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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 23:11:24 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   I did just talk to a boomer who passed up a pretty hefty, insane offer to buy his land because “I have to ask my kids what they wanna do with it”. They wanna turn it into an amazon warehouse or suburbs, but his first instinct was “well I’m just the guy who bought it, it’s family land now”

   Also another one, I guess GenX, was talking to me about how they included another family in their estate planning, because their friends have a litter of cute white kids but no extended family to rely on. They want to help foster their success as a surrogate pair of grandparents, in a way.

   So that’s TWO good boomer interactions in the span of a week or so

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 23:15:53 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     I haven’t mentioned him in a long time, but my fren who was disowned by his family ended up having them try to patch things up with him. I think they kind of got wise to how hard he’s been working and finally realized it’s not 1985 anymore, they ended up apologizing and feeling quite bad about the whole affair, so that’s kind of 3?

   • sparky ⚓ (sparky@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 10:52:00 JST sparky ⚓

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot Went to a new contractor and got a new boomer in my life, he was telling me about his crypto investments on our break.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 10:52:00 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @sparky Holy hell. I was meeting with some of mine earlier and it was all shop talk, and I realized part way through I’m gonna miss them when they’re gone. The boomers are the last link to the good world, the only people who will start ttalking about the past and suddenly give you incredible insight into the good ol’ days.

     (In their case they were talking about the development process of an old plane that one was invof with, was pretty cool to hear about)

   • sparky ⚓ (sparky@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:03:48 JST sparky ⚓

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     @Tony @WashedOutGundamPilot They're just inarticulate. What they mean when they say "stop buying starbucks" isn't "you could be a millionaire" but more "you're crying about not being able to afford children, but you're spending enough on coffee in a week to buy diapers for half a month"
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   • Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:03:49 JST Mr. Bacon

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     Boomers were good people. Honestly, my main issue with them is their refusal to admit they hold like the majority of wealth in the us and we need to "stop buying Starbucks" and that is why the younger generations are broke.
     
     Ignorance aside, they have great classical values and beliefs. Hell, my mom has been married for almost 40 years. I don't know if I'll live long enough to even have that option anymore...
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:05:47 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Tony @sparky Yeah, the boomers I loathe are the kinds that refuse to understand that their brain still thinks the world is stuck at whatever year they graduated high school. Even if the world in their surroundings is entirely different, they’ll imagine that just outside their view things are operating just as they did in 1965, or ‘85 for GenX.

     Most boomers that work with their hands tend to be cooler, it’s usually the worthless middle managers that got lucky with the timing that buy into the arrogant idea that everything around them is the direct result of their amazing quality

   • Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:10:36 JST Mr. Bacon

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     THIS. Most boomers I've met in the construction trades understand where the world is now because they are out in it all the time.
     
     Middle managers who have coworkers who are all the same age are disconnected from where younger culture is now.
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   • sparky ⚓ (sparky@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:10:54 JST sparky ⚓

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     @Tony @WashedOutGundamPilot I will also defend bommers to death for the avocado toast meme. That originated from some urbanite fag trying to budget and not being able to figure it out despite the fact that he was spending $30 a day at a ritzy cafe on a breakfast he could have made at home for a dollar fifty. $150 a week is serious money and the boomers were right to dab on that dude
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:12:21 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @sparky @Tony I love telling them how little I’ve lived on before.

     “you kids wouldn’t be doing so bad if you stopped eating out all the time”

     “buddy? Last time I ate at a restaurant was when my parents took me out for my Bday a year ago, and I live on sixteen dollars of groceries a week. If it weren’t for multivitamins, i’d have rickets by now.”

     “woah you shouldn’t do that though!!!”

     “nigger I’m poor!”

   • sparky ⚓ (sparky@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:19:11 JST sparky ⚓

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Tony I sit in my truck and eat pinto beans and cornbread for lunch every day, sometimes they pity me and buy lunch.
     
     I get them crying about me not having a reamer pretty often too. Nigger my $6 harbor freight knockoff channellocks deburred that pipe just fine, are you going to buy me a $40 tool or are you going to shut the fuck up and let a broke nigga work?
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   • Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:23:42 JST Mr. Bacon

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     harbor freight is legit - tell the boomers to back off lmao
     
     #milwawkee for life though
   • sparky ⚓ (sparky@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:23:42 JST sparky ⚓

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     @Tony @WashedOutGundamPilot Quality has gone up dramatically over the last decade. I expected the teeth on these pliers to flatten within a month but I've had them over a year of near-daily use now and they're still holding up
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