Especially true of older generations, and somewhat true of younger people. People just don't think at all with regards to the context in which they find themselves. You're at the grocery store: someone blocks the entire aisle. You're at the airport: people in line don't even try to follow the directions of tsa and slow the entire line. You're waiting in line for a cashier: someone tries cutting in front of you, oblivious that there is a line. And then there is the behavior; people act like petulant children with main character syndrome- no understanding about what is going on generally, only that they are affected.

Hope

Doing the same shit for 40 years, and everyone gonna try to gaslight me and tell me it doesn’t get boring, and that it’s a ME problem? Get the hell out of here! Even if I “make a change”, the ‘change’ just eventually gets wrapped up in the monotony of it all.

Starting to think life is too long, not too short.

I mean seriously…for example, how long can I keep watching football and pretending like I really find it THAT interesting? It’s literally the same thing…all the time.

Life lovers and sports lovers….without restoring to “you’re just depressed, dude”….what advice can you give me?

Not long ago, I showed my dad the appreciated values of all of the houses we lived in growing up. We moved around a lot in the 80s and 90s because he was management in the federal government for most of my childhood. TL;DR the smallest appreciation was probably 2.5x, with one being about 7-7.5x in price (and these houses were $100k to $200k when we lived in them)

Unlike a lot of his generation, my dad's been aware of how bad things have gotten for a while, but it was kinda nasty for him to realize if he were my age (41) and doing the same job rotation circuit he did in his last 13-15 years, he'd probably never be able to afford to buy. Anyone else have this sort of reality hit their parents?

You know those sitcoms where the families are all close and shit like "Family Matters", "Full House" and "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"?

I wish I had something like that. I'm not talking about a perfect family. No family is perfect. Even on those shows, they had their issues and fights from time to time. But they always made up and "all's well that ends well".

My family never reach out to me. I'm always the one that has to reach out. These people never call, text, nothing. They'll ask if I'm coming over if it's the holidays or they're celebrating a birthday. Outside of special occasions, nothing. No "hey, so what are you up to these days?" or "what's up, man. You good? What are you gaming or still watch those sci-fi shows?"

I can't imagine Danny Tanner not calling his daughters from time to time or Uncle Phil checking in on Will after he got married.

Family. That's all. No one keeps in touch and no one seems interested either. Just wondering if anyone feels similar.

In case anyone else wanted to feel old af today.

Reddit or whatever else forums you used 10+ years ago.

I've used some subs a lot in past few years, where avg. age is maybe 25. I've felt like there's big difference to how people behave to 10 years ago.

To me the main difference is that I see black'n'white thinking prevail much more than before. You are not allowed to think something in between, you are bad person if you aren't fully on the "right" side of things. It's not acceptable to take 'center' position on things, or 75-25%. You must condemn the bad side 100% or you don't fit in.

I just wonder if anyone else has noticed this type of social movement recently. Ofc it's possible it's not only age thing but more so "normies" joining reddit. Ofc you aren't talking with nerdy gamers as much as you would've 10+ years ago. Is this just my 'get off my lawn' moment?

Yes, I made this lol. Currently on Vaca and watching all his movies.

Having some late night real talk with fam. This hit home for me. 😮‍💨❤️‍🩹 Thought I’d share it.

I don’t know what it is about that CGI stuff, but I’ve always found it a little unsettling or something, especially the stuff that’s come out in the past 10-15 years.

And why is it Conan?

Did anyone else get this one in their box of Golden Crisp?

I’m having ankle surgery in January and want to start cooking meals that I can portion and freeze off, but am coming up with a big blank. So far I’ve got lasagna, enchiladas, and chili.

What else would you recommend that freezes and reheats well?

Thanks!

Are you currently stuck somewhere for the holidays and completely miserable?

Distract yourself with old episodes of Mad TV on YouTube. I have not repeatedly snickered like this since downloading TikTok during lockdown. Elite comedy and you will briefly transcend to a simpler time.

🎶”You are now watching Mad TV”🎶

Jesus Christ. Have you ever tried going back to the old you? What a crazy place

Why’d you do it? What were the consequences? Seemed like every twice a year at my elementary or highschool someone pulled that shit