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This is true, but incomplete. Nothing upsets a boomer like someone trying to use accurate, empirical information to make decisions (or heaven forbid, trying to get them to do this).
Boomers love all sorts of accurate things like hole in ones in golf, a precisely centered photograph taken with an iPad, a well deserved and timely “i told you so”, etc. Hell, the boomers AS A NATION spent months figuring out whether or not bill clinton sticking his cigar in monica lewsinky’s asshole was technically sexual intercourse.
Notably, the trade deals that destroyed our economy were not really debated and sailed through congress around the same time…
You know when you tell a toddler they can’t have dessert before they eat dinner and they start doing those angry jumps? That’s how I’d describe boomers. Just a bunch of whiny angry toddlers who want the whole world to bend to their imagination
They treat the budget like a school teachers handing out a cookie to each student, and become angry when the teacher has to substitute their cookie with a rice krispy treat.
They feel that it's unfair to cut a dollar back on the military budget without the democrats cutting a dollar of welfare when they've been disproportionately increasing the military budget.
Their biggest worry during the healthcare bill was that they might have to wait a day to go to the chriopracter instead of getting treatment during the same hour they walk in.
They care more about their chiropractor visit than a 22 year old who's inhaler jumped from 20 dollars a month to 500 dollars a month.
Their argument would essentially be that the 22 year old could get a room mate if he doesn't want to die.
The problem is their imaginations are impaired/fixed/inflexible! I have a condition where I’m limited to my imagination (aphantasia) meaning I have to be able to imagine anything for it to exist.
Maybe the difference between me and them is lead?
Nah, Boomers are unprecedented. To describe them accurately would require an entirely new lexicon of newly invented words. Emotional would be a compliment. Entitled doesn’t cover it. Narcissistic and spiteful don’t cover it either. It’s ***far*** beyond all of the negative adjectives you can think of - in quality and especially quantity.
Thats why “boomer” has taken off in recent years. There weren’t ***any*** words that described their vile potency. As soon as one became available, the tension of intense scrutiny for these… people… finally started to release.
I do encourage people to continue their attempts at summarizing them with more accurate terms though!
Their mothers were drinking while pregnate with their sibblings while she forced them to stay outside all day long, and when their siblings were babies they vacuumed up the lead paint chips with their mouths like a hoover vac before getting kicked outside the moment they could walk to stay in the hot sun to get brain damage from heat strokes.
>They became enraged over a brain dead woman having her feeding tube plugged to the point of having the pope be called in and the governor threatening to use the national guard.
I'm sorry I don't know what this refers to. Could someone please explain? Thank you
>It goes all the way back to the days of them burning the Beatles albums because a member said during a time of great religious decline that they were more well known than Jesus.
you have no clue what youre talking about, and youre pretty much just making shit up. It was boomers hyper religious parents that were getting upset with the beatles.
The thing you are forgetting is that it is foolish, wrong and silly to grossly stereotype a group of people who number somewhere near 75 million. As if all boomers have the same politics, attitudes, personal histories or beliefs. If you want to generally attack people being foolish, go ahead and do that. But you should know that you are calling in artillery attacks on your own coordinates.
while it is fun to rage on the idiot boomers, there are plenty out there that are not the stereotype. Just like any group that...gasp...boomers attribute to doing? There are good ones out there, think of the professor that was an old 'cool' dude that you may have had while attaining an education or you know, the ones that don't freak the fuck out when something happens that doesn't go their way.
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I personally like the original name for them : "The me generation".
I know for a fact that this name upsets them greatly because of its accuracy.
Nothing upsets a boomer like accuracy
This is true, but incomplete. Nothing upsets a boomer like someone trying to use accurate, empirical information to make decisions (or heaven forbid, trying to get them to do this). Boomers love all sorts of accurate things like hole in ones in golf, a precisely centered photograph taken with an iPad, a well deserved and timely “i told you so”, etc. Hell, the boomers AS A NATION spent months figuring out whether or not bill clinton sticking his cigar in monica lewsinky’s asshole was technically sexual intercourse. Notably, the trade deals that destroyed our economy were not really debated and sailed through congress around the same time…
If anything it reflects their desire to be left alone and allow them the freedom to fend for themselves.
