Odd Stuff (Part 4)

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Umā€¦ yes. They do. My gen Z has dozens of sketch books for exampleā€¦ If sheā€™s not using paper in class, for one, itā€™s not by her choice. Thatā€™s the school pushing as much possible online, not her making a choice about how she does her work.

Also, this sounds like made up bullshit, that kids ā€œpauseā€ before speaking because they heard it in their musicā€¦ do Gen Xers get half way through a conversation and then do a flip before continuing, because many of us grew up on vinyl?

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Itā€™s true, I was being slightly sarcastic. What I wrote was more of a get-off-my-lawn reaction to stuff like:

Becoming aware of the phenomenon has caused some millennials to question whether they are becoming too old.[10] People have also noted that, once they have been made aware that their recordings include millennial pauses, they find their own habit embarrassing, but also have trouble breaking the habit.[19]

Iā€™m not embarrassed for this pause, and Iā€™ll make no effort to break this ā€œhabitā€ either.

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Certainly funny, but my attempts to find it on their site (for research purposes) at the San Jose (ge) store havenā€™t been successful.

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This Is Us Emmys 2017 GIF by Emmys

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not that iā€™ve ever noticed. however, i grew up listening to 8 track tapes and will occasionally pause in the middle of a sentence and say ā€œclickā€ before continuing. weird, that.

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Thatā€™s silly. They put a pencil in their mouths and twirl it!

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(Guess the Manchin family fails on space exploration. Too bad.)

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I thought that was from watching all those eXtreme sports in the 90s

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Thereā€™s a good movie about the theft of the stone of destiny by some college students starring Charlie Cox.

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Itā€™s on Prime- with ads.

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Maybe not, but the Japanese have perfected the technology:

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On January 18, 2023, a zoomer posted a TikTok video describing how zoomers often start recording their videos right before placing their cameras on a stable surface. [ā€¦] Lindsay reported that she has also found videos that begin while the recorder is in the middle of a task, such as finishing a bite of food, so that it may take some time before the recorder actually addresses the audience.

ā€œBefore stopping to say, ā€˜oh, sorry, I didnā€™t see you thereā€™ā€

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Well, hereā€™s one: https://www.queerty.com/what-on-earth-is-bubbling-and-why-did-it-cost-aussie-rugby-star-todd-carney-3-million-20140702

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Tarmac, the Mackintosh, the flush toilet, andā€¦sex

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Microbrachius - tiny arm? That ainā€™t no arm

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