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skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

Zveroboy posted:

I used to think my first class degree in nuclear physics was my greatest achievement. Actually I think it was working every summer from 16, being careful with my spending and saving my money, then when I went to university, instead of renting a place for my second year onwards I bought a house (mostly using my savings as the deposit, some extra from my parents). The rent of the three other students paid for the mortgage and my uni fees, some being left over to top my savings back up. Being nerdy types we didn't have huge parties so we managed to keep the place clean and tidy and free of stuff like mice and mould. After 4 years sold the house at a tidy profit and put that money towards a house for my girlfriend and I. We move in at the end of this month.

Several family members have expressed their jealously over it, often asking how we've been able to do it. When I compare the life-styles of my cousins and their friends to my own it's obvious. I don't smoke, I don't gamble. I don't go out on the town every week, I don't give a gently caress about having to have the latest iPhone or Nikes or whatever. I'm not fussed about "needing" a flash car. I think too many people these days have an attitude of "It's payday! Time to spend it all!" and don't realise that one has to make sacrifices if you want better things.

Case in point, my cousin and her boyfriend used to be those kind of people. Going out every Friday and/or Saturday night, designer clothes, latest phones, lots of take-aways instead of cooking from scratch. The bf in particular used to spend a lot of money betting on football and boxing. Then they wanted a house together and realised the sacrifices they would have to make. To their credit, they dialled it all back and they realised pretty soon just how much money they were spending on pointless things. She says it's toughest thing they've ever done, having to save instead of spend, but now they have a house and a child, she told me it was all worth it.

Then there's the other cousin who has three kids and actually worked out she was better living off benefits than her and her husband working. Scum.

spending 4 years of your life studying nuclear physics in 2016 is pretty millennial.txt

# ¿ Feb 8, 2016 16:01

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 18:55

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

notZaar posted:

How's that? It's a useful degree that can get you a real job.

it's not practical enough for an industry job (physics != engineering), and the industry itself is dead in the west unless you're the sort of :shobon:

millennial who believes ted talks

it's the sort of degree which requires a few years of grad school to make useful to industry or the academy which is also classic millennial

# ¿ Feb 8, 2016 22:15

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

reallivedinosaur posted:

Using guitar as drum, without ever learning how to play it as a guitar, but still saying that you play guitar seems to be a thing these days.

Playing guitar is hard so I wish this was around when I was a kid. Impress twice the girls in half the time with your cool bongo drum rolls and you don't really have to do any work.

Every time I go to the guitar store for strings there's a couple of guys in the acoustic room tappa tappin and playing drums on 1000 dollar gibsons and martins and poo poo and guitar store employees staring on in horror, lmao.

flickety-tap-boom guitar is definitely a millennial thing

this beardo made a video which went viral and kicked off the entire gimmicky movement of boring drony percussive guitar playing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 18:53

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

speshl guy posted:

Percussion guitar talk:

People were blown away by it, not because it opened up a whole new realm of possibilities for music and guitar players in general, but because it was a novelty that required an unprecedented amount of practice and personal discipline in order to sustain a melody while forgoing the need for a bassist and a percussionist.

Attention-seeking millennials thought that spending an unholy amount of time practicing an incredibly difficult and niche style of guitar playing would convince people that possessing such an ability would indicate to others that they were good musicians. Unfortunately, unless one actually has an affinity for music and can create songs that are pleasing to others and artistically valid, all of the bells and whistles are rendered meaningless and are in fact a poor substitute for, you know, actually having a bassist and a percussionist.

Musicians like John Butler and Estas Tonne can make it work because they're actually good musicians, not just because they've technically perfected an inherently flamboyant style of guitar playing.

the real beginning, by a brilliant musician

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P9mmZyGb4s

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 02:03

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

nomadologique posted:

i have to assume that as long as people have been playing resonant stringed instruments, some of them have been drumming on them

ya the spanish have been doing it for centuries but the particular combination of percussion, exotic tunings and fretting with both hands began with michael hedges and exploded into millennial consciousness via andy mckee and his 54 million youtube views of that one song alone

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 02:55

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

Ein cooler Typ posted:

Why does it seem like no millennials actually look like adults?

Looking at this thread and cruising mutual friends facebook friends list and creeping on people i went to high school and college with even the people nearing 30 look like baby faced 14 years olds dressing up in their dad's clothes, with bad awkward facial hair and all. most of the men are really short and chubby too. Is our entire generation THAT infantilized?

When i look at pictures of 20-30 year olds from past generations they all look much older and more mature.

