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• morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  enjoy your new hot step grandma i guess?

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hopefully his “dates” won’t all have sob stories looking for a handout

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The amount of older widowed men being scammed now is insane.

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  • soreeel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    [deleted]

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t let him get scammed, your inheritance is on the line.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• LeonenTheDK@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, same here as a younger milenial… Not as often as that post, but pretty often 😅

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, shit. I do this all the time…

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  • pahlimur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Ahrotahntee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • el_psd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that’s not a boomer thing…

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  • The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’.

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  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You never know when you need to use them…

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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🤦‍♂️

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  • bnaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Double the age plus 7 is my new math.

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • sartalon@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • thedarkfly@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    18 & 43? 25 & 57?

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    • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      18/43 gud, can confirn. one of the best experiences ever

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• nick@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dang is grandpa rich or something?

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  • soreeel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      aka yes

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      so basically your grandpa is a daddy?

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    • Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sorry for your loss OP 🫂

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• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds like grandpa just got catfished.

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  • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Hey bud do you still have that Amazon gift card from Christmas?”

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• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good for him! 👏 I wish him all the luck!

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds real

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• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  r/thathappened

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• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol good for u, grandpa

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• StormMission907@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Please post a followup. You go gramps.

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• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  31 to 68? yeah that’s plausible

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Turn this into a series, we want follow up.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The date doesn’t happen to live at the bottom of a pond, does she?

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think that’s where you dig for gold?

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, but that’s where the catfish are.

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    • sartalon@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is where you find catfish though.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fresh skin.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Otherwise good for him, but I’m not sure if a heated debate is the best way to begin a relationship…

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