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Knowing what you genuinely want out of life is a great thing. And you shouldn’t let someone shame you just because your perspective sounds a tad old-fashioned. Just because an idea is older or newer doesn’t say much about its quality. Just like some social attitudes, tech, and services have progressed in the right direction in modern times, others have—unfortunately—regressed.
To show you exactly what we mean, our team has collected various people's most old-timey—what they call baby boomer—opinions about life, from all over the internet. Scroll down to take a look. Do you agree that if you order a burger, it should come with fries? Do you avoid scrolling on your phone when at the cinema? Are you properly punctual? If so, you’re in good company.
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#1
OK, I am going controversial on this one-
Biological males should not compete against biological females in sports, I don't care how people identify.
Lost Panda 3 days ago
I may get hate for this, but I agree. I feel that there should be leagues specific to each of the options. I feel that is the only way for it to be fair around the board.
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#2
No one wants to hear:
Your music
Your phone conversations
Whatever video you're watching
The game you're playing on your phone
Etc.
#3
Shut the hell up in the movie theater.
Baby boomers are Americans who were born between 1946 and 1964. These days, they’re often known for having old-fashioned beliefs about society, work, and life, and are often colloquially referred to as boomers, sometimes in a semi-mocking or ironic way. While many internet users might be critical of boomers, others clearly think that they got at least a few things right.
After the baby boomers came Generation X (Americans born from 1965 to 1980), followed by Generation Y aka millennials (born between 1981 and 1996), and Generation Z aka Zoomers (born from 1997 to 2012). The latest generation—Generation Alpha or Gen A—comprises young people born in the early 2010s to mid-2020s.
#4
I dont want an app for every single thing. I don't want to give out my email address, I don't want to give out my phone number. Just let me purchase the thing and I'll be on my way.
#6
Public libraries are amazing resources and woefully under-utilized.
Torben Møller-Nielsen 3 days ago
There is a reason books are still around and doing well. Nothing beats the tactile sensation of a book hitting your nose when falling asleep.
According to Investopedia, baby boomers remain economically and politically influential in the United States, both due to their large numbers as well as relative prosperity.
Due to increasing life expectancy, it’s likely that baby boomers will spend more time in retirement than their parents. It’s also likely that if boomers are in good health and the job market is accommodating, they’ll be able to remain in the workforce for longer. This may be a blessing in disguise, allowing them to save more money for retirement, especially as traditional work pensions decline.
#7
I’m not scanning a QR code to get the menu when I’m in a restaurant. I want a hardcopy menu, please.
#8
For god’s sake if you’re shopping, don’t block the entire aisle and pretend you don’t see people waiting to get through.
Little Bit 3 days ago
Or block the entire shelf and take a hundred years physically examining every item before deciding which one to buy.
#9
The generational s**t is stupid-- especially boomer hate. It's all so tiresome.
Now, none of this is to suggest that the older generations are all somehow ‘better’ than the newer ones or that everyone who’s old(er) is somehow out of touch. A tale as old as time is the fact that each and every generation believes that it’s superior to the ones that preceded it as well as the ones that came after it. They believe that their attitudes, values, and work ethic are ‘just right’ whereas others are out of touch or irreverent.
This is unlikely to change no matter how many millennia go by, and each generation will have its fair share of pros and cons. It takes a lot of honesty and introspection to recognize that all of us, no matter who we are, have similar biases toward other generations. We (quietly) think we’re the best, most special, and 'correct,' whether we’re boomers, Gen X, millennials, zoomers, or Gen A.
What are your most baby boomerish perspectives and opinions about life, technology, and services, dear Pandas? On the flip side, what modern attitudes do you subscribe to? We’d love to hear your thoughts, so feel free to share them below.
#10
Social media is a cancer to society.
#11
Phone goes off and stays in your pocket when in the theater.
#12
Your super bright blue headlights and unshrouded home "security lights" are blinding other people with disabling glare. They cause vehicle collisions, and pedestrians being run over.
Earonn - 3 days ago
In the past the police would stop you if your light wasn't adjusted properly and blinded other people (by being directed up, and not down unto the street). I can understand that they don't have the staff to do this anymore, but if everyone with blinding lights would just be stopped, let alone had to pay a fee, they'd be gone in a month.
#13
The tipping thing isn’t an exclusively boomer rant, but our society as a whole is starting to take notice. I’ve started carrying cash again, and when I order take out, I pay in cash. If something costs $18, and I give you a $20, I expect $2 in change. You haven’t done anything to warrant a tip. You simply did your job. A firefighter doesn’t get tipped for putting out a house fire, a bus driver doesn’t get tips for driving her regular route to pick up and drop off passengers.
Thorsten Massow 3 days ago
I'm living in a society in Europe, where tipping is not mandatory (we have living wages for service workers) but tips are still appreciated. I usually tip in cash even when the card payment has a tip - option (which is getting more and more common lately).
