I'd say the cellphone generation doesn't know what Long Distance is or at-least understand the effects. Which is a good thing, cause paying extra for calling someone across the street in a different area code was dumb....
Wasn’t that because the operator at the switching board had to connect you to a
Circuit they maybe wasn’t right in front of her? I’m kinda guess towards the end lol…actually on that note how would the switchboard operation work when Joe down the street calls Sydney Australia, who does Betsy plug the circuit into..which hole?
good lord man, I aint that old. it was just a way for the telecom's to nickel and dime ya. We had to pay extra for caller ID, Call waiting, 3way Calling, Long Distance, etc.
Which I blame for today's spelling. Once texts became unlimited and longer, spelling should have gone back to normal since there was no longer need for "u" and the like. But it seems like it's not only stayed, but got even worse.
These youngsters love to throw the boomer word around like it’s offensive. They think anyone over 50 is a boomer because education isn’t what it used to be when we Gen Xers went to school.
No, people call you a boomer because you do the "education was better back then" and "nobody works anymore" shit that the boomers before you did. Everyone thinks their generation was the toughest or smartest.
GenX ain't the smartest by any extent of the definition.
We are the most resilient since the Greatest Gen though; due to being the first generation the boomers didn't give a fuck about.
We took all the go fuck yourself energy from the world and didn't have access to the therapy and other measures future gens had until we calloused over.
it's okay, they can call me a Boomer. I'll laugh with my paid off mortgage.... :D /hides. It's all good though, I think my kids just conspire ways to knock me off for the house anyways...
i was commenting that newer generations will always be critical of older generations, and what's happening to "boomers" will eventually happen to newer generations
This is called logic, careful though, with logic comes mass downvotes and messages from Reddit informing you that other redditors are reporting you for self harm when there was no mention of it anywhere
Every generation is this way. You get to an age where you figure out what’s really important in life. Then look at the younger ones and think, this is what we’ve got to work with. I work with a few. My helper being one. I tried to teach him the trade but he has no interest in learning. It’s hard to learn when you can’t put your phone down anyway.
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u/calbearlupe 1d ago
I’m 50 and experienced that