The great resignation—where is the hired help?

[WSS]

Yet this part of your post nullifies the rest. Apparently you have problems reading simple English? I made my living in "High tech" for 40 years! As I say, I was using, programming, building and even designing computers professionally (at the component level) long before most people had ever seen one or knew what one was. Now - go re-read and comprehend the previous sentence.

For the last time: I like technology - I just don't like poorly implemented and/or un-necessary tech. Its absolutely INSANE what's going on now with automobiles as exhibit "A". Smartphones are a pain in the ass - they're too damn small, too damn fragile, ridiculously overpriced, too damn limited with a piss poor UI by their very nature, "Apps" are mostly crippled, and their operating systems are braindead - "Windows Phone" possibly as an exception. There isn't anything they do that can't be done better - and virtually always cheaper - by something else.

Yet you come across as an idiot to me because you state that "I don't like technology" - the real problem is you apparently can't comprehend the Queen's English. I simply don't like your oh-so-sacred "fetish device" and I got your back up as a result. I'm tired of being called a "Luddite" because I state the obvious: The Emperor has no clothes!

I don't give a tinker's damn if people want to use these overpriced and crippled devices. Just don't insult my intelligence by telling me the world would stop turning but for their existence. They're a crescent wrench. Crescent wrenches have their place, but I reach for the right tool whenever possible. But even a crescent wrench doesn't carry an outrageous monthly fee, and are affordable to acquire for that matter.

I completely understand what you write. My goal is to get to a point where there is no cell service. My phone does not work at 80ft of SW. I often think as I descend that no one can reach me but my buddy (wife). Same goes with our TJ, get out and away. See things most Americans will never see unless it is on utube.

Now hear me out, no offense here. Sometimes in society, we cross bridges that we cannot go back across without a heavy fine. This tech is one of them. Socially, it is this stupid "social media" thing. Ever watch "walle"? It feels that we are on the same ship.

 

[DEValken]

I remember how my father disliked TV, he grew up in the depression and was lucky to have a radio. Like every major change in civilized history there was a group that didn't like it. I sometimes long for the days when if I wasn't sitting at the desk you couldn't reach me by phone. At the same time I really appreciate the things it provides.

I work for a company that does a lot of high-end fab jobs in the DC / Baltimore area, about 3 hours away. The things a smartphone does for me:

Being able to video chat with my installers when we have a situation

Pictures of all kinds at the site immediately uploaded to our tracking software

Finding my way around DC in the middle of rush hour

Finding a hardware store in a strange city for emergency parts

10 days of my music onboard

Building codes at my fingertips

I realize if someone works from a single place all day everyday they can scoff at those things. But show me another device that can do what they do.

Crippled compared to?

 

[Zorba]

Crippled compared to?

Ah - somebody with a more balanced viewpoint. Crippled as compared to a real computer (desktop or laptop), or other dedicated device. Even I'll admit that smartphones can take good to excellent pictures, but they're not a DSLR and never will be. Still, for many situations, the smartphone camera is completely adequate - Goddess knows I've used enough of them myself when someone wants me to take their picture. Slippery and hard to hold, but the picture comes out OK.

As far as video conferencing and uploading your pix - you could do it with a laptop and have a far better operating experience. The current trend of bigger and bigger smartphones (that some complain about) is for a very simple reason: They're too damn small for any serious work! If a laptop is just too damn "inconvenient" (Americans worship at that Altar), even a tablet would serve a bit better. You'd still have the braindead OS - unless you ran a Microsoft "Surface" or similar - but you'd have a more workable screen, albeit still very small.

As for TV, I used to like it years back - and worked in TV repair which I wanted to do as a career, but I figured out that that field was drying up, and this new "Microprocessor" widget was where I needed to be. But now? I'll sit down and watch an episode or two of "Gold Rush" or one of the HGTV shows where they completely ruin a house - when my wife tunes in. Aside from that, I haven't watched TV in decades. I don't know if its because the shows were so much better "back then", or I just outgrew it. Either way, I don't miss it. Wife and I were forced to live apart for about 4 years while she was taking care of her ailing parents all the way across the country, and I had to continue working. I turned the satellite service the Hell off (another obscene waste of money as far as I'm concerned) and it didn't affect me in the slightest as I never turned the TV on in the first place.

