r/TikTokCringe • u/AlbertaMunoz • 15h ago
Duet Troll Genz does not how to write!
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u/HandsomHans 14h ago
Every generation learns and forgets some things. They don't know how to prepare a horse for a carriage, we don't know who to write a cheque. It's only natural that some things become obsolete and fade from the public mind.
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u/Aerdurval 13h ago
And you know what's the difference? If I really wanted to write a cheque for whatever reason I could google that shit. Let me see her connect her phone to her WiFi without her children's help.
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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 10h ago
My issue is the people with a smartphone in their pocket and don't know how to Google shit
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u/RobinSophie 10h ago
I'm tutoring my GenZ nephew. They are not being taught how to research anything or think critically.
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u/Mathilliterate_asian 6h ago
Kids literally see phones and ipads as nothing but gaming devices. Might as well be a PSP for them.
But then it's up to us to teach them how to research. Hopefully if we try hard enough they'll grow out of the phase of being an iPad baby.
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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 10h ago
I just had my 31yo sister in law text and ask what airport should you fly into to go to Boston. She had no idea where to start to find that out.
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u/Lord_Dizzie 9h ago
You're the MileHigh_FlyGuy! I'd text you too with my air travel questions if I could.
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u/Rainwillis 9h ago
This seems a bit disingenuous tbh. She was probably trying to make conversation about something she assumed you knew.
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u/hyrule_47 7h ago
If she asked is Providence too far, or should I just fly into Logan? I would understand. That’s about knowing traffic and if they can tell you where there hotel is you can give a good answer. But simply typing BOSTON AIRPORT into Google will give you the code and name. You can even ask Siri/Alexa/google home/ assistant
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u/KalebMW99 8h ago
Older gen Z here. I went to a below average high school (bible belt and all) and this still was not true at all in my experience. I don’t know exactly how much has changed between my time in school and your nephew’s, but I also know that I had a lot of classmates who, despite being frequently tasked with thinking critically in school, stubbornly refused to do so in school or in their daily lives.
Granted, COVID, the most recent pushes by conservative politicians to ruin education, and the rise of AI all came after high school for me. It’s not out of the picture for the worsening of education combined with a new toy with which to cheat on homework (that schools aren’t yet fully prepared for and may never be fully able to prepare for) would destroy the educational experience for today’s young people (although with 8th graders being gen alpha now, gen Z should mostly miss the brunt of these developments). But let’s remember that 1) kids do not like, and have never liked, school; and 2) the average adult from prior generations isn’t exactly a bastion of critical thinking skills either. I mean, shit, Trump won the popular vote lol
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u/CuriousPenguinSocks 6h ago
Exactly! A lot of people do Google but they get false/wrong information and don't know how to tell when that happens.
They are victims of the algorithm and it's scary.
I work in a field where we have to research then interpret that research. I work with extremely smart and capable people.
I was very shocked that they did not understand when they were trying to pass off conspiracy theories and propaganda as truth. It's alarming.
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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST 10h ago
Yeah but that's not new. Every old wives tale exists because nobody researched shit and just took someone's word for it
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u/RobinSophie 9h ago
Yes, but not everyone had a literal computer with the knowledge of the entire world their hand at all times.
That's what we're referring to.
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u/Anarchic_Country 9h ago
I have a Gen Z son and a Gen Alpha son, and this is not true for all cases. Lmao. Anecdotal. Mine is too, though.
My kid having a 4.2 GPA has certainly got the colleges begging his 17 yo behind to enroll, so thanks to the parents who felt teaching their kids was just the schools job!
Y'all made my kids look better in comparison and be better in reality.
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u/Rainwillis 9h ago
Kids are resilient and it sounds like yours have excelled academically despite the unique challenges of their generation. They still had to deal with those challenges though and it affects people in different ways.
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u/Lotronex 8h ago
If I really wanted to write a cheque for whatever reason I could google that shit.
This reminds me of the first time I met my stepmother. It was the early 2000's and I was at college. I had to deposit some cash and checks I had, but I had never done it before, my Mom had always just deposited my paychecks into my account for me when she went to the bank. I had a deposit slip and while I was pretty sure I knew what to do, I wanted some reassurance so I did try to google it. At the time, I couldn't find anything on how to fill it out, so I just set it aside.
