Boomer Hate Thread

[Problematic User Forever]

No, says the boomer. The present boomers all think this is very troubling, because the silent gen mom doesn't like to watch tv or listen to the radio, they think that's super weird and really bad for her. They think it's bad for you not to watch tv.

A few years ago my fathers TV broke, and I offered him mine as I never used it and he got unreasonably angry and was like "I will not deprive my son of TV!"

 

[newport100s]

I had a boomer literally stare at me for like 5. And a half hours why I was. Replacing his deck boards then after. We were done and we went in. To get him to pay us, he said. Well, I thought that was gonna take you two days. Why am I paying you this much?
Nigger. You're paying us this much because we can do it in 5 hours rather than three days.
Also if one more boomer tries to get a discount after we are done. I'm gonna literally fucking cut. The next one's fucking fingers off and shove him down his throat.
You cannot haggle with someone after the forks done you fucking cheap. Social parasites.

"If you thought that was fast, watch how fast we can tear it all apart if you don't hand me my money"

 

[The Last Stand]

A few years ago my fathers TV broke, and I offered him mine as I never used it and he got unreasonably angry and was like "I will not deprive my son of TV!"

That goes to show how TV is life or death to them. I would think it would have something to do with how new the concept of television was to them. I have a stubborn boomer story to share.

Grandma calls about not being able to see a conversation thread on her phone. I see that the text size is big; I ask her if we could change it. She argues with me. I try to explain that a phone screen can only fit so much, especially if you have larger text enabled. She tells ME that's not the problem. I ask, nicely, if we could try together. Bitch throws a tantrum and hangs up the phone.

 

[Mister Fister]

My parents are paying for my nephews and nieces college tuitions and they did let me stay with them as a I bounced around to get my career started so they aren't boomers but they have boomer traits, my mom burned an OLED tv by leaving news on 24/7.

 

[Sneed Oils]

Helped a girl out a little while ago whose dad died and left her a stamp collection, and I've got some contacts in that world so I said I could help her broker a quick deal and also make a few bucks for myself on it.

She told me she wanted everything done as discreetly as possible and with no receipts. I asked why and she said because her dad has a Boomer Deborah of an ex wife who has been literally stalking her for months demanding to get a cut of everything of her dad's stuff that she sees gets sold.

"I lost my stamps in a boating accident"

My parents are boomers, and while they hold some of the annoying qualities of the standard boomer (cable television is quite likely blasting if they're around), they tend to be act far better than the average boomer. They're quite helpful to their kids, and they dodge debt. I thought it was normal for people to pay for cars in cash upfront and to pay off their mortgages really early when they were effectively the one large influence on my life. While they rode the economic boom like everyone else in their generation, their work was pretty honest work. I'd say they are better at listening than most of their generation.

Back to boomer hate...

I will say that they are the exception though. I have known plenty of boomers that fit the bad stereotypes very well. Divorce and constant fighting, bad finances, a totally oblivious attitude towards things...

 

[Problematic User Forever]

I recently found out my father inherited 250,000 dollars 20 years ago and just left it sitting in a basic savings account.

That's...been annoying.

 

[The Twilight Zone]

I recently found out my father inherited 250,000 dollars 20 years ago and just left it sitting in a basic savings account.

That's...been annoying.

He's saving it for a Make-A-Wish donation after he passes. There's no better feeling than helping fulfill the wishes of a child you will never meet.

 

[Sneed Oils]

I recently found out my father inherited 250,000 dollars 20 years ago and just left it sitting in a basic savings account.

That's...been annoying.

Is it at least high yield?

 

[skol]

Last time when “tv broke” when visiting my father, he dialed the provider in a nanosecond. (It was some short area-wide outage) But one time when he had stroke symptoms he tried to talk me off from calling an ambulance till the next day to see if it gets better.

 

[The Last Stand]

Since we're talking about television, I remember when I was a kid, sometime before my time, having cable television in your room was desired. The millennials and boomers were hooked on TV. Now, only thing that is keeping TV relevant are the boomers. Good luck trying to have them understand SMART TV remotes.

