So boomer is a slur now?

lode · Dec 14, 2019

SuzanneAU1977 said: ↑

All you did was follow me around asking for facts all the time whilst pushing your dumbarsed opinion down your throat.
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~Zen~ · Dec 14, 2019

@SuzanneAU1977 We would all appreciate it if you would STOP trying to be a moderator here and as far as you being our moral compass, well that's just not happening. I hate to mention this in public, but you've been banned before for your relentless moralizing and nitpicking other members threads.

Stop, just stop. And don't write me a long private message telling me how terrible everyone else is here. I've had enough of that.

Deleted member 313194 · Dec 14, 2019

ZenKarma said: ↑

@SuzanneAU1977 We would all appreciate it if you would STOP trying to be a moderator here and as far as you being our moral compass, well that's just not happening. I hate to mention this in public, but you've been banned before for your relentless moralizing and nitpicking other members threads.

Stop, just stop. And don't write me a long private message telling me how terrible everyone else is here. I've had enough of that.
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Fyi, i’m not trying to be a mod on here. It might look like it but no i’m just being myself.
I’m brutally honest. If you don’t like people who are brutally honest then geez, i reckon you will lose a lot of members.
How about you and everyone else stop reporting my posts and grow the fuck up.
I’m sick of being abused by people and if that means i get banned and your site goes down then you are the one that will get into trouble.

Meliai · Dec 14, 2019

Did you just tell the site owner to stop reporting your posts?

everything bagel · Dec 14, 2019

Well this thread has certainly taken a turn

MeAgain · Dec 15, 2019

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Folks, this is getting stupid. Assigning nicknames is fine in close company. But using it to jab a whole group of people who lived daily under the threat of nuclear annihilation is asinine. I knew that when this "Ok Boomer" shit popped up on Tw!tter (I do not advertise for those big corporation assholes). Christ, you're talking about people who had to deal with their shell-shocked fathers (the ones who had fathers survive), then getting drafted to Korea, then getting drafted to Vietnam. A generation fed into a government meat grinder facilitated by every kind of business; weapons makers, vehicle makers, uniform makers, food makers, bandage makers and coffin makers. Everybody made a buck on the Boomers hides.

33,000 of them in Korea, 58,000 in Vietnam, mostly ill-trained draftees and convicts. I served with guys who chose the military over prison, most were problems the whole time. Also, the "Boomers" were used by the government to accelerate social landmarks at breakneck speed (really about 45 mph, the average speed of a Bluebird school bus). What a charmed life we pampered "Boomers" were in those sun-beaten, non-air conditioned trucks, with seats and a roof. To this day they still don't have seat belts. A big Fuck You to the future generations from those who bring about safety regulations.

Another Boomer thing that came kind of late in the generation was concern for the environment (we called it Ecology). Granted, we were told an ice age was on the way, we still wanted to see the pollution abated. There's nothing like riding your bike around a pond full of dead floating fish because some assholes dumped a truckload of waste oil into it during the night. That kind of shit used to be common. I've personally cleaned creeks and estuaries, there's just that smell of a tire that's full of rotted marine creatures as you pull it from the muck.

Then there's that other Boomer thing, intense music with amazing range. But I'm really not the authority on that, all I can play is a stereo. I play it well though!

One thing you can't envy the Boomers for is the way they have suffered illnesses. Thanks to their pain and death medicine has advanced more in a generation than it did in a century or more before. It's much faster now of course. Unfortunately for "The Greatest Generation" many of the medical advances were wrought from Nazi experimentation. Today of course we see people losing their shit over "pronouns".

And that brings me to romance. It went through a LOT of adjusting during the Boomer years. Birth control became far more reliable and enabled women to hit the job market in a big way. By the 70s men actually knew that women have orgasms and many learned how to bring them about! Then came Disco (which rescued my teenage sex life). There I think some things are still quite common. There's just nothing like dancing with someone all night. Disco was very close, lots of holding each other in motion. Or maybe it's just a Boomer thing.

By the way my wife is 12 years younger, firmly in the Gen X zone (and still listens to Duran Duran). Our daughter is a turn of the century baby, January 1, 2000. Can you possibly imagine the clash potential? Only, it's not there. Because we all respect each other. We don't call each other derisive names. It can be tenuous, sure, but then, so is my relationship with so much of Hip Forums. Still, I respect everyone here who isn't a gratuitous asshole (really, what's the point of that).

Maybe that's just the 60s and 70s rushing out of me. But really folks, being cool is not as much effort as being an asshole in the long run. And that goes back to Plato!

Besides, you may meet the love of your life here.
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Anyway, thanks for sticking up for the old people.

Life wasn't a bed of roses for most boomers.

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