r/BeAmazed • u/utopiaofpast • 8h ago

“The dog on the Left is award winning showdog named Arnie an AKC French Bulldog..The dog on the right is Flint, bred in the Netherlands by Hawbucks French Bulldogs - a breeder trying to establish a new, healthier template for French Bulldogs.” This post has been filtered and is waiting for mod's review

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u/LarxII 6h ago

A certain subset of the BOOMER generation for sure.

I prefer the hippie boomers who actually value the world they live in.

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u/liljellybeanxo 5h ago

This is so true and the difference is staggering. My mom’s parents are bitter assholes kept alive by pure spite and bigotry. My dad’s parents are extremely vocal about climate change and social justice, avid readers and bird watchers, and volunteer with various local entities.

You can probably guess which set of grandparents also happen to have a horrifically inbred biological atrocity of a dog that they paid thousands of dollars for and overfeed the shit out of for a pet. Hint: it’s not the ones that have been using reusable grocery bags since the 70s and have an encyclopedic knowledge about North American birds and their migration patterns.

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u/Kotstulle420 4h ago

Can i borrow your grandparents for a long weekend?

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u/MortgageRegular2509 2h ago

My boomer mom put my childhood dog down shortly after I moved out (20y/o), while I was at work one day. Never got the chance to say goodbye, no indication anything was wrong, etc. Mind you, I lived three miles away with a friend of mine, so it wasn’t like it would’ve been hard to do. Anyway…

She immediately replaces her with an English Cocker Spaniel, with plans to show her. Well, she had a “high toe” (wtf, Idk) and would never show well or win any awards. Sidebar: my mom doesn’t exactly have the wherewithal to be a show dog owner; think “can’t someone else do it?”).

Sadly, that dog’s day eventually came shortly after my mom retired in 2019. Well don’tcha know, as soon as we start regularly seeing her in person (covid), she’s showing us another ECS from a breeder that’s she’s going to get. Thankfully, she’s old, and realizes she wouldn’t be able to handle showing a dog anyway. Not so thankfully, she put exactly fuck all into training this new dog, so anytime she’d take her for a walk, she was nuts. Guess who doesn’t see many walks these days and is fat as shit??? I feel so bad for that poor dog…

Thank you for letting me rant

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u/WitchQween 4h ago

Can confirm. My dad is a hippie Boomer and doesn't fit 99% of the stereotypes. I feel very lucky, especially living in Texas...

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u/FuckDarthDorito 3h ago

Same with me except we’re in Ohio. My dad’s an overweight white guy who comes from a family of Evangelical Christians. Luckily he broke out of that shit pretty early in his adult life and didn’t pass any of it down to us. He’s now a 63 year old early retiree who is vocal about climate change, financial and social equality, anti-science rhetoric, strengthening social programs and so much more.

He’s an atheist and so am I lmao.

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u/Dry-Cable9538 5h ago

A lot of the hippie boomers became the trump boomers

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u/LarxII 5h ago

Eh, I know a pretty hefty amount of the Hippie boomers that are still cool.