# "Damn it! Pander to us!" say Boomers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051 "2006-11-19T18:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/21 "2006-11-20T15:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Hi Sam, I was also born in '63 and I agree with you. You and I are Tweeners, we’re not Boomers or Gen X’ers. A Tweener is roughly someone who doesn’t remember the JFK assassination but does remember Watergate. We better be prepared to take care of ourselves because we’re going to get fucked on both ends. [/QUOTE] Yep, born in 1962 here and feel the same. Although, if I were to have to choose between the two groups, I’ll go with the Boomers. I’ve never understood stuff like “best with benefits” or hip hop or the odd fashions (hey, I fully admit that “our” fashions were odd, but the jeans so baggy and droopy, the girl shirts so cropped, and no zip to the jeans, they’re cut so low and wanting your thong to show…sorry, old fuddy duddy here). I think it’s pathetic that someone actually wants TV to pander to them. Maybe they all need new glasses or their hearing aids haven’t been delivered. I thought Boomers were the active, out there, volunteer and travel generation. Now I learn that they want to sit on their asses and watch the idiot box. They’re all coming home to Sesame Street… ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/22 "2006-11-20T15:24:28Z")
cripes-that’s best FRIEND with benefits. Need typing lessons. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/23 "2006-11-20T15:49:42Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Or, as “The Simpsons” put it: > Grandpa: “I’m an old man, no one listens to me.” > Lisa: “I’m a young girl, no one listens to me.” > Homer: “I’m a white male aged 18 to 49, everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.” > He then goes to the cabinet and takes out a can of food titled, “Nuts and Gum.” You forgot that it was “Nuts and Gum: Together at Last!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/24 "2006-11-20T17:40:50Z")
Hold on – You mean I was being pandered to with shows like Dukes of Hazzard, Mr. Belvedere, Beverly Hills 90210, and Life on a Stick? And now they’re going to stop? Come to think of it, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/25 "2006-11-20T17:43:16Z")
You missed it! (but we were pandered to with MASH, and other intelligent shows). \* \*although, given that MASH was more about Vietnam than Korea, perhaps the it was the previous generation that was being pandered to? ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/26 "2006-11-20T18:00:27Z")
In the “nothing new under the sun” line of thinking, my mother used to say that growing up in the 50s and 60s she was stuck with radio that seemed permanently playing 40s music, and thank God for the Beatles. Which you can either read as a boomer wanting to be pandered to from an early age, or as implying that the older generation keeping a death grip on popular culture for as long as possible goes back past the boomers anyway. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/27 "2006-11-20T18:04:58Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I’ve never understood stuff like “best [friends] with benefits”… [/QUOTE] What’s there to understand? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/28 "2006-11-20T20:13:53Z")
If you’re a boomer (like me) and want to feel pandered-to, watch the broadcast network evening news. \*Every \* commercial is for prescription medicine or laxatives. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/29 "2006-11-20T20:26:20Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] Wait’ll you see the kewl koffins boomers get buried in. You tweeners will NEVER rate that kind of coffin. Never! [/QUOTE] Of course not. After the Boomers, there will be so few trees, we’ll all be buried in coffins made of old newspapers. That’s why our Art Teachers had us make so much fugly stuff outta paper mache. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/30 "2006-11-20T20:26:41Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] We better be prepared to take care of ourselves because we’re going to get fucked on both ends. [/QUOTE] Nah, you kids missed out on THAT, too! By the time you reached adulthood AIDS was starting to become famous and everybody’s legs got clamped permanently shut. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/31 "2006-11-20T20:37:10Z")
IIRC, it seemed like television back in the 1970s didn’t cater to the boomers of the era, but rather to an even older audience. Television of the day included plenty of police and detective shows, lots of doctor shows, numerous variety/vaudeville-type shows, game shows featuring obscure Broadway celebrities as guests, Lawrence Welk, and late night movies that were more commonly black-and-white than not. My parents are from the pre-boomer Silent Generation, and they LOVED 1970s-era television. [Here’s a US prime-time television schedule from 1975.](http://www.superseventies.com/primetime_75.html) It’s loaded with police, detective, doctor and variety shows. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/32 "2006-11-20T20:40:14Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] [Here’s a US prime-time television schedule from 1975.](http://www.superseventies.com/primetime_75.html) It’s loaded with police, detective, doctor and variety shows. [/QUOTE] We were all so freakin’ stoned in 1975 it didn’t really matter what was on TV. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/33 "2006-11-20T21:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] We were all so freakin’ stoned in 1975 it didn’t really matter what was on TV. [/QUOTE] Bullshit. We were not. At least, I don’t remember anything like that. I just remember feeling like I was being watched all the time. And being hungry. (Insert obligatory Yakov Smirnov joke here.) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/34 "2006-11-20T21:16:37Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Bullshit. We were not. At least, I don’t remember anything like that. I just remember feeling like I was being watched all the time. And being hungry. [/QUOTE] And the colors. All the pretty colors. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/35 "2006-11-20T21:46:31Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Yep, born in 1962 here and feel the same. Although, if I were to have to choose between the two groups, I’ll go with the Boomers. I’ve never understood stuff like “best with benefits” or hip hop or the odd fashions (hey, I fully admit that “our” fashions were odd, but the jeans so baggy and droopy, the girl shirts so cropped, and no zip to the jeans, they’re cut so low and wanting your thong to show…sorry, old fuddy duddy here). [/QUOTE] Aren’t most of those Millennial traits, rather than Gen-X? As a Gen-Xer, I get the “best [friend] with benefits” bit, but the rest seem very Millennial to me. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/36 "2006-11-20T21:53:33Z")
As a leading edge Boomer, let me say this to all you whippersnappers: 1. Yes, we expect more of everything. 2. Yes, we expect you to pay for it. 3. There are more of us than there are of you. We all vote. Get used to it. 4. We plan to live a looooong time. That is all. Get working. I’m retiring in less than 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/37 "2006-11-20T22:05:42Z")
[QUOTE=MLS] 1. Yes, we expect more of everything. 2. Yes, we expect you to pay for it. 3. There are more of us than there are of you. We all vote. Get used to it. 4. We plan to live a looooong time. [/QUOTE] 5. We’re damn sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/38 "2006-11-20T23:13:31Z")
Oh wow, man. It’s like there’s some kinda, I dunno, generation gap. Far out. Tweener here (another ‘62 baby) who always wanted to be a boomer, thanks to my older sister who got all the righteous fashions, the groovy blacklight posters, and the free lovin’. All I got was a rock. And disco. ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/39 "2006-11-21T00:38:26Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Hi Sam, I was also born in '63 and I agree with you. You and I are Tweeners, we’re not Boomers or Gen X’ers. A Tweener is roughly someone who doesn’t remember the JFK assassination but does remember Watergate. We better be prepared to take care of ourselves because we’re going to get fucked on both ends. [/QUOTE] Count me in, and I say Amen to that. Also born in '63, I do not consider myself a BB - pretenious, whiny, smug, self righteous BORES all of them! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051/40 "2006-11-21T00:43:35Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] 5. We’re damn sexy. [/QUOTE] SWM, Gen-X, seeks S/DWF Boomer to escort and provide with (uh) extra services. Incalls/outcalls. Reasonable rates. Please be MILF, GILF or any variety of ILF. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-pander-to-us-say-boomers/381051.md?page=3)