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Which way do you lean?

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It Was Always At My Grandparents House Too!

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I had never seen or even heard of this music video.🎤🔥

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Yeah, apparently other American child stars of the time, or at least Alyssa Milano, had recording careers in Japan in the late 80's/early 90's that were never mentioned in America.

Most Millennial Concert you've been too?

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I have seen the Mighty Mighty Bosstones three times in concert. The lead singer of Harvey Danger hit my friend in the head with a beach ball at the 1998 HFStival second stage, which had Green Day, a rambling, Scott Weiland, Wyclef because Gone til' November, Marcy Playground, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Foo Fighters, Fuel, Fastball, Crystal Method, Good Charlotte, etc., which was probably the most millennial concert I went to.

You’re best office story

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A geriatric co-worker, who I have known since childhood, accidentally printed roughly 200 pages of black and white pornography to a shared printer, and I managed to successfully block every single person from accessing the printer until it was done and disposed of said printed out hardcore pornography without anyone, aside from one co-worker, who thought it was hilarious, ever finding out about it.

Happy 30th to Don't Speak, the soundtrack to many of our first breakups.

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BRB. Going AFK for a bit. Leave your away messages in the comments.

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Old Fashioned Guy

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Lifesavers Holes. Would anyone here even remember them? They lasted ~1 year, from 1990-1992ish.

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Do you know this guy?

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When’d you get a job and what was the job

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I got a summer internship at the school of pharmacy through nepotism when I was 16. We would put mice in a kiddie pool full of milk and see if they could find white bricks in it. It started with two to three bricks, then one brick, every day, to determine which mice were transgenic. Fortunately, my internship ended the week before all of the mice were beheaded.

What was your high school scandal?

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French teacher was having sex with a student, which got brushed under the rug. I only knew about it because my best friend's dad was the head of the board. Cheating scandal, where wealthier students got more lenient sentences. Guy running an after school boys club called Lancers was molesting students, which a student gave a speech about after I graduated with him in attendance. That judge would later kill himself. Years later we found out our middle school science teacher was also molesting kids in an isolated office where he would do photography and give sports massages. One of the deans of students got busted in an FBI sting for online predators years after I graduated. Couple more sex scandals through the years. Fun Fact: Our 2016 valedictorian was Luigi Mangione.

How many of us still smoke weed?

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I vape every day, edibles most days. I sometimes think straight up modern flower can be at times too potent, as I once bought Gorilla Glue that made me think my house was haunted for 3 weeks. While I love the convenience and ease of dispensaries and having a medical card, I feel the young people are being robbed of the adventure, danger, hanging out in parking lots that I experienced buying weed in the late 90's and 00's.

Use checks as a form of payment

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I used to overwrite checks at the grocery store when I lost a bank card, used them for rent until 2023. Sometimes get them for freelance editing work. Tried to buy weed with a check once in college, key word try.

Was this our version of WAP?

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I learned more from DARE…

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We didn't have D.A.R.E, as private school, would have random programming about it, events, etc. We did find out at one of them in 8th grade that our friend's mom knew how to cook meth. We would have two former hippies who would come in and talk about their experiences which amounted to drink within reason and smoking some weed is okay. Definitely had an assembly/ slideshow where they said, "LSD can make you see sounds and hear colors" and that was the moment when I first thought to myself I should try LSD, and I would later go on to do so many times in college, even went to a Phish show with my roommate one summer.

There's a lot of Xennial answers in here but I get the feeling it's more like us answering and the younger generation not having heard of it. Batteries Not Included is an answer in here for example. Can we stump each other?

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They had a single copy of the 1983 Canadian animated feature "Rock n' Rule" at a small independent video store that you had to put a $100 deposit on to rent due to its scarcity that always fascinated me and my friends as kid. We did eventually see it when it was released on DVD in the 00's; it's pretty rad. I'll also throw out the HBO afternoon classics "Back to the Beach" and "Shag"

There's a lot of Xennial answers in here but I get the feeling it's more like us answering and the younger generation not having heard of it. Batteries Not Included is an answer in here for example. Can we stump each other?

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I remember getting very excited about seeing that there was a M.A.S.K. movie in the weekly newspaper tv guide as a child, but yeah so it was Mask with Cher, incredibly disappointing.

Who you calling micro?

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What 80' or 90s food do you still crave and eat?

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What 80' or 90s food do you still crave and eat?

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If you watched The Real World: SF, what was your true opinion of Puck at the time?

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First concerts? Memorable concerts?

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Saw Faith no More, Metallica, Guns and Roses when I was 11. It was an amazing show; however, the hour or two between Metallica and Guns and Roses where the cameras just panned across the audience, and women flashed the camera/jumbotron was incredibly awkward at age 11 with both of my parents there.

