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kdawg7736 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 12:38:32 AM  
Did Ric Romero compile this story?
 
AirForceVet [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 12:59:59 AM  
That was incredibly stupid considering us Baby Boomers. I love most new things, do not miss some old things.

I certainly do not miss segregation and discrimination. Sadly, too many of the younger generations are trying really hard to step backwards and restore those.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 2:19:30 AM  
What a crap article
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 2:23:11 AM  
Music Is Bad These Days

There's always been shiat music. For every classic song on the radio, there were a hundred money grabs being made when it was recorded.
 
433 [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 2:25:06 AM  
oh my god quit pretending like you invented growing old!
 
MrBallou [TotalFark] [OhFark] [SwearJar]
2023-03-18 3:24:54 AM  
Though I'm technically from the tail end of the Boomer era, I don't identify with those geezers. My brother is 3 years older and we have a totally different mindset.

Every generation biatches about shit when they get old, so TFA is trivial. However, I will biatch about one thing that I consider significant:

Since the year I was born, the population of the world has doubled. Where there was one person, now there are two, occupying the same finite space and resources, and we're nearing the limits of that space. There are almost no wild places left anywhere in the world.

No wonder life has gotten tougher. We're stretching resources like never before in the history of the human race.

/Now get the fuck off my last vestige of open space lawn.
 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 5:07:49 AM  

Bootleg: Music Is Bad These Days

There's always been shiat music. For every classic song on the radio, there were a hundred money grabs being made when it was recorded.


Strangely enough, my kids listen to songs from as far back as the 70s. They're 13.
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 5:55:30 AM  
This just in: boomers old people don't like current things
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 5:58:18 AM  
Geez. I have as many issues with Baby Boomers as most people from Gen X, but I saw this ad on the article and thought the worst. (It's not what you think it is.)

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AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 5:59:23 AM  
Since this is an article that's meant to divide, I blame the younger generations.
/ not really, I just thought I'd be divisive
 
Gawdzila [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 6:17:43 AM  

AirForceVet: That was incredibly stupid considering us Baby Boomers. I love most new things, do not miss some old things.

I certainly do not miss segregation and discrimination. Sadly, too many of the younger generations are trying really hard to step backwards and restore those.


I really don't think it's the younger generation bringing us back there.  They're far more likely as an age group to vote for / support progressive social agendas.
 
MIRV888
2023-03-18 6:17:56 AM  
Onion.. Belt
Lawn... Off
 
ChrisDe
2023-03-18 6:19:33 AM  

bostonguy: This just in: boomers old people don't like current things


This. The current TikTok generation won't like anything in forty years either.
 
Teddy Brosevelt
2023-03-18 6:22:13 AM  
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Wait how old are boomers again?
 
Fereals
2023-03-18 6:24:14 AM  
So they agree, the world that they have created sucks.

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Gleaming the TimeCube
2023-03-18 6:31:56 AM  
The good old days.  The happy days.  Sock hops. Lynchings. Bombing a million Asians to death for fun and profit before selling the American future to the Chicom monster.
 
BunchaRubes
2023-03-18 6:34:22 AM  

make me some tea: What a crap article


What do you mean?  It was based on an internet poll and responses from, and I quote, "suspected boomers."
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 6:34:56 AM  
the world is quickly becoming a "me" society instead of an "us" one.

Irony is dead, embalmed, buried, dug up, dismembered, the pieces separated and cremated, the ashes scattered, the earth salted, the soil dug up and launched into the heart of the sun.
 
The Weekend Baker
2023-03-18 6:35:22 AM  
You don't have to be a boomer to find fault with a lot of the current things millennials like.  You don't to be a millennial to find fault with a lot of the old things boomers like.

What I tend to find fault with?  Sweeping generalizations that pit one group against another.
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 6:36:13 AM  

The Weekend Baker: What I tend to find fault with?  Sweeping generalizations that pit one group against another.


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FatherChaos [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 6:38:44 AM  
Yeah, the "good old days" of casual racism and none of "those" people crying about not being equal.

If they're talking about the time working people had money, they can go back in time and vote for Walter Mondale so we don't get neoliberalism and its workforce-choking policies that only give money to the rich.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-03-18 6:41:15 AM  
Sweeping generalizations BOKB*: good
Sweeping generalizations AOKB**: unacceptable
*Before OK Boomer
**After OK Boomer
 
MIRV888
2023-03-18 6:41:39 AM  

The Weekend Baker: You don't have to be a boomer to find fault with a lot of the current things millennials like.  You don't to be a millennial to find fault with a lot of the old things boomers like.

