You know that this comments fits the stereotype yeah?

He's kind of right though. 

"Ok boomer" is the millennial equivalent of boomers saying they studied at the 'university of life". 

6 thousand years.

Obviously the world didn't exist before then.

People who use 'oK bOoMeR' like it's some kind of epic smackdown and upvote it into the stratosphere when yet another group thinking mid-wit posts it. Imagine thinking you sound clever or funny when you say it, when (to anybody with an IQ above potato) you look like a child covering their ears going NA NA NA NA I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU ANYMORE!!! 

If you ever wanted confirmation that the NPC meme is based in reality, there it is...

You do know that its because the generation  before mine  kept on mocking us gen yers  and no good gor nothings.  They also tend to forget the oldest  millennial is in their late 30s . I'm a millennial  with 3 kids . 

Who told you that?

You know, people who make quotes like you don't have much between the years. The Old and New testament was never meant to be literal and when they refer to years no one knows exactly what is meant by this. It could be in terms of the Holy Spirit that came down in Genesis to create.

6000 years could mean 6 Billion years in our terms, since the Holy Spirit is eternal. 6000 years is literally a tiny moment for the Holy Spirit in terms of creation. It's a tiny speck.

Oh I see!

Maybe you should apply the "never meant to be literal" part to some of your religiously influenced sociopolitical views and you won't be such an intolerant bigot. 

Pretty flat sort of Christmas with gf family in German village once again. Been together for 8 years and done it 6 times and 2 in Oz. Maybe I'm being a bit hard but I find it an average to poor sort of hosting. Could be better, could be worse. 

Great food but needed over 2 hours to open presents which gets pretty boring after a while with terrible jokes and a lethargic sort of mood. Clock had already hit 10pm when we normally get a game or something going. What's annoying is they sit there for a good half hour in a daze wondering what to play. No decisiveness and my firm suggestions fall upon deaf ears. During this time there are about 30 candles on sucking all the oxygen. I open a window and they moan the draught will make them sick. Don't get me started on Germans and draughts. 

Then time for bed. A bunch of adults need an hour to work out who can sleep where and daze about without any clear plan. Just find it totally odd. Their planning has intensity in all the wrong places. The food is essentially cooking on its own, table is set and everyone willing to help but there's this rejection of having others getting too involved. You don't want to laze on the couch and appear unwilling to help but you get ignored anyway. Stubbornness is probably the word here.

This year the water boiler has finally carked it after being installed in 1972. No tradesman understandably available until new year so most with washed faces and less refreshed. Yes, others are doing it much tougher but I can tell everyone is a bit grumbled by the washing issue.

We all come down to have some breakfast around 10am. German breakfast is easily the most over the top thing in existent. Hundreds of cheese and salami packets and raw fish with bread rolls. Juice, milk and water bottles scattered on the table. It's uncomfortably crowded with stuff everywhere which makes service yourself a chore. Over half the stuff isn't even touched. Once full everyone sits for about 30min with no idea what to say sipping their tea. Cue the odd anti brexit or USA is bad comment which just makes the atmosphere worse. It'd be nice if Germans were equally critical of all the issues their systems have here. They'll learn the hard way when they retire.

Games at midday but they're complicated and dull on a board which seems to have a trivial sort of goal. Logic based while everyone is tired is a bad call. 

It ebs and flows. Some moments lift up and it's a bit enjoyable and others drop down. There's just too much indecisiveness and a hint of stubbornness that leads to a low energy and boring sort of time. 

So how was your Christmas? 

Wgmg: Telstra.  So i upgraded my phone and contract to a month to month on a note 10+ but up until yesterday I was still on my old contract and was being charged my old contract fee .  I called them a lot since I found out about this crap 2 weeks after i got the phone.  Now they fixed it but blocked my SIM to certain numbers which i can message but cant call.  

Telcos barely ever get it right when changing things over. There's always an issue with taking a phone number or switching to more speed or coverage. 

WGMG: Hosted Christmas,  yeah yeah our mistake,  can't complain about all the work. Just hosted 2 of my wife's sisters,  her aunty and her mum. Not one single person offered to help or tidy or anything (yeah im complaining).

Anyhow... the presents... my daughter isnt even 2 yet (late feb) but from my wife's family she got one of those giant jeep cars, its huge, there's literally nowhere for her to use it and its easy beyond her age. Then she got 6... yes 6 cabbage patch dolls, now i don't know too much about them but my sister had one and i always thought you just had one... we bought her one for her 1st birthday as something to keep and look after,  they knew we were getting it,  so they bought one as well... fuckers, since then they are bought another 3... then the Christmas ones... that's 11 cabbage patch dolls.
Then a whole bunch of plastic shit. 
We did give them a list,  they knew what we were getting then they insisted they wanted to get an inflatable pool, which was what we were going to get,  right that's fine we said,  we're getting this $25 one, its 1.5m x 1.5m, they come a week before Christmas,  they got this $300 monstrosity,  its 4x5m, 2m high... what the actual fuck. We said no... Christmas day,  they toned it down to a 4x3m thing that's a water park type thing,  it doesn't even retain water... i have a sprinkler that can do the same thing. 

Ungrateful,  maybe... they spend literally thousands of dollars on junk a year for her,  and completely undermine us all of the time. These people are the worst. 
I can't even sell it,  its the kind of stuff that's worth nothing once opened. 

Ugh...

As much as its their own call what to buy in the end,  are they the type that'd use the value of those gifts against you if you ever complained about something else? I can't stand people who use expensive gifts as a footing to justify 'you owe me' 

I don't mind if they buy something of their choosing, just run it by us... does she already have this? Does she really need 11 cabbage patch dolls, is an inflatable pool the size of 2 city blocks really appropriate.