Did teen hangouts ever actually exist like they do in movies and TV shows?

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A shocking number of kids from one of the area private schools would hang out in the Wawa parking lot on Fridays and Saturdays in like 98-99. The pizzeria next to said Wawa was mostly teens all the time, and I would sometimes buy weed form/with mall goths that would typically be in either the silver diner of one mall or in the general concourse of a different mall a few blocks away. It was weird that there was like a 27 year old adult man named Rooster hanging out with those mall goths.

Addams Family Values will remain one of the best sequels in history. It is simply perfection

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I'm a big Whoomp (The Addams Family) there it is guy. Really lets you know exactly what summer the movie came out, do miss when summer movies had hip hop songs written for them.

In college when I asked my first roommate to send me a file by email, he asked, "If I send it to you, will I still have it?"

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My roommate handed in a Newsweek article with the word economics misspelled on the cover page and got an A on it, truly a simpler time.

Was the Tracey Ullman Show the first place you saw the Simpsons?

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Absolutely was. In hindsight, that "Underachiever and proud of it" shirt was more prophecy than anything. I do think it's weird that I was the same age as Lisa when the show started and am now older than Homer.

Likely still a thing, but who else had history, math and likely other subjects taught by your school's coaches?

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I went to an incredibly well respected and not cheap private all boys school and received a top flight education from some of the nation’s finest lacrosse coaches. My favorite was the one who would cancel Western Civ all the time for reasons like “the room smells like paint” or “I have my wife’s keys”.

It's early 2000's, you are getting ready to hit the clubs with your crew. What skin did you rock, and what genre was your mix?

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Aug 14, 1987: The Monster Squad was released in theaters

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Absolutely one of my favorites as a kid. The number of f slurs was a bit jarring when I bought it on DVD in the late 00’s.

We’re pushing 50. This was not the agreement.

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It's been 2008-2012 for the last decade or so in a lot of ways. Cultural stagnation is very real, and I do think that the invention of the iphone is probably one of the worst things that happened to us. We're not supposed to be constantly bombarded with this much information at all times. It seems that media literacy is dead, and nobody can tell that what happens on the screen aren't real per se. I also feel that the combination of 9/11 and having a black president drove everyone a bit insane and that the unchecked brain virus that keeps circulating and mutating probably didn't help things, and we've just never taken the time to address that we have all lived through some traumatic shit in the last few decades. The oceans are turning into acid. I miss seasons, but they did make it way easier to smoke weed while driving, so it hasn't been all bad I guess.

Were you a toy’s r us kid or did you parents take you here?

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I want my vampire pops and Boku back so, so much…

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Did you smoke these too?

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I haven't thought about bidis in a very long time, definitely a thing you could smoke, very harsh, was far more about that djarum clove/ djarum black life, if I was not smoking a regular cigarette.

Holy Cow I’ve been arguing for YEARS I’m not a millennial!

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I’m firmly in the Xennial window, and I remember in the late 90’s, it was all Gen Y. I definitely remember there being a Time or Newsweek, not to date myself, cover story about Generation Y, possibly with a catchy Generation Why Not title. Then we started living through unprecedented historical events every other year, and we found out why not, over and over and over again.

Xennial Bands

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I would say Mighty Mighty Bosstones, toasters, skankin’ pickle, reel big fish, save Ferris, just third wave ska in general was almost all xennials.

Telling everyone you had a copy of anarchist cook book, and just got done watching Faces of Death 4

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I got a copy in an AOL chat room called “Mac Warez.” Someday, we’ll build that bluto box, someday. It truly was a golden age for internet crime.

Honey Bunches of Oats

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I have vivid memories of myself and other children just calling them "Honey Butt Chucks of Oats" for some reason. Idk. Kids are weird.

I feel like the Xennial/Millenial line is pretty clear with the Pokemon example, but I haven’t seen as many for GenX/Xennial. What’s yours?

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The Aerosmith Test

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My cousins, Gen X, would typically babysit me in the summer, and we were the only people in our family with cable at the time, so I saw the walk this way and David Lee Roth’s California Girls every hour one summer, Rag Doll the next summer, and so on. We were all very much into Alicia Silverstone in the early 90’s. I do think it’s weird that his daughter was stripping in the one video in hindsight. Saw them in concert in 95 as a boy, and I fondly remember them having revolution x on free play in a concourse. Still wear the t-shirt from the show on occasion. Had moved on by the don’t want to miss a thing era, as I was in…a heavy ska phase at the time.

How did Tom Green become a thing.

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