Greyfag here. Sup Forums is slow again today, so anyone fancy a chat

Greyfag here. Sup Forums is slow again today, so anyone fancy a chat.

I see some of the shit that young people have to deal with and I don't think I'd want to be young at this time, but then again it's all probably what you're having to grow up with, so it's normal for you.

Similarly, some of the stuff we had (or didn't have) back in the day would probably piss you off or make you laugh.

So, ask me anything. I'm 61, married, no kids, UK based and work as an engineer/project manager. I'll answer honestly, except if it would lead to doxx. I will probably ignore the stupid and the trolls. I realise that this will probably go straight to 404; but let's see

Over to you, Sup Forums.

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Hmmm. Looks like I was right about the 404

Yep, looks like the 404 looms.

Ah, well. I tried

Im 27 what age would you say is like the physical prime, and would you have wanted kids and other didn't work out or like was it a choice to go sansruggrats

Now that's interesting. I thought the chins had disabled bumping your own thread so you had to have new posters to bump it up the pages, to avoid self-bumps and a two-person thread being at the top. I'd be interested if anyone actually knows how the thread prioritisation and promotion actually works. I know sage allegedly doesn't.

do you have a television licence sir?

For me, it was probably when I was 29. I was an overeweight boy/teen, but in my late 20's I got my shit together and was running, playing squash, badminton and doing the gym.

As far as kids go - that was a choice. Luckily my wife agreed

Of course. I'm an upstanding British citizen.

would you fuck the queen?

Im honestly a little jealous. Life before the internet seems charming. You didnt know about much of the bad things jn this world.

If you mean in a sexual congress, rather than a Sex Pistols way, no, not now. Too old, even for me.

But in her youth, absolutely, even if she was a bit "upper-class horsey". Pic relevant

Kids have to both grow, -and- adjust to the changing world around them. The world of today is changing at a rate that even adults have trouble with.
The vast majority of schools aren't equipped to endow reality to these kids properly. Couple that with the insipid parental advice of "You can do -Aaaaannnyyything-, and the kids end up full of dreams and wishes without plans or approaches to getting them. So an entire generation (mine, I'm 27), felt a considerable whiplash when we became adults. Paradoxically, when the world opened up to us, we had to figure out how many doors were closed. The turnover rate of millennials in the workforce is wholly indicative of their confusion and frustration towards a type of world that nobody bothered to truly ingratiate them into.

Kek, iam 39 and thought i was the oldest fag on the board.

>You didnt know about much of the bad things jn this world.
In that it wasn't in your living room, in colour, on video, with sound, yes, you're right. Which is how the Nazis got away with the concentration camps (although we Brits actually gave the concentration camp concept to the world).

But there was still news, pictures and newsreels, so we were't completely cut off from reality.

Shit hit me like a brick in my early 20s
Same for a lot of peoplewhy do people mass lie about stuff that important anyway

No where near, user. No where near. There's many in their 40's, 50's and 60's; we mostly just lurk and snigger, though

>(although we Brits actually gave the concentration camp concept to the world).
no we didn't

I was an oversized teen as well and now, thanks to /fit/ and a bunch of hard work I'm actually looking good and feeling better. I ran into my highschool sweetheart and now we're looking at getting together, had a holiday with her and it all went well. We're both interested in kids so that might be a thing for me but, man I am having such a hard time finding meaningful employment. I work for the licensing and regulatory affairs administration of my state government but, the pay is terrible and I really don't feel like I'll advance far. Now I'm gonna move to be with this woman if things keep moving in that direction but that'll mean looking for new work, is love worth it greylord

fuck off. you miss the point of Sup Forums

>ngaf your age
>ngaf your life experience

go fucking avatarfag somewhere else

OP here. I understand exactly what you mean. We had no illusion about the world of work, the need for discipline and hard work and thjat it was a dog-eat-dog world. But, on the other hand, there was a thriving middle-class skilled and semi-professional sector for jobs - you didn't like a job? Quit and you could get another one next week. Also, jobs for life and workplace social clubs were a thing, with companies looking after their employees and their families (I used to go the the kid's Christmas party at my father's company every year)

It's not like that now

I'm 27 always been poor always saw life for what it was, quit bitchen get to figuring shit out, not saying it's easy but, if a no education poorfag can get a government job and a safety net than so can you

I've checked and looks like you're right. Thanks. I'd always though t we came up with them in the Boer War

The more you know, eh?

