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I've been seeing more young people doing it. Old people wear dark socks with their tennis shoes and their shorts are hiked up halfway up their belly. They also tuck their shirts in and wear a big black belt with their shorts.wrong thread? I thought this was an old person thing.
It isn't a millenial thing. It's gen z. Why is it coming back? I have no ####### idea.
And to all you millennial men who allowed all of these Gender Reveal Parties, Couples baby showers, "Push" presents, neutering of bachelor parties, etc - a big F you. Zero backbone. Got owned by the wimmenz
Pretty sure push presents pre date millenials. Maybe just a different name back then. My wife tried to tell me I should get her a present (she had a kid already from her first marriage and had been through it before) when our first was born. While I didn't say it this explicitly, I'm implied that since we were dirt poor, me going to work to get insurance to pay the majority of our hospital bill so she could stay home and
Yes. One of my best friend's son & wife threw a baby shower and my wife dragged me along cause it was coed.
Tucked in shirts that was me until I went to a OCSC match with my grand daughter. I had my jersey tucked in and my grand daughter got behind me and started pulling it out. She says to me you look like a nerd no one tucks in shirts anymore. Who knew.
Technically a millenial that identifies more with Gen X here...and I had absolutely no clue what a push present was until I just googled it. And even after googling I still can't say I've heard of it.
As an older millennial, I can say that that was 100% the youngest end of the generation- those bordering with Gen Z.
Til just now I thought it was just a female thing, and even that was the younger part of the generation.
At one point in that meeting someone said we shouldn’t call the entry level positions “junior” but rather “associate” - I wanted to laugh and walk out.
Interesting, did people not want to travel when they were young before? I thought that was a pretty normal part of being a young adult. I know lots of Gen X and boomers who went on road trips, backpacked Europe, went out West for a summer, etc. after high school
That may have to do with the average home price being 56% higher in inflation adjusted dollars than it was 40 years ago.
I thought they were way more sensitive? I think they mostly do care what people think of them.
if my previous job taught me anything it's that accepting responsibility and blame for one's own failings/mistakes is not acceptable.
I received a save a date from a family member’s wedding at least 20 years ago. I remember having to ask my sister what it was. Come on.
Lazy writing in general seems to be common.Combining words that shouldn't be combined.
For example, there's a sign next to our coffee station at work that uses the words "throw away", but it's "throwaway". I don't think this was a simple mistake as I've seen other examples on social media, such as "bestfriend". Definitely a "thing" for the under-40 crowd.
Maybe this also belongs in the pet peeves thread...
this happens to me all the time when I'm writing. thank god for spell checking. i never know if something is 2 words or 1 and for the most part, i really don't care. my grammar has gone down the tubes since most of my writing is computer code.Combining words that shouldn't be combined.
For example, there's a sign next to our coffee station at work that uses the words "throw away", but it's "throwaway". I don't think this was a simple mistake as I've seen other examples on social media, such as "bestfriend". Definitely a "thing" for the under-40 crowd.
Maybe this also belongs in the pet peeves thread...
That's not a new SCE ario. That existedduring our school years also. What is different is everyone is growing up in an instant gratification, social media world now and nobody has an ounce of patience or self control fora trying these days.They want to talk to their friend who's like 10 classrooms down the hall. How you suppose to pass that note?
This is the nail on the head, my friend and it is something that has been building for 30 years or so. Maybe it's at the tipping point but people growing up now simply don't get any practice being a social human. Even if you see a young couple at a restaurant with a child or small family, the kids, even at 4-5 years old, are holding tablets and playing games while the food is being prepared a d the parents are either ignoring them by being on their ownphones OR with one another.
Okay, strap in cause we're gonna go deep on this:
The value in having good bosses, huh. Similar environments at previous employers and one of the primary reasons I'm dragging my feet about not considering leaving my current one is I'm actually on a team in which the above is not a problem. Own your mistakes then learn from them. It's refreshing that it's not only accepted here, but expected.
We keep odd office hours when the employer allows, yes. I'm very guilty of this. It's health purposes though.
Breakthrough vs break through is a meaningless distinction. Anyone who reads English will understand what the author is saying regardless of which way it is spelled.
I think some people feel it shows a certain level of intellectual laziness. "It may be wrong but I don't care." In the past people cared about such things. They took pride in handwriting, etc. In today's world, everything has been reduced to abbreviations and acronyms. It is simply a different world now. Folks no longer feel that way.
I get it but the flip side is an obedience to unnecessary rules. The goal of writing is to convey meaning. Some rules are essential for conveying meaning and some aren’t.
As lnog as the frist and lsat lettres in the wrod are corrcet wtih all additoinal letters smoehwere in bteewen the raeder can sitll udnersatnd the meassge.
It's the old saw of prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar/syntax and whether we're a meaning and democratically-influenced language or a prescriptive, top-down, rules adhering written culture. Of course the question becomes when the line is drawn. I prefer the experts of prescriptive grammar to break the outdated and no longer needed rules so that there's a healthy respect for rules and a healthy respect for common usage, too.
I just woke up and am half asleep and scanned that, read it just fine without even noticing what you did. It was only when I went to reply that I noticed. That’s pushing it though even for me.
What's the definition of dad hat? My 16 year old told me what he thought it was, but I couldn't believe what he was telling me.rockaction said:
"Dad hats" are what we called "hats." Canvas or cotton or cotton/poly blend, always curved at the brim. My impression is that it's the broken-in aspect of a dad hat that makes it a dad hat, but the strap in the back, usually a piece of pleather strewn through two holes on either side, also completes the look.
Similar to what he was telling me, though he emphasized every non snapback was a dad hat. I implored to him that "dads" don't wear snapbacks due to the cheap hats we were forced to wear playing baseball as kids. We were scarred and never want to wear an ill fitting snap back again, as we now know better. He thought the stoopid look of snapback conveyed style but i disagreed.
True story; when he was younger, I forbade flat brims in the house. I bought a fitted cap of his favorite baseball team. I told him he had to bend the cap and that he couldn't wear it with a flat brim. He refused. I said if I see it outside of his room, I would bend it (as like a typical kid, he left his stuff all over). He kept it in his room for over a year before he slipped up and left it in the living room. He found it in his room the next morning with a nice curve it in.
