They’re doing it again
And I can’t stand it. If I see ONE MORE COMMERCIAL aimed at rich baby boomers using Fleetwood Mac songs fawning all over how well they’ve invested all their millions so they can send their brilliant offspring to college in snazzy new decked-out cars that can go from zero to sixty in one nanosecond and get you to your destination before you’ve even made the decision to go there and at the same time give you an orgasm every second while the soundtrack plays Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride” I will fucking EXPLODE.
People. Didn’t we go through this shit in the Eighties when full-of-themselves hippies-turned-yuppies put out full-of-themselves tv shows like Thirtysomething and ran about spending money and yacking about their children as if no one had ever spent money or had kids? Has there ever been a generation in the history of the earth more full of preening regard for the wonderful beings that composed it than the Baby Boomers? Christ on a stick, this is irritating.
November 7th, 2005 at 12:26 am
And thanks to Jane Fonda teaching them the benefits of regular exercise in the 80s, plus an entire medical establishment devoted to curing, or at least controlling, anything that might actually fell them, they’re going to live FOREVER. Just like the kids from Fame, only even more annoying than that.
November 7th, 2005 at 12:54 am
Noooooooo—!
November 7th, 2005 at 1:31 am
Speak for yourself, Andrea. Personally, I never cared much for Led Zepplin until Cadillac started using their songs in their ads. That’s when I decided Zep was, like totally awesome!
November 7th, 2005 at 2:51 am
Ilyka beat me to it. They will never go away, ever. When the earth finally crashes into the sun, the last thing to be incinerated will be a preservative tank containing the still-animate heads of a few wealthy Boomers who, like J. K. Rowling’s ghosts, were willing to do anything to avoid slipping gently into the Undiscovered Country.
November 7th, 2005 at 8:44 am
Agree 100% there has never been a more selfish and self-rightous generation that the freaking baby-boomers. The world will be a better place when we have far fewer of them.
November 7th, 2005 at 10:16 am
“Has there ever been a generation in the history of the earth more full of preening regard for the wonderful beings that composed it than the Baby Boomers?”
No. (Well, possibly, somewhere back in ancient Babylon or perhaps among the patrician classes of Rome, but since they’ve been dead so long that even their bones have turned to dust, I don’t have to deal with them).
Last week or so, there was a news story about how “aging boomers” were demanding that airlines make planes more “comfortable” and “accessible” to them. As if no other generation deserved comfort or accessibility. As if it’s fine for gen-xers or even Greatest Generation folks to travel with their knees against their noses, and be given half a can of Sprite and a baggie containing three peanut halves in place of a meal. ‘
Feh. I fully expect as a few more years march on that boomers will storm the geriatric research places, demanding a death-preventative. Because, you know, no other generation has been so special and so unique that it deserves to live forever. (Even if it requires injections of ground up foetuses or the lifeblood drained from the veins of generation x-ers.)
November 7th, 2005 at 2:08 pm
I just love everything about the boomers. Their taste in music was sublime. Donovan. Need I say more? Their dedication to generosity of spirit is moving to this day. I mean, where else could you find people who would trash a campus, mock the hard work of others and then finally get serious when they realized that you can’t buy brie with Che posters?
I love the Boomers. I’m so glad that I’ll be able to work hard long enough to make sure they still have their Social Security, while at the same time saving for my own ungovernmentally funded retirement.
November 7th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
Andrew Ian Dodge Says:
November 7th, 2005 at 8:44 am
Agree 100% there has never been a more selfish and self-rightous generation that the freaking baby-boomers. The world will be a better place when we have far fewer of them.
At first I was sad to read your comment, but now I’m angry.
Real angry.
FYI, boomers are the first generation that won’t ever be getting back all the money we paid in. I understand you won’t either. On the other hand, after the dummycrats came up with this mess, Boomers have had to pay a whole generation and a half, some of whom never put one damn dollar into the social security system, and it grated on us, but never did I see a comment as selfish as yours. So much for a selfish generation.
