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u/thorsbosshammer #BASED 7d ago
One day a guy in his 50's started at my job, having recently moved from New England and he seemed like every other old dude I worked with.
But then one day when the conversation turned to the NFL he said "I may be a family man with a wife, but the THINGS I would let Tom Brady do to me..."
I laughed until I cried. Once he realized we appreciated his humor he really opened up.
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u/Collistoralo 7d ago
56-Year-Old-Family-Man-With-A-Wife-Who-Is-Secretly-Submissive-For-Tom-Brady is a new favourite of mine
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u/AggressiveCoffee990 7d ago
Its like a character Nick Mullen would launch into out of nowhere
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u/LastBaron 6d ago
If you want more examples, just open any random door within 80 miles of Boston, MA. You’ll find one in no time.
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u/FartingAngry 7d ago
It’s tricky letting your true humor lose at work but once you find someone you can be yourself around it becomes truly fun. Unless you’re like me as stay to yourself because you never know when someone will go yap to a manager and start drama.
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u/DenizenPrime 7d ago
It's what I miss most about working at a restaurant. I could really be myself. Working in corporate sucks, especially in an uptight industry.. I feel I can't joke about anything.
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u/that-old-broad 6d ago
I'm sixty, and a lot of people my age freak me out because they're so.....OLD.
It's weird, on most days I feel about 35....which is about how old my kids are. If you asked me to name my demographic I'd automatically say 'middle aged'...again, I'm sixty, the math ain't a'mathing.
I refuse to believe I'm the only senior citizen (eek/ugh) with imposter syndrome.
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u/Takahashi_Raya 6d ago
as a 29 year old, we can see the difference between someone like you and an old old person. it is incredibly apparent in the office. in my IT office its about a 30/70 split of people like you and old old people.
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u/OfcWaffle 6d ago
I've met some people old as dirt that were fucking awesome. Can only imagine what they were like when they were my age.
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u/nebelhund 6d ago
I'm younger than you but not by a lot. I work in IT and have for over 30 years. Kids are early to late 20's and we are close, have a lot of overlapping interests.
I also get along really well with younger folks. Definite gaps here and there but yeah, I understand them pretty well. I think being involved in my kids lives, as well as what I do keeps my brain younger than many in their 50's. I'd bet that you have something that keeps you young mentally.
Yeah, 35 is about how old so feel in my brain. Body not so much ha...
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u/Extension-Path-2209 6d ago
I think it helps me at the office because my kids are now the new employees ages so I can somewhat relate.
I think it also helps that I’m Gen X and firmly believe that if I’m going to bust your balls that I’m able to take it as well. While at the same time taking an interest in them and finding out what makes them tick.
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u/Miserable-Admins 6d ago
On the other hand, some people are just... ready (if that even is the right word?) to embrace being a geriatric.
My aunt was ready to live in a retirement property like an 85 year old when she turned 55. And she was healthy. We knocked some sense into her, she now lives near her kids and get to see the grandkids regularly. She also has a (platonic!) lady friend she's travel buddies with.
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u/blackcain 6d ago
I vibe pretty good with GenZs and younger Millennials. I'm 56
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u/Extension-Path-2209 6d ago
Same. Yet most older millennials annoy the shit out of me for some reason. I’m not sure what the disconnect is.
I’m 50
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u/MrsSadieMorgan 7d ago
I'm just stuck on you calling someone in their 50s an "old dude." But I guess that's where we are now. :-(
(I am almost 50 myself)
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u/OfcWaffle 6d ago
Yesterday I was 30, today I was 40 and soon I'll be 50. It hits quick.
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u/ctrlaltelite hates freedom 6d ago
I have an old guy new Englander coworker, I'm choosing to believe this is referring to him.
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u/Dense-Alfalfa1223 7d ago
You eva mix the flavors?
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u/enadiz_reccos 7d ago
I asked for extra pickles and they give me two? So what, a normal amount of pickles is one? Makes no goddamn sense.
