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Why were 90s boomers obsessed with "paying bills"
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Date: August 16th, 2026 9:45 AM Author: Silver diverse point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50070877) |
Date: August 16th, 2026 10:06 AM Author: talented hyperventilating pit masturbator My boomer dad gets borderline sexual gratification from paying taxes and talking about how he has to pay his taxes and what he does to pay his taxes and when the next time is he has to pay his taxes
Really embarrassing stuff |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 10:10 AM Author: Light Sex Offender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50070917) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:01 AM Author: Sickened field ceo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50070988) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: massive maroon office he never retired, did he? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071065) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: talented hyperventilating pit masturbator He did under protest when my mom got cancer 10 years ago, she’s dead now and he is still kind of MAF they won’t just give him his old C-Suite job back at 81 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071076) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 2:00 PM Author: Territorial pervert wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071393) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:53 AM Author: White ticket booth THE ONLY SURE THINGS IN THIS CRAZY WORLD ARE DEATH AND TAXES HYUCK HYUCK HYUCK 🤯🔫 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071082) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:30 AM Author: Mahogany genital piercing being a responsible UMC boomer reasonably required shit like paying 10-15 paper bills each month with payment slips and stamps and writing out envelopes, balancing your checkbook by hand, checking over the monthly credit card statement sent in the mail, doing your taxes by hand using tax tables, etc.
just like we spend hours setting up and typing in 2FA codes for our water bill and changing our password every 90 days to a 30 character pw as if someone is going to hack our water bill account to pay our bill for us, boomers had to do this shit. |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:36 AM Author: Crusty gaming laptop I like this analysis. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071056) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: Mahogany genital piercing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071067) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:50 AM Author: spruce contagious whorehouse clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071077) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:51 AM Author: Cowardly Violet Nursing Home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071079) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 3:19 PM Author: Ivory menage persian (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071518) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:33 PM Author: Outnumbered rose sandwich fat ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072153) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: exciting resort cuckold (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072154) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:31 AM Author: nofapping lay philosopher-king I remember my dad every Sunday retiring to his study with checkbook in hand to pay bills. Mostly he watched golf. But that ledger was balanced. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071046) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:34 AM Author: zippy ocher lodge queen of the night Last year my county reassessed property values and many naturally increased. The average increase in taxes was like $400 per annum. You would have thought someone was kidnapping the progeny or possibly the remote control of the local Boomer population. It was deeply embarrassing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071052) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: Stubborn gas station Our HOA is going up like $24 a month and the amount of people i know who live in million dollar homes freaking the fuck out crying mismanagement is hysterical.
We have an army of people landscaping, planting flowers, resurfacing pools and playgrounds, etc. and they're flabbergasted it's going up by the cost of a lunch deal at Jerseys Mikes. |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 1:54 PM Author: Mahogany genital piercing (Corrupt HOA board member hiring his friends for projects) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071389) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 4:10 PM Author: zippy ocher lodge queen of the night Regular with chips maybe, not the giant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071656) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 11:39 AM Author: Carnelian razzle quadroon just call 'The Money Store' if you need a 'little help with the bills'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQHQkuv9l0 |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 12:37 PM Author: Stubborn gas station As much as people complain about the money wasted on subscription services, it beats having to write out a physical check and get stamps and mail shit every month just to pay basic bills.
I started getting a job in the early 2000s with a debit card and checks and totally missed all that. |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 1:53 PM Author: Mahogany genital piercing (Powergoy)
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Date: August 16th, 2026 12:48 PM Author: Elite Rehab signaling method to show they're a good slave, after the Industrial Revolution the measure of a man was his reliability as wage labor and not much else, you hear relics of this today when people say things like "you have too much time on your hands" translation: "know your place, slave. that effort COULD have gone into the Machine but you used it for selfish ethereal reasons and your use of free will makes the rest of us slaves uncomfortable, ur gonna end up getting us into trouble." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071230) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 12:53 PM Author: Silver diverse point weird response. normally when people say that they are implying you have no social life and don't get laid, champ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071245) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: Elite Rehab I've heard it spoken of third parties who practice Arts that are not monetized or bypass the jewish economic system of exchange and utility (but otherwise sociable and decent people)
it can be your implication too, but as a kike you're not in the best position to appreciate resentment among the wage slaves also you're irrelevant |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 12:49 PM Author: laughsome ungodly cruise ship it was a functional society back then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071235) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 3:28 PM Author: mustard mind-boggling roast beef Funny anecdote of a world that is no longer possible. My godparents, when first married and working at their first jobs and with a baby on the way, found that money was indeed quite tight and there were months when they just didn't have enough in the checking accounts to pay all the bills.
