They survived with head trauma and voted for trump.
No fear!
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einlander@lemmy.world 29 minutes ago
echo@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Survivor bias… they incorrectly believe that because they lived that there was no actual danger. Truly, the selfish and self-absorbed generation. :(
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Well ya know I drank really really hard for 40 years, but I didn’t have liver failure.
Guess there’s no consequences for alcoholism! Guess I can keep drinking forever! I am immortal!
And THAT is what I imagine my still alcoholic boomer dad must think daily.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I grew up when drunk driving was legal! I had a van, and was always the designated drunk driver! Cops would stop me and tell me to drive safer in case another cop was arsed to pull me over! Never got busted, and never died!!
Woke snowflakes today, I tell ya’ !
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
Nobody who smoked for 70 years ever died young. That’s a fact.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
one of my best friends growing up drak heavy for 30 years and then tried to quit but had a Alcohol-related seizures from going cold turkey, fell and broke his neck.
he has barely any movement of his upper body but he kicked the bottle, hasnt had a drink since! (Because he cant do it without somone helping him)
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Can’t believe The Onion is nearly a century old.
Steve@communick.news 3 hours ago
I always like to point out that they were originally called Generation Me. They were the first generation on record more concerned with self fulfilment, than social responsibility.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
they incorrectly believe that because they lived that there was no actual danger.
Also, incorrectly believed that they were the ones on the bicycle.
For every kid doing this right, there were ten that did it wrong and fell over.
For every ten that did it wrong, there were another ten laughing up their sleeves and then… putting on a helmet and pads because they didn’t want to end up in traction (or because their parents were yelling at them to be safe).
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 32 minutes ago
My ma (Boomer) likes to talk about how her and her siblings used to chew on road tar like gum and than she laughs about it, har har. Whenever I mention something I’m being cautious about with my kids.
She also had lung and breast cancer, could be unrelated but maybe it didn’t help.
I’d like to add that neither of my parents believed that second hand smoke was “real” either. So I got blasted with carcinogens from the age 5 until I moved out at 17. I’ll be lucky if I don’t get cancer.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
“how did we survive?”
Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can’t.
This type of person cannot fathom that their singular experience is not representative of everyone else’s experience. Conservatism in a nutshell.
piranhaconda@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
I got hit by a car while biking without a helmet! I just got really fucking lucky and didn’t hit my head. Would not advise.
I was just lazy and didn’t go back up to my apartment once I got down and realized I forgot the helmet. Never again.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
this is why they oppose developing critical thinking in public education. believe what you’re told to believe, do what you’re told to do.
science, facts, evidence all have a liberal bias, therefore the only choice is to support pedophile rapist fascist, because…he hates minorities just like his supporters do
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Bingo
Demdaru@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Friend got hit by a car when on bike, went flying, rolled over the car, smacked into the road.
Got up, checked bike first, sighted and started dragging it’s carcass back home.
…but to be honest, dude was kinda indestructible and totally the exemption in every dangerous situaiton.
rainwall@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Ive biked to work for years and only had 2 bad crashes. Both involved slamming hard into pavement at speed, one had me slide into a tree. Both times I hit my shoulder/arm/hip hard and was honestly very dazed, but in neither time did I hit my head.
You can shake a bike accident off if you get lucky in how you hit the ground.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can’t.
I mean, you can. Falling off your bike isn’t universally fatal. Even bad injuries aren’t unrecoverable - especially when you’re young and resilient and you’re body is still growing.
But imagine telling a 12-year-old to take off their helmet and pads and go plow themselves into a tree, because it builds character. Why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to this? Why would anyone advocate for this?
You’re not building up some kind of robust spirit of mind or body. You’re not growing as a person. You’re just hazing people.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I hit my head on the pavement bicycling drunk while my helmet was sitting on my desk at work. Ask me how fun the two weeks after that concussion was.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Multiple concussions from sports as a kid. It’s great to never know if my memory issues and depression are a result of that or if I was just fucked from the start.
ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Boomers aren’t able to see anything beyond themselves. They lack empathy to a degree that’s insane. A Generation of Sociopaths as Bruce Gibeny says.
