What’s with the boomer ellipsis? It’s so consistent among the older folks I see. I don’t understand why every sentence needs to be trailing off.
Good for gramps though! Power to him.
Yeesh, this is boomer stuff? I’m an elder millennial and use them all the time. It’s like a forced pause or an uhm, so reading something reads more like speech.
Oh, shit. I do this all the time…
My dad is genX and uses it the same way. I have explained it to him multiple times that it’s like sighing at someone.
They got their old man sigh in text form
I find that I slip into the same habit sometimes – specifically, when I’m typing something where perfect grammar will come off as overly formal, but I’m stressing a bit over what level of informality is appropriate. It taxes the frontal lobes, which means that my thoughts are disjointed in a way that ellipses just make sense with. I think it’s so widespread among older people because when they were first introduced to instant messaging, they weren’t sure how they would come off, and then it became a habit. But that’s just me guessing.
My mom does it all the time. I asked her about it once, and she said it’s a habit while her thoughts catch up. Basically, a text version of ‘umm’.
I used to have a boss like that, he’d toss in an ellipsis at the most inappropriate locations.
It made all his emails appear sarcastic. Leave it to a guy who focused primarily on decorum instead of substance to send an email like
“Good job…”
and not know how that reads.
My dad does this so much and I asked him about it once. He said he thinks it makes everything sound very chill and low pressure. I think it makes everything sound passive aggressive, or like it’s a loaded statement🤦♂️
Wondering that as well actually. Why don’t their sentences ever end?
r/thathappened
Sounds real
enjoy your new hot step grandma i guess?
Lol good for u, grandpa
Hopefully his “dates” won’t all have sob stories looking for a handout
The amount of older widowed men being scammed now is insane.
This…a lot.
SOURCE: I am a relatively wealthy Gen-X man.
I moved to Jackson Hole so it’s not an issue now, but when I lived in Downtown Austin it was a problem.
😭
Don’t let him get scammed, your inheritance is on the line.
Let him go out plowing fields
Double the age plus 7 is my new math.
Is that the rule? I always thought it was half the higher age plus seven to get the minimum.
So 18 -> 22, 31-> 48
18 & 43? 25 & 57?
18/43 gud, can confirn. one of the best experiences ever
Were you the 18 or the 43?
They were both, 25 years apart.
Clearly they meant 18÷43 so they fucked themselves at age 0.4186046511627 years.
Stop infantilizing women.
"Are they consenting adults"is the only question people should be allowed to ask about a couple without being publicly shamed.
A. There was zero infantalizing going on here, not sure you understand what that means because it doesn’t apply to the statement you are responding to.
B. Maybe you mean that the poster should give more credit to women and not assume they will all be victims to an older male.
C. Him manipulating her is not the issue. The assumption is she is looking for a meal ticket. He is more at risk to being manipulated than she is.
D. Pretty sure the poster was making a joke anyway, since it would mean if they were 30, they would only date someone who was 67 or older.
E. The community is LemmyShitpost.
I am 31. I will make sure to go to the local high school to find girls who just turned 18 and woo them with cheap gifts. No imbalance of power or manipulation happening between consenting adults, amirite?
There is a legitimate argument to be made with reasonable people on both sides as to exactly how old is old enough to confidently say that there’s not a power imbalance due to age alone. Whether that’s 18, 21, 24 or some other number is an open question.
30+? If they wanna date somebody more than double their age, that’s completely their business.
Once people hit their 30s sure. It’s still creepy for a 19 year old and a 60 year old to date.
Dang is grandpa rich or something?
He’s a recently widowed, retired dermatologist, gym rat.
I’m sorry for your loss OP 🫂
so basically your grandpa is a daddy?
Possibly made of sugar.
even if he’s not a sugar daddy, he’s a daddy, sugar
aka yes
Please post a followup. You go gramps.
Turn this into a series, we want follow up.
Good for him! 👏 I wish him all the luck!
Fresh skin.
The date doesn’t happen to live at the bottom of a pond, does she?
I don’t think that’s where you dig for gold?
No, but that’s where the catfish are.
Edit: Ninja’d
