I work at a retirement "village" in the memory care unit. The monthly rent is 8k the residents rent the hospital beds $100 a week and recliners $75 a week. They are charged for everything. If they wish to eat a meal in their rooms they are charged $200 a month for someone bringing a fucking room tray to them. and I get $21 per hour. The system is fucked. And it makes me sick. Taking advantage to those poor vulnerable people.
We're busy building a cabin behind my house for my retired parents. It cost 1/10th the price they would've paid the retirement home for the next ten years, and now they can save that money for something like frail care or unforseen issues in the future.
This happens because the greedy retirement-biz scumbags know there are plenty of clients at just the right age to have life savings, investments, pensions, and social security to pay their outrageous prices. They will not have them 10 or 20 years from now.
Dude, you just described my best friends grandma, the family had to pull her back home BC they couldn’t afford the 8.4k a month, and she was being mistreated, and complaints were ignored. so yea, super messed up,
Thankfully I work with amazing people for the most part. I helped take care of a former boss/friend mentor for about 4 years and realized that I enjoy the work. I gotta tell you it is very rewarding for the right people. And true caretakers are out there
I work in hvac and have work in retirement homes. The family that owns Aegis Living have a big old family portrait in their lobby and they just exude wealth and affluence, just sponging up what they can out of families and their loved ones and then flaunting it
Yyyup. Guaranteed inability to get pregnant, not much else to do with your time, and a LOT of people suddenly single for very loneliness-inducing reasons is a very horny combination.
I hang out with the folks from the retirement apartments next to mine, because my dog made friends with their dogs. They've got stories, also there is always some sort of drama going on. Apparently Ricardo through a banger of a Labor day BBQ. So much so he was angry at Rhonda for not taking pictures so he could show management how it's done. 🤣
Lol in the same boat but I always knew. I've never had a same sex relationship cause I met my spouse so early. On one hand kind of a bummer but on the other, I already have the special person I want to spend my life with and that's so much more.
But on a more serious note: we’re not too old for anything. Wear some forever 21 and carry that loose debbie card while you go clubbing exploring being bi if you want. Just be nice to your knees/backs, spend time with your aging family and be a good parent if you go that route.
My (male) fiance (female) has said pretty much exactly that to me haha. “If I could go back I think I’d be pan.. but there doesn’t seem to be any point in coming out now”
“If I could go back I think I’d be pan.. but there doesn’t seem to be any point in coming out now”
Hot take as a bi guy who didn't realize until after marriage: the "if I could go back" thing is the point to coming out now.
I mean I can't speak for your fiance, but part of the reason it took me so long is that although I knew the word "bisexual," I didn't know a single person — and certainly not a male — who was openly bi as a kid, or even in my 20s.
I think it helps all of us — but especially kids who might be questioning — to have actual examples around and in their lives. And even for other adults, imo life gets less annoying for all bisexuals if there are more examples of openly bi folks in monogamous relationships, helps undermine the stereotypes.
Agree! But then again, it properly represents half of the 30yo i knew. I wouldn’t hesitate to relive any period of my life, but 27 to 32 was a pretentious wine&cheese filled with boring people playing adult. In my experience, normality and fun came back in the mid-thirties. It’s a phase of identity search I think.
Holy shit you captured it. I remember exactly that. "We're like adult adults now so we need to do adult things like wine tastings and expensive cheese, maybe a bourbon shelf, maybe start collecting mid-century thrift store furniture to look Mad Men chic." And everyone was all about Meyers Briggs and personal growth without having any clue in reality what any of it meant for them or if they'd even give a shit once they leveled out in their 30s. The 2010s... lol
Wow, I thought that was just me. I remember being 28 and trading all my fun clothes in to dress more boring and 'grown up'. Now at 37 I still mostly dress like I did in college.
Go take a sample of random TV shows and movies, and you typically get people in their 20s playing as teenagers, people in their 30s playing as 20 year olds, and people in their 40s playing as 30 year olds. It effectively "ages everyone" and hurts the 30 age bracket the most.
Likewise, I think a lot of the idea you're not longer young in your 30s comes from capitalism. What I mean by that is, young people are easier, more valuable targets, and businesses know this, so they market at people in their 20s (and younger, all the way down to kids) as hard as they can. The moment you leave that bracket, you lose your easy target status.
