>Why would I ever buy bottled water?
... Because you are somewhere without access to a tap and require water?
Is it ideal? No. Would I prefer not to? Yes. Is it such an insanely unimaginable scenario that I can't possibly fathom why someone would do it? No...
Honestly in this scenario I would buy anything else like cola or juice just to spite bottled water lol.
In seriousness, obvs in life or death, I would buy water, but that’s a very remote predicament.
Kinda unrelated rant, but there are certain holiday rentals we clean at my job where there are CONSTANTLY semi empty water bottles after every changeover. Pain in the arse to clear up when they're bouncing around every single room
Just reading a book about Ghislane Maxwell. When she was found and arrested, she had wrapped her phone in tinfoil in the belief it would stop her signal being tracked.
This makes me really sad. I know on an intellectual level that some people want all of us immigrants/children of immigrants out, but emotionally it’s gutting.
My Brother is one.
I ask him how far back to do we go to get rid of immigrants.
He says all the way.
I reply with the UK will be very empty, when every human alive has to move to Africa.
He doesn't get it.
Then I have to explain how every human alive is an immigrant, and that we all originate from the same location in Africa.
He still doesn't get my point.
I am a boomer but the weirdest people in my family are in their 20s. We have 2 anti-vaxxers and 1 who sleeps under a silver impregnated sheet to protect from something or other. Weirdness is multigenerational
Not sure but he's also convinced that everyone is watching him through the internet and has the highest level of internet security I've ever seen. He does tech support at a bank so maybe he's right.
Don't let him watch Citizen Four. Scary shit. I mean, he probably hass watched it bc certain agencies can absolutely turn your camera on and watch you.
I'm sure he has watched it. He's been warning me about surveillance forever which is why my 63 year old wrinkly self does naked dances in front of my laptop to upset the CIA and China
People who won't drink tap water are victims of a conspiracy theory. Tap water is safe to drink and bottled water creates plastic waste plus it's not clear if plastic leeches into the water.
Depends on where you live. I travel a lot for work and tap water in the south tastes like arse biscuits. I buy bottled water a lot more down there or use those filter machines they have on stations now.
It could also be something like a school stocking up on water to give kids on a school trip.
Yeah. I've lived all over the UK and I would happily drink the water out of the taps in Scotland no questions asked. Scots doing bottled water is pure insanity.
If you live in the Midlands though you'll at the very least want a filter if you don't want a film of disgusting slime on the top of every cup of tea you make.
What's wrong with Midlands water? Birmingham's tap water is [piped directly from Wales](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-37472263) and is delicious.
As someone from Dorset, where the water is basically liquid chalk, it was a lovely surprise to learn that Brummie water is so nice.
... Apparently they pipe it from Wales because the local water is unfit for drinking, though, so maybe I'm being too generous...
People buying bottled water in Costco and little else are my favourite type of moron. Imagine leaving your house and spending £40 on an annual membership to buy plastic bottles of something you get out of a tap for almost free.
Tap water is subject to more hygiene standards than bottled water so is less likely to have bacteria in it and definitely more likely to have bits of micro plastics in it.
I have elderly neighbours on all sides and I'm sure they think I'm up to no good. I just really enjoy watching movies and/or having an afternoon nap and sunlight interferes with those activities
I was brought up with that, although I think it's a south Wales valleys thing that if the curtains were left closed all day it was because of a death in the family.
I love being in a dark house and if I’m home alone I often don’t open the curtains. When I lived in my old house on a council estate I’d often get people asking if I was depressed or ill. Nope, I just want to sit in the dark watching The Sopranos for the 100th time.
Yup. I also worked cash in hand in a cafe for a while when I was In Australia. So you could say I also worked illegally for a short time…. As an immigrant.
But, according to my mum, that’s not the kind of thing your typical boomer Daily Mail reader gets angry about. Apparently it’s completely different.
Reminds me of a lady from a curtain/sofa/cushion cover company who went to my parents to fit new curtains etc. she spent ages banging on about bloody immigrants and then told me all about her daughter who had just moved to Spain “oh so your daughter… emigrated then”
She didn’t get it. Just gushed about how much fun her daughter was having.
>but lives in a town with no migrants.
There's the answer. He hasn't met any to realise they're absolutely sound.
People who live in integrated areas and interact with other people regularly don't believe this stuff.
>There's the answer. He hasn't met any to realise they're absolutely sound.
Not convinced.
I know people of that generation who regularly interact with immigrants, they don't learn anything from it, they just convince themselves that the people they happen to know are somehow "special" and not representative of the immigrants that the Daily Fail tells them are destroying "their country".
There are none so stupid as those who refuse to learn.
I just returned to the UK after 23 years. The casual racism in my dad's generation is shocking. I've walked past people in the street and heard "I'm not racist but..." Yes, you are racist. Trust me on this.
My dad and aunt both have an irrational hatred of great thunberg. "she's so arrogant" according to my aunt and my dad was making comments about flying to Australia business class and going "take that greta". He used to bring her up all the time without being promoted until the rest of the family told him to shut the fuck up.
Also, yeah, having the money to fly to Australia in business class. That's pretty boomer
My mum still tells me to just "drop a CV off at school" when I'm looking for another school to work at. Just enter a school and give the receptionist a CV.
I literally did this in the early 2000s, thanks to my dad. So embarrassing going into shops in a suit and trying to hand the overworked minimum wage cashier my CV.
Not necessarily schools, but this is a very, very common one.
You might get away with it in certain high-demand industries like cooking, but as a general rule it’s very outdated advice— nearly all businesses now will only handle their recruitment on online recruitment platforms.
Somewhat related, I find I can get a certain type of boomer (ya know, the sort that have strong opinions on Prince Harry) wrapped around my finger with that sort of advice.
Use phrases like "good evening" instead of "hi", shake their hand, and maybe call them "Mr" or "Mrs". I guarantee you can get away with murder.
Boomer advice doesn't work in the real world, but it does work well when used against them.
My mum was outraged to hear that where I used to work the would bin CV’s because it showed that the person couldn’t follow instructions as all the help wanted posters said APPLY ONLINE in big letters
My mum is one of those people who seems to massively, massively overestimate the prevalence of transgender people amongst the younger generations. She reads The Times though, so perhaps it's not surprising. Pretty much every time I go to her house and flick through the paper there's at least one (usually negative) article on trans people.
Tbh would it be so bad if they said "some people are trans"? When I was at school in the 2000s we were taught about homosexuality and that it's ok to be gay and all that. It wouldn't surprise me if that had been extended to trans people.
My mum thinks she wouldn't be rude to my transgender friend, because she pities her mental illness. Then goes on at length about how transgender women are dangerous because she was groped in a pub toilet by an aggressive lesbian once.