 

[The Hardest R]

I am hoping the whole college mentality dies with Boomers/X. You can tell Zoomers have completely stopped giving a shit about college and that is likely to hold with Alpha. Millennials will be a wild card, but I would have to hope the first gen to get widely fucked by colleges would have enough sense to put any pride away and kill off the degree means super smart mentality.

I think we are in a weird transition phase with college dying out as a result of a new pivot towards more blue-collar work under Trump's manufacturing push. White collar is shitting the bed over A.I. and being too crowded thanks to the previously constrained job market mixed with off-shore hiring. I would hope this sort of corrects things across the board, and college goes back to specific trades like medical.

College attendance peaked in 2010, even with all the third world detritus we’ve been importing. We are down 8.43% from that peak, which is still too high but people are slowly starting to get it.

I think people will make fun of the gender studies degrees and for good reason, but there are a shitload of absolutely useless degrees out there. I’m talking like fashion design, hotel management, etc. Lots of fluff degrees. These can basically be found at most universities. West Buttfuck University has no business having a fashion design program. It’s a program for college girls to party and then get an A if they’re not too hung over to go to class the next day. They will act snotty for having a 3.9 GPA in fashion design. It’s interesting…but no jobs whatsoever. So they will get a masters degree in it and have no jobs whatsoever. So they will just work pink collar jobs until they find a man that lets them be a stay at home mother. That all sounds good until you hear from her that she has $80k in student loans and put off getting married by 5-6 years.

Last time when “tv broke” when visiting my father, he dialed the provider in a nanosecond. (It was some short area-wide outage) But one time when he had stroke symptoms he tried to talk me off from calling an ambulance till the next day to see if it gets better.

This might be Peak Boomer. There is a certain version of a boomer who puts off going to the doctor for any kind of medical issue. Part of it is a delusion that he (mostly he but sometimes she) gets to prove how tough they are by not wanting to go to the doctor. However I’ve seen enough boomer relatives put off doing enough essential visits to where issues are much worse than had they just went to the fucking doctor at the beginning. Boomers conflate procrastination or being retarded with being “tough.”

 

[Audit]

I think people will make fun of the gender studies degrees and for good reason, but there are a shitload of absolutely useless degrees out there. I’m talking like fashion design, hotel management, etc. Lots of fluff degrees. These can basically be found at most universities. West Buttfuck University has no business having a fashion design program. It’s a program for college girls to party and then get an A if they’re not too hung over to go to class the next day. They will act snotty for having a 3.9 GPA in fashion design. It’s interesting…but no jobs whatsoever. So they will get a masters degree in it and have no jobs whatsoever. So they will just work pink collar jobs until they find a man that lets them be a stay at home mother. That all sounds good until you hear from her that she has $80k in student loans and put off getting married by 5-6 years.

This was largely encouraged by the boomer generation. Going to college was pushed so hard for the last few decades that there was a severe disconnect between college programs and jobs afterward. And, as mentioned, it's particularly affected women by shielding them from the labor market for 4-12 years (because you get additional degrees when the prior ones didn't pan out) and correspondingly infantilized them by a similar number of years. Getting a job forces you to grow up. College is just second high school even if you're "working" during it. There's a sense of finality in working a full time job. A large part of it is no longer being surrounded by a youth bubble. Leave college and suddenly there are 40+ year olds interacting with you daily.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

Is it at least high yield?

Nope

 

[Slap47]

This might be Peak Boomer. There is a certain version of a boomer who puts off going to the doctor for any kind of medical issue. Part of it is a delusion that he (mostly he but sometimes she) gets to prove how tough they are by not wanting to go to the doctor.

Young men do this as well, but seem to be self aware enough to know they are acting retarded.

 

[behavioral swamp thang]

This might be Peak Boomer. There is a certain version of a boomer who puts off going to the doctor for any kind of medical issue.

