# Boomer Brain **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 5, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154 "2020-05-05T00:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Organism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Organism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organism)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/1 "2020-05-05T00:34:20Z")
#NotAllBoomers but! Way too many of them: Get out of the way or into the ground. Choose one. Never in history has anyone who has benefited so much given so little, all the while whining as their whims are catered to. The people who fought and suffered for the privileges you have enjoyed and continue to enjoy would be absolutely disgusted by the generational ladder-pulling exercise you’ve managed. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/2 "2020-05-05T00:38:18Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > #NotAllBoomers > but! > Way too many of them: > > Get out of the way or into the ground. > Choose one. > Never in history has anyone who has benefited so much given so little, all the while whining as their whims are catered to. > The people who fought and suffered for the privileges you have enjoyed and continue to enjoy would be absolutely disgusted by the generational ladder-pulling exercise you’ve managed. Oooo, cool! Next, do: '_the \_\_\_\_ race gets way too much good stuff, them with their \_\_\_\_ and their \_\_\_\_\_; they need to \_\_\_\_\_'_!!! That’s always a good one for getting people all riled up and hating each other! ---
**Author:** ![Organism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Organism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organism)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/3 "2020-05-05T00:43:54Z")
Are you saying that being an obtuse Boomer is in some way like being assigned or identifying with a racial category ? If so: very Boomer thing to do. Just a total lack of self-awareness or empathy. Global scourge. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/4 "2020-05-05T00:44:33Z")
Oh, then do "If \_\_\_\_\_\_\_s want all these rights then I should have the right to talk about \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ behind their backs! (Fückin’ \_\_\_\_\_\_s, amiright?) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/5 "2020-05-05T00:44:36Z")
Or, y’know, fuck off. We brought y’all into this world and maybe we’ll just take you all out too. ---
**Author:** ![Organism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Organism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organism)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/6 "2020-05-05T00:46:50Z")
I can’t tell if this board is more Boomer or late X’er and I don’t even believe in the concept of generations but I do believe that the TV-rotted elderly have left a smoking ruin that they have no intention of tending to, and that they are largely in a race to extract whatever remaining resources are available before they finally (fucking finally) die. I’m probably a Kremlin plant, though. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/7 "2020-05-05T00:47:00Z")
I love caricatures! The oversized hats and exaggerated features; it’s just great fun. Badly drawn ones are just wretched though. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/8 "2020-05-05T00:47:11Z")
I give the OP’s rant a 2 out of 10. Needs context, specifics, and some colorful swears. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/9 "2020-05-05T00:47:40Z")
What will you tell the generation for who you are a ‘boomer’? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Organism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Organism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organism)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/10 "2020-05-05T00:47:50Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Or, y’know, fuck off. We brought y’all into this world and maybe we’ll just take you all out too. No fucking shit, dude. Look outside. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/11 "2020-05-05T00:49:38Z")
Get off the internet and go do something about it if you don’t like it. Some of us have been dealing with this shit and being roundly mocked and castigated and jailed for it for like decades. What have you done? ---
**Author:** ![Organism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Organism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organism)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/12 "2020-05-05T00:51:08Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > What will you tell the generation for who you are a ‘boomer’? > > CMC fnord! I dunno, let me enjoy access to social programs or sustained prosperity and then go out of my way to destroy both of those things and I’ll get back to you. As it stands, I’d imagine the coming generations’ suicidal ideation will be roughly on par with mine but perhaps less personal, since I don’t imagine anyone’s bothering to raise a child with some idea that this is a world that rewards effort or justice or fairness or anything other than loud and belligerent domination by moronic intergenerational wealth cases. ---
**Author:** ![Organism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Organism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organism)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/13 "2020-05-05T00:53:55Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Get off the internet and go do something about it if you don’t like it. Some of us have been dealing with this shit and being roundly mocked and castigated and jailed for it for like decades. What have you done? You’ve Jitterbugged 6000 posts into this motherfucker and you want to make assumptions about anyone? What have you been mocked, castigated, and jailed for? And if that’s what you’ve actually done, then why would you think I were talking to you in the first place? Oh, it’s because you’re generationally predisposed to the least interesting protagonist syndrome case of all time. Just a whole gang of cretins who never learned that shit isn’t about them. Gerentological teenaged solipsist death freaks. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/14 "2020-05-05T01:00:50Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > I can’t tell if this board is more Boomer or late X’er and I don’t even believe in the concept of generations but I do believe that the TV-rotted elderly have left a smoking ruin that they have no intention of tending to, and that they are largely in a race to extract whatever remaining resources are available before they finally (fucking finally) die. > > I’m probably a Kremlin plant, though. Hydrangeas ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/15 "2020-05-05T01:02:41Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > I’m probably a Kremlin plant, though. Considering your posting history, I’d be surprised if you weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/16 "2020-05-05T01:02:59Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > I dunno, let me enjoy access to social programs or sustained prosperity and then go out of my way to destroy both of those things and I’ll get back to you. {…} I’m sure you think you’re making cogent points here . . . but I fear the rest of us would tear your ‘details’ to shreds, and so should you. Thanks for keeping it vague! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Organism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Organism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organism)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/17 "2020-05-05T01:11:37Z")
> [@2nd\_Law](#): > > Considering your posting history, I’d be surprised if you weren’t. I was born in this shithole and went to all the shitty schools that (presumably, if you opened this) your generation defunded, and didn’t go to all the colleges that you didn’t bother to fund, and I’ve now had the exciting opportunity to eat a couple enormous recessions and absorb the cost of multiple wars you started while footing the bill for the whole god damned thing. > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I’m sure you think you’re making cogent points here . . . but I fear the rest of us would tear your ‘details’ to shreds, and so should you. > Thanks for keeping it vague! > > CMC fnord! Do you think this means anything? Like, does this resolve to explicable language for you? This reads like a Trump tweet with minor hesitation on the capital letters. “the rest of us” Fuck you. Stupidest, proudest people. You’ve left a world of shit for your children and their children (who will make the wise decision to discontinue the exercise after conceiving of you in roughly the way that Nazis or slavers are currently understood). ---
**Author:** ![Organism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Organism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organism)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/18 "2020-05-05T01:13:17Z")
Oops! We Let Mee-Maw On the Internet and It Turns Out Her Primary Interests Are Ethno-Fascism and Punishment! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/19 "2020-05-05T01:20:29Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > I can’t tell if this board is more Boomer or late X’er and I don’t even believe in the concept of generations but I do believe that the TV-rotted elderly have left a smoking ruin that they have no intention of tending to, and that they are largely in a race to extract whatever remaining resources are available before they finally (fucking finally) die. And thanks to you we don’t feel bad about it at all. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/20 "2020-05-05T01:23:01Z")
So, we can just expect more ‘WHARRGARBL’ and nothing to sink our teeth into then? CMC fnord! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154.md?page=2)