Boomer Hate Thread

[Althalus]

At least the fine china can be used and has a practical purpose- I am fond of the green "depression glass" or "carnival glass" sets myself mostly because of silent-gen relatives who had it around and used it when we visited. But that stuff was mass-produced and I am under no illusion as to its value.

The dumb stuff like figurines or boats are frequently worthless or more trouble than they are worth. I have a soft spot for the classic cars, but they are often overpriced, even "restored" ones need constant maintenance due to age, and aren't really daily-drivable for many reasons. So its only worth it if you want that particular type of car and have the time/space/money to keep a "spare" car.

My pet peeve about Boomer-owned classic cars in particular, is I have personally witnessed numerous instances of boomers letting vehicles (often several) rot in their driveways/yards rather than sell them. So otherwise decent classic cars turn to a pile of rust with interiors turned to mold, and then the boomer dies and the car is sent to scrap anyway. All because the boomer was a car hoarder who didn't bother to care for them, and/or was asking a ridiculous price to sell them.

 

[Epstein's Mexican cousin]

Classic cars:
They degrade, parts are hard to find, only boomers care, why would I care about some old shit car, only museum grade quality antique cars hold value.

I hate that boomers hold onto old cars, the C3 corvette is too beautiful to be sitting in some storage garage, rusting away as gramps withers away in some old persons home.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Are Big Lots being systematically converted into Ollie's? Because this happened in my neck of the woods too.

Eh some that closed are reopening.

 

[Roughly35RatsInAnEVASuit]

Antique furniture:
No one cares about your old ass ugly furniture, unless it's something very rare and beautiful no one cares.

Antique furniture has tanked in value so hard recently that is now cheaper than fucking IKEA. But whenever I have to pick something up from a Boomer they always are selling really nice things and keeping awful dog shit. And you just have to be nice about the 2 meter tall """hand carved""" American Indian statue in the centre of their living room. We are also nowhere near America.

 

[Paper Machete]

At least the fine china can be used and has a practical purpose- I am fond of the green "depression glass" or "carnival glass" sets myself mostly because of silent-gen relatives who had it around and used it when we visited. But that stuff was mass-produced and I am under no illusion as to its value.

The dumb stuff like figurines or boats are frequently worthless or more trouble than they are worth. I have a soft spot for the classic cars, but they are often overpriced, even "restored" ones need constant maintenance due to age, and aren't really daily-drivable for many reasons. So its only worth it if you want that particular type of car and have the time/space/money to keep a "spare" car.

My pet peeve about Boomer-owned classic cars in particular, is I have personally witnessed numerous instances of boomers letting vehicles (often several) rot in their driveways/yards rather than sell them. So otherwise decent classic cars turn to a pile of rust with interiors turned to mold, and then the boomer dies and the car is sent to scrap anyway. All because the boomer was a car hoarder who didn't bother to care for them, and/or was asking a ridiculous price to sell them.

You can buy the stuff new too. It's not like kitchenware and dinnerware are no longer being produced. If you like that sort of thing there are options to get it. It's just interesting that things boomers thought were or needed a high ticket are tanking because so many of them are dying or going senile and their stuff is being handled by someone who doesn't give a shit. Things are priced by what sellers think the value should be with stuff like that or it doesn't sell.

Boomers seem to think this means people do not like or see a use for these things but that's not necessarily true so much as it is people do not want to pay lots of money for it or see it as a why to have another asset. You can really enjoy something but also understand that doesn't translate to money or that the importance is in the experience of using it and not what you can get out of it later.

 

[TJT]

I hate that boomers hold onto old cars, the C3 corvette is too beautiful to be sitting in some storage garage, rusting away as gramps withers away in some old persons home.

Speaking of that shit have you seen the new turbo grift for our generation? You can still find classic (actual classic) cars in various places at reasonable prices. If that's your thing. YMMV on work needed to get it how you want of course.