Before some boomer comments “not me!” (Because everything is about them) just look at the fucking world and the way boomers behave.
rbos@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Many didn’t.
homes@piefed.world 4 hours ago
That was Gen X.
TikTok and AI are bad for your brain.
IckabodKobain@feddit.online 35 minutes ago
I taped firecrackers to my pants to blow holes in them so I could look " Grunge”. That’s how fucking dumb i was. Anyways Fuck Gen-X. We suck too. I really can’t stand the Chest-beating i see online by some of us sometimes. I feel like saying, , “shut up, you neglected dipshit!”. But eh what’s the point?
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Thank you. I was looking at the cars and thinking this was 1970s.
I did shit as a kid I’d never have let my kid even think about. I should have died several times until my mid 20s.
homes@piefed.world 2 hours ago
check out the banana seat and handlebars on that bike. so 70s.
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Why does someone who admits to be full of scars due to their stupidity has to insult random strangers by questioning their intelligence?
homes@piefed.world 3 hours ago
Why does someone who admits to be full of scars due to their stupidity has to insult random strangers by questioning their intelligence?
I didn’t question anything– and I can’t help but be amused by the hypocrisy of your own comment
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I mean…have you seen the size of cars then and now? Or the number of cars then vs now?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
They also love fondly remembering their friend Little Stevie who tragically died aged 12 in 1957 in a helmet-less bicycle accident.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Is it ironic that all the survivors also happen to be the ones who don’t understand survivorship bias?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 22 minutes ago
Irony or just the effects of moderate nonfatal tbis perhaps amongst the survivors?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
But isn’t that also survivor bias in a way? Because those who understand it, don’t post stuff like this and therefore don’t get noticed. Is like the joke “How do you recognize a vegan? They tell you – every five minutes”. People told me the joke, not knowing that I’m a vegan, because I didn’t tell them because why would I.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Guarantee if you took a picture of that same street today there’d be a lot more than two cars. That probably a played a big role.
smeg@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
Every street is North America is a highway. Straight, level, smooth, and intended for fast driving. The continent has designed streets not safe for human presence, fully supported by the older generations, and now they have the gall to complain about kids sitting indoors all of the time.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Many didn’t. That’s the trick!
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Fun fact: Shortly after this photo was taken, the girl was attacked and devoured by the Bat Boy-faced puma following her.
erizonwarz@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Boomer zoomer coomer. Cant hear that stupid shit anymore. Its not a genwtational thing. Its assholes.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Graveyards full of kids
“Oh how did we survive lol 😂”
bss03@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
This is a repost, so I’ll just link to my response there: infosec.pub/comment/17474305 (Basically, “we” didn’t; lots for deaths and injuries prevented by pads and helmets.)
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This is a gen-x’er from the cars.
Doom@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
How many of us STILL have scars from falling off our bikes last century? I bet some of us even still have road gravel in our bodies.
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I have two very visible on my chins from those meat grinder petals on bikes back then. And a dark place on my right arm due to trying to ride a wheelie way too fast on sandy pavement and sliding on same sandy pavement for a good 20 ft on that arm. Basically like taking an angle grinder with a sanding disc to my arm for several seconds. Fun times….
Critical_Drinking@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Traumatic brain damage makes you conservative
Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Nextdoor is filled with this
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
How did we survive?
A fuck load of you didn’t tho.
And based on the boomers we still have, I think the world would have been better if they hadn’t either.
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
My boomer nephew tells me stories of when he was in school in the mid 60s and girls would glue slices of bologna to their knees to use as kneepads, I guess because the bologna was skin colored they were able to hide the fact that they were huge pussies who wear protective gear so their peers wouldn’t make fun of them. Goddamn what a fun time the 60s must have been.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Decades later, I still remember a few weeks without skin on my palms, elbows, knees, forehead. At the time i wasn’t sure survival was a good thing
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
One of my former co-workers (a science teacher) once told me of a “game” he and his friends “played” when they were growing up in the 1970s. It involved drawing a circle on the ground about the circumference of holding your arms out, then taking a bow and arrow, aiming it straight up, releasing said arrow, and standing still. If you crouched or left the circle, you lost.
Pretty sure he told me that at least one kid wound up with an arrow through the foot.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
Or they call CPS or slowly crush the kid under their F150 extended cab