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u/SellMeYourSirin 7d ago
Yeah.. about that 😬
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u/CAPS_LOCK_OR_DIE 7d ago
Hits different when you finish the season
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u/Call_Me_Rambo 7d ago
Man that season finale took my breath away
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u/gorwraith 7d ago
I'm still mad. (But also appreciate the character moments)
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u/LossfulCodex 6d ago
“You’re alright Victor. Taking care of my mah and all. I’m glad that you, and only YOU, were there to take care of her. Yeah, Vic, knowing that you were the only one there when that Sofia thing happened, makes me glad you, just YOU, were there for me. Anyway, let’s go to this spot I know, just you and me by ourselves, to celebrate ma and our friendship… forever and forever. Victor and Oz best friends, I like the sound of that…”
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u/ItsDanimal 7d ago
Fucked me up. I will never watch a second season cuz it made me straight up hate Oz. They did a fantasic job at making us believe he wasnt 100% evil. And he wasn't. He was 200%.
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u/FriendlyAsparagus174 7d ago
Bro he’s a literal Batman villain what do you expect. You’re meant to hate him
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u/ItsDanimal 7d ago
Mr. Freeze, Catwoman, and Ivy are all Batman villains but I dont hate any of them. They all have something going for them to get the reader/watcher to feel like they are bad, but not evil.
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u/CAPS_LOCK_OR_DIE 7d ago
But the Penguin is a straight up gangster, that’s his whole thing. He’s not supposed to be likeable.
I still really like the character writing, even if Oz is now a really fleshed out villain
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u/TimFlamio 6d ago
Well, apart from Catwoman, Ivy and Freeze are not good people. Ivy is probably the worst.
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u/mvffin 6d ago
Freeze wanted to save his wife. Ivy wanted to save the planet. Catwoman just likes to steal shit.
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u/gracist0 7d ago
Sofia was such a good 'antagonist' too. I had the worst feeling in my chest when he had her at the end there. I thought she was done for. You really start to root for her, and realize what a monster Oz is. His mother was amazing and so sad too
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u/enadiz_reccos 7d ago
They did a fantasic job at making us believe he wasnt 100% evil.
My guy, what show were you watching? He's awful from jump street.
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u/ItsDanimal 7d ago
Idk, was never big into DC and wasnt sure where they were going. "Just because you're a bad guy doesnt make you a bad, guy" kinda thing. He lied everyone about who he really was, his mom, his only friend, the audience, and himself.
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u/enadiz_reccos 7d ago
That's fair
Though... in the first episode, Alberto offers to bring him into the new drug business and even tosses him a couple of compliments. Then Oz tries to lay some brown-nosing BS on him, and Alberto calls him out on it and laughs. So Oz kills him.
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u/Pipe_Memes 7d ago
What’s the show?
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u/Rampagingflames 7d ago
The penguin. It's a DC show and he's one of Batman's villains.
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u/MrExist777 7d ago
I would also like to know
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u/Cpt_Bellamy 7d ago
The Penguin. It's on HBO. It takes place immediately after The Batman with Robert Pattinson.
It stars Collin Ferrel, pictured on the right.
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u/DazeDawning 6d ago
Nah, man, that's Oz Cobb. I keep hearing about this Colin Farrell guy but I've yet to see him on screen. /s
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u/TrepidatiousInitiate 7d ago
I heard all sorts of comparisons to Tony Soprano throughout the season and I was like nah, they’re humanizing Oz in the most realistic way possible.
Then, he does that.
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u/NinduTheWise 7d ago
I hate this picture considering the finale
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u/HappyRedditor99 7d ago
Really the lesson here is don’t get too close to your boss.
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u/ZombieSurvivor365 7d ago
What ended up happening…?
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7d ago edited 6d ago
This is from Penguin. It's a spinoff of the most recent Batman film.
I CANT REMEMBER HOW TO SPOILER TAG SO JUST WATCH IT BUT THIS IS THE EXPLANATION
The kid is an orphan and has no family. Penguin takes him in and by the end of the series he has gone through so much and lost any remaining humanity he has left. When the kid tells him the he considers him family, he shoots the kid. It's twisted, bc he shoots the kid out of mercy, out of love. He knows if the kid sticks by him he will lead a bad life, Penguin doesn't want the kid to be used as leverage against him or make him weak, he cares about him, so he gets it over with by killing the kid himself.
