# 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:** 4
**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, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/61 "2020-05-05T06:14:40Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Then you kinda blew your opening statement, chief. Just demonstration after demonstration of “humor” and “understanding what jokes are” amidst all the punching at poor and working people. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/62 "2020-05-05T08:06:26Z")
Cut the OP a break everyone, the lockdown is hard for all of us. We all need to find alternative pastimes, most of us are choosing baking and wanking like civilised humans but some are taking a more literary and comedic path, each to their own. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/63 "2020-05-05T08:07:15Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > Da Fuck? > **You** don’t have any human experience above ground. It is very fun when the trolls are this obvious. I had a feeling the OP had been around before. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/64 "2020-05-05T08:53:20Z")
Think of it this way. Nobody has to actually pit the OP because he is doing it himself. And while I am not technically a baby boomer and I am far liberal so I agree with some of the OPs political views, it is pretty clear who is acting entitled here. Oh, and when my generation went to college and graduate school, HEAL loans were at 18%! That is why 1/3 of my graduate class had to join the military to afford school. The current generation can get a mortgage for under 4%. School is expensive but there are all kinds of scholarships available that didn’t exist before. Student loan debt is on it’s way to being cancelled. Nobody I went to school with would have dreamed of taking 5 years to graduate because we knew we couldn’t afford it. Some millennials are some of the hardest working, most dedicated people I know. Surprisingly, they are not the ones whining about how everybody else had it so easy and they are the only ones who ever had to work or ever lived through tough times. You know who gets hired to work for me at about 50% above the going rate? I’ll let you guess, but (hint) it’s not those spending their time whining about how life is so unfair. Yes, your life sucks and the Boomer generation had it easy in many ways. As I see it, you can suck it up, work hard, take advantage of any benefits you do have and fight to make things better or you can spend your time whining about how unfair your life is. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/65 "2020-05-05T12:33:04Z")
See, this is why the liberal arts programs need a way to screen their applicants better. Petulant twats like the OP come out thinking they know everything, and if they whine long and angry enough, somebody will give them some attention. Can’t help but agree that boomers are to blame here. #NotAllBoomers. Just the one or two in particular, for raising and encouraging a self-important whiny fucking cunt like **Organism**. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/66 "2020-05-05T13:09:26Z")
Hahahaha. Clearly the OP is young, but I’m willing to guess he’s between 17-20. That’s the general age where you are absolutely convinced you know it all and anybody who thinks otherwise is a brain-dead moron. I have a 17 y.o. who is going through this. Older people aren’t his particular animus-- in fact he has a lot of respect for his grandparents. His thing is anybody who doesn’t subscribe to his narrow, rather extreme political beliefs (he’s a “Libertarian” this week) is an idiot. At least, I HOPE the OP is no older than around 20, because then there’s hope for him. Otherwise, he’s just an irredeemable asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/67 "2020-05-05T13:25:27Z")
Hmmmm…I wonder if the generation that grew up in the 1930s harbored this much animosity toward Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rudy Vallee, and the flappers? “Damn you raccoon coat-wearing Charleston-dancers! Now I have to stand in the breadline to eat!” ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/68 "2020-05-05T14:37:32Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > I don’t even believe in the concept of generations To the extent that your addled dimwittery evinces belief in anything, the thread title calls you a liar. I’ve been rousing rabble since I was sixteen. People like you have been the inner scourge of the left all along. Develop some motherfucking humility, pay attention to what works and what doesn’t work, and get in the game for real or get out. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/69 "2020-05-05T15:42:23Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Cut the OP a break everyone, the lockdown is hard for all of us. > > We all need to find alternative pastimes, most of us are choosing baking and wanking like civilised humans but some are taking a more literary and comedic path, each to their own. As long as you’re not baking \*while \*wanking. The OP is laughable. I hope he saves this conversation, reads it in 10 years and cringes at what a dumbass he was. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/70 "2020-05-05T15:52:24Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > Hahaha it’s funny because people who are paying into Social Security right now might not see any benefits lol what a hoot That line has been around for about 50 years. No boomer ever expected to collect a dime of social security. I think you’ve got some _daddy_ issues. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/71 "2020-05-05T16:24:42Z")
