50 Funny And Relatable Memes To Share With Your Millennial Friends (New Pics)
InterviewBecoming an adult is all fun and games until you realize your back hurts and now you need to figure out taxes. Soon enough, a solid Friday night involves a movie and some snacks, and midnight is seen as a pretty late bedtime.
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And think of all those office buildings that coudm be repurposed for much-needed housing. Cities could be for people to live in again , rather than places to commute to.
I’ve heard it isn’t cheap to convert office space into living space
Load More Replies...I'm happy to send Brian a picture every time I take a dump if that helps
Yep, it's the managers pushing for return to work, because THEY have nothing to do and can't justify being on the payroll.
That’s what I heard too. Oh, won’t someone think of all the poor middle managers!
Load More Replies...Article in today's Boston Globe. They want us back in the office. F the environment. Profits are more important.
Yeah ... to justify their job, if that's their most important function.
She also got a large wardrobe of clothes, and all the housework was done by magical servants.
Full degustation and show when sniffing for a midnight snack
Load More Replies...And somebody is going to design me the most beautiful clothes I've EVER seen and I get to wear them? When can I move in? Is yesterday too soon?
That pretty much is what happened in the story, isn't it? Except for "Please leave?" (IRL, this was the punishment of Galileo. And his lawyer was made "Doctor of the Church," something only a couple dozen of the most saintly achieved.)
It’s an allegory for arranged marriage, so assume you also have to be his housewife and have thoroughly unsexy sex with him.
The sentient feather duster does the cleaning. The other bit I could cope with
Load More Replies...In the original story the beast starved and had to hunt the forest for food.
I’ve reached the point where I don't go to the party. The dogs and the sofa are all they party I need or want.
37? I was still partying at that age! Now at 67+ I am no longer even invited to parties, because nobody my age has them anymore. This is a great relief.
Bored Panda got in touch with Peter and Chloe, the pair behind “I Am Thirty AF” and they were kind enough to answer some of our questions. We wanted to hear how they balanced humor and relatability in their content. “Humor is absolutely a big part of what we're going for, but I'd say the biggest thing that engages and connects our following of millennials/30-somethings is relatability. That relatability can and often does come through something we all find to be funny, but can also be anything from shared anxieties to commentary on what it is like being in your 30s to nostalgic experiences we all have in common from growing up in the 90s/00s.”
“The Internet is FILLED with things that are pulling us apart, creating division, and making us feel alone. We are trying to be a space that is the opposite of that. When feeling down and overwhelmed after perusing the comments section of a news article, you can come on over to our page and connect with people about how weird it was that so many 90s toys had a feature that allowed said toy to piss itself or wondering how we all knew how to draw that weird S thing when the internet really didn't exist yet (truly- this one is so bizarre- followers from all over the world have commented saying they grew up drawing it too... where did it come from?!).“
One diabetes specialist kept suggesting this to my MIL for more than a year. She was so sure that the back pain is caused by the weight, she would sometimes even scold my MIL for complaining about the pain. One day the pain became unbearable and we had to rush her to the emergency. After different tests, they found it was breast cancer and the cancerous cells had spread all over the back. She had 3 cracks in her spine. It was already 4th stage and not even one year after finding the cause, she died. The whole family is still furious with the doctor. The younger ones sometimes used to make plans to vandalise her clinic. (They didn't do it, it was just anger)
Load More Replies...'I did bloodwork to determine what is wrong with you. ...the results were within normal limits, so you'll have to call in two weeks to find that out from a nurse, but only when your anxiety has reached a fever pitch...'cause /I'm/ not going to call you. And even though your symptoms persist and the bloodwork gave us no answers, I have no follow up questions, and my interest in the matter has never been nor could it ever be lower.' -My doctor
Luckily, when I was a teen with a mystery illness, I had a doctor who was determined to figure it out and promised me she would get me a diagnosis - all of the other doctors I’d visited before her came to the conclusion I was faking it for attention or out of depression. Turns out I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which took my doctor several months of various tests to figure out, but she fulfilled her promise to me. Because of her, I decided to go to med school and become a doctor, and now that I’m a doctor, I take a leaf from her book and I never dismiss what a patient is telling me. The best part is, I got to work with my hero doctor for 5 years before she retired.
Gonna think of that in case the upcoming scans of my abdominal pains don't give any real result
Load More Replies...These days you often don't get a diagnosis, you get 'Here's a list of several things we think it isn't (but we can't be sure).'
I had a knee surgery a few years ago where they placed some screws in my bones. Two of them were too long and their ends poked out of the bone on the inner side of my knee making it impossible for me to bend said knee. You could even see this on the x-ray. But it took the doctors several weeks to admit that they made a mistake and they had some wild theories why I couldn't use my joint the way it is supposed to be - including "Maybe you are just afraid of bending your knee because it hurts a bit." Well... yeah.
Yeah, I've met those doctors too. Grim. BUT. :-) The reason they do that? They're TERRIFIED. Of: 1) being wrong- frowned on in Medicine. 2) The INSURANCE companies - who are back-seat driving all the time now- and screwing up the doctor's whole world.
Load More Replies...A friend of mine told me about how Thomas Jefferson and his wife would hold hands and talk to each other in Morse code while on their daily walks. I thought that was so romantic. No one had a clue they were talking to each other.
Want to find a large puddle to drive through and soak them with me? (I wouldn't actually do that, I don't drive and there's a huge puddle by my nearest bus stop. But I can fantasise.)