 

[Zorba]

I completely understand what you right. My goal is to get to a point where there is no cell service. My phone does not work at 80ft of SW. I often think as I descend that no one can reach me but my buddy (wife). Same goes with our TJ, get out and away. See things most Americans will never see unless it is on utube.

Now hear me out, no offense here. Sometimes in society, we cross bridges that we cannot go back across without a heavy fine. This tech is one of them. Socially, it is this stupid "social media" thing. Ever watch "walle"? It feels that we are on the same ship.

Naw, I'm not "offended" - offense is for Liberals. You are quite correct, this horse has left the barn. Doesn't mean its right, or that I have to subject myself to it. Same goes for "Social Media" - which has ZERO legitimacy as far as I'm concerned, and I don't subject myself to that either. Not familiar with "Walle".

There is an interesting white paper floating around "out there" - "Smartphone resistance as media ambivalence" or somesuch. Like ideas are floating around elsehwere - apparently people who don't have smartphones generally don't care about, or consume/utilize "Media" - whatever that may actually mean. That probably describes me, although the smartphone connection doesn't make much sense - you certainly don't need one to view/use/consume/whatever "Media", be it videos, or news, or "Social Media", whatever. I can access all that stuff right here, right now on my triple screen desktop - firewall settings notwithstanding! But since I don't give a damn one way or the other...

What annoys - and alarms - me about the "smartphones are oh-so-essential and the planet would stop turning if everybody didn't have one" crowd, are the economics of the things. They're outrageously expensive to acquire, and "pricey to outrageous" to "feed" every month. I know multiple people who "don't have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of" who have them. They're in hock to their eyeballs, are late on payments frequently, etc, etc, etc - yet by Goddess they feed their smartphone addiction with a $120/mo (or more) payment. Then they feel that they have to buy their kid one too. I won't say "WTF?" - I'll say WHAT THE FUCK? These people sometimes even have their cell service turned off due to unaffordability, but rest assured they make a priority to "feed the pig" and get that oh-so-essential smartphone back up and running - to Hell with the car and the house!

The TelCos have QUITE the racket going - they've managed to market these things as "essential to life", collect outrageous monthly fees, and have everyone convinced that they have to "upgrade" every 2 or 3 years. Most people would be far better off with a desktop computer that costs about the same as a mid range smartphone but has a better screen, a real keyboard and pointing device, a real operating system that runs real SOFTWARE, and will last at LEAST 10 years. Monthly Internet bills are still pricey, but you get unlimited data for the same money as a lower tier smartphone plan. You end up paying a lot less and have a far better experience. Hell, I sure wouldn't want to type this missive of a forum post on a tiny touch screen device - I'm a very fast touch typist (and it probably shows!).

My parents taught me the value of a buck - and to not waste money on "conveniences" that really aren't necessary. Why do you think I raise so much Hell about American market automobiles - they're all Luxury cars, even current Jeeps. I don't want to pay for that - I don't want to pay to acquire it, I don't want to pay to maintain it, I don't want to pay to fix it when it breaks, and I sure as hell don't want to have to buy another one because its "obsolete" and/or irreparable. Most importantly, I don't want to have to deal with it during my ownership period!

I worked for many years with a guy who did significant work on the original TiVo (is that still a thing?). I used to give him "the business" about it - Luxury loving Americans will pay anything for "convenience" - paying $9.99/mo to not have to program a VCR (or equivalent) is the height of stupidity. "A fool and his money are soon parted." I was able to retire at age 57 partly because I don't waste my money on frivolities and multiple $9.99/mo services/subscriptions - never mind $120/mo cable or telco bills which are so much money down the toilet. At least with a Jeep - which is by far the most frivolous thing I've ever bought - I can get "some" of my money back if I want/need to!

 

[pc1p]

Smartphones are a pain in the ass - they're too damn small, too damn fragile, ridiculously overpriced, too damn limited with a piss poor UI by their very nature, "Apps" are mostly crippled, and their operating systems are braindead - "Windows Phone" possibly as an exception. There isn't anything they do that can't be done better - and virtually always cheaper - by something else.