 

[Broadside]

My pet peeve about Boomer-owned classic cars in particular, is I have personally witnessed numerous instances of boomers letting vehicles (often several) rot in their driveways/yards rather than sell them.

I live near a couple of Boomers like this. There's a fucking SS Camero just being left to rot in this guy's yard and it's clearly suffering weather damage. They'll hoard these "valuable" cars then just do nothing to preserve them. It doesn't even get a cover on it during winter. I don't understand what the hell the endgame is. I bet if I I offered to buy it off the guy he'd give me some spiel about it increasing in value over time or some shit, as it slowly gets rustier.

 

[pro drivor]

sitting in some storage garage, rusting away as gramps withers away in some old persons home.

"Lazy ass kids. Why aren't they interested in cars? Must be the phone. I wouldn't let them participate anyway. Immature criminal clowns don't deserve to be a part of MY hobby. Why aren't they interested?"

There's a fucking SS Camero just being left to rot in this guy's yard and it's clearly suffering weather damage. They'll hoard these "valuable" cars then just do nothing to preserve them. It doesn't even get a cover on it during winter.

"Are you saying I don't know what to do with MY own car? Did your father not beat you enough as a child you insolent loser? I'm literally a deity. No lowballers I know what I got. Will not reply to is this available. If it doesn't sell this week it's going to the crusher. Minor rust damage (rockers gone, floors gone, quarters gone, needs full patching). Why does nobody want to buy my car?"

then the boomer dies and the car is sent to scrap anyway.

It's so painful being into 1970s full sized cars because you will very often find people parting them out so they can be used for demolition derby purposes. In effect they turn cars like this:

Into monstrosities like this:

The fucked up part is that for use in this derbies the cars have to be nearly rust free for structural integrity, and if they aren't the builder spends enough time welding up the fucking thing that they could've restored it like a normal person. 50+ year old cars destroyed for some hick sport.

 

[Pim Fortuyn]

Around my parts special gyms aimed at boomers are springing up. The concept is you can train in street clothes, there's no changing rooms and showers, as you don't really lift weights, there's only electronic machines that move you around a bit, no sweating, no exertion. A facsimile of exercise, pure performative nonsense.

Ties in with the observation that boomers will happily swallow every pill in the world, but won't do some exercise and or not eat crap every day. I feel like there's large swathes of boomers who think the idea of exerting yourself physically is utterly humiliating and beneath them. Sometimes I'll hear the excuse "I did heavy labor all my life I'm for sure not gonna do it anymore" or something but I kinda doubt those uttering that really ever did.

 

[Attempt Turd]

Can we include MSG in that category as well? I never knew what the stuff was, but remember being a kid in the '80s and '90s and the adults were always talking about it when mentioning Chinese food. I also remember labels on food saying "No MSG" like it was a bonus feature, or how menus at restaurants mentioned they don't use MSG. As far as I remember, it's basically just a type of salt ingredient, but Boomers had a panic over it (sort of like how gluten was for Millennials in the 2010s).

There is about 1.5 percent of MSG in Parmesan naturally. I think I remember the tail end of that hysteria and the point was that some not insignificant percentage is intolerant of large doses of MSG and will feel bad. But it's just the whole chemicals bad deal. Same as people putting their signature for banning dihydrogen monoxide.

I work at a bookstore and based off of buying patterns, I'm pretty sure boom booms were ground zero for consoooming. They are super cheap and almost exclusively shop clearance (that way they can buy more!) and if they find out the clearance price was a $5 instead of $3, they will look at it with visceral disgust and say they'll pass. I once watched an elderly woman in a wheelchair with her family buy about $100 worth of coffee table books and then heckled her (also old) daughter about "what, you not getting anything?". Money is tight right now and I've noticed a lot of the younger (50 and below) customers have started being more picky with what entertainment they'll spend money on. Boom boom corpses will buy hundreds of dollars worth of books they can barely even carry, just to have someone else help them.