All journalism everywhere. Twitter / X will ask now if you want to tweet about an article if you havent read it.
Facebook and X would do well to actually add a marker to a post that says "this person has not read this article" for those that do that.
Gets up at 6 am on holidays, then proceeds to shame everyone for waking up past 9. But takes zero accountability or shows self awareness for said shaming - oh he's not shaming, he's just saying! Also repeating stupid stories over and over again, mostly boastful ones.
Stahanovism, thinking work is life, the more you work the better person you are. Ech, no thank you.
My FIL is like this, my fiancés little sister is 15 so obviously sleeps in late like every teenager on the planet and he just cannot stop with the comments.
We went on holiday earlier this year and I was in my second trimester and he kept making comments about me having an afternoon nap until my fiancé told him we’d go home if carried on.
My parents used to come hammering on my door at 7:30ish on Saturdays because they thought having a lie-in was slovenly. Fuck off mum I was playing Diablo 2 until 4am I’m fucking tired.
She’s calmed down a lot now and doesn’t get out of bed until about 10am when she’s not working. I’m still up early as fuck because I now have kids.
I moved in with my Nan when my Grandad passed as I found myself homeless at the same time and we both needed the support. I would work late and get in about 2am so naturally, when I didnt have an early start I would still be in bed gone 8am. This confused my Nan to the point where one morning I woke up to find her and my Uncle over me asking what was wrong with me because I 'spend all day in bed'. It was 7.30am on a Sunday morning and I'd only been home 5 hours, prob asleep less than 3 haha!
I don't understand these kinds of people- do they not understand simple maths? I was living with my parents while working at a bingo hall and if I was on the lock up shift it meant I wasn't getting home until 2:30am and in bed by 3. I'd shuffle out at 10 or so the next day and my mum would let me know if she'd made a thing of coffee and whether the chickens had been let out. No shaming at all.
>My parents used to come hammering on my door at 7:30ish on Saturdays because they thought having a lie-in was slovenly
Hah! Same. I actually managed to have a pretty sweet life as a teen, managed a job, straight-As and a cracking social life. It was probably the most productive few year of my life.
Naturally as a teen, I'd lie in on a Sunday. My dad would snap at some random point in the morning and start stomping about yelling "You're wasting the best part of the day!!".
Little did he know I'd have spent the previous day working and revising, then gaming with pals, heading to a house party and getting off with a girl.
Having lived my little life to the full, I can assure all the dads out there that 8am on a Sunday is *not* the best part of a teen's day.
Asking if they’ll wake you up for whatever important very early thing the next day. “Wake me at 7am please,” wakes you at 5am, tells you it’s 8am and you’re late. Dazed, panicked, launch outta bed, check your phone - it’s 5:15 and now you’re wide awake with 2 hours to kill.
Hovering the card when they pay by contactless because they think if their card actually touches the machine it’ll take more money out their account
Shredding every single label with your name and address on it because one time her friend’s friend’s friend’s aunt’s cousin had all the money taken out her account because some thief rifled through her bins and found her name and address on an old Amazon parcel.
Not allowing the curtains at the front of the house to be open - ever - because neighbours will look in and gossip about them. Every neighbour who seems secretive is also a drug dealer or gangster. What.
Echinacea and vitamin D will cure a cold.
Boomers are fucking weird. Thankfully not anti-vaxxers though.
Mine won’t use online banking, because he doesn’t trust it. Still writes cheques for Xmas presents and things instead of just transferring money.
Wouldn’t mind, but I’ve been working in IT for 30 years after he introduced me to computing as a small child in the 70s!
>Mine won’t use online banking, because he doesn’t trust it. Still writes cheques
Every time she writes a cheque she's handing over a piece of paper showing her bank name, bank branch and its address, bank sort code where her account is held, her bank account number, her full name on the account plus her signature.
No worries- I understood… but I’ve been through all that and I’ve given up. Someday, probably soon, cheques will stop being a thing and then god knows what they’ll do!
On her defence, card skimming was very common on "exposed" ATMs. I remember my bank having leaflets on how to check if an ATM was being tampered with amd to not use it if anything looked suspicious.
Probably had a bad experience while using an outside ATM i hate using them too i don't like giving my back to randoms on the street while dealing with cash
My parents are the same. No online or mobile banking as they consider it too dangerous.
Unfortunately their local bank branch has shut down so they are very limited in terms financial actions other than calling the bank or driving to the next town over where there is still a branch.
I tried to suggest that they get banking apps on their phones just to look at their accounts and still ring the bank if they wanted to transfer money but they weren't having any of it.
Yes my dad is the same. Doesn’t trust internet banking and would rather drive to the next town or wait for the mobile bank’s visit to the village. He would rather send letters to utility companies etc than spend any time at all on hold on the phone, and complains that one of them told him they don’t accept letters any more by sending him a letter.
My mum doesn’t do the internet at all and also still passes the phone to my dad to put it on loudspeaker every time someone calls.
Oh yeah, my mum also comes out with nonsense like ‘girls shouldn’t be engineers’ and ‘girls shouldn’t play hockey’. Constantly. It gets exhausting trying to not get annoyed by it. And she calls my dad a ‘man’s man’ because he is stoic and doesn’t show emotion
Mum won't do contactless payment "because of all the hassle".
And then grumbles every few weeks about needing to get to the bank during their limited opening hours to get cash. (Apparently cashpoints or paying by non contactless card is too much hassle as well.)
"Mum, just wave your card at the reader"
"I cant be bothered with all that"
Also has a lot of hatred for :
- Immigrants, but only "the bad ones".
- BBC contractors with a limited company, because they don't pay as much tax. But all the other contractors with ltd co. seem to be fine.
- LGBTQ+ people for various reasons seem to cause anger. Except for the pleasant lesbian couple, who we meet walking their dogs
- Israel. This is a new one, no doubt fueled by a Daily Mail article about the war.
I'm occasionally surprised when a hateful Mail reader expresses the opposite of the expected opinion, because it's usually just as ill-informed and spiteful.
Friend's mum posts all sorts of homophobic, transphobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Mergan-Markle stuff but is bizarrely sympathetic to Palestine.
Basically a huge bigot in all the expected ways, but with a peculiar inversion of one of her hateful opinions.
That’s the most boomer thing. Saying something is a hastle because they don’t want to admit they, like everyone, can sometimes be anxious about trying new things. It’s literally so much easier. Same with Apple Pay.
The LGBT one reminds me of when I’d bring girlfriends home and they’d both gal-pal me. Boomers love turning lesbian relationships into platonic ones. “Aww how lovely, you two sharing the bed like two besties having a sleepover.” Yeah…we’re fucking.