I feel like we're talking too much about phones, but I'm quite curious here...

Too damn small for what exactly? I wear XXL gloves and they seem to be perfectly sized for what I need it to do while still fitting in my pants pocket. As a matter of fact, many people were concerned that they were going to get too big, which manufacturers have seemed to stop focusing on...

Too fragile? Compared to what, a crescent wrench? In 15 years of smartphone use, I've broken 1 screen. My wife has broken zero screens but did wash one accidentally many moons ago. Compared to how many broken flip-phone and Nokias I've had over the years, I'm orders of magnitude ahead. My 14 year old has broken zero. My 10 year old has broken zero (though did lose it for about 2 weeks!)

Ridiculously overpriced? Compared to what? A brand new iPhone 13 is $699. A consumer study I found said they estimate a smartphone user will keep their phone on average of 2.75 years. That's $254 per year of use and that doesn't include any residual value of your old phone, so what are we really looking at here, $200/year if you decide to refresh your phone at the national average? I have bottles of bourbon that cost that much. If this is "luxury", it's cheapest luxury on the planet...

Too damn limited? WTF does that even mean? I guess it doesn't turn into a robot or wash my dishes, nor does it solve world hunger, so perhaps that's what you were expecting it to do. In terms of being a "smart phone", it seems to manage most reasonable expectations of a pocket-sized wireless device that makes phone calls, sends messages, fetches email, is an accurate GPS, plays music, etc. that can also arm my house alarm, check in for flights, confirm that my daughter made it home safe, can unlock my door, start the Roomba, and on and on...

Piss poor UI? If my 74 year old mother-in-law can figure out >80% of the necessary functionality of a smartphone in less than 20 minutes, I'm gonna have to disagree there. Show me one comparable technology with a similar learning curve... Half the boomers on this thread still have "12:00" flashing on their VCRs

 

[Zorba]

I feel like we're talking too much about phones, but I'm quite curious here...

Too damn small for what exactly? I wear XXL gloves and they seem to be perfectly sized for what I need it to do while still fitting in my pants pocket. As a matter of fact, many people were concerned that they were going to get too big, which manufacturers have seemed to stop focusing on...

Too fragile? Compared to what, a crescent wrench? In 15 years of smartphone use, I've broken 1 screen. My wife has broken zero screens but did wash one accidentally many moons ago. Compared to how many broken flip-phone and Nokias I've had over the years, I'm orders of magnitude ahead. My 14 year old has broken zero. My 10 year old has broken zero (though did lose it for about 2 weeks!)

Ridiculously overpriced? Compared to what? A brand new iPhone 13 is $699. A consumer study I found said they estimate a smartphone user will keep their phone on average of 2.75 years. That's $254 per year of use and that doesn't include any residual value of your old phone, so what are we really looking at here, $200/year if you decide to refresh your phone at the national average? I have bottles of bourbon that cost that much. If this is "luxury", it's cheapest luxury on the planet...

Too damn limited? WTF does that even mean? I guess it doesn't turn into a robot or wash my dishes, nor does it solve world hunger, so perhaps that's what you were expecting it to do. In terms of being a "smart phone", it seems to manage most reasonable expectations of a pocket-sized wireless device that makes phone calls, sends messages, fetches email, is an accurate GPS, plays music, etc. that can also arm my house alarm, check in for flights, confirm that my daughter made it home safe, can unlock my door, start the Roomba, and on and on...

Piss poor UI? If my 74 year old mother-in-law can figure out >80% of the necessary functionality of a smartphone in less than 20 minutes, I'm gonna have to disagree there. Show me one comparable technology with a similar learning curve... Half the boomers on this thread still have "12:00" flashing on their VCRs

Intelligent questions all, let me try to go through them...

Too small: The screen is too small for most things aside from watching Hickok45 videos (see "Smartphone as consumption device"). I have 3 screens on my desktop - which I have found to be optimal for my use. I tried 4, but seldom used the 4th screen. Each screen is LARGE, I can see lots of text, pictures, or whatever I'm working with, in a typeface that's large enough for my piss poor eyes to actually see. This segues into the horrid UI - no keyboard, only a tiny on-screen "keyboard" that is impossible to touch type on, is subject to parallax errors, is hard to see, and under certain circumstances, is irresponsive (which isn't limited to smartphones by any means, just endemic to touch screens in general). Touch screens have their place, but not on a computational device meant to accomplish any real work. My Garmin GPSes have them, and that's a good application for them, although they do suffer from most of the above afflictions.

