Pissing off a baby boomer at Home Depot

[YOhio]

Why would an anti-establishment ageist be shopping at a Big Box like Home Depot? Maybe after he left Home Depot, the character "RobinFinderson" rode his motorcycle over to Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf for a pumpkin latte.

It's funny when people break from their online persona. Like the time on CG when Goatnapper asked what a "MILF" was.

[SeattleUte]

Here is the reference to my allusion to Evangelicals in Uganda:

For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/wo.../04uganda.html

It sounds just like "this narcissistic baby boomer generation that invented hippies and owns and contols everything has turned our nation into a crap hole," doesn't it?

[UtahDan]

Here is the reference to my allusion to Evangelicals in Uganda:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/wo.../04uganda.html

It sounds just like "this narcissistic baby boomer generation that invented hippies and owns and contols everything has turned our nation into a crap hole," doesn't it?

Looks like Robin just exchanged one strange, hard to defend unifying story for another.

[UtahDan]

We might also need add a "biggest backfire" category to the CUFies.

[RobinFinderson]

Anyone with a historical perspective would recognize that there is extraordinary (to use a word that, from a historical perspective, is wholly inadequate) good in the United States, and that the United States has never had more good than it does now. But I would never expect a lover and lionizer of socialism to have a historical perspective.

Robin, what you have done in this thread is no different than had you painted Hispanics with a broad brush of hate and laid all of California's problems at their feet. It's a shame. This kind of thing undoes all the fine and enlightened things you have said on this board. You carry a very angry little bigot around in your head. It's UGLY. You sound like Hitler raging about how Slavs and Jews (who "own everything and control government") turned Germany into a "crap hole". Or, Evangelicals in Uganda inciting people to murder with comments like gays have "homosexualized" society.

By they way, a platitude like "the greatest generation" IS an idiotic formulation, and you have expressed why that is so. But no one ever said Brokaw was a great intellectual, or, frankly, anything other than a populist himself. Now we see why it's racist to say things like blacks are naturally better athletes. It's only a small step from that to racism of the truly hateful and disparaging type.

Weighing the strengths and weaknesses of generations is a COMMON thing to do. Equating that with Hitler, IMO, is jumping the shark.

I realize that stylistically I may have given the impression that I disliked this person because he was a baby boomer. That isn't what happened. I disliked him because he inferred that I was stealing. It was the inference that prompted me to associate him with my dislike of the characteristics we generally associate with the baby boomers.

I've played a little loose here, with language, playing the part of an anti-PC maverick, and that has given you an in to characterize me as angry (sometimes I am, but not for the reasons you have suggested) and hateful. If that is what you think, or if characterizing me as such is what you consider to be sport, have at you. I call it an inappropriate Hitler comparison, and a total shark jump.

[wuapinmon]

lol I nominate this for admission to 3D's best of.

You have to submit them yourself.

[UtahDan]

You have to submit them yourself.

I recommend a rear naked choke.

[wuapinmon]

I recommend a rear naked choke.

I'm not gay. But, thank you.

[Fiyero]

Tell me what you think of this:

Today at my local grocery store, I went to one of those self-checkout scanners. The previous person didn't pay. The screen showed "lobster tail" "lobster tail" "lobster tail" and other items, and apparently he took his sacks and walked out while the computer voice kept saying "please pay now."

I could have identified him, because I stood in line waiting for one of the four stations to open up, and then looked over and watched him walk out the door. I notified the clerk because I couldn't do anything until he cleared the screen, but he just pressed a few buttons, sighed, and walked off.

I wonder what percentage of all grocery prices are set to compensate for the theft overhead.

[Slim]

I saw someone do that the other day.

Well, what I actually saw was the screen stuck at the pay now screen. I didn't actually see the person who left it that way. I imagine there are a lot of d-bags who take advantage of the self-checkout that way.

Which sucks because I love the self-checkout and will actually wait in line to use it before I even go to a line-free checker. I don't like people to know what I'm buying. Even if it is just milk and bread.

On a side note: The last time I had to use the actual checker person line it was during finals week when I needed to get some energy drinks to keep from falling over and the store had no self checkout. I bought two Rockstar Juiced cans and the morbidly obese checker lady looked at me sideways and said "you know, you should drink juice instead. It is better for you." Instead of debating with her about who should be giving health advice to whom, I winked at her and said "These are 50% juice". She gave them another good long look and told me again how bad they were for me. I told her that I was reaching the end of medical school finals and needed the energy.

Anyway, it is because of experiences like these that I love the self checkout. I hate other people scrutinizing my purchases.

[Surfah]

Anyway, it is because of experiences like these that I love the self checkout. I hate other people scrutinizing my purchases.

Seriously. That's why I just started having Gidget buy my Magnum XLs.

[UtahDan]

Seriously. That's why I just started having Gidget buy my Magnum XLs.

I like Magnums too but I can't usually find them at a grocery store.

[RobinFinderson]

I check in on CG from time to time to catch up on Mike's latest soliloquy and I found THIS.

Baby Boomers, or what I really like to call them: "The Shittiest Generation."

Look at this country, look at the sad shape it is in. Look at the bozos who run this country, in both political parties.

It all makes sense when you realize that The Greatest Generation has been replaced by The Shittiest Generation. The most selfish, thoughtless, undisciplined worthless collection of Americans ever assembled.

Look at the social ills of this country. Crime was terrible in the 70s and 80s. Crime is much better now. What happened? The baby boomers got older (most crime is committed by young men).

They brought us the death of American religious life, the end of really any kind of morality that goes beyond "do what I like whenever the hell I want."

One wonders how the greatest generation created these people that have done this. I think it will be up to the next generation of Americans to right things. Heaven help us if it doesn't happen.

What bugs MW more than anything is being the last person to reach the correct answer, and that is why our friendship was doomed.

[Jeff Lebowski]

What bugs MW more than anything is being the last person to reach the correct answer, and that is why our friendship was doomed.

Now, that's funny.

On behalf of my fellow boomers, this is for you and Mike:

[dabrockster]

As a general rule of thumb, I believe in common courtesy. When a stranger starts a conversation with an accusation, I no longer owe the person anything. I don't know how a person is supposed to bring up that he thought a person stole something. Maybe he should have just brought it up with a security person. I don't know. But when a person accuses me of something, I don't owe him a polite defense.

The doors leaving the Home Depot are also the location of the other thing I do that pissed off some people here before. When the line to get out of the HD is long, because the rent-a-cop at the door is flagging every receipt with his yellow marker, I will always bypass the line. Screw Home Depot. They have my money and I have my items, and our business is complete. No law compels anyone to stand in line to get their receipt checked by a rent-a-cop, and if Home Depot isn't going to hire enough security to get people out the door without waiting in line (this usually happens after a fifteen minute wait in line at the cash register), then that is their problem, not mine.

I think I give common courtesy freely enough to be considered a generally courteous person, but I also think there are places where folks give common courtesy where they shouldn't (like in the line to get out the door at Home Depot), and a little uncommon discourtesy would help push corporate policy in the right direction (if everyone walked past the line, HD would eventually hire enough rent-a-cops to handle the crowd, or they would abandon the annoying practice all together.)

This belongs in the pet peeve thread...