In those days the bills were always paid by check. So my godfather would write a check to the gas company and a separate check to the water department. But he'd put the gas check in the envelope for the water department, and vice versa. Oops. Absent minded, you know! No problem, these things happen, cancel the checks, send the right one in next month. No penalties.
Always laughed about it and it got them through the occasional tight months. Today he and his wife, in their mid 80s, own a 42 foot sailboat, a house on Cape Cod and a cottage in the Bahamas and a condo in Florida, and so far in 2026 they have been on two European cruises and at this minute hosting all the grandkids at Cape Cod before they scatter back to their colleges. Life is good.
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Date: August 16th, 2026 3:31 PM Author: Mahogany genital piercing 180 boomer shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071551) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: Elite Rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071615) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 4:07 PM Author: nofapping lay philosopher-king (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071640) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 4:09 PM Author: laughsome ungodly cruise ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071649) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: Ivory menage persian (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071602) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: Elite Rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071613) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 4:08 PM Author: nofapping lay philosopher-king It is wild when boomers talk about how poor they were starting out, but they genuinely were poor. They just rode the greatest wealth creation wave in history perfectly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071648) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 4:19 PM Author: zippy ocher lodge queen of the night They earned it! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071672) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Mahogany genital piercing they were genuinely poor, but werent ONE WRONG MOVE away from their life being utter ruin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071680) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 4:29 PM Author: Ivory menage persian titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071706) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: Ivory menage persian back then you were still allowed to do things, human agency and familiality hadn't been drained from the world yet. the archons. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50071711) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:29 PM Author: Costumed Ebony Selfie There was a much greater expectation that you could and would care about local taxation, bond issuances, school board governance, prominent local companies, etc. Responsible UMC boomers read their local papers. There was meaningful local journalism, politics was much less national in scope, celebrity culture was more bounded.
I'm not exactly saying things were more competent. More that the things people cared about, often stupidly and innumerately, were much directly tied to their lives. "Paying bills" felt like you directly engaging with local institutions that partly belonged to you and you could sometimes influence, not having Anthropic or Amazoid yoink some amount of money out of your wallet every month or the school board somehow getting 78% voting in favor of a "millage" that gets spent on tackle boxes full of buttplugs.
You might know the name of the VP at the local bank who was at your branch 2 days a week, would personally review large loan applications, and got breakfast at the diner near your office. Maybe he was an idiot, but he was your idiot. Most people were white. People unironically joined institutions like the Kiwanis Club or Rotary International. No one really knew or cared who CEOs of big companies were because those companies were like weather; high school principals were well-known community figures; "well-known community figures" were a thing that existed because most of your life was IRL, and even most of your media was IRL-adjacent and local.
I can't keep talking about this. Fuck my ass. Boomers paying bills was peak civilization. |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:32 PM Author: Clear garrison goyim Who cares. The history of civilization is a graveyard of an infinite series of utopias and nostalgia is the root of all evil (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072147) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: Costumed Ebony Selfie Enjoy living in a town whose boundaries you aren't entirely sure of governed by a mayor, or is it a city manager? whose name you don't know, not knowing how or why anything does or doesn't work, letting unaccountable and opaque, faceless institutions do incomprehensible things to you, bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072157) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:37 PM Author: Clear garrison goyim I didn't say it wasn't better then. I said the history of civilization is an infinite series of utopias which have lived and died and nostalgia for dead societies is poison to creating new ones. Rome isn't coming back. It never does. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072167) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:51 PM Author: Costumed Ebony Selfie Oh, gotcha, you're creating new societies and philosophizing with the hammer. GL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072194) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 9:03 PM Author: Clear garrison goyim I ain't doing shit. I'm just tired of reading the same nostalgiaslop my entire life. I'd like to bring my dead parents back too but that's not happening so you move on and make the best of what you have. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072218) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:33 PM Author: henna well-lubricated puppy theatre (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072152) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 8:58 PM Author: Mahogany genital piercing cr. my dad used to know our local wells fargo branch manager and would go in person to resolve any issue. now you gotta deal with 500 draconian menu options and wait 45 minutes for rajeesh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072209) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 9:26 PM Author: Costumed Ebony Selfie Interstate banking was illegal until 1994. Odd case (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072275) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 9:04 PM Author: fishy 180 brethren sweet tailpipe "Most people were white" is all you needed to say (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072219) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 9:25 PM Author: Costumed Ebony Selfie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072271) |
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Date: August 16th, 2026 9:09 PM Author: Silver diverse point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5893600&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#50072228) |