>is love worth it greylord
OP again. I don't think I'm one to ask - I'm a bit of an emotional cripple, perhaps slightly on the spectrum

The point of Sup Forums is to be random.

The point of your post is to show to everyone ITT how oldfaggy and down with the Sup Forums ethos you are. I bet you wish Snacks came back.

But thanks for taking the time to givel me something I'm not in the least interested in

This is actually something I've noticed about older people: you're really badly educated (no offence, but you are). It's really obvious how limited access to information (and everything else) was back in the day, because you all know so very, very little about the world. My mum is about your age and just yesterday she said she was surprised how many pupils at her primary school had eaten mango before - because when she was a kid they didn't have that sort of thing. Pasta was considered foreign food back then.

OP here. He's actually got a government job, but it sounds like he doesn't like it.

As a greyfag I'd always say education. I have STEM qualifications and I've never been out of work for long, and work has taken me to Europe, American and Japan. My wife is in computers and she's always earned more than I have, but we pool all monies.

how do i deal with cancerous teenage angst

Part-time job at 17, worked my way up to full-time after my AD, been with the same company for 10 years and counting.
I figured my shit out. But every time I surf the bookfaces and such, there's always stories among my friends. The same old song of "the old job is dead, long live the new job", and guess how long that lasts. I watch most of my friends flounder. Throwing job opportunities at the wall and seeing what sticks. And when it doesn't stick, it's for the same reason. "That job was bullshit". I'd learned that bullshit was ubiquitous, but also temporary. They're still figuring that out, the hard way.

Part of your post is true, but your opinion that I am badly educated is incorrect. I had no interest in history or geography, so dropped them as subjects as early as I could. You can't say someone who has two degrees, one of them a First Class honours is badly educated. It's just my education in in a different area.

I love your sense of superiority, though

You'll grow out of it, and come to realise you were being angsty over shit that doesn't matter.

Just remember that you control your emotions and reactions, not them you.

>badly educated
this is perhaps a poor term. I should have said that you lack general knowledge. Some of you are, as you say, well educated. You just don't know much outside what you specifically studied at university.

OP here. Also, people can end up doing jobs because they think they are cool-soundin without understanding what they entail. I could never understand these people in their first engineering role who said that they wanted to be an MD some day - they didn't have an idea what an MD did and could easily hate it, but they liked the idea of money prestige and power

>I should have said that you lack general knowledge
Again, I love your generalisation. You appear to know that the British didn't invent the concentration camp whereas I didn't, and that is allowing you to paste a generalisation onto me.

By the way, who did invent them? No Googling, now.

Fixating on the ends, while the means hit them in the face. Elegant proof of faulty education. Very few teachers or professors I've had could ever pull off explaining the reality of a pursuit while remaining encouraging about it.

>Very few teachers or professors I've had could ever pull off explaining the reality of a pursuit while remaining encouraging about it.
"He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches" George Bernard Shaw.

I have a question
My gf left me so she could be with her cheating ex again
If she ever returns should I consider giving her a second chance?
Yeah i know she did it once she'll do it again
But what if she changes?
Pls halp
Ty

OP. Tough call. I don't know her or you, but I'd say the odds weren't good of you ever having a meaningful relationship with her. She's chosen to leave you - I think you should accept that choice and move on.

The old expression of leopards not changing their spots does have a kernel of truth

Yeah that's what i thought as well
Thanks my man
Kinda hard to forget that bitch

How big is ur pp Mr beans-for-breakfast Buckingham?