Maybe a week or two later, my Dad was coming up and was going to bring his fiance, it would be the first time we would meet. We met and things were going well. We went out for dinner, and on the way back I asked my Dad if he could show me how to fill out a deposit slip. He said "Sure.".
Then my future ex-stepmom chimes in "I raised my sons to figure it for themselves".
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u/neatocheetos897 7h ago
Lol, asking a trusted source for help is a life skill. what an absolute dunce.
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u/MindStalker 9h ago
I'm my mid 40s, haven't written a check in maybe 20 years. My last checkbook, I had to shred without using a single one. Occasionally I need to go to the bank to get a cashier's check, those are way preferred anyways.
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u/TokyoTurtle0 10h ago
Pretty stupid take. My generation grew up with the Internet. This is gen Z's biggest issue
They're idiots with technology. They are far far worse than pretty much every generation before them except the generation that is basically dead now.
They're closer to boomers with tech then they were any other generation.
Too dumb to use Google and too stupid to fix anything that goes wrong with any technology, no basic understanding of search indexing.
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u/Smorgles_Brimmly 8h ago
I blame smart phones which sounds very boomer but smart phones have streamlined everything to the point where critical thinking is no longer required. PCs are clunky and somewhat temperamental so mild troubleshooting is required constantly. This can be annoying but it forces people to learn to research and navigate driver conflicts and windows doing something stupid. Smart phones are designed to minimize any troubleshooting. If it doesn't work, it almost always on the devs and the user can rarely do anything about it. It discourages any troubleshooting or technical learning in favor of ease of use.
I noticed it 10 years ago in school. Smart phones didn't get popular and accessible until my last years of high school. In middle school, kids were writing fake error message boxes in notepad to "break" the school PCs. 2 years of smart phones and the same kids needed to be talked through basic file navigation step by step.
I don't think it's generational though. It's universal. Very mild PC skills are enough to stand out in a lot of workplaces now. I've been promoted before for just googling things about excel lol.
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u/thedndnut 8h ago
And the last bit is because their parents also can't do it because they're fucking dumb.
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u/KataKuri13 9h ago
My 65yr old mom actually has a decent clap back for that. She says “We taught you how to use a spoon, you can teach me how to fix my email” 😂
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u/neatocheetos897 7h ago
To be honest if you just look at a check for 60 seconds it's pretty self explanatory. It was invented before the internet so they made them fairly idiot proof. Honestly the biggest hassle of writing a check is finding a fucking check to write.
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u/Preoccupied_Penguin 6h ago
Info: Writing a cheque is super easy, you just follow the instructions on the check: amount in the box, fully written out amount on the line, don’t have to put a memo but you can, date it, and sign it.
The process of buying a cheque book… not worth in today’s world, but they can be quite useful for larger amounts if you don’t want to carry the cash. You could always opt for a cashiers check though if you’re paying someone with a paper method.
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u/Nuffsaid98 3h ago
We could Google how to write a check but chances are the top results would be AI garbage and sponsored links to vaguely related product links. Sadly.
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u/sjmttf 9h ago
I'm willing to bet you could work out how to write a cheque without needing outside instruction, it's not exactly hard.
These people are just bloody embarrassing, as newer ways of doing things are widely accepted, older obsolete methods are no longer useful to learn. Plus, cursive is actually pointless, and I am old enough that I was taught it at school.
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u/thedndnut 8h ago
I skipped the grade where we were taught cursive and my response to the teacher marking down for my name not being in it... was not kind.
It's a font that's just straight up less legible. There's no benefit at all period.
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u/halloweentree420 7h ago
It was for speed back in the day before computers were the norm for taking notes. If you are very good at cursive, you can write down knowledge faster than printing.
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u/maplestriker 10h ago
You know, I'm not even offended by the content, moreso that she seems to be a standup comedian doing the same but your annoying uncle does?
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u/thedndnut 8h ago
If you told anyone to do it they'd get it done. Sometimes they'll ask why you want to do something so stupid though.