Plus, with only a high school education, two small children, divorced without child support or alimony, working inhuman hours I managed to earn six figures/yr in my late 30’s and early 40’s and supported many, helping even those outside my family. For many years I paid the top amount of social security. Few Boomers are retired yet. They still pay most of this country’s bills, and I bet all of you together here in your whole lives don’t contribute as much into SS as I did just in my 30’s and 40’s alone!
There, I feel better now.
November 7th, 2005 at 11:19 pm
Typical Boomer self-pity. “Oh, no one has ever worked harder than we have! How we suffered! How we slaved! For an ungrateful nation!” And none of you are “Dummycrats” either. Right. It must be somebody else destroying the Democratic party from within with their warmed-over Marxist/Progressive bullshit and inability to let go of their glory days on the protest circuit. It must be some other generation — maybe the Transmontane Whigs of 1792 — that those commercials were aimed at.
Oh well. Gotta go spend my welfare check on another Rolls Royce. See ya!
November 8th, 2005 at 12:10 am
Just wanted that selfish Andrew clown to know that it’s my own money I’ll be spending.
Andrea, on my solemn promise, I never voted Dummycrat. It was all those Woodstockers…
Damn, Never did any of that either,…..
See ya!
Granny
November 8th, 2005 at 3:07 am
Grandma,
There’s an entire silent cohort of Boomers who proudly went to war (my father, Vietnam), came to American (legally) and worked their tails off with never a request (or desire!) for a handout (my mom), and all the while, like you, remained patriotic, self-disciplined, and competent.
That’s why I use the term “BoomerBozos.” Admittedly, they’re the vocal face of Boomer-dom, but they’re far from the only component; and it’s a shame to tar-and-feather the quiet stoics with the brush of the self-indulgent fools.
November 8th, 2005 at 7:08 am
And all kidding aside, it’s those Boomers (the Bozos) I am referring too, not the hardworking, patriotic kind. Haven’t the hardworking patriotic bozos been thrown out of the Boomer Lifestyle Network™ anyway? Technically I’m a Boomer, depending on who you ask — I was born in 1963, but extending the Boomer demographic past 1960 always felt like a consolation prize — I mean I was six years old in 1969! But I and others of my peers always felt like the generation time forgot; the “Blank” Generation, we are neither Boomers nor Gen-exers, but the ones who fell into the cracks. Oh well — at least no one is aiming a smarmy ad campaign at us.
November 8th, 2005 at 7:28 am
I am talking about the bozos who move to places like Maine to retire (or late in their career) then try & succeed to turn Maine in Massachusetts North. Maine used to be a Republican state now even the Republican centre there are left-of-centre. Would it shock anyone to hear Maine now has the highest taxes (per capita) in the nation? Their lame enviro-lunacy are ridding Maine of traditional jobs and their high property taxes are driving locals out of entire areas.
November 8th, 2005 at 8:00 am
I crossed all of New England off my eventual retirement destinations long ago. Oh well, I couldn’t have stood those winters anyway.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:21 am
Tonight as always, I voted Republican, but alas the State of NJ went to the Dems in the gubernatorial election. Since I was already in a funk about it, I came here to read what I expected might be snark towards my former posts.
Instead, ….such nice notes I found! Thanks
Must confess I haven’t heard the term boomer bozos before. I live in what used to be a rural farming area - maybe that’s why. We used to be mostly republican, but now the area is becoming more liberal.
I no longer have the business or it’s income, so after 32 years of calling this county home, not sure how long I can hang in as most households have two incomes here, and taxes and such are out of control. With the family grown and on their own, have been wondering if I could ever work up the nerve to do something crazy (for me)- maybe like trading in all the bills, property taxes, and mowing, to semi- retire in a motorhome and follow the sun - working here and there as needed. Sort of like a last hurrah.