How come my baby boomer mother makes quiche with rice in it? I’ve never seen this in any restaurant or cafe. Is it a boomer thing?! Always takes me by surprise

Watching Abfab sure hits different now. It was funny to me in the 90s... now, not so much.

Waiting in line for self check out, got a text so I pulled my phone out to read it. During the 5 seconds it took the boomer lady behind me decided it was fine to go around me and go to the open check out a guy walked away from 5 seconds before. I wish I could say I acted like the calm adult I am. I didn’t. The one next to her opened up, I went to check out and told her: “You are a see you next Tuesday. This is the problem with your generation. You expect everyone to cater to you” Insert shocked pikachu face she was called out “I’m telling my husband how rude you are!” “I’ll kick his old ass, and you’ll still be a see you next Tuesday” Boomers are a plight on this planet

Genuinely baffled but I'm glad I stood up for myself. (This isn't a boomer but I thought this might be a good place for this considering the community. )

I (F27) and my SIL (F28) decided that we wanted to decorate sugar cookies and figured it would be a great family activity for the 8 of us visiting for Christmas. We baked cookies and got everything ready for decorating. I come from a family of introverts who aren't super creative or social so I knew it mjght be a stretch but since SIL has never had the chance to do cookie decorating at christmas before and I thought it could be a good sit down activity for everyone to chat, I decided to teach her how to bake the cookies and off we went.

When everything was finally ready to decorate I called over my parents and one brother since the other went shopping quickly. My mom (F64) initially said no thanks. But after pleading with her to join she finally agreed.

My dad (M69) however, would not stop watching his blaringly loud TV and scrolling FOX news on his phone. I sat on the couch next to him and said with my big puppydog eyes "it would make me really happy if you turned off the TV and joined us." I wasnt sure if he even heard me because he hardly moved at me talking to him. So I repeated "please turn off the TV and help us decorate the cookies." And he looked up and said no. My husband (M27) passing by while following our toddler said "good fathers would join in on a family activity." To which my dad finally turned off the TV and walked over to the table to join everyone but said, "I don't want to decorate." He sat down and like the child he is, folded his arms and laid down his head in protest of the activity.

After I decorated a cookie I put my mom voice on and said "if you decoate at least 1 cookie, you can go back to watching TV." I knew he was just going to sit there acting childish until everyone else had finished the cookies. He said, "No. I am not going to decorate a cookie. If I'm being such a bad boy, I'll go to my room." To which I responded, "No, you'll just have to sit there all night." As time went on and I traded places with my husband on following the toddler, I repeated the same offer a time or two to my dad with similar back and forths even after my other 2 siblings joined. My dad eventually dissapeared without saying goodnight once the cookies were done.

I still can't fathom why he wouldn't want to even put forth minimal effort to decorate even one single cookie. I would have even accepted the most minimal effort of putting a single dot of frosting on a cookie.

Got Boomers in your life who spend time in your home? Start watching genocide documentaries. Watch them about the Holocaust and Rwanda and Palestine. And for fun, throw in videos about the Japanese camps we had, and make comments about how you wouldn't have thought a SCOTUS would be ok with Trump putting people he hates in camps except you know about them declaring the camps Constitutional. Casually comment how strange it is so many Holocaust survivors' descendants are committing genocide in Palestine.

I don't mean literally watching together btw - just have them on in the background. Or whateve. Just have them on. Make them uncomfortable.

So I am a muslim (22f) and I don’t know if it’s the recent obsession with “Merry Christmas” over “Happy Holidays”, but it has been two days since christmas and I still have boomers coming up to be and aggressively saying “Merry Christmas”. I normally notice it a lot when it’s almost time for the holiday. I think they see my hijab and abaya and try to trigger me or something, because strangers in a store will walk up to me (and only me) and say “Merry Christmas” with literally no smile on their face. Of course I always say “Thank you! I hope you have a merry Christmas as well” and they just stare at me for a little and walk away. The whole interaction is always so weird and hostile. Muslims aren’t even a part of the “happy holidays vs merry christmas” debate we don’t have a winter holiday

Short snippet before boomer logic. Mother in law thinks Canadians are miserable. My wife brought this up then got pissed when I educated her parent.

...and apparently gives you the right to put your hands on someone according to a Boomer in the comments of the video of the young woman with the old grandpa that "gently taps" her shoulder as a way of "showing love".

Like dude legit thinks a woman showing a strap is sexual harassment I fucking can't with these people.

I’ve been going to the same dispensary by my work for a few years now. As of recently, there seems to be a massive influx of boomers descending upon what was once a peaceful haven from my chaotic day. Standing in the way of display cases, doorways, etc holding conversations completely oblivious to others, getting up to the counter and not having the slightest idea what they’re looking for causing the line to build up, asking painfully obvious questions repeatedly, etc. I don’t really have a point here, just ranting about the fact that these folks can even turn a place as chill as a dispensary into a frustrating hellscape if given the opportunity.

I'm sick to death of the word woke. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!

I hate the people that use it, I hate how they use it. I hate that fucking tone they have when they say it with the slightly drawn out W sound. "wwoke!"