What I tend to find fault with?  Sweeping generalizations that pit one group against another.


Well, if the shoe fits, wear it.
 
Ishkur [OhFark]
2023-03-18 6:44:13 AM  
the world is quickly becoming a "me" society instead of an "us" one.

From the generation that invented the yuppie, everybody.
 
Archie Goodwin
2023-03-18 6:44:55 AM  
The article summed up in one pic:
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FriarReb98 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 6:45:10 AM  

The Weekend Baker: You don't have to be a boomer to find fault with a lot of the current things millennials like.  You don't to be a millennial to find fault with a lot of the old things boomers like.

What I tend to find fault with?  Sweeping generalizations that pit one group against another.


As always, can't fight a class war if you're too busy being goaded into a culture war.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-03-18 6:48:56 AM  

FriarReb98: The Weekend Baker: You don't have to be a boomer to find fault with a lot of the current things millennials like.  You don't to be a millennial to find fault with a lot of the old things boomers like.

What I tend to find fault with?  Sweeping generalizations that pit one group against another.

As always, can't fight a class war if you're too busy being goaded into a culture war.


If you don't believe in engels, are you atheist?
 
Subtonic
2023-03-18 6:52:09 AM  
Seems like the 'boomer' demo gets larger every year. I've been hearing about it for decades. You'd think your standard 20 year cohort would die off eventually, but it seems like this particular one just keeps shifting. It's become shorthand for 'your parents' and seems like a meaningless term. For fark sake, I'm technically a millenial and I'm in my 40s now.
 
Subtonic
2023-03-18 6:57:48 AM  
Oh, and you can't get tapioca pudding like they used to make it. Now it's all 'tapioca extreme' and 'cool ranch tapioca' or what have you. Thousands of tiktok videos of people eating tapioca pudding whilst snowboarding and riding in electrified automobiles or going on the interweb. IT CONSARNS THE BONES DAMMIT!
 
mrwknd
2023-03-18 6:58:32 AM  
The new music of today does suck.
 
Parthenogenetic
2023-03-18 7:05:16 AM  

mrwknd: The new music of today does suck.


90% of it, per Sturgeon's Law

Also:

"Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."

- Benjamin Disraeli, 1870
 
sinko swimo
2023-03-18 7:11:50 AM  
for farks sake why must we have three articles a week pitting one age of people against another. this is just what your government wants: divide and conquer.

I'm a old man and I love new stuff. we're living like The Jetsons. me, I'm going out on top. I already grew a 70's porn 'stache and I'm getting a mullet. because that's hip and "in" and I'm not afraid of the come and go of fashion.

I'm also considering buying 4 motor scooters so me, Mrs., niece and SIL can prowl the streets of SC looking for yard sales on the weekend. ride to live, live to ride.

And I love a shiat load of current music. don't be telling me all boomers are antique farks.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:19:03 AM  

sinko swimo: for farks sake why must we have three articles a week pitting one age of people against another. this is just what your government wants: divide and conquer.

I'm a old man and I love new stuff. we're living like The Jetsons. me, I'm going out on top. I already grew a 70's porn 'stache and I'm getting a mullet. because that's hip and "in" and I'm not afraid of the come and go of fashion.

I'm also considering buying 4 motor scooters so me, Mrs., niece and SIL can prowl the streets of SC looking for yard sales on the weekend. ride to live, live to ride.

And I love a shiat load of current music. don't be telling me all boomers are antique farks.


#notallboomers
 
Subtonic
2023-03-18 7:27:33 AM  

sinko swimo: for farks sake why must we have three articles a week pitting one age of people against another. this is just what your government wants: divide and conquer.

I'm a old man and I love new stuff. we're living like The Jetsons. me, I'm going out on top. I already grew a 70's porn 'stache and I'm getting a mullet. because that's hip and "in" and I'm not afraid of the come and go of fashion.

I'm also considering buying 4 motor scooters so me, Mrs., niece and SIL can prowl the streets of SC looking for yard sales on the weekend. ride to live, live to ride.

And I love a shiat load of current music. don't be telling me all boomers are antique farks.


You're the type to add oat flakes to your parfait! In my day we had GO-GURT! What happened to my country? We had it so good before your types came around.

