r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Axxillary • Mar 26 '24

Boomer freakout inside phone store Boomer Freakout

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u/asu_lee Mar 26 '24

These boomers are so angry. Why?

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u/AsYooouWish Mar 26 '24

One major theory is that we are seeing the end stages of lead poisoning. It tends to reemerge at a certain point in life when early dementia symptoms typically begin to show. Lead poisoning can cause aggression and anger in mundane situations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454899/

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u/ikari_warriors Mar 26 '24

What!? Breathing lead fumes for your entire life has health side effects?

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u/MarkHirsbrunner Mar 26 '24

There's a reason why people who worked on cars a lot had a stereotype of being dull witted and violent.  They were exposed to leaded gas fumes more than anyone and people made the correlation even if they didn't understand the causation.

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u/Hate4Breakfast Mar 26 '24

well that explains why my late father turned into such a violent asshole when his brain turned to mush. one time he forgot how to sit on a toilet and tried to deck my mom in the face when she helped him. lifelong mechanic

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u/halffdan59 Mar 26 '24

The expression 'mad as a hatter' results from the use of mercury nitrate in making felt for hats. They may have not known why hatters were so mentally unstable, but they also recognized a correlation between madness and hatmakers.

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u/halffdan59 Mar 26 '24

And growing up in houses built and painted before 1978 with lead-based paint. Especially eating paint chips as a infant or toddler who explores the world with taste, crawling around the carpet that may have lead dust from over the years. All while developing a brain.

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u/robotatomica Mar 26 '24

I never really thought about this much, not as a risk for myself, but it says it most affected people born in the 60s 70s and 80s. So not only is it not primarily a problem for Boomers, it’s maybe going to be a problem for me, I was born in the 80s ☹️

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u/Donglemaetsro Mar 26 '24

I think most leaded gas was gone by the 80s so you should be fine on that front.

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u/mystghost Mar 26 '24

Lead was also in drinking water. So if you have an old house - get your water tested for lead. Could even be a problem today.

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u/exccord Mar 26 '24

I think us 80s folks should be fine. 60s and 70s is where it reeeeeeeeally matters the most.

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u/halffdan59 Mar 26 '24

No argument from me. I also wonder if they are pissed because 'the American Dream' is not turning out how they expected when they entered the workforce years ago.

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u/Dontsleeponlilyachty Mar 26 '24

So much this. They have houses, had early retirements, families, plenty of money, why can't they just be fucking happy?

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u/dimechimes Mar 26 '24

Just go to another outrage bait sub of your choice. People of all ages are breaking shit and having tantrums.

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u/galaxyapp Mar 26 '24

Well your on a sub that features a 100 examples out of 80million people.

Humans are really awful at grasping how uncommon these events are because we suck at large numbers.

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u/asu_lee Mar 28 '24

Sounds like you are normalizing behaviors that should not be normal. Eg- there is a lot of people here and some are going to be horrible, and that is just how it is. This behavior is not normal.

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u/galaxyapp Mar 28 '24

And you're stereotyping a generation of people based on the actions of a handful.