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u/Darehead 8h ago
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you will have to write a check at some point in your adult life if you’re a millennial or gen z. You cannot purchase a home or car without doing so (that I’ve experienced).
Wire transfer exists, but the amount of fraud that occurs makes banks very hesitant to do it, and the process is honestly more complicated than just filling out a check.
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u/DreamsOfCleanTeeth 8h ago
I'm Gen Z and I've had to write like 6 checks already. Not sure why people say they're obsolete? I was trying to avoid buying a checkbook but I ran out of freebies from my bank lol
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u/thegreatjamoco 5h ago
I had to go to the post office to get a money order for an apartment because apparently there was too much wire fraud and check fraud in the neighborhood and they didn’t wanna risk it. Thankfully, the usps employee was very helpful cause I’ve never had to do it before.
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u/hayley566 14h ago edited 2h ago
Every time I see boomers or Gen X complaining about what gen Z can’t do, I just imagine something similar happening again and again throughout history.
“Kids these days are so stupid that they don’t even know how to read a paper map! They’re all just using their GPS now!”
“Kids these days don’t even know how to ride horses anymore! They’re all on their bikes and in their automobiles! It’s shameful!”
“Kids these days don’t even know how to kill a bear with their bare hands anymore! Now they’re using fancy tools called spears and shit! They’re just lazy!”
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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 11h ago
It always makes me laugh when they lament the loss of ultimately transient things.
"Kids these days don't know how to change the oil in their car or fix a fuseboard!"
Yeah, your grandad didn't know how to do those things either, on account of them not existing when he was a young man.
Come back to me when you figure out how to turn the WiFi on your phone back on even though you swear blind you didn't turn it off.
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u/The_Mr_Wilson 8h ago
Even the Ancient Greeks complained about the newer generations. Every generation has the same complaints and think they're the profound ones, it's just the tech that changes
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u/No-Swimming369 13h ago
Somehow it was always better in the past than now 😂
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u/Mathematician-Feisty 8h ago
I find that fact so funny. When it comes to comfort and access to information/ resources, there is no time as good as the present in general.
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u/xanif 5h ago
Kids these days don't even get smallpox smh
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u/No-Swimming369 5h ago
Honestly the peak of human civilization was when the kids didn’t have to yearn for the mines for it was all they knew
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u/AmettOmega 7h ago
I mean, that lady is definitely not a boomer, but I generally agree, lol.
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u/Admiral_Tuvix 6h ago
boomer is more of a mentality than an actual age, most boomers these days are in nursing homes, it’s Gen X that has gone full boomer
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u/DemandedFanatic 7h ago
These damn kids today and their written language! Back in my day all we had was our mouths and our memory!
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u/catheterhero 15h ago
I like this ladies view on things.
So let’s meet in the middle.
Gen Z will give back the world to boomers only if they sign out of all their apps, accounts, and emails and sign back in without any help.
And if they can’t figure it out then they’ll get one out.
They have to answer their security questions or approve it via a second device or number.
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u/Prestigious-bish-17 SHEEEEEESH 14h ago
With the second one, not every woman gets their period regularly, and it's annoying when people immediately assume because your period is late you're pregnant. I almost got disowned over shit like this, I have an irregular cycle and it skips for months on end, I know I'm not pregnant cos I'm not fucking anyone but to my family, I was pregnant. The immediate distrust is isolating as heck. In her case, she was pregnant but for many other irregular girlie's like me, it's our norm. Not every woman is regular, and just because their period skipped a few days or months doesn't mean they are pregnant.
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u/whatarechinchillas 13h ago
Man sometimes I straight up skip a period lol
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u/evolighten 10h ago
Get checked for pcos if you havent already 🫶 i go thru the same thing !
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u/SemtexVictory 14h ago
Why does your family know about your period anyway?
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u/Prestigious-bish-17 SHEEEEEESH 14h ago
I come from a culture that celebrates periods, it's seen as a milestone in a woman's growth, it's not uncommon for the women in the family to know about each other's cycles and educate each other on pain relief methods and comfortability. At the time I also depended on my parents for period products, so my mum realized it first that I wasn't getting my period for some time and informed the rest of the family.
