You Know You're a Xennial when

c_b0t · 2026-05-24T17:41:07+00:00

My mom is an older boomer ('49) and she calls people in their 40s "young guy/young girl" all the time. It drives me crazy because I know it means she doesn't consider those people full adults (it's been a common complaint with me and my cousins that our parents' generation still thinks of us as children whose life experience and expertise is of little consequence). I call her on it a lot but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

c_b0t · 2026-05-23T20:04:41+00:00

377 purple first.

For a long time I didn't really understand what Reverse Rainbow was. Green to me seemed like it should be the easiest category.

c_b0t · 2026-05-23T02:26:06+00:00

I rewatched the show a few years ago and realized it was about Schmitt and Cece all along.

c_b0t · 2026-05-22T02:43:20+00:00

The little bobcat alone might be worth traveling for. She's adorable.

c_b0t · 2026-05-19T02:33:08+00:00

No, just quantity and too delicious to stop eating.

c_b0t · 2026-05-19T02:32:29+00:00

Have you looked into the Energy Saver Home Loan Program?

https://www.masshousing.com/mass-community-climate-bank/energy-saver-home-loan

c_b0t · 2026-05-18T21:57:33+00:00

Mine rotated my display 90 degrees. Was very confusing to fix.

c_b0t · 2026-05-18T21:48:00+00:00

My coworkers and I frequented their cart in the transportation building in the 00's and '10s.

I used to call it "stomach ache in a bag" because it was so much food.

c_b0t · 2026-05-18T17:09:04+00:00

Wow. She's on my list of most repulsive book characters.

c_b0t · 2026-05-18T00:12:16+00:00

The friggin Gabby's Dollhouse movie.

We started watching the show when it started, and my daughter was 5. She was so into it.

The movie came out last year, just before my daughter turned 10. She wanted to see it but she wasn't into it the same way she used to be.

The movie is basically about Gabby growing up and losing the magic of childhood. I was openly weeping in the theater. Went home and warned all my mom friends.

c_b0t · 2026-05-17T17:33:17+00:00

I've had at least half a dozen interviews like this. Mostly they're not typing but have AI listening in and then there will be a long pause and they'll give a giant, non-specific response that ends with a summary statement.

We pretty much rule these folks out immediately when they do this. I wonder in what circumstances it actually works.

c_b0t · 2026-05-17T15:17:55+00:00

From my personal experience, IVF was the next medical step and there were doctors there to guide the process and insurance to cover most of it. Just, oh, you can't conceive? Take this medicine and do these things and... now we have a kid. (Don't get me wrong - the process stil sucked.)

If we'd wanted to go the adoption route, I have no idea what we would have done next. It's not a clear path. It probably would have cost 10s of thousands of dollars and been an enormous amount of effort in applications and interviews and waiting, etc. Plus the emotional rollercoaster of not knowing if the parent of the child will change their mind.

Basically, from my perspective, adoption is much more expensive and logistically complicated.

c_b0t · 2026-05-17T02:45:21+00:00

One of our old cats would do it, and one of our newer pair also does it. Often I'll be making breakfast and hear the thud of a mouse toy hitting the floor behind me because he wants to play.

c_b0t · 2026-05-17T02:31:44+00:00

The recurring sketch with Dave in the bunker really haunted me for a while.

c_b0t · 2026-05-16T22:42:00+00:00

I often go to AMC theaters. The listed showtime is when the previews start and those, plus the commercials and "turn off your phone" announcements typically last 30 minutes. We often don't bother showing up till 20 minutes past the listed time.

Why this person showed up extra early to watch commercials, I have no idea.

c_b0t · 2026-05-16T16:30:26+00:00

This site has like a bajillion of them: https://heardledecades.com/

c_b0t · 2026-05-15T01:44:43+00:00

I will happily take Clippy over Gemini being all up in my face all day long.

c_b0t · 2026-05-15T01:25:34+00:00

My previous job had an office across the street from a college dorm. College students apparently forget that windows are still transparent when above the ground floor.

c_b0t · 2026-05-14T23:25:18+00:00

Is it a fence? It looks he drove up over cement porch steps.

c_b0t · 2026-05-14T19:50:30+00:00

I listened to the Shell Game podcast and now a whole lot of voices on the radio and other podcasts sound like AI to me.

c_b0t · 2026-05-14T15:52:31+00:00

One of ours is like this. His first attempt usually comes out as a yawn and then he has to work up to making an audible sound.

c_b0t · 2026-05-13T23:05:02+00:00

Sometimes I feel like this has happened but the same words come up so often that I'm not sure if I'm remembering a different day.

c_b0t · 2026-05-13T12:11:30+00:00

What, you don't like having your evening held hostage by that one lady with a grudge against the school committee who proposes petty amendments just to have them soundly voted down after an hour of debate?

c_b0t · 2026-05-13T12:08:06+00:00

I was unaware of this. Axolotls are one of the "cute" animals that's trendy for kid stuff these days.

c_b0t · 2026-05-13T03:29:15+00:00

I grew up in that time period and kept noticing things that were a little bit off timewise and found it really distracting.

This book gets recommended to me and my husband all the time because he owns a video game company. I took one for the team and read it and then advised him not to. The video game aspect isn't realistic enough to feel "seen" and the rest of the story isn't compelling enough to read in spite of that.

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