What songs are currently on your ultimate weekend cleaning playlist? Mine is straight out of 2005.

that Jimmy Workman, who played Pugsley in the 1990s "Addams Family" movies, and Ariel Winter, who played Alex Dunphy on "Modern Family," are biological siblings.

I actually did a deep dive on why these are a core memory for so many people around our age. There were a few companies making these huge wooden sets but one in particular was doing it on a donation basis. Communities would raise a few thousand dollars, the company would match some, they get notoriety, communities get baller new wooden castles. Win-Win.

What REALLY made them boom was being featured on an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leathers_and_Associates

One near me got taken down last year and the community had such an uproar that they contracted the original maker (Leathers and Associates) to re-make it out of poly wood instead.

No skippable tracks

*gestures broadly*

This is made from my observations in the workplace, previous academic settings, online and overall in culture. It’s solely my opinion and I welcome discussion over it.

There are two generational battles I consistently see across everyday life: 1) the baby boomer generation vs everyone and 2) millennial vs Gen Z. You hear it at work. In the classroom. And all over social media. But why? The first is obvious imo. The older folk lived a completely different way of life. But millennials and Z? Sure, millennials experienced a different early life than Gen Z. But conceptually, millennials have aligned with Gen Z more so than older generations ever aligned with their successor generation. We get each other. Sure, we can point out the differences and poke fun and say one is better than the other at x, y and z, but I think that falls right into the trap the baby boomer generation established. Their alienation of the millennial generation and eventually Gen Z, is starting to make its way into the millennial way of life (and they are loving it). Call me crazy but I believe this to be intentional.

You see it in this subreddit, at home, in the workplace…the millennial defensive attitude is starting to become slightly offensive towards GenZ. Fine take off my tinfoil hat for a sec, whether this is being fed by the older generations or not, there’s one thing for I believe for certain, this is preventing the establishment of an unstoppable force that can be the fuel for the change we need as a society. Millennials and Gen Z can and need to learn from each other. We have our strengths and weaknesses that have resulted from our different experiences. However, the strengths we share outweigh our shared weaknesses. And neither are doing enough to call those out and invest in each other. I’m not going to highlight each one because the funny thing is I think everyone knows what they are, it’s no secret. So why aren’t we teaming up more effectively to ensure that the greatest generation the world has seen…is the we can create.

Ok rant over. Go for it. I want to know am I stating the obvious and out of the loop or is this something people don’t realize or even disagree with completely.

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For me, it's Team Fortress Classic, which ran on the Half-Life engine. So many great memories of playing capture the flag.

Who else was online playing this with me in the 2000-ish era?

If you have ever had a need to call or summon a millennial, but don’t know how to do it, don’t fret! Here are three simple phrases to call them out of hiding:

1. “I’m Blue…”

   1. “Bill Nye the Science Guy”
   2. “Let’s Go Girls”

In case of emergency mosh, immediately say “Boomer” and they will scatter immediately.

#TheMoreYouKnow

I'm 39, turning 40 next May, and in the last year or so I've really started to notice myself aging. My face has changed, there's more gray in my hair, and I can definitely see a guy in his 40s looking back at me in the mirror. I've even had work colleagues in their mid-40s assume I was about their age.

When I was younger I was terrified of this, and now that it's here I'm surprised by how little it bothers me. If anything, I kind of like looking older.

Kiddo literally sang the birthday song to me but with my name or mommy replaced with “the old lady.” To quote Dennis: I’m 37, I’m not old! Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go play with some lovely filth and explain my anarcho-syndicalist commune to a man pretending to ride a horse.

All of these builds were 3d printed in pieces, primered, sanded, and handpainted. I have a lot of fun creating and wanted to share them with my people, millennials. 🤘

Facebook is now an engagement sucking machine. It’s all about spewing clickbait content all over your newsfeed. things that I never asked for and things that I hate myself for looking at.

Are you old enough to remember how Facebook used to be core social circles? Sharing updates about what you might’ve been up to or events that you might be going to. The last time it might have been like that was probably 2019 or so.. but even then it was on its way out.

it occurred to me, that after facebook died there is no social network out there anymore.

i do kinda miss it. I’ve lost contact with a lot of acquaintances because of how bad facebook has gone to shit..

I'm about 3/4 of the way through school bus driver training. Turning that handle was like being 13 years old again

Right at the beginning the kid comes home from school and says “why is everybody home, did someone die?”
The only people home are his mom and dad.

I love my treehouse of horrors. It just makes it feel like fall for me some reason

Thanks for nothing Jump Start!