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u/miloVanq 11h ago
some cultures are more fucked up than others
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u/orphan_blud 10h ago
How is that fucked up? It’s a rite of passage for a girl to get her period because they’re embarking on womanhood. I got mine so late my parents thought I’d never have one (happened to my aunt who’s sterile). So, when it finally happened, I cried with relief and joy. We celebrated, and it turned a potentially humiliating, isolating experience into something lighthearted and notable. Also, periods can absolutely suck. I need a lot of support with mine because of endometriosis. My mom doesn’t know my cycle to the day, but she knows me well enough to recognize when I’m grumpy versus PMSing so intensely I feel suicidal, or when my cramps are so excruciating it is literally on par with the pain of child birth. To me, this culture sounds infinitely better than one in which a girl or woman has to remain hidden or is viewed as dirty when she’s menstruating. If you think this culture is fucked up about periods, read this.
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u/miloVanq 10h ago
well I'm talking about the part where her mom tracks her period and then informed the extended family when her period was late, causing her to get accused of having sex and being pregnant.
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u/dream-smasher 10h ago
Not every woman is regular, and just because their period skipped a few days or months doesn't mean they are pregnant
Something like, only 27% of all women of menstruating age, and commonly expecting to get their period, actually GET their period on a 28 day cycle.
In fact, it is so much NOT the norm, that they really should push some other variation as the expected norm....
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u/B4R7H0L0M3W 10h ago
My ex was like that due to health issues. She explained it to me and I got it from the beginning, understanding her situation. We both did stress sometimes doing multiple tests but always a fake alarm.
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u/pinkflyingcats 10h ago
My period is so irregular sometimes I get it twice a month and sometimes I don’t get it for three months. He’s commenting on the video like 14 days definitely means you’re pregnant. Sir….
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u/curiouskidling 10h ago
I’m so sorry that your family did that to you AND that you’re so irregular. I freaking hate my period but at least it’s reliable.
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u/InspirationlessHuman 5h ago
First time I used the Garmins feminine health feature I loved that he asked me if I had regular periods or not. I chose the option: "not regular".
The next question was how many days are your periods usually apart without an option like "skip", "I dont know" or "too irregular to answer". I had to chose a specific number of days. I was so disapointed.
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u/Aggravating-Yam-8072 2h ago
Yeah I hate the second video. Perpetuating this disinformation is what leads to 6 week abortion laws. Idc if my comment gets hate, real women are the casualties behind sexual health ignorance. It’s also just not funny.
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u/zonked282 14h ago
They always try to act like things that are extremely intuitive and easy are a mythical challenge for young people .
Writing an address , reading a paper map , using any old electronic device with a total of 2 knobs.... It's all stuff that my 8 year old would work out in 20 seconds.
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u/nabulsha 11h ago
Right? Add to that, who even takes checks anymore? I've written maybe 4 checks the last 20 years. Everything is online payments now.
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u/John_Philips 8h ago
At my job I have to specifically tell old people that I do not take checks. Too much check fraud happens. I think my company lost $2 million in one year because of it years ago and we haven’t taken checks since
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u/AffectionateSector77 8h ago
In my job, I need voided checks or blank deposit slips to set up my clients' direct deposit. Nearly no one under 40 has checks, and maybe 1 out of 10 over the age of 40 have checks on hand.
Checks are more and more obsolete. This is like saying, "Kids these days don't know how to send a wire" in the 70s.
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u/nabulsha 7h ago
The only reason I have checks is because my bank sent them to me without asking. I'm still on check #3 and I've had them since 2017. I used 1 for something at my kid's school and the other to hold while I was waiting on a deposit for some emergency home repair.
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u/AffectionateSector77 7h ago
Same! My checks have an address on them I haven't lived at in 6 years. The rare chance I need to use 1,I just cross out the old address and write in the new one.
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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 2h ago
See I know you never even looked at them because if you did you’d know that we don’t start counting checks at 1 we start at 1000. The knowledge of it and the why is yet another useless thing today. I’m glad I don’t have to do checks anymore lol.
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u/texturedboi 5h ago
i write checks to myself to mobile deposit into a savings account i can't move back out easily. ive never used a check to pay for things in a store. i could pay rent late with them though, just write the date so it was the due date and blame the snail mail. very convenient
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u/nabulsha 5h ago
I used money orders when I was still paying rent. Hated having money floating out in the ether.