Fragile? You're very lucky that you've only managed to break one screen! I seem to see more broken screens than intact ones. Anything that goes out into the field with me had better be able to keep up. I (reluctantly) carry a flip phone. After managing to break a couple of those by various accidents/dropping, I got a ruggedized version. So far, it hasn't broken and its been dropped several times, flooded at least once, has had dirt and other detritus dumped on it, etc, etc. If I felt I just *had* to carry a smartphone, it'd be a CAT or similar which has at least *some* resistance to breakage. However, technology is finally beginning to fix this problem with smartphones - albeit at a terrible price. The new generation of folding smartphones are a beginning. When CAT, Sonim, or other rugged cellphone maker gets on that bandwagon, breakage will be mostly a thing of the past.

Yea, I consider paying $700 or more - sometimes far more - for something I'm going to keep for 2 or 3 years to be completely obscene and unacceptable - never mind the monthly charges! A "real" computer with a "real" operating system, keyboard, pointing device, etc, etc costs about the same yet will last at LEAST 10 years. 2 or 3 years - the Telcos sure have people snowed! I've had my current flip for 4, and expect to have it for a number of more years. My first cell phone - a Panasonic "Bag" phone, I used for 18 years, right up to the very morning they finally turned off the old analog service. If they still made something similar, I'd probably use that. Nice big buttons, a real handset, no fragile screens, and no battery worries.

What does "Limited" mean? It means that in addition to having to deal with a brain dead OS, horrid UI, tiny size, etc, etc - most of the "Apps" these things run are either substitutes for a webpage, or are so crippled as to be useless for any real work. Do you *really* want to run a word processor on one? Do you want to do picture editing? Do you want to do audio editing? Movies? Webpage building? Yes, you *can* do these in a limited fashion, but the environment is sub-standard and not conducive to it. See "Smartphone as consumption device" yet again. Forget CAD, I'd like to see somebody trying to use "PadsPCB" or "Solidworks" on one.

I think I mentioned this before - the unfortunate affect of the smartphone world and its crippled "Apps" is that this nonsense is becoming part of the PC world as well. Micro$oft and Apple both are dumbing down and de-contenting software to be more "App-like", and the industry is following suit - the FireFox web browser is one such. Apple's "iPhoto" program, which is/was excellent, was dumbed down into something called "Photos", which reportedly was done to cater to the snapchat crowd. In any event, "Photos" removed several features iPhoto had that I used daily, and replaced them with an organization scheme that nobody asked for and that made no sense.

 

[pc1p]

You're very lucky that you've only managed to break one screen! I seem to see more broken screens than intact ones. Anything that goes out into the field with me had better be able to keep up. I (reluctantly) carry a flip phone.

I'm by no means a small guy, nor am I easy of my equipment (I'm not abusive however). I've had my phone on me while fully suited in a taped and sealed Level A, in hot weather, in cold weather, in dusty environments, and on and on. I've dropped them, kicked them, rolled over onto them and yet, just a single instance of "fuck!". I don't use monster phone cases and don't even use a screen protector. Maybe I'm be anomaly here, but I know I went through at least three Razr phones back in college (they would only last about 1 year) and none of them broke from a fall...

What does "Limited" mean? It means that in addition to having to deal with a brain dead OS, horrid UI, tiny size, etc, etc - most of the "Apps" these things run are either substitutes for a webpage, or are so crippled as to be useless for any real work. Do you *really* want to run a word processor on one? Do you want to do picture editing? Do you want to do audio editing? Movies? Webpage building? Yes, you *can* do these in a limited fashion, but the environment is sub-standard and not conducive to it. See "Smartphone as consumption device" yet again. Forget CAD, I'd like to see somebody trying to use "PadsPCB" or "Solidworks" on one.

I think a lot of this goes back to the point you made earlier about the "crescent wrench" - you pick the right tool for the job. This concept probably goes hand in hand with "expectations".