Yes -and- no.

Cut ties with her. Make it abundantly clear how her actions have broken your view of her, and rewritten how you feel about her. Block her number, etc etc. Do not talk to her for at least 6 months.

Your silence in that span will either cast her to the wind (meaning she didn't care in the first place), or it will tear her down on the inside (letting her learn on her own what her actions do to those she cares about)

If she tries to talk to you after that 6 months, open the door again. Make it clear only once that you have zero tolerance for your heart being played with. If her remorse is genuine, I'd say you'd have a soft 80-85% chance she'll remain faithful this time.

this. i'm 48. was old when i started coming here in '06

Damn that's good advice that's my man
You bros are killing it today

Are you looking forward to deteriorating health/time of contemplation that old age brings? What about afterlife?

I can't imagine why you'd want to know, and I can tell you're trying to be funny, but just under 6" by 6.5" (that's about 145 mm x 165 mm if you don't Imperial)

And I have porridge for breakfast. You nearly qualified for troll stratus

Nearly but not is always a fine line to tread in conversation. Is the "paki problem" as serious as grumpy brits make it?

OP here.

This
wasn't me, but it's sound advice (relationships are not my strong suit - I've only ever really been successful with one, and that includes family).

My only concern would be that if her ex is a cheater, as you imply, and doesn't change his ways he may cheat on her again, causing her to bounce back to you without having fundamentally changed, just that you're there, stable and will support her while she gets her self esteem back. Rinse and repeat.

Yeah that's what I'm afraid of
She might just use me as a rebound but part of me kinda hopes that she would change

Yes, indeed. That's why you cut them off at the bounce-back.
"I'm not your fucking contingency. I refuse to be the spare battery in your vibrator."

>Is the "paki problem" as serious as grumpy brits make it
Yes and no. We are not overrun my Muslims, with no-go areas and Sharia law, as some of the media would have you believe.

However, we do have a problem with integration, which I personally put down to the failed multi-cultural problem of the past. I may com across as old, reaactionary and racist here, but I hasve no problem with the colour of a person's skin, but this is Britain, we speak English and we behave in certain ways and believe certain things. Allowing people to set up enclaves of belief and behavioural isolation at odds with that is, in my opinion, a recipe for cultural conflict and misunderstanding.

Mind you, we can talk. Just look at the non-Spanish-speaking British ex-pats living in colonies, eating full English breakfasts and reading The Sun and The Daily Mail on the Spanish Costa Brava

I'm in my nineties. I'm like a shadow upon a daybreak, getting thinner until I soon vanish. This OP guy is a youngin with a life ahead of him. Carpe diem, kids.

OP here. Fuck me but my typing sucks balls. I hope the post I linked to actually makes snse

OP here. If true, then you're the oldest I've ever seen on Sup Forums. You're older as my mother. What did you do in WWII?

Put Jews in the oven

Droll. And that rhymes too. Fuck off now, there's a good little boy. Adults talking

OP here. Be right back. Need a mug of tea

OP here. Back, if there's any further interest ITT

Apologies - missed this post.
I'm not looking forward to deteriorating health or long periods of contemplation. Given a choice, as I need to die of something, a short, illness that kills me quickly, but gives me sufficient time to get my affairs in order.

There is no afterlife. This is it, and soon I'll be gone.

>There is no afterlife.
Yea as if you know. Your consciousness goes on and you'll be like damn that one poster was right.

