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ponzicar posted:If they are elderly they may not have the manual dexterity, but it's more likely that they don't know what the shift key does. But caps locks says caps on it, so... But typewriters have had SHIFT keys on them since the 1880s and the function didn’t change one iota after the computer age dawned
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In regard to Boomers using ellipses constantly, I thinks it's because most of them never had to do much writing outside of high school while younger generations have been shitposting online most of their lives. They don't know how to connect multiple thoughts together through prose....so they do this....its an easy way to break up a sentence if you dont know how to write.....and it's insufferable....
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Apr 1, 2021 03:51
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I'm 35 and had that ellipsis habit in the early days of dial up before I was fully soulbonded to the tao of shitposting. It was 100% from mimicking Dave Barry.
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Apr 1, 2021 04:09
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Maybe they played too many early JRPGs.
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Apr 1, 2021 04:10
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They don't have a conclusion and just trail off. Ellipses are perfect for that and if I were transcribing a Trump speech that's exactly how I'd do it. Capslock is being used by people who hunt and peck.
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Apr 1, 2021 04:11
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reading a trump speech translated to korean is a trip. they dont translate any of his buttfuck insane use of language and the translation is in the right formal register when the actual speech never is
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Apr 1, 2021 04:13
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bob dobbs is dead posted:reading a trump speech translated to korean is a trip. they dont translate any of his buttfuck insane use of language and the translation is in the right formal register when the actual speech never is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qL1un6NPZA only linking daily show because theyre the only ones to do this gag
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Apr 1, 2021 04:21
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bob dobbs is dead posted:reading a trump speech translated to korean is a trip. they dont translate any of his buttfuck insane use of language and the translation is in the right formal register when the actual speech never is Yeah, I remember there being several articles about how translating Trump speeches was a catch-22 of the worst kind, because if you did it accurately then you looked like you couldn't translate for poo poo. And if you translated it to make it clear that you could do your job properly, you ended up making him look like a competent, rational world leader. Which is why it took a while for non-English speaking countries to catch on to the fact that the man is insane.
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Apr 1, 2021 08:12
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tinytort posted:Yeah, I remember there being several articles about how translating Trump speeches was a catch-22 of the worst kind, because if you did it accurately then you looked like you couldn't translate for poo poo. And if you translated it to make it clear that you could do your job properly, you ended up making him look like a competent, rational world leader. Which is why it took a while for non-English speaking countries to catch on to the fact that the man is insane. Translator sitting there, head in their hands, thinking about how they're supposed to translate "one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water".
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Apr 1, 2021 08:26
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It’s peak boomer to go back to 1968 when America was on the verge of major civil unrest
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Apr 1, 2021 10:13
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Batterypowered7 posted:Translator sitting there, head in their hands, thinking about how they're supposed to translate "one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water".
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Apr 1, 2021 14:02
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Truniht posted:It’s peak boomer to go back to 1968 when America was on the verge of major civil unrest It's exactly like now. It wasn't happening to white people. That's why boomers talk wholesale poo poo about BLM or George Floyd or whoever the cops murdered on any given day. They learned nothing and they still don't give a poo poo.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:52
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DACK FAYDEN posted:now I wanna see English translations of overly-literal translations into other languages of stuff like that and his uncle who went to MIT and was very smart Lmao, when he was talking about the missiles known as "super dupers".
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Apr 1, 2021 16:53
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A lot of sympathy for those translators. Parsing his bullshit into English is hard enough.
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Apr 1, 2021 17:17
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Batterypowered7 posted:Lmao, when he was talking about the missiles known as "super dupers". what's the sign for "hydrosonic"?
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Apr 1, 2021 17:29
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Boomers don't understand resolutions and how those work. Part of my job is to subpoena and analyze people's time cards from their employers. Yesterday I got a set that was completely unreadable because the HR person just took screenshots, printed them out, and faxed them. I called and asked her to just email me raw screenshots. She said that it would be tiny too. I told her I'd chance it. She sent the timecards today and I was able to zoom and crop what I need to a very readable size.
