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Hopefully his “dates” won’t all have sob stories looking for a handout
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Submitted 6 days ago by soreeel@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Mickey7@lemmy.world 6 days ago
SupraMario@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The amount of older widowed men being scammed now is insane.
soreeel@lemmy.world 6 days ago
[deleted]TheBat@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Don’t let him get scammed, your inheritance is on the line.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago
Yeah, same here as a younger milenial… Not as often as that post, but pretty often 😅
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Oh, shit. I do this all the time…
pahlimur@lemmy.world 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago
that’s not a boomer thing…
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago
You never know when you need to use them…
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago
Double the age plus 7 is my new math.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago
18 & 43? 25 & 57?
toofpic@lemmy.world 6 days ago
18/43 gud, can confirn. one of the best experiences ever
nick@midwest.social 6 days ago
Dang is grandpa rich or something?
soreeel@lemmy.world 6 days ago
[deleted]MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 days ago
aka yes
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
so basically your grandpa is a daddy?
Greg@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I’m sorry for your loss OP 🫂
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Sounds like grandpa just got catfished.
Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 5 days ago
“Hey bud do you still have that Amazon gift card from Christmas?”
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Good for him! 👏 I wish him all the luck!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sounds real
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 6 days ago
r/thathappened
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Lol good for u, grandpa
StormMission907@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Please post a followup. You go gramps.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
31 to 68? yeah that’s plausible
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Turn this into a series, we want follow up.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The date doesn’t happen to live at the bottom of a pond, does she?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I don’t think that’s where you dig for gold?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No, but that’s where the catfish are.
sartalon@feddit.nl 6 days ago
That is where you find catfish though.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Fresh skin.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days 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 6 days ago
enjoy your new hot step grandma i guess?