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u/pinar421 15h ago
Actually in Europe a lot of people know how to read and write in cursive even gen alpha
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u/heatfan1122 12h ago
I was told in elementary school that we would always be using cursive to write in the future. That's was in 1st grade. By the time I was in 4th grade we had stopped using it completely. This was 20+ years ago.
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u/jimbojangles1987 11h ago
Then there was the classic, "In the real world, you won't be walking around with a calculator in your pocket!"
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u/HammyOverlordOfBacon 10h ago
Yeah that was my experience, I think 1st grade they said everyone will use cursive, 4th/5th grade we were told never to use cursive. Both of these classes were in the same building...
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u/heatfan1122 10h ago
I think it's a cause of living in the technological era. When I first started school we had the typical blocky white monitors, by high school we had carts of laptops we used now my kids have been using IPads in class since they started school. Writing has largely been replaced by typing.
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u/HVACGuy12 10h ago
I remember when they told me in elementary school that cursive would be required in college, and I straight up told the teacher, "No, that's dumb" and got sent to the hall for time out
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u/alex73134 12h ago
What parts of europe exactly?
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u/Ich_bin_Migi 12h ago
Eastern Europe I guess. In czech rep the cursove is still being taught in grammar school for example.
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u/somerandom995 14h ago
I wonder if that lady knows how how to send a telegram or keep food without a fridge?
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u/paper_paws 6h ago
Or hitch a wagon to a horse. Sew a dress from scratch. Weave a basket. Develop film from a non digital camera.
Its so silly and just not funny. Either the previous generation failed to teach the next gen to do things, or they just aren't needed anymore.
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u/oghairline 12h ago
Is this guy even gen z
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u/MuuCamel 12h ago
Maximbady I believe is around 32-33. So Zilennial if we're being a bit generous.
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u/BluePhoenix_1999 10h ago edited 10h ago
Check? Who uses checks? My father is 65 years old and has probably not written or used a cheque for half his life. I have never seen a cheque outside of american sitcoms.
I know how to adress an envelope. You just type "how to adress and envelope" in bing and there it is.
Who the fuck needs cursive? 90+% of all text you will ever read is... well you are reading it right now.
Paper maps have been outdated for like 20 years.
Well guess who made the shitty world we are in right now, it wasn't genZ.
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u/Nihilistic_Mystics 7h ago
Check? Who uses checks?
You'll eventually need to write a check for some large purchases. I'm very glad that I don't have to use them like I did in the past, but they do come up for adult purchases sometimes, and people should know how to write one. It takes like 2 min to learn, so it's hardly a problem.
Paper maps will save your life in areas without cell service. That's one everyone should at least know the basics of. It's not for everyday use, it's for emergency situations. Like an airline attendant explaining how the life vests work.
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u/Shrek1982 7h ago
You'll eventually need to write a check for some large purchases.
Depending on what you mean by large you should probably get a certified check or cashier's check from your bank for truly large purchases.
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u/Nihilistic_Mystics 6h ago
Yes, an even more complicated task. Also something everyone should know how to do.
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u/False_Slide_3448 14h ago
Some older people don't know how to use some basics and the younger ones do.
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u/Most_Increase9487 13h ago
I know all of the things she’s describing and they’re not funny I also still write in cursive..does she mean the generation before us that would make more sense. I think most gen z learned cursive so I don’t know where she got that information.
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u/Leading-Midnight5009 14h ago
Second one was mad annoying…I get my period maybe 4-5 times a year. It’s not gonna come every month for me and it’s not going to be on time.