I doubt the user who posted this is still here, but it appears the reason I thought the Brits invented the concentration camp was down to Emily Hobhouse
>The third country to set up concentration camps was Britain, during the Second Boer War in November 1900 (almost simultaneously with the Americans). The reasons were similar; Britain was at war with the two Boer Republics of South Africa, which had turned to guerilla warfare once their field armies were defeated. The decision was taken to concentrate the civilians into camps, then destroy the crops and farms they'd left behind so the guerilla armies would run out of supplies. As with the two previous situations, those camps soon became rife with disease and 27,000 people died, mostly from measles, pneumonia, typhoid and dysentery.
>However, there was one difference. The British feminist and charity worker Emily Hobhouse visited the camps, was horrified at the conditions there, and launched a campaign to alert the public to what was going on and force a change in government policy.
>ronically, Hobhouse's high-profile campaigning ensured that far more people, in Britain and abroad, became aware of the concentration camps in South Africa as compared to the much more obscure camps in Cuba and the Philippines; leading to the false perception today that the British camps were the first to be set up.
Source: quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-first-concentration-camps-were-a-British-invention-during-the-Boer-War

Your beliefs are yours. Mine are mine. I'd say, based on the evidence I've seen, that mine is right. But then I would - confirmation bias.

If your's gives you comfort, then I'm happy for you.

*yours (no apostrophe)

I have experienced things you would never believe. Trust me. You will survive death and I was right. Remember my words.

>I have experienced things you would never believe.
The issue, of course, is whether the things you experienced were actually real. After all, all you had were your senses to tell you.

I'm not going to ask you for evidence to back up your claims, as that would be like teaching a pig to sing

I have evoked spirits hundreds if not thousands of times, and this one time I experienced something and learned many secrets. I could relay them to you if you want.

I'm 22 and my hair is almost all gray. Do you have any advice. Please help oh wise one.

>I could relay them to you if you want.
No you couldn't You may believe or you may be delusional. Either way, you can offer no concrete evidence. Just saying "....but I did" does not qualify as evidence.

All research and experimentation into the supernatural has drawn a blank, so I doubt you have anything meaningful to add. If you do, you should have gone for the $1m Randi prize

I'm not wise, just older than you are. If you're going grey at 22 then you have 3 clear options.
1. Live with it
2. Cut it all off
3. Dye it

I have shared this on Sup Forums but only once or twice and thus I take it you prolly haven't read it. It's what I learned in a nutshell. I've seen things like true psychokinetic phenomena that can't be "in my head" so I personally know that there is more to the mind than this physical matter. Do read it if you want, but know that it's not a joke.

Actually, upon reflection, there is a fourth option, which is more camouflage than fix. Wear a hat.

Difficult to pull off 24/7, mind

The supernatural is all bullshit, but you can't say spoopy shit don't happen

Ah, thanks for clarifying Delusional it is.

I think you're done in this thread.

>All research and experimentation into the supernatural has drawn a blank
That's what people tell themselves because they are afraid of the unknown. Similar skeptics tested Daniel Dunglas Home back in the day and had to admit that he wasn't a fraud. Well not an entire fraud anyway (?), but it's funny how some people think there is no smoke without fire. Maybe you should try Goetic evocation yourself?

>but you can't say spoopy shit don't happen
Yes I can. Nothing happens that cannot be explained. At the time, your impressionable cave-man mind may go into overload and convince you that something spooky happened, coupled with our genetic tendency to believe in something. But in the cold light of day, all can be explained.

That's not to say that I don't jump at unexpected sounds at night, when I know there's no-one there. Damn amygdala

I refer you to my second sentence here
Please close the door on your way out. I'm not going to enable you any further

>a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will. His biographer Peter Lamont opines that he was one of the most famous men of his era.[1] Harry Houdini described him as "one of the most conspicuous and lauded of his type and generation" and "the forerunner of the mediums whose forte is fleecing by presuming on the credulity of the public."
I'm with Houdini. I lump you in with Houdini's public

Yea as if you lived Daniel Dunglas Home's life in his own point of view and experienced every single thing that he experienced from birth to death. Otherwise you cannot know. People like Houdini are spiritual retards.

OP here. Well that appears to be that.

Thanks to all the contributors, it was an interesting way to pass a couple of hours, while doing other stuff in the background

As often happens with these threads, once the sensible contributors leave, all that's left are the trolls and nutters, so I'm out

I'm the nutter who posted about magick. Sorry for derailing your thread. I won't post again ITT.