They don't even know what it means. Its become a drop it word to identify anything they don't like or scares them or offends them. It's everywhere, all the time and it's become somehow both meaningless and derogatory. I don't care what else has gone on, the very moment I hear someone say it, my immediate thought is that your IQ just dropped 50 points.

It needs to be irradicated from English language altogether, even to the point of changing the past tense of the "wake" to "waked". For the love of god, give it the full "N-word to white people" treatment. cannot be used, ever, under and circumstances without outing yourself as a horrendous monster. even describing something as "the W-word" needs to be used in hushed tones with trusted company and even then you look around first to make sure no one else is in ear shot.

Masks never prevented COVID, they were a pillar of control worn around your face…enjoy your 4 doses of cancer as well. Sheeple.

Elon annoys everyone yet the boomers like him and call him "The smartest man." Again not all boomers, just some I've seen on the news

Yikes

Some background: I am a lifelong motorcyclist, who likes to do lots of different kinds of riding, so I have a few different bikes. I'm also a bad influence and people who spend much time around me usually end up riding too, so my wife now rides and has a bike of her own. Between us we've got 5 bikes in the garage, all different types, and none of them Harleys because all of them together don't add up to the price of a new Harley and if I wanted that kind of bike I'd rather buy a Royal Enfield for all the 1940's tech without the $25,000 sticker on the gas tank.

The other day my MIL, the boomiest baby boomer to ever boom, upon seeing our garage, comments that she's "never seen so many motorcycles" with disgust almost dripping from the words. I point out that in her own neighborhood, I've seen a few garages with several Harleys that look almost identical except for color and a few accessories and suddenly having multiple bikes seems okay in her mind. I wish that was the only case of boomers being like "motorcycles bad but Harleys good" I've experienced, but it's just one of the more obvious and recent instances. Make it make sense please.

I wasn’t there. My cousin is a 30 year old woman. Very normal. My dad is a 60 year old extroverted farmer. He loves talking to people but they have nothing in common.

It just pissed me off because he’s telling this to me( an introvert with social anxiety that doesn’t enjoy small talk). Thanks for reinforcing the idea that people think I’m an asshole.

He can’t comprehend someone with a mind that works different than his. I work with him every day. Unbelievable that you can raise children that you never really understand.

We hosted Christmas. My SIL has been a dedicated vegetarian for decades. My mom and siblings were helping me in the kitchen on Christmas Day, so I reminded them that we were making a veggie main course for SIL, cooking the dressing separate from the turkey, and using vegetable stock in place of chicken stock in the sides. My mom brushed me off and said oh, that’s not necessary, [SIL] is easy going. Just do whatever you’d normally do. She won’t even notice!

Good god. I fear to know what my mom feeds my poor SIL when they visit her.

My Father is late GenX but everything about him is Boomer. I showed him a video of drone footage from Ukraine that captured Russian soldiers being taken out. His response was that he felt sorry for them, and I just replied, “Well, they shouldn’t have invaded then.” That set him off. He started ranting about the “new world order,” claiming these wars are all about population control and that Koreans are being sent to Ukraine for that purpose. Then he went on about Obama supposedly being paid off by Putin to let him take Crimea, said Zelensky is basically Saddam Hussein propped up by the CIA, and complained that Europe does nothing to support Ukraine. Oh and also said the Ukraine belongs to Russia historically.

When I asked him for his sources, he brushed it off, saying it didn’t matter because he mostly listens to podcasts. I was able to rebuttal every claim he had with literal logic and the cognitive dissonance was insane. The whole thing was absolutely unhinged.

As seems to be pretty common in a lot of the posts on this sub, my boomer Grandpa is a hardcore Trump supporter who pretty much believes anything that right-wing media says. He's the type that now is claiming that Canada should be part of the US because Trump said that one time. We're from the US, however, I've spent a good amount of time in both Canada and the UK because I used to live near the border with Canada and I went to grad school in England.

Since I spent a whole year straight in the UK and also have a bunch of friends who live there and elsewhere in Europe/worldwide, I talk about it quite a bit. However, every time I bring up the UK or any other country, my Grandpa always has some sort of insert about a reason why the UK (or literally any other country) is communist and a terrible place to live.

I'm pretty sure he himself has only ever been outside of the US two times: one time to Canada for some sort of short trip and another time to Mexico for his job a long time ago. The Mexico trip is the one that seems to influence his view of the rest of the world the most, but he went in like the 70s or 80s and refuses to believe that Mexico has changed at all and assumes every other country is exactly like Mexico.

I remember when I was going to the UK he seemingly couldn't grasp the fact that the British pound is worth more than the US dollar and they effectively never have reached parity. He kept trying to tell me to wait to exchange money seemingly thinking the dollar was gonna somehow magically overtake the pound even though that has literally never happened in recent history.

It's so annoying because I literally have seen life in other countries, the positives and negatives, and it's so frustrating to have to interact with someone who is just so goddamn stubborn and has such a dumbass view of the world outside the US. Plus he just throws the word "communist" around as an insult without ever even backing it up. It seems like in his view anywhere with any sort of socialized anything = communist hellhole.