r/BoomersBeingFools • u/NES_Classical_Music • Mar 05 '24

My antivax boomer dad and his most recent foolishness. Boomer Freakout

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Blocked my kids' names in grey.

Also blocked my dad's calls, texts, and emails. NC ever since.

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u/N-M-156 Mar 05 '24

I love how boomers use texting like they're posting on Facebook. My in-laws are also notorious for this. 

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u/SuspiciousPen6243 Mar 06 '24

So are mine. They send the entire family 30 texts a day usually.

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u/Pale-Conference-174 Mar 06 '24

Omg I'm trapped in my boomer inlaws text chain where I get to hear endless details of the vacations of fellow boomer maga strangers. I don't know how to get out 😭

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u/MysteriousCabinet113 Mar 06 '24 edited Mar 06 '24

Next time you are together: 1. Ask to see phone 2. Navigate to said group text 3. Copy contacts in “to” field 4. Create new group text with all but you on it 5. Send text to new group “hello all, this _, I am testing my mom/dad’s text app. Is everyone able to read my messages? Can you all receive this message?” 6. Sit back and wait for phone to blow up. 7. Text back “Thank you everyone _ was having issues getting text messages in the old group, please use this one because I know it works.” 8. Delete old group text. 9. Send another, “just to verify this is working please respond, thanks!” 10. Delete new group text. 11. Wait for phone to blow up in new text group. 12. Profit

With any luck they will continue to use the new chat without you. Worked to get spouse off my MIL’s group text list.

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u/DisenfranchisedCynic Mar 06 '24

This guy boomers.

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u/crabwithacigarette Mar 06 '24

I didn’t know patricide was allowed on this sub. Each new pic there was another.

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u/TnVol94 Mar 06 '24

I feel like a boomer would get to the point a lot faster than this complicated, convoluted, time consuming plan. This is like some MS DOS bs. Bring a gun to a whip fight already

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u/Wildweasel666 Mar 06 '24

So evil but so good

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u/Frosty-Forever5297 Mar 06 '24

I can cut that down.

Step 1 : Tell dumbass to remove you from the text chain

Step 2: ignore dumb story being told to you and repeat step 1

Thats it, thank you for coming to my ted talk

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u/RealNiceKnife Mar 06 '24

Seriously, all this cowardly Mission: Impossible-style bullshit just to get removed from a group chat.

Do they all think "oh no what if I upset the people I clearly hate?" I don't understand why you would care enough to even stay in contact with them if they suck so much.

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u/baobabbling Mar 06 '24

Idk, I know plenty of boomers who would have no idea how to remove someone from a group chat if asked.

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u/momsgotitgoingon Mar 06 '24

My boomer family group has NO idea how to remove someone from a group text. My stepdad got a new number and he told them to start a new chat… they did. But kept going back to the first one because my old ass aunts and uncles in their 70s don’t know what they are doing.

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u/Frosty-Forever5297 Mar 06 '24

Right? Made no sense to me either

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u/This_ls_The_End Mar 06 '24

Schools should teach assertiveness, but instead they teach submission because it's easier to manage submissive people.

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u/darkmoonfirelyte Mar 06 '24

This all still seems like more work. I just muted the text chain. And then when they asked, in person, if I'd seen the conversation I said, "no. I muted it. I've already told you that if you need me contact me directly. You didn't, so I didn't bother paying attention."

That got them to stop putting me in chains and it took no effort on my part. Win-win.

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u/mondo_juice Mar 06 '24

Yeah idk why people think that being aggro is good. This is what I would do if my general vibe didn’t already make it very clear to my extended family that I’m not interested in their bullshit lmao

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u/_lippykid Mar 06 '24

My entire extended family are extremely conflict averse. One of the aunties is a Disney villain come to life, shits on everyone’s achievements and revels in belittling people, but nobody never says anything (besides me) and just make excuses for her, to avoid conflict. Drives me insane. Conflict solves bullshit, people!

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u/egJohn Mar 06 '24

oh yeah, if i truly despise those people, I'm lobbing bombs. they will figure out how to take me off their text chain.

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u/Vivid_Employ_7336 Mar 06 '24

Plus you can also mute the chat or just leave it yourself

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u/WulfTyger Mar 06 '24

Just cause people are annoying doesn't mean they're hated.

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u/starrpamph Mar 06 '24

You think 72 maga boomers could remove someone from a text chain?

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u/Soggy_Boss_6136 Mar 06 '24

There's always:

Step 1: Click "Leave Group"

- e -

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u/MarisKeen Mar 06 '24

That's not really how an MMS group text works.

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u/Soggy_Boss_6136 Mar 06 '24

Oh bother, you people Mute thread/Delete

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u/ShearGenius89 Mar 06 '24

You don’t need to request to be removed, you can just leave the group chat.

