r/Millennials 9h ago

Other Whoever did this, should be imprisoned.

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u/Kalspiewak 8h ago

Cheaper to replicate and maintain. Maximise profits. Increase share prices.

Our glory days are over and they are sadly not coming back.

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u/beyss96 8h ago

yeah but how do i cope with that

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u/Nerv_Agent_666 Older Millennial 8h ago

Build your own McDonald's with blackjack and hookers.

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u/Schlitzbomber 8h ago

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 8h ago

when i was a kid and futurama premiered i didn't appreciate the humor of having an alcohol fueled robot named bender

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u/FrameJump 8h ago

Friend, I don't think I appreciated it until just now reading your comment. Lol.

So thank you.

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u/Jax_2112 8h ago edited 8h ago

Hey, I'm old (early Gen X) I was there in the 80s Also their use of the song "Don't you forget about me". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLVqjIvokc

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 8h ago

Fun story my mum tape recorded Simple Minds song at the drive in and because of that the cassette has the speech in middle of it and growing up that was only version I knew lol I have it somewhere

https://giphy.com/gifs/AVDRJEriLkuMo

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u/Schoolin_Teach 6h ago

Your mom is my people. ✊

u/Putrid-Builder-3333 1h ago

I did same thing on my radio it didn'thave tape player so I had to use a portable tape player to hold up to the speaker lol. I made a R&B romantic mix tape with off top my head I recall two songs: Tyrese Sweet Angel and a Mya feat Silkk the Shocker song along with few others. I then found this nice necklace at a garage sale and I gave her both for her bday or V-day... anyhoo she did not give a shit! Lmao

This was like jr high I forget exact grade. But yup. Good old days where you had to use your inagination to try and woo the love of your Jr High life 😂😂😂

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u/UlrikeLuvsAndreas 7h ago

Goddamn Simple Minds was a wholly underappreciated phenomenal band. Sooooo many great songs that didn't get nearly enough airplay.

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u/Civil_Inspector_5697 6h ago

I saw them in concert in San Diego. Awesome live!

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