I think it has something to do with lower levels of testosterone. Probably caused by chemtrails or something.

lol were millennials ever even allowed to go outdoors without 3 coats of SPF 50

they're all metro as hell too, prolly have at least 2 types of moisturizers in their daily regimen

no wonder they all have faces like a newborn's bottom and beardo to compensate

# ¿ Feb 11, 2016 15:55

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

"responsibilities are a marketing scheme"

- millennial, 2016

# ¿ Feb 11, 2016 16:39

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

radiatinglines posted:

lol where did you go to school?

Americans lived at home as long as everyone else until the 50s when someone got the bright idea to shame them out to sell more poo poo. I thought this was common knowledge

did you learn that from a mandatory huge glossy $200 Intro to Sociology textbook at an American university sometime after the year 2005

# ¿ Feb 11, 2016 16:54

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

A Strange Aeon posted:

I get the appeal of watching video games, but I was never that into live sports events in the first place, so esports doesn't really appeal very much to me. Plus, I like watching actual gameplay, but so many streams seem to be a camera focused on the dude playing and his expressions and I could care less about the personality of the streamer and his often idiotic responses to the people watching live.

the thought of gaining a significant and long term audience of viewers for "sports" that didn't exist 5 years ago and won't exist 5 years from now is pretty laffo millennial

# ¿ Feb 12, 2016 02:00

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

nomadologique posted:

you know how much some of these streamers make? they're like 20 and i doubt they care where their money is going to come from in 5 years when it's rolling in now

the companies making these games are the same way, and already know they have a limited time frame, so they're trying to make as much money as they can before it collapses

i know people who have spent literally thousands of dollars on league of legends, a free game; a non-free game, meanwhile, earns its company a single upfront amount per purchase and nothing after that unless they can merchandise

ya my bro in law works at twitch, check out some of these stats

dont get me wrong i know theres money to be made in games and streaming, but it's not as the "talent", at least not on a risk adjusted basis especially when you take into account 10 years of playing video games in your PJs at home would make you radioactive even to Walmart

# ¿ Feb 12, 2016 14:50

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

Skeleton King posted:

can you change your car tire can you clean your carbs out? Have you ever even done it yourself?

brb vulcanizing my tires

# ¿ Feb 12, 2016 17:14

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

I roll my eyes at all those history porn shows but my wife loves Ragnar and I love Agnetha so we watch Vikings, tbh it's not bad and apparently based somewhat in fact so I guess I'm gonna learn something

re scouting I remember when I was a kid my scout manual had all sorts of poo poo in it like "how to cut down a tree to make seats for the campfire" and "best ways to bury garbage at the campsite", I imagine the modern scouting books are somewhat more conservationist than that

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 14:23

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

lol that yelp girl turned her instagram to private since it showed all sorts of pics of her eating steak, expensive san fran cupcakes, brie stuffed meatballs etc while telling her CEO that bread is a luxury for her

edit: someone saved the choice cuts http://throwaway779999.imgur.com/all/

skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Feb 21, 2016

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 14:58

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

Spectral Debt posted:

That album link for the yelp girls instagram is gone, Is there another one?

here you go: http://alotofrice.pixieset.com/thatsalotofrice/

millennials achieve a modicum of self awareness in realizing that spending every waking minute glued to a smart phone is idiotic

self control remains a foreign concept though as they simply buy a dumb phone instead

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/01ba2970-9e70-11e5-8ce1-f6219b685d74.html#axzz40tbtQQjk

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 12:45

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

nomadologique posted:

i have just never switched to a smartphone, and it's pretty good.

whenever studies come out about the addictiveness of this behavior, and how it rewires (especially the adolescent) brain, this will probably sound like "heroin addicts should just exert some self control and only do heroin like once a day"

you probably know lots of people like myself who are daily smartphone users but aren't addicted to them

I honestly can't say the same about daily heroin users

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 16:51

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

Psychotic Weasel posted:

Uh, he actually taught kindergarten for a year or some poo poo and wrote a stupid book no one read. He basically got into office by name recognition and because his opponents were loving idiots; our political leaders are even sadder than America's. But apparently we're rich, so who cares.

I can't wait until this place hits rock bottom and the next generation inherits a wasteland covered in tar and dust while we enjoyed beautiful national parks like Banff.

ya for all their enlightened social awareness, between Hilary and Justin it sure seems millennials don't see any problem with cronyism

# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 03:12

skeevy achievements: Feb 25, 2008; by merry exmarx

this is a great read, well researched, empirically based, and scientifically confirms basically everything you already knew about millennials but to save time you can just read the cover