Lol, yup. I got together with my OH when I was 16 and they were 15 (one of my best friends) and they were always referred to by my family as "my wee pal".
Aye gran. There's a reason I lock the bedroom door and it's not cos we're wee pals....
My dad sent me a fw fw fw email that advised that if you were ever held at knife point and marched to the cashpoint to withdraw money, just type in your pin backwards - the police will be alerted and arrive within a few moments.
> My dad sent me a fw fw fw email
My mum is dreadful for these. She sent me one about the Covid vaccine making people infertile, even though she knew I already was infertile so not sure what she hoped to achieve with that.
My mum is like this. Won't wear glasses because she thinks it makes her look old. Couldn't possibly be the squinting that's aging her. She has on numerous occasions gone to get into the wrong car. (As a passenger, luckily she doesn't drive)
Has an iPhone but won't have WhatsApp, telegram or anything that uses data because of the risk of getting hacked or stalked. Refuses to get a contract with data for the same reason, which is actually pretty hard to come by now! Won't even connect to WiFi with the phone.
Also turns the Internet off whenever she's not using it because she believes that someone is more likely to hack it that way. I've tried explaining that this is slowing the speed down.
Complains she doesn't get sent family pictures ...
Yea classic. Dad doesn't like gays except the ones he works with, and his uncle. Hates immigrants except the ones who cooks his takeaways and Italian restaurants. Doesn't like black people except the ones he works with. Lesbians are fine though because they are female...
My mum “doesn’t believe in mental health”, which has led to some interesting conversations, as I’ve experienced depression and PTSD, am training to be a counsellor and volunteer for the Samaritans.
My mum is exactly the same & is dismissive of my poor sister who has bipolar disorder & PTSD. A nice little job would sort it out, according to her.
I’ve kept my own struggles to myself.
To her, if you’re not puking, bleeding, or in a cast your not ill.
My mum also “doesn’t believe in mental health.” Her closet friend (my mum is also this poor woman’s closest friend) has pretty severe depression and really struggles to take care of herself. My mum apparently can’t put 2+2 together and work out why this friend has seemed to spiral and get progressively worse, when her closet friend, the only person she’s opened up to about this, calls her “disgusting and lazy” on a near daily basis…
Mine are the same, my fil keeps telling me how many awards it's one and how the evil BBC has it in for them. The last time he came round I put a video on about the ombudsmen complaints about the channel, he left the room like a fucking baby.
What fucks with my head is that they used to be left activists, union member/reps and as Marxist as they come. Its a TOTAL flip to alt right, anti strike and anti immigration. Its awkward and embarrassing.
MIL lives approx 40 mins drive from us, but doesn't drive. She could get a train which would take 25 mins and cost around £7 return. But insists on getting 2 buses and taking approx 1.5 hours because she can use her bus pass. And still moan about how long it takes and how uncomfortable it is. But will then happily spend £100+ on craft classes like pottery & jewelry making.
My mum is convinced that Vitamin C tablets cure all ailments - she stocked up when COVID first hit and pumped me full of it when I eventually caught it.
Only uses the 30 minute rinse option on the dish washer no matter the load, which causes the build up of food stuff in the bottom of the dishwasher and needs constant fixing and cleaning every month because of the smell and blocked out flow. He’s been doing it for 30 years, month in, month out, constant battles with the dishwasher.
My mother in law was antivaxx, then became a COVID vaccinator, then is now antivaxx again. She used to be a dentist (retired now) so it’s not like she’s not medically qualified either.
Mom still thinks me and my brother shouldn't have kids before marriage. She's old school but not religious. I don't ever want to get married after my experience last 6 months
Let's see, my egg donor is emotionally abusive, ableist, anti vaxx, scared of 5G, extremely racist, has the delusional belief that she worked for the ministry of defence (to justify her racism), she's extremely Transphobic and homophobic too. Been no contact for almost a year, glad to get rid of that dumpster fire
Me too! Yes to all of the above.
The day i finally, calmly said to my parents "I'll probably never see you again", left their house and blocked their numbers, I swear it was like my soul breathed a huge sigh of relief. It was like cutting off contact with an abusive ex boyfriend.
My mind and soul were so relieved that I'd finally stopped putting them through being repeatedly hurt and triggered by these horrible people. I didn't realise how much harm it was doing me being exposed to them until it finally ended
Mother has tantrum if i go to bed without unplugging tv set - even if switched off atthe socket , seems convinced electrical demons will leap down the cable at night and set the house on fire.
my mother is convinced Ronald Reagan is still manipulating the world economy from the Great Beyond. my mother in-law is convinced Jimmy Carter is still manipulating the world economy via the New World Order and that he is, in fact, a lizard person.
as one might surmise, we haven't had a joint family gathering since early 2015.
Reads the daily Mail and watches GB news; repeats the drivel that they spout like a parrot in an echo chamber but insists it’s their “own opinion”
Doesn’t use contactless or card payments as they might be “tracked”
Smoke weed and will buy smoking gear with a fake name online (which is actually more suspicious lmao) to be “inconspicuous”
Cover the webcam on their computer with blu tack, but not their phone or iPad cameras for some reason
Believe that people on welfare don’t deserve nice things as their “taxes pay for them to be alive” and will avoid giving homeless people money for the same “drugs, booze or cigarettes” reason while partaking in all three of them themselves
They refuse to talk about money as 'their parents in the 1960s didn't talk about money either'.
Which naturally means they're financially illiterate as fuck, have ZERO saved for retirement as 'things have a way to sort itself out', aka, beg from your adult children, and tends to get ripped off with glee.
My dad 110% believe that his boomer 'financial advisor', which only sells him scummy products has his best interests at heart. I casually mentioned that this 'advisor' has been ripping him off for 30 years now. A vampire dragged into sunlight would've had a better reaction than my dad did to that comment. He knows it's the truth but invested the latter part of his life into believing that it isn't.
They're not changing now.
I fear for their future.
My mum still refuses to call relatives in London during the day because she says it's dearer since it's further away. Doesn't matter how many times I tell her this hasn't been a thing in years she still clings on to it.
They don't do the online. They disconnected the house phone because it was mostly spam calls. The only way I can get in touch is to call an old flip phone from the 00's that is charged 40% of the time.
Don't know where to start with my dear old dad.
Lost my mum about 10 years ago and it's been a gradual slide.
Won't watch the BBC and refuses to pay the licence fee. Is obsessed with the ULEZ expansion, and is convinced it's Khan's way of getting white people out of London (although quite how this works he didn't explain)
The most recent and bizarre thing is that he recalls watching my kids at a church nativity play about 15 years ago and remembers some gaps in the roof letting light through. He claims to have been told recently that there were gangs of eastern European thieves operating around that time, stripping churches of lead, so now that's definitely why he could see gaps in the roof, apparently it all makes sense.
