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londonharry

New York City (8/21) | Music For A Sushi Restaurant

harryisart

Harry Styles & Emma Corrin | TIFF 2022

starllex

when your mom is yelling at you to do more chores while you’re doing chores and you’re there like

bob-belcher

dankmemeuniversity

destinyrush

We should stop buying iPhones and eating avocado toasts so we can buy diamonds, houses and eat at BWW and Applebee’s

theblackmillennial

Their food ain’t even that great. Why get subpar, fast food when I can get something healthier, tastier, and/or more financially reasonable?

criminaljustish

Why am I gonna go to BDubs for overpriced low quality food when I can freeze a ton of chicken to ration out over months, throw together some veggies, and mix my own spices for like a third of the cost?

buffythevampiregayer

Plus even if I’m going to spend money on going out I’m not going to spend $12.99 on what’s basically a box mix, I’m going to try to go to a local business that serves good food, often with way lower in sodium and fats, instead of a major corporation serving mediocre food

parlezvousladybug

I just…these articles keep getting stupider. I’m not even a millennial and I’m fucking sick of them. PAY PEOPLE A LIVING WAGE. OH AND HOW ABOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE AND MAYBE AFFORDABLE QUALITY EDUCATION. MAYBE THEN PEOPLE WILL BUY YOUR SHITTY FUCKING FOOD.

VIVA LA FUCKING AVOCADO TOAST.

imploder

Maybe it’s because Applebee’s is fucking shit.

siderealsandman

Applebees: Can it be that our food just isn’t good? Applebees: No, it’s the millennials that are wrong

hashtagloveloses

maybe i wanna eat my wings in front of netflix instead of 500 screens each playing a different sport at the same time

pharmdup

That last comment made me slam the reblog button

lampsarepeopletoo

my mom walked in on my boyfriend and i naked and then 5 minutes later she slipped this note under my door

hoberyn-martell

novellaqueen

do older generations not get fatalistic humor?? like the other day my friend’s parents were hanging around and we were joking and i was like “well no matter what i can always fling myself off the nearest cliff” and they didn’t laugh then later the mom pulled me aside and was like “maybe you should get some help, sweetie” like stfu?? help? in this economy? i don’t think so, debra

chazzaroo47

I honestly don’t think they get it as a coping mechanism, they think it’s a cry for help rather than actually helping.

kingloptr

i’d even say it’s past just coping and is also now a category of Stuff Kids Got Used To When No One Was Looking; not everyone using that humor is even covering up something bigger, we just stopped thinking fatalistic = taboo/unspeakable somewhere along the line, and most parents don’t seem to know why or how ~

chainerstorment

My boss opened a door and missed me by inches, he said “whoops, almost killed you there!” My result of “Oh, if only.” Led to an awkward end of shift debrief.

whencartoonsruletheworld

This generation shares the same humor as the goddamn Addams Family and the previous generation is the White Sixties Family™ that lives next door and runs away screaming at the end of the episode

prof-grace-aspen

I will say that it’s interesting because this kind of humor is very, very prevalent somewhere else…

the military.

Which is honestly a place you would expect fatalistic humor to be common and used as a coping method. You’re one “oops” away from death on the flight deck, one inch to the left and you don’t have a head anymore because the jet that just landed now owns it as a wing-tip decoration. So you joke about it because lowkey you’re fucking terrified it’ll happen, but you’re also desensitized to the danger itself because you face it every single day for 12 hours at a time.

Anyway so we all know the mindset you adopt in the military because of the danger, so to realise that an identical sense of humor has been adopted by normal people should probably tell you something very important about the amount of stress modern young folks experience in daily life.

a-guys-random-blog

That last one… it’s true

thebibliosphere

It was also common in previous generations that had to deal with say, war and economic depression on a massive scale.

One of my favorite movies is Singing In The Rain which came in out 1952, right on the tailcoat of two world wars and a looming cold one, and for all it’s a cheery happy musical, it’s got this really bleak witty humor too, things like “call me a cab!” “okay, you’re a cab!” or the scene where Don says he’ll be homeless by the next day and Cosmo cheerfully tells him not to be ridiculous…the bank bailiffs don’t open till Monday.

And then quite probably one of my favorite opening lines, where two young girls are watching Lina on screen and one says “She’s so refined. I think I’ll kill myself.”

Which really resonates with a lot of the things we say now when talking about people we find personally attractive, meaning not only is fatalism not a new trend, but those two girls at the starting sequence of Singing In The Rain are totally there for Lina, not Don.

You’re welcome.

idiopathicsmile

oh my god this is blowing my mind. singin’ in the rain is millennial humor

Don Lockwood (despairing of his career as an actor): I’m through, fellas. Kathy: Don, you’re not through! Cosmo: Why of course not. Why, with your looks and figure, you could drive an ice wagon, or shine shoes! Kathy: Block hats! Cosmo: Sell pencils! Kathy: Dig ditches!

calehenituseappreciation

Peter Parker and Steve Rogers have the same humor confirmed

elidyce

See: Pretty much all of M*A*S*H

capricorn-0mnikorn

It’s interesting, ‘cause my parents were part of the (officially named) “silent generation” and their early childhood was in the Great Depression. They were too young to fight in WW2, but Dad saw at least one older brother go off to war,

I wouldn’t say their humor was default fatalistic, but they were comfortable with the ironic. And so I grew up comfortable with that, too. I wonder if it’s only a narrow range of ‘older generations’ – like, maybe those who are now in their late 40s, early 50s (who grew up in the plastic polished era of Reagan, and the ethos of “greed is good”)?

(also, reblogging for that M*A*S*H scene)

gay-irl

grimandghoulish

reblog if you remember what it felt like to walk into blockbuster

does any1 else go thru periods where u don;t want 2 talk anybody not bc ur distressed/angry or u dislike the people ur talking to but bc the pressure of having convos gets overwhelmin sometimes and u jus want 2 step away 4 awhile like i feel like an asshole for going ghost a lot but it;s therapeutic 4 me the pressure of being present and vocal all the time is tew much

autohaste

I don’t know what’s going on but it’s a lot

foil-flingza-roller-deactivated

i think the world is ready to see this one :)

monicas

1999 - The Simpsons predicts everything that happens in the world

stolenswingset

The messed up part is that this, along with the Trump presidency, were predicted as jokes. These were seen as things so ridiculous that not only could they not actually happen, the idea of them was funny. So every time a Simpsons prediction comes true, the Simpsons wasn’t really trying to predict the future, they were making a cynical joke because they thought the real future would be better than it actually is. We’re living in the timeline where all the Simpsons’ worst assumptions about the world were 100% right.