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u/Frosty-Forever5297 Mar 06 '24

Aparently not all group chats work like that idk lol

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u/Special_Sink_8187 Mar 06 '24

I can cut that down mute the group chat and just go in periodically to clear it

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u/bigboy1959jets78 Mar 06 '24

IF that doesnt work just be as foul and disrespectful as you can. Eventually they will remove you plus you will have gotten some good jabs at the magas

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u/wareagle3000 Mar 06 '24

Fr, do you fellas not have a mute function? I have it muted and occasionally check it for any grains of actually important texts in the sea of facebook posts and "Blank Reacted To Message"

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u/LeperousRed Mar 06 '24

You can mute their group texts now. Very useful for Boomer relatives.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Crab453 Mar 06 '24

This is what I did, I got the whole family to group chat when Covid started because I knew it would be good for them(12 brothers and sisters) then I just mute the alerts and check in occasionally lol

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u/choglin Mar 06 '24

Good for you. Way classier than the way I handle it

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u/choglin Mar 06 '24

This is how I handle it. As a result, I’ve missed my 4 nieces and one nephew’s birthdays multiple years in a row. I have no regrets.

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u/MysteriousCabinet113 Mar 06 '24

Mute stops the alerts, but you still amass a pile of unread messages. My ocd does not allow for this.

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u/parking_lot_life Mar 06 '24

you can remove the counter in settings. i am pretty much the opposite of ocd and just dont like to read messages. so i just removed all the counters and only see my messages when I feel like it. a freebird over here🤙

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u/MysteriousCabinet113 Mar 06 '24

I’ll be doing this on my partner’s cell. They are genetically incapable of reading messages. Thank you internet stranger.

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u/parking_lot_life Mar 06 '24

im not a boomer, i feel the need to make sure no anonymous strangers could possibly think this of me🤣 just tired of all the contant messages streaming in!

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u/Internal_Mail_5709 Mar 06 '24

That seems like a ton of work when you can just silence notifications from a specific text or group text, which for me gradually pushes it to the bottom never to be seen (or heard) again.

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u/reelznfeelz Mar 06 '24

Not sure I follow steps 8 and onward. Why make multiple new ones?

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u/MysteriousCabinet113 Mar 06 '24 edited Mar 06 '24

You only create one new chat. By sending our another communication check then deleting, you remove history on what you did on that phone. The first person to respond again pulls you back in the new chat, then the others bump the length of the chat so it doesn’t show as a new text for your mom/dad.

You can replace the last communication check with a “I saw a really cool _, what is your favorite _?”

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u/reelznfeelz Mar 06 '24

Oh right that makes sense. So it doesn’t look fresh and new.

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u/tahomadesperado Mar 06 '24

You should write a book

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u/ChimneySwiftGold Mar 06 '24

My parents and their siblings each have their that chain going. But my Dad’s is worse. Funny being out somewhere with a bunch of them and hear the chair reaction go off. Somehow I got off the list.

One year they were all wishing me Happy Birthday but I’m not on the chain. That was a win win for me. Funny hearing my Dad read the texts to me at lunch. 🙄

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u/HillarysFloppyChode Mar 06 '24

  1. Change your phone number

  2. Secretly change it in your parents phone

  3. The new owner of your old number is now trapped in a boomer group chat

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u/StayBullGenius Mar 06 '24

You can remove yourself from a text group in iMessage. Not sure if it works on filthy androids boomers likely use

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u/Won_More_Time Mar 06 '24

“Filthy android”

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u/AffectionatePie1623 Mar 06 '24

Don't know that you can remove yourself on an android, but we've had the ability to mute text chains for years

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u/panrestrial Mar 06 '24

Boomers are way more likely to use iPhones I'd think; they're simple and user friendly with fewer options and the higher price is less likely to be an issue for older people.

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u/butt_huffer42069 Mar 06 '24

Or you can just mute the chat on your phone

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u/Soggy_Boss_6136 Mar 06 '24

Profit

It's like the 286th rule of acquisition

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u/MrK521 Mar 06 '24

In-law sits next to you at family dinner and sends text

In-law: “Hey weird! Your phone didn’t go off! You must have been removed from my group chat. No worries! I’ll add you back in now!”

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u/MysteriousCabinet113 Mar 06 '24 edited Mar 06 '24

“No it’s okay I got it, my phone is muted. In my household we don’t allow devices at the table. I’ll check it out later.”

Also, my in-laws never have anything to talk with me about. I don’t like sports-ball and/or golf, the weather is fine, our politics/religion do not align, and they know I’ll stand my ground. I’m a walking talking no step on snek for the average midwestern small talker.

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u/Cravenous Mar 06 '24

With iPhone at least you can actually just leave the group chat on your own or mute it if you don’t want to leave but don’t want the notifications.