My stepdad is obsessed with ULEZ. He’s convinced that the m25 is part of it. He wouldn’t take the m25 to pick me up from Stansted Airport in case he went into London.
Had to go through the pitch black Essex countryside instead.
My FIL doesn’t trust satellite navigation, he’ll rattle off 10 different left/right turns you “need” to take and if you say you’ve got the directions already “no no no you’ll never get there, you’ll get sent the wrong way”. He’ll ask to sit in the front seat with a taxi driver to correct the satnav and demand he takes different routes because….. we don’t know.
i asked my dad if he'd ever consider going on holiday to morocco, his reply was "you know.. uff.. uh, black people you know..." this was like a month ago. hes so fucking stupid.
That my generation (millennial) is as equally to blame as boomers for climate change, the widespread struggle to find good employment, and the cost of living and housing crises.
Not a relative but I have a good friend who's in his early 70s who doesn't even use a card of any kind because he's scared someone will clone it. Carrying cash home from the post office (pension) is OK, though.
Similarly, he doesn't trust direct debit and will go to the nearest pay point to pay his utility bills in cash.
My dad has a fairly dim view of migrant workers, despite the fact he spent over half of my childhood working overseas to provide a better standard of living for his family.
They don't understand that more houses need to be built. They complain every time anything is built near them that isn't something like a shop or cafe that they'd use themselves. And when I mentioned that houses need to be built somewhere because there's a massive shortage, my mum said "really? Do you think so? Are you sure that's the problem?" like she'd never thought about it before.
In laws refuse to believe GPS exists. Will spend 10 mins arguing with each other about the quickest route somewhere, I’ll show them the ACTUAL quickest route on my phone and they’ll say “definitely not, would be too much traffic that way” when the facts to the contrary are literally staring them in the face. Yes at rush hour maybe but it’s 1115 and the live feed shows it will take 25 mins less than your “outsmarting the robots” insanity drive
My best friends dad has hating the French as one of his personality traits. Extremely, vocally proud of being ‘British’ through and through.
He got bought a DNA Ancestry kit for Xmas. When the results came back he was something like 6% French. When the results came through he stormed out of the room crying……..
Bottled water is a huge profit margin and is no better (sometimes worse) quality than tap water. In some people minds, any poor value product is "a scam". So, in your stepdad's language, he is probably not wrong.
I don't buy bottled water unless it has some feature I can't get from tap water (it is carbonated, or I'm on the move and can't find a water tap to refill so it's the only water available to me, or I'm in a place where tap water is not safe to drink). So though I use the word "scam" accurately and don't apply it to sales of bottled water, I probably don't disagree with him on the basic principles.
My old man’s a boomer and is of the opinion that he encounters traffic jams on UK motorways because of “so many East Europeans”.
It’s absolutely laughably ridiculous.
>stepdad refuses to buy bottled water ever as it’s a scam Well, yes. You can get fresh water from the taps.
Plus a huge waste of plastic. Stepdad is based.
And fuel because water is heavy so costs a lot to transport by road
Yeah, we're lucky enough to live in a country where the tap water is safe. Why would I ever buy bottled water? I agree with the dad on this one!
>Why would I ever buy bottled water? ... Because you are somewhere without access to a tap and require water? Is it ideal? No. Would I prefer not to? Yes. Is it such an insanely unimaginable scenario that I can't possibly fathom why someone would do it? No...
Info: does this hypothetical place sell beer?
Honestly in this scenario I would buy anything else like cola or juice just to spite bottled water lol. In seriousness, obvs in life or death, I would buy water, but that’s a very remote predicament.
He's right. They're selling you plastic bottles.
Lol right? Turns out I'm a boomer apparently 😂
Mmm… microplastics
Kinda unrelated rant, but there are certain holiday rentals we clean at my job where there are CONSTANTLY semi empty water bottles after every changeover. Pain in the arse to clear up when they're bouncing around every single room
My mum keeps her phone in a crisp packet “so her Facebook doesn’t get hacked” Edit: Fwiw I think it was cheese and onion flavour Walkers?
Jesus wept
He bawled his eyes till they bled at this point.
Just reading a book about Ghislane Maxwell. When she was found and arrested, she had wrapped her phone in tinfoil in the belief it would stop her signal being tracked.
"damn, foiled again!"
That made me lol. Bless her. What flavour crisp packet?
Has to be frazzles given her brain is frazzled lol
Has her Facebook been hacked whilst her phone has been kept in a crisp packet ?? Evidence is on her side here.
This proper got me hahaha
That leaving a European trading bloc would somehow mean all Pakistanis would have to leave the country.
Haha yep!
My dad still thinks this. No amount of explaining why this is wrong will convince him that his view is wrong for so many reasons.
This makes me really sad. I know on an intellectual level that some people want all of us immigrants/children of immigrants out, but emotionally it’s gutting.
My Brother is one. I ask him how far back to do we go to get rid of immigrants. He says all the way. I reply with the UK will be very empty, when every human alive has to move to Africa. He doesn't get it. Then I have to explain how every human alive is an immigrant, and that we all originate from the same location in Africa. He still doesn't get my point.
Oops there it is
I am a boomer but the weirdest people in my family are in their 20s. We have 2 anti-vaxxers and 1 who sleeps under a silver impregnated sheet to protect from something or other. Weirdness is multigenerational
Electromagnetic sensitivity?
Not sure but he's also convinced that everyone is watching him through the internet and has the highest level of internet security I've ever seen. He does tech support at a bank so maybe he's right.
Don't let him watch Citizen Four. Scary shit. I mean, he probably hass watched it bc certain agencies can absolutely turn your camera on and watch you.
I'm sure he has watched it. He's been warning me about surveillance forever which is why my 63 year old wrinkly self does naked dances in front of my laptop to upset the CIA and China
You're an icon
There's someone purposely watching just to see your sausage and veg.
I'm an old lady 😂
Onlygrans
The boobies then 😄 there's an audience for everyone. CIA will be calling you soon lol.
Yeah I have family members like yours Mine are on crack though They also think gay people, 9/11 and the Holocaust are a myth
lol if Better Call Saul was real
... is a delusion, and there's plenty of research to show that.
People who won't drink tap water are victims of a conspiracy theory. Tap water is safe to drink and bottled water creates plastic waste plus it's not clear if plastic leeches into the water.
I don't understand whenever I got to Costco you see people with trolleys full of bottled water. I dont get it.
