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2d ago

Anon envies the boomers

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Don't forget the rampant domestic abuse that frequently came from the person you signd a life long contract with. Easy my ass
- Why would any of that context matter to a 4channer?
  
  Yaknow, when your right, your right

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

Everyone knows Disney's movies are 100% accurate depictions of reality
- Treasure Planet was a documentary.
  
  Oh that's why Musk wants to go to space.
- Ik right, Mickey Mouse exists irl
  
  I'v seen him DJ
- You may be sarcastic but too many ppl actually believe this.

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.

101 Dalmatians came out in 1961, these characters would be a part of the Silent Gen, or the Greatest Gen.
- Fuck, is it really that old? Crazy
  
  Still looks amazing

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.
- One of these is not like the other. My bet is number 2.
  
  I dunno, 3 makes wild accusations about implied meanings. Seems suspect.
- /\ /
  (4._.4)

Premarital sex being taboo sped things up
- 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
  
  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

Not a boomer, but here's how it worked for me:
Meet at party, hit it off, and exchange numbers
Text for a few days
Date for a couple months
Due to cruelties of hard to change plans, date long distance for a year
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.
- 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.
  
  I'm happy for you! 😀
  Friendship is the most important ingredient IMO, because a good friend is willing to change for the other, as well as look past deficiencies that don't matter.

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.
- Step 1) don't be ugly
  Step 2) see step 1
  
  Be affable
  Be interesting
  Be presentable
  No one dreams about the guy they have to apologize for after you met them
  
  Exception to Rule 1: Be Conan Fucking O'Brian
  
  I mean, Conan O'Brien isn't exactly beautiful
  
  "Don't be ugly" is definitely helpful physically, but vital intelectually and emotionally.
  
  For men:
  Be rich
  Don't be poor
  
  i’m a 4 on a good day. Only dated once, she broke up with me, so I kinda accepted that I’m just not meant to have a partner.
  1 year later I met a nice lady at a birthday party I wasn’t exactly invited to, we talked, yaddayadda, 12 years later we are still together.
- Alan Alda famously met his wife at a party, where someone dropped a cake on the floor. He and she were the only two who didn't hesitate to scoop some up anyway.

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

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?

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.
- I'm going to assume if you arrange 1000 marriages a few are definitely bound to work out. For the rest though...
  
  Arranged marriages have better results than love based ones in many cultures. It turns out having all your family who have had kids and been married have a clearer understanding of the couples compatibility than those in love.
  Love will make you overlook the thing that your auntie would zero in on as a long term problem.
  
  To shreds you say
  
  I didn’t bother going into details. It wasn’t an arranged marriage, the two were only arranged to meet. They chose to pursue a relationship entirely on their own.
  
  Odds are if a church was involved, one or both are gaslighted into believing they are meant to be married that other person for better or worse, and regressive enough subculture/community that finds divorce abhorrent for any reason (other than the man could have a younger bride)

the dog kinda roped 'em in to it.

Didn't even have smartphones either.

Anon needs to start crashing into women at the park

This is like one step above the brainlets trying to retvrn to 50s advertising campaigns as though they were real life.
- 4 out of 5 doctors prefer Lucky Strike cigarettes

Diamanda Hagan: "'We've interacted twice, and therefore have romantic chemistry.' Straight people!"

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