“I’m With The Boomers On This One”: 30 Old-Fashioned Things People Still Enjoy Doing, As Shared On This Online Thread

I'm against the qr code menus because some people don't have smart phones. Whether by choice(can't afford it don't want the ability to be reached at all times) or court mandate(some people f**k up and a condition of probation can be no unmonitored access to internet ready devices)

I HATE having to get out my phone and click around their menus. They almost always have the menu item but you have to click for the description. I usually don't go back

And In big font. I’m getting older lol. Oh and please provide a flashlight. Oh boy I’m getting old.

Went into taco bell the other day on a hurry. Instead of ordering with a human is had to do it on and ordering screen that was confusing. Took 5 min tonfind the mexican pizza. I wanted to TELL SOMEONE MY ORDER!!!!

Hard Rock Cafe has recently begun using these QR readers. They wouldn't serve my friend or me because we couldn't install them into our phones at the time. So all the staff ignored us. (Yes, we were fully vaccinated.) I mean they wouldn't even look our way! We finally just left, which was a shame because we used to spend a lot of money there. Won't be back.

I love the smell of old books, too

Books will live forever📚📚💕 I love the smell of fresh books, no matter what

Yes. I can relate. I have like 700 books!

I like old hand-me-down books y’know? I like the smell. Don’t ask

This! Its not fun reading on a screen! Real books are so much better and its easier to concentrate while readin a book vs. On screen.

Yes, but not everyone can walk all the way over to the switch. Alexa & Co are fantastic for people with handicaps, who cannot walk all the way over to the switch.

Yeah, no. Good thing there was nobody around with that attitude when the invented the TV remote.

Alexa is a god send invention for people with disabilities and mobility issues. A deaf person is very thankful for it and so does someone who can't actually walk. I know this is talking about something different but to be so blasé about the fact you can just effing walk over to a switch kind of insults those that, well, don't even have use of their legs. Just saying.

We've got a fully smart home. Lights on motion sensors in certain rooms, heating, multiroom speakers. I love it.

I disagree - I LOVE telling Alexa to turn lights on/off, add items to my shopping list, play music. I definitely had ways of doing that before, but nothing beats asking for and getting music by Queen when I'm up to my elbows in dishwater!

Oh yesss... It was a black day for me when my small warhammer 40K gaming group fell apart because everyone else decided that sitting on their asses playing video games was more fun..... (Just when my fkn army was finally the way I wanted it )

I love playing board games with my family. When we get together as a family me and all my cousins play board games and when my Nan stays over at my house (or vice Versa) - board games. Same with my grandad but we play chess more than any other games

Whenever the kids (grown a*s adults) visit, we always play board games. It is a blast, we have so much fun. One of my favorites is Munchkin.

At least here in Italy this is not a boomer thing... For the older generations board games means Risiko and Monopoly, maybe Trivial Pursuit if they are daring. For us Millennials, Xers and so on? Follow me on the rabbit hole: https://boardgamegeek.com/

Seems more fun to play face-to-face. I loved playing games like Poker and Cards Against Humanity with fam.

It is a clever way to squeeze us every month and for them to have a more predictable income to appease their investors. Will someone PLEASE think of the shareholders (simpsons based sarcasm).

Let me introduce you to the Juicero

They still find a way to screw you. When Tivo was popular, I bought a 'lifetime' service plan for hundreds. Tivo died a couple months later. CS helpfully advised me that that lifetime service plan only pertained to that particular Tivo and could not be transferred to another one. Then they said I was lucky to get a few years out of it because they were designed to fail. So they sell lifetime service plans, but only for a specific unit and those units are designed to fail after a few years. Is there a business out there that isn't just one big scam?

Because of budgets,low income, not everyone qualifies for being able to pay in full. Many times we are forced to make payments, can't afford to buy necessary things outright. They claim the don't check your credit, then why do you need my ss#?

The way things are these days I'd like to be paid in gold or platinum.