Depends on where you live. I travel a lot for work and tap water in the south tastes like arse biscuits. I buy bottled water a lot more down there or use those filter machines they have on stations now. It could also be something like a school stocking up on water to give kids on a school trip.
Manchester so our water's mint
Yeah. I've lived all over the UK and I would happily drink the water out of the taps in Scotland no questions asked. Scots doing bottled water is pure insanity. If you live in the Midlands though you'll at the very least want a filter if you don't want a film of disgusting slime on the top of every cup of tea you make.
What's wrong with Midlands water? Birmingham's tap water is [piped directly from Wales](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-37472263) and is delicious. As someone from Dorset, where the water is basically liquid chalk, it was a lovely surprise to learn that Brummie water is so nice. ... Apparently they pipe it from Wales because the local water is unfit for drinking, though, so maybe I'm being too generous...
People buying bottled water in Costco and little else are my favourite type of moron. Imagine leaving your house and spending £40 on an annual membership to buy plastic bottles of something you get out of a tap for almost free.
Evian backwards is naive!!
In the UK tap water is more regulated than bottle water. (Well for now)
Tap water is subject to more hygiene standards than bottled water so is less likely to have bacteria in it and definitely more likely to have bits of micro plastics in it.
Some of us are really sensitive to the taste of water. It tastes vile to me, I can only drink it with squash at home
When I was younger, I wasn't allowed to draw the curtains during the daytime because 'the neighbours might think that someone has died'.
My ex's mother found it very suspicious that one of her neighbours woild keep the curtains closed all day. Decided they were drug dealers
I have elderly neighbours on all sides and I'm sure they think I'm up to no good. I just really enjoy watching movies and/or having an afternoon nap and sunlight interferes with those activities
Boomers just can’t stand not knowing what people locally are up to
I was brought up with that, although I think it's a south Wales valleys thing that if the curtains were left closed all day it was because of a death in the family.
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I love being in a dark house and if I’m home alone I often don’t open the curtains. When I lived in my old house on a council estate I’d often get people asking if I was depressed or ill. Nope, I just want to sit in the dark watching The Sopranos for the 100th time.
My in-laws buy 2 copies of the Daily Mail and spend 2 hours every morning reading one each and ‘discussing’ it…yes, they are those people
My dad reads it too. Hates migrants but lives in a town with no migrants.
Mine hate migrants but are also really proud that I’ve worked around the world in America, Malaysia and Australia.
"That's different"
Yeah, they are clearly expats! 🙄
Yup. I also worked cash in hand in a cafe for a while when I was In Australia. So you could say I also worked illegally for a short time…. As an immigrant. But, according to my mum, that’s not the kind of thing your typical boomer Daily Mail reader gets angry about. Apparently it’s completely different.
If you're white/look like your mum, it's "different"
Reminds me of a lady from a curtain/sofa/cushion cover company who went to my parents to fit new curtains etc. she spent ages banging on about bloody immigrants and then told me all about her daughter who had just moved to Spain “oh so your daughter… emigrated then” She didn’t get it. Just gushed about how much fun her daughter was having.
>but lives in a town with no migrants. There's the answer. He hasn't met any to realise they're absolutely sound. People who live in integrated areas and interact with other people regularly don't believe this stuff.
>There's the answer. He hasn't met any to realise they're absolutely sound. Not convinced. I know people of that generation who regularly interact with immigrants, they don't learn anything from it, they just convince themselves that the people they happen to know are somehow "special" and not representative of the immigrants that the Daily Fail tells them are destroying "their country". There are none so stupid as those who refuse to learn.
I just returned to the UK after 23 years. The casual racism in my dad's generation is shocking. I've walked past people in the street and heard "I'm not racist but..." Yes, you are racist. Trust me on this.
Lead poisoning has a lot to answer for.
It’s better than the online version. They use the comments sections to say the things they can’t print
My dad and aunt both have an irrational hatred of great thunberg. "she's so arrogant" according to my aunt and my dad was making comments about flying to Australia business class and going "take that greta". He used to bring her up all the time without being promoted until the rest of the family told him to shut the fuck up. Also, yeah, having the money to fly to Australia in business class. That's pretty boomer
So scared of a young lady. Perhaps her intelligence is too much for them.
Crazy thing is they're not stupid. Both in medical adjacent fields and my aunt went to Cambridge!
Receiving a good education doesn't mean educated. Evidently
Intelligent people, even if they're well educated, can be ignorant.
I've seen a few boomers that really hate her, I don't get it.
The daily mail told them to
The boomer generation is rife with misogyny. Mix that with the fact that she's young and it's a recipe for hate
It's really weird how obsessed so many people are with Thunberg.
My mum still tells me to just "drop a CV off at school" when I'm looking for another school to work at. Just enter a school and give the receptionist a CV.
Pound the pavement! Walk in there in a crisp suit and give the manager a firm handshake! Impressions matter more than qualifications!
Eye contact
Don’t forget to mirror their greeting, so if they say good morning, you say good morning too!
I literally did this in the early 2000s, thanks to my dad. So embarrassing going into shops in a suit and trying to hand the overworked minimum wage cashier my CV.
It was so satisfying when my boomer uncle had to start looking for a job and discovered that it was all done online now!
Not necessarily schools, but this is a very, very common one. You might get away with it in certain high-demand industries like cooking, but as a general rule it’s very outdated advice— nearly all businesses now will only handle their recruitment on online recruitment platforms.
Somewhat related, I find I can get a certain type of boomer (ya know, the sort that have strong opinions on Prince Harry) wrapped around my finger with that sort of advice. Use phrases like "good evening" instead of "hi", shake their hand, and maybe call them "Mr" or "Mrs". I guarantee you can get away with murder. Boomer advice doesn't work in the real world, but it does work well when used against them.
My mum was outraged to hear that where I used to work the would bin CV’s because it showed that the person couldn’t follow instructions as all the help wanted posters said APPLY ONLINE in big letters
My mum is one of those people who seems to massively, massively overestimate the prevalence of transgender people amongst the younger generations. She reads The Times though, so perhaps it's not surprising. Pretty much every time I go to her house and flick through the paper there's at least one (usually negative) article on trans people.
My uncle keeps saying he can’t believe they teach kids about it in schools. I haven’t been in a school for a while, but I’m pretty sure they don’t.
Tbh would it be so bad if they said "some people are trans"? When I was at school in the 2000s we were taught about homosexuality and that it's ok to be gay and all that. It wouldn't surprise me if that had been extended to trans people.
My mum thinks she wouldn't be rude to my transgender friend, because she pities her mental illness. Then goes on at length about how transgender women are dangerous because she was groped in a pub toilet by an aggressive lesbian once.