Is anyone out there really expecting to type their thesis on a smartphone? Mine was something like 88 pages, so I sure as hell hope not. But what about an email while I'm traveling? Should I get my laptop out, booted up, connected to WiFi or hotspot, open my browser, log-in, type the email and send, then pack everything back up for something that would take 15-20 seconds on my phone because it's a "better experience"?

Let's look at your thought on photo editing - are you talking about a single touch-up or a full batch processing? I'm for sure as hell not going to take holiday photos or photograph a wedding with my iPhone - nor would I process a thousand photos on one. But what about just a single photo or a handful? What if I'm taking some photos of a property or a boiler to show my friend, do I really need my Nikon and f2.8 lens for that? Do I really even need a P&S for that?

We just went to Philly two weekends ago and got some amazingly candid shots of the family and sites that I probably wouldn't have otherwise (mainly b/c I wouldn't want to be dragging my Nikon around while waiting in line to get lunch!)

This photo wasn't planned, we were just waiting in line. I looked up and said "wow, that's a cool composition" and snapped it. Nothing was dropped and I didn't have any issues finding the camera icon. This photo is just as it came off the phone (which required zero physical "transfer" to other devices). I guarantee I could do some minor tweaks, blow this up to 20" x 30", and put it side by side one of the same composition taken on my $3000 Nikon + FX glass and only the most discerning person would be able to tell them apart.

I think I mentioned this before - the unfortunate affect of the smartphone world and its crippled "Apps" is that this nonsense is becoming part of the PC world as well. Micro$oft and Apple both are dumbing down and de-contenting software to be more "App-like", and the industry is following suit - the FireFox web browser is one such. Apple's "iPhoto" program, which is/was excellent, was dumbed down into something called "Photos", which reportedly was done to cater to the snapchat crowd. In any event, "Photos" removed several features iPhoto had that I used daily, and replaced them with an organization scheme that nobody asked for and that made no sense.

I will agree with you here too - I've seen a lot of changes being optimized for mobile platforms. It makes it nice for using on the phone but awful for using on a desktop/laptop. I've heard Zuk's "Metaverse" will fix all of that

 

[Zorba]

I think a lot of this goes back to the point you made earlier about the "crescent wrench" - you pick the right tool for the job. This concept probably goes hand in hand with "expectations".

You are correct - it *is* all about expectations. I expect a good keyboard, and readable/usable display. I wouldn't want to do email on a smartphone either - for all the reasons cited above. Hell - even a cheap Chromebook could do that job much easier/nicer - and it boots up quick (do they make Chromebooks with WAN cards?) I really don't want to subject myself to the sub-par compromises that a smartphone is - but I grow weary of being called a "Luddite" because I refuse to own one when I've forgotten more about technology than a lot of the ignoramuses calling me that will ever know. Like I said before, I didn't think much about them one way or another until about 2016 when it became an "expectation" to own one, and EVERYBODY has a comment if you don't.

I was taught in tech school about how microprocessors would revolutionize the world - but as time went by, I saw the cost thereof. Sometimes they're great, many times they're not. Add to that the utter crap software I bitch about, and I start wanting no part of the whole thing. There was a new Coke machine installed at my work - microprocessor controlled. For one, something like that doesn't really *need* a microprocessor, but far more importantly it was buggy as Hell.

Embedded systems were my specialty for many years, I know how to write that kind of code, how it should behave, and how a write-debug-revise cycle works. Now we have buggy, unresponsive code and latency, latency, latency everywhere - I would have been fired for cause if I'd turned out code half as bad as some of the crap I see. There's zero excuse for it - a certain amount of laziness is to be expected if you have a multi-gigahertz processor with gigabytes of memory (which I never had), but not debugging the system and putting up with latency is in-excusable. I could get better throughput with a 2 MHZ 8080 (state of the art in 1974) for something like that Coke machine, there wouldn't be ANY latency whatsoever, and the program would probably take less than 1 kilobyte of memory. If you pushed me hard, I might be able to get that functionality into a page or two (256 bytes each). So why are we seeing all this latency with a processor that runs 3+ orders of magnitude faster with availble memory 4+ orders of magnitude greater? Only one answer possible: Bad code produced by poor programming practices and/or poor tools (which in turn are produced by bad programming).

