Behaviors and customs, like anything, change with time. As technology changes and history continues to unfold, we change right along with it. We don’t use chamber pots and wear petticoats anymore, do we? But what are the changes that have happened over our lifetimes, or our parents’ lifetimes? Time and technology move and change in …
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Wife Sends Entitled In-Laws to Hotel After They Crash Vacation and Expect to Stay in Couple’s 1-Bedroom Rental With 6 Adults and 4 Kids: ‘They had no plans’
Imagine that the time for your beach vacation has finally arrived. You booked your trip months in advance, spent hours on planning, saved up the funds, and spent most of your PTO. Just you, your partner, and your kids relaxing on a beach (well, if you have kids, you know you can never relax, but …
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20+ Hilarious Boomer Facebook Fails by Fogies Who Can’t Remember Their Wifi Password
I can’t wait to see what technology will stump Gen Z and Millennials when we’re old and gray. I wouldn’t be surprised if we choose to abandon social media altogether, opting for a simpler life with VHS players dictating our media consumption. Some day, I will be too old and foolish to adapt to the …
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‘Phones are making kids stupid’: Millennials and Gen Zers share the opinions that they agree with Baby Boomers about
Some oldhead complaints are timeless. For instance, «Kids today are lazy and can’t even begin to apply themselves to anything important.» That’s a critique that goes back to Aristotle’s times. While it’s kind of funny to watch the grown-up kids, who were called lazy by their parents, call their kids and grandkids lazy, it doesn’t …
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‘I told him to go away and get a life’: Nosy boomer freaks out when neighbor paints their house peach, refuses to move to an HOA community because he’s lived there 15 years
If you want to control your neighbor’s houses, you must move into a neighborhood with a Homeowner’s Association. That is the only way you can guarantee that all of the mulch in everyone’s front lawn is the right color and that no pink flamingos will take permanent residency on your street. If you move into …
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Grandparents roasted by grandkid after playing favoritism, upset parents won’t punish her behavior: ‘My parents looked at me expectantly, but I didn’t do anything’
We’ve all heard stories of how Boomers can be. When they think they’re right, there is no convincing them otherwise, even if they’re entirely in the wrong. All this family drama started way back when their own kids were born. Their daughter says her parents have always played favorites. It’s a well-known fact. Because she’s …
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Millennials discuss why boomers are still living in a 1980s economic mindset: ‘My dad said «You are earning 6 figures and can’t afford $500 for a vacation?»‘
It isn’t easy to accept that everything is getting demonstrably more expensive. We used to think of inflation as a gradual process: our grandparents talked about how hamburgers used to be 50 cents, and as the decades marched on, they gradually started costing upwards of $15 if you wanted a good one. The inflation in …
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20+ Boomer Technology Fails For Coots Constantly Checking Facebook
It’s easy to dismiss elderly Facebook users as cringey or completely clueless. It’s not a complete falsehood that a lot of the members of the Baby Boomer and Greatest generations are not using technology in a wholly competent way, but some of them are better than others! When I was in high school, I was …
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‘I said shut that kid up!’: Boomer yells at 5-year-old in a children’s museum during an educational movie, snores through the entire runtime
There are a lot of people who hate kids for no good reason. I understand if you don’t want a family of your own or you get irritated by babies crying on an airplane: this isn’t about you. I’m talking about adults who, for some reason, expect children to adhere to adult maturity levels, even …
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‘BRING BACK LAPTOPS WITH DVD PLAYERS’: Millennials, Gen Xers, and Gen Zers share their most Boomer opinions
Baby boomers and old people in general can get a bad rap. They’re portrayed in memes as being stuck up, having an «I got mine» mindset, and embodying the worst of all Karen tendencies. It’s just part of nature for young people to resent and criticize their parents and grandparents generations. As long as there …
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