I only own a house because I inherited it, there's no way I could've got one otherwise
SAME! Hubby's dad is gifting all of the equity and selling to us for just what he's got left on the mortgage (which is the SAME AMOUNT he "paid" for it 20 yrs ago...ex-wife kept pulling the equity and gambling it away🤬). He gets how completely F'd these younger gens are. 🫤
Load More Replies...Ours has tripled-ish in value, we don't have kids, we're leaving it to a millennial single mum we're friends with (she doesn't know). She's slogged her guts out to bring up 2 kids whilst getting her degree with no help from their dad (who essentially groomed her when she was a teen, he was 11 years older and has never worked). Her kids are brilliant, very well mannered, help her out with housework and cooking, just exactly the sort of kids you'd hope you get.
I get frustrated with people who say they got a house because they worked hard. Neither me nor my husband were given money. We worked hard. Both worked while at uni. We have both spent our adult lives with graduate level jobs plus most of the time a second job each while spending very little on non essentials. We got a house in our early 40's. My parents were able to get a house at age 20 on my fathers single wage while enjoying holidays and nights out. We however are not millenials, we are gen x. We left uni without debt. We could not reasonably have earned and saved better than we did, if debt had been included in that equation i do not imagine we would have even tried.
I am a single boomer. I own a 4 br, 2 living area, 2 1/2 bath house that I bought 25 years ago for $185,000, when I had a 4 person family. It is now worth $500,000, but I can't sell it because I can't afford to buy another house and I can't afford monthly rent on a decent apartment.
DO NOT compare things like this without calculating REAL VALUES. $200K in 1992 is $447K in 2024. Not all the value increase is due to that aspect- but a ship-load is, and even more important is comparing incomes. I bet you make LESS than they did- in "adjsuted dollars."
Obvious boomer here: I bought my first home in 1977 for $21,600 and was making $3 an hour at the time. I had to cajole the bank to give me a loan because I wasn't making enough to even rent by their rules, but I did talk them into it. Scaling that to today to buy my current home I would need to be making $33, and still argue with the bank. I don't think I could talk one of the big banks into it, but the first loan was with a small local lender who was willing to think about things. The usual anti-boomer stuff assumes that we were all full in the pockets back then. The truth is that I had to think hard about my pain level before I bought a bottle of aspirin back then, and my friends were in the same boat. I wasn't pulling anything like real money until I was in my late 40s. It has always taken time to get there. It was just as hard for my parents in the 50s. It's always hard.
Load More Replies...I had to move to Europe to achieve the "American Dream" of owning my own home. Granted the housing crisis is becoming more and more global, but hey, capitalists gotta make a profit buy ANY means necessary, right???
“You can laugh over the shared experience of being 30-something and suddenly finding the idea of going to a loud bar at 11 PM to be the LAST thing you'd like to spend your night doing when only 5 years ago it sounded like a fun night out. You can bond with absolute strangers over the shared experience of our parents straight up lying to us as kids about how turning on the overhead light in the car was ILLEGAL at night (turns out it very much is not),” they shared. For those interested in bonding over more millennial humor, feel free to peruse Bored Panda’s other articles getting older.
THE urge to slap the s**t outta ur sibling when they start making those noises, boy I will put my fork in yo eyes if you don't stop that s**t RIGHT NOW
I feel the agony through your comment. Eating together without any tv or radio on is pure torture to me.
Load More Replies...I don't know. I guess no elbows on the table has been ingrained in me by now. But yes, absolutely keep your disgusting pie hole closed while eating please.
Also we can scrap that whole "can't swim for twenty minutes after eating" thing.
I don't wanna swim after I eat or run after munchkins....I'm all for "let your food digest"
Load More Replies...Still looks bad as f, sitting crooked backed , with both elbows on the table, wide to the sides, and bending down like an animal to almost eat stright from plate. ANIMALS i tell you .
I got yelled at once at school by a bunch of pretentious kids about that. I'm not American so it came as a shock that that was a thing. In my culture the food is in such a way that you have to rest your elbow or you will not be able to eat.
TBF, a lot of women probably would stop menstruating in post apocalyptic environment due to poor diet and stress. Then the rest would be getting Hella bad periods due to poor diet and stress...
As someone who is very experienced with poor diet and stress, I highly disagree.
Load More Replies...Watching apocalyptic movies, during romantic scenes all I can ever think is how much they must stink.
If both of you stink then you probably don’t care and can’t smell it anymore
Load More Replies...After the cameras are off, they go to the base camp, eat, shower, and brush their teeth.
Load More Replies...Hello, I'm a man in a post apocalyptic world, and I'd be that guy that would forget about food. (If you've ever seen Night Of The Comet I'd go a bit crazy like the women in that movie minus trying on clothes)
Their hair color doesn't grow out. That's the biggest change i would make if filming a post apocalyptic movie is letting their hair color grow out as the film goes on.
I won't be using that word, we can't have Mr Auntriarch's expectations falsely raised
I love you Susie. My corners are filled with stuff, but can I latibulize from the comfort of my recliner? FYI: Latibulize means, to retire into a hiding place or retreat (for the winter).
Just put your recliner in a corner and you can! Or just lean into a corner of your recliner.
Load More Replies...“Do you have a moment of panic that your identity will be stolen if you forget to take your receipt at the gas pump? Turns out you're not alone! These tiny bits of life that maybe you've never really put much thought into before are things we love to bring to the forefront on our page and get people talking about shared experiences and fun things that connect us rather than pull us apart.” These days, as millennials age a bit more, their concerns have expanded, with the average US thirty-something being $28,000 in debt.
"Paramour" comes to mind. As does "Manage-a-trois". ("Tish, That's French"! 😘😘😘😘. "Oh, Gomez, How Romantic.")