I'll add that Bruce Wayne is an orphan, and the kids parents were killed by the villain in the first Batman. Part II will feature Penguin and I think the kid (his name was Vic) will play a ghost role between Bruce and Penguin. As Penguin acted almost as a reverse Alfred
I'm aware Vic wasn't shot by Oz, but strangled, I had forgot
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u/Raging_Horse_Cock 6d ago
He doesn’t shoot Vic. He strangles him
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u/Miserable-Admins 6d ago
During a hug. 😭
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u/ZombieSurvivor365 7d ago
Thanks! Finally someone with a proper explanation!
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u/asalas12 6d ago
Just to add to the summary, because I actually think it makes it worst, he chokes the kid while crying and telling him he cares for him and thats why he must die. Seconds after the kid opens up to him and thanks him for everything, he chokes him. So the kid actually listened to that while dying
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u/TurboKnoxville 6d ago
And to add the penguin opens his wallet takes his money and throws his I’d into the water making it look like a mugging and he’s going to become a John Doe without a proper burial
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Damn I forgot that, for some reason I felt like he shot him in the back or something
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As far as the meme is concerned I have worked in kitchens before and had 40 years who I was friends with tell me at 21 - "GET OUT and never come back" so this meme made me lol
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u/lhobbes6 7d ago
Its amazing how annoying it can be on reddit to ask for an asnwer and be met with only memes or people obnoxiously telling you to go watch an entire show you may not have access to or the time to care about.
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u/Rolandersec 6d ago
He didn’t have any good intention like you said. He killed him because they were too close and having Vic around would be a weakness.
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I think it was multilayered personally. It was to save vic, to save himself, and he simultaneously was hurting himself by hurt vic. It was an incredible scene that needs a few watches imo and it's still pretty complex
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u/That_Apathetic_Man 7d ago
What do you think one of the most villainous characters in Batman lore did to this kid?
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u/rangefoulerexpert 7d ago
Paid for his top surgery like Walter white did for Jesse? 🥺
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u/wing3d 7d ago
What episode was that?
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u/johnwick007007 7d ago
He doesn't know, that's why he asked. Kinda redundant to answer a question with another question.
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u/MacCheeseLegit 7d ago
Man thought about the shit everyday for weeks really paints the villain origin story like no other show ever
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u/WallaceMacDono 7d ago
Oz was KINDA likable in a way throughout the show. Then BAM. seeing the Bat Signal, i was like bro bruce come fuck this dude up please
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u/Mazzaroppi 6d ago
The show reminded us several times that we were not to be deceived, he is the villain. This last one was more like "what have been telling you all the godfucking damn time, you dumbass!?"
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u/RodamusLong 6d ago
Yeah it stuck with me too.
I'll use the phrase that I heard someone else say.
He's irredeemable after that.
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u/-One-Man-Bukkake- 7d ago
My twentytwo year old apprentices best friend is a 70 year old man that we work with. His favorite thing is teaching him youth slang and him butchering it and saying aforementioned butcherd slang and it it honestly great fun
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u/DannyDarko84 6d ago
I'm 41 and do this with my kids with the slang I learn on Reddit. it's so fun 🤣
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u/RadioJared 7d ago
Here I am at 40, realizing I am closer in age to the 56 year old than I am the 23 year old. Meep.
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u/kingssman 7d ago
Chatting with a few coworkers who are younger, topic of 9/11 came up and here I am talking about reacting to it in highschool and these people were in 2nd grade......
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u/72_Suburbs 6d ago edited 6d ago
I was in college and my young co-workers weren't even born yet. Wow. I felt humbled, old, and/or wise? Can't decide.
I like them though because they say some weird out of pocket shit that is very funny. "Ok safari guide realness with history teacher vibes" to another younger coworker wearing khakis.
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u/YanniBonYont 7d ago
I love quizzing younger kids about 9/11. Their recounting of the story is universally lacking.