Yeah I hate to cut the boomers slack, but this is a male thing. Men just don't wanna go to doctors ever because it inevitably ends with something bein stuck in their ass lol

 

[The Hardest R]

This was largely encouraged by the boomer generation. Going to college was pushed so hard for the last few decades that there was a severe disconnect between college programs and jobs afterward. And, as mentioned, it's particularly affected women by shielding them from the labor market for 4-12 years (because you get additional degrees when the prior ones didn't pan out) and correspondingly infantilized them by a similar number of years. Getting a job forces you to grow up. College is just second high school even if you're "working" during it. There's a sense of finality in working a full time job. A large part of it is no longer being surrounded by a youth bubble. Leave college and suddenly there are 40+ year olds interacting with you daily.

I think a big factor as well is that if these fluff degrees no longer get offered and Madison can’t hack business administration, then she wasn’t really college material after all. It is one of the biggest insults you could ever tell a boomer is that their children or grandchildren are not college material. Because they’re naturally an extension of boomers but they have believe and instilled into their family that everyone should go to college.

Most kids aren’t college material. Most majors have been watered down to complete uselessness and many masters degree programs will take you if the check or FAFSA clears. It used to be that a professor had to take you on and you had to submit a thesis. Some programs still do that but most of the land grant universities will just let you in if you can pay, or at least borrow. There was a story a few weeks ago about how a lot of MBA programs are in a crisis because attendance has dropped off a cliff for most of them. Nobody wants to pay $80k a year for a program ranked 180th in the nation.

To bring this back to boomers, I think a lot of private universities that aren’t the ivies will shut down in the next 50 years. Many teeter on the edge and are kept alive with endowments. Most universities are having to decide to dip into endowments to make the eye gouging tuition more affordable. Even ivy leagues like Yale are starting to do this. There are a bunch of private universities with a few hundred students but a few hundred million in endowments. Many boomers would sooner donate their inheritances or their land to universities as opposed to their family.

 

[Althalus]

I think a lot of private universities that aren’t the ivies will shut down in the next 50 years. Many teeter on the edge and are kept alive with endowments. Most universities are having to decide to dip into endowments to make the eye gouging tuition more affordable.

This is already happening in areas that are losing population, mainly the Northeast and parts of the Rust Belt. Those areas used to be the most densely populated areas of the U.S., but in the last 20-30 years have had severe brain drain, as well as talent drain. Not even exaggerating, there are tons of towns/small cities where literally 2/3 or even 3/4 of the population is over 50. Most of the younger gens move elsewhere as soon as they reach adulthood, most millennials with kids move elsewhere for better jobs/schools. Hence, many smaller colleges are merging with one another, or simply closing outright.

This problem is almost entirely a Northeast/Rust Belt phenomenon, the South and both Coasts are still experiencing full college admissions, with some schools even expanding.

If there is a larger shift away from college in the future, that might change, but my anecdotal observation is that most college closures are still happening in places with aging/declining populations. I suspect this might also be a reason why some colleges are desperate for foreign students to the point of overlooking cheating among foreigners or other bad behavior.

 

[The Hardest R]

I believe the concept of alumni donating to the university will die out with the boomers. Xers, millennials, and zoomers have a brutal amount of student loans to pay off. If they ever get paid off, the last thing they want to do is willingly donate to their Alma mater. My loans all got paid off and I have no inclination to give them another dime. I’ve said as such before to alumni organizations and got the “we’re sorry you feel that way” spiel. I think this will rapidly accelerate the decline of colleges, especially the private ones. As mentioned before, we are down 8.43% from peak attendance but if we remove the turd worlders, it’s likely well into the double digits. I’m sure the numbers are out there but I can’t be assed at the moment to dig in deeper. But I think college in 80 years will resemble what college used to be 80 years ago: just something for the very rich and very intelligent.

 

[Audit]

many masters degree programs will take you if the check or FAFSA clears. It used to be that a professor had to take you on and you had to submit a thesis. Some programs still do that but most of the land grant universities will just let you in if you can pay, or at least borrow. There was a story a few weeks ago about how a lot of MBA programs are in a crisis because attendance has dropped off a cliff for most of them. Nobody wants to pay $80k a year for a program ranked 180th in the nation.

Somewhat off-topic, but I genuinely want every masters degree to be eliminated. They are the bane of the academic world and the gateway to the US job market for infinite third worlders.