“Get Off My Lawn”: 35 Boomer Opinions That People Actually Agree With

I hate having to make an account and download an app for every little thing.

Give me an actual menu with prices on it. I don't want to scan anything with my phone, nor do I want to guess how much my meal was.

I’m sick of smelling w**d everywhere I go.

In subs I am in about TV shows that are over 20 years old newer viewers get offended by every little thing and want everything to be realistic. They just flat-out refuse to see that things were like that on TV back then. We thought it was ok and so did the writers. A lot has changed in a short amount of time. Even if you back 10 years people didn't complain like this about everything. TV shows have improved and are catered to today's audience. If you can't handle how TV was back then, don't watch it. Watch shows that were created recently. I am a lefty but don't like the super woke, super PC cancel culture stuff. It just makes all of us look bad.

As my other boomer opinion, being overweight or obese doesn't need to be glorified, and should be treated as a serious health issue. Right now media and culture absolutely gloss over the negative aspects of being fat, and not in a nuanced way.

Not saying that fat people need to be insulted or made fun of or discriminated against or whatever, and of course we don't need to put a moral or character judgment on weight. There's a way to acknowledge the complex causes of obesity and treat fat people with respect while keeping in mind that being fat puts you at risk for premature death through all sorts of fun diseases and is objectively bad for your health.

Do not leave the house in pajamas and slippers. At least put on sweat pants.

Sometimes you just have to suck it up and do a job you don’t like.

Not all of your behaviors are attributable to your mental health and thus exempted from critique.

I LOVE that we're living in an age in which therapy is being destigmatized, but the folks walking around who self-diagnose, who make their entire being about that self-diagnosis, and who explain away any undesirable behavior as being a symptom of mental illness are threatening to bring the whole thing down. We need therapy and psychology to be taken seriously, but some people are acting like caricatures in an episode of *White Lotus*.

I have a lot of empathy for people who are struggling with mental health challenges, but I also get students emailing at the end of the semester with a diagnosis from TikTok wanting special treatment or to just pass a college class. I wish they realized the harm they were doing to the credibility of everyone else.

Also, it's not a combo unless it COMES WITH A DRINK. Enough of this $13 "combo" plus another $3 for a basic-a*s soft drink.

Get whatever piercings or tattoos you want, but don't act shocked when you get taken less seriously in professional arenas because of your septum ring, visible tattoos, or gauges. It shouldn't be like that but acting like it isn't is impractical and imo willfully stupid.

Home apliances, cars and other standalone devices should work standalone, without a phone or a cloud service.

You should NOT be required to register an account to use functions of the device that should work offline (for example dash cameras like the 7omai)

Having extra features is nice. Tying basic features to a cloud, an app or internet access or anything else that makes no sense should be illegal. To me a microvawe or air fryer being controlled via a phone app is not a feature, but a liability.

The printer-scanner needing an opened up ink cartridge to scan is just stupid and wasteful.

And while it's convinient to purchase train tickets on the phone, I still strictly purchase paper based monthly passes. And I carry a separate credit card from my phone. I don't want to end up with a dead or stolen phone with no way to call help, no pass to get home and no money to buy a ticket. It's just not happening.

If I buy a computer, I should be able to decide what software I put on it.

The manufacturer should NOT have the abbility to brick products at will. Doesn't matter wether they do it or not.

Anything that can be bricked via a software update, should have a secondary read only storage to re-flash the original software to the actually used storage (imagine BIOS for example).

If in the future I look up at the night sky expecting stars and only see ads, I'm getting [demonetised]

Software licenses sold under a "for life" license, should be illegal to convert into a time-period license. I understand that sometimes the company can't sustain for-life licenses. However then they should compensate the person for the loss. And they should at least partially refund the original purchasing price with a reasonable amount.

Service charges for using a credit or debit card at a restaurant. I am not paying you to take my money. It has always been a cost of doing business. What's next charging the customer for part of the light bill?

DVDs are better than streaming. No ads and you're guaranteed to own it forever, even if Netflix removes the movie/show.

Sports betting is going to result in a massive scandal that decimates the credibility of professional and college sports. It's happened before, and it will happen again.

Sports associations for decades avoided affiliation with gambling, but now they are advertising it. I guarantee it will bite them in the a*s in the next few years.

Oldies radio that plays 50s and 60s songs is good.