While “texting” used to mean sending SMS messages, the term has been expanded to cover really most messaging services that many of us use on a daily basis. Fortunately, the word “texting” has pretty long legs and still does cover most of the things we might use it for.
The “Funny Texts” Facebook page is dedicated to both the amusing messages that people have sent and relatable memes in general. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to comment your thoughts below.
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That one hits me hard. Watched it happen to my Great Grandmother. I suspect it runs in the family so she won't be the last.
The core of a good meme, beyond humor or creativity, is that kernel of relatability. Richard Dawkins, who coined the phrase meme, envisioned it as a viral idea that spread from person to person much like a virus. However, what he didn’t expect was the fact that much of this information would center around humor and that the internet is an incredibly potent vector for “infection.”
Part of the appeal is that the ideas carried by the meme either focus on a shared experience or emotion or work with familiar information and context. This comes from the high degree of intertextuality that memes possess. After all, we can generally understand the situations depicted in memes through our own life experiences, other memes, or just general knowledge of the world.
At a certain point, memes have become self-referential. If you have ever had to explain a meme to an older relative or someone “less online,” you will know that internet lore is deep. Some memes require a person to understand multiple other references, just to understand the context needed to enjoy certain memes.
It's always fun to get each other up to date about all the chaos that has happened in our lives in between chats
Every evening I fall asleep on the couch for about 30 minutes before I go upstairs to bed to fall asleep
It's not the money going out to inconsequentials, it's the fact that every generation since the boomers has been consistently underpaid.
With a fresh university degree, my first job was...secretary. My rent was more than half my salary. It was 1985. The American Dream existed for exactly one generation, and that was only possible because of postwar prosperity and a top tax bracket of 90% for the entire decade of the 1950s.
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Whenever I am called a Boomer as a derisive device I try hard not to reply "Did you need something, renter?" Honestly, I am a Boomer who paid $35,000 for a Baltimore row house in a neighborhood that most "renters" wouldn't even consider. I had three roommates and never considered buying a bougie coffee because I had less than $20 per week for food and non-essentials. Interest rates were hovering around 16% and I was making less than $13,000. I recognize that things are tough, but they weren't a bed of roses for most Boomers.
This logic is so wrong. That first 1200 invested 10 years ago in S&P 500 is 3600 today. The single ice latte is not the problem, the mentality that you don't need to save is.
unfortunately, investing isn't a thing pitched to post-boomer generations as a way to make money. i'm 37 and have never invested anything, and now i'm too poor to even consider it.
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If it is only the espresso, enjoy it. Being able to buy your own place depends on a lot if factors. Your paycheck, of course, but your flexibility, too. Our papers are full with whiney stories of people not being able to find a house at one specific spot, because either too expensive or none on offer. However, in a circle of 30 km around that very spot there are more than enough nice and affordable places on offer. And no, they or their kids do not have special needs or other limiting factors. But they prefer crying in the papers instead of moving there and going on with their life.
It's insane how many comments are here. It's not just the price of housing and wages. It's everything. Even if you are lucky enough to save enough for a down payment, it doesn't mean you qualify for a mortgage. It's hard enough to qualify for renting but owning is even more difficult. Everything costs more. And people from earlier generations were able to buy and have houses, something that later generations don't have the luxury of. And now it's even worse because current generations that are coming of age can't even afford to move out of their parents house because rent is so astronomical that working a full time job is not enough to even get into a studio.
Yah but it's still twelve thousand bucks. Can buy a decent car with that.
12,000 a year, so 24,000 in two years 36,000 in three and so on and on, can’t believe people actually think that they should be able to afford a house/deposit after just 52 weeks
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Our down payment 2 yeara ago was exactly the double of tht, so if you put aside just a small amount and the amount of your "eapresso" or whatever your choice of hot or ice drink is you gonna get there! It's just you have to put aside that money and not impulse spend it. I was homeless when I was 23. Took me 15 years to get the money together for downpayment. But of course lot of people don't like the situation not having their own home at the age of 25. You have to work on it, it takes time, and you have to bring some sacrifices
FALSE!!!! 2.5% down, (that's doable, with mortgage insurance) would be $10,000 on a $400,000 home. If you can't buy even a condo in your metro area for $400,000, get the f**k out of your metro area. (There would be some other expenses, but then again, your investment after 10 years would probably be closer to $15K.)
I know. Maybe people should consider moving away from the outrageously expensive big cities on the coasts. Plenty of affordable areas throughout the US where the jobs are plentiful and the cost of living is low.
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Despite a rise in worker productivity, wages have stagnated since the 70's. Toss in inflation, and the dollar earned isn't covering what it did back then. But executive salaries, perks, and benefits have skyrocketed. Don't listen to the talking heads. It's not your espresso. It's greed at the top killing us.
It can be both. Telling people to spend whatever they want and blame the "executives" is not helpful. Review your spending for waste *as well*.
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Honestly, it depends on what kind of house you’re trying to buy. And if you have the discipline to forego an espresso for a year, you could likely temporarily forego something else to reach your goal so quickly. Only taking a year to earn enough to put a down payment on a house is impressive. But you don’t have to totally deprive yourself of things you like, especially if there are less expensive alternatives that can help you reach your goal.
