WMain00 posted:

Are Millennials like hipsters?

I'm so confused.

Maldoror posted:

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genesplicer posted:

I took a bunch of students on a field trip today. At the beginning of the school year, we take our 8th grade class (all 500 of them) to the university down the road. My group kept separating into a faster and a slower group, which made it difficult to cross the roads as a group. I had to keep urging the slow group to hurry up. When we get to the university (About a 4 block walk) one of the girls in the slow group proudly shows me the 39 selfies she managed to take on the walk over.

39 selfies in 4 blocks. Less than a 20 minute walk. I pointed out that maybe, just maybe, the fact that she was stopping to take all these selfies was the reason her group was holding everybody back. She pointed out how important it is for her to get all these pictures "Because the next one might be even better than the others!"

Then this sad behavior continued when we actually got to the college. The people in charge of the day had lots of activities planned. And this girl and her friends never actually participated in anything. They stood there, taking selfies in front of other people who were actually doing the activities and then posting these selfies by the dozen on facebook. For them, the entire day was about proving they had been there when stuff was happening, rather than actually doing all the stuff.

There is no facepalm big enough for this situation.

Macasaurus posted:

Ocean Book posted:

Two monks were making a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of a great Saint. During the course of their journey, they came to a river where they met a beautiful young woman -- an apparently worldly creature, dressed in expensive finery and with her hair done up in the latest fashion. She was afraid of the current and afraid of ruining her lovely clothing, so asked the brothers if they might carry her across the river.

The younger and more exacting of the brothers was offended at the very idea and turned away with an attitude of disgust. The older brother didn't hesitate, and quickly picked the woman up on his shoulders, carried her across the river, and set her down on the other side. She thanked him and went on her way, and the brother waded back through the waters.

The monks resumed their walk, the older one in perfect equanimity and enjoying the beautiful countryside, while the younger one grew more and more brooding and distracted, so much so that he could keep his silence no longer and suddenly burst out, "Brother, we are taught to avoid contact with women, and there you were, not just touching a woman, but carrying her on your shoulders!"

The older monk looked at the younger with a loving, pitiful smile and said, "Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river; you are still carrying her."

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