I'm also pretty sure they are the ones that started "shopping" as a like, hobby instead of a necessity.

They seriously are the only generation right now in this economy that spend like nobody's business, while also being the stingiest and choosiest. Just money out the ass for bullshit they will never read. No joke, one ordered a book to be sent to her and the book was returned to sender because she had died before it got there.

I can only imagine how bad they are in other markets since this is only my perspective from selling books!

I wish olds loved their families and country more than they love James Patterson

I blame boomers for the difficulty getting anything of quality without doing research or paying out the ass. No, don't buy the American made potato peeler it's twice as expensive buy the Japanese* or hong kong one that barely works and gets worn out instantly. It's cheap you can always get another one. Hey! No one is buying domestically made potato peelers anymore we need it to move production to Mexico or China. And 50 years later you need to buy everything four times until you get lucky and gets a thing that does what it's supposed to. The worst is that price and quality are also decoupled nowadays so the thing you payed a lot for might still be shit but marked up.

Ironically buying Japanese these days is expensive but at least most of their domestically produced stuff is fit for purpose. They kept buying domestic and kept demanding quality but like all boomers they forgot that you need children to have a future.

*Before the 80s Japan had the same status as China ten years ago. Cheap shit.

 

[pro drivor]

Bear in mind how much about the housing market was being propped up by infinite immigration. We were looking at well over a million foreigners a year during Biden years. Moreso than deportations, Trump's second term has been marked by a collapse in illegal immigration and crackdowns on H1B's. Without interest rates falling to 2-3%, I don't see any appetite to buy the typical 400k+ outdated home in need of renovation. New homes will keep selling though. In Japan, old homes take a hit as a depreciating asset intended to be replaced. I wouldn't be surprised if the US starts to trend that way with the 1950 style ranch houses on large lots if market conditions hold. Lots of old neighborhoods in pretty much any city occupied by old, shitty houses with no curb appeal. The actual value is the lot and its utility hookups, not a 1500 sq. ft. 4b1b house.

in some places its not uncommon to find illegals packed in with like 16 of them living in one single family home with all paying exorbitant rent. the landlord knowingly renting to them, letting them live in shit conditions, and downright extorting them is the problem, the weak link allowing that bullshit to happen. if we completely shut down the mass migration like normal people would and allowed the immigrants already here to assimilate instead of using them like slave labor we wouldn't be having any of these problems.

also may God forbid that the US become any more like Japan, that place has a fucking plethora of problems and is not the ideal nation weebs and boomers who exited the corporate world in 1989 make it out to be

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

The fucked up part is that for use in this derbies the cars have to be nearly rust free for structural integrity, and if they aren't the builder spends enough time welding up the fucking thing that they could've restored it like a normal person. 50+ year old cars destroyed for some hick sport

The ONLY cars that should be used in demo services are Nissan Altimas, Mitsubishi lancers and similar.

Nothing cool

 

[Althalus]

Sometimes I'll hear the excuse "I did heavy labor all my life I'm for sure not gonna do it anymore" or something but I kinda doubt those uttering that really ever did.

I actually believe this one. Have worked both white-collar and blue-collar jobs, and anecdotally the white-collar workers are more likely to exercise and eat right, while blue-collar workers are more likely to eat slop and then justify not exercising, by claiming the physical work they do/did is enough. Exceptions exist in both cases of course, but the general pattern seems to hold true at least in my experience.

It's so painful being into 1970s full sized cars because you will very often find people parting them out so they can be used for demolition derby purposes.

The ONLY cars that should be used in demo services are Nissan Altimas, Mitsubishi lancers and similar.

Nothing cool

If it's any consolation, I went to a demo derby at my local county fair last summer, and the oldest car I saw was a Chevy Celebrity. Most of the demo cars nowadays seem to be 90s/00s shitboxes, winner of that derby was a 00s Chrysler minivan, funnily enough.

