To engage in a group conversation, typically among Baby Boomers, where participants endlessly ramble, interrupt, and validate each other’s tangential or nostalgic musings without achieving meaningful discussion or resolution. Often characterized by excessive self-satisfaction and a lack of listening.
“Karen and Marge can’t help but boomerbate for hours with anyone who will listen.”
"That church council meeting was a total waste of time—they just sat around boomerbating for two hours about 'how things ought to be.'"
"That church council meeting was a total waste of time—they just sat around boomerbating for two hours about 'how things ought to be.'"
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Get the boomerbate mug.A 21st-century way to describe a conversational faux pas as old as time. "Boomerasking" - a play on boomerang - is the habit of asking questions of your interlocutor in the naked hope of having the same question asked in return.
For instance, asking a colleague "Are you going on holiday this year?" while cueing up a lengthy monologue on your own travel plans when they inevitably ask: "And you?".
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I imaged that this guy would break his leg, it happen but my sister broke her leg a week later. That was totally a mental boomarang!
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