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This one will be niche, but I've only just entered my thirties and have had zoomers open conversation on Grindr with awful things like "hiii daddy". It's not like I'm some stud (or sex pest), it's in block capitals on my profile that I am celibate and just looking for friends. Maybe that's just too many syllables for them.
 
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PandaChai said:
This one will be niche, but I've only just entered my thirties and have had zoomers open conversation on Grindr with awful things like "hiii daddy". It's not like I'm some stud (or sex pest), it's in block capitals on my profile that I am celibate and just looking for friends. Maybe that's just too many syllables for them.
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> try to find friends on app exclusively for gay people
> complain that the users are too promiscuous

What did you think you were going to find on there? :story:
 
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Anne Hathaway Fan said:
I just turned 40 and I realized recently that both historical events of the Columbine shooting and 9/11 happened when I was in high school.

I interact with kids in their twenties that were born after 9/11. Yowza.
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To bring up another disaster comparison: people who were on 7th grade when Tarrant shot up the mosque have reached the age of majority.

Where the fuck is the time going?
 
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ATI Escapee said:
and STILL I get grown men and women that come by and stand there staring at me with a business card while I am using a cutting torch like they want me to just stop what I am doing and have a chat. Cant they see the open flame, slag bits flying, and me wearing ppe? Im busy, fuck off!
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Not gonna lie, I'd do that without the business card. Doing dangerous shit in your garage is super cool and I'm always down to learn cool shit.
 
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Cheesegirl78 said:
Just go with the Silver Fox look.
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That's what I did. I actually got my first gray hair in my teens but it became really noticeable in my mid twenties. I'm lucky and got that really nice silver gray from my dad. It's never really bothered me, I could dye it but I think it looks good. I still have a thick, full head of hair so as long as I'm not going bald I'm fine with it.
 
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Pierre D'Olnique said:
Extremely awkward Monday at work in the "conference" room. Boss sat all us "boomers" on one side of the table and the zoomzoom trainees on the other.
Boss asks both groups how they'd signal to someone to call them without using words. Our side does the following collectively:
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Zoomers kind of flail their palms close to their heads. I swear, they keep holding their phones more wrong with every passing day.
Next, how would you signal someone that he should hurry up or ask about time.
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Natural for us. Zoomers had no response.
Next up, money.
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Same ordeal. No response from zoomers. Turns out none of them even carried a wallet.
And finally, payment.
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Once again, zoomers are dumbfounded, because they have no concept of paying without using their phone.
I can't imagine being this dependent on a single device. The battery dies, you're crippled. No service, you're crippled. Establishment only accepts cash, you're crippled.
Boss just smirked and dismissed us. Makes me wonder what was the purpose of this.
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It's one thing for the hand signs to change, it's another to not have any replacement at all. Do they just not have a concept of time or being late? I mean smart watches are a thing.
 
Friend of Dorothy Parker said:
I realized this morning that I've been wearing contact lenses for FORTY YEARS. And that I currently have 10 pairs of glasses - for non-contacts days I have different strengths for driving, for general walking around, for TV, for computer work at work, for computer work at home...and recently, glasses for reading when I'm wearing the contacts because I can't fucking focus on anything within 2 feet with them in. And they're multifocal. JFC.

Upside: I can no longer be too lazy to take out my contacts at night because I can't read in bed in glasses and can't read with the lenses in without them.

(:_(:mad::(:cringe:*sigh*


Imagine remembering seeing Tears for Fears in concert. :-/
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I'm down to my spare pair that I hate. I keep putting off getting new glasses because I needed them since I was 13 and my mom wouldn't get the prescription filled because she had to wear heavy glass coke bottles in school back in the 60s and 70s and didn't want me wearing glasses because she hated it. She thought I'd be fine for awhile. Thanks mom. I was blind for years. :mad:

My first filled prescription was rather strong. I remember because the eye doctor said "This is rather strong for a first prescription."
Yeah. That felt great to hear. I still have those and can't see a damn thing out of them. It's like wearing no glasses at all.

I am really near sighted and need to be about six inches from something for it to not be blurry. But of course that means I have to take my glasses off to see anything up close. I can't read or play hand held games or use my phone with glasses on unless it's far away from my face. But since I need my glasses all the damn time when I take them off everything looks concave for a few minutes. Part of it might be that this prescription is now a tad too weak.

My grandmother was legally blind for 40 years. I don't want to end up like that. She had macular degeneration, glaucoma and Charles Bonnet syndrome. She saw the guys in the hats and everything. I don't want to end up like that.
 
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When I look at this scene from a movie I watched when it came out and realize every single person in it is dead now.

The narrator and participant is Ray Liotta. December 18, 1954 – May 26, 2022.

The first person mentioned, Paulie, is played by Paul Sorvino. April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022.

Then there's Vinnie. Charles Scorsese. May 8, 1913 – August 23, 1993.

And then finally, Frank Pellegrino as Johnny Dio. May 19, 1944 – January 31, 2017.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Metallica's Load, the album that defined "New Metallica," is 28 years old this year. When Load came out, Kill 'Em All was 13 years old.
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AnOminous said:
So basically, Metallica has sucked almost half the amount of time it's existed.
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The remainder of the Master of Puppets lineup is like 40 years overdue for getting Final Destination'd
 
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