We used to call this 'having a lover' (s**t I'm old!) But the French say (or said) 'amoureux' I'd definitely like to be introduced like that!!
Amoureux means "in love", I think you mean "amant" (lover)
Load More Replies...6 weeks off (guaranteed) for employees in Germany. It's still not enough 😒 Edit: it's paid, too
Please take no offense, but I'm not really liking you right now.😂.. Mine is around three weeks a year and is based of the number of hours worked. (US) Plus, federal holidays.
Load More Replies...Summer holidays for children were originally instituted so that the children would be available to provide labor at a time when the farms needed it most.
This is the comment I was looking for, and I would think in more recent times it’s actually for the teachers’ benefit!
Load More Replies...4 weeks off in Sweden and you HAVE to take it. Between July to Aug, you need to be allowed to take up to 4 weeks in one continuous go. Our American counterparts always want to have important meetings then, and during Christmas and New years but we have to always reschedule. Sorry we don't live to work! As an American it just breaks my heart and makes me mad in equal amounts that THIS is what OUR society looks like
"Free Range Slavery". The techniques have been under development since Sumeria was one mud hut and a tent.
One month of vacation and rest in several holydays at my 3rd World country 😁
Took a vacation once 7 years ago. Been on 2 with my wife since we have been together. Been together for 17 years...
Two in 24 years, counting honeymoon. USA of course.
Load More Replies...Four weeks annual leave in Aotearoa plus statutory holidays. Of which there are a few!!
In Sweden you get 4 weeks. You can take up to 1 yr maternity leave and you can split it with your partner (with a new law coming in a way that you must split it with your partner so they can bond with the baby). You can also leave to go for studies and come back within two years to pick your job back up. Why are these perks not available to the most powerful, most wealthy consumerist economy on earth??
Must be USA. A usa problem with poor workers rights and entitlements? Many countries have good entitlements and rights.
In elementary, school started at 9:00, then in middle + high, school started at 7:15, i could relate to this for my childhood + adulthood
Some readers may know that “I Am Thirty AF” graces Bored Panda’s Funny section pretty frequently. The page has been around for a while. That’s why we wanted to know how Peter and Chloe handle challenges in maintaining the page and coming up with new content. “Social Media is constantly evolving and how people engage with these platforms and the types of content we post changes too.”
I never seen it. I'm danish and the ALLLLLL the disney-versions is SO FAR from the originally story HC Andersen wrote that it is crime to even compair the names!!!! The original story is beautiful, sad, heartbreaking and you learn so much....
It really is, and the ending actually sends a very important message. One that stands in stark contrast to the Disney version.
Load More Replies...Always thought Ariel was a bit of a spoiled, selfish brat. If she would've turned into one of those shriveled little thingies in Ursula's soul garden, it would've served her right.
The worst one is Sleeping Beauty. She literally just fell asleep!
Even as a kid, I knew I had to suspend disbelief with Disney characters. Critical thinking is the wrong approach to watching movies or tv series.
Ok One, it was like the seventeen hundreds or something, ocean pollution wasn’t as bad then as it is now. Two, Us as humans still explore and learn about things that could kill and eat us. Also Ariel’s main motivation was never to fall in love, it was to learn more about human culture. She sings part of your world before she ever meets Eric, Ursula was the one who brought him into the equation.
AND - "I want MORE!" - seen as so understandable- by many. And TOXIC as all get out.
Pretty sure there's a Robot Chicken sketch where Arial gets scooped up by a fishing trawler.
Only on Futurama: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Democratic_Order_of_Planets.
Load More Replies...I may not know contemporary who's who, but man, I crush those 60's and 70's online quizzes.
Hope y’all realize people born in 2007 are 16-17 years old now.
I think there is a genuine 'what are they famous for' celebs used to be singers/actors or TV/radio presenters - now they sell slimes on TikTok ?
Already in the 50s there were people famous for being famous; like all of the „it girls“.
Load More Replies...But who cares? :D why would you need to know celebrities or why are they famous.
Latest smash hit celebrity who has literally released one collab song with another barely known singer on some streaming service but they have so little talent they cant do a show with two songs. And they all make up some halfarsed name. Like lil f****r or Weekday.
LOL!! Welcome to life! That EXACT same train is visible in all movies- going back to the silents and black-and-whites. Watching a YOUNG Cary Grant talk teenage slang to adults - was, and is, hilarious. Take Comfort! We're ALL in the same place.
There's always one stranger out there ready to ask if you'd be interested in a "special one time offer." Just for you if course.
I'm very interested in this offer Tee. Tell me more. Here's my money! 💰💰💰
Load More Replies...My mantra in life is "if something is too good to be true, it's a scam or a lie". It has saved me from many "one-in-a-life" opportunity lots of my friends fell for.
I'm having a party tonight. Everyone gets a free present..... It's not a MLM, promise..... 🤪🤣
“The types of content that really resonated with our following in 2020 probably won't have the same impact today. We were very much a covid born brand and so much of what we were focusing on back then was centered around the fact that a lot of us were suddenly spending a lot more time at home and on our phones than we had previously. We collaborated a lot with small businesses to try to help them reach people since they had to shut the doors of their shops for so long.” This is, incidentally, quite in line with research that suggests that Millennials are and probably will be digital natives.
AND they're the only ones that take my insurance.
Load More Replies...I still remember when they remodeled the local Safeway. I was LIVID. They tore it down and rebuilt it just to increase PARKING.