Fuck all you whiny bitch overgrown infants who have managed to reach an age of technical adulthood without accumulating one iota of responsibility, resilience or initiative. You have confused your 24 hour YouTube video and gaming marathon while living on the sofa bed in Daddy’s basement with an actual life. Your overindulged tender feelings have been coddled to the point where you can’t survive the briefest interaction with another human, unless that interaction is geared towards making your precious little ego feel special. You are collectively all social retards. I don’t know if it’s the pharmaceuticals you’ve been gobbling since you were six or the outrageous helicopter parenting that made you think you are entitled to a life free from discomfort. You are all disturbingly incapable of making friends or dating or forming a relationship with anything that doesn’t have a video screen - which is only to be expected from a generation of morons that are so ridiculously socially inept that they routinely confuse handshakes with forcible rape or compliments with sexual coercion. You have made perfect the enemy of good. Because you really don’t want your chance to change the world because then you’d have to haul your lazy ass of the stained futon in your parents unfinished basement and do things that require actually hard work. It’s much easier for you passive aggressive assholes just to complain that the world hasn’t bent itself to your will and to bitch and moan and whine about how unfair your life is because the universe hasn’t aligned so that you can change the world without doing the fucking work. This is your life. Most of you are never making it out of mommy’s house and you’re just way too tender and fragile to handle a real adult style relationship. Meanwhile, all the civil rights and social justice that you claim to find important are going to disappear while your generation does fuck nothing but enable that destruction out of spite , simply because the world doesn’t agree that it should revolve around you. The world isn’t “giving” you enough stuff. Boo fucking hoo, go out and get it yourself. At least this problem won’t perpetuate, because most of you are too inept and damaged to reproduce. Fuck all of your worthless asses. Go vape something. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/72 "2020-05-05T16:25:30Z")
> [@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. Jesus, would you just shut the fuck up? I liked you better at 1 post. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/73 "2020-05-05T16:29:55Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Hahahaha. Clearly the OP is young, but I’m willing to guess he’s between 17-20. That’s the general age where you are absolutely convinced you know it all and anybody who thinks otherwise is a brain-dead moron. I have a 17 y.o. who is going through this. Older people aren’t his particular animus-- in fact he has a lot of respect for his grandparents. His thing is anybody who doesn’t subscribe to his narrow, rather extreme political beliefs (he’s a “Libertarian” this week) is an idiot. > > At least, I HOPE the OP is no older than around 20, because then there’s hope for him. Otherwise, he’s just an irredeemable asshole. I bet he’s single, too. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/74 "2020-05-05T16:56:55Z")
> [@ann hedonia](#): > > fuck all you whiny bitch overgrown infants who have managed to reach an age of technical adulthood without accumulating one iota of responsibility, resilience or initiative. You have confused your 24 hour youtube video and gaming marathon while living on the sofa bed in daddy’s basement with an actual life. Your overindulged tender feelings have been coddled to the point where you can’t survive the briefest interaction with another human, unless that interaction is geared towards making your precious little ego feel special. > > You are collectively all social retards. I don’t know if it’s the pharmaceuticals you’ve been gobbling since you were six or the outrageous helicopter parenting that made you think you are entitled to a life free from discomfort. You are all disturbingly incapable of making friends or dating or forming a relationship with anything that doesn’t have a video screen - which is only to be expected from a generation of morons that are so ridiculously socially inept that they routinely confuse handshakes with forcible rape or compliments with sexual coercion. > > You have made perfect the enemy of good. Because you really don’t want your chance to change the world because then you’d have to haul your lazy ass of the stained futon in your parents unfinished basement and do things that require actually hard work. It’s much easier for you passive aggressive assholes just to complain that the world hasn’t bent itself to your will and to bitch and moan and whine about how unfair your life is because the universe hasn’t aligned so that you can change the world without doing the fucking work. > > This is your life. Most of you are never making it out of mommy’s house and you’re just way too tender and fragile to handle a real adult style relationship. Meanwhile, all the civil rights and social justice that you claim to find important are going to disappear while your generation does fuck nothing but enable that destruction out of spite , simply because the world doesn’t agree that it should revolve around you. The world isn’t “giving” you enough stuff. Boo fucking hoo, go out and get it yourself. > At least this problem won’t perpetuate, because most of you are too inept and damaged to reproduce. Fuck all of your worthless asses. Go vape something. brava!! ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/75 "2020-05-05T17:04:29Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Fuck all you whiny bitch overgrown infants who have managed to reach an age of technical adulthood without accumulating one iota of responsibility, resilience or initiative. You have confused your 24 hour YouTube video and gaming marathon while living on the sofa bed in Daddy’s basement with an actual life. Your overindulged tender feelings have been coddled to the point where you can’t survive the briefest interaction with another human, unless that interaction is geared towards making your precious little ego feel special. > > You are collectively all social retards. I don’t know if it’s the pharmaceuticals you’ve been gobbling since you were six or the outrageous helicopter parenting that made you think you are entitled to a life free from discomfort. You are all disturbingly incapable of making friends or dating or forming a relationship with anything that doesn’t have a video screen - which is only to be expected from a generation of morons that are so ridiculously socially inept that they routinely confuse handshakes with forcible rape or compliments with sexual coercion. > > You have made perfect the enemy of good. Because you really don’t want your chance to change the world because then you’d have to haul your lazy ass of the stained futon in your parents unfinished basement and do things that require actually hard work. It’s much easier for you passive aggressive assholes just to complain that the world hasn’t bent itself to your will and to bitch and moan and whine about how unfair your life is because the universe hasn’t aligned so that you can change the world without doing the fucking work. > > This is your life. Most of you are never making it out of mommy’s house and you’re just way too tender and fragile to handle a real adult style relationship. Meanwhile, all the civil rights and social justice that you claim to find important are going to disappear while your generation does fuck nothing but enable that destruction out of spite , simply because the world doesn’t agree that it should revolve around you. The world isn’t “giving” you enough stuff. Boo fucking hoo, go out and get it yourself. > At least this problem won’t perpetuate, because most of you are too inept and damaged to reproduce. Fuck all of your worthless asses. Go vape something. Nice! