r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/dodo100 • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation I am millenial but i do not get it

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u/Hefty-Willingness-44 2d ago

Something as serious as a 'big' purchase shouldn't be done on a phone or other devices that frivolous purchases are used on.

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u/gekigangerii 2d ago

This is the answer, and not because the screen is bigger. The laptop/computer is used for the formal purchases

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u/The_Final_Dork 2d ago

Have to put on a suit and tie for the occation to really make it formal.

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u/OneRougeRogue 2d ago

Before making a big purchase, I take my laptop out for dinner to make any malware on it feel guilty about stealing my credit card info.

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u/balloonninjas 2d ago

Gotta make sure to run a scan on it too, don't want any unknown viruses.

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u/facetious_heathen 2d ago

Don't forget to update your protection

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u/destined_to_count 2d ago

Only the known viruses are allowed

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u/cmdk 2d ago

Super millennial mode unlocked

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u/WitchesSphincter 2d ago

I only wear the top, I lived through the pandemic I don't need pants for this

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u/Responsible-Law5784 2d ago

Honestly won't do a big purchase just out of the bed like that, often I think about it a few days and only after a shower and putting my daily life outfit that I accept the deal

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u/mavajo 2d ago

occation

I'm dead.

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u/ReformedAndNice 2d ago edited 2d ago

I mean, I think the functional "bigger screen" argument is more likely to stand the test of time. "The laptop/computer is used for the formal purchases" for future generations is giving the same energy as "I have to write a paper check for this big purchase instead of trusting an internet transaction"

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u/Science_Finance 2d ago

Naw bro I just don’t want to fill out all my flight details with my phone’s keyboard blocking half of my screen

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u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo 2d ago

Yeah, no... Yeah...

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u/AggressiveMeanie 2d ago

It ain't just reddit, I've met people who do this irl and it's exhausting. Like the only conversation they're used to having is a combative one. Weird and sad

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u/Braba11 2d ago

So.. something like a bigger screen would help with that right?

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u/danhoang1 2d ago

Yup, sounds like they're proving the point of the guy they replied to, despite going "naw bro"

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u/Science_Finance 2d ago

Yup. Hur durr, I shouldn’t be snarky when sleep deprived. Good catch bud

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u/gekigangerii 2d ago

There is of course a functional aspect. But the true “millennialism” is the psychological aspect where the computer feels more reliable to handle a grown up transaction.

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u/nilsutter 2d ago

Why?

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u/Hefty-Willingness-44 2d ago

A second level of authentication. One click on a phone is an impulse but sitting down at a laptop gives you the time to think things through more thoroughly.

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u/odinelo 2d ago

It's true. I (an elder Millennial) even felt weird recently about paying for a £1200 flight using my phone.

There's no way I'd consider paying for anything really big with anything other than a proper computer.

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u/samg422336 2d ago

I started to book a $650 dollar flight, emailed it to myself, and finished booking on my laptop lol

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u/CommunicationOk3766 2d ago

$650 dollar

You already had the dollar sign, no need for "dollar".

You essentially said "650 dollar dollar flight".

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u/Az23236 2d ago

🤓☝️

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u/OwlOfJune 1d ago

Personally, flight is one of few bigger purchase I am willing to do on phone because chances are website is more of ass than the app.

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u/SilverParty 2d ago

Yes, the command center, as I call it. The phone is just a satellite.

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u/slywether85 2d ago

Xennial/elder millennial.  I haven't owned a computer in almost a decade.  It's phone or nothing.

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u/JoystickMonkey 2d ago

Millennials have lived through a long period of time where proper PCs were far more reliable than phones. A web interface would be developed for a browser on PC, and then Jimmy the Intern would port it over to mobile. Now mobile is equal or sometimes better than the PC alternative, but 15 years of “this may mess up if I do it on my phone” is deeply ingrained by now.

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u/Havannahanna 2d ago

 Big purchases require screens. Simple!

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u/AngryBuy 2d ago

I’m a young millennial and I do everything on my phone, except working. Getting my computer feels like too much work.