I think the 70s cars are getting thin enough on the ground/appreciating in value enough, that derby drivers are getting newer stuff out of simple necessity.

 

[Audit]

I actually believe this one. Have worked both white-collar and blue-collar jobs, and anecdotally the white-collar workers are more likely to exercise and eat right, while blue-collar workers are more likely to eat slop and then justify not exercising, by claiming the physical work they do/did is enough. Exceptions exist in both cases of course, but the general pattern seems to hold true at least in my experience.

From my own observations, there's a pretty strong correlation between intelligence and fitness to the extent of not being obese. It's not necessarily tied to income, but you'll be certain to find lots of obese fucks on welfare and retarded middle class boomers who got lucky/lead poisoned generation. Impulse control is nigh non-existent in tards, hence why low IQ types end up doing crime and brain annihilating drugs.

 

[chromatic_oxygen]

Classic cars:
They degrade, parts are hard to find, only boomers care, why would I care about some old shit car, only museum grade quality antique cars hold value.

I swear I'm alone in this, for the love of Christ someone please agree with me: 1950s and 1960s classic cars are, for the most part, rancid bricks of shit, and the boomers who obsess over them and religiously maintain them should have their eyelids held open as they watch them get crushed into neat and tidy little cubes.

I'm not talking about Corvettes, or a Cutlass Supreme - cars like that have good design in my opinion. No, I'm talking about cars with Virgil Exner's "Forward Look" design: the 1957 Bel Air or the 1961 Chrysler 300G are both prime examples of what I mean. A certain subsect of boomers have a rabid, unexplainable nostalgia for the aesthetics of the 50s and 60s, and that whole look just makes me viscerally ill.

Sidebar, but I want to see every wood paneled station wagon burn as well. To me, they're like the hideously malformed, retarded grandfather of the Nissan Cubes and Kia Souls of today, and were yet another grotesque embodiment of the boomer soul. There's a fat old fucker who lives by himself in my town who still has one. I pray that one day I'll get to see it crashed on the side of the road and engulfed in flames.

 

[Althalus]

I swear I'm alone in this, for the love of Christ someone please agree with me: 1950s and 1960s classic cars are, for the most part, rancid bricks of shit, and the boomers who obsess over them and religiously maintain them should have their eyelids held open as they watch them get crushed into neat and tidy little cubes.

I'm not talking about Corvettes, or a Cutlass Supreme - cars like that have good design in my opinion. No, I'm talking about cars with Virgil Exner's "Forward Look" design: the 1957 Bel Air or the 1961 Chrysler 300G are both prime examples of what I mean. A certain subsect of boomers have a rabid, unexplainable nostalgia for the aesthetics of the 50s and 60s, and that whole look just makes me viscerally ill.

Aesthetic taste is subjective, sure. But basically every pre-80s car drives like crap compared to newer ones, that's half the appeal. Same reason why wooden roller coasters are still liked despite metal ones being faster, smoother, and having superior specs on paper.

Sidebar, but I want to see every wood paneled station wagon burn as well. To me, they're like the hideously malformed, retarded grandfather of the Nissan Cubes and Kia Souls of today, and were yet another grotesque embodiment of the boomer soul. There's a fat old fucker who lives by himself in my town who still has one. I pray that one day I'll get to see it crashed on the side of the road and engulfed in flames.

1) Fuck you, station wagons are cool. 2) most of the people who bought wagons were the boomers' silent gen or greatest gen parents, not boomers themselves. As soon as boomers started buying cars in the 80s/90s, SUVs and minivans became most popular and wagons mostly stopped being made. (with a few holdouts like Volvo and Subaru, which were mostly bought by Gen X and Millenials)

 

[Xarpho's Return]

in some places its not uncommon to find illegals packed in with like 16 of them living in one single family home with all paying exorbitant rent. the landlord knowingly renting to them, letting them live in shit conditions, and downright extorting them is the problem, the weak link allowing that bullshit to happen. if we completely shut down the mass migration like normal people would and allowed the immigrants already here to assimilate instead of using them like slave labor we wouldn't be having any of these problems

I've discussed it another thread but while boomers didn't make the Civil Rights Act, they appended to it and one of those made it illegal to have "discriminatory" housing. It was already illegal in the early 1980s to have a whites only apartment complex, but with it you couldn't ban children/married couples anymore (destroying purpose-built apartments and fostering communities) or ban non-residents (only not a problem if their numbers were kept in check, which in the 1980s was generally not a problem).