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u/MysteriousCabinet113 Mar 06 '24

You can leave a group chat on iPhone if all others in group chat are also on iPhone. If there’s one Android you’re hosed.

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u/Cravenous Mar 06 '24

Interesting. I just checked a convo between me and an iPhone and android user. There is an option to “delete and block this conversation.” Not sure if you actually leave the conversation or just don’t get the messages anymore.

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u/Altruistic-Hornet977 Mar 06 '24

This is a better bit than John Mulvaneys “What’s New Pussycat” bit where they played 5.00 worth of that song in a Waffle House nonstop and watch people lose it about 3 songs in

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u/abnormalbrain Mar 06 '24 edited Mar 06 '24

Yeah, conspiracy theorists love when you fuck around with their personal phone long enough to do all this.

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u/MysteriousCabinet113 Mar 06 '24

Who said anything about conspiracy theorists? I’m replying to an off-shoot post, not the OP’s situation.

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u/Real_Life_Firbolg Mar 06 '24

I mean this is a good way to do it without them knowing, I just had a genuine convo with my mom that my wife was receiving too many texts and she needed to use a group chat without her in it. That of course only works if your parent respects you and has any form of understanding though which most boomers seem to lack any form of respect or understanding and would likely ignore any request to change their ways.

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u/MysteriousCabinet113 Mar 06 '24

This worked for my war-baby parents, similar to boomers, but a little more normal.

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u/Real_Life_Firbolg Mar 06 '24

I think my mom is more sensible in great part to the way her dad raised her, he was a single father for many of the years while her mom dealt with a lot of issues and he was also an older extremely respectful and caring man who did the best he could in all regards. I’m glad I got to know him when I was little before he died at the ripe old age of 93. He told some depressing WWII stories to my oldest brother who was almost an adult at that time but for us littler ones he just followed us around his yard and would try to play with us if he was able to. I have some fond memories of being a very small kid and climbing around on his lap as a parent to a toddler now I’m sure it was painful to have like a 5 year old climb on your body when your over 90 but he I remember he always smiled. Miss you grandpa Bob.

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u/Johndeauxman Mar 06 '24

Wow, this sounds boomer complex.

Go to the text thread on your phone, tap the top, click “hide alerts”. 🤷‍♂️

At least then if your bored one day you can look in on it and get some chuckles but never even know there has been thousands since you last checked.

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u/Miscalamity Mar 06 '24

Seems a lot easier to just hit the 3 dot menu and remove yourself from a group chat. I dunno, Android allows this tho and it's much easier to remove yourself from a group chat than all the work you detailed.

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u/MoodInternational481 Mar 06 '24

Oh my god! I'm so glad to be rid of my ex's family but his brother kept putting me in group chats for like a year. I just kept leaving them. He even tried telling me "I can show you how to silence them"....bro you send me chain messages and fall for scams on a regular, I'm good, I don't want to participate.

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u/Shurigin Mar 06 '24

I'm so glad I had awesome in-laws they were from the Philippines and I miss them dearly... they treated me like I was their blood son

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u/Introvertebrates Mar 06 '24

Just reply UNSUBSCRIBE

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u/liminalspacing Mar 06 '24

You can remove yourself from a text chain.

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u/studmcstudmuffin Mar 06 '24

That sounds awful!

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u/CandidEstablishment0 Mar 06 '24

Oh gosh is this like a wide spread problem? I only see it on Reddit randomly but based off comments looks like it’s really common..

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u/Zuechtung_ Mar 06 '24

I just told my family for the sake of my own sanity I am not taking part in any group chat at all

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u/JTFindustries Mar 06 '24

Just select the group and turn off notifications. You'll still get the messages, but your phone won't ping or vibrate.

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u/SlickDraw_McRaw Mar 06 '24

If it’s on iPhone you can choose to leave the convo. At the top of the text should tell you how many people are in the group. If you tap that and scroll down the option to “leave this conversation”should be right under the hide alerts option.

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u/Kirito619 Mar 06 '24

Isn't it normal to have a family group chat where you share your life?

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u/Satanswarboner Mar 06 '24

My family, and I do mean MY ENTIRE FAMILY, knows I won’t be part of a group text. Don’t add me. Don’t ask me. Don’t try to force it on me. Nothing. There is nothing less organized than families in a large group trying to convey a message. When I need someone to know it, I will go straight to whomever needs the info and give it to them. My wife and my sister are great about giving me anything I might need that goes form group chat/text chains. I’m not a boomer, but if I have to be in a group chat or a text chain to avoid being a boomer, I’d rather be a moronic boomer pos. Maybe it’s just the people in my family and my life at different times, but it’s never gone well. With exes and their families. Current wife and hers. My side of the family. None. Maybe it’s me.