Which is funny because Gen X had some of my favourite styles of humour (“I have 5 fat friends and you’re 4 of them” kind of thing). I would have hoped the Gen Zers would have inherited that kind of wit, but oh well. I’m a millennial and we are responsible for a lot of the absurdist styles of humour (I’m thinking Charlie the unicorn) which was funny but looking back it’s total brain rot.
My youngest is incredibly evil with her sarcastic humour. She's always had a way with words since she learned to talk.
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God I wish our parents had the internet so we could go back and read what they thought of our slang, which of course was perfect and totally cool. Alas it's not us who are wrong it is the children.
There was an era where they literally thought it was a form of coded message so they couldn't understand emails and instant messaging.
Things like pig latin were common when I was younger. Kids would dare other kids to run up to adults and say stuff like, "uckFay ouYay enisPay ickerLay" and then run away giggling. I kinda want to teach my kids pig latin or egg language as something silly and fun and pry them off devices a little more. I want them to spend time learning stupid skills that our parents thought were stupid. Maybe force them over a weekend to try and understand how to do basic beat box, do a flip, juggle... etc.
Current versions of slang don't inherently seem intended as code though. They seem more like captcha tests to figure out if you know pop culture or not.
“Rizz” is pretty old slang just becoming popular again.
And the fact us old heads have finally discovered it the past year and like to ironically use it, should tell us it's already done with the kids. I actually haven't seen/heard Gen Z use that term in a while, it's just us oldies saying it now methinks.
wrgmg - trying to support local businesses but still end up buying what i need from amazon
i need to replace the door latching mechanism on the passenger side of my '89 silverado.
last night i decided to do a little price comparison....
amazon - $56, arrives tomorrow
napa - $236, arrives tuesday
lordco - $231, arrives monday
this is for the exact same part - they all have the exact same part number from the original supplier
i don't mind paying a little more to support a local company, but 4x more is insane
In a similar vein, I was in my corner hardware store a few days ago and another customer very seriously asked the clerk if they "matched Amazon prices?". I wanted to slap the guy.
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last night i decided to do a little price comparison....
amazon - $56, arrives tomorrow
napa - $236, arrives tuesday
lordco - $231, arrives monday
I don't know how NAPA stays in business sometimes. Never mind Amazon, they always seem to be considerably more expensive than Part Source, Canadian Tire, or pretty much every other option, whenever I price compare.
I don't know how NAPA stays in business sometimes. Never mind Amazon, they always seem to be considerably more expensive than Part Source, Canadian Tire, or pretty much every other option, whenever I price compare.
In fairness to NAPA it isn't cheap putting those big hats on vehicles.
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FFF. So I normally don't play blackjack at the Casino much, usually craps but I had the day off yesterday and was early to pick up my daughter from school.
Had 45 mins to kill so I went to the Grey Eagle. Crashed out on craps in like 10 mins so i figured I'll try some black jack for the first time in years. No one at the table but me. Last hand before I leave I get two 7 of Hearts. The dealer has a 7 of hearts. I won the lucky lucky which is $1000 but I thought I won the progressive jackpot of $19k!
But nope. I guess they changed the rule about 5-6 years ago where the player has to get all 3 7s of the same suit to win now... lol like that is effing impossible.
I hit again and got a 10.... So for the progressive jackpot instead of 19k i got $25 for having 2 7s.
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If you split your sevens do you lose the chance to win the lucky lucky? With a split Ace,2,3,4,7 are really good cards. 10,J,Q,K are good cards. 5,6,8,9 not so good.
Gambling is one of the worst ****ing things on this planet and it's so tragic that it has become embedded in our media as they advertise to hook young and old people alike into opening up accounts on apps and draining their finances into this bull****.
"The house always wins" should be driven into the skulls of human beings. It's as bad if not worse for many than hard drugs, yet we treat it as even more harmless than achohal cause we're stupid in what we care about, despite facts.
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And whole sports gambling thing is crazy. Having it readily available for people in their phones 24/7 is going to continue to mess people up. It's hard to just watch sports now with all the gambling ads.
I thought the mobile "gaming" market was bad with all these gacha mechanics. Along with social media too. And Robinhood meme stocks. Everybody's smart phone is like this amazing thing with the sum collection of human knowledge at your finger tips. But we're using it to create these massive yawning traps that are going to absolutely #### up a good portion of society.