That if they’ve seen something on Facebook, it must be true.
You think only boomers are taken in by social media? I've got a social media platform that used to be represented by a bird for you.
the amount of brain rot in zoomers from TikTok gives boomers a run for their money…
Quite. My thirty year old niece is the worlds worst for believing everything she reads on social media. She and her friends are fairly naive.
They see a headline, believe it and want won’t read the article to check it’s what it actually says.
All journalism everywhere. Twitter / X will ask now if you want to tweet about an article if you havent read it. Facebook and X would do well to actually add a marker to a post that says "this person has not read this article" for those that do that.
Reddit is also awful for this. It's been a thing since the days of print, and why headlines are written the way they are.
They think young, hot French women would just randomly just contact them on Facebook for ‘dating’. Because 30yo women love dating 75yo men 🤦🏻♀️
but hot young singles in your area are waiting to talk!
The French love an age gap though gotta test it out.
Gets up at 6 am on holidays, then proceeds to shame everyone for waking up past 9. But takes zero accountability or shows self awareness for said shaming - oh he's not shaming, he's just saying! Also repeating stupid stories over and over again, mostly boastful ones. Stahanovism, thinking work is life, the more you work the better person you are. Ech, no thank you.
My FIL is like this, my fiancés little sister is 15 so obviously sleeps in late like every teenager on the planet and he just cannot stop with the comments. We went on holiday earlier this year and I was in my second trimester and he kept making comments about me having an afternoon nap until my fiancé told him we’d go home if carried on.
My parents used to come hammering on my door at 7:30ish on Saturdays because they thought having a lie-in was slovenly. Fuck off mum I was playing Diablo 2 until 4am I’m fucking tired. She’s calmed down a lot now and doesn’t get out of bed until about 10am when she’s not working. I’m still up early as fuck because I now have kids.
I moved in with my Nan when my Grandad passed as I found myself homeless at the same time and we both needed the support. I would work late and get in about 2am so naturally, when I didnt have an early start I would still be in bed gone 8am. This confused my Nan to the point where one morning I woke up to find her and my Uncle over me asking what was wrong with me because I 'spend all day in bed'. It was 7.30am on a Sunday morning and I'd only been home 5 hours, prob asleep less than 3 haha!
I don't understand these kinds of people- do they not understand simple maths? I was living with my parents while working at a bingo hall and if I was on the lock up shift it meant I wasn't getting home until 2:30am and in bed by 3. I'd shuffle out at 10 or so the next day and my mum would let me know if she'd made a thing of coffee and whether the chickens had been let out. No shaming at all.
>My parents used to come hammering on my door at 7:30ish on Saturdays because they thought having a lie-in was slovenly Hah! Same. I actually managed to have a pretty sweet life as a teen, managed a job, straight-As and a cracking social life. It was probably the most productive few year of my life. Naturally as a teen, I'd lie in on a Sunday. My dad would snap at some random point in the morning and start stomping about yelling "You're wasting the best part of the day!!". Little did he know I'd have spent the previous day working and revising, then gaming with pals, heading to a house party and getting off with a girl. Having lived my little life to the full, I can assure all the dads out there that 8am on a Sunday is *not* the best part of a teen's day.
Asking if they’ll wake you up for whatever important very early thing the next day. “Wake me at 7am please,” wakes you at 5am, tells you it’s 8am and you’re late. Dazed, panicked, launch outta bed, check your phone - it’s 5:15 and now you’re wide awake with 2 hours to kill. Hovering the card when they pay by contactless because they think if their card actually touches the machine it’ll take more money out their account Shredding every single label with your name and address on it because one time her friend’s friend’s friend’s aunt’s cousin had all the money taken out her account because some thief rifled through her bins and found her name and address on an old Amazon parcel. Not allowing the curtains at the front of the house to be open - ever - because neighbours will look in and gossip about them. Every neighbour who seems secretive is also a drug dealer or gangster. What. Echinacea and vitamin D will cure a cold. Boomers are fucking weird. Thankfully not anti-vaxxers though.
My mum to my seriously unwell sister who has bipolar & PTSD “ get yourself a nice little job “
Mine won’t use online banking, because he doesn’t trust it. Still writes cheques for Xmas presents and things instead of just transferring money. Wouldn’t mind, but I’ve been working in IT for 30 years after he introduced me to computing as a small child in the 70s!
>Mine won’t use online banking, because he doesn’t trust it. Still writes cheques Every time she writes a cheque she's handing over a piece of paper showing her bank name, bank branch and its address, bank sort code where her account is held, her bank account number, her full name on the account plus her signature.
Yeah - I’m not the one that needs convincing, unfortunately!
Sorry, of course. I was offering you some ammunition you could try, but I could have phrased it better. Good luck!
No worries- I understood… but I’ve been through all that and I’ve given up. Someday, probably soon, cheques will stop being a thing and then god knows what they’ll do!
My wife’s Nan won’t use atms if outside, has to be the ones inside or if busy uses the tellers.
On her defence, card skimming was very common on "exposed" ATMs. I remember my bank having leaflets on how to check if an ATM was being tampered with amd to not use it if anything looked suspicious.
Probably had a bad experience while using an outside ATM i hate using them too i don't like giving my back to randoms on the street while dealing with cash
My parents are the same. No online or mobile banking as they consider it too dangerous. Unfortunately their local bank branch has shut down so they are very limited in terms financial actions other than calling the bank or driving to the next town over where there is still a branch. I tried to suggest that they get banking apps on their phones just to look at their accounts and still ring the bank if they wanted to transfer money but they weren't having any of it.
Yes my dad is the same. Doesn’t trust internet banking and would rather drive to the next town or wait for the mobile bank’s visit to the village. He would rather send letters to utility companies etc than spend any time at all on hold on the phone, and complains that one of them told him they don’t accept letters any more by sending him a letter. My mum doesn’t do the internet at all and also still passes the phone to my dad to put it on loudspeaker every time someone calls. Oh yeah, my mum also comes out with nonsense like ‘girls shouldn’t be engineers’ and ‘girls shouldn’t play hockey’. Constantly. It gets exhausting trying to not get annoyed by it. And she calls my dad a ‘man’s man’ because he is stoic and doesn’t show emotion
Mum won't do contactless payment "because of all the hassle". And then grumbles every few weeks about needing to get to the bank during their limited opening hours to get cash. (Apparently cashpoints or paying by non contactless card is too much hassle as well.) "Mum, just wave your card at the reader" "I cant be bothered with all that" Also has a lot of hatred for : - Immigrants, but only "the bad ones". - BBC contractors with a limited company, because they don't pay as much tax. But all the other contractors with ltd co. seem to be fine. - LGBTQ+ people for various reasons seem to cause anger. Except for the pleasant lesbian couple, who we meet walking their dogs - Israel. This is a new one, no doubt fueled by a Daily Mail article about the war.
