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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Thorthoth on Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:25 am

Neoteny wrote:Chalk another one up to boomers ravaging the economy and then complaining when their kids are unable to exist within it.

I would be interested to know if the study also looked at the stress levels of the younger generation, both those living with parents and those living alone.

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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Neoteny on Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:29 am

It doesn't. There's a link to the paper in the article. Don't pretend you're interested in discussing this in good faith.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby mrswdk on Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:40 am

Not directly related, but younger people are more likely to suffer from various mental health issues just in general. Not because they have to live with workshy parents though, more because those working on zero hours or Uber-like freelance contracts suffer mentally due to the lack of security, and the younger generation is more likely to work like that:

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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Neoteny on Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:44 am

Parents just cannot understand how stagnant wages, unaffordable healthcare, and being actively hunted by roving police gangs could be holding young people back. It must be something else - like avocado toast or all those participation trophies that we kept giving them when they were children.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Thorthoth on Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:52 am

Neoteny wrote:It doesn't. There's a link to the paper in the article. Don't pretend you're interested in discussing this in good faith.

Can it. I'm the one discussing this objectively. You're already wearing your whiny prejudices on your sleeve.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Neoteny on Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:24 pm

Nothing more objective than spewing about masculinized women and artificial intelligence. You got me there thorth.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby mrswdk on Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:49 pm

Neoteny wrote:Parents just cannot understand how stagnant wages, unaffordable healthcare, and being actively hunted by roving police gangs could be holding young people back. It must be something else - like avocado toast or all those participation trophies that we kept giving them when they were children.


Dude, if you can't afford a house you are clearly spending too much money on avocado toast.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Bernie Sanders on Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:23 pm

mrswdk wrote:
Neoteny wrote:Parents just cannot understand how stagnant wages, unaffordable healthcare, and being actively hunted by roving police gangs could be holding young people back. It must be something else - like avocado toast or all those participation trophies that we kept giving them when they were children.


Dude, if you can't afford a house you are clearly spending too much money on avocado toast.


WTF! Avocado toast? Makes me want to puke!
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby tzor on Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:35 pm

mrswdk wrote:
Adults who move back home after moving away are causing their parents stress and conflict, a study suggests.

What about adults who move back home when their parents are in their mid 70's?
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby mrswdk on Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:57 pm

tzor wrote:
mrswdk wrote:
Adults who move back home after moving away are causing their parents stress and conflict, a study suggests.

What about adults who move back home when their parents are in their mid 70's?


i have no idea, maybe you should do a study.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Neoteny on Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:58 pm

Bernie Sanders wrote:
mrswdk wrote:
Neoteny wrote:Parents just cannot understand how stagnant wages, unaffordable healthcare, and being actively hunted by roving police gangs could be holding young people back. It must be something else - like avocado toast or all those participation trophies that we kept giving them when they were children.


Dude, if you can't afford a house you are clearly spending too much money on avocado toast.


WTF! Avocado toast? Makes me want to puke!


I bet you like bacon.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby mrswdk on Fri Mar 09, 2018 3:08 pm

He likes spoons of salt. Eeeeurgh!!
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby tzor on Fri Mar 09, 2018 3:59 pm

Neoteny wrote:
Bernie Sanders wrote:WTF! Avocado toast? Makes me want to puke!

I bet you like bacon.


Let's not start a war over this. Bacon Avocado Toast is great! YOU CAN HAVE BOTH!
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Dukasaur on Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:09 pm

tzor wrote:
Neoteny wrote:
Bernie Sanders wrote:WTF! Avocado toast? Makes me want to puke!

I bet you like bacon.


Let's not start a war over this. Bacon Avocado Toast is great! YOU CAN HAVE BOTH!


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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby DoomYoshi on Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:42 pm

I'm not sure why Thorthoth and neoteny are arguing. They are both kind of right. For much of human history, multi-generational dwellings have been the norm and they are still in many parts of the world, just not the Western world.
It is all about individuality now. If you don't succeed on your own, you're still a failure even though succeeding as a group is a more likely outcome.

It doesn't matter about stagnant jobs or whatever. Jobs aren't a real thing. They are a modern invention.

It's not like there's a job out there waiting for you. People only work jobs so they can buy stuff they don't need. The only reason they are employed is so they can make stuff that other people don't need. The entire economy is a facade and it doesn't really matter if you participate in it. It's not about exploiting market inefficiencies, the entire market is an inefficiency.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Fri Mar 09, 2018 6:52 pm

Op: did your mum give you the boot?
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby mrswdk on Fri Mar 09, 2018 7:07 pm

It's still common in China, although as Korea developed I know there it became more common for people there to stick their parents in care homes, so that might start happening more in China too (or at least people send money to their parents without actually having them move in).

