It really would be a disappointment to have survived pandemics, wars and everything else perpetually trying to kill us to only go down to some lettuce from Taco Bell.
Funnily enough we Canadians had Crosscountry Canada instead of this. And our lettuce is just fine! Though we're still on the lookout for carjacking hitchhikers.
"Don't mess with me. I'm a Millenial who was BORN IN APRIL IN 1984. I drank from waterhoses. I know how to kick-flip. I know all the lyrics to Possum Kingdom by heart. I had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle themed birthday party when I was 9. I don't feel like I'm old, but sometimes my back hurts. And YES, my two roommates went halfsies to buy me this shirt."
Instead of a minion, it should be a vague song lyric that we based our personalities on in 1997. Something we thought was the most insightful song ever.
Options include:
• Semi-charmed life
• Candle In the Wind
• I Believe I can Fly
• Quit Playing Games
• If It Makes You Happy
• Everyday is a Winding Road
• Carrying Your Love with Me
• Longneck Bottle
I'd also accept these songs from other years:
• No Scrubs
• Livin La Vida Loca
• Smooth
• Only Wanna Be with You
And of course, anything by Smashmouth or Alanis Morissette.
No one gets gangsta like a 40ish middle class Hr manager who drinks too much coffee and mixes a little bit of wine with painkillers on the weekend as a treat.
I'm 38, and I'm getting a little worried here. Am I going to be reposting this cringy, Boomer-Facebook crap when I'm 44? Or is this an isolated incident?
I’m 30 and lived through all of this (but I would not stay I’m “unstoppable”. I am fully stoppable).
So as a younger millennial, what do I do, oh wise ones? 😭
*my eldest brother is 7 years older than me and I lived off his hand-by-downs so that’s probably why. I got his clothes, his gameboy, his razor scooter, etc
Yeah, we've had so many "once-in-a-generation" crises as long as you define "once-in-a-generation" to "anywhere from mildly disruptive to severely bad."
That might undersell it a little bit. We are the first generation in America to not be doing better than our parents. I would agree we aren’t the first generation to have massive upheaval events, but economically we are setting records for how terrible our generation has it.
I always hated the thought process like we personally have been victims of an awful time period. Like the “being born in 1985 means we survived 9/11, the housing crisis, Great Recession, blah blah blah” as if people born in 1900 didn’t survive 2 world wars, a global pandemic, and the worst economic depression in history…AND they did that shit without air conditioning. We are squishy as marshmallows compared to other gens.
They lived through those difficult times and made easier times ahead of them by demanding more from their civic leaders, who then listened. The adults in the room during our periods of shit are actively making recovery more difficult and then blaming us somehow.
I only ever see this place when it gets to the front page, and every single time it makes me cringe out of my skin. This is the most boomer-ass thing I've seen in a long time.
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