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Apr 1, 2021 18:35
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Play posted:what's the sign for "hydrosonic"? You move your arm up and down like it's cruisin' on waves
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Apr 1, 2021 18:56
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I don't know if this is a boomer thing or a my boomer thing but we had Easter brunch to the sounds of Nat King Cole at the volume of a Metallica concert out of a 30 year old stereo system which was fun.
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Apr 4, 2021 18:45
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Lib and let die posted:I don't know if this is a boomer thing or a my boomer thing but we had Easter brunch to the sounds of Nat King Cole at the volume of a Metallica concert out of a 30 year old stereo system which was fun. Sounds more fun than four fussing toddlers but then I wasn’t there to experience Nat King Cole so who knows
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Apr 5, 2021 02:12
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Lib and let die posted:I don't know if this is a boomer thing or a my boomer thing but we had Easter brunch to the sounds of Nat King Cole at the volume of a Metallica concert out of a 30 year old stereo system which was fun. Boomer thing. They also do that thing where you dad can’t stop messing with it and has to warm up his food in the microwave after driving everyone up the wall. About 20 years ago our local very terrible church choir recorded a cassette tape of carols, on what sounds like a dictaphone; it is the soundtrack to Christmas.
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Apr 5, 2021 15:27
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Now that's what I call music! I exclaim as I turn the elevator music up to distortion creating levels
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Apr 5, 2021 16:55
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learnincurve posted:Boomer thing. They also do that thing where you dad can’t stop messing with it and has to warm up his food in the microwave after driving everyone up the wall. That's pretty much the reason why goons started making ironically bad novelty Christmas songs every year.
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Apr 5, 2021 17:02
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That's pretty much the reason why goons started making ironically bad novelty Christmas songs every year. Ho ho ho it’s Christmas time is a classic
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Apr 5, 2021 17:42
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Why must boomers insist on playing the same 10 songs they heard at Christmas when they were 6 years old, for 1/12th of the year, every year for 60 years?
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Apr 5, 2021 18:49
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It’s more like 1/6th
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Apr 5, 2021 18:50
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idk if a goon originally did it, but that ridiculous wailing version of Silent Night, i slipped that into a christmas playlist the last couple years
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Apr 5, 2021 18:51
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Professor Shark posted:It’s more like 1/6th Now that you mention it, I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to 1/4, especially with all the decorations I see still outside into February.
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Apr 5, 2021 18:57
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Iron Crowned posted:Why must boomers insist on playing the same 10 songs they heard at Christmas when they were 6 years old, for 1/12th of the year, every year for 60 years? Instead of living a full 75 years people would rather live the same 1 year 75 times.
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Apr 5, 2021 19:03
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Anything that a boomer did more than once as a kid is a tradition that younger people are destroying by getting sick of it and not following blindly themselves.
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Apr 5, 2021 19:37
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Snow is on Christmas cards in the U.K. because when Charles Dickens was a small child it snowed at Christmas a few times and he then made “snow at Christmas” canon in his books. We have had a white Christmas 4 times since 1960.
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Apr 5, 2021 19:44
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The Villages. If you're having a slow Easter Monday, here's a fun article on basically the Boomer retirement dream of living in the Villages. A retirement community of 100,000 in a privatized neighborhood in Florida. Some fun bits- There’s no cemetery in The Villages, though. This place isn’t really home. "The Villages is a mausoleum for a desiccated culture, a place of fake history which will be regarded by history as the most desperate attempt of a generation [boomers] that squandered its inheritance to craft something enduring.” “Golf cart keys get put in a fishbowl in the middle of the table, wives wait in the parking lot for their mystery dates." I'm told about a prostitution ring that has recently been broken up. Orgies are said to be a regular occurrence. I am warned about women prowling around bars indiscriminately offering oral sex. There is reportedly a black market for Viagra. One of Bob’s buddies confesses to watching a couple gently caress in a golf cart on a dead-end street. I'm told that sticking a loofah on your cart antenna signifies you’re into swinging. "
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Apr 5, 2021 19:45
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Why is it always loofahs with old sex pests?
