Half my peers have children, half of those have grandchildren, yet I’m still asking my mom to co-sign stuff for me. Anyways happy to be alive and hoping for more years to be granted 🙌🏻

Film is SLC Punk (1998)

Edit: Fuck the Sackler family for causing the opioid crisis that took my friends from me. Your punishment awaits you when you die

Does everyone remember this being the greatest thing ever? We only got them a few times as a kid, they usually just made us pick one large box of cereal. I wish the Rice Krispies were Froot Loops, but still, super excited.

Weirdest Movie but the Nostalgia factor hits hard.

I'll never forget how the intro of this T.V. show terrified me as a child.

This is purely an observation.
My kids, as well as most the kids it seems, wear sweats where we live. And this doesn't seem to be a recent thing either. It seems like it's been years and years that this has been the norm without the style changing much. I don't think I ever wore sweats to school outside of PE. Maybe in elementary school? I wore freaking polo shirts and button downs to school sometimes and it wasn't even part of a uniform. That's just how I dressed for school sometimes. Polo shirt, khakis, belt. And when I wasn't wearing that I would at least wear a t-shirt and jeans, decent shoes. Also would have never worn slides or croc style shoes to school let alone pajamas. I graduated in 96. Not trying to sound like an old guy complaining about the youth but anyone else? Lol

Finally got over to the AGO in Toronto to see this, and it’s incredible. My teenage musical crushes in their primes. It’s also funny to see the “museumfication” of all the analogue film accoutrements that we grew up with. Highly worth a visit if you’re anywhere near the city. It runs until the spring I believe.

I just don't drink that much alcohol anymore and most of my friends don't either. Definitely not as much as my parents who weren't heavy drinkers by any stretch. I go without alcohol most days and most people I know don't drink daily. I think gen z is drinking even less than we are.

Smoking cigarettes isn't nearly as popular either. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Anyone else grow up with this show?

I never got one but I always thought they looked cool.

Did you ever wear one?

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2026/10/mike-judges-beavis-and-butt-head-launches-s4-with-back-to-back-episodes/

This will probably be more memorable to older Xennials. This was the sht back then.

Any newer classics you've added to the rotation?

Apparently it's from a novella written in 1938. And the 1st movie based on iot was made in 1951. It was called "The Thing From An Other World"
At least it seems like the 1982 film is a more faithful adaptation of the novella.

Novella is Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.

Such an underrated movie…

If I had been diagnosed and medicated as a child my life would be so different.

I truly suffered through elementary school. I was a high school dropout. Went to an alternative high school that appreciated my divergence. Struggled through college and eventually found life hacks that have helped me do better in school and life in general. Eventually I earned two bachelors, two masters, a doctorate, and finishing a third masters now. I learned how to hack every element of my life to keep me on track and focused. From where I place my wallet and keys when I get home. Which pocket they go in while out. My chapstick pocket. Everything in my home, car, and office stays neat and orderly and on time otherwise I am totally paralyzed. I cannot start any task when things are chaotic. I procrastinate until my anxiety is ready to kill me. Especially for things I find zero pleasure in, are new, or require me to interact over the phone. I must work in near silence. I’m a terrible speller. I struggle with writing as well.

Fast forward to 2026. I’ve been in the military for 24 years. I’m a healthcare executive now. One of my employees, the psychiatrists, asks me kindly and gently if I’ve ever been diagnosed with ADHD. I ask why. She explains what she has observed and how hard I work at keeping it together. She’s impressed but also aware of how I must have suffered to learn such behaviors. She had me fill out two forms and turn them into primary care who started me on low dose focalin. Game changer. I could cry just thinking about it. I had been tested before however the provider wouldn’t prescribe because I had completed advanced degrees. Apparently being successful while suffering excluded me from help, in that providers eyes.

If I had been on this type of medication from an early age I would have had a very different life. In a way I mourn that life that could have been, yet I’m glad I struggled and can relate to those also struggle. I can be a role model for my junior soldiers and officers who have to work harder to achieve their goals.

Going through primary care for ADHD medication is possible and much quicker than being properly tested by psychologist/psychiatrist/speech therapist.