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Anon envies the boomers (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 164 points 2 years ago

Everyone knows Disney's movies are 100% accurate depictions of reality

[-] amon@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Ik right, Mickey Mouse exists irl

[-] gens@programming.dev 30 points 2 years ago

I'v seen him DJ

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 years ago

Treasure Planet was a documentary.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Oh that's why Musk wants to go to space.

[-] Onionguy@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

You may be sarcastic but too many ppl actually believe this.

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

1 - they are dog people. They probably married just because the dogs liked each others.

2 - it's a cartoon.

3 - it's just a fucking depiction of two people randomly meeting, it's implied that they hit it off stellarly and, yes, people do MAD CRAZY things such as... marrying a person they are in love with.

4 - bestiality.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 years ago

One of these is not like the other. My bet is number 2.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I dunno, 3 makes wild accusations about implied meanings. Seems suspect.

[-] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago

Don't forget the rampant domestic abuse that frequently came from the person you signd a life long contract with. Easy my ass

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Why would any of that context matter to a 4channer?

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yaknow, when your right, your right

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 61 points 2 years ago

They did not. And even then, so darn many boomers think it's normal to dispise your partner you'd almost think they're a bunch of losers

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Conan O'Brian meeting his wife:

https://people.com/tv/who-is-conan-obrien-liza-powel-obrien-wife/

"Then I left the room after this 20-minute conversation with only her. " After joking about having kids together during this initial conversation, the two exchanged information and began dating. In January 2002, the couple tied the knot.

So it happens, it just helps if you're tall and ginger.

[-] Superheavy@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

Step 1) don't be ugly

Step 2) see step 1

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Exception to Rule 1: Be Conan Fucking O'Brian

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[-] Damage@feddit.it 14 points 2 years ago

I mean, Conan O'Brien isn't exactly beautiful

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago
[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years ago

I mean, I would have his babies, and I'm a straight man!

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[-] notabot@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

"Don't be ugly" is definitely helpful physically, but vital intelectually and emotionally.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

For men:

  1. Be rich
  2. Don't be poor
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[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 52 points 2 years ago

Lol, poor Anon thinks a Silent Generation meetcute in a cartoon is Boomers IRL.

Awwww....

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago

Premarital sex being taboo sped things up

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And yet they had more premarital sex than millenials/gen z

Edit: can't find the source where I had heard that. Maybe not true. This study shows the rates are lower than for millennials, but close. https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/hemez-nonmarital-sex-by-age-25-boomers-millennials-fp-17-11.html

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I was just making a joke, but don't doubt that you're right. It's a tough thing to measure as people aren't always honest. Like if somebody took a poll in 1986 asking folks if they smoked weed, paranoia might cause smokers to say no

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Oh, totally. Just like to bring up that our grandparents/great grandparents were getting nasty even before widespread use of birth control, etc. Young folks today are having a lot less sex, or so I've heard, largely due to difficulties finding partners, stress, etc.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 48 points 2 years ago

My grandparents got married because my grandfather left his car keys in his coat on the rack by the door of a diner and someone grabbed his coat.

Apparently while they waited in the diner for a friend to pick them up he asked my grandmother if they should get married and she said
"Sure."
3rd date. It was just something to do back then.

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

101 Dalmatians came out in 1961, these characters would be a part of the Silent Gen, or the Greatest Gen.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

Fuck, is it really that old? Crazy

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago

Still looks amazing

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 years ago

Not a boomer, but here's how it worked for me:

  1. Meet at party, hit it off, and exchange numbers
  2. Text for a few days
  3. Date for a couple months
  4. Due to cruelties of hard to change plans, date long distance for a year
  5. Get married

Still together after 10+ years. We're not all that different from the cartoon, and if we didn't have the forced separation, we probably would've gotten married sooner.

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's basically how my wife and I met. Except we were never exclusive because she was a really good friend and I didn't wanna fuck that up. We ended up going our separate ways when she went off to college... We reconnected platonically years later, and then realized we were both getting divorced at the same time. One thing led to another, and we've been married for almost 2 years now.

We joke that if we had been exclusive, we would have a 20 year old already.

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[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 22 points 2 years ago

My former boss had a whole church community arrange a meeting between him and a woman, just so his parents could tell her parents what he thought of her. The two would eventually marry. It really was that easy back then. And yes they’re still happily married for reasons beyond my understanding.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago

Why would you ever want to meet someone and get married so quickly? Are you more interested in the appearance of what you consider to be a successful life, rather than having a life partner?

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

the dog kinda roped 'em in to it.

[-] NewDark@lemmings.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is like one step above the brainlets trying to retvrn to 50s advertising campaigns as though they were real life.

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[-] Fizz 7 points 2 years ago

Anon needs to start crashing into women at the park

[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Didn't even have smartphones either.

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