My girlfriend (32) asked me if I was a boomer. I’m 37 😭

A lot of the time it comes down to how engaging the teller of the story is.

The same story could be told by two different people. One who’s animated, emotionally engaged and who appears them self to be very interested, the other, who is the complete opposite of those things.

There are stories that I’ve found hilarious and/or engaging that upon reflection that were really just a load of pointless nonsense and vice versa stories that feel like they’re boring and worthless at the time, but that upon reflection had real gold nuggets of information or wisdom.

This is why I’ll always listen to others, I may end up no richer, but there’s a chance that I will.

It’s a related opinion

Fair enough. I definitely do that too, sometimes you can also link the post of when the question was last asked.

Typing a query in to Google is faster than making a post on Reddit and yet people still wanted you to do it for them. I never posted “have you tried Google?”, or anything like that, but lmgtfy links were always a fun option.

Ok, thanks for clarifying, it’s quite interesting to try and understand other people.

I disagree.

I do understand where you’re coming from though, you’re opinion is very common. When you’ve worked your whole life to be comfortable and you want to understand why some people are living in comparitive poverty, it’s nice to just think about how lazy and feckless they are and how hard working and diligent you are.

I’m not saying that your opinion is even entirely untrue (although I do think it’s mostly untrue), but I am saying that good chance has an awful lot more to do with it than most people consider.

You could be the most hard working person in history, be born in Africa and die of dysentery at age five. Likewise, I myself am doing OK as an electrician, but the only reason for that is that my dad was an electrician and he helped me get on to a path in to the career via an apprenticeship that I was very lucky to get. I have no idea what I’d be doing today if I hadn’t gone down that career path by pure chance.

All our lives are absolutely random, even if it doesn’t appear so, you were one of trillions of sperm and are one of billions of humans.

It can be argued that everything in your life is down to pure chance. I know that some people don’t like that idea, especially when they are somewhat successful and want to talk about all the hard work they did to gain their achievements.

I hate posts where the answer is the top search result on Google. We’re not here as a proxy for a search engine.

Some subreddits had a “use Google first” rule.

Why tho?

Fair question and it’s telling that your post has downvotes but no one willing to put forward a counter point.

I’m out of the loop.

Didn’t the embargo start because Cuba were allowing Russian military bases with nukes? Presumably they’re not doing that anymore so why still an embargo?

I wouldn’t say that I stop thinking, but I can act out thoughts, pay attention to things or have new experiences without internally processing them verbally, although it does help with more complex issues.

If I’m having a shower, I just put soap on a flannel, I don’t internally verbalise “put some soap on the flannel, I’m putting soap on a flannel now”.

Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?

To me it’s as easy as it is to stop talking. I feel like I’m misunderstanding you.

I haven’t watched the video, but I’m guessing it’s about college football.

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If you say so

It was literally in the reddiquette that you’re not supposed to use them like that, but in practice, you’re absolutely right and that’s how they’re used.

Yes I noticed, sorry, bad internet connection, I have deleted them now.

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