Back when lead poisoning wasn’t invented yet and the water supply tasted like I should violently murder a stranger
Lead posting
Age is just a number. I may just be 27 on paper, but I identify as a boomer and deserve my drive-in theater, $20k family home and land barge with couch seats.
Don’t forget the pension
Forget the pension, buy gold !!
Those land yachts were terrifying. It felt like driving a boat, and by that I mean you never felt in control, like the road was the sea and you were at its mercy. Turning the wheel was a suggestion to the car. Breaking felt like a quiet request to a busy waiter in a loud restaurant. The whole experience was akin to a janky “I’m in danger” carnival ride.
This was my experience as a pre teen in my grandpa’s ~1970 Lincoln Continental with a power/weight ratio of 13.5lbs/hp I can’t imagine something with vastly more power feeling better.
(Holy hell that car weighed as much as a tri motor plaid model S)
“fastest cars”
Talking about muscle cars, that would be those born in the 30s/40s because the peak was in the 60s (70s brought emission equipment that pretty much neutered them).
What’s really funny as a car guy though is how many people born back then truly believe they had the fastest cars back in those days when truth is if you use comparable models the cars back then could be quick (in a straight line), but very far from as quick as cars from the last three decades! Hell, these days with electric cars it’s not even comparable, you can get a Nissan Leaf and 0-60 it will beat most 60s V8 cars. The Leaf does 6.7 seconds 0-60, a Dodge Charger with the legendary 426 Hemi was around 5.5 to 6 seconds (hard to find reliable numbers), the 65 Mustang was over 7.5!
I had an 87 mustang gt 5.0 for my first car. My 2022 civic sedan-sport is faster, safer, and more fun to drive.
5.0 V8, 225hp, 300tq
My car (stock): 2.0L, 306hp, 295tq
Same 0-60, but mine is a mid sized SUV
Womp womp
The “fastest cars” claim kinda falls flat when you realize electric cars are faster than almost every ICE car.
Even ignoring ev’s, you can option almost every minivan on the market with 300hp. Any modern hot hatch will drive circles around what would’ve been a supercar in the 90s, let alone the 60s. There’s plenty of things wrong with modern cars, but lack of power isn’t one of them.
Another car guy. I had and built one of those old cool cars. They do two things really well: look cool and go in a straight line. No denying the wild styling was amazing then, modern cars are cookie-cutter the same for the sake of aerodynamics, efficiency, and safety. Heck, my boring-ass stock decade-old Honda will do 0-60 in about 7 seconds, and it’s about as exciting as…well, a boring-ass Honda sedan.
Engines back then had massive displacement but the materials science wasn’t there to drop in high HP at a reasonable weight for most cars with those hefty cast iron blocks. Now you can get 500hp without batting an eye on the LS platform, in aluminum, and higher HP is attainable without any extreme work at all. The most powerful V8 stock in the mid 60s was probably the ‘Vette at just over 400hp. ‘50s V8’s probably all put out less than 200hp. Modern stock V8s in some of the cars are just stupid powerful, I think the SRT is over 800. Nuts.
It’s also ridiculously hard to compare power because they used to calculate it with the engine bolted to a stand without any accessories while today it’s measured “as equipped”, so you’ll see people talking about 450hp stock on a 426 when it’s closer to 350hp at the wheels or something…
Yeah, that’s true. Even today most people do a wheel dyno test vs an engine run in a stand, which is more likely for a specialty engine than an engine with bolt-on mods. I don’t know if 15% is still the general figure for power lost to accessories and transmission, but it used to be a popular number to throw around.
15% FWD/RWD, 25% AWD if I’m not mistaken
The vast majority i know are happy to give us a dictator because they miss being young
The margin of older voters who voted for Trump in the last election wasn’t that big. People think the vast majority of boomers are conservatives, but it’s just a slight majority. Similarly, only a slight majority of younger voters voted for Biden.
That data might be true but I’m struggling to think of boomers I know personally that aren’t conservative and going to vote for trump. Only a couple
Well, now you know me so you can add another.
They’d love to go back to having a dictator they never had again.
This is applicable to almost any western country.
Yeah, they had the happy days. At the cost of ours. They had everything, while ruining it for the future generations. And now they are complaining they aren’t getting enough money and respect. They aren’t even saying sorry or anything. I mean, sure, they can earn my respect but at least they have to do something first to earn it: fucking die already.
To be fair, it wasn’t so much “them”, but a very very tiny percentage of them that silently took over everything and ruined if for us just as much as them.
Sure. My parents weren’t one of those “few”. Yet they do complain. “Oooh our pension is barely anything”. “Everything is so expensive”. “We can’t afford anything these days”. Living in a massive house, surrounded by water, having an expensive motorboat, a sailing boat and a row boat next to their house, owning a caravan and SUV to pull it, going on holiday at least 7 times a year. “Oooh we’re being screwed by the next generation, we are suffering so much!” yeah, right. “We don’t want to drive all the way to you, fuel is so expensive. Can you come to us? Oh by the way, we just bought new solar panels and a heat pump. And we completely redid the entire garden, do you like it?”.
They are second degree war victims. Their parents were in the resistance, some of their grandparents went to concentration camps. They always told me there is nothing wrong with being gay, and Jewish people should never be discriminated.
Now they complain about all Muslim people, wanting them to be deported out of the country. They also say ‘transgender’ is bullshit. They voted far right. They are the biggest hypocrites out there. “You can’t call me racist because I think what I say isn’t racist, so no one else may see it as racist”. Yeah mom, that’s not how racism works.
Fuck those boomers. All of them.
Their parents fought the Nazis overseas so they could vote them into office here.
Omg kids these days am I right better work themselves out of this that’s what we did and now they wanna take my pension why would they do that we did such great things for those unruly brats eating avocado toast and swearing on their internet
For some reason I get the feeling they mean the tv show.
“lived in 2 centuries and millenniums” isn’t much of a flex, since anyone born in 2000 and earlier has as well.
EDIT: I’ve seen this edited a few times, but never the original. What did it say that the end? looks it up
“We’re just that cool.” I liked “We’re just racist” better.
90s kids will eventually be the last to claim it for a long time
2000s kids will be, because if they were born in 2000 they were kids in the 00s.
Dec 31, 1999 11:59:59 was the last possible second you could be born on to be born in the previous millennium.
No. 2000 was also the 20th century/second millennium. As the number implies, year 1 through 1999 encompasses 1,999 years, not 2,000.
O god that debate again…
Imo at least 975 years to early.
Not a debate, a fact. A millennium is 1,000 years. 1,000 years was completed at the end of the year 1000. The second 1,000 years was completed at the end of the year 2000.
Or we could just say “fuck that noise” and just say the first millennium was a little bit short.
Hits all the hallmarks of a shitpost. 👌
Yeah I’m kind of an expert at literally nothing
Being 5-10 years from mean life expectancy does count as pretty old though.
*8 decades
Eminem has had a #1 song in four consecutive decades
You can tell it’s an old meme, because apparently “milleniums” as the plural of millenium was only popular till the 1930s and has since been replace by “millenia”
“Back when dishwashers made a lot of noise.”
“WHAT?”
“I SAID BACK WHEN DISHWASHERS MADE A LOT OF NOISE!”
“I CAN’T HEAR YOU MY DISHWASHER MAKES A LOT OF NOISE!”
