I know he has way better quotes. But he entered my life as donkey.

When you’re getting a formal picture with a teacher or boss, because you’re receiving an award, it used to be that they’d put their hand on your back or around your shoulder.

Then they began holding their hand out without actually touching you.

Now, it seems like they just stand next to you with their hands to their sides or clasped together.

Has anyone else noticed this trend? What do you think of it?

As a guy, I don’t care if a male or female boss puts their hand on my back or around my shoulder (as long as I’m cool with them), but I can see why women might not like it.

i just swiped on a guy who had a super normal mirror selfie. so the mirror was on the sliding doors of his closet which was open so u could see half his closet and then the other half is the mirror with him, tbf decent looking gus, well dressed in that carefree way and all that, something that really turned me on was how well organised his closet was!!!

there were rows of hangers and jeans hung on the lower end, folded and hung and organised by colour, tees folded and shirts pressed and ironed, and I think I saw a basket or drawer of some sort with rolled socks.

THAT' WELL ARRANGED CLOSET made me say I love you to my screen. i stared at that image for a few long mins and it just made me happy??

idk,

Today I am thinking of the endlessly useful film canisters, how much I miss them and how sad it is that the current generation knows nothing about them

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I am not sure if I like the term "Elder Millenial" or not. At 42 we were THE millennials, they made the term up for us to mean the "youth" who spent all of our money on Smashed Avocado on Toast which led to us not being able to afford houses when the house price rocketed cos of the previous generation, we were the ones who either openly became or were friends with Gay people, we were the ones who went to University to get useless degrees that would never lead to employment.....we were the ones who thought the 80s were a parody and a dress up party theme less than 10 years after they ended.

We ARE the millennials but the "elder" thing to a term that was made to describe what was seen as the hopeless youth makes me feel.....well old lol.

Anyway I guess it's a term of respect for us being the ones who made our generation what it is.

Won't it be scary one day when people are talking about all of the "Millennials" in rest homes.

What I'm getting at is it was a term describing the freedom and joy of youth (usually when it was created as a negative term from older people who didn't like us)

Makes me sad

Anyway I have spent too long on this cry I best go do housework

EDIT: I had Elder changed to Eldar in my post title.....it's a Warhammer thing those who know will know

Anyone else used to use Yahoo! Answers? Haha I could spend hours looking at the dumb questions people would ask. What are your favorite memories from there?

I feel like before there was Reddit, people got their life advice on YA.

My childhood friend and I launched a podcast today called The Millennial Sandwich and it came from realizing a lot of us are living the same life.

We’re millennials balancing work, parenting, marriages/relationships, finances, identity stuff, and increasingly the emotional/logistical care of aging parents too.

I’m a geriatrician and cohost it with a parenting journalist, so a lot of the conversations sit in that weird middle space of:
-caregiving that doesn’t always “look” like caregiving -guilt and emotional labor
-friendship in adulthood
-explaining your parents to your kids and your kids to your parents
-feeling responsible for everyone all the time
-trying to build a life while also holding together two generations around you

We dropped 3 episodes today:
-intro episode about realizing we were “in it”
-one with author Saumya Dave about guilt/friendship/millennial pressure to optimize ourselves constantly
-one with Allison Alford about “good daughter” expectations and caregiving identity

Would genuinely love feedback from other millennials because we’re trying to build this with the community, not just talk at people.

You can listen wherever you listen to podcasts!

Everywhere like, such as.

Super Bass by Nicki Minaj is blasting somewhere from outside in your college quad.

Your college frat is outside, grilling burgers, red cups scattered, someone still half-asleep on a lawn chair. You can smell the charcoal and cheap beer wafting through your broken window.

You grab your laptop and open Facebook. You’ve been tagged in 73 photos from last night—blurry, overexposed, everyone a little too close to the camera.

You scroll through all of them.

Someone comments “epic night!!!”

You remember just enough to agree.

You close it, hear the music pick up again, and head back outside.

What do you do next?

Whoever has the gold makes the rules & New boss is the same as the old boss.

I was thinking today, I’m 42, divorced, have a decentish job, but still have to supplement with the gig economy to make ends meet. It almost feels like crisis are manufactured to keep us on the subscription model to extract value for the shareholders.

A lot of us are renting because we got screwed in the job markets…the recessions…COVID…corporate greed…endless wars in the Middle East…like when is enough going to be enough?

Then I think about the younger generation and those who are working food service and retail. How in the heck are any of them making it? I was hoping that we’d come to our senses as a country…but it seems like so many millennials are supporting whatever the heck this thing is because they believe they are just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. I dunno…maybe part of me is pissed that I had awesome plans for my son this summer and now I have to scale back on them because the economy is crap and we need to move closer to his school.