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Apr 5, 2021 20:07
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Iron Crowned posted:Why must boomers insist on playing the same 10 songs they heard at Christmas when they were 6 years old, for 1/12th of the year, every year for 60 years? I want to talk wholesale poo poo about this exact thing but I can't do it in good faith because I've also been listening to Ho Ho Ho It's Christmas Time fifty times in the month of December for over a decade.
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Apr 5, 2021 20:08
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Iron Crowned posted:Why must boomers insist on playing the same 10 songs they heard at Christmas when they were 6 years old, for 1/12th of the year, every year for 60 years? Every year I ask myself this and every year new christmas music gets made by someone and I remember it's a genre of crap made to sell crap.
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Apr 5, 2021 20:47
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winterwerefox posted:Anything that a boomer did more than once as a kid is a tradition that younger people are destroying by getting sick of it and not following blindly themselves. I have never voluntarily watched A Christmas Story. Every time I’ve sat thru that movie has been at some endless family function.
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Apr 5, 2021 21:07
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The only compelling plot thread in that movie (the possibility of that whiny little poo poo gently caress half-blinding himself) doesn't even pay off. What a worthless, asinine thing for a TV station to marathon for an entire loving day.
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Apr 5, 2021 21:11
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ghost emoji posted:I have never voluntarily watched A Christmas Story. Every time I’ve sat thru that movie has been at some endless family function. I enjoyed it as a kid when I caught it on TV every few years. Then somehow my parents bought the DVD (and later Blu-Ray), and it's been the same as you ever since. I can say the same about Christmas Vacation and Home Alone. I remember when there was gut busting laughter in the house over Christmas Vacation in particular, but it has been deathly silent during the viewings for at least a decade now with no end in sight. Honestly COVID killing Christmas in 2020 was the first time I haven't seen these movies in a long time, and I honestly wouldn't be sad if I never saw them again.
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Apr 5, 2021 21:12
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I like the christmas tradition where at least one company makes a new christmas horror movie for us to watch every year, so we always have something new to watch, and sometimes multiple companies do so we have a backlog to choose from if we dont like whats on offer this year. And that tradition was come up with by my boomer father. So we watch all the different classic claymation stuff and then finish it off with some Christmas horror.
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Apr 5, 2021 21:16
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life is killing me posted:But typewriters have had SHIFT keys on them since the 1880s and the function didn’t change one iota after the computer age dawned Okay, gotta jump in on this. I was taught how to type by my grandma on a typewriter when I was young, like 5-6 years old, I'm 36 years old now. I annoyed the hell out of her while she tried to teach me because I never, ever learned how to type with home row/qwerty. Because of that, I'm a "tap caps lock" guy. I peck like a motherfucker, but last typing test I took, I typed about 95 wpm with a 96% accuracy or some poo poo. It's all muscle memory now and as long as I can find the first letter of what I'm typing, I don't need to look at the keyboard and I know exactly how to tap-tap the caps lock with my left index finger. Don't ask, my ADHD riddled brain figured it out and I here I am, making GBS threads this garbage out at you all in like 2 minutes. Boomers love celebrating religious holidays on the actual religious holiday date even though no one goes to church anymore. Even if that means making their adult children tired as gently caress the day after a Sunday holiday. gently caress Easter y'all
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Lib and let die posted:The only compelling plot thread in that movie (the possibility of that whiny little poo poo gently caress half-blinding himself) doesn't even pay off. What a worthless, asinine thing for a TV station to marathon for an entire loving day. Don’t forget the wacky racism! And if you aren’t laughing at it, your aunt will scold you for being a stick in the mud or too uptight.
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