Load More Replies...Hell YEEEESSSS!! I know where every single item is to the point where I point out to the 88 year old lady where the Bicarb soda is in aisle 7. Then they go and rearrange it all?? Why? It’s no longer there! She’s disappointed, I look stupid, no one’s happy
No, no; see, The Boss IS happy. That's why they DO it. Not kidding! It's so you have to hunt for what you want- and therefor pass many Consumer Traps - sales and endcaps- where you WILL; DO as research proves- buy MORE than you intended to. No accident here.
Load More Replies...Mine just hid potatos where the tomatos were. Do they expect to sell twice as much? I didnt buy tomatos cause i didnt find them and there sre no f*****g staff to ask.
Yes. Yes, I do. I become an irrational beast when I can't find the item in aisle 5 like I did 2 weeks ago. That's when I go to the restroom, take a seat, and do my breathing exercises. Everything is fine. It's just hunky-f'n-dory.
When I went to the Dollar Tree and saw that everything was now $1.25 I got so angry that I just left.
Compared to a lot of people I see everyday, she’s almost anorexic
Load More Replies...For anyone unfamiliar with the London rental market- I rent in zone 1 and our 2 bedroom flat is £3300 a month. You can't buy a flat here for less than about £450,000
Everybody in the audience KNEW she was NOT as loser, and totally identified with her. Ergo- movie success. It's a primate habit to INSULT your peers at every opportunity- for "status". Baboons do it, chimps do it- and so do alleged "humans." And we all know insults hurt- deserved or not. And we keep on doing it anyway.
It’s because she didn’t have a man. Nowadays she’d be celebrated for that.
At 32, yes. Fast forward to 36 and she would be considered the odd one out even today.
Load More Replies...oddly enough, the one scene (I happened upon) that made me want to watch that series was when she was at the drug store at tge ski resort. when you realize she's still in her skis in line...I'm sorry, queue. I'm glad I got to enjoy the series, include the third (?) one with her kid in school.
“We also spent a ton of time creating interactive content and games for people to spend their time on while stuck at home. For example, we bracketed every NOW! That's What I Call Music album from NOW 1 through NOW 20 and then faced off the winning track from each NOW bracket in an all-stars round to determine the greatest bop of all time (Baby One More Time, of course). This process spanned over a year and a half and people got really into it! By the time we did our final round, we had over 200K people voting every day.“
Oh god yes!! I'm lucky though because a local grocery chain and WinCo is close to my house and 24 hrs.
Load More Replies...I would panic. Like, what if the store is actually closed, hence an empty store, and I am trespassing?
At least where I live store employees are very precise about opening the store doors exactly at opening time, so if I do get in there without climbing and/or lockpicking I can reasonably assume I'm welcome
Load More Replies...Best thing: Being the manager and able to shop before the store opens ^^
The beauty of empty aisles and no screaming children is amazing, and a bit eerie.
Where I live, old women are far worse than children. Not all of them, of course, but more than half of them are total a******s. They are the ones with the most entitled attitude, the ones that hit you with the trolley and don't even look back to see if they hurt you, the ones that stop to chat in the middle of the isles to chat and block it, the ones that treat the shop assistants like rubbish, and the ones that will definitely try to jump the queue because they are elderly and for some arcane reason they think they are worth it. There are many terribly rude children, but at least it's not their fault. Adults should have learnt some manners, but they don't care. (where I live, 80% of the people you find in a supermarket are women)
Load More Replies...I’ll one up you: empty store AND you’re there during “low sensory hour”. Lights low, no ads/music playing on speaker….bliiiiiiiiisss
Just wait until you start showing your friends the support handles and shower chair.
Yesterday my best friend and I exchanged screenshots of “good looking small appliances” and she ended up buying a matching toaster and tea kettle I found- that was almost 24 hours ago and I am still riding on that high. When they arrive she is going to send me pics of them in her kitchen- I am hoping to coast this feeling for weeks.
😂 I know this feeling exactly. I cherish fondly my memories of my best friend’s great pool renovation of 2022
Load More Replies...There's nothing, absolutely *nothing*, stupid about getting joy from simple things. Celebrate the things that make you happy.
I've made new friends recently, and a couple weeks ago, I was invited over to one of their houses. I spent five hours listening to him share his stories about his carefully curated stuff - he used to work in an antique store, so he had created a museum for himself. It was so fascinating, and he was so excited to share it.
Load More Replies...Be honest. When you were three, your parents had to manage your impulse to show everyone your brand new underwear.
Hey! It took me a long time to choose my shower curtain! I went for a forest scene where it's dark at the bottom so I won't see any mildew spots...
LOL! Yes but- try noticing instead- "Hey! I'm getting HAPPINESS - some something so very simple, and cheap!!" Maybe that's a grown-up thing? Win win there.
I remember when I discovered that my shower curtain matched with one of my teapots. I was ecstatic, but what happened to me?
I got my dad this cool tray for his walker and I started daydreaming about how much cooler walker tray tables will be when I need one in a couple decades.
I'm looking forward to showing off my new desk arrangement to anybody.
I was told you'd appear! It is prophesied. Praise peeble doop.
Load More Replies...“But life is really different now than it was in 2020/2021 and content that takes a bit of time to engage with and requires you to keep coming back every day, like voting all week long in a 20-frame bracket series- isn't something people seem to have as much time for now, so we've switched things up! We're focusing more on live events, getting out and connecting with our followers at FUNNY AF! comedy shows (so far just in NYC and LA but we're expanding!) or this global scavenger hunt called Nostalgia Grabs that we run where we hide packages filled with nostalgic treasures for people to find (starting up again this spring- keep an eye out!). This is honestly such a fun job because we keep reinventing how we spend our time and what we post, and it keeps it interesting and entertaining for both of us as well as our following.“
Someone in Reddit said it was a mental illness? like ?? Sir ?? Excuse me?? what mental illness?? Doesn't everyone do this???