So the moment you hit 30, they forget you, so you feel blindsided and like you're "old." However, when you realize legitimately the only demographic that is referring to you as old is the exact one being hit with the marketing tactics calling them COOL and YOUNG and SEXY, while everyone else from employers to doctors to even other people in their 30s are still calling you young, then you start to realize that 30s being old is one giant myth inadvertedly spawned from capitalism so that the people in their 20s (and younger) will eagerly eat that badge of pride up all the way to the cash register, never second-guessing it.
40 is probably what we should accept as old, 44 at the latest, and this has everything to do with this being the actual cut-off where the biology of the body itself starts screaming "YUP, I'm old!"
I think the joke is that they're over 40 and Forever 21 is targeting them to dress like they're 31, because dressing like someone in their 20s would be going too far.
I once lamented in a random discussion thread that I missed an opportunity to buy a $600 CNC router on Facebook marketplace. I got a hilarious number of "Are you me? I'd totally regret that too".
Apparently my secret ability is to be generic and make worse choices than usual.
The fact that the mall I used to shop at in my home city did, in fact, have its forever 21 change to h&m and then to uniqlo when I last visited makes this all too accurate.
At least Uniqlo has fun color options. Quince, as much as I love their linen clothes & bedding, had all of 5 colors of bummer for their outfits not too long ago. You had the choice of beige, khaki, ivory, black, & navy. Sometimes olive & grey…& sometimes terracotta for the forever 31 slags. 😂
Elder millennial here at 44. It's like a bi-weekly routine of making sure I don't have random unwanted families of hair show up around my body in visible places. And I used to think shaving normal areas was annoying..
Well, once you have 3 babies and a lot of extra skin on your stomach, it's nice to have jeans that hold that all in rather than push it all out the top.
Don’t even have to have gone through pregnancy- high-waisted is the way to go if you want to avoid a muffin top or if you’re petite and you don’t want to look like your legs are short
Yesterday I wore vivid paisley silk pajamas- with a cinched waist, double breasted, wide lapel top, wide leg, and matching block heel boots. It was my day off and I wanted to be comfortable.
You ever try the clearance section at Old Navy? They get online stuff returned in-store, so I often find plus sizes for cheapppp. Got a peacoat for like $12 a few years back!
Male here - I've worn a lot of different jeans in my life. Kirkland ones are legitimately some of my favorites. Not too baggy, not too tight and a good dark wash. Plus, $20.
This wildly inaccurate, we carry all that AND chapstick! Gosh who wants to plan a heist with cold snack hot dogs with crusty lips. It’s essential in the bag 🤣
I stopped smoking so no bong, now its a classic thrifted metal thermos with hot soup inside and I have a 2008 mini cooper s convertible, i'm getting too old to carry around the 2005 woody pt cruiser.
My grandmother kept a knife an apple and a big hunk of kielbasa in her purse at all times riding public transit around Toronto until she needed to be in assisted living finally at like age 93.
I just throw random shit i dont want to carry anymore into it
Does your wife actually carry her giant purse? With mine it's got to a point where I only let her buy new ones after I try them and ensure they look good on me, since I'm the one who'll have to haul them around most of the time anyway
I'm 32, and recently my sister asked me, as a joke, if I had a tape measure in my purse because she needed one. Slightly embarrassed, I asked, "the tool or the flexible one for body measurements?" Because yes, I had both.
My younger sister (23) discovered my boxes 📦 from all my expensive electronics that I keep in a whole shelf of my entertainment console. She literally couldn’t stop laughing and was like “don’t let anyone ever see that”.
Ehh thats totally practical imo. If you sell something the best way to pack it is in the box and next users usually appreciate having the box. And sending shit back for warranty. How the fuck am I supposed to securely pack a vitamix for repair? I don't keep them but having a TV box would be amazing for any time you move. Am I supposed to just strap a 95" tv in to my truck bed and hope it makes it 50 miles?
I definitely keep my boxes for only those reasons and not some irrational box saving thing.
It's not 95", but I do have my TV's original box in my attic, and it has made my TV survive two moves. Absolute top tier strategy, if you have the space.
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