Dark Days Ahead

[Smitty-48]

Humor is underrated. Being funny attracts the right kind of girls. A lot of people have no sense of humor. Stay away from them.

Self deprecation too. Taking one's self too seriously is a negative.

don't overdo that

that's what Capps does, he undersells himself

Millennials already have an impulse to be self depreciating, but they overdo that at closing time

it's like they are waiting for the girl to give them permission, they are too self deprecating to just take her

self deprecation is a defense mechanism, they are protecting themselves in preparation for rejection

dating is all about selling, trashing your own product is a bad strategy

[Smitty-48]

my wife agrees, Capps undersells himself

the kind of girl Capps wants is like my wife

she says she wants a man to take charge when it comes to romance

[Haumana]

don't overdo that

that's what Capps does, he undersells himself

Millennials already have an impulse to be self depreciating, but they overdo that at closing time

it's like they are waiting for the girl to give them permission, they are too self deprecating to just take her

self deprecation is a defense mechanism, they are protecting themselves in preparation for rejection

dating is all about selling, trashing your own product is a bad strategy

I was talking about the willingness to laugh at your own foibles. Maybe I used the wrong word. Fuck ups can be made funny especially your own.

[Smitty-48]

don't overdo that

that's what Capps does, he undersells himself

Millennials already have an impulse to be self depreciating, but they overdo that at closing time

it's like they are waiting for the girl to give them permission, they are too self deprecating to just take her

self deprecation is a defense mechanism, they are protecting themselves in preparation for rejection

dating is all about selling, trashing your own product is a bad strategy

I was talking about the willingness to laugh at your own foibles. Maybe I used the wrong word. Fuck ups can be made funny especially your own.

girls are very forgiving when they are twitterpated

when you are sexy you can get away with anything

[Smitty-48]

you have to understand the Millennial mindset

Generation X is Ferris Bueller

the Milllennials are Cameron

[Smitty-48]

it's like a Chinese finger puzzle

the Millennial girls play hard to get, they are standoffish, needing to be tamed

the Millennial dudes seem to interpret this as meaning these girls want them to be nicer, gratuitous

quid pro quo, you are nice to the girl, she likes you, then she hands over her putty

but actually the opposite is the case, the girls have contempt for this obsequiousness

it's like the song says

Someone who never asks for love
But knows how to take it
Are you that somebody
Who sees a wall and breaks it?

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

you have to understand the Millennial mindset

Generation X is Ferris Bueller

the Milllennials are Cameron

Doesn't Bueller manipulate Cameron, mess up his life, and steal from him - like a sociopath would?

Good analogy.

[Smitty-48]

you have to understand the Millennial mindset

Generation X is Ferris Bueller

the Milllennials are Cameron

Doesn't Bueller manipulate Cameron, mess up his life, and steal from him - like a sociopath would?

Good analogy.

again, I am not invoking Generation X as particularly virtuous

our survival strategy with the Boomers was to ruthlessly pursue our own agendas

in fairness, there was going to be a nuclear war, so we didn't think of the future, the future was now

then the Cold War ended and the Boomers started birthing these Millennials

we knew these little Millennial brats were going to push us aside

they had every advantage in the world, while we had to raise ourselves

but that made us the predators and them the prey

we couldn't beat the Vampire Squids, all we could do was play the Boomer game to our advantage

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

they had every advantage in the world, while we had to raise ourselves

This explains why Gen X is so desperate for approval, and why they invented victimhood culture and Critical Theory - not enough hugs.

Also, why it is the generation that put an album that was unironically titled 'Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness' to the top of the charts.

[Smitty-48]

they had every advantage in the world, while we had to raise ourselves

This explains why Gen X is so desperate for approval, and why they invented victimhood culture and Critical Theory - not enough hugs.

Also, why it is the generation that put an album that was unironically titled 'Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness' to the top of the charts.

Indeed, as I say, Millennial culture is just our culture on steroids

but we got to enjoy it, for us it was a boon, and we got everything we ever wanted just by being ourselves

then the empire collapsed in 2008, so the Millennials missed the bus, they are out in the cold

so we are not bitter, we are not melancholy now, because we made it to the promised land, just under the wire

at this point we Gen Xers are moving on to the next phase, confronting our mortality

all I say to Millennials is that this middle aged phase came up fast, whoosh, just like that

one moment I was Ferris Bueller pulling my wife to be into a romantic kiss at the pub while the bar cheered

then twenty years went by in a flash

the early part of your life moves much slower

once you get into your thirties the pace picks up

so all this angst about saving the world from itself ?

that is in fact wasting time which you don't actually have

we Gen Xers have been warning you about what the future was like since you were babies

but you just don't listen, and we can't save your from yourselves, we don't have that delusion