Younger Hexbears, if the spirit of boomerdom visited your household, boomer is more a state of mind than a specific birth year, so feel free to share your stories too.

There are some obviously better-known movies like Wall Street, but I remember an obscure one called “Let It Ride” that was played on tape over and over and over again so many times that it was like the theme song of the household for a while. It was a Richard Dreyfuss film about a gambling addicted asshole who seeks to triumph over his gambling problems by… gambling. Until he gets vibes about winning and then wins at gambling. galaxy-brain

As a boomer bonus it portrays The Wife as a bad person because she’s… upset at the protagonist’s gambling addition. Oh yeah and she suspects he’s eager to commit some adultery. How dare she… the way to show her is to have a much younger love interest that is totally into the protagonist because he starts to win at gambling! morshupls

For anyone that has had gambling-addicted boomer parents, the kind that thought a fun outing for the kids was going to the racetrack, or to Vegas, you may have similar stories of poverty perpetuated because your grillman also liked to “Let It Ride.”

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    fucking Little House on the Prairie - which for whatever godawful reason my mom used to throw on randomly whenever she was feeling nostalgic for her childhood. Shoutout Mary for letting her baby die in a fire, shoutout to Mary for skinny dipping with her friend and inadvertently causing them to drown - the memory of being like 7 and watching these episodes because mom put it on while she supervised us doing our homework is chefs-kiss

    Funnily enough though, while my mom would throw on Little House - my dad’s go-to shows were Tom Baker Doctor Who and/or early Star Trek episodes so clearly there is some sort of fucked up balance between my parents’ level of boomerism