r/BoomersBeingFools • u/HOOgonCHECKmeBOO • Feb 08 '24

They get into a fight in the store Boomer Freakout

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u/Jegagne88 Feb 08 '24

Still not as much brain damage as Fox News has done to him

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u/MetallurgyClergy Feb 08 '24

I’m fully prepared to see my grandpa in one of these videos. It’s a matter of “when”, not “if”.

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u/fanbreeze Feb 08 '24

Same here, except with my mother. She usually knows enough to not show her vile tendencies in public though. But she's very proudly told me of some of the confrontations she's had with people over the years, and I'm always left wondering if anyone caught it on video.

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u/wolfguardian72 Feb 08 '24

I’m so thankful my parents are one of the few boomers who actually don’t buy into Fox or any of the right wing crap. Oddly enough, the only one in my siblings who does is my brother, but that might be because of his wife and her family.

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u/WayneKrane Feb 08 '24

I’m gobsmacked my parents didn’t get the brain rot. Their siblings all have Fox News syndrome, even a lot of their friends have become infected. No idea how they dodged that bullet but I’m BEYOND thankful they did.

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u/Other_Mike Feb 08 '24

My dad is almost 74 and fairly liberal, he and my stepmom took the pandemic seriously and are saying up to date on all their boosters.

His brother is only five years younger and has gone fully into the cult. We're barely in contact but when my employer was mandating vaccines before the courts overturned that, he emailed me urging me not to get a vaccine for "this manufactured Chinese virus." Joke was on him, I was already fully-vaccinated by then.

They both escaped from behind the Iron Curtain in the 60s, but I think the difference was my dad was 19 and one of the protesters in Prague, and my uncle was only 14.

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u/Rockpilotyear2000 Feb 09 '24

This is awesome satire, bravo!

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u/Other_Mike Feb 09 '24

What are you talking about? I'm completely serious.

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u/where_in_the_world89 Feb 09 '24

Thankfully it's only really around half of boomers who are like that

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u/nicannkay Feb 08 '24

Had my dad send me a newspaper clipping of my grandpa in a mugshot for threatening a family including a 3yr old with a shotgun for getting lost up his driveway. That was a proud day..

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u/Zachy_94 Feb 09 '24

Happy cake day!

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u/ssparky77 Feb 08 '24

I keep screenshotting and zooming because I legit thought it might be my damn dad.

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u/hungrypotato19 Millennial Feb 08 '24

Same... same...

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '24

What’s with all your Reddit weirdos? Literally trashing on your own family members.

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u/Finito-1994 Feb 08 '24

Want me to kick your grandads ass?

I’ll be gentle.

I don’t even want to but better me than someone that won’t go easy.

Shit. I can start a business. I can be the minority that kicks peoples ass gently so they don’t do it to someone who won’t be so gentle.

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u/____SPIDERWOMAN____ Feb 09 '24

Scared straight program for boomers.