I couldn't tell you if you're an outlier on the lack of broken screens or not - I just know I've seen enough of them that I'd be paranoid about it if I had one!

Nice picture - they are indeed capable of taking some pretty nice ones. Then again, so is my flip! I'm not a particular fan of flip phones either - the reason I carry one is twofold: 1) Landlines priced themselves out of existence, and 2) I drive a 37 year old car and payphones don't exist anymore. Otherwise, telephones of all sorts annoy me - intrusive and interrupting, never mind all the SPAM calls these days that the TelCos tacitly encourage. I'll put my geezer hat on here: When I was a kid riding my pet Brontosaurus to school, there were people who didn't have a telephone at all. I thought then, and I think now, "What freedom!". But for $15/mo, I'll carry one reluctantly (and bitch about the $180/yr cost of the thing) - when I remember to grab it that is! Like my handgun, I don't carry it enough. Sometimes days will go by and I haven't looked at it, it sits there on the kitchen counter most of the time. In the last week, there were at least two times I "went out" and forgot it there. Other than the possibility of a breakdown or something like that, I don't really care...

 

[reddvltj]

If you're gonna quote me, at least use the full quote to maintain context and syntax: <—- Maybe take your own advice, since you were the one that selectively responded to my first post... Narcissism at it's finest!!!

First: "...are really pivotal to allowing us to function efficiently so that we are able to do more of what we want to do" <—- was already addressed so much for your ability to comprehend what you're reading!!​

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Then: "..pivotal to supporting the efficiencies in my life" <—- This was not in your original post but you second post. Nice try though.​

I read that part of your comment, I just ignored it as I often do to notions or insinuations that a significant majority of folks walking around with smartphones are milking public assistance; this is the same Boomer bullshit, Fox News nonsense as "welfare queens" that we've been hearing about since Grandmaster Regan's time in office.

You seriously have reading comprehension issues. I addressed that I omitted clarification of how your current life would not exist in my second response! SMH!!

I suppose I should have clarified your life wouldn't exist "as it does now".

I read that part of your comment, I just ignored it as I often do to notions or insinuations that a significant majority of folks walking around with smartphones are milking public assistance; this is the same Boomer bullshit, Fox News nonsense as "welfare queens" that we've been hearing about since Grandmaster Regan's time in office.

You have zero sense of what life is like outside of your little bubble of self praise and glorification! Your narcissism is in full on display now. You condemn someone for doing the very thing you do even though I never took shit out of context nor did I ignore anything you said, oh and adding in the boomer reference, is not only childish (I wonder what generation is known for that? Hmmm?) but it's also inaccurate as hell! Again nice try, but a swing and miss it is for you again.

You made this about you, I was speaking in generalizations, and you got defensive. Guilty conscience complex? I think so!!

 

[pc1p]

You seriously have reading comprehension issues. I addressed that I omitted clarification of how your current life would not exist in my second response! SMH!!

You have zero sense of what life is like outside of your little bubble of self praise and glorification! Your narcissism is in full on display now. You condemn someone for doing the very thing you do even though I never took shit out of context nor did I ignore anything you said, oh and adding in the boomer reference, is not only childish (I wonder what generation is known for that? Hmmm?) but it's also inaccurate as hell! Again nice try, but a swing and miss it is for you again.

You made this about you, I was speaking in generalizations, and you got defensive. Guilty conscience complex? I think so!!

That's a lot of words to say you don't know how to put a coherent thought/response together

I didn't "make it about me" - you did you freaking pinecone! You replied to my comment, quoted my previous comment, then used words like "you" (especially without any transitionary statement)...

... then tried to mansplain what the term "pivotal" means (while totally misunderstanding how the English language works), while missing the point of my anecdote (which was indeed to show that it's meaningless!), and dropping FRW "nuggets" at random...

...then try to pretend that I'm somehow the narrow-view here It's too much - this can be a case-study for logical fallacies! But what can I expect really...

