# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/81 "2020-05-05T18:53:10Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > But…but…the Beatles! And Richard Brautigan novels! And we levitated the Pentagon to stop th’ Vietnam war! At least Boomers dont have to answer for Britney Spears, Twilight, Guy Fieri and whatever supernatural shit the Travel Channel airs. 😃 ---
**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, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/82 "2020-05-05T18:57:46Z")
Oh hey Ukulele Ike is one of the people I remember who seemed like an actual cool person. Bummer to see you in here with all these people who seem to think that talking about parents’ basements and working service jobs is some sort of biting insult. I have no idea what that “Jamal” comment is a few posts up boy Oh Boy I Bet That’s a Good One. Just a bunch of decrepit apes gathering around to call someone a “Cunt” in their overwrought paragraphs. Lives full of misunderstanding. Wondering where my manager is. And yet I have none to speak to. UMMMM BUDDY DID U KNOW THAT IF U DONT BELIEVE IN GENERATOIN THEN PREMISE DONT MAKE SINCE??? I hadn’t realized! The wisdom of hard-working elders is always valued. ---
**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, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/83 "2020-05-05T18:58:49Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > At least Boomers dont have to answer for Britney Spears, Twilight, Guy Fieri and whatever supernatural shit the Travel Channel airs. 😃 I mean aside from running the machines that allowed those cultural phenomena to exist and making literally every decision that would have brought them into the public eye yeah I guess it’s off y’alls hands. ---
**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, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/84 "2020-05-05T19:00:18Z")
PROBABLY DONT GET LAID NONE IN YOUR MOMMYS BASSMENT YOU LITTLE CUNT…WHY NOT WORK HARD!!! LIBERAL ART DEGREE “WOKE” FUCKFACE…SEEMS LIKE SOMEONES GOT…ISSUES??? Just a big empty house that your kids don’t come back to. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/85 "2020-05-05T19:02:16Z")
> [@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. r/selfawarewolves You’re getting so close. Here are some hints for you: Was Ronald Reagan a boomer? Is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez? It’s downright funny that you think the younger generations are going to be any different. Do you really think that the ‘millennial’ elites are going to be virtuous and altruistic? Are you white? Did you know that Trump won all of the white vote in 2016, age 18 and up? Surely these bright and shiny young adults will change the world. Bernie Sanders was enormously popular with the so-called millennial and gen Z demographics, but actually registering and voting for him required too much effort. Better to cry like babies on the internet. That’ll git 'er done. You’re the same goddamn people as these horrible ‘boomers’ and you just don’t know it. In the words of the great one: Sad. ---
**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, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/86 "2020-05-05T19:06:29Z")
Hey dumbshits if you haven’t noticed the generations that follow you don’t think highly of themselves. You can’t kick it any harder, you birthed it dead. ---
**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, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/87 "2020-05-05T19:13:21Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > Oh hey Ukulele Ike is one of the people I remember who seemed like an actual cool person. Bummer to see you in here with all these people who seem to think that talking about parents’ basements and working service jobs is some sort of biting insult. > > I have no idea what that “Jamal” comment is a few posts up boy Oh Boy I Bet That’s a Good One. > > Just a bunch of decrepit apes gathering around to call someone a “Cunt” in their overwrought paragraphs. Lives full of misunderstanding. Wondering where my manager is. > > And yet I have none to speak to. > > UMMMM BUDDY DID U KNOW THAT IF U DONT BELIEVE IN GENERATOIN THEN PREMISE DONT MAKE SINCE??? > > I hadn’t realized! > > The wisdom of hard-working elders is always valued. > [@Organism](#): > > I mean aside from running the machines that allowed those cultural phenomena to exist and making literally every decision that would have brought them into the public eye yeah I guess it’s off y’alls hands. > [@Organism](#): > > PROBABLY DONT GET LAID NONE IN YOUR MOMMYS BASSMENT YOU LITTLE CUNT…WHY NOT WORK HARD!!! LIBERAL ART DEGREE “WOKE” FUCKFACE…SEEMS LIKE SOMEONES GOT…ISSUES??? > > Just a big empty house that your kids don’t come back to. > [@Organism](#): > > Hey dumbshits if you haven’t noticed the generations that follow you don’t think highly of themselves. You can’t kick it any harder, you birthed it dead. Son, if you’re going to stream your conscience, learn from an old (dead) expert: \*“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… Now you tell me what you know.” \* ― Groucho Marx ---
**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, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/88 "2020-05-05T19:19:45Z")
Grandfather if you’re going to fart out a familiar chestnut then you might want to know what “stream of consciousness” is before you find yourself waving to a disinterested lifeguard. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/89 "2020-05-05T19:35:06Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > Get out of the way or into the ground. > > Choose one. > . Not a boomer, but can I play too? By the way, I find it hilarious that Asahi takes issue with the OP. Sorta like Charlie Sheen telling Mel Gibson to keep it down a bit. ---
**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, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/90 "2020-05-05T19:35:41Z")
All may die who choose to. Race me. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/91 "2020-05-05T19:37:28Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > Grandfather if you’re going to fart out a familiar chestnut then you might want to know what “stream of consciousness” is before you find yourself waving to a disinterested lifeguard. May I please recommend a non-Boomer drug: Ecstasy. ---
**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, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/92 "2020-05-05T19:45:49Z")
In my experience Boomers on MDMA either get way grabby or have deep breakthroughs about their interconnectedness to people and experience a sort of new sadness that periodically veers into bliss. Like other people, but more. ---
**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, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/93 "2020-05-05T20:09:17Z")
Hell, even I don’t buzz post this early. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/94 "2020-05-05T20:45:02Z")
> [@Organism](#): > > All may die who choose to. Race me. [Moderating] Hi, **Organism**. [Remember this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22286493&postcount=49) That still applies. This is a formal warning for ignoring mod instructions. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/95 "2020-05-05T20:56:23Z")
never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/96 "2020-05-05T20:57:26Z")
never mind. ---
**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, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/97 "2020-05-05T21:09:23Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Moderating] > Hi, **Organism**. [Remember this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22286493&postcount=49) That still applies. > > This is a formal warning for ignoring mod instructions. > [/Moderating] That’s…not what I said? If you want to willfully misread things that sounds about right though. ---
**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, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/98 "2020-05-05T21:11:35Z")
Cool things: mocking janitors, black-sounding names, poor people, working people in general calling people cunts “you’ll learn when you’re older” Uncool things: joking about the world making you want to die ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/99 "2020-05-05T21:21:31Z")
The fact is, millennials and Gen-Z’ers really do have fewer opportunities _where it counts_ (ie. home ownership) than the Boomers. They’re going to be in much more debt and, unlike the Boomers, they can’t count on Social Security and Medicare to help them when they get old. Also, lest we forget, the goddamn planet’s on fire. Literally none of this is their fault. Literally all of it can be traced back to decades of poor decision making by Boomers. People like **Organism** have a moral right to be angry about it. Too bad if you don’t like it. ---
**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, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomer-brain/853154/100 "2020-05-05T21:24:47Z")
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