#14
Using ADHD/autism/OCD, etc. as an excuse for your poor behavior is unacceptable. Yes, those things can be the reason why you have certain behaviors, but stop blaming everything on it. Example: “oh I’m sorry I’m always late, it’s just my ADHD makes it so difficult.”.
Lady Eowyn 3 days ago
And so many people self-diagnose thanks to Dr. Google. Autism may explain behavioral patterns, it doesn't excuse them.
#15
I'm not giving you my email address. Just let me buy the service/product and be on my way. I have no interest in getting your spam.
AND ... you pull over for a funeral. Show some respect, goddammit.
#16
If there is an accident or disaster do something useful instead of standing there recording it on your phone, or at least get the hell out of the way.
#18
Please put your shopping cart in the cart corral, not next to my car.
#19
You can’t call it a convenience fee to buy tickets online for a high school athletic game when you make it mandatory to buy tickets online.
#20
Can we keep cashiers on hand in stores for certain situations? Like those that need assistance because of disabilities or otherwise, those with 8 million items their cart and don't want to hear "please place your items in the bagging area" or "please wait for assistance" even though I didn't do anything, or just straight up those who don't want to use self checkout?
Also, if I'm using self checkout, you should give me a 10% discount since I'm saving YOU money on overhead, and now I'm an employee of your store.
Marianne 3 days ago
The only acceptable form of self checkout for me is if you get your own scanner and move through the shop, scanning every product as you put it into your cart. Then at the exit, you pay for what you have scanned (and cashiers take random samples to verify if you have scanned everything). No taking everything out and back in. That saves me sooo much time and effort!
#21
I hate having to make an account and download an app for every little thing.
Robert Trebor 2 days ago
I don't. One home store wanted me to open an account in order to get the military discount they offer. I now always shop at one of the two others right across the highway.
#22
Give me an actual menu with prices on it. I don't want to scan anything with my phone, nor do I want to guess how much my meal was.
Firstname Lastname 3 days ago
Been wanting to try a milkshake place for ages now, and nowhere on their online menu or signage does it show prices. Even messaged them on their active instagram to ask with no response. I'm not going in blind and spending a fortune on a milkshake because they refuse to name a price.
#23
Do not leave the house in pajamas and slippers. At least put on sweat pants.
Boris Long-Johnson 3 days ago
Ridiculous - as long as you cover yourself (no one wants to see my hairy salt and pepper moobs) and you don’t smell what difference does it make to anyone else.
#24
I’m sick of smelling w**d everywhere I go.
Annik Perrot 3 days ago
It's not everywhere I go, but when I smell it, I just smile and think "Those were the days..."
#25
Sometimes you just have to suck it up and do a job you don’t like.
Luke Branwen 3 days ago
When people agree to "suck it up" and do $hitty jobs with $hitty pay, then the corpos will have no reason to offer good jobs for good pay because there'll be always someone willing to "suck it up" and do the $hitty one. Bad advice.
#26
In subs I am in about TV shows that are over 20 years old newer viewers get offended by every little thing and want everything to be realistic. They just flat-out refuse to see that things were like that on TV back then. We thought it was ok and so did the writers. A lot has changed in a short amount of time. Even if you back 10 years people didn't complain like this about everything. TV shows have improved and are catered to today's audience. If you can't handle how TV was back then, don't watch it. Watch shows that were created recently. I am a lefty but don't like the super woke, super PC cancel culture stuff. It just makes all of us look bad.
Lost Panda 3 days ago
There is no reason to look back on old materials with current eyes. You learn from it and ensure it doesn't happen again. Removing it opens up new doors for repeated behavior. This goes for everything not just media.
#27
As my other boomer opinion, being overweight or obese doesn't need to be glorified, and should be treated as a serious health issue. Right now media and culture absolutely gloss over the negative aspects of being fat, and not in a nuanced way.
Not saying that fat people need to be insulted or made fun of or discriminated against or whatever, and of course we don't need to put a moral or character judgment on weight. There's a way to acknowledge the complex causes of obesity and treat fat people with respect while keeping in mind that being fat puts you at risk for premature death through all sorts of fun diseases and is objectively bad for your health.
Lost Panda 3 days ago
This. It is okay to be large, but at the same time it seriously impacts your health. There is no reason to insult these people, but there is no reason to glorify it either. The same goes for super skinny as well (I am underweight myself). It does not need to be glorified nor mocked.
#28
Not all of your behaviors are attributable to your mental health and thus exempted from critique.
I LOVE that we're living in an age in which therapy is being destigmatized, but the folks walking around who self-diagnose, who make their entire being about that self-diagnosis, and who explain away any undesirable behavior as being a symptom of mental illness are threatening to bring the whole thing down. We need therapy and psychology to be taken seriously, but some people are acting like caricatures in an episode of *White Lotus*.