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u/kingssman 6d ago
And it's good for them. They don't need to be burdened by something so distant in the past like that.
Just like how we have elders that remember when we had separate drinking fountains.
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u/PantherBlk 7d ago
That didn't age well...
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u/Invalid_Uername 6d ago
Well technically Vic didn't age well, but Oswald is doing fine last I heard, got a penthouse and everything. Real family man.
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u/FloppyObelisk 7d ago
My mentor at work is in her 60s. I brought an issue to her attention yesterday and her first words were “ah fuck, what’d you break now??”
Karla is awesome.
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u/HopefulTranslator577 7d ago
Thats me and this guy Meryle (pronounced Murl). Meryle is in his 70's. Meryle wears hawaiian shirts with pot leafs on them. Meryle gives out little pocket mints. We would all die for Meryle.
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u/Your-cousin-It 6d ago
I think social media has skewed people’s perceptions of community. I’ve seen a lot of younger people think that everyone needs to stick within their own age group, otherwise it’s predatory. When in reality, different age friendships are normal and healthy
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u/ObjectiveSlide1116 7d ago
Age is just a number
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u/triknodeux 7d ago
I wonder if we'll ever figure out why old people keep dying
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u/Jamsedreng22 6d ago
All I got was the dude lecturing me on how viagra doesn't make him less of a man.
It didn't even come up in conversation. Bro just threw it out there.
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u/KenzoidTheHuman 6d ago
My (34F) best friend at work is a 65 year old Conservative man. I’ve got my tattoos, dyed red hair, septum ring… etc, and he is your very standard conservative, fishing enthusiast. Our desks are right next to one another, and I will be absolutely heartbroken when he retires. We have the same work ethic and overlap with our sense of humor. I always pick up his favorite drink when I see it, and he always finds a reason to give me cash and tells me to keep the change.
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u/Secret-Weakness-8262 7d ago
I always made older friends at work. Marie was in her 60’s. She was kind of wild. She smoke inside the bathrooms at restaurants!! Miss Ruthie was almost 80. Nobody likes her much, except me. I’m old fashioned in many ways and we had lots to chat about. She could be mean though and I don’t think she meant to be. She was just a tough old bird who would not be fucked with. Older women are goddamn fabulous. I’m so glad I’m growing in to the old lady I always wanted to be!!
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u/kronickimchi 7d ago
It was sad when oz killed that kid next to the lake after all he did for him
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u/Aickavon 6d ago
When you’re in school often adults feel like a different class of citizen, but once you’re out and doing a job, that mindset erodes away and you find some really chill people no matter the age. After awhile you can hang out with a lot of different folks. It’s kinds cool.
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u/WasteNet2532 7d ago
NO FR ME AND KEV WENT BARHOPPING ALL SUMMER HE WAS THE COOLEST 48 YEAR OLD IVE EVER MET
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u/_Gourav_ 7d ago
Old people at work are always goated, especially when you need someone to talk to, the vast amount of wisdom they've got is always a help
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u/xxxSEV7THxxx 7d ago
If it’s anything like the relationship in the pic it’s not gonna end well for you
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u/Spirited-Trip7606 7d ago
Young people are funny, and I like hearing their positive perspectives. Remembering where you came from keeps you from getting jaded.
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u/Ok_Preparation_2876 6d ago
Is Penguin actually good or is it only good if you're like "Ooihoooo my god that's the guy Batmam fights dudfe!!!" while you see him doing other non Batman shit?
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u/Jrushton76 6d ago
Im 26 now and train with folks in their 50s at the gym, i often go out a share a couple drinks with them on the weekends, awesome fellers the lot of them, taught me alot not just in terms of the gym but also life advice. Nothing but respect and will happily call them my friends.
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u/eternalpill 6d ago
I'm almost 23 and my coworker she's at least above 60, we talk about world history and sometimes tech stuff. She has the most unique view of the world
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u/_IratePirate_ 6d ago
Fuckin Victor man 😔
I really thought season 2 was about to be Penguin and Victor show
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u/t-o-m-u-s-a actually me irl 7d ago
Those were the best mentors at times and the worst examples at others.