Pet Peeves IV

[Pretty Boy]

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The overused line of "Totally different players" when someone doesn't want to commit or admit that one player is better than the other. Coronation St and the Sopranos are totally different TV shows, but I know which is f****ng better.

"I'm glad you're not picking the team" - as if there is a live danger that someone from hibs.net might randomly be installed to select the team for the match taking place in 3 days' time.

Can I add 'I'll stick to trusting the manager thank you very much' to the list.

[Pretty Boy]

People who don't know what a millenial is. It seems to have become a generic term thrown about as an insult by people who hate anyone younger than them.

The first millenial grandparents now exist. We really aren't that young anymore.

[Hibrandenburg]

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People who don't know what a millenial is. It seems to have become a generic term thrown about as an insult by people who hate anyone younger than them.

The first millenial grandparents now exist. We really aren't that young anymore.

It's always been a peeve of mine that older generations look down upon the younger ones. Most of the things in this world that hold us back are circumstances and beliefs we have been forced to inherit from previous generations. As parents we need to prepare our kids for the environment that they will have to live in, not the one we were born into.

[overdrive]

Folk that put in a meeting request with a Teams meeting link in it, then don’t use the link themselves. There’s a new guy at work who does this, I click the link and wait in the meeting room only for him to call me separately via a direct Teams call.

On the same theme, the Teams TV ad… I’m on Teams most of the day, I’d rather not hear the dreaded Teams alert noise whilst I’m watching TV, thank you very much.

[Moulin Yarns]

Hibs fans and their unreasonable sense of entitlement regards the cup final ticket allocation.

[O'Rourke3]

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Hibs fans and their unreasonable sense of entitlement regards the cup final ticket allocation.

I'd quote the whole thread. Theres a pervading sense of anger before any facts are known. Then a pile on. There's a number of false equivalences, then a pile on There's assumptions and misinformation, then a pile on. Explanations given then ignored and.... another pile on.
Unworkable suggestions given the time frame.
It's a cracking end of season anger fest which is like a match day thread but so much worse.

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[danhibees1875]

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People who don't know what a millenial is. It seems to have become a generic term thrown about as an insult by people who hate anyone younger than them.

The first millenial grandparents now exist. We really aren't that young anymore.

Do we get away with it if we also never use the term?

I didn't really become aware of all these generational names until there was too many of them to want to understand...

I'd want to say someone born just after the millennium but presumably they're not the grandparents you speak of...

[Killiehibbie]

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People who don't know what a millenial is. It seems to have become a generic term thrown about as an insult by people who hate anyone younger than them.

The first millenial grandparents now exist. We really aren't that young anymore.

What chance do they have when the experts can't even agree?

[Jay]

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Do we get away with it if we also never use the term?

I didn't really become aware of all these generational names until there was too many of them to want to understand...

I'd want to say someone born just after the millennium but presumably they're not the grandparents you speak of...

Its not a term I used but heard of quite a bit. I'd always presumed it was people born around the millennium so late teens,/early twenties. A woman on dragons den called herself a millennial and I realised I was wrong. Apparently it's people who became adults around the millennium so late 30s now.

[Pretty Boy]

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Do we get away with it if we also never use the term?

I didn't really become aware of all these generational names until there was too many of them to want to understand...

I'd want to say someone born just after the millennium but presumably they're not the grandparents you speak of...

It's generally accepted as people born between 1980 and 1994, though some stretch it to 1996. Those born late 90s through early 2010s are Gen Z and those from about 2012 onwards are Gen Alpha.

[Killiehibbie]

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It's generally accepted as people born between 1980 and 1994, though some stretch it to 1996. Those born late 9ps through early 2010s are Gen Z and those from about 2012 onwards are Gen Alpha.

Is it not easier to refer to people by the decade they were born in?

[Pretty Boy]

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Is it not easier to refer to people by the decade they were born in?

Possibly. I think the terms are used to describe generations with defining characteristics and shared societal and economic experiences though. That doesn't really work if you break everything into 10 year blocks.

