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People Are Sharing The Boomer Trends They're Ready To See Go Extinct, And I Don't Disagree
Buzzfeed ^ | 12/1/21 | Shelby Heinrich

Posted on 11/12/2023 12:56:09 PM PST by DallasBiff

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To: DallasBiff
I don't completely disagree with #1, but after that, the list descends into whiny Millennial and Gen Z tropes. Ironically, before the baby boomers came along, no one really focused on identifying generations, at least in the way that generations have been labeled since the boomers came along. Now it is a constant war between generations, genders, races, etc.
41 posted on 11/12/2023 1:49:24 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: Retrofitted

42 posted on 11/12/2023 1:50:00 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Retain Mike

What noble cause was Vietnam for? It was a stupid war, and the protests against that war were right.


43 posted on 11/12/2023 1:50:08 PM PST by kaila
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To: Fiji Hill

Texting is GREAT when I want to say “I’m on my way, ETA 30 minutes” and don’t need a long phone conversation to say that. But when text lovers try to have what SHOULD be a phone conversation with me via text, I call them. If it goes straight to voicemail, the conversation is over. I’m not carrying on a convoluted discussion with my thumbs.


44 posted on 11/12/2023 1:50:59 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Mears

“There was a generation after The Greatest and before The Boomers….We are often forgotten”

The marketing people who invented these labels called you “The Silent Generation”.

A lot of the 1960s uproar that gets blamed on Boomers was actually fomented by red diaper radicals from The Silent Generation. Plus Joe Biden is one of yours, lol.


45 posted on 11/12/2023 1:52:20 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: dfwgator

lol Exactly! Thanks!


46 posted on 11/12/2023 1:55:02 PM PST by Retrofitted
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To: Retrofitted

Yup.

Life has never had any guarantees, but at one time, if you worked really hard, you could likely climb that corporate ladder. The company could spot a winner, and they’d help you climb if you had the right stuff. The perks, the pension, the corner office, the big paycheck — it was all there if you made the sacrifices and showed that you were deserving.

Young people today understand that almost no one is going to get any of those prizes. No perks. No pension. No corner office. Big wages aren’t there. The corporation may demand that you work super hard. But the corporation has no intention of giving anything in return.

The kids are on to the game.


47 posted on 11/12/2023 1:55:42 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Retrofitted
My job does not need to be my life when I’m getting paid a Medicare wage.

If you can not figure out why this "writer" would be fired you need to be retrofitted with glasses.

You hired me to work 9 hours a day and I work 12- to 15-hours a day doing your damned job

No, you work about thirty minutes a day, spending the rest of the time staring at your nitwit phone watching other people whining.

Bye.

48 posted on 11/12/2023 1:56:34 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

I fall into the category of, “Milennial”

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I haven’t figured out what category I am yet, born June 29, 1945.

Either a very old “Boomer” or a very young “Greatest Generation”


49 posted on 11/12/2023 2:00:38 PM PST by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: Graybeard58
I haven’t figured out what category I am yet, born June 29, 1945.

Lucky that your father came home on leave in October of '44?

50 posted on 11/12/2023 2:04:09 PM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: DallasBiff

My doctor was shocked, I kept working during my relapse of colitis. He kept bringing that up every time I saw him. He said that you don’t see that kind of work ethic anymore. I just told him I had to make a living.


51 posted on 11/12/2023 2:04:38 PM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

LOL Didn’t say anything about the writer but, if I did, I would say she needs to be fired because all she did was feed a bunch of posts from Buzzfeed and touches of Reddit into Chat GPT and let AI write for her. But then again, her “editor” probably does the same thing and so on and so on and so on, right up the chain!


52 posted on 11/12/2023 2:06:58 PM PST by Retrofitted
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To: DallasBiff

I will always insist there such thing as a stupid question and a wrong answer.


53 posted on 11/12/2023 2:08:51 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (May I please have a government shutdown?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Exactly, this is why I can’t stand Generation Z or Millenials for that matter.


54 posted on 11/12/2023 2:09:47 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: T.B. Yoits

The latest trend...

You send a text.
The reply is;
“Liked;...”

No communicating whatsoever in this.

#FacebookPeople


55 posted on 11/12/2023 2:13:07 PM PST by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: crusty old prospector
What is “getting paid a Medicare wage?”

If you go into a Medicare office the waiting room will be 'a third filled' with old people and two thirds filled with young people seeking a lifetime of Social Security 'disability' - most are in their late twenties.

Rumor was years ago that anyone who had the aids virus - (even when it was a nothing burger) - got free lifetime social security payments. And they could still hold wait staff type jobs where most cash was not claimed.

Maybe Social Security Disability is so common in this age group that it just means a low paying job with zero responsibility...

56 posted on 11/12/2023 2:14:12 PM PST by GOPJ (The reason Biden won't protect our border is he wants cash kickbacks for doing it. )
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To: Graybeard58

You are of the “silent generation” the people who gave us the 60s, and people like Audie Murphy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gloria Steinem, eleven of the twelve astronauts who have walked on the moon were members of the Silent Generation, also Warren Buffett, Liz Claiborne, Ted Turner, Calvin Klein, and Michael Eisner.

People like, Bob Seger, Jane Fonda, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Grace Slick, Neil Young , Beatles, Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Jimmy Page, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Williams Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Chicago Seven, Rod Stewart, Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson, Malcom X, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Mamas and the Papas, Jimmy Page, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, etc, etc, etc, just about everyone that you can name from the hippie 1960s.


57 posted on 11/12/2023 2:17:11 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

“People are sharing the boomer trends...”

And these people come aross like they are just whiny little bitches. They need to get a life and quit complaining.

I know that identifies me as a boomer.


58 posted on 11/12/2023 2:17:56 PM PST by odawg
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To: Retrofitted

I always worked hard and did extra, not from loyalty to the company (and I sure didn’t expect loyalty from the company!), but as a matter of self-respect.


59 posted on 11/12/2023 2:34:40 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Retrofitted
So we agree. :)

We also agree that some companies do exploit their employees.

60 posted on 11/12/2023 2:36:38 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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