Boomer Bashing, C/D

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-voted for every anti-union and anti-gubmint candidate for 3+ decades

This is what specifically pisses me off about my father -- drawing 100% DAV benefits and IBEW pension for 35 years and he's, like, reactionary to Taliban levels.

WmC, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Do you ever call him on that?

Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link

they're the "I want it all" generation. They benefited from high taxes and big government when they were younger, and now that they're old and have money they want low taxes and small government so they can keep it all. What a bunch of rat bastards, on a complete generational scale.

At least the Republican idiots in my family worked their asses off for their money, so at least they have some justification for their stances.

burt_stanton, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Do you ever call him on that?

Not yet, because I think he would actually try to deck me if I did. But he's turning 80 this year so I think I could take him.

Also, after all the work he's put in to protect his money, I want to inherit some of it.

WmC, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Wise points. Although now I think of your dad as Red from the Tube Bar.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link

now boomers are staying in their jobs until their 70s and 80s because of their greed and stupidity, thereby fucking over us youngins once again. They're definitely the "worst generation"

or maybe they can't afford to retire? or is that too obvious a point?!?

Mad Vigorish (Eisbaer), Monday, 12 January 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link

My dad still thinks he's a "yuppie" (he's pushing 60, btw.)

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link

My ops aren't even chall ;_;

Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link

I dunno if I agree that problem with the boomers is that they voted Republican - generations before them did, generations after them did. Sure they should have known better, but shouldn't have, well, everyone? They mostly bought into shit for the wrong reasons...just like most Americans. Americans/Westerners tend to grow up *relatively* rich and live *relatively* easy lives - that doesn't mean very many people are going to *really* put it all into perspective and vote and act accordingly. This is pretty independent of generation. If anything, it's surprising that the boomers aren't more conservative. The GOP sells the idea that it's easy to succeed, and given the easy boomer life experience, why shouldn't they believe it?

The biggest problem with the boomers is the super obvious one - there's just too fucking many of them. It's difficult to blame them for this.

iatee, Monday, 12 January 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Wait wait wait... how can ethan be all up into dire straits and yet didn't get the "shreds" youtube videos?

Worldview ... all busted up...

Trayce, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link

who are you, alex in nyc? get the fuck over it

Do leave me out of this, please. Thanks.

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Boomer. Millennial. Gen Xer. Zoomer. Hippie. Zippie. Yippie. What does any of this truly mean? More marketing categories to serve those whose exploitation, oppression and violence span every generation, regardless of what band you loved in high school.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) November 7, 2019

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link

ok boomer

mookieproof, Friday, 8 November 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link

now boomers are staying in their jobs until their 70s and 80s because of their greed and stupidity thereby fucking over us youngins once again. They're definitely the "worst generation"
burt_stanton, Monday, January 12, 2009

A bit of math reveals that no one born after August, 1945 had yet reached age 65 in January, 2009.

A is for (Aimless), Friday, 8 November 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link

lol

Dan S, Friday, 8 November 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link

boomer is a state of mind, maaaaaaaaan

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link

At one end of the party, dancing and drinking spectrum is the annual Boomer Social Halloween Dance. This age 50- plus group has already seen their share of Halloween, first through the eyes of their children and now their grandchildren. They also have a wealth of costume background. So, now it is their turn but in a more sedate style.

Far from an open bar, their first and often only drink is included in the $15 admission. Music is familiar, what they remember from different times of their life and is not loud.

Their favorite entertainers are the duo of T*** D**** and K**** E****** who sing recorded songs exactly the way they were written. Costumes are less blood and gore but often sexy and imaginative. The singles are once again dating so most try to emulate a celebrity they admired.

The crowd dances non-stop but leaves at 11 on Saturday night to be ready for church in the morning.

pplains, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/2qEYiTF.jpg

pplains, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link

Got everything you need. Satisfaction guaranteed.

https://i.imgur.com/TIxhEor.png

pplains, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link

New hot springs pools. Pick your heat. Pick your similar, single, soaking friends.

Now there are two Glenwood hot springs to try. The new Iron Mountain Springs has 16 pools along the Colorado River. "Adult soaking away from children."

TS: Boomers Know When To Say When vs. WHY WOULD YOU EVEN HAVE TO BRING UP "ADULT SOAKING AWAY FROM CHILDREN"?

pplains, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link

At one time successful men in their late 40s and 50s had to look to much younger women to find mates to which they were sexually attracted. Similarly, attractive, older women with money would seek out younger males to satisfy sexual needs as sexual impotence was a real and widespread problem (although vastly underreported) for middle-aged and older males

But now cosmetic medicine has made baby boomer females look far younger than their age and the breakthrough of Viagra allows men to perform at a sexual level that was once limited to the young. In fact television ads for pills to cure "ED" which was once an almost taboo subject are now almost ubiquitous. A sexual arousal medicine for baby boomer women is even reportedly in the works.

I'll say this for the Boomers: They were definitely a generation that would not shut the fuck up about fucking.

pplains, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link

please stop

mookieproof, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link

people try to put them down
j-j-just because they got around

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 8 November 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link

Amazingly, people born six decades or more ago are acting their age.

A is for (Aimless), Friday, 8 November 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link

I've never actually figured out who Dennis Perrin is.

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 8 November 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link

Is he a Boomer?

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 8 November 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link

morbs' perrin tweet is obv 100% otm and i recite something like it in my head even when maximally taxed, like when attempting to play falstaff over the top of the sound of bob seger hits blaring from the elks club dance down the street, or when reading the news

difficult listening hour, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link

My kids cant seem to stop mentioning boomer. Lol

nathom, Friday, 8 November 2019 08:46 (four years ago) link

eight months pass...

Remember when Hollywood wouldn't stop making movies about the angst of aging boomers? Well, someone finally found a name for the genre: https://letterboxd.com/rexluscus/list/the-docked-yacht-aor-cinema-1979-85/

A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link

Shouldn't The Big Chill be in there?

nickn, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link

Wow, yeah. That's like talking about the British Invasion without mentioning the Beatles!

A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link

i clicked on three of those randomly and i swear to god they all starred jill clayburgh

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link

Classic, although I suspect thirty-somethings are boomers too according to the latest accounts.

pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link

Boomer is a mentality, not an age. Jeremy Corbyn: not a boomer. That watermelon headed child who writes for the Times: boomer.

scampos mentis (gyac), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link

Surprised at how many of these star Robbie Benson.

Not surprised at how many star Dudley Moore (and Clayburgh, Alda, Reynolds...)

A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link

My boomer dad reports he has seen some of these movies

all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link


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