This is America with Father John Misty | Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio | Adult Swim
Youtube XeGzwCrNAEc
 
Sin_City_Superhero
2023-03-18 7:36:36 AM  

MrBallou: Where there was one person, now there are two, occupying the same finite space and resources, and we're nearing the limits of that space


There is PLENTY of wide-open spaces in America, and the rest of the world.  Try Montana or one of the Dakotas, instead New York City or Chicago.
 
fsufan
2023-03-18 7:39:53 AM  
QR code instead of a regular menu at a restaurant. Damn I hate that trend.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 7:40:15 AM  

AirForceVet: That was incredibly stupid considering us Baby Boomers. I love most new things, do not miss some old things.

I certainly do not miss segregation and discrimination. Sadly, too many of the younger generations are trying really hard to step backwards and restore those.


It's boomers and gen x that are voting majority Republican. So stop pretending that your personal experience has anything to do with generational trends.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 7:42:06 AM  

Bootleg: Music Is Bad These Days

There's always been shiat music. For every classic song on the radio, there were a hundred money grabs being made when it was recorded.


Pop music today is objectively simpler than it used to be.
The Disappearance of Key Changes in Modern Music
Youtube rVllpzhA5VM
 
SweetSaws
2023-03-18 7:42:41 AM  
It's gonna get worse. Retired boomers are gonna have nothing better to do than leave Old People comments everywhere. Let's try to keep them on Facebook or something.
 
MrBallou [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:45:40 AM  

Sin_City_Superhero: MrBallou: Where there was one person, now there are two, occupying the same finite space and resources, and we're nearing the limits of that space

There is PLENTY of wide-open spaces in America, and the rest of the world.  Try Montana or one of the Dakotas, instead New York City or Chicago.


Nothing that's not already been walked over a hundred times, scrutinized by developers, and rejected.

And it's only getting worse.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 7:47:47 AM  

mrwknd: The new music of today does suck.


When anyone can "sing" thanks to autotune, and pop music is designed by corporate committees instead of individual artists, you're going to get the musical equivalent of McDonald's.
 
davebarnes
2023-03-18 7:49:21 AM  
I would tell you to get off my lawn, but we replaced the grass with water-saving Colorado native plants.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 7:51:49 AM  

Gawdzila: AirForceVet: That was incredibly stupid considering us Baby Boomers. I love most new things, do not miss some old things.

I certainly do not miss segregation and discrimination. Sadly, too many of the younger generations are trying really hard to step backwards and restore those.

I really don't think it's the younger generation bringing us back there.  They're far more likely as an age group to vote for / support progressive social agendas.


Blaming young people for things created by old people is a very boomer thing to do.
 
The Smails Kid
2023-03-18 7:52:37 AM  

MIRV888: Onion.. Belt
Lawn... Off


Bees... Nickel
 
ENS
2023-03-18 7:53:21 AM  
More wisdom from the generation handed a golden ladder that is pulling it up behind them.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:53:44 AM  

Tyrone Slothrop: mrwknd: The new music of today does suck.

When anyone can "sing" thanks to autotune, and pop music is designed by corporate committees instead of individual artists, you're going to get the musical equivalent of McDonald's.


I always suspected that there's something wrong with Foo Fighters and now i know why. Thanks, grandpa
 
Elzar
2023-03-18 7:55:27 AM  
While we are reminiscing, I miss grandparents that actually gave a fark about their grandkids.

Both my boomer parents and wife's want fark-all to do with every last one of their grandkids - in stark farking contrast to our grandparents.

Every one of the 'problems' they've raised is a product of their own poor choices.

No good music - maybe you shouldn't have gutted the arts and maybe you should have - I don't know - actually paid for musical instruments and lessons.

People don't get together with HS/college friends and acquaintances? Well Facebook did slightly help there for a few years before the boomers signed in and farked it all up.

Also more people in the world today and we can't live in the same hometown our whole lives because you folks never passed the torch and moved out of your jobs.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:55:45 AM  

fsufan: QR code instead of a regular menu at a restaurant. Damn I hate that trend.


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LewDux [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:57:37 AM  
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Veloram
2023-03-18 8:03:41 AM  
Everyone's drunk on nostalgia for a bygone day that they don't even really remember correctly because either they didn't actually live in it, or remember it through rose-colored glasses from a position of privilege
 
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