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Hopefully his “dates” won’t all have sob stories looking for a handout
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Submitted 2 months ago by soreeel@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Mickey7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The amount of older widowed men being scammed now is insane.
soreeel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t let him get scammed, your inheritance is on the line.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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.
LeonenTheDK@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, same here as a younger milenial… Not as often as that post, but pretty often 😅
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, shit. I do this all the time…
pahlimur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Ahrotahntee@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
el_psd@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
that’s not a boomer thing…
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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’.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
The boomer ellipsis drives me nuts. It gives me a very ominous feeling, like something is being left unsaid that I’m supposed to extrapolate. The only time I use an ellipsis in text is when I want to indicate that the thought is incomplete.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You never know when you need to use them…
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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🤦♂️
bnaur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Around here the same kind of demographic often likes to replace the ellipsis with “,”. It’s both mind boggling and fascinating and raises so many questions that I’m not really mentally prepared nor qualified to ponder.
gamer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I think that’s just a common typo. The difference between '. ’ and ', ’ is hard to spot unless you have good eyesight, and they’re close together on the keyboard
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Double the age plus 7 is my new math.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Stop infantilizing women.
"Are they consenting adults"is the only question people should be allowed to ask about a couple without being publicly shamed.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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?
sartalon@feddit.nl 2 months ago
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.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Once people hit their 30s sure. It’s still creepy for a 19 year old and a 60 year old to date.
thedarkfly@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Is that the rule? I always thought it was half the higher age plus seven to get the minimum.
So 18 -> 22, 31-> 48
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
18 & 43? 25 & 57?
toofpic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
18/43 gud, can confirn. one of the best experiences ever
nick@midwest.social 2 months ago
Dang is grandpa rich or something?
soreeel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
aka yes
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
so basically your grandpa is a daddy?
Greg@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m sorry for your loss OP 🫂
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sounds like grandpa just got catfished.
Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 2 months ago
“Hey bud do you still have that Amazon gift card from Christmas?”
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good for him! 👏 I wish him all the luck!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds real
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 months ago
r/thathappened
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Lol good for u, grandpa
StormMission907@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please post a followup. You go gramps.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
31 to 68? yeah that’s plausible
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Turn this into a series, we want follow up.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The date doesn’t happen to live at the bottom of a pond, does she?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t think that’s where you dig for gold?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, but that’s where the catfish are.
sartalon@feddit.nl 2 months ago
That is where you find catfish though.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fresh skin.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Otherwise good for him, but I’m not sure if a heated debate is the best way to begin a relationship…
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
enjoy your new hot step grandma i guess?