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“Well, back in my day…” says a twenty-something year old, reminiscing about “the good old days.” While that might sound funny, some people are old souls who might relate to the elderly more than they do with their own peers.
Many young(-ish) people, like yours truly, often find themselves agreeing with people a few generations older than themselves. Just take this post on Threads, for example: one user asked fellow netizens what is something that makes them go “I’m with the boomers on this one,” and many were eager to share, discussing all sorts of issues and situations. You can find them on the list below.
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#1
Children should be well behaved in restaurants. Yes, you actually can teach them to stay in their seats, bottoms on the cushion and not screaming and running through the booth or climbing under tables. Don't poke the people at the next table:
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
I used to work in this brewpub back in 2005, We kept telling our hosts "NEVER EVER seat families with young children at Table 1". There was a fire alarm at that booth. Guess what happened EVERY WEEKEND. The hosts would seat kids at the booth they were expressly told not to. Kid yanks fire alarm. Again this happened at least once a week.
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#2
I don’t want to scan a QR code for everything. Please just give me a physical menu.
#3
Basic human interaction skills and sharing public space. “Excuse me, thank you, pardon me, etc.” Stepping to one side on a sidewalk, escalator, or trail. Manners have gone the way of the dodo.
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
People have forgotten how to communicate with words. Manners seem to be treated like turn signals, optional.
#4
I pay way too much in taxes for our public school to not supply crayons, pencils, and tissues to kids.
#5
I miss tv seasons with 21-24 episodes every 9 months. This 6-10 episodes every 2 years on streaming platforms is stupid.
Luke Branwen 7 months ago
Also WEEKLY RELEASES. This new "binge" format of releasing all episodes at once is so, SO stupid. Everyone watches a season within two days, then the hype fades within a week, and all you can do is wait 2-3 years for a new season - and only if you're lucky and the show doesn't get canceled.
#6
I hate screens in cars. Give us radios with knobs and buttons. Give us real dash gauges. Give us climate control knobs. Texting and driving is illegal, but you have to mess with an iPad to turn on the damn AC.
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
How can you keep your eyes on the road in front of you with big screens in the middle? How is that safe?
#7
It's actually a perfectly good idea to have a simple backyard pitch-in wedding rather than going into debt on an overblown extravaganza
#8
Everyone is responsible for their own well-being; it’s no one else’s job to shield you from potential triggers (also, hate the word “trigger”)
#9
Kids should still be taught cursive and grammar.
#10
Why are robots taking over phone customer service???? No I don’t wanna listen to my 8 different options let me talk to a real person😭😭
James016 7 months ago
It's worse than that, companies are actively hiding their contact numbers so you cannot ring them. Recently I had to call Virgin Media about the final bill they sent me as was leaving them. The published number (once I found it) is fully automated and just gives you some blurb and tells you to go to the website. I had to use Google to find a different number where I did actually speak to someone once I was done screaming at the automated voice prompt as it didn't include an option to speak to a person. Saying that the person I did speak to was super helpful and explained everything clearly
#11
I absolutely disike when eating out the music is so loud that you can’t hear each other.
Firstname Lastname 7 months ago
I eat out to catch up with old friends. If your music is that loud, at most you've been downgraded to a take out restaurant, which is a rarity for me.
#12
I only want to make one click to get to the link. Don’t give me a link then make me play a game or give you my email address just so I can browse your website. I will leave and not come back.
#13
Tipping culture has gotten out of hand im not tipping at a 100% digital restaurant pay your employees better
#14
my hatred of apps. i should not need a different app for all of my appliances and ordering pizza or whatever
#15
Back in my day, fast food was cheap.
#16
I don’t want to download a goddamn app so that I can patronize your business. I give you money and you provide goods and services. We’re not friends. And quit calling everything an experience.