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/76 "2020-05-05T17:08:14Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Fuck all you whiny bitch overgrown infants Satire, right? right? I wish we lived in a world where this was clearly different from what people actually say. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/77 "2020-05-05T18:21:16Z")
Dude, they’re never going to get it. Boomers are impervious to self-awareness. They are never, ever going to understand just how badly they’ve fucked everything up. Believe me, I’ve tried on this very board. Half of them deny responsibility, half say we deserved it for being born. At least 90% of them deny [the problems](https://www.ssa.gov/history/ratios.html) are even real. They could cut Social Security for themselves, but they won’t. They could cut Medicare but they won’t. So they just want to run up the tab as high as possible before ducking out the back door. But before then, we’ll (either way) have yet another coffin dodger in the White House and a whole stack in Congress, so they can line their pockets with the prosperity of future generations one more time before the great cleansing. Just [wait](https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/032216/are-we-baby-boomer-retirement-crisis.asp), it’ll get worse. Now queue the “it’s not our fault” replies. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/78 "2020-05-05T18:32:23Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Dude, they’re never going to get it. Boomers are impervious to self-awareness. They are never, ever going to understand just how badly they’ve fucked everything up. Believe me, I’ve tried on this very board. Half of them deny responsibility, half say we deserved it for being born. At least 90% of them deny [the problems](https://www.ssa.gov/history/ratios.html) are even real. > > They could cut Social Security for themselves, but they won’t. They could cut Medicare but they won’t. So they just want to run up the tab as high as possible before ducking out the back door. But before then, we’ll (either way) have yet another coffin dodger in the White House and a whole stack in Congress, so they can line their pockets with the prosperity of future generations one more time before the great cleansing. > > Just [wait](https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/032216/are-we-baby-boomer-retirement-crisis.asp), it’ll get worse. > > Now queue the “it’s not our fault” replies. Ahhh, you’re just pissed that Metro Worker Jamal (or whatever you called him) probably has a job now and you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/79 "2020-05-05T18:36:13Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Fuck all you whiny bitch overgrown infants who have managed to reach an age of technical adulthood without accumulating one iota of responsibility, resilience or initiative. You have confused your 24 hour YouTube video and gaming marathon while living on the sofa bed in Daddy’s basement with an actual life. Your overindulged tender feelings have been coddled to the point where you can’t survive the briefest interaction with another human, unless that interaction is geared towards making your precious little ego feel special. > > You are collectively all social retards. I don’t know if it’s the pharmaceuticals you’ve been gobbling since you were six or the outrageous helicopter parenting that made you think you are entitled to a life free from discomfort. You are all disturbingly incapable of making friends or dating or forming a relationship with anything that doesn’t have a video screen - which is only to be expected from a generation of morons that are so ridiculously socially inept that they routinely confuse handshakes with forcible rape or compliments with sexual coercion. > > You have made perfect the enemy of good. Because you really don’t want your chance to change the world because then you’d have to haul your lazy ass of the stained futon in your parents unfinished basement and do things that require actually hard work. It’s much easier for you passive aggressive assholes just to complain that the world hasn’t bent itself to your will and to bitch and moan and whine about how unfair your life is because the universe hasn’t aligned so that you can change the world without doing the fucking work. > > This is your life. Most of you are never making it out of mommy’s house and you’re just way too tender and fragile to handle a real adult style relationship. Meanwhile, all the civil rights and social justice that you claim to find important are going to disappear while your generation does fuck nothing but enable that destruction out of spite , simply because the world doesn’t agree that it should revolve around you. The world isn’t “giving” you enough stuff. Boo fucking hoo, go out and get it yourself. > At least this problem won’t perpetuate, because most of you are too inept and damaged to reproduce. Fuck all of your worthless asses. Go vape something. The OP is a total idiot, but you’re making his point for him with this post right here. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/80 "2020-05-05T18:47:02Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Boomers are impervious to self-awareness. They are never, ever going to understand just how badly they’ve fucked everything up. But…but…the Beatles! And Richard Brautigan novels! And we levitated the Pentagon to stop th’ Vietnam war! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154.md?page=5)