@tanpukunokami The whole politeness thing is confusing as fuck, my girlfriend always thinks it’s a psychological trick question when I ask her whether she would prefer A or B. and she tries to choose the one that she thinks I don’t want so that I can have the one that I do want
BOOMER: "Nobody wants to work anymore."
YOU: "I work 50 hours a week."
BOOMER: "Doing what, on a computer?"
YOU: "Yes. It pays $58,000."
BOOMER: "I made $18,000 and owned a house."
YOU: "That's the whole point."
BOOMER: "We didn't complain, we just worked."
YOU: "You worked one job and got a pension. I work one job and get a 401k match if I'm lucky."
BOOMER: "Nobody handed me anything."
YOU: "College was $600 a year. Your first house was 2x your salary. Your employer covered your family's health insurance."
BOOMER: "That was normal back then."
YOU: "Exactly. It was normal. Now it's impossible."
BOOMER: "So what do you want, a handout?"
YOU: "I want what was normal."
BOOMER: *silent*
You didn't outwork us.
You just lived in the version of the country where working was enough.
@reddit_lies Yeah I kinda see the redditors point on this one surprisingly… my grandparents are boomers and aren’t nearly that clueless about how the world works
@dzsg7n@NotKennyRogers Thanks for the uplifting response, sorry if I may have offended! I do hope to one day have a yacht and I shouldn’t let envy get the best of me
Just a quick reminder that they arrested this guy for paddleboarding alone in the ocean during Covid while Anthony Fauci had dinner with Jake Tapper and his wife in DC and Gavin Newsome hosted a party with friends in California.
@ThatEricAlper Women's urge to throw away and destroy their posessions in order to replace them with objectively worse alternatives will never cease to amaze me.
@nupersona@zaynahbear I never connected the dots that the boondocks from the newspaper is the same as the TV series. I was so young when I read the paper comics and didn’t discover the boondocks show until high school.