Boomers were around to enjoy the singles apartments and the atmosphere they provided and then proceeded to kick out the ladder from under them, while letting age based apartments stay and letting them run off to 65+ communities.

 

[pro drivor]

But basically every pre-80s car drives like crap compared to newer ones, that's half the appeal.

More like 60s and below, although even some of those cars (like the old stepdown Hudsons) were good in the comfort department. The 70s is really when automakers (or at least the American brands) started giving a shit about suspension geometry which had upsides in handling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGqfOa6tmC8&list=PLj5Ps2zxdYVTiPutE06YZllJUCoQ6aj_x&index=18

You might balk at the body roll but this generation (1971-1976 B body) were comfy and certainly way better handling than what came before (1965-1970 B body): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbGK7lSmP28&list=PLj5Ps2zxdYVTiPutE06YZllJUCoQ6aj_x&index=10
That's not to say you can't make the earlier cars handle as well with tuning and stuff, it's just noted that the geometry sucked balls to begin with. As another example the 1st gen Camaro has way worse suspension geometry than the 2nd gen Camaro but people are able to make both handle well with the wide aftermarket available.

wooden roller coasters

are unbelievably fun

Boomers were around to enjoy the singles apartments and the atmosphere they provided and then proceeded to kick out the ladder from under them, while letting age based apartments stay and letting them run off to 65+ communities.

Given how few kids there are now compared to when they were mostly single (they're called Boomers for a reason) they might not even exist today even if that law didn't apply. Just my speculation though, not familiar with the actual laws you're citing but the lack of children/aging population has affected quite a lot of things and probably even the passing of that law itself. Humanity will always want to be fruitful and multiply, and when people stop doing that en masse whatever's causing that has got to be dire to completely supplant people's instincts.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-birth-rate-all-time-low-cdc-data/

"In the early 1960s, the U.S. total fertility rate was around 3.5, but plummeted to 1.7 by 1976 after the Baby Boom ended. It gradually rose to 2.1 in 2007 before falling again, aside from a 2014 uptick. The rate in 2023 was 1.621 but inched down in 2024 to 1.599, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics." It needs to be around 2.1 to be replacement level (not 2.0 because infant mortality exists).

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I actually believe this one. Have worked both white-collar and blue-collar jobs, and anecdotally the white-collar workers are more likely to exercise and eat right, while blue-collar workers are more likely to eat slop and then justify not exercising, by claiming the physical work they do/did is enough. Exceptions exist in both cases of course, but the general pattern seems to hold true at least in my experience.

Ironically you need to be pretty far up the white-collar route to be able to swim for an hour before work, which starts at 9-10AM, but also work less than the usual amount of hours to get home, shop, have time to make decent food and go for a run. If you're working an office job near the bottom, you're basically too whipped to have the energy to work out, lack the time to do so and generally get whipped into such a shape it's difficult to muster much of anything.

If all you do is skate between meetings, yeah no shit you can work out. The human brain is tired by decisions and you make none in meetings. You're presented 10 options and go with one or the other, basically just signing the papers someone else already wrote out. Yet, ironically, I've worked menial jobs before and despite being physically tired, plenty of people went on to do physical stuff in their time off cause their brain wasn't turned to mush by mundane office rituals.

 

[Hallucinogenic Penguin]

Thoughts on the future of the healthcare field when boomers are gone?