Seriously. I don’t want your opinion or your “expertise” or anything. Keep your experiences and feelings to yourself.

Let me live my life. If I want advice or help, I’ll ask people I trust.

This applies to actual boomers and online boomers, and also to people who have a boomer mindset.

  • regularassbitch [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    making an entire thread because someone else disengaged but you're still mad really is unhinged behavior and i hope you understand that

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      2 years ago

      They’re honestly a great example of how chill the mods have got over time lol. They’re single handedly responsible for more struggle sessions and toxic behavior than half the wreckers and still haven’t been banned, a year ago they would have got popped after like the second 300 comment lib nonsense post

      • regularassbitch [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        i mean honestly this just feels like calling for pitchforks and torches because you said who gives a shit about the thing that has been happening for decades now, that's how private businesses operate

      • regularassbitch [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        what reason do they have to disengage when you are bringing it to another post entirely? do you really not see or accept your own role in this conflict or are you trying to justify shitty behavior?

        • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          I didn’t even make this post for them lol. As can be seen by the many comments from before they invaded, there are many people here who’ve expressed similar experiences with boomers.

          • regularassbitch [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Is this thread for real a response to someone suggesting that being obsessed with online streamers isn’t a particularly healthy habit? Because I just came from that post on the front page where you called that person a boomer right before making this thread.

            It inspired it lol.

            seriously grow the fuck up

  • UnequivocallyErisma [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Boomers were socialized in a pre-internet world. It was lonely and boring, SO BORING. A lot of them decided one way to stave off boredom was to talk too much, a trait that hasn't quite died out yet.

    • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      It really depends on your relationship with the person. If you know them and they trust/like you, it can be a good thing.

      In the vast majority of cases though it’s shit advice given by shit people.

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is why I'll never have a meaningful relationship with my grandparents

    Why is it so hard to treat someone as an equal? Like, I'm doing everything I can to live a fulfilling life, and their advice is to stop following my dreams to follow theirs instead because they think I'd be wealthier one day

    • GenXen [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      My grandma always says "things are relative, in my day...." when I complain about how hard things are getting. Thing is that my gran is silent generation and not boomer, and grew up on a rural farm during the depression, so she's not really wrong.

    • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I don’t mind grandparents that much cuz mine are really old and their advice is easy to ignore. The worst are just older people who aren’t that old yet that you can just blame it on them being old.

  • panopticon [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    A lot of the time, people just want to feel listened to and heard, or they want to feel important.

    I have found a decent middle path by mostly engaging with people on their areas of expertise, which could be car shit, could be relationship stuff, etc. Then, people want to be listened to as well, they want to feel like they're an important part of your life, so I'll just sit there and listen to them tell (often) the same stories and give the same advice as before. Just comes with the give and take of relationships and meeting people where they're at imo.

    Sometimes, the "advice" is really a shift in perspective, which can be really helpful if you're stuck or overwhelmed. Just in my experience; everyone's life is different.

    EDIT: oh lol

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    haha yeah its just boomers that like to do that right people :side-eye-1:

    • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      That’s why I added the different categories of boomer lol: you can be an internet boomer or just someone with a boomer mindset!

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    One of the benefits to being unemployed is that when an old person bothers me while I'm doing my own business I can just tell them to fuck off

    They have no recourse

    It's the antidote to having worked retail for years

    • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      No you have to listen to what I have to say and you have to respond and agree or else you’re being a child.