I have a lot of empathy for people who are struggling with mental health challenges, but I also get students emailing at the end of the semester with a diagnosis from TikTok wanting special treatment or to just pass a college class. I wish they realized the harm they were doing to the credibility of everyone else.
#29
Get whatever piercings or tattoos you want, but don't act shocked when you get taken less seriously in professional arenas because of your septum ring, visible tattoos, or gauges. It shouldn't be like that but acting like it isn't is impractical and imo willfully stupid.
#30
Also, it's not a combo unless it COMES WITH A DRINK. Enough of this $13 "combo" plus another $3 for a basic-a*s soft drink.
Betsy S 3 days ago
And we shouldn't be drinking that c**p anyway. It's one thing to have a fast food burger, not great but not too damaging, but to then wash it down with sugar water is ridiculous! Let's all destroy our blood glucose, and send our calorie count through the roof, when a glass of water would wash down the food just as well, without destroying your body.
#31
Home apliances, cars and other standalone devices should work standalone, without a phone or a cloud service.
You should NOT be required to register an account to use functions of the device that should work offline (for example dash cameras like the 7omai)
Having extra features is nice. Tying basic features to a cloud, an app or internet access or anything else that makes no sense should be illegal. To me a microvawe or air fryer being controlled via a phone app is not a feature, but a liability.
The printer-scanner needing an opened up ink cartridge to scan is just stupid and wasteful.
And while it's convinient to purchase train tickets on the phone, I still strictly purchase paper based monthly passes. And I carry a separate credit card from my phone. I don't want to end up with a dead or stolen phone with no way to call help, no pass to get home and no money to buy a ticket. It's just not happening.
If I buy a computer, I should be able to decide what software I put on it.
The manufacturer should NOT have the abbility to brick products at will. Doesn't matter wether they do it or not.
Anything that can be bricked via a software update, should have a secondary read only storage to re-flash the original software to the actually used storage (imagine BIOS for example).
If in the future I look up at the night sky expecting stars and only see ads, I'm getting [demonetised]
Software licenses sold under a "for life" license, should be illegal to convert into a time-period license. I understand that sometimes the company can't sustain for-life licenses. However then they should compensate the person for the loss. And they should at least partially refund the original purchasing price with a reasonable amount.
#32
Service charges for using a credit or debit card at a restaurant. I am not paying you to take my money. It has always been a cost of doing business. What's next charging the customer for part of the light bill?
Charles McChristy 3 days ago
The cost of the light bill is reflected in the prices, so... yeah.
#33
Sports betting is going to result in a massive scandal that decimates the credibility of professional and college sports. It's happened before, and it will happen again.
Sports associations for decades avoided affiliation with gambling, but now they are advertising it. I guarantee it will bite them in the a*s in the next few years.
#34
DVDs are better than streaming. No ads and you're guaranteed to own it forever, even if Netflix removes the movie/show.
#35
Oldies radio that plays 50s and 60s songs is good.
What do you think ?
James016 3 days ago
I get why they do it but supermarkets moving stuff around. The local Tesco have just done it and now I can’t find a lot of things.
Rick Murray 3 days ago
Probably some "marketing survey" said that people would buy more stuff if they move this and this and this and... argh! I have to spend a few days walking around the place rebuilding my mental map of where everything is ... and lamenting the stuff that always seems to vanish when they do this. The last time my local supermarket moved everything around they dropped Heinz, like completely. It's all Amora or own brand ketchup which isn't at all the same thing. I get that the supermarket is militant about price gouging (they very publicly booted PepsiCo a few years back) but if they're going to stand on that hill how about they play fair and kick out Nestlé, eh? (side note: can't believe I have to go to flamin' Lidl for my ketchup - what has the world come to?)
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Annik Perrot 3 days ago
Every generation has its lot of j*rks. Every period has its lot of things to get infuriated with. Age has little to do with it.
Charles McChristy 3 days ago
So many unintentional boomer comments in the comment sections I now have a massive headache.
James016 3 days ago
I get why they do it but supermarkets moving stuff around. The local Tesco have just done it and now I can’t find a lot of things.
Rick Murray 3 days ago
Probably some "marketing survey" said that people would buy more stuff if they move this and this and this and... argh! I have to spend a few days walking around the place rebuilding my mental map of where everything is ... and lamenting the stuff that always seems to vanish when they do this. The last time my local supermarket moved everything around they dropped Heinz, like completely. It's all Amora or own brand ketchup which isn't at all the same thing. I get that the supermarket is militant about price gouging (they very publicly booted PepsiCo a few years back) but if they're going to stand on that hill how about they play fair and kick out Nestlé, eh? (side note: can't believe I have to go to flamin' Lidl for my ketchup - what has the world come to?)
Load More Replies... Annik Perrot 3 days ago
Every generation has its lot of j*rks. Every period has its lot of things to get infuriated with. Age has little to do with it.
Charles McChristy 3 days ago
So many unintentional boomer comments in the comment sections I now have a massive headache.
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