I don't really care. My gripe is more with people who use a term as an insult that they don't understand themselves.

I read someone the other day mouthing off about millenials being spoilt brats because they had been brought up with iPhones since the day they were born. That's just blatant nonsense spouted by someone who either doesn't know what a millenial is or doesn't know when the 1st iPhone was released.

[Moulin Yarns]

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Is it not easier to refer to people by the decade they were born in?

I wonder how many would like to be known as naughties

[Santa Cruz]

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People who don't know what a millenial is. It seems to have become a generic term thrown about as an insult by people who hate anyone younger than them.

The first millenial grandparents now exist. We really aren't that young anymore.

The over use of referring to people as Boomers or Karen's. I don't know what a boomer is, but accept I'm a bit of a Karen, cos my daughter tells me regularly when I complain about being charged twice for an order etc

[Bangkok Hibby]

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It's generally accepted as people born between 1980 and 1994, though some stretch it to 1996. Those born late 90s through early 2010s are Gen Z and those from about 2012 onwards are Gen Alpha.

When did this nonsense start and who was the twat who started it? Its all crept up on me. Shoot me if I ever use these terms. Spoke to my son who's in his thirties and he's never used these terms either.

[Pretty Boy]

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When did this nonsense start and who was the twat who started it? Its all crept up on me. Shoot me if I ever use these terms. Spoke to my son who's in his thirties and he's never used these terms either.

I don't think it is something that people use in everyday conversation. Millenial and boomer are the 2 that are probably used the most often, generally both as insults.

These kinds of terms have been around for years though. I can remember reading about the lost generation, silent generation, generation x etc at least 20 years ago. In Eastern Europe those brought up immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union were termed the independence generation, there were Husaks Children in the former Czechoslovakia, the post 80s in China, the Columbuses in Poland and so on.

[Killiehibbie]

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When did this nonsense start and who was the twat who started it? Its all crept up on me. Shoot me if I ever use these terms. Spoke to my son who's in his thirties and he's never used these terms either.

I reckon I first heard about the baby boomers when the companies started to realise that their was a huge pension deficit, probably late 80's. Always thought Generation X were ok but not my favourite band.

[WeeRussell]

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I don't think it is something that people use in everyday conversation. Millenial and boomer are the 2 that are probably used the most often, generally both as insults.

These kinds of terms have been around for years though. I can remember reading about the lost generation, silent generation, generation x etc at least 20 years ago. In Eastern Europe those brought up immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union were termed the independence generation, there were Husaks Children in the former Czechoslovakia, the post 80s in China, the Columbuses in Poland and so on.

Yep it’s only something I’ve ever had to be involved with at work (baby boomers, millennials, generation X) and don’t think I’ve ever seen any of the terms used outside the workplace, apart from on quiz shows/possibly the news. It’s alarming if the sort of people that don’t understand their insults have now started with this...

[Wilson]

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When did this nonsense start and who was the twat who started it? Its all crept up on me. Shoot me if I ever use these terms. Spoke to my son who's in his thirties and he's never used these terms either.

I had to look it up. If I go with this thread then 1980 makes me a millennial. Not something I'd have called myself. Other sources make me generation X - the 'latchkey" generation - which seems more like me. Others again say that 1980 is on the cusp of both so technically I'm a Xennial....

It is nonsense.

[Keith_M]

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People who don't know what a millenial is. It seems to have become a generic term thrown about as an insult by people who hate anyone younger than them.

The first millenial grandparents now exist. We really aren't that young anymore.

I'd take that a bit further and say that a pet peeve of mine is the labelling of groups of people, and then using that label to describe them as if they were a group with almost identical views, circumstances, morals, etc.

These labels are, as you say, then used as a means to dismiss people's viewpoints or to attack them based on people's own prejudices.

[Pretty Boy]

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I'd take that a bit further and say that a pet peeve of mine is the labelling of groups of people, and then using that label to describe them as if they were a group with almost identical views, circumstances, morals, etc.