#17
1. I want buttons and knobs to control essentials of my car (radio, A/C, ect.)
2. I don’t need a subscription or even an account to use every functionality that I bought a device for.
3. Older cars are easier to work on
#18
People wearing earphones whilst hanging out with their friends. Like, how important is that music that you've got to listen it in place of listening to your friends
#19
Kids with tablets every single place they go and whenever they’re at home is so freaking wild and I hate it lmao, the boomers know what’s up with that.
#20
I paid for a computer with a hard drive onto which I would like to save my files. Do not upload them to the cloud, save them locally on the hard drive for which I paid money. Especially if cloud storage will eventually cost me money, which I have already paid for a hard drive onto which to save my files. If I would like to back up said files to cloud storage, I will do so manually, do not make this the default option on the computer with a functioning hard drive for which I paid money.
#21
You should be able to raise a middle class family on the salary of one mediocre white man.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
LOL We all wish! The middle class is being crushed into non existence.
#22
Why are commercials so LOUD, but the TV show so quiet??? I can’t be changing volume every 5 mins!
#23
I want to show up in person dressed for an interview and get the job on the spot. Not on the internet survey.
#24
Having conversations while eating at the table or while you're out with others instead of being in your own world on your phone
Glen Ellyn 7 months ago (edited)
Yep, this one drives me bonkers. What's the point of being with friends if you don't actually talk to them. Definitely smartphone a d d i c t i on.
#25
I’m glad I kept most of my CDs now, and quite a few DVDs.
#26
People having loud conversations on their phone everywhere they go. I don’t want to hear about your boyfriend drama or grisly medical procedures at Aldi.
#28
Physical media. I much prefer actually owning a movie or series on Blu-ray/DVD than having to rely on streaming.
Hippopotamuses 7 months ago
Ah. But then you won't have to pay to watch it again, and no company wants that.
#29
I had neighbors that would throw ridiculous house parties every few weekends… cars up and down the street, bass so loud my walls ACROSS THE STREET were vibrating, and drunk 20 year olds puking in the front yard(s) and bushes. I’m 35 and need to SLEEP, man 😭😂 One of the best parts of moving was leaving those neighbors.
#30
Model trains, ham radio, homebuilt crafts, knitting (some guys learned in the navy), gardening.
Lost Panda 7 months ago
I will add gardening, people watching, and just strolls through the neighborhood with no destination in mind.
#31
there’s absolutely a way to conduct yourself in a professional work setting, no matter how low level your job is. i see so many young kids treat their jobs like a place to scroll tiktok while occasionally acknowledging customers or other employees. take a f*cking shower, put on clean clothes, don’t smell like weed, make eye contact, say hello to people, be helpful.. take some god damn pride in yourself because you’re making your millennial manager lose their f*cking mind over your gen z sh*t.
#32
Job applications should’ve stayed in person, and getting a job from actually taking to people, instead of online applications
Pencil 7 months ago
My resume will never get past the bots. I have more than 30 years in NYC hospitality and all I want is WFH CSR job for minimum wage. Any person with half a brain could see that I'm more than capable of ensuring that customers' issues are resolved in a timely and cost-effective way but I'll never get a job because bots can't extrapolate. It's incredibly deflating.
#33
There doesn't need to be an app for literally everything.
Why is everything a subscription?
Why am I paying for Amazon and still getting ads?
Bring back physical media
#34
I don't know if this is a boomer thing but I hate dark restaurants. Why are the lights off in this steak house?
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
To make it harder to tell if your steak was under/over cooked.
#35
“It’s cause you’re always on that phone!”
Unless you’re doing business, there is no reason you can’t sit through a family diner without touching your phone. Like…DISCONNECT, please!!!
#36
I don't actually want to speak to anyone on the telephone but if I HAVE to, I want to speak to an agent, dammit, and not an automated message that takes a month to get through and has all the most important options at the end. Like, are they getting midroll ads? I wanna talk to a HUMAN.
#37
Please don’t make me start an account. I just want to buy the thing. Please let me just give you my money without starting a goddamned account.
