I used to activately listen to P.Diddy and R.Kelly in the 90s but now even when I hear them "guest star" in a track or have a song in a movie soundtrack I cringe and go to the next song. I ended up pruning my 30 year old music collection because hearing them just gives me the ick.

I’m in my early 20s and I see many girls my age having this look when I’m going to the bar and club and hang out downtown on Friday and Saturday nights.

Posted just a couple months ago on here about putting her into an assisted-living. Pretty typical boomer parent. That was absent emotionally and physically for a lot of of my formative years. I was mostly raised by my grandparents.

Kind of a weird emotional spot. She’s been miserable for years because of her health. So we’re very relieved for her. happy that the physical suffering is over.

But obviously at the same time … my mom died. So I should be sad… right? Kind of walking around feeling both emotions at the same time and it’s kind of a surreal experience overall.

I was thinking about how so many celebrities and all-stars we looked up to as kids turned out to be the biggest pieces of shit. But who turned out to actually be a genuinely great role model and a positive symbol of our generation?

To me, Fred Rogers has done more for the world than any other celebrity of our time and should be celebrated regularly as a hero.

Because sooner or later the car gets paid off and the mortgage gets lower.

Just lived through my first round of college admissions as a parent, and I’m still in mild shock. My kid’s got a near-perfect GPA, top percentile SATs, global upbringing, articulate essays, thoughtful recs, no discipline issues, no slacking, no silver spoon. Just a genuinely good, smart, hard-working human being who did all the things you're supposed to do.

And yet… rejection after rejection. Ghosted by most of the “brand name” schools. A few acceptances, some respectable, one private school came through with aid and a decent offer, but nothing like what I expected given how strong the profile was.

When we applied (Class of ‘00-ish), this would’ve been the type of student every admissions office drooled over. Now it feels like they barely looked.

I get that the game has changed, way more applicants, fewer spots, holistic this, institutional priorities that...but man. It’s brutal watching your kid play it straight and still get clobbered. They’ve handled it better than I have, to be honest.

Also weird to realize: I probably wouldn’t get into the schools I got into back then.

Anyway. Proud parent, slightly bitter xennial, feeling my age. Wondering if the meritocracy we were sold ever really existed, or if we just caught the tail end of something that's now gone.

There are a few, but Smooth tops them all

Who are we? When are we? Too young to be Gen X, too old to be millennials... and the Oregon Trail title is... Chef's Kiss

🎶 You get the best of both worlds 🎶

This came out when I was an angry 14 yo and it didn't leave my cd player for months, it felt like it was made just for me. I listened to it again for the first time in years and, while it's still good, it doesn't hit nearly the same.

I see this get mentioned as an aside in a lot of threads on here and the number of people saying they're just going to work until they die is alarming. Is that really the case? Are you just being funny? How many of you really have nothing or not enough? What ARE you going to do when you physically can't work anymore? Are you trying to catch up or at least scratch *something* together in the next twenty years?

Follow up. If you haven't planned and prepared, why? What circumstances led to not being able to set back even 5% of your income into an IRA or 401k?

I recently posted a similar post regarding Superman 3, and remembered there was another movie that scarred me for life. It was this movie. I saw it when I was 5 years old in theaters thinking how amazing it was to see Mickey Mouse and Bugs bunny in the same movie. However I was not prepared for the death of an innocent puppy-like cartoon shoe, nor the surprise reveal at the end with Judge Doom's super evil crazy eyes. Nightmare fuel for sure.

Okay Xennials / elder millennials, quick check-in:

What’s one completely normal thing from the 80s/90s/2000s that would absolutely confuse a kid today? 😂

I’ll go first:

Calling someone’s house phone and having to survive a full conversation with their parent before they handed the phone over.

YOUR TURN 👇

I knew Tiger Woods had some kind of top-tier obsession with sex/porn before it went public. I worked at DirecTV as one of my first jobs in the late 90s and I'd get into celebrity accounts to see what they were doing. Tiger Woods was buying more porn than I thought anybody even had a desire to see. It was so, so much porn. Lots of celebrities were ordering porn PPVs but nobody was on Tiger's level. Not even close. It was his account and I was pretty sure it was him ordering because you'd see it stop when he was on tour. That dude loved porn. I mean, he really loved porn. That dude ordered so much porn.

I am honestly impressed with this. No one looks trashed and they are smoking meats.

(Deleted and reposted because I didn't word it quite right originally and was causing confusion)

I get that over time some phrases meaning might change. Not sure how you feel but I just can’t get on board with the new meaning behind Raw Dogging.