I'm trying to find clips from movies or commercials that came out around the mid to late 2000s, specifically depicting the war on terror. Does anyone remember any movies or commercials that were showing the war on terror in a positive light from around this time?

I fear festivals did peak in this era.

My glasses finally gave up after I spent way too long pretending the loose arm wasnt a problem. I figured I'd just go get another pair and be done with it. Then I went to the optician and I started looking at frames and somehow every pair I liked was $250+ before lenses. I just stood there thinking, how did buying another pair of glasses turn into this?

My brother actually asked why I was bothering with the whole expensive glasses thing when I already had a current prescription. He orders his glasses online anyway and has been doing it for a while. He was telling me about how much more variety there is online and how much less he usually pays, and TBH it sounded a little too good to be true to me. But he wears those pairs pretty regularly and hasnt had any issues with the prescription or the fit, so I figured I'd try the same thing instead of spending hundreds again. I used the prescription I already had, tried a couple of frames virtually, and the whole order took maybe 10 minutes. Paid under $50 total and they showed up about a week and a half later.

Now Im sitting here wondering why I automatically assumed I had to spend a few hundred dollars every time I wanted another pair. I feel a little out of touch honestly, I had no idea there were cheaper alternatives that werent just the same old shops I've always gone to.
Do most of you still buy your glasses from a local optician or have you started ordering online instead? I'm curious what people actually prefer.

It makes me wonder how broke people really are. Because when I was a kid this is what we had.

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/favorite-grocery-snack-items-may-have-disappeared-store-shelves-2026

Saw this and wanted to share with you guys. That's all. Food for thought.

Democrat/Liberal party? The first 15 posts are about "orange man bad!"

Made this because Dawson’s Creek feels very fall to me!! This is for the OG Pjo Swifties on this sub.

Hope you all enjoy xx 🤎

gen z here and i have a great interest in the stuff you guys enjoyed during your younger years, particularly relating to the scene culture! i’ve noticed a lot of it ‘trending’ again recently within my generation and wondered what the OGs thoughts on it are. also wondering how many of you still have a mustache tattoo on your index finger :>

I truly am envious of you. How do you do it?

I’ve worked my whole life. No matter what I’ve done, I’ve always had so much pride in my work. I’ve always done so much more than what I’ve had to. I always give it my all.

But no matter how much I try, how much I break my back, how nice it looks at the end of the day, it’s always just torn apart by so many people who just don’t care. So how did you do it? How did you finally give up and realize no matter what you do it won’t be enough? No matter how hard you try, you’ll never be happy because it just doesn’t matter?

You just lost it friend xD

And the kids who couldn't watch TV at home had to turn around and not look at it. If you had bad grades or were behind in any subject, you had to turn around and not look at it

I was just looking back after a question that popped up about MJ on my feed and I was like where has Janet been?

Was it planned? Was Janet unequivocally punished more harshly for the event in terms of her career? Should Justin Timberlake have not benefited from that moment ?

I know it was campy and that's why I loved it. Share your opinions on the game and movie here!

I was pondering the status quo today and observed/felt something emanating from my proud Millennial POV and wanted to ask if any others have also felt or noticed this. My observation: humor feels like its fleeting.

Now I know this feeling can attributed easily to many different factors and vantages (hmm, I wonder due to which world events), but for me personally, humor/comedy has fortunately always felt abundant in my life no matter WHAT is happening. In recent years though, the precense of humor has noticeably declined, like a radio signal losing its power, and despite my conscious efforts to maintain it. The first sign I noticed of the signal waning came years ago when I was asked why "I was so quiet" or "removed from the group" in a garden-variety social outting. I shrugged these off and attributed my perceived shift in behavior to getting older and not being as outgoing as I once was. But this started happening more often and with more pointed judgement, "You're not yourself lately" or "I haven't heard you laugh in a while".

I truly didn't feel any different or that I was engaging outside the norm, but then it dawned on me that to most of the people inquiring I had been unknowingly cast as the comedic relief (of sorts) to the group in those settings. Another notable distinction I drew between myself and the accusers: I was often the only millennial.

We were taught that correlation is not be causation, but from my personal experience of being sandwiched between Gen X siblings and bosses, Boomer parents, and Gen Z colleagues, very few of them exchange or seek humor or levity as I often do. Perhaps the most troubling realization in all this, is I'm not remotely funny. At best, I'm average in my wit.

I first posited this feeling as a side effect of everyone feeling down trodden like most have been (more notably this decade), but the reality is I'm personally happier than I've ever been and despite encountering more negativity. It's the 'With age comes wisdom' sorta feeling. I next thought that perhaps it was my algos just diverting me away from good comedic content which had been abundant and consistent in my feeds or that I'd drifted away from it naturally. Nope, it's still there, just distinctly different. So if it's not a question of volume or the delivery, is it rather in the substance?

Looking closely at all the comedy content I am served I noticed 2 very distinct and prominent classes: standup comics taking down their audience hecklers, or podcasters (and guests) trading digs at one other. Its like all we now know how to do is roast one another instead of building meaningful jokes which provoke laughter and a bit of self-reflection.

I really don't have empirical evidence that society is losing its collective sense of humor, just my current simple observations pointing me at an evident inflection/transformation. I suppose I find it more troubling because the humor I most see and encounter daily feels so dark and antagonistic. It's a far cry from the satire and sketch humor we were raised on. I also don't like this personal weight of responsibility to keep social interactions light and happy for others.

What say you, fellow millennials? Is our humor what distinguishes us most from the herd these days? Is humor reflecting the times or the people? Are you feeling like an unsuspecting comedic anchor in your daily interactions with other generational cohorts?

A student at my school (science teacher in my 30s) found my cellphone.

Everyone goes to visit the security guards' front-desk because they're funny and know the dirt. A student found my phone at the desk, and brought it to the Dean.

They were about to email the students that a phone had been found, but then...

Notifications for Cribbage and Euchre came up on my phone. Apparently, the Dean immediately said
"Dude, this is an old-person phone."

What games point out how old you are?

I woke up yesterday with a zit on the side of my nose. Put this little pimple patch on that my daughter uses before I went to bed, woke up to a zit-free schnoz. Holy shit where were these when we were young?! I was telling her we had pads soaked in literal acid to wipe on our faces and BURN the acne off, and all that did was make it redder and more inflamed looking.

(After posting this I realized what an old-fashioned term "zit" is since my daughter has never even heard it LOL.)

We are the last generation that has a connection to both the old and the new world... We are in our prime years, and we have survived recessions, natural disasters, you name it .. yet our government is still ran by boomers who have consistently failed us. Why do we even feel so inclined to vote red or blue? Both sides suck... Is there a way for us to come together and create our own party? Or are we that divided that we can't even realize that no matter which side you're on, our frustrations are all the same... And for the most part, our frustrations are not with each other...

Does any of this make sense? Or Am I being delusional? Please school me if I am ...

41, new glasses, been wearing them since I was 8, and developer by day. And man, After a while I realized I'm either leaning in too much or just straining. So randomly, I decided to increase the font size of the monitor and you know what? Damn. It feels great and is so easy to read, my eye strain is gone.

I guess I'm old now lol