 

[freedom_in_4low]

What the real problem is here is that the ultra-wealthy/powerful/elite class has convinced the rest of us that (insert other group here) is the problem. As long as we're divided against ourselves we'll never get that power back. What happened in 1971 had nothing to do with any race or generation or anything other than those in power doing what was best for them at all of our expense.

But by all means, continue with your pissing match.

 

[Zorba]

What the real problem is here is that the ultra-wealthy/powerful/elite class has convinced the rest of us that (insert other group here) is the problem. As long as we're divided against ourselves we'll never get that power back. What happened in 1971 had nothing to do with any race or generation or anything other than those in power doing what was best for them at all of our expense.

But by all means, continue with your pissing match.

The reality is that they ALL are the problem.

 

[Apparition]

 

[Mhass]

Half the boomers on this thread still have "12:00" flashing on their VCRs

ALL the boomers on this thread read that and thought, "Fuck this little bitch!"

 

[pc1p]

ALL the boomers on this thread read that and thought, "Fuck this little bitch!"

Wow, all??

 

[reddvltj]

ALL the boomers on this thread read that and thought, "Fuck this little bitch!"

Pretty sure what anyone from the Baby boomer generation hears, when some one calls them a "boomer" is, "I'm a punk ass liberal that has zero respect for the people who paved the way for my pampered little ass."

 

[pc1p]

Pretty sure what anyone from the Baby boomer generation hears, when some one calls them a "boomer" is, "I'm a punk ass liberal that has zero respect for the people who paved the way for my pampered little ass."

Aww, the boomers have feelings…

The irony of course being that boomers constantly makes “Tide Pods” jokes, they call everyone else “entitled” while demanding respect without earning it, they talk about how great their work ethic is and how lazy every generation since theirs has become (despite all the evidence to the contrary) - but at the same time can’t figure out that damn VCR and are the generation most likely to be suckered into Nigerian Prince money scams

And for as much fluff as they have over the Internet, I suspect the number that would roll up their sleeves to call me a “little bitch” to my face is remarkably, remarkably small…

 

[reddvltj]

Aww, the boomers have feelings…

The irony of course being that boomers constantly makes “Tide Pods” jokes, they call everyone else “entitled” while demanding respect without earning it, they talk about how great their work ethic is and how lazy every generation since theirs has become (despite all the evidence to the contrary) - but at the same time can’t figure out that damn VCR and are the generation most likely to be suckered into Nigerian Prince money scams

And for as much fluff as they have over the Internet, I doubt the number that would roll up their sleeves to call me a “little bitch” to my face is remarkably, remarkably small…

Oh you're a tough guy... Big man calling out predominantly senior citizens who DID more than their fair share for this nation you entitled prick! I'm not a Baby boomer but at least I can recognize a generation that payed their dues MUCH more readily than your pathetic excuse of a generation has!

OH and BTW You're a little BITCH and You're damned right I'd call you one to your face! The thing is I don't give a shit if you're bigger or better trained than I am, if I can't beat your pathetic ass straight up I'll resort to what ever means needed to put your ass on the ground!

 

[Zorba]

"Little Bitch"? Probably not. But it just might be something starting with "F"...

 

[pc1p]

Oh you're a tough guy... Big man calling out predominantly senior citizens who DID more than their fair share for this nation you entitled prick! I'm not a Baby boomer but at least I can recognize a generation that payed their dues MUCH more readily than your pathetic excuse of a generation has!

OH and BTW You're a little BITCH and You're damned right I'd call you one to your face! The thing is I don't give a shit if you're bigger or better trained than I am, if I can't beat your pathetic ass straight up I'll resort to what ever means needed to put your ass on the ground!

Haha sure they did - they’re the ones who fucked up politics, crippled real economic growth, turned education into a business, and polluted more of the world than any generation in history, while also being the catalyst for worldwide fear mongering (“ahh, the communists!) and accelerated corporatism to astronomical levels - all while barely raising their kids, only to then bitch about how they turned out Who the hell do you think was coming to age and into the workforce and political forefront in 1971…

And don’t worry about not being a boomer - I universally use that term to describe a mentality rather than an age demographic. We’ll give you honorary status…

"Little Bitch"? Probably not. But it just might be something starting with "F"...

“Fabulous” aww shucks, now you’re making me blush