Things that you are sick of seeing on Social Media #17

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Storm Darragh has battered my bit of Wales, and we have a power cut (although all devices charged and several power packs on standby). Facebook is full of people wailing that their electricity has gone off and what can they do. The answer is absolutely nothing, just wait patiently and light a few candles.
 
Storm Darragh has battered my bit of Wales, and we have a power cut (although all devices charged and several power packs on standby). Facebook is full of people wailing that their electricity has gone off and what can they do. The answer is absolutely nothing, just wait patiently and light a few candles.

Many photos of the same broken tree all morning... but now, ours is currently full of "Where's Santa?" as the local charity bods are riding round the town on a tractor... they do a few streets each night for about a week and then the Firefighters do the same thing for another week so that'll be us until xmas ;)

I guess it makes a change from photos of Amazon packages in non-descript places with people asking if anyone recognises this door/shed/bin.
 
Many photos of the same broken tree all morning... but now, ours is currently full of "Where's Santa?" as the local charity bods are riding round the town on a tractor... they do a few streets each night for about a week and then the Firefighters do the same thing for another week so that'll be us until xmas ;)

I guess it makes a change from photos of Amazon packages in non-descript places with people asking if anyone recognises this door/shed/bin.
Omg are we on the same local page?
 
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Sick of seeing people say stuff like "Just renewed my Netflix haha guess I'll never afford a house :ROFLMAO: " or "buy the daily latte you won't afford a house anyway😂" as if people mean those comments literally about one thing. Those in their 20's thinking older people are being literal when they advise to knuckle down and save properly instead of thinking corporate office jobs are like the movies, or what you see on Tiktok with £15 sushi lunches everyday being normalised..

I'm sure these types of people are brain dead, because those comments are very much a nod to the way a lot of young people fritter away salaries on designer bags, a takeaway latte 5x a week instead of 1x, luxury holidays and nights out, etc etc. It's the entire picture, not a literal avocado on toast on the odd Sunday. Those things add up, I'm sure some people are just in denial about how much they truly waste because if they were to sit down and highlight every luxury expense they'd probably be shocked at just how right the "boomers" are about how young people save these days.
 
Sick of seeing people say stuff like "Just renewed my Netflix haha guess I'll never afford a house :ROFLMAO:" or "buy the daily latte you won't afford a house anyway😂" as if people mean those comments literally about one thing. Those in their 20's thinking older people are being literal when they advise to knuckle down and save properly instead of thinking corporate office jobs are like the movies, or what you see on Tiktok with £15 sushi lunches everyday being normalised..

I'm sure these types of people are brain dead, because those comments are very much a nod to the way a lot of young people fritter away salaries on designer bags, a takeaway latte 5x a week instead of 1x, luxury holidays and nights out, etc etc. It's the entire picture, not a literal avocado on toast on the odd Sunday. Those things add up, I'm sure some people are just in denial about how much they truly waste because if they were to sit down and highlight every luxury expense they'd probably be shocked at just how right the "boomers" are about how young people save these days.
Okay lol. Cause house prices these days are totally fine and affordable 🤣🤣
 
Sick of seeing people say stuff like "Just renewed my Netflix haha guess I'll never afford a house :ROFLMAO:" or "buy the daily latte you won't afford a house anyway😂" as if people mean those comments literally about one thing. Those in their 20's thinking older people are being literal when they advise to knuckle down and save properly instead of thinking corporate office jobs are like the movies, or what you see on Tiktok with £15 sushi lunches everyday being normalised..

I'm sure these types of people are brain dead, because those comments are very much a nod to the way a lot of young people fritter away salaries on designer bags, a takeaway latte 5x a week instead of 1x, luxury holidays and nights out, etc etc. It's the entire picture, not a literal avocado on toast on the odd Sunday. Those things add up, I'm sure some people are just in denial about how much they truly waste because if they were to sit down and highlight every luxury expense they'd probably be shocked at just how right the "boomers" are about how young people save these days.
I don’t think a low earner will ever be able to buy their house, luxuries or not, so I hope they enjoy their Costa.
 