These labels are, as you say, then used a means to dismiss people's viewpoints or to attack them based on people's own prejudices.

Oh I agree. I think that was actually my initial peeve this morning albeit framed differently.

Now I've somehow become the defender of the label. I think these things probably have a place in sociological circles and the like but stuff like 'OK boomer' and the aforementioned claptrap about millenials is just tedious.

[matty_f]

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Or air fry it!

Even better!

[Pretty Boy]

Those white rimmed shoes that are everywhere.

Football pundits wearing them with jeans is fair enough. Brendan Rodgers wearing them at the FA Cup Final is a fail by any sartorial standards.

[Hibernia&Alba]

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Those white rimmed shoes that are everywhere.

Football pundits wearing them with jeans is fair enough. Brendan Rodgers wearing them at the FA Cup Final is a fail by any sartorial standards.

I haven't seen those.

[Killiehibbie]

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Those white rimmed shoes that are everywhere.

Football pundits wearing them with jeans is fair enough. Brendan Rodgers wearing them at the FA Cup Final is a fail by any sartorial standards.

Jack Ross is borrowing them for next week.

[Keith_M]

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Oh I agree. I think that was actually my initial peeve this morning albeit framed differently.

Now I've somehow become the defender of the label. I think these things probably have a place in sociological circles and the like but stuff like 'OK boomer' and the aforementioned claptrap about millenials is just tedious.

OK, got you.

[bingo70]

Apparently it’s now a thing that brunch is served all day in bars and restaurants.

I went out for a pint and a scran this afternoon, looked at the menu before going and was looking forward to it. Got there at about 2pm to be told only the brunch menu was available. Lots of stuff I didn’t like as well as french toast, croissants, pancakes or a fry up.

Ended up getting a fry up which was really nice but that’s no the point. My wife tells me that’s just what the modern bars are doing now and is apparently trendy to do go out for brunch in the middle of the afternoon?

****ing stupid in my opinion. Should be a breakfast menu before 12, main menu after 12.

[scoopyboy]

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Apparently it’s now a thing that brunch is served all day in bars and restaurants.

I went out for a pint and a scran this afternoon, looked at the menu before going and was looking forward to it. Got there at about 2pm to be told only the brunch menu was available. Lots of stuff I didn’t like as well as french toast, croissants, pancakes or a fry up.

Ended up getting a fry up which was really nice but that’s no the point. My wife tells me that’s just what the modern bars are doing now and is apparently trendy to do go out for brunch in the middle of the afternoon?

****ing stupid in my opinion. Should be a breakfast menu before 12, main menu after 12.

Went out for my first meal since Christmas Eve today to the Brig in Tranent.

Table for three at 1pm, all day breakfast available if you wanted it but more importantly for us a cracking menu. Three course meal each with soft drinks £70, it was braw.

Can't be bothered with all this new fancy stuff, I like the traditional menu.

[Peevemor]

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Apparently it’s now a thing that brunch is served all day in bars and restaurants.

I went out for a pint and a scran this afternoon, looked at the menu before going and was looking forward to it. Got there at about 2pm to be told only the brunch menu was available. Lots of stuff I didn’t like as well as french toast, croissants, pancakes or a fry up.

Ended up getting a fry up which was really nice but that’s no the point. My wife tells me that’s just what the modern bars are doing now and is apparently trendy to do go out for brunch in the middle of the afternoon?

****ing stupid in my opinion. Should be a breakfast menu before 12, main menu after 12.

Nothing wrong with a pub having a fry on it's Sunday lunchtime menu. I used to love rolling out my scratcher late on a Sunday morning in time to go and meet up with pals for brunch and a pint (or a bloody Mary then a pint). Those were the days!

[bingo70]

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Nothing wrong with a pub having a fry on it's Sunday lunchtime menu. I used to love rolling out my scratcher late on a Sunday morning in time to go and meet up with pals for brunch and a pint (or a bloody Mary then a pint). Those were the days!

Definitely.

It was all breakfast stuff they had though and it was the middle of the afternoon!

I was fancying a burger or something.