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"Boomer" is definitely a mindset and not an age. there are plenty of chill old people born in the 50s and plenty of assfucks born in the aughts. I think the boomer mindset tracks better against economic status. and it just so happens that boomers were more financially secure growing up than zoomers
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kalel posted:"Boomer" is definitely a mindset and not an age. there are plenty of chill old people born in the 50s and plenty of assfucks born in the aughts. I think the boomer mindset tracks better against economic status. and it just so happens that boomers were more financially secure growing up than zoomers Also the poor boomers are more likely to be dead
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I know when I settled on "no problem" many years ago I sat down and worked my way through a careful set of rubrics about what impression I wanted to give the people I was talking to about how much I wanted to help them and how much I considered it to be an imposition that they should be thanking me for It definitely wasn't that "no problem" was how they talked in movies and cartoons and sounded more natural and easygoing than the way people talked in books from the 30s
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Data Graham posted:I know when I settled on "no problem" many years ago I sat down and worked my way through a careful set of rubrics about what impression I wanted to give the people I was talking to about how much I wanted to help them and how much I considered it to be an imposition that they should be thanking me for Just tell people you learned to talk 30 years ago* from Terminator 2 and you didn't want to trigger them by saying it in pseudo Spanish. If they keep it up, tell them to "chill out, dickwad" *Always remind jerks how long ago their youth was
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Data Graham posted:I know when I settled on "no problem" many years ago I sat down and worked my way through a careful set of rubrics about what impression I wanted to give the people I was talking to about how much I wanted to help them and how much I considered it to be an imposition that they should be thanking me for Boomers are the actual snowflakes. Projecting snowflakes.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Boomers are the actual snowflakes. Projecting snowflakes. like one of those snow machines?
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`Nemesis posted:
Unironically a handful of these guys look like they had fetal alcohol syndrome.
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No, problem!
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where does saying "that's okay" or "sure thing" fall on this scale?
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Turpitude II posted:where does saying "that's okay" or "sure thing" fall on this scale? A lil higher than "yeah whatever"
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Data Graham posted:I know when I settled on "no problem" many years ago I sat down and worked my way through a careful set of rubrics about what impression I wanted to give the people I was talking to about how much I wanted to help them and how much I considered it to be an imposition that they should be thanking me for I imagine most people was probably just a thing but I explicitly picked it up from Douglas Adam's The Salmon of Doubt. A past employee had left a copy behind at the movie theater and I read it between rushes. There's one part where they go to some resort and the bellhop or whatever is helping them do all this stuff and always responds "no problem", with the eventual story/punchline building up to when it became a problem. But I remember him (a boomer) writing about how nice and reassuring it was that this guy was always saying no problem. So I kind of took that to heart and started saying it. Now 20 years later it's a whole thing and I've realized I say it all the time, and I don't give a gently caress if it pisses boomers off.
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itskage posted:I imagine most people was probably just a thing but I explicitly picked it up from Douglas Adam's The Salmon of Doubt. A past employee had left a copy behind at the movie theater and I read it between rushes. There's one part where they go to some resort and the bellhop or whatever is helping them do all this stuff and always responds "no problem", with the eventual story/punchline building up to when it became a problem. I remember that part! He was in Australia, and had heard that there was a place where you could swim with rays, and he had one of those motorized underwater things for scuba divers and wanted to race a ray. Everything was "No worries" right until he wanted to swim with the rays, and then it became "No way" because they don't do that anymore.
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The Anime Liker posted:Honestly I'm glad they're dying 
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Turpitude II posted:where does saying "that's okay" or "sure thing" fall on this scale? I say "you got it". I don't know if thats better or worse. https://twitter.com/LeGreentext/status/1536749097583001603
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Good Dog posted:I say "you got it". I don't know if thats better or worse. this tweet reminds me of one of the new areas in the stanley parable ultra deluxe which is a very cool game that i barely hear anyone talk about, in contrast to the "game" that is basically just a really long choose your own adventure book where you can die because your character is too hungover and looked at a trash can the wrong way. people itt LOVE that game bc it deals with everyone's favorite theoretical/fake concept: communism
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ShoogaSlim posted:this tweet reminds me of one of the new areas in the stanley parable ultra deluxe I dont know how but you failed at playing a video game you are supposed to just play the game
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um excuse me posted:saying "acknowledged" like a robot. I think I gotta try this
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Milo and POTUS posted:I think I gotta try this It struck me recently that while data off star trek is supposed to be a robot he still has better interpersonal and conflict resolution skills than most humans.