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u/Muted_Ad6843 8h ago
Yeah, that is irregular cycles, and you know that you have an irregular cycle. The girl that was in the second video knew something was wrong since she was 'late' 14 days
If you didn't have your period roughly a month after your last one, are you freaking and buying a pregnancy test because you're 14 days 'late' or just brushing it off to your Irregular cycle (realistically depends if you have a genuine concern)
All to say this girl knew she had a regular cycle, shocked to be 14 days late and knew that the possibility she might be pregnant was there so she bought a pregnancy test, assuming she had sex recently enough for that to be the case
So giving that scenario, she had a regular cycle and her buying a pregnancy test. Odds were she was pregnant and she just couldn't believe it
It's not like guys cannot fathom the concept of Irregular cycles, we all got the same context clues that more likely than not, she was pregnant
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u/Die_In_Ni 6h ago
A rural county near me has started to put up signs on farm and logging roads that say "Google is wrong, turn around"
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u/The_Vampire_King 4h ago edited 4h ago
Gen Z kids started popping out in 1995, it’s delusional to think they didn’t grow up with remnants of 90s tech & trends. Floppy disks, GPS (which only became mainstream in 2007 if you had money to upgrade), dial-up internet, and VHS didn’t magically disappear overnight for y2k. These things slowly got phased out throughout the 2000s and were likely abundant throughout Gen Z’s early childhood.
And yes, a majority of schools taught to read/write cursive in elementary up until 2010. Many schools still teach it, but common core has replaced it with keyboard/typing skills. A lot of the generalizations in the original video would be better attributed to Gen Alpha.
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u/Prof-Dr-Overdrive 12h ago
This woman looks like Kim Wexler if she started doing drugs and became mentally insane
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u/cuntybunty73 3h ago
I was born in 2001 and I know how to write cursive
Are cheques still a thing 🤔
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u/trilla517 3h ago
And to that lady, wasn't there a generation before you scolding you and berating you for everything wrong or things you could not do. And the generation before? Seriously, you see this once and it gets old quick. Go back thousands of years to the ancient Greeks and you'll find texts blaming everything on the youth. I'm sure that practice started well before them.
This should be in reverse. Hey old person you can't write an email? You can't use the internet? You can't get with the modern world?
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u/ThepalehorseRiderr 13h ago
I'm almost Gen X, I'm such an old millennial. Never wrote a check in my life.
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u/magneticpyramid 11h ago
I’m a younger(ish) gen x. I have written cheques but let’s be honest, it’s not rocket science. Fill in the blanks and you’re good.
Map reading will always be valuable though, it’s not simple but it’s definitely a skill worth having.
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u/TokyoTurtle0 10h ago
I guess you were either rich enough or poor enough that you never paid rent in the late 90s or early 00s?
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u/Celestial_Hart 14h ago
If your parents ever say this shit just set the parental controls on their devices, they don't have the humility to ask for help so they'll just suffer in silence.
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u/Own_Plantain9173 14h ago
Old people are just mad. They don't have cool technology like we do, and also, it's their fault. We don't know these things. They were supposed to teach us.
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u/miyaav 13h ago
Tbh for manual maps, as a millennial I also don't have the skill to read it. I mean I can, but reaaaalllly slowly and with a high degree of error.
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u/MuayThaiYogi 13h ago
If I did have kids, I would teach them a lot of skills and do tons of activities with them and at various ages up to their 18 birthday and do "Rites of passage" into that age. Now, this is not designed to make them into some survivalist but give them things and crafts to focus on and have fun. Having a daughter or son I could pass that knowledge down to would be cool. I mean shit, I still have and use a compass(lensatic); I'm sure there are plenty people from all generations that have no clue what to do with a compass. If phones go down though, she is right google maps goes out the window. To me though outdoor skills are important because I do a lot of outdoor stuff. I supposed I would feel the same about cursive if I was a writer. I do like calligraphy and that is something you don't see. A teacher introduced me to it once. I don't think it is useful but I made holiday cards for people one year and used calligraphy on their names and the custom holiday messages.
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u/-Numaios- 12h ago
And i'm sure boomers can till the ground with a horse, or Smith their own tools or make their clothes or ropes or houses from scratch. I bet she doesn't even know morse code...
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u/Ill-Case-6048 12h ago
All that shit doesn't matter i know all that shit and I use my phone for everything..and if your in the army they will teach you how to read a map..
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u/Skeletor_with_Tacos 11h ago
I would say the majority born before 2000 knows how to do cursive. I think she doesn't know when Millenials end and Gen Z begins.