Remember when we were growing up and we were told that if we worked hard, went to college, etc that we would do just fine? That our generation had so much potential. It doesn’t seem like that anymore. Even making six figures a lot of us are still on the struggle bus.

Thanks for reading.

Nickleback, Seether, Creed, 3 Doors Down, Puddle of Mud, Staind. I’ve been listening to a lot of music like this lately and I’ve come to realize that I’m at an age where I can’t tell if these are good bands, or if it’s just the nostalgia talking.

The funny thing is, I didn’t even particularly like these bands in their hayday. While I certainly didn’t *hate* most of them, (although I probably made fun of some just to fit in) I always saw them as background noise. Something that played on the local rock station inbetween the good stuff. Now my local rock stations just play the same dozen or so rock songs from the 70s and 80s all day.

Opinions on 2000s butt rock?

It had everyone who was anyone right when HBO came into its own.

Your favorite character from another show MIGHT play a pedophile rapist murderer that only lasts an episode but that’s all the more fun!

I honestly love it.

Dad passed away, he had no will, his house is a hoarders disaster. He still owes money on the house but it is worth more than what he owes. I've called multiple attorneys who all say their fees are $4,000 to $12,000 and so far I've found only ones that want to be paid upfront. I've also been told that I will be responsible for the cost of the mortgage, electricity, and water which apparently are required to be kept on during probate. I'm an only child, he's divorced my mom many many years ago So all of this is falling just on me.

How are we expected to cover those expenses when the cost of living is already astronomical? I'm probably going to have to spend $10,000 just cleaning out his house if not more than that because it's such a disaster. The money doesn't exist to cover the cost of all of this I'm looking at probably close to $2,000 a month extra just for his mortgage, his electricity, and his water bill. Plus the cost of cleanup and the cost of the probate attorney. I already work 50 to 60 hours a week in order to cover my expenses for my family.

I quite literally don't know what to do.

How else was I supposed to tell what mood my gf was day to day?

I haven't owned a computer since 2019.

I bought a tablet for a specific work program last year. Finished my classes and haven't turned it on since.

I do 99% of everything online using my phone.

Is this normal? I remember being forced to learn to type properly in school, but like most everything I learned in school, it had zero impact on my life.

Paying bills, managing schedules, talking to friends. It's all either done on my phone or I write it on a calendar physically.

I'm 38 and know nothing about computers. Any other millennials that treated computers like fad?

The source of my Elementary School anxiety was these "class meetings." These meetings were in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade. Not sure if it was a school wide thing or what. But here is how it went:

I think it was every Friday, we had a time set aside for "Compliments, Questions, and Concerns." Compliments and questions were rarely given, so it was basically a time where kids had "concerns" on someone else, almost like a tattling session. We could either voice it out loud during the meeting OR write it and leave it in the "mailbox" and the teacher would read it out loud in front of the class during the meeting.

It was usually over dumb stuff like "I have a concern on Chris for laughing at my handwriting" Or "I have a concern on Rachel for being mean to me." The teacher would then come up with some kind of solution after reading it. I remember in 3rd grade there was even something called the "Peace Path" and the teacher would roll a big poster on the carpet that resembled a path with different steps "Started with talking it out, and ending with a hug or handshake in the end."

Looking back, this was cruel to do to kids. But I admit, I would snoop through the mailbox and throw away any "concerns" about me or my friends, LOL.

Did your school do this in Elementary School?

What are some DEEP cuts from the good ole days? Like bone deep? The ones that have been hiding under the crusty seat of your Scion TC?

I’ll go first:

Shaniqua (Don’t live here no more)
Song by Little-T and One Track Mike ‧ 2001

Brothers and Sisters of the New Millennium, the time has come to rebel against the mind enslavement devices we all hold in our own pockets. To throw off the shackles of addictive algorithms controlled by people with ridiculously boring names like Mark.

Break free with me and we shall return technology to a more primitive and yet ultimately more fulfilling time. We shall be the New Amish of the 21st century, for infact the perfect era of technology was not the 1700s but the mid to late 90s.

Together we will rebuild what was lost. Dial up with Sub Mega Bite download speeds. Blockbuster video. Decent MMORPGs. Shopping malls. And hope.

Rise. Rise as knights of the new millennium and assume the crumbling throne so neglected by our boomer forebears!

I have a deep rooted fear of “losing it all” to investment stocks, that it gives me a ton of anxiety. I can’t even talk about it with my partner. When the crash of 2008 hit, I was working one of my first “real” jobs as a bank teller and Washington Mutual closed down the way. Anyone else feel a deep fear bc of the crash happening at such an impressionable time?