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kalel posted:"Boomer" is definitely a mindset and not an age. there are plenty of chill old people born in the 50s and plenty of assfucks born in the aughts. I think the boomer mindset tracks better against economic status. and it just so happens that boomers were more financially secure growing up than zoomers Like yeah "Boomer is a mindset" sure whatever we'll get on board with that  but "Baby Boomers" are still a specific demo that is absolutely going down in history as one of the worst to ever grace the soon-to-be-blighted Earth.
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mind the walrus posted:It's great that your Nana born in 55 wasn't a POS to you but like, you really didn't see the absolute skullfuckery their generation did to Millennials as a demographic whole, where the very best you can say about one of them is "well you tried and you failed to stop it, so thanks for trying I guess." But most of them didn't try. Most of them cheered it on or facilitated it. It was millions upon millions of them laughing "We trained them wrong, as a joke. Very funny you see" while reverse-mortgaging everything their kids were supposed to have in exchange for a marginally less lovely late middle age. Funny meme, where's it from?
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mind the walrus posted:It's great that your Nana born in 55 wasn't a POS to you but like, you really didn't see the absolute skullfuckery their generation did to Millennials as a demographic whole, where the very best you can say about one of them is "well you tried and you failed to stop it, so thanks for trying I guess." But most of them didn't try. Most of them cheered it on or facilitated it. It was millions upon millions of them laughing "We trained them wrong, as a joke. Very funny you see" while reverse-mortgaging everything their kids were supposed to have in exchange for a marginally less lovely late middle age.
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mind the walrus posted:It's great that your Nana born in 55 wasn't a POS to you but like, you really didn't see the absolute skullfuckery their generation did to Millennials as a demographic whole, where the very best you can say about one of them is "well you tried and you failed to stop it, so thanks for trying I guess." But most of them didn't try. Most of them cheered it on or facilitated it. It was millions upon millions of them laughing "We trained them wrong, as a joke. Very funny you see" while reverse-mortgaging everything their kids were supposed to have in exchange for a marginally less lovely late middle age. 
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Wonder how people outside Australia would feel about “all good!” or “cheers!”. These are like my standard responses, and it’s never been an issue. 
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mind the walrus posted:It's great that your Nana born in 55 wasn't a POS to you but like, you really didn't see the absolute skullfuckery their generation did to Millennials as a demographic whole, where the very best you can say about one of them is "well you tried and you failed to stop it, so thanks for trying I guess." But most of them didn't try. Most of them cheered it on or facilitated it. It was millions upon millions of them laughing "We trained them wrong, as a joke. Very funny you see" while reverse-mortgaging everything their kids were supposed to have in exchange for a marginally less lovely late middle age. okay
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my dad was born in '55 and he wouldn't give half a poo poo what form of "you're welcome" you say to him BUT he gets VERY upset if i ever say "don't worry about it" bc he thinks i'm implying that he is overly worried about said topic or any topic and goes out of his way to convince me that he isn't worried at all but he is. he is definitely worried. no other way to put it
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There's a good video on this very topic, as well as some others from other countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnH0KAXhCw
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ShoogaSlim posted:my dad was born in '55 and he wouldn't give half a poo poo what form of "you're welcome" you say to him please don't put in the newspaper that I'm worried
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In my experience Canadians will say "you're welcome/no problem" but Americans just say "mmhmm". Idk what thats about. A bit rude imo.
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canadians say "yes I love you very much sir/madam" americans say "eat my poo poo and hair you cockhole"
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mind the walrus posted:It's great that your Nana born in 55 wasn't a POS to you but like, you really didn't see the absolute skullfuckery their generation did to Millennials as a demographic whole, where the very best you can say about one of them is "well you tried and you failed to stop it, so thanks for trying I guess." But most of them didn't try. Most of them cheered it on or facilitated it. It was millions upon millions of them laughing "We trained them wrong, as a joke. Very funny you see" while reverse-mortgaging everything their kids were supposed to have in exchange for a marginally less lovely late middle age. This kind of bitter wretch posturing embarrasses all of us
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The Bloop posted:canadians say "yes I love you very much sir/madam" It is because of the queen
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GolfHole posted:In my experience Canadians will say "you're welcome/no problem" but Americans just say "mmhmm". Entirely depends on the tone of 'mm hmm', one is the verbal equivalent of a thumbs up, one is satisfaction/agreement, and one means 'i hope you drive off the road'
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um excuse me posted:I say no problem, but its a mindless reaction not social commentary. It is a response to "thank you" without saying "acknowledged" like a robot. When did "you're welcome" fall out of fashion in the US? I remember as a kid 40 years ago going to an american restaurant and as we said "thank you" every time she passed something to one of us she would reply "uh huh". Just over an hour drive from Vancouver to Bellingham but somehow the phrase "you're welcome" completely disappears. e: oh there was another page. Woops.
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