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Sick of seeing people say stuff like "Just renewed my Netflix haha guess I'll never afford a house :ROFLMAO:" or "buy the daily latte you won't afford a house anyway😂" as if people mean those comments literally about one thing. Those in their 20's thinking older people are being literal when they advise to knuckle down and save properly instead of thinking corporate office jobs are like the movies, or what you see on Tiktok with £15 sushi lunches everyday being normalised..

I'm sure these types of people are brain dead, because those comments are very much a nod to the way a lot of young people fritter away salaries on designer bags, a takeaway latte 5x a week instead of 1x, luxury holidays and nights out, etc etc. It's the entire picture, not a literal avocado on toast on the odd Sunday. Those things add up, I'm sure some people are just in denial about how much they truly waste because if they were to sit down and highlight every luxury expense they'd probably be shocked at just how right the "boomers" are about how young people save these days.

There's two extremes though, boomers totally benefited from low house prices (that then increased massively in value for most of them) that were affordable, and obtainable on 2.5-3 times a single salary. That's not the case now and some people will never be able to get a mortgage so they may as well get takeaway coffees.

On the other side though I do think many younger people and people on lower salaries do expect to have luxuries we did without. Holidays are expected, eating out too. We ate out on our birthdays and that was it for over a decade. Our holidays as a young couple starting out were camping in a small three man tent we bought for £130 and pitch fees around £100 for a holiday for 5 nights. We continued for most holidays until our youngest was 2. We've never gone on a plane on holiday. I'm 40 (so not too old I don't think!) but we've made big sacrifices to have our home and I see others our age not willing to do the same. (while appreciating we don't live in London where house prices are out of most people's reach)
 
Luigi Mangione - the man who murdered the UnitedHealthcare CEO. If he was another obese, unfortunate looking American nobody would give a tit. It makes me feel sick that people are praising him online when he’s basically robbed two children of their father.
Yes this 'trend' of glorifying murderers/criminals online is really disturbing to me - e.g. Gypsy Rose
 
Sick of seeing people say stuff like "Just renewed my Netflix haha guess I'll never afford a house :ROFLMAO:" or "buy the daily latte you won't afford a house anyway😂" as if people mean those comments literally about one thing. Those in their 20's thinking older people are being literal when they advise to knuckle down and save properly instead of thinking corporate office jobs are like the movies, or what you see on Tiktok with £15 sushi lunches everyday being normalised..

I'm sure these types of people are brain dead, because those comments are very much a nod to the way a lot of young people fritter away salaries on designer bags, a takeaway latte 5x a week instead of 1x, luxury holidays and nights out, etc etc. It's the entire picture, not a literal avocado on toast on the odd Sunday. Those things add up, I'm sure some people are just in denial about how much they truly waste because if they were to sit down and highlight every luxury expense they'd probably be shocked at just how right the "boomers" are about how young people save these days.


er, it's over privileged arseholes like Kirstie Allsopp who make these comments and it's OK for her because she was born into extreme wealth and privilege - her Father was a Baron and she has never had to worry about the cost of living or buying a property. The reality is for a whole generation, house prices are completely bleeping untenable, the whole ethos of a property being an investment rather than a place to live and then you get arseholes telling people to stop 'frittering money away' and save up for a mortgage. Well duck that. life is miserable enough so a few treats now and then make life easier. I'm the same age bracket as Allsopp but we couldn't have had more different lives.
 
About 500,000 are bankrupted by medical bills every year in the US and about 68,000 people die because their insurance won't cover treatment. Now 2 insurance firms are saying they won't cover anasthesia for surgeries that run over time, so although I don't condone what happened, I kind of understand why people there have limited sympathy for the CEO tbh.
 
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