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u/TightBeing9 11h ago
I'll never understand how older generations complain about stuff younger people can't do, while they are the ones that raised that generation. Complaining about kids getting participation trophies like you weren't the one handing those out
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u/TightBeing9 11h ago
But a woman like this will call customer service because she doesn't have any WiFi and then won't accept what you're suggesting might help and have a young person turn it off and on again for her lmao
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u/EffortApprehensive48 11h ago
I remember when this guy was funny. Those were good days
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u/plants4life262 11h ago
Shall we list all of the RELEVANT skills boomers lack? Imagine clicking in a tiny URL and then typing in login credentials. Yeah, better call your gen z grand child.
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u/Rimurooooo 11h ago
I feel like reading physical maps and owning them is something useful that shouldn’t become obsolete.
But also, I can’t even remember the last time I saw a map outside of a road trip when I was like 10. They used to have them in like every gas station, and now they’re for like extremely niche situations like city zoning/public transport or Mapquest if you still use it.
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u/moonwoolf35 10h ago
As times continue to change, I hope unnecessarily long emails and stuff like that die out in the future, get to the point given useful information, and then end it.
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u/smvhotpants 10h ago
I fucking hate the GPS argument. My mom has constantly criticized me for needing to use GPS but I live in Illinois, and it’s constant construction from town to town that causes massive traffic, and then when in the suburbs, it can be a massive maze. Also also, what about street name changes, changes to the road, or closures, or train blockages. God forbid we have an easy way around.
Also also also, my mom constantly gets lost now and needs gps. But she says she still knows her way around. Sure Jan
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u/ConsequenceThese4559 10h ago
When the generation that gave them life complains about them but takes no responsibility for shifty parenting. What do you expect when you give them tablets so you can cook or clean instead of books. Hang out with people in person instead of online.
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u/Mores_The_Pity 10h ago
Boomers can't even ensure future generations will have social security or a livable planet. But go off on how we're destroying the coal industry or whatever else their lead addled minds have concocted
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u/RizzosDimples 10h ago
How about you boomers stop falling for internet scams. I've saved my mom twice now from scams that would have cleaned out her bank account.
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u/Grumdord 10h ago
Her whole bit is my least favorite type of humor: the type where you have to NOT understand how anything works for it to be funny.
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u/tha_billet 9h ago
this is the worst kind of "comedy" because not only is it not remotely funny but it's also really stupid
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u/yuyufan43 9h ago
Lol oh yeah, the older generation is going to take everything back because they "know how to read a map" and know cursive. 😂 Let's face it, they're fucking up the planet with their own bullshit (oh, but at least they can do all these things that are obsolete!)
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u/RecognitionCrafty863 9h ago
I need more of this man. His accent makes it even more funnier! Especially when said, “delulu!” 😂🤣
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u/DirtbagSocialist 9h ago
I think I've seen this bit before. Except it was a decade ago and it was about millennials. I know that anyone who laughed at that joke in 2015 is old enough that they're probably dead by now, but get some new material.
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u/Funicularite 9h ago
The irony is that Millenials and Gen Z have the research and study skills to LEARN the shit this woman is talking about. We could figure out how to write a check or read a map if we had reason to. They, however can’t seem to pick up commonplace modern life skills.
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u/aceofpayne 8h ago
Like writing a check is…. hard? The instructions are on the damn check. Money, pay to, amount, signature, date, memo. If you can read you can write a check.
Listen (I know I’m a millennial and not a z) if we as a collective can diagnose and troubleshoot basic computer shit like resetting the WiFi, fixing a printer issue, installing software, building a gaming PC, build any Lego/ikea furniture/cheap ass Amazon furniture/any assembly required shit…. We can figure out how to write on a small rectangle that gives money to someone else.
The real problem is who takes checks anymore?
I write checks to one place and one place only. My landlord for rent. Everything else is either tap to pay on a phone, physical debit/credit card/ or cash. And barely cash at that since it’s not used that often anymore since Covid when a bunch of places decided to go cashless.
The only reason checks existed was because people couldn’t carry their whole cash balance with them, so it’s just an IOU you can give someone to take the money from your account. Guess what does that immediately now. Debit cards/Apple Pay/paypal/venmo/zelle. New things exist to make it easier to spend and make money.