On a side note,  they went to Melbourne a few weeks ago and i asked if they could grab something for me, something small i just can't get it where i live.
That was no problem, but they told my wife "oh don't give us any money we will get it for him for Christmas", me not trying to sound rude when my wife told me,  i was like "i actually want this now,  not in a months time" anyway... it came to Christmas day... i didn't get anything from them... yeah... turns out they just straight up didn't get it. 

Yeah and then one wonders if this is perhaps a control issue. By not giving you something you need now they essential called the shot and got one up. Then they never got it in the end. FFS. Communication! I'm always on the ball and ask and say a lot. People say I'm too invested. It's more that experience has shown me how dazed people are when they're not in the loop then go off on massive detours for the most simple of tasks. Shit like 'oh I don't have any cash.' when it's time to pay at a restaurant or not having arranged a match ticket to a very popular game.

Oh god, don't get me started on this, my brother-in-law is the worst for this

I'll elaborate. So 4 of us decide to go to an away game, say, Nürnberg. we chat in whatsapp and get it sorted quickly except one person doesn't want to book yet as they need to clarify things. We get told to go ahead with our booking and they'll sort their own train ticket later. 2 weeks pass and I ask whether they've organised a rail ticket- no. Eventually, probably a week out, I learn the person has arranged a train journey that will see them arrive 3 hours before kick off (seems like a lot but time flies).

This person has refused to be given an away match ticket at the previous home game in order to go straight to the ground and insists on us letting him into the hotel room to drop off luggage to save on a locker fee. Basically we agree and linger around, rush to the hotel and drop off the stuff. OK let's go to the stadium now. No wait, the person now wants to shower or is hungry and must have a sit down meal. FFS this shouldn't be my problem. Basically we've learnt to supply everything separately and the person can make their own way.

It gets worse then. 10min until our train departs and the person wants to join a long queue to get a pasta dish for the return journey. You'll simply never make it. Had we arrived with 30min to spare it could'v been easy. No sense of time or organisation.

I've come across a few people lately who say they don't care about money. I find it interesting because they'd have to be in a comfortable position. To me the statement reads they have enough to afford nearly anything they want.

Money certainly isn't everything but I find those who try to do well with what they have and keep getting whacked with emergency expenses, stagnant wages, and ever increasing cost of living don't appreciate how some just brush it off. 

While I'm glad people can do well under the current cost of living it really bugs me how much attitude they need to have when saying it.  One rent increase and a few raised insurance premiums while being pounded with medical, childcare and energy bills that make it harder to afford that more expensive holiday or item and I bet they'll suddenly start caring about it.

I don't understand how people can be with money. 
I just got let down by some normally reliable mates who as a couple both work mid range public service positions.  Who rent together,  but have just realised that can't do a 1 week trip to bali, even though my wife and i live off the equivalent of one of their wages, with a child,  have to commute further,  have a mortgage and am still able to do alot of things,  but for them its just too hard.

We aren't incredibly strict,  we go out for dinner and do things and whatever but these guys literally have no savings. when it comes to money they are dire, the usual fortnightly cycle of spend big on pay day then ramen for the last 3 days of the fortnight. 

Renting means they're definitely not mortgaged up to their eyeballs. I guess you can get some insight but checking out all the devices, fittings and furniture in the home. Perhaps they blew 5k on a sofa. 

It's baffling though when those who clearly earn much higher than yourself seem to not have much disposable income? Where does it go every month? 

I've always been quite frugal and the way cost of living is creeping up in Germany is concerning. An already low wage country with a traditionally reasonable cost of living has seen people have a lot less to spend. Add the excruciating low interest rates and the banks, insurers and anyone else who can simply gouge the consumer.

I suppose beer has crept up at a normal rate from 3.30 for 0.5L to 4.60. Around 30% inflation over 10 years, normal enough I guess. 

Renting means they're definitely not mortgaged up to their eyeballs. I guess you can get some insight but checking out all the devices, fittings and furniture in the home. Perhaps they blew 5k on a sofa. 

It's baffling though when those who clearly earn much higher than yourself seem to not have much disposable income? Where does it go every month? 

I've always been quite frugal and the way cost of living is creeping up in Germany is concerning. An already low wage country with a traditionally reasonable cost of living has seen people have a lot less to spend. Add the excruciating low interest rates and the banks, insurers and anyone else who can simply gouge the consumer.

I suppose beer has crept up at a normal rate from 3.30 for 0.5L to 4.60. Around 30% inflation over 10 years, normal enough I guess. 

I've come across a few people lately who say they don't care about money. I find it interesting because they'd have to be in a comfortable position. To me the statement reads they have enough to afford nearly anything they want.

Money certainly isn't everything but I find those who try to do well with what they have and keep getting whacked with emergency expenses, stagnant wages, and ever increasing cost of living don't appreciate how some just brush it off. 

While I'm glad people can do well under the current cost of living it really bugs me how much attitude they need to have when saying it.  One rent increase and a few raised insurance premiums while being pounded with medical, childcare and energy bills that make it harder to afford that more expensive holiday or item and I bet they'll suddenly start caring about it.

Wgmg: payday loans.  I was litterally struggling for money for a long time and found out payday loans . They're scummy . And should be outlawed.  They pray on the vulnerable 

This. Although longer ones aren't "too bad"
I've had to take a 1 year one to cover some strata fees that crept up while I was taking care of my wife in hospital and we ran out of sick leave and they threatened legal action if we didn't pay up, and were being arseholes about a payment arrangement. And considering the banks weren't helping with a loan top up to cover it..

Problem with pay day loans is the intrest they charge.  I still am on two and im trying to pay off both.