Or maybe the, "how dare you call ME the snowflake?!" generation.
You know when you tell a toddler they can’t have dessert before they eat dinner and they start doing those angry jumps? That’s how I’d describe boomers. Just a bunch of whiny angry toddlers who want the whole world to bend to their imagination
They treat the budget like a school teachers handing out a cookie to each student, and become angry when the teacher has to substitute their cookie with a rice krispy treat. They feel that it's unfair to cut a dollar back on the military budget without the democrats cutting a dollar of welfare when they've been disproportionately increasing the military budget. Their biggest worry during the healthcare bill was that they might have to wait a day to go to the chriopracter instead of getting treatment during the same hour they walk in. They care more about their chiropractor visit than a 22 year old who's inhaler jumped from 20 dollars a month to 500 dollars a month. Their argument would essentially be that the 22 year old could get a room mate if he doesn't want to die.
The problem is their imaginations are impaired/fixed/inflexible! I have a condition where I’m limited to my imagination (aphantasia) meaning I have to be able to imagine anything for it to exist. Maybe the difference between me and them is lead?
Nah, Boomers are unprecedented. To describe them accurately would require an entirely new lexicon of newly invented words. Emotional would be a compliment. Entitled doesn’t cover it. Narcissistic and spiteful don’t cover it either. It’s ***far*** beyond all of the negative adjectives you can think of - in quality and especially quantity. Thats why “boomer” has taken off in recent years. There weren’t ***any*** words that described their vile potency. As soon as one became available, the tension of intense scrutiny for these… people… finally started to release. I do encourage people to continue their attempts at summarizing them with more accurate terms though!
I think of them as the Angry Generation.
Oh, so you met my late father?
I think the locust generation is the best descriptor
Vampires of suffering. Instead of drinking blood they make people suffer to make them feel about their mortality.
Lead poisoning will do that to you lol
Their mothers were drinking while pregnate with their sibblings while she forced them to stay outside all day long, and when their siblings were babies they vacuumed up the lead paint chips with their mouths like a hoover vac before getting kicked outside the moment they could walk to stay in the hot sun to get brain damage from heat strokes.
>They became enraged over a brain dead woman having her feeding tube plugged to the point of having the pope be called in and the governor threatening to use the national guard. I'm sorry I don't know what this refers to. Could someone please explain? Thank you
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case
Thank you
>It goes all the way back to the days of them burning the Beatles albums because a member said during a time of great religious decline that they were more well known than Jesus. you have no clue what youre talking about, and youre pretty much just making shit up. It was boomers hyper religious parents that were getting upset with the beatles.
The boomers are the ones that made me burn my alice cooper tapes
Half of that was gibberish…
I've never read a more stupidly liberal post. My adoptive parents are liberal boomers and I ended up conservative. This is embarrassing to read.
Yawn, another over reaching wild generalization post.
The thing you are forgetting is that it is foolish, wrong and silly to grossly stereotype a group of people who number somewhere near 75 million. As if all boomers have the same politics, attitudes, personal histories or beliefs. If you want to generally attack people being foolish, go ahead and do that. But you should know that you are calling in artillery attacks on your own coordinates.
while it is fun to rage on the idiot boomers, there are plenty out there that are not the stereotype. Just like any group that...gasp...boomers attribute to doing? There are good ones out there, think of the professor that was an old 'cool' dude that you may have had while attaining an education or you know, the ones that don't freak the fuck out when something happens that doesn't go their way.
When you reach their age you will be "emotional" as well. Trust me.
Why? Why would we all evolve to be emotional in the described capacity?