Hippopotamuses 7 months ago
I, in so much as I can, avoid buying from companies which don't have guest checkout. But it is getting more difficult.
#38
I want to talk to real customer service people and not write with chat bots who only say what’s on the homepage anyway.
#39
The concept of time blindness, and people thinking that being late is acceptable.
I don’t get it whatsoever.
#41
Why the F**K do I gotta log in to EVERYTHINGGGGG all the time. Especially with Apple Pay/samsung pay/paypal where I don’t need to save card info within a proprietary app! Leave me ALONE get out of my EMAIL
Trisec Tebeakesse 7 months ago
*checks remember me* Next time logon: Verify your computer, enter your password, scan your fingertip, we need to look at your retina, and go find your phone because we need to text you a confirmation code.
#42
Dresscode for Work and basic etiquette
Geoffrey Scott 7 months ago (edited)
So much pushback when the boss decided to provide us with T- shirts (custodians). They were so well designed I had a couple out of 5 left 4 years later when I retired. Why would you want to wear your own stuff in that situation? Bought the Dickies work pants, and I was good for 5 years.
#43
I miss when people who worked in the public were like… nice… or knew about the place they worked at, or anything inside of it.
(I knoooooow there’s a lack of training and staffing. I know. But it wasn’t like this when I was younger and we weren’t allowed to ignore people walking by us)
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
The same can be said for customers. Some people treat public facing folks horribly.
#44
Most of today's music sucks.
Grape Walls of Ire 7 months ago
There are plenty of objective reasons for this, such as autotune.
#45
Your loud-ass car is obnoxious. And if it's loud and isn't even fast, you're twice the dumbass.
keyboardtek 7 months ago
A nauseating loud sub bass is offensive, but a sub bass on blown distorted speakers is just stupid.
#46
I hate when people drive way over the speed limit everywhere they go or drive aggressively.
Lady Eowyn 7 months ago
I love it when someone speeds to get ahead of me and ends up sitting at a red light.
#47
Shows/concerts start too late and have too many bands on the bill. Like sorry, I’m not gonna stay until 1am to see your band play. Doors at 7:30, opener 8-8:40, Headliner 9-10. Done. If it’s during the work week, shift that back another hour.
Firstname Lastname 7 months ago
I'm not yawning because I hate your band. I'm yawning because I work the early opening shift and am up past my bedtime to see you.
#48
I strongly dislike having to read cell phones and computer screens in TV shows and movies.
SouthernGal 7 months ago
And what is going on with so many movies being so dark that you can barely tell what is going on in the scene?
#49
Tipping for retail purchases. (Note: I am former service industry and tip service industry people really well).
Pencil 7 months ago
Once again, workers are doing this because the minimum wage is no longer livable. The Federal MW, and the MW in many states is $7.25/hr. That's $290/wk for full-time work. They're not asking for tips because of some new "tipping culture" where everyone thinks they deserve "extra" for doing their jobs; they just think they deserve to eat.
#50
Turn all the music down...in restaurants, in supermarkets, in church, everywhere. Music is supposed to be enjoyed, not endured.
#51
That kids shouldn’t have their own smart phones or have social media profiles. (I don’t necessarily have an issue with older kids having call/text phones, just not smart phones). I’m such an old fogey about this and I don’t care.
#52
- people buried in their phones when we’re supposed to be hanging out
- I don’t want to download your stupid app
- stop texting me 8 times a day for donations, politicians
- I don’t want to pay a subscription fee for every little thing
- groceries are far too expensive
#53
My phone tracking me with everything I do. Checked out the place where the iPhone keeps track of this and immediately deleted a bunch of apps that were contributing to profiles on me even though some even said in TOS they didn’t do that. They have the right to change TOS at any time. Stop with all forms of surveillance cultures!