They probably were thinking about psychoaffective disorders, but honestly I think it's just maladaptive daydreaming, which is more of a coping mechanism than a disorder
Load More Replies...So basically, your Life Plan is to be eaten by zombies? I see success for you...
Please can I have some of that? Sounds like it could make life more bearable
"This is my baby" would probably mean I'm showing you a new houseplant. My cat is my fur-born son.
Pets are less expensive than kids and way easier to deal with.
Load More Replies...Nope it means I got a new fur baby or feather baby. Or I got meh babies (kids/goats) or bah babies (lambs/sheepies) or nah babies (colts/ponies) or wee wees (piglets/ piggies) and can't forget Bach Bachs (chickies/cheep cheeps) and quack quacks (ducklings/ duckies) it's a song really
Load More Replies...Mr Auntriarch's aunty Audrey said her little granddaughter was visiting. Boxer puppy. No complaints from me however.
My friends from Australia said when they first got here they couldn't understand why people were always asking "What's up?" they thought it was an inside joke.
I remember when WordPerfect was the dominant program. On floppy disks. Printed to dot matrix printers.
Yeah, well I remember MacWrite - which preceded any Word version by 3 or 4 years - until Bill Gates realized he was losing market share, published Word which is a TERRIBLY bad copy of MacWrite - "improved" by - engineers, not writers. Go figure. Finagle's Law: "The perversity of the Universe tends to a maximum."
Load More Replies...Yeah, but I need it cAUse EVeryBOdy usEs It! And that is, because NoBOdy listened to the IT guy, ever! Still missing Lotus.
But why would you try to do any of those things in Word? It's a writing tool, it's not for layout design.
I had to work with it in my employment; my limited skills earnt me endless praise from everyone who had no idea how to use it (especially styles), or how to get around its eccentricities. Now I ONLY use Mac OS and Pages or LibreOffice! Much less stress!
I worked as a graphic designer in a university for 15 years. All the text was supplied as Word documents. None of the thousands of people who used Word every day in their jobs knew how to use it! Someone supplied a document where they had pasted all the images. It was hundreds of megabytes. And wondered why it was so large. I fixed it and reduced the size enormously by inserting all the images correctly. They were all on PCs. I was on a Mac, and actually did not really know how to use Word. But I had common sense, and knew how to find out how to do things properly.
We also wanted to know what criteria they had for selecting and posting content. “Giving credit and connecting with creators is a really important focus for us. We also try really hard to share content that isn't alienating or triggering to people. We absolutely have blindspots and mess up from time to time, but we are constantly monitoring DMs and comments and do take feedback from followers/use that feedback to shape what we share moving forward.”
Self checkout is for amateurs. At my supermarket they have a handheld scanner so I scan and pack as I go. At the checkout just scan a QR code, pay, and leave. It's heaven
The only thing I like about self-checkout is the nice discount I give myself for being a temporary employee. I gotta work in your store, I gotta get something for it.
Our store uses AI cameras to accuse me of theft by locking thecsale and shouting for staff to check images when it thinks my tomatos on special may just be the vinevripened expensive ones. If i shouted to a customer...suspected theif check inside his pants how do you reckon that may end? Same way. I walk away and let them repack onto shelf.
Coming Soon! Automated Abusive Self Checkout! "Cripes lady, how dumb ARE you?!" - says the computer, preferably in a Bronx accent...
I guess I must live in a sketchy part of town. We had the self scanners you used to walk around the store with to scan your purchases but they took it out. Too much theft, I guess.
Panic attacks can't kill you. I have at least one a week and I'm still alive.
Load More Replies...There’s a reason I never went to any of the reunions. I didn’t want to.
Does anybody attend GenX reunions? I don't know if my class even has them
Load More Replies...Yeah nobody from my high school graduating class would recognize me now. I mean I did change genders, but besides that, I am not the same person I was 24 years ago.
I have a friend from HS I see only very occasionally now (20+ years later). They seem to think I'm still the same person and always bring up stuff from that era (often embarrassing memories). They're a totally different person now, as well, but can't relate to me that way for some reason. Makes me not want to see them.
The next time your friend does that, if I may, let them know that behavior bothers you. If your friend refuses to apologize and attempt to change his or her behavior, there’s nothing wrong with distancing yourself from that person in order to protect your mental and emotional health.
Load More Replies...Right? This is why I don't go to HS reunions. Older versions of people I knew in high school that may or may not still have the same personality SINCE HIGH SCHOOL. Like nobody I knew was interesting enough that I'd spend extra money just to hang out with again just to compare lives. That's a hard pass!
I’m kinda addicted to read bored panda every day before I sleep. I’m saying to myself every day ‘just one hour and then sleep’. *check clock* ‘what?? Have I been reading for 3 freaking hours straight?! Felt like 40 minutes!’ -every day👀
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When I was 8 I discovered the joys of a brand new Pilot G2 0.7 mm black-ink pen. I don't think I was ever a kid
Me too, I would much rather have spent my pocket money in a stationery shop than a toy shop
Load More Replies...I've worked at places where fist fights will break out over sharpies.
Getting older is all about appreciating micro-pleasures. I was doing laundry and thought "Why bother folding my towels, it's not like they'll wrinkle." And then I realized there's something satisfying about grabbing a beautifully folded towel from the closet.
