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The boomerfication of millennials is a sight to behold.
All young people find all old people quaint, this is nothing like a boomer humor, every generation does this. Boomer humor is more about hating your wife and blaming everything on every other generation.
Don’t worry, you are heading into all of that as you age. It has ever been so.
Yeah… No. If I hated my wife I would get a divorce.
Perhaps, perhaps not. Separating a marriage after 25+ years is no easy thing. The sheer inertia can be impossible to overcome.
Hate doesn’t happen overnight, you only stay for 25 years with somebody you don’t like because you aren’t being honest with yourself or them.
Or it was illegal to get a divorce.
It’s never been illegal to get a divorce in the US. You may be thinking specifically of At-Fault Divorce which was the norm in the US until the 60s… when most boomers were in their 20s or younger.
This is a literal “kid these days” post.
It’s boomer humour to hell.
Maybe you need your peepers to help you see.
Leaning into your age for a joke is not a “kids these days“ post.
It’s millennials complaining kids don’t know cursive.
The same shit actually boomers complained about.
This is literally the opposite of that. It’s making fun of the trope.
Eh, it’s more like we’re leaning into being old-heads now for the lols. Millennials don’t do very many things without any ironic undertones.
Idk man.
I’ve never seen millennials have an allergic reaction to a number before.
What?
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Yes, that’s 42, and?
Gen Alpha did not invent funny numbers. Every single generation has had some version of random meaningless silliness.
Our funny numbers have quite deep meaning, thank you very much.
And boomer millennials have an allergic reaction to 6………………7.
Because it’s a reminder they’re not cool anymore. And what’s IT isn’t up to them to decide anymore.
That has not been my observation. I’ve seen plenty of millennials join in, I’ve never seen one “have an allergic reaction”. I think you’re making that up.
Fucking kids these days, no work ethic like we had/have. They want everything now instead of working for it.
They want their TikTok
Mr Beast coin for nothing and non binary chicks for free
Here’s another one I spotted recently. People comparing html to “years of experience in CIA” just felt funny.
Everything on this list is still being taught to my kids (NZ). Phonics is still the best way to teach reading. Every new stupid fad dies out and they come back to phonics.
I’m pretty surprised they’re learning cursive though. Wtf
I believe cursive is thaught because the hand makes repetitive movements that way, not because of how it looks. But since we barely need to write anything lengthy anymore i guess efficient writing isn’t worth that much more than inefficient writing.
I don’t think making writing beautiful and celebrating penmanship is the worst thing. I’m all for cursive
Phonics would make sense in a language that’s phonetic. But English is not phonetic, so teaching them it as if it is, and then teaching them “tricky” words and that all words are fake, and making them read nonsense words to test their phonics, is stupid
From a semantic perspective that argument is badly framed but I can intuit your point using my foundational skills of reasoning. In the same fashion, the reason I can guess what words like phantasmagoria and phosphaturia sound like and tell them apart is because the written English language is still representational enough that you can develop common sense abilities and learn additional rules and exceptions from there. Every single word in your comment follows a
rulepattern that another common word follows.Cueing is poorly taught; the whole language approach makes no sense on its own. Why would you remove the tools for assembling the pronunciation of a multisyllabic word and instead suggest guessing at it? You wouldn’t. Nobody studying this is suggesting you throw phonics out in entirety, even the cueing advocates that don’t believe in dyslexia who sound suspiciously like they have dyslexia.
What does cueing mean in this context?
Except that the alternative method, the “whole word” approach, seems to have way worse outcomes.
Why is Stop Drop and Roll no longer being taught?
Far less open flames around your average household. Less fireplaces being used, electricity is far more available so it replaced candles, you don’t see wood stoves pretty much ever anymore, and even gas stoves are being replaced with electric ones nowadays.
Fire used to be far more prevalent. Prometheus would be sad, at least until he discovers the fire emoji and tinder.
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As someone who had to learn cursive in school, I dropped that shit literally as soon as they said we didn’t need to use it anymore. Good riddance.
I have seen the handwriting of some people who complain about “schools not teaching cursive anymore”. I have news to them: I know how to read cursive, their cursive is just crap.
I, too, know how to read cursive. The vast majority of it is unreadable eyedaggers.
The worst part is that it feels like different people were taught different forms of cursive. Lowercase r, f, q, and z is where I noticed most people just making stuff up half of the time
Yeah, I learned cursive too, but I think it’s weird to see anyone younger than boomers using it.
Not only cursive and calligraphy, but we rode our bicycles until we were lost and without a mobile phone.
I learned cursive and then never used it again. I learned it to sign my name, but you don’t even need cursive to sign your name because everybody’s signature is just a big scribble anyway.
As a 56 year old - I write cursive fine enough to barely get what the letters are. My signature however is exactly the same way - mostly rushed and random. Hoping for that someday challenge.
I’m in this post and I don’t like it.
fuck cursive, bullshit ass writing method.
A Day Later: Some ableist ass fuckin discourse goin’ on here now…
It’s faster for writing English, no?
sure, if you don’t have any language or learning disabilities…
You were never tutored in analogue calculations. Analog doesn’t mean “everything that’s not digital”.