Hippopotamuses 7 months ago
I find it really interesting that western governments bag China for collecting personal information. However, I'm pretty sure that private US companies, particularly Google and Apple, are far more interested in me, than the Chinese government would ever be.
#54
If I need to get a problem solved, I call. I don’t text.
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
Depending on the situation I text for record keeping purposes. Having a paper trail via text message is sometimes all you have.
#55
Kids that run up and down the hallway in the building. The people below (me) don’t want to hear that all day!
#56
Researching vs going on google. The library is a great place to read, cross reference and think before forming an opinion instead of doing an internet search, reading the first few lines of a random article and being self righteous about something that requires time to think about.
Hippopotamuses 7 months ago
You can cross-reference on Google, but you do have to be careful of the sources,
#57
Kids today need to write thank you notes for graduation and wedding gift.
OpheliaPoe 7 months ago
I actually would like to see the end of cards. I don't know what to do with them once I've read them. I feel so guilty throwing them away, especially with what they cost, but also I feel like I'm discarding the sentiment they express. Do I need to keep them all? Can we just go with verbal or text thank yous?
#58
You can make a sandwich at home.
Geoffrey Scott 7 months ago
And salads too, couple bottles of water/tea, one frozen to keep stuff chilled, bring it to work. Saved thousands over the years.
#59
If you are a sit down restaurant (vs fast food/take out place) please bring back real dishes/cutlery . I’m over it paying restaurant prices for paper plates and flimsy plastic forks.
Tabitha 7 months ago (edited)
Especially when you order something like a steak, and they give you the flimsy plastic stuff to cut and eat it with. Like, come the f**k on. You really expect me to cut my steak with a safety knife that’s guaranteed not to cut anything? Am I a child who can’t carry sharp objects or something?
#60
Allllll the computer work required for kids in school now.
So. Much. Computer. Work.
Too many apps.
Too many websites.
Tabitha 7 months ago (edited)
Some of it is the OTT load of homework being given to even the youngest schoolchildren. I’m 64, and don’t remember having ANY homework until I was at least in 4th or 5th grade—-and that was minimal in itself. What it meant was I had time for play every day, inside and outside, in addition to recess at school. I wasn’t chained to my desk doing piles of homework until high school, and even then there were plenty of days I didn’t have much or any homework. Kids are burning out from the constant mental load, being overscheduled with activities (soccer practice, dance lessons, etc, some of which the parents make them do even if they’re it interested in them), and the lack of an outlet for their youthful energy. There has to be a balance to it all, instead of going so OTT with it. Kids aren’t machines. They can’t keep up such a busy pace without finally breaking down. So parents, dial it back a bit, ffs. Listen to your kids when they say they don’t want to play soccer or take dance lessons, and stop forcing them to go. Schools listen up. Forget the mountains of homework. Dump the No Child Left Behind teaching to the test and start actually teaching—-and both listen to ANd support your teaching staff. Quit forcing them to put up with unruly disruptive kids. Give them a process to either try to rehab the kids or get them out of normal classrooms and into specialized classes instead, with teachers specifically trained to teach difficult kids. And TELL the parents “NO!” when they’re in the wrong, ffs! You aren’t teaching any good lessons by letting the bad get away with bad behavior, and you are certainly doing a great disservice to your well behaved students by letting the bad seeds run the school. Shape up. Step up.
#61
distressed jesns with holes. wasted fabric AND stolen valor of the lifestyle that would give your pants holes
Lady Eowyn 7 months ago
I HATE those. When my jeans got to that point I patched them if possible and if not cut out anything good to patch other things.
#62
Picking a show to stream is too much of a commitment sometimes; I like flicking through the channels and finding something random, halfway through the episode.
#64
Surprise endings in movies not ruined by internet spoilers. Can you imagine if Planet of the Apes came out today? Being cheated of that shock? I still remember sitting in the theater at the end of Empire Strikes Back, my eyes going dry because I didn’t blink for about five minutes after that bomb was dropped
Lady Eowyn 7 months ago
I remember going to see the original Planet of the Apes when it first came out. I hadn't read the book it was based on, and that ending was quite a shock.