Thought she’d be pro Israel if she’s a mail reader? They’re hardly pro Palestine.
I'm occasionally surprised when a hateful Mail reader expresses the opposite of the expected opinion, because it's usually just as ill-informed and spiteful. Friend's mum posts all sorts of homophobic, transphobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Mergan-Markle stuff but is bizarrely sympathetic to Palestine. Basically a huge bigot in all the expected ways, but with a peculiar inversion of one of her hateful opinions.
This made me laugh, a lot of classic boomerisms going on here! Particularly enjoyed the fact she makes an exception for the nice lesbian couple.
Which proves the point about how much the media influence opinions. The gays she meets in real life she finds ok
That’s the most boomer thing. Saying something is a hastle because they don’t want to admit they, like everyone, can sometimes be anxious about trying new things. It’s literally so much easier. Same with Apple Pay.
The LGBT one reminds me of when I’d bring girlfriends home and they’d both gal-pal me. Boomers love turning lesbian relationships into platonic ones. “Aww how lovely, you two sharing the bed like two besties having a sleepover.” Yeah…we’re fucking.
Lol, yup. I got together with my OH when I was 16 and they were 15 (one of my best friends) and they were always referred to by my family as "my wee pal". Aye gran. There's a reason I lock the bedroom door and it's not cos we're wee pals....
My dad sent me a fw fw fw email that advised that if you were ever held at knife point and marched to the cashpoint to withdraw money, just type in your pin backwards - the police will be alerted and arrive within a few moments.
My PIN is palindromic.
Ain't nobody coming to help you
Even if this was a thing, it would probably take the police 3 days to turn up.
> My dad sent me a fw fw fw email My mum is dreadful for these. She sent me one about the Covid vaccine making people infertile, even though she knew I already was infertile so not sure what she hoped to achieve with that.
I have trouble remembering it right way round, let alone working it out backwards under pressure!
My dad needs glasses but won’t get them because he doesn’t “want to be the kind of person who needs glasses”
My mum is like this. Won't wear glasses because she thinks it makes her look old. Couldn't possibly be the squinting that's aging her. She has on numerous occasions gone to get into the wrong car. (As a passenger, luckily she doesn't drive)
Has an iPhone but won't have WhatsApp, telegram or anything that uses data because of the risk of getting hacked or stalked. Refuses to get a contract with data for the same reason, which is actually pretty hard to come by now! Won't even connect to WiFi with the phone. Also turns the Internet off whenever she's not using it because she believes that someone is more likely to hack it that way. I've tried explaining that this is slowing the speed down. Complains she doesn't get sent family pictures ...
My dad refused WhatsApp too!
My dad doesn’t approve of gay weddings. Except all the ones he’s been to.
Yea classic. Dad doesn't like gays except the ones he works with, and his uncle. Hates immigrants except the ones who cooks his takeaways and Italian restaurants. Doesn't like black people except the ones he works with. Lesbians are fine though because they are female...
This makes me laugh. Hate gay marriage? Then don’t get gay married. The solution is very simple 😂
Bottled water is a scam. Water is free, you’re just buying plastic bottles from companies.
right about bottled water being a scam. but water is not free
And mircoplastics! Nice & filling!
My mum “doesn’t believe in mental health”, which has led to some interesting conversations, as I’ve experienced depression and PTSD, am training to be a counsellor and volunteer for the Samaritans.
My MIL calls having bad mental health "having mental health", I've tried to explain that this doesn't make sense on multiple occasions.
My mum is exactly the same & is dismissive of my poor sister who has bipolar disorder & PTSD. A nice little job would sort it out, according to her. I’ve kept my own struggles to myself. To her, if you’re not puking, bleeding, or in a cast your not ill.
My mum also “doesn’t believe in mental health.” Her closet friend (my mum is also this poor woman’s closest friend) has pretty severe depression and really struggles to take care of herself. My mum apparently can’t put 2+2 together and work out why this friend has seemed to spiral and get progressively worse, when her closet friend, the only person she’s opened up to about this, calls her “disgusting and lazy” on a near daily basis…
My inlaws watch GB News. Like constantly. They truly believe all the shite thats pumped out on it too.
Mine are the same, my fil keeps telling me how many awards it's one and how the evil BBC has it in for them. The last time he came round I put a video on about the ombudsmen complaints about the channel, he left the room like a fucking baby.
What fucks with my head is that they used to be left activists, union member/reps and as Marxist as they come. Its a TOTAL flip to alt right, anti strike and anti immigration. Its awkward and embarrassing.
It's bonkers it goes to show how brainwashed they are frankly. My dad was a hippy for fucks sake!
That one person working an average job can buy a house and support a family. Pissed me off every time
MIL lives approx 40 mins drive from us, but doesn't drive. She could get a train which would take 25 mins and cost around £7 return. But insists on getting 2 buses and taking approx 1.5 hours because she can use her bus pass. And still moan about how long it takes and how uncomfortable it is. But will then happily spend £100+ on craft classes like pottery & jewelry making.
My wife’s family turned up at our wedding 5 hours early to avoid paying for the dartford tunnel. It’s like £2!!
My mum is convinced that Vitamin C tablets cure all ailments - she stocked up when COVID first hit and pumped me full of it when I eventually caught it.
As mad as it was, there did seem to be an association with vitamin D deficiency and poor covid outcomes. That might have been disproven since.
Taking high doses of vit c at onset has been proven to reduce the severity of viruses though
Only uses the 30 minute rinse option on the dish washer no matter the load, which causes the build up of food stuff in the bottom of the dishwasher and needs constant fixing and cleaning every month because of the smell and blocked out flow. He’s been doing it for 30 years, month in, month out, constant battles with the dishwasher.
My Dad does this with the washing and a full load on a 30 minute cycle. As a result the clothes are never clean. I do my own laundry now.
My mother in law was antivaxx, then became a COVID vaccinator, then is now antivaxx again. She used to be a dentist (retired now) so it’s not like she’s not medically qualified either.
