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[–] 88 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So uhhh, the oldest Boomers would have been 14 at the end of the 50's. This would have been a Greatest and Silent generation thing.

And given what they lived through... well I get wanting a whiskey dispenser at work...

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  • [–] 49 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The cigarette vending machine is not pictured, just to the right

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Those were a thing well into the 2000's. I paid that 90% markup many times in bars in my 20s.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    People have no idea about boomers and do not know what they even are, but have the wildest opinions about them

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Boomers is 1945 to 1965.

    Plenty of them out there walking around.

    It's legal to speak to them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, some of them are pretty cool too. I have now met two of the folk who worked on UNIX (one of the men with articles on wikipedia and one of the women who did the heavy lifting. men didn't really do a lot of coding in the punchcard days, they stayed in the C-suite, according to my friend who did the punchcards at bell labs. when i see [name redacted] next, i'm going to have to tease him and ask him what he thinks about that. knowing him, he'll say it's all true)

    they're both boomers, btw. fun folk

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    Thanks for the info, I will not follow. I skip that generation and talk to the silent gen and gen x.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Got it.

    You think you're too cool to talk to Cher or Dolly Parton.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Other way around. One day I'll be cool enough to shine Dolly's spurs

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    Oh that wasn't me. Any time is a good time for Dolly worship tho

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  • [–] 57 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Heck yeah. Time to go drive a fork lift

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Ha, I had a bunch of family who worked at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark, NJ, many, many years back, and beer on breaks was obviously a thing. What a time to be alive.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    they just closed our AB brewery :(

    i coulda been stapelfahrer klaus... or more likely stapelfahrer klaused

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This was their mental health care.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I've been to startups where the liquor cabinet is open, and everyone was young and party happy.

    They pay accordingly. It's the young persons pizza party

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The royal navy had a similar method to maintain morale and keep sailors happy.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    No. They were loyal because there was a pension.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    boozestraps

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I heard my cities' shipyard used to get a truckload of beer delivered twice a day

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    They had a beer tap but accounting told them they were losing money from all the bathroom breaks.

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