#65
They took advantage of their time.
As did we.
As will gen Z when their time comes.
Nobody wrecked nothing for noone. There’s ways around the current problems as there were before.
Every generation faces their own problems.
Hippopotamuses 7 months ago (edited)
I'm 63. So I'm a boomer. We lived under the possibility of nuclear war. No more, or less, of a source of stress than previous, or subsequent generations have had to deal with.
#66
If you go to a store to buy an item, especially an independent mom and pop store, you should have their undivided attention.
#67
9-10 bedtime. No sagging. No yelling in the morning. No running in the house. Either you're inside or ur outside. I gotta list
#68
Modern dating culture/hook up culture ruined relationships. Men feel like they have multiple options for the first time ever so they’re always searching for the next best thing.
I do think women fall into the trap of constantly searching for the next best thing as well, but men go about it in such abrasive and disrespectful ways lol.
Magenta Blu 7 months ago
Very true. And since there are infinite options available 24/7, there is no real commitment or responsibility anymore
#69
Knowing how to dress for the occasion. I am so tired of going to find dining restaurants having put a lot of effort into my appearance, hired a babysitter, the whole shebang… Then there’s a table of people who look like they came straight from a sweaty soccer game. Yes, I could be mad at the restaurant for not enforcing a dress code because there’s no universe where athletic clothes belong in places we are spending minimum $100 per person, but also why can’t people read the room?
Pencil 7 months ago
I once booked a dinner on a fancy 1930's refurbished train. Every single web-page, printed material said that the dress code was strictly enforced. You even had to click a box saying that you understood and agreed to the dress code before your payment was processed. Sure enough, some dumbash showed up in cargo shorts and a tee shirt with his favorite band on it. I can't even tell you how happy I was when they refused to let him board. The ambiance is part of the experience that everyone is paying for, there's no reason you can't put on pants.
What do you think ?
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
Given that Millennials are now 44 and Xers are now 60, maybe it’s time to have some narrative other than boomers.
Pencil 7 months ago
And there seems to be a total lack of awareness of all the good the boomer generation did. Lowering the voting age to 18, getting civil rights legislation passed, enabling women to open bank accounts without a man's signature, passing the Clean Air and Endangered Species Acts. All of it landmark legislation that set the precedents for the many of the freedoms and protections we now take for granted. Not to mention their contributions to the creation and development of the technology that we're using right now to b*tch about how bad boomers s*ck.
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Stephanie Did It 7 months ago
I bought a gift card at "Wally World." Cashier activated it, and at home I discovered the packet was empty...no card. I went back and asked where the card went, and was informed that I have to scratch off a code and submit on a website to have the credit issued in 1-3 days. WHY????? I just wanted a stupid CARD that could be SWIPED at a store or restaurant! I'm never giving them as gifts again, especially to someone my age or older.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
Given that Millennials are now 44 and Xers are now 60, maybe it’s time to have some narrative other than boomers.
Pencil 7 months ago
And there seems to be a total lack of awareness of all the good the boomer generation did. Lowering the voting age to 18, getting civil rights legislation passed, enabling women to open bank accounts without a man's signature, passing the Clean Air and Endangered Species Acts. All of it landmark legislation that set the precedents for the many of the freedoms and protections we now take for granted. Not to mention their contributions to the creation and development of the technology that we're using right now to b*tch about how bad boomers s*ck.
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I bought a gift card at "Wally World." Cashier activated it, and at home I discovered the packet was empty...no card. I went back and asked where the card went, and was informed that I have to scratch off a code and submit on a website to have the credit issued in 1-3 days. WHY????? I just wanted a stupid CARD that could be SWIPED at a store or restaurant! I'm never giving them as gifts again, especially to someone my age or older.
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