In China (and probably Korea too) it's also still pretty common for people to live with their parents until they reach their mid/late 20s and move in with their partner. In the UK, I think for my parents' generation it would have been almost shameful for someone to still be living with their parents in their mid 20s (because you'd be expected to be independent by then), whereas these days it's already become pretty normal (if not the norm) for people to live with their parents until their mid/late 20s. In my current and last companies, the staff in their 20s who were originally from London all lived with their parents. Adult parents moving in with their kids is probably the next step - that's avocado toast for you.

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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby jonesthecurl on Fri Mar 09, 2018 8:36 pm

When parents are empty-nested they often move to a smaller place. We did. If either of the kids moved back permanently it would cause stress just cos the place is too small.
Before the kids moved out we had a three-story house in NJ with a basement - and the garage was 400 square foot, we used to use it for play rehearsals.
Now we live in a a single story, 3-bedroom place with too much stuff in.
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby riskllama on Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:04 pm

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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Bernie Sanders on Sat Mar 10, 2018 3:06 pm

Dukasaur wrote:
tzor wrote:
Neoteny wrote:
Bernie Sanders wrote:WTF! Avocado toast? Makes me want to puke!

I bet you like bacon.


Let's not start a war over this. Bacon Avocado Toast is great! YOU CAN HAVE BOTH!


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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby mookiemcgee on Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:05 pm

Neoteny wrote:Parents just cannot understand how stagnant wages, unaffordable healthcare, and being actively hunted by roving police gangs could be holding young people back. It must be something else - like avocado toast or all those participation trophies that we kept giving them when they were children.


It's the caffeine, the nicotine, the milligrams of tar, It's my habitat, it needs to be cleaned, it's my car, It's the fast talk they use to abuse and feed my brain, It's the cat box, it needs to be changed, it's the pain, It's women, it's the plight for power it's government, It's the way you're given knowledge slow with thought control and subtle hints, It's rubbing it, it's itching it, it's applying cream, It's the foreigners sightseeing with high beams, it's in my dreams, It's the monsters that I conjure, it's the marijuana. It's embarrassment, displacement, it's where I wander, It's my genre, it's Madonna's videos, It's game shows, it's cheap liquor, blunts, And bumper stickers with rainbows, It's angels, demons, gods, it's the white devils, It's the monitors, the soundman, it's the fucking mic levels, It's gas fumes, fast food, Tommy Hil' and mommy's pill, Columbia House music club, designer drugs and rhyming thugs, It's bloods, crips, fives, six. It's stick up kids, It's Christian conservative terrorists, it's porno flicks, It's the east coast, no it's the west coast, It's public schools, it's asbestos, It's mentholated, it's techno, It's sleep, life, and death, It's speed, coke, and meth, It's hay fever, pain relievers, oral sex, and smoker's breath, It stretches for as far as the eye can see, It's reality, f*ck it, it's everything but me
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Re: Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'

Postby Thorthoth on Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:11 pm

mookiemcgee wrote:
Neoteny wrote:Parents just cannot understand how stagnant wages, unaffordable healthcare, and being actively hunted by roving police gangs could be holding young people back. It must be something else - like avocado toast or all those participation trophies that we kept giving them when they were children.


It's the caffeine, the nicotine, the milligrams of tar, It's my habitat, it needs to be cleaned, it's my car, It's the fast talk they use to abuse and feed my brain, It's the cat box, it needs to be changed, it's the pain, It's women, it's the plight for power it's government, It's the way you're given knowledge slow with thought control and subtle hints, It's rubbing it, it's itching it, it's applying cream, It's the foreigners sightseeing with high beams, it's in my dreams, It's the monsters that I conjure, it's the marijuana. It's embarrassment, displacement, it's where I wander, It's my genre, it's Madonna's videos, It's game shows, it's cheap liquor, blunts, And bumper stickers with rainbows, It's angels, demons, gods, it's the white devils, It's the monitors, the soundman, it's the fucking mic levels, It's gas fumes, fast food, Tommy Hil' and mommy's pill, Columbia House music club, designer drugs and rhyming thugs, It's bloods, crips, fives, six. It's stick up kids, It's Christian conservative terrorists, it's porno flicks, It's the east coast, no it's the west coast, It's public schools, it's asbestos, It's mentholated, it's techno, It's sleep, life, and death, It's speed, coke, and meth, It's hay fever, pain relievers, oral sex, and smoker's breath, It stretches for as far as the eye can see, It's reality, f*ck it, it's everything but me

That is indeed a nasty list of degenerate filth... I hope it doesn't have anything to do with the writer... but I suspect otherwise.
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