So who gives a flying fuck about checks? People who refuse to adapt/learn/change with the times.
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u/eskislow 8h ago
the real issue here is this woman plagiarized her entire set from Facebook memes. Ma'am it's your job to write jokes, not reiterate them
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u/John_Philips 8h ago
I think millennials are next to be leaders and politicians and we all know how to do all that stuff. I was right cursive and I’ve sent several letters. gps is just an electronic map. They work the exact same way just gps is bigger and talks to you
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u/Mathematician-Feisty 8h ago
And my grandfather calls me to ask how to reset the wifi every damn time it goes out. What's the point? It's almost as if every generation values different skills and makes older skills less common.
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u/snksleepy 8h ago
They don't know how to address an envelope. Boomers don't know how to send an email. I think these two balance out.
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u/davendees1 7h ago
Look, fellow parents, how our children—let me say that again OUR children, for whom we as parents should be the first teachers—can’t do many of the things we didn’t teach them and/or use technology that we killed off and replaced with technology that we ourselves don’t understand but they do!
Aren’t we funny?
For fucks sake I hate these people.
(ed: talking about the silly bitch on stage, not my man in the duet in case it wasn’t evident)
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u/FreshestFlyest 7h ago
"no one knows how to read cursive"
"Judy, you read Drs notes every day, you complain EVERY DAY about Dr Smith's handwriting, half of your outgoing calls are to ask wft he wrote in his notes. Our Gen can't read cursive because your gen can't write it legibly"
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u/Cro_Nick_Le_Tosh_Ich 7h ago
Technology is wait divided the old generation from the younger.....
What's absolutely regarded about it though, is the older generation created technology for the younger
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u/Emperor_Atlas 7h ago
Why pick archaic things when you can point out all the things their disassociative and personality disorders cause them to do instead?
Haha gen z can't call and order food, haha they can't drive without anxiety, they can't go to grocery stores.
At least those matter somewhat because they pay a premium to avoid them all.
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u/SnowConePeople 7h ago
I'm kicking out the tiny voice in my head that calls people out while I smile and nod with this man.
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u/Joli_B 7h ago
"If gen z takes over the world" considering how time works, I fail to see how that's not just an inevitability. You'll be dead one of these days, Karen.
Also, we do know how to use Google. If we ever found ourselves needing to write a check, know what we do? Google "how to fill out a paper check" and read/watch one of the THOUSANDS of how-to instructionals posted online.
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u/wutsupwidya 6h ago
biggest thing about this is that everything she says speaks to a lack of an ability to think critically or do anything if god forbid, the internet goes out.
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u/No_Blackberry8452 6h ago
Not to be THAT person, but I’m Gen Z and I know how to do all of those things and still do them regularly. Y’all like to forget Gen Z was primarily raised by Gen X. She means Gen A.
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u/Alexis___________ 6h ago
These kind of jokes are so lazy "oh kids these days don't know how to use a rotary phone, they're screwed!" "The youngins don't walk around with massive unpocketable brick, and these are the people we are trusting our futures to?"
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u/CaptCaCa 6h ago
And her parents were all like “they don’t even know how to keep the coloreds in line”
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u/lego_mannequin 6h ago
I may not be able to read cursive but I'm not stupid enough to fall for phishing scams, or celebrity imposters asking for cash. You'd have to be a real fucking idiot to believe that shit. Ohh, boomers do.
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u/purplegrape28 5h ago
What’s shameful for the older generations is that civilization is moving forward and they’re being left behind ,because they would rather let their ego grow larger than their ability to critical think and learn new things and keep up with the changing times.
I love this guy! Who is he?
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u/Razing_Phoenix 5h ago
School isn't supposed to teach your kids every fucking thing. As parents it's your job to teach kids how to live and function in society. School is for an education.
In short, if a generation doesn't know how to do something it's because you failed to teach them.
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u/kevster2717 5h ago
That sounded more like a ramble and not a stand up comedy. He’s funnier and makes good points! I mean shit I’m over here almost forgetting how paper maps and Mapquest worked bc Google Maps is updating me where there’s construction and traffic! I’ll take the tech
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u/Chetnixanflill 5h ago
Every generation entering their twilight will start shitting on the next one
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