
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I remember getting super pissed at the papajohns.com bowl. Like I can surmise what your website name is you loving piece of poo poo.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Not really a Boomer opinion, but definitely out of style: I don't care about stories in video games. Like a nice solid narrative helps hold the whole experience together and makes completing it more satisfying. But it's really easy to go too far. I know exactly what you mean. These big-budget games and their ✨cinematic experiences✨ are so loving tiring. In 2077 it's really annoying because you have the skip dialogue button but then a time-sensitive choice appears and by the time you even realize it's a time-sensitive choice, the bar is half-empty and you end up picking The Worst Choice and oops better reload that quicksave
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That elementary schools shouldn't be using chrome books or giving computers and internet access to little kids.
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LadyAmbien posted:That elementary schools shouldn't be using chrome books or giving computers and internet access to little kids. Teacher Teacher! Jessica searched for her name on the computer and a naked lady showed upppppppp! She's in TROUUUUBLLEEEEEEEE! My most Boomer opinion: I like my sugar free beverages and mowing my lawn on my green riding mower.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Not really a Boomer opinion, but definitely out of style: I don't care about stories in video games. Like a nice solid narrative helps hold the whole experience together and makes completing it more satisfying. But it's really easy to go too far. It probably is out of style but I think SA in particular is a place where that's a common opinion. I don't share it at all. If there's no story, it's rare I finish a game because I just don't care enough. Which is all right, but I'd rather care. It's not about a cinematic experience, I'm happy with textboxes and pixel graphics, just engage me beyond the gameplay which c'mon, is not gonna blow my mind I've played games before. It might be related to age. I'm in my mid 30's which is probably a bit younger than most people here and I grew up on games with stories. If you're even a couple of years older than me, then you probably didn't.
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