Finding one that WRITES brings me joy! And finding something to write ON after is just bliss!
So true!! I turned into a gel pen snob. If it's not a Pilot G-2 07, don't waste my time.
And God help the kid who ever takes my personal pair of scissors out of my desk drawer.
And "mum has a headache and is lying down" was code for mums got clinical depression and can't function today.
In Ireland there was a very specific phrase for this "she's taken to the bed."
Load More Replies...Especially since this is how you'll be spending your future together anyway
HELL no. I shop online and we pick it up. My social anxiety is too strong lol
Load More Replies...You want REAL world? Look for a specific can of soup in an unfamiliar store. "Chicken&Stars...no...Heart Healthy....no...low sodium...no...ALL I WANT IS CHICKEN NOODLE, IS THAT SO HARD????"
I really should have taken my first husband grocery shopping, I never would have married him
Could be a little early for that intense level of intimacy! Do NOT intrude in the carefully curated moments of my shopping meditation...
I’m single because I would flat out refuse to go. Self-inflicted stress is something I can’t be doing with.
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I would maybe try to sell it, but I would find the whole thing a hassle so I would keep putting it off until it's too late.
Every time I find a random box of stuff I don’t need I think “I should sell this stuff”. But then I remember that would mean talking to people… and arranging a time/place to meet… and the box gets put back where it was for another 5 years. (Though I recently found out that my city has a donation service that will come and pick up your donations, you just have to schedule a pick up time online then leave them by the sidewalk)
Load More Replies...Except Wonka would be Musk and the chocolate factory would be a Tesla factory where Oompa Loompas die all the time in the rare earth metals river and in the end he gives you the keys to his empire and flies to Mars in a Space X rocket as he tweets “See ya’’, losers!”
At least all the dangerous machines will be present.. (high amount of work accidents in his german factory)
Load More Replies...I would assume there would be soooooo many terms and conditions attached to it, it would probably cost me over $200 so just no, f**k you Wonka, I have laundry to do, leave me alone.
And God forbid you end up with the chocolate factory like Charlie did, the taxes would bury you.
Load More Replies...And you get there to find its some social media hype like Aaron Paul and Prime are doing a launch of a Wonka Prime bar that takes like a*s
Yeah, real pants are such a hassle. Just eat the chocolate in your comfy pants.
Anyone who agrees with this sucks... It's a chocolate FACTORY full of MAGIC and fun. I'd sell my left arm to feel that joy in today's world
I would probably go for the chocolate and then leave, I don’t have time for singing let me get my sugar!
I remember thinking that with the first movie. It made more sense with the horrible custody agreements of the 60's than whenever the Lindsey Lohan one came out.
Load More Replies...This happened to my hubby in 1972 .. he was 6 .. parents split, dad took older brother, he went with mom and they didn't see each other for like years!!
My boss's husband's ex wanted to split the children. He ended up getting both. The courts do occasionally get it right
Das doppelte Lottchen, right. Even as a child I found the idea of choosing one child and leaving the other cruel.
Load More Replies...Never saw this movie and now I'm glad I didn't. Another movie that everyone loves that I've never seen is Mrs. Doubtfire. I thought the premise of a divorced spouse in her home was creepy, creepy, creepy. That was a stalker movie for the whole family.
Most people I know who have seen it give it a pass because Robin Williams, if it was any other actor then more people would see it as creepy.
Load More Replies...You remember that the kids were either Hayley Mills or Lynsey Lohan depending on which version you were watching. I think custody probably went "you have them!", "no, you have them!" And one each meant the mental torture of those obnoxious kids was at least halved.
I struggled with Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader. Don't think stepping down a grade level is going to help me much!
Load More Replies...I'm going to be chortling on and off for the rest of the day
Load More Replies...The guy on the right is Paul Hollywood. He's a really talented Baker and judges on the Great British Bake Off
Load More Replies...UK reality tv is 12 people doing some nice cooking or sewing while having a nice chat and some gentle innuendo with the friendly host and helping each other out/giving loads of emotional support to other contestants. US reality tv is 12 people fighting over scraps on a table and then doing their utmost to sabotage each other while an aggressive host screams at them.
Load More Replies...Wild take on this one. I'm sure we can all agree that, being the young child he is, that he did not have his father's brutal murder in mind as means of becoming king? Wtf?
Yeah, I don't think the kid had joined up the dots there
Load More Replies...Up until Mufasa dies Simba is the ultimate rich kid. Knows he is going to take over the family business so in the meantime can do whatever he wants.
I want a trolley that's big but not so deep that I have to garotte my internal organs trying to get stuff from the bottom of the cart. Why are the options tiny, or so big you need to try not to fall in unpacking.
Right? I can't reach the bottom on a full size cart.
Load More Replies...If they live in the space in weightlessness, it totally makes sense. If they live in a postapocalyptic dog-eats-dog world, it totally makes sense. Is there anything in between in the future?
Arthur C Clarke posited that short hair regularly trimmed would result in hair snippings floating around in the air con and nobody wants that. So everyone got on board shaven and it let grow during the trip
Load More Replies...I notice when blond women with short hair are hermetically sealed in space ships for years at a time , they never have to touch up their roots or visit their stylist - the do stays the same for 80 plus years. . .
Sheesh. I keep looking in the mirror and thinking, "This d#mn spiky pixie cut really shows my age!"
This is really confusing me, since 1980 was 20 years ago AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
Indeed and I can still out work a 20 year old. That "old man" strength comes in handy
Load More Replies...As someone born btw 1960-69, you have no idea how ancient I feel after reading that
Ooooh..... I'm an ancestor! Cool! My faith includes ancestor worship (it does) so now I get to worship myself! ❤
No. You're a relic, a artifact, or a fossil. AND SO AM I.