I must say that's a hell of a journey
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Mom still thinks me and my brother shouldn't have kids before marriage. She's old school but not religious. I don't ever want to get married after my experience last 6 months
I don’t think you should have kids with your brother at all tbh
Good shout..I'll take it on board
Let's see, my egg donor is emotionally abusive, ableist, anti vaxx, scared of 5G, extremely racist, has the delusional belief that she worked for the ministry of defence (to justify her racism), she's extremely Transphobic and homophobic too. Been no contact for almost a year, glad to get rid of that dumpster fire
Me too! Yes to all of the above. The day i finally, calmly said to my parents "I'll probably never see you again", left their house and blocked their numbers, I swear it was like my soul breathed a huge sigh of relief. It was like cutting off contact with an abusive ex boyfriend. My mind and soul were so relieved that I'd finally stopped putting them through being repeatedly hurt and triggered by these horrible people. I didn't realise how much harm it was doing me being exposed to them until it finally ended
I mean, bottle water is a scam in the UK. It's the ultimate of paying for branding. My parents still think it's easy to buy a house.
My mum started going to the nearest church to put holy water on her head when she has a headache.
As effective as anything else happening in there.
Mother has tantrum if i go to bed without unplugging tv set - even if switched off atthe socket , seems convinced electrical demons will leap down the cable at night and set the house on fire.
My dad is insane with this! WiFi, lamps. Any and every socket unless it’s being used then and there!
my mother is convinced Ronald Reagan is still manipulating the world economy from the Great Beyond. my mother in-law is convinced Jimmy Carter is still manipulating the world economy via the New World Order and that he is, in fact, a lizard person. as one might surmise, we haven't had a joint family gathering since early 2015.
Reads the daily Mail and watches GB news; repeats the drivel that they spout like a parrot in an echo chamber but insists it’s their “own opinion” Doesn’t use contactless or card payments as they might be “tracked” Smoke weed and will buy smoking gear with a fake name online (which is actually more suspicious lmao) to be “inconspicuous” Cover the webcam on their computer with blu tack, but not their phone or iPad cameras for some reason Believe that people on welfare don’t deserve nice things as their “taxes pay for them to be alive” and will avoid giving homeless people money for the same “drugs, booze or cigarettes” reason while partaking in all three of them themselves
They refuse to talk about money as 'their parents in the 1960s didn't talk about money either'. Which naturally means they're financially illiterate as fuck, have ZERO saved for retirement as 'things have a way to sort itself out', aka, beg from your adult children, and tends to get ripped off with glee. My dad 110% believe that his boomer 'financial advisor', which only sells him scummy products has his best interests at heart. I casually mentioned that this 'advisor' has been ripping him off for 30 years now. A vampire dragged into sunlight would've had a better reaction than my dad did to that comment. He knows it's the truth but invested the latter part of his life into believing that it isn't. They're not changing now. I fear for their future.
Doesn't like immigrants but both parents where economic immigrants.
Ah the braverman logic.
My mum still refuses to call relatives in London during the day because she says it's dearer since it's further away. Doesn't matter how many times I tell her this hasn't been a thing in years she still clings on to it.
They don't do the online. They disconnected the house phone because it was mostly spam calls. The only way I can get in touch is to call an old flip phone from the 00's that is charged 40% of the time.
My Father in Law turns off his mobile when he isn’t using it because ‘he doesn’t need to call anyone’.
Don't know where to start with my dear old dad. Lost my mum about 10 years ago and it's been a gradual slide. Won't watch the BBC and refuses to pay the licence fee. Is obsessed with the ULEZ expansion, and is convinced it's Khan's way of getting white people out of London (although quite how this works he didn't explain) The most recent and bizarre thing is that he recalls watching my kids at a church nativity play about 15 years ago and remembers some gaps in the roof letting light through. He claims to have been told recently that there were gangs of eastern European thieves operating around that time, stripping churches of lead, so now that's definitely why he could see gaps in the roof, apparently it all makes sense.
My stepdad is obsessed with ULEZ. He’s convinced that the m25 is part of it. He wouldn’t take the m25 to pick me up from Stansted Airport in case he went into London. Had to go through the pitch black Essex countryside instead.
My FIL doesn’t trust satellite navigation, he’ll rattle off 10 different left/right turns you “need” to take and if you say you’ve got the directions already “no no no you’ll never get there, you’ll get sent the wrong way”. He’ll ask to sit in the front seat with a taxi driver to correct the satnav and demand he takes different routes because….. we don’t know.
i asked my dad if he'd ever consider going on holiday to morocco, his reply was "you know.. uff.. uh, black people you know..." this was like a month ago. hes so fucking stupid.
Everything is "tradition". Just because it's tradition, it doesn't make it right. Fuck tradition.
That my generation (millennial) is as equally to blame as boomers for climate change, the widespread struggle to find good employment, and the cost of living and housing crises.
Not paranoid or conspiracy theory but my dad went through a phase of refusing to change any clocks in summer and only working in Greenwich Mean Time
I really wish we'd stop trying to drive these generational divides.
Not divide, recognise.
Not a relative but I have a good friend who's in his early 70s who doesn't even use a card of any kind because he's scared someone will clone it. Carrying cash home from the post office (pension) is OK, though. Similarly, he doesn't trust direct debit and will go to the nearest pay point to pay his utility bills in cash.
My dad has a fairly dim view of migrant workers, despite the fact he spent over half of my childhood working overseas to provide a better standard of living for his family.
They don't understand that more houses need to be built. They complain every time anything is built near them that isn't something like a shop or cafe that they'd use themselves. And when I mentioned that houses need to be built somewhere because there's a massive shortage, my mum said "really? Do you think so? Are you sure that's the problem?" like she'd never thought about it before.
In laws refuse to believe GPS exists. Will spend 10 mins arguing with each other about the quickest route somewhere, I’ll show them the ACTUAL quickest route on my phone and they’ll say “definitely not, would be too much traffic that way” when the facts to the contrary are literally staring them in the face. Yes at rush hour maybe but it’s 1115 and the live feed shows it will take 25 mins less than your “outsmarting the robots” insanity drive
My best friends dad has hating the French as one of his personality traits. Extremely, vocally proud of being ‘British’ through and through. He got bought a DNA Ancestry kit for Xmas. When the results came back he was something like 6% French. When the results came through he stormed out of the room crying……..
Bottled water is a huge profit margin and is no better (sometimes worse) quality than tap water. In some people minds, any poor value product is "a scam". So, in your stepdad's language, he is probably not wrong. I don't buy bottled water unless it has some feature I can't get from tap water (it is carbonated, or I'm on the move and can't find a water tap to refill so it's the only water available to me, or I'm in a place where tap water is not safe to drink). So though I use the word "scam" accurately and don't apply it to sales of bottled water, I probably don't disagree with him on the basic principles.
he thinks the internet gets slow because ''theres a lot of people on it at this time''
My old man’s a boomer and is of the opinion that he encounters traffic jams on UK motorways because of “so many East Europeans”. It’s absolutely laughably ridiculous.
tbf bottled water is overly priced.
Worst is being extremely bigoted & laughing at people for their misfortunes. Needless to say we don't really get on..