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third time this week I have cut open packaging on food only to find it has a resealable lock the other end
Something is being wonky with the thread views on new threads today. I wish I could show screenshots but I do not know how on this device. It keeps saying that there is only one view on topics with multiple replies.
...after building up a 21 - 3 lead, stupid Green Bay Packer defence is laying down on the job late in the game again allowing Chicago to catch up.
kyoto kid, I just need to ask as it has bothered me for a long time.
Why the use of the Ellipsis at the beginning of every post you make?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
I usually use this myself if adding to something or to signify thinking out loud, in real life I might look up to the sky while saying something
...an old habit from discussion forums during the usenet and BBS days.
...a cute comforting group purr for Caturday.
OK Boomer
apparently millennials are very disturbed by the use of the Ellipsis, I use them between and at the end of sentences, is more or a musing trailing off thing or because only part of the full sentence like a saying but they take it as showing boredom rolling the eyes and I have seen some get quite agitated by it on forums
my Caturday on Sunday share of my kitty
...considering we are both of the same generation I'll let that first one slide.
I started using it to denote the continuance of an ongoing train of thought in a discussion thread, and as noted, it just sort of stuck.
Amazing how things can be read into something so little and simple. I'm not even bothered by the use of all caps or multiple "!"s, I simply ignore such posts and move on.
Sadly now I am a boomer
I was never one growing up they disowned us born after 1960 here
I remember the "if you can remember 1969" thing, I was 7 FFS and remember it very well!
I considered myself Generation X
that was the music and fashion I embraced, Glam, Punk
and even read a book I must no longer have defining the date as after 1960
but now when I am old I am suddenly a darn Boomer
I feel your pain. They can't seem to make up their mind for me. It changes every damn time I look. Was a boomer last time.
My phone now refuses to use internet data. I do not know why.
TBH I had never heard of the term "Boomer" or the usage of it until very recently. Yes we had a baby boom genration, it kind of stood to reason with the men coming home from war and the ladies so glad to see them. My Mum always said she had 3 children a boy and a girl a few years younger as she wanted, then she had a mistake. We who remember growing up just after the war had no room or time for artificial names for groups of people and certainly not a name for a group of people based simply on when they were born. The groups of people I remember from that time are
1] The war widows, we had 2 down our road and there were only 22 houses in the road, very many more in the whole town
2] The soldiers who came back injured.
3] The prisoners of war who returned, some of whom were very frail and ill.
4] The orphans, the lucky ones taken in by relatives, the unlucky put into care.
5] The homeless, those who had been bombed out and lost their home through no fault of their own.
they didn't actually use the term boomer here either it was more the term baby boom too referring to the event and I know I wasn't considered to have been born during that event,
the implications were also they felt they were bred up only to be sacrificed in the Vietnam war by conscription something never heard of in our history and very much a group of protest and change culminating in a landslide victory for the Labor government with their "it's Time" campaign.
I first learnt the term generation X and identfied with it as a late teen the ones who were teens and young adults after the Halcyon days of the 60's, the punk era and the term came from a Billy Idol album
Ok and now the discussion has to end as we are straying into topics which break ToS,
History Chohole ... History
Fascinating discussion, but drifting towards politics unfortunately, and I need to moderate myself. History was my major subject, and modern History for the advanced exams.
I was right there in the middle of '69. Twenty-one and dazzled by it all. My current bedroom is a tribute to those years. Blacklight, posters and all.
However, the primary difference is back then the posters were thumbtacked to the wall and the blacklight was laying along the corner between the bare wood floor and the wall, now the posters are framed and properly hung and the blacklight is mounted with directional reflectors to get maximum illumination where wanted, and eye relief where needed. Somewhere along the line I got sophisticated. Sorry.
...yeah I've always disliked labels in general. They make for a lot of grief and bad blood. Every generation has it's good and bad members.
Personally, in spite of my age and grumblings about the aches and pains of getting older (which just advanced another year), I still tend to "think young". For example I learned how to work with 3D CG in my mid 50s and learned how to build computers when I was nearly 60. Yeah, that old adage, "you're never too old" does have some merit to it. Oh, there are some things I miss like long distance cycling, skiing (believe it or not), and playing piano, because I have physically broken down, so I found other pursuits and interests that give me pleasure and a sense of achievement and keep me going.
One thing I haven't lost in all these decades is my sense of civic "duty" and "responsibility" (probably the best and safest way to describe it) and never will..
I thought a Boomer is a male kangaroo?
...exactly.
You don't mean Wendy's been in disguise all this time?O
Just joking
I have been having nightmares about public aquariums breaking and releasing confused sharks to the panicking public but last night I dreamed that a comic book character called captain America was there to save the day but the aquarium still broke while he was trying to save the last few people. Before I woke up he came out soaking wet.
Why was I dreaming of captain America?
I don't know about you but I'd kind of like to see Captain America in my dreams, especially soaking wet.
...LG, you win the thread for today.
I got a free chicken and fries and Charley's and a free chicken sandwich at Chick-fil-A. Both places knew who I am. I prefer no bread at Charley's which happened so I had my chicken on my fries. Colby jack was not free so I did not put it on my sandwich so just chicken and bread. I found out I could do mobile order with the free chicken coupon.
Oh I also got free lemonade from Charley's.
what is stupid is that I made it a sandwich at home to bring it to the mall. Wait. I think everyone at Charley's know my name. I go to Chick-fil-A enough to get the free sandwich coupon on my app and the gal handing me my sandwich knows who I am.
...I tend to get a free coffee each month from a couple of the locally owned independent coffee shops in the 'hood.
Not sure how I got the free Chick-fil-A sandwich but I got the free Charley's food by pretending that I work there. Wait I was not in the Charley's cosplay outfit when I ordered the food. I took off the chef coat and hat before I ordered. I just had to convince them I was working for them from ten to a little after a quarter till three. I did such a great job that now I am tired. Um, I was doing a convincing job that the customers thought that I was doing my job handing them the drinks they ordered.
To be honest it is some company in Florida that has their name on the paycheck.