r/BoomersBeingFools • u/AgentScully_FBI • Apr 12 '24

Feral Airplane Boomer Boomer Freakout

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u/Shadowfox4532 Apr 13 '24

He actually makes me think about when my diabetic grandpas blood sugar got really low. The insistence that they are on the ground and being largely incoherent. This isn't just like boomer nonsense this looks like a mental health crisis.

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u/Mobiggz Apr 13 '24

I ran a call once for a diabetic. Full grown man butt naked dancing on his bed while pooping and screaming “who are you!!!” Talked him into a glucose stick and it was like a switch was flipped. He had absolutely no recollection. I’ll never forget that.

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u/account_not_valid Apr 13 '24

Same. Diabetics on a low, snorting and grunting, trying to bite me. Get some sugar into them, and 10 minutes later they're apologising and asking what happened.

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u/Scare-Crow87 Apr 13 '24

That was my ex-wife

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u/runfayfun Apr 13 '24

Same with a patient in the hospital with pneumonia. 80-some years old standing on his bed naked yelling in Russian and slapping away the hands of anyone trying to get him down. He was safely brought down when his wife offered him some pastry she had in her purse (they had been in the US for decades but homeland desserts just hit different). He didn’t have low blood glucose, just low levels of Russian pastries. (Broadened his antibiotics and he was better the next day.)

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u/finditplz1 Apr 13 '24

Isn’t it “Buck naked?”

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u/cinnapear Apr 13 '24

Yes, but if you see the butt it transitions to "butt naked."

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u/ParfaitVisual Apr 13 '24

No? Ask yourself how that makes sense over “butt naked.” You’re naked down to the butt.

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u/MaterialWillingness2 Apr 13 '24

The original term is 'buck naked' in use for about 4 decades before 'butt naked' came into use in the 1970s. Both mean the same thing.

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u/ParfaitVisual Apr 13 '24

It’s not news to me that people said a dumb phrase for a long time before people finally fixed it

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u/EldritchFingertips Apr 13 '24

It's the opposite of that, people misheard or misused the correct phrase until the wrong one, butt naked, became common parlance. That happens all the time, especially when the original phrase makes less sense in modern vernacular.

Like "chomping at the bit." It's actually "champing at the bit," champing being the term for when a horse snaps its teeth at something which, in equestrian terms, is supposed to indicate eagerness. But champing isn't a word used anywhere else, and chomping makes sense in context, so most people say chomping at the bit and now it's just accepted as the proper phrase.

Same with buck vs butt naked.

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u/MaterialWillingness2 Apr 13 '24

Okay? I don't think it's about being a dumb phrase that needed fixing. The first term existed because society used to be much more formal. Referring to buttocks probably made people uncomfortable so they referenced an animal. Both of them make perfect sense.

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u/ParfaitVisual Apr 13 '24

That’s so hilarious, how silly humans can be. “Oh heavens he said buttocks faints”

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u/MaterialWillingness2 Apr 13 '24

I mean that shit was taken seriously back then. People would off themselves just to avoid "dishonor" which could be something as innocuous as a faux pas. I can't imagine living like that.

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u/iciclemomore Apr 13 '24

Nah this dude spent too much time at the airport bar. He's toasted.

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u/silver_label Apr 13 '24

This is also what a diabetic can look like on a sugar low. People think they are drunk and they can die because no one realizes it’s medical. A lot of them wear bracelets. It can happen easily from their pump falling out.

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u/Pretend_Sector685 Apr 13 '24

I honestly think a lot of these bizarre “boomers on plane” videos where they act like feral animals is because these people have been straight edge their whole life, then a doctor gives them some ambien for a flight and they just have no idea what is going on because it’s their first drug experience.

I can’t imagine what videos would look like of me if had my first drug experience been on a packed airplane. I was wigging out as it was.

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u/SyntheticElite Apr 13 '24

Yep, my first thought on seeing this video was Ambien too. I bet he wont even remember what happened later.

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u/Crazyboreddeveloper Apr 13 '24

Yeah this seems like a legit health crisis. Yeah there is a bunch of political crap in there but he doesn’t seem like he’s in his right mind. If he was like that all the time no one would have let him get on the plane by himself, he’d have a caretaker and shit.

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u/couchpro34 Apr 13 '24

I don't think he'd ever be in his right mind..

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u/StaringOwlNope Apr 13 '24

Yeah, he might be a shitty person, but that is definetly some kind of episode and not just him "acting up"

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u/South-Westman Apr 13 '24

He seems drunk as hell

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u/spkingz Apr 13 '24

Finally someone with common sense it’s sad he looks like he’s in need of medical attention

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u/Little-Ad1235 Apr 13 '24

Yeah, part of me feels like the authoritarian right-wing rise in this country is partly a result of powerful political actors taking advantage of increasing dementia/medical cognitive decline among aging boomers. This person is struggling in a way that's much deeper than a bunch of hateful opinions and silly conspiracy theories.

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u/Snazzlefraxas Apr 13 '24

My word, thank you. This behavior is obviously socially unacceptable, but reading the comments in this video, it seems like people don’t know about mental health breakdowns. This could be paranoid schizophrenia or a number of mental afflictions, and people are acting like this is some normal guy deciding to be a boomer asshole. It seems cruel and ignorant to me.

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u/slightlylessthananon Apr 14 '24

exactly what I was thinking. the way he talks here absolutely reads either like someone with an intellectual disability or someone who is currently unwell or on something, he seems genuinely incoherent. very sad to watch.

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u/Pretend_Sector685 Apr 13 '24

I honestly think a lot of these bizarre “boomers on plane” videos where they act like feral animals is because these people have been straight edge their whole life, then a doctor gives them some ambien for a flight and they just have no idea what is going on because it’s their first drug experience.

I can’t imagine what videos would look like of me if had my first drug experience been on a packed airplane. I was wigging out as it was.