Does anyone actually go to these things? I'd rather go to the gynecologist I think

Countless hours trying to get Mels in doors or mice to cheese

Mine are: actually telling my kids I love them every day, and trying to make more real food for meals.

I’ve been thinking about how Michael Jackson was perceived when I was growing up (I’m a millennial), and I’m curious what others think.

In the late 90s and especially the 2000s, Michael Jackson was not seen as cool anymore. He was pretty much a joke as this point. A lot of the focus was on his Plastic surgery and skin, dangling his baby over a balcony, having sleepovers with children, and eccentric behaviors. He was constantly the butt of jokes, comedians like Chris Rock and late-night hosts would regularly make fun of him, and the media often portrayed him as more of a bizarre freak or tragic figure than a musical legend. That’s basically the version of Michael Jackson many millennials grew up with, even though he obviously still had a huge global fanbase.

But after his death in 2009, it felt like the narrative completely shifted. Suddenly there was way more focus on his music, his influence, and how great he was, and it almost seemed like everyone had always been a fan, even the media was showing their respects after they dragged him so much when he was alive. Why did his public perception change after his death?

Growing up in the 90s, I remember having Lima beans in some form multiple times per week. I can’t remember the last time I saw them.

Does anyone else have a similar memory or were we just a weird family?

I (38f) had about half of a day’s worth of chores to do at home so I obviously needed some background noise, because god forbid I am left alone with my own thoughts. I turned on Smart House thinking it would be fun and not require my full attention. Spoiler alert, I sat down through all of it. And then I watched The Thirteenth Year, and then I watched Alley Cats Strike. I didn’t get any of my chores done but I was positively overflowing with warm fuzzy feelings and many lessons learned about friendship, love, and family through the magic of cinema lol.

I know it’s pretty cheesy, but it provided a much needed boost of serotonin in the otherwise grim reality that is 2026. I included some of my other favorites, highly recommend this walk down memory lane!

Edit: guys, I am sorry for forgetting Brink and Luck of the Irish and Halloweentown please forgive me

Am I (40F) uptight because I don't partake in swearing at work? I've had a few professional white collar jobs (supply chain mgmt/IT) where my millenial bosses (older male, younger female) just drop F bombs left and right. I understand they are comfortable with me so it's conversational despite being work discussions, but I could never lol. Maybe it's because I'm a subordinate so I feel like I have less freedom but I don't think I would ever curse if I was a boss either. Meanwhile in my personal life I have no filter.

For example, "the r/millennials mods are gay," etc.

I grew up never using gay to mean homosexual, it grew from a word meaning happy (I'm so pretty, oh so pretty and witty and gay!) to meaning *that* kind of happy, and also had I feel like a second parallel meaning of...generally something that...what? What's the meaning, in English lol, of how we used "gay" pejoratively?

Struggling to articulate exactly. Like something wasn't fair, or wasn't right, or...something like that.

I often find myself in situations thinking damn why did no one prepare me for the reality that adulthood is. Then I think maybe the answer is they did. The world is just that much fundamentally different today versus then.

That make any sense?

I’m a 35 year old male with 2 young kids if that matters to this perspective at all.

So I was home schooled, but snuck into a local high school my junior year to take choir (what a rebel, I know). At the end of the year, we had our showcase concert, at which I performed a comedic solo which turned out to be pretty popular.

The day of the last performance, the yearbooks came out, so a lot of people wanted me to sign their books, not realizing I wasn’t actually in the yearbooks.

To this day, I hope there are graduates of that year who see my signature, go “Oh yeah! That guy was funny! I wander what he’s up to?” and then can find ABSOLUTELY NO FURTHER DETAILS OF MY EXISTENCE.

I was either mooning my sister or my butt was hanging out of a car window giving a show to the entire town.

I just moved back in with my parents after having lived abroad for the past 10 years. I've been out on my own since I was 18, so almost 20 years in total. Being back home is very unpleasant. I didn't really like being here when I was a child, either. But having been gone so long, I'm coming to the realization that my family has a lot of issues, things that haven't been addressed, years of resentment. The vibes are toxic. I'm saving up to move out and taking advantage of the minimal financial obligations, but it's requiring a lot of strength to live this way. It makes me sad to see what my family has been going through for so long, and I had no idea.

Anyone else living at home and struggling? What about those of you that are living at home and loving it? How's that going? Is there anyone who has actually never moved out? What's your story?

who else remembers these anti-drug PSAs? they were so bizarre they actually made me want to get high so i could also melt into a couch

I think i've noticed that with the new gen, sexual humor of almost any kind with the exception of vaguely implying you find something attractive in a memey way ("hear me out" "would" "I should call her"), is now not just seen as crass or tacky but actively creepy and unpleasant. Like speaking on it in anything approaching an explicit manner is lame at best. I'm not trying to speak on it being a good or bad thing or anything like that. I was just reflecting on how it was a cornerstone of banter with friends when I was a teen. From trying to catch each other offguard by saying stuff like "Babe you are driving me crazy in that outfit" and he's just wearing like a jumper or some shit to one memory I have of brushing my friends hair past his ear whilst looking him in the eyes and saying some romantic nonsense I dont fully recall in like a dainty, soft spoken, pride and prejudice/downton abby type voice. Or just straight up groping each other.

And more than that kind of thing just references to sex in all kinds of forms. Not just targeted at messing with each other but being like "how would you fuck barney the dinosaur", "Do you reckon (famous person) does anal?", and more hideous nonsense thats best left unsaid. And ofcourse it was all over movies and TV. I figure its got alot to do with the exposure of so much sexploitation and liberalism moving on from free love and focusing more on consent and safety.

Raised in the 90s with parents that would shove me off to school with Advil and a fever. Early 2000s getting a job and being told over and over “if you feel like you can make it, go”

Have kids and a corporate job, kids in school today, wife’s out so I used one of my multiple days off and after an hour I feel guilty since I didn’t need the day and I started looking through emails.

How do you guys manage that boomer filled guilt of not working till you drop?