Load More Replies...How about from 1959-1969. We must be ancient then or older than the hills.
1946 here. And I quote: "Holy Mackeral boy, what is all this?" If you are tired at 24 how tf can you survive the next 40 years at work?
It definitely was. I made 8 bucks an hour an shared a big beautiful house with 4 other people for 250 a piece. It was glorious.
You were lucky. In the 1980s the best we could have was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
Load More Replies...I remember getting paid weekly and being so upset that almost my ENTIRE paycheck for the first week went towards rent. I stocked shelves at the grocery store Mon thru Fri
Just remember some of those who had it good then make sure you don’t now 😂 😢 🤷🏼♀️
In 1974 I rented my first apartment (I was 20) alone. Ocean view. It was $250 month. I googled the address out of curiosity, it happened to be for rent. It was $2600.00 month.
Same in the eighties. In the 70s, my parents bought a 5-bed house with an enormous garden in a lovely area for £9,000. They sold it in '89 for nearly 200k. My daughter hit 33 before managing to save up a deposit (with her bf, last year) for a V small, 3-bed house in the West Midlands (UK).
If they got a 30 year mortgage, they are going to be 73 when it is paid off. If they keeping living there for 30 years.
Load More Replies...I feel like I should apologise for being a boomer who inherited his parent's house and can now retire on $900K super with $5K per month tax free. I didn't vote for the ridiculous conditions you are now in. It is cold comfort to realise I am in a far better position now than I would have been if were born say 50 years later. OTOH, I really wish I were younger! It is cruel being a young person trapped in an old body.
Yeh, I’m with you, but it’s a bit stiff at first and hits a sweet soft spot about 4th use
I was just going to say that a new one isn't good until after a couple of uses!
Load More Replies...Any new cleaning rag is a delight somehow. Rather sad, when you think about it.
I'll stick with paper towels or the reusable rags with the scrubby mesh on one side.
I'm on a new BP medication and the nurse wants to know if it's causing a dry cough. I told her between allergies and being a smoker, coughing is a way of life. She moved onto the next question.
You have absolutely NO idea what it will be like waking up in your 70s feeling fine, until you try to walk.
Gotta love the 30-something influencers sharing tips on how to do makeup on mature skin
I have a laptop bag...busting with documents. Someone is in for a depressing surprise if they steal it.
When I was in high school 60 years ago, we were promised a paperless society — HA!
Back when computer storage cost upwards of $5,000 per megabyte. Not a typo, megabyte.
Load More Replies...I found out, being in education, that the stupid stuff that comes down from District or my Dean that they tell me I have to do and if I don’t do it, no one seems to care. I found a new way to avoid extra work by emailing my Dean about SLO’s (Student Learning Objectives) by asking him how much do I get paid for this. As an adjunct faculty, my union is behind me.
I do this because I have a weird habit of subconsciously holding my breath. I do. And every know and then I let out a plosive breath.
I've never heard of someone else who does besides me......
Load More Replies...I've been sighing since I was a teenager. I remember older people commenting that it sounded like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders. Gotta say, retirement cured me of that burden.
I try really hard to have it sound like, "Phuuuuuuckkk". My boss doesn't approve.
Oh the desperate one your brain takes because you're so busy and stressed you forgot to breathe and also wish you were dead. Yeah that breath.
Today it's called a grazing board and costs about a weeks rent so that 4 people can have a small meal.
Mom and I were making the "poor" version of charcuterie plates back in the 80's and 90's. We would get our biggest dinner plate and pile whatever chips and crackers that were on sale. Whatever cheap fruit we bought and would cut up. Then we had store brand hard cheese, lunch meat and green onions chopped up. Add in a pile of cottage cheese with salt and pepper then we would pile up on the couch and we would watch Dallas and Knots Landing. Those are some of my favorite memories of my Mom.
I thought what they ate was mostly unsalted gruel and beans and they drank mostly lukewarm fermented cholera water slightly sanitized by 2% alcohol content?
Did you maybe mean getting down? Or do you have some unsee juice I can borrow?
Load More Replies...Funny thing is the game never actually said that.
Load More Replies...My original Neopets are still around - I think my Lupe is literally like 22 years old at this point XD
Load More Replies...I’m pretty sure the ones I had as a kid would probably be furious with me if they could come to life and find me! I forgot I had an account for a few short years until I saw this!
How come they are all lined up at the pizza shop? I personally would be at the money tree
I asked my teen where something was and she playfully replied “up your butt and around the corner” and I have never been so proud
I used to be “with it.” Then they changed what “it” is and now it seems strange and scary. One day, it’ll happen to you!
For those old enough to remember or geekier enough to know, Clippit - Clippy's full name - was preceded by Windows 95's Microsoft Bob. Further, the font often considered to be the worst ever, Comic Sans, was designed specifically to be used with Bob
Microsoft Bob was magic. It needed only 17 mouse clicks to print a page. (Fact.)
Load More Replies...The thing that strikes me about "Clippy" is that whenever you wanted to do a search you had to wait for it to do its "dance", same with the dog, which was irritating! And recently they put Co-Pilot into the Microsoft Edge search by default, and I type in the search, and see the results instantly on my screen (with like "more). I click on it so that I can see it all and Co-Pilot SLOWLY types out the same thing. I guess we will always be waiting for the "new kid in town" to get around letting us actually get some work done.
No, we all knew Clippy was male. I don't know how, but we did. You could change the character, too, if I remember correctly. I think I had an old, balding man for a while.