If it costs $5 to get me to function, that's a small prize to pay. Without that I'd be like a zombie a whole day and a zombie customer service worker wouldn't have a very long career.
The coffee one is brought up regularly because you can make coffee at home for a few cents. Same in many workplaces. We had free hot water, just needed a tin of instant coffee to make your own. Is it as nice as from a fancy coffee shop? Maybe not, but it gets the job done :P
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I don't drink alcohol or smoke so I use that as an excuse when people tell me I am wasting my money in Starbucks.....but this works too!
and quite often it's the little things like a $5 coffee everyday that comfort us or make us feel somewhat happy, so guilttripping people into giving up these little things does the opposite of helping. Why do we feel entitled to tell poor people how to spend their money but not rich people? Especially when the ultra rich are selfishly and forever in a d*ck-measuring contest in the form of "who can get to space first"
Well, OP has shown that he's got a good grasp of basic math. I wonder if he can now show that he's got a good grasp on basic logic through expanding his single item example of a non-essential to include all of the other non-essential items? Of course we know he won't because honesty doesn't support the story he's trying to tell/sell.
Where, and of what quality and how big is your house?
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Was in Lidl the other day and a woman was wondering where the lettuce was. I pointed and said "Iceburg deåd ahead" I couldn't resist myself. We both laughed so all was good 👍
My mother also. Used to pick her up every Saturday for breakfast and shopping. Pulled in the driveway one beautiful summer day and she opened the door, holding her phone, saying "Oh...nevermind. She's here now." When she got in the car I asked who she was talking to and she said "The police." I asked WHY??? and she said because I was late and I was never late so she thought something happened. I replied that I had TOLD her I'd be late because I had a dentist appointment. She said "Ohhhh....that's right! Where do you want to go to eat?".
If he ate it all without noticing, it obviously wasn't any worse than what he was used to.
Omg I feel this. My parents performed only the required parenting duties which did not include extra curriculars, displays of love, compassion, encouragement etc. and I love them but my adult life has been very difficult to navigate.
Well what's your plan for November then? Should use it well because it sounds like your only days off the whole year
"Ya went and broke my only rule" - line I love from song that was rhymed with "I refuse to be your fool"
I tell my daughter this but she’s too busy hoping her bf is something he’s not so it goes in one ear and out the other. I hope she realizes before she puts ten years in waiting for change.
My brother did that until he died 3 years ago. I aspire to his example.
I'm at the wealth level where I have a panic attack and suck it up and get back to work in ten minutes. Yeah that happened today. Panic attacks suck.
18 years in hospital, emergency department. S****y painful exhausting job. But i miss the hundreds of colleagues i had, i miss the laughs, the pranks, the jokes...
Unfortunately for the rest of us, 15 year olds exist and now I feel very old.
Hah. Me for the past 3 years. And not only did nobody notice, my best friends of 25+ years can't even be bothered to speak to me.
Lies I do understand this because I didn't want to skip the theme songs and so I ran to the bathroom because why skip to the end of the show when you could be back when the new episode starts playing. And with call of duty I ran in between matches to go to the bathroom.
My husband and I were states away, me in the middle of the country and he was on the East Coast. He drove the 23 hours to visit. I would fly back and forth to see him. The only heartache about it was when we had to split without knowing when we'd see each other again. We will be married for 10 years this August.
As they say ... "Ignorance is bliss". As the Great Buddha once said, you have to "Let that S**t go." Rinse, repeat.
Nope. Train them right. They might be a spy. Develop trust. THEN show the way it's done.
Somebody 5,000 miles away couldn't be this reasonable. Which is why we broke up!
Yep. As my mother aged, her filters stopped working. Turns out my mother was a bawdy old lady and I'm right on track to follow suit!
Or you can get into a massive argument, but then one of you says something so funny that you both end up laughing and it ends the fight.
One time, I turned my face purple from laughing at my own joke before I even said it.
If you have to beg him for anything you're just a place holder while he's looking for someone else.
Interesting thing is, I keep thinking why do people buy so much groceries and how much money they've spent and they annoy me, but I still watch them. Especially that one with the long nails and ring on every finger, with white sleves which go up to her fingers. Girl, when you're cleaning the fridge, roll up your sleves, you'll mess up your sweatshirt. >.<
I barely even remember my own birthday, don't mind if people don't say HB to me, and don't particularly like it if people get angry when I don't remember theirs.
I felt that one. Also NO I don’t want to look back at memories 6y ago with an ex…
Well considering they know you can't walk around in real life wearing 17 filters, they're not surprised
The title " This Page Shares Hilarious Posts And Texts, Here Are The 97 Best Ones" is very misleading there was maybe one funny in this whole batch. The rest was all some kind of wallowing in introspection.
The title " This Page Shares Hilarious Posts And Texts, Here Are The 97 Best Ones" is very misleading there was maybe one funny in this whole batch. The rest was all some kind of wallowing in introspection.