Load More Replies...That's why there are no university fees in Germany. Yes, not helpful to US people, I know
They realized along the way somehow that gen x needed chocolate vitamins. It makes sense to move with the times!
Peloton is a brand of home exercise bike, where you pay a subscription to have access to live classes, where an instructor encourages you. Like a spin class at the gym. But he can't see you. So you could be eating cheese instead of cycling
Load More Replies...I'm engaged to be married for the second time. Our first wedding was dirt cheap because we were very frugal about things. I don't want anything big this time, but even looking at venues-- for a small wedding, $5,000 is pretty standard. And that's just where you'll be! Nothing else! My fiance really wants to do something special, but man I am not feeling the cost.
In Australia, measured in US Dollars, the average cost is half that. "Couples who choose to elope, have a civil ceremony, or use an online wedding platform have found that straying away from cookie-cutter weddings can be as memorable and they can save money and only pay a fraction of the cost of a traditional wedding." If the bride and groom have very big families, then eloping is the by far the best way to do it.
We got married at a city centre venue, then had a break during which the guests could go and find their own meal and we could have a much needed cup of tea (groom) / gin and tonic (bride), and then reconvened at a different city centre venue for the party. Much cheaper if you're not feeding people.
Of course weddings can cost that much or more, that's why people cry at them.
She didn't travel in time, she jumped in time. It made sense she had a life between 14-29 that she wasn't aware of. Sorry, I'm a nerd.
first on dance floor... My wife and I didn't have dancing at our wedding because neither of us dance. Well, our daughter's getting married - guess who has to take dance lessons :) (we're both 69 years old, btw)
My mom HATES Jim Carey. She never gave him a chance from his Living Colir Days (which I loved). Now that my kids have seen The Grinch I introduced them to his early comedies and they ❤️🔥 him. My 10yo definitely has a crush
My parents didn't like me watching Roseanne because they didn't want me ending up like them. "White trash"
My husband's parents forbid the Simpsons when he was growing up. Guess what's on the TV RIGHT NOW
German rapper /Hip Hop - because most of the songs are trash from every perspective
Hmm, my parents were always like "we're leaving in 5 minutes," then 2 hours later we actually leave. Now I have terrible time management skills and also back when I went to parties I was often the last one left at the end. So I guess my parents taught me the opposite lesson.
I never liked the Backstreet Boys until I learned about how dirty their own manager did them. Them and I are good now.
Their music was and is terrible but getting screwed over like that isn’t okay
Load More Replies...J-Lo’s primary talent is working hard to stay as young looking and in shape as possible. This is, of course, aided by many other professionals in the beauty, fashion and fitness industries which she can clearly afford to pay for. Good for her and you have to admire the work ethic; it’s kept her somewhat relevant beyond her “best by” date.
But if you have too many I won't tell you.... I will tell all my family and friends, though. And we will all hate you. Because you had too many groceries to be in the express lane.
..and I will be awake at 2am rehearsing what I should have said to you
Load More Replies...I'm over here twitching and muttering about war crimes 'cause...I work in a grocery store.
Load More Replies...Grocery store radio has gotten confusing lately. They were playing Wrecking Ball the other day, that song is way too modern for grocery stores!
I don’t know who runs my local IGA supermarket but they have amazing speakers and a fantastic play list.
The white wedding dress in that style was made popular by queen Victoria. Figures.
You know what? You could just learn how to sew and fulfill your dream of being a princess for one day all on your own AND on a budget
I can sew. There is no way that I could create a freaking wedding dress though. That would take training and years of practice. It is not as simple as 'learn to sew'. I can use a hammer and nail too but I ain't building no houses!
Load More Replies...I'm probably lucky mom didn't care what I watched by the time Ren & Stimpy came on.
My dad was upset I let my kids watch Rugrats because of Angelica. I pointed out they would be dealing with people like her their whole lives and the program taught them how. He though about it a minute and agreed with me.
My parents didn't care for age ratings at all as long as it wasn't anything too sexual
Also, aren't Millenials a bit young for Oregon Trail? I remember that being on a real floppy disk..
Load More Replies...I got the DVD off my country’s equivalent of eBay for $3 because I like having a say in what movies are available to me and I hate Netflix and Amazon.
You could MAKE THEM?? I only ever collected them in a little folder on my family computer like a maniac.
Meredith was a wildly incompetent gold digger who could have averted the entire problem by just looking for a superficial sugar daddy who shared her contempt for children and the working class.
True story, I didn't learn about this game in school. I attempted suicide at 13 and they put me in a mental institution and they would sometimes let you play this during their weird school/group therapy time.
Why? Because she didn’t want her father to be miserable with a gold digger?
Some of these are old, when it says new pics. Does that bother anyone else or uhm.....
99% of the time it says new pics, I know it’s going to be a lie. Sometimes I enjoy seeing some again. Others I groan at them never going away!!
Load More Replies...Unrelated, but this is a weirdness I stumbled upon. On some random posts, you can hover your mouse somewhere on that block, and there is other text to read. Did you know? It's first for me. This image is from post #36. randomstuf...nsored.jpg
Some of these are old, when it says new pics. Does that bother anyone else or uhm.....
99% of the time it says new pics, I know it’s going to be a lie. Sometimes I enjoy seeing some again. Others I groan at them never going away!!
Load More Replies...Unrelated, but this is a weirdness I stumbled upon. On some random posts, you can hover your mouse somewhere on that block, and there is other text to read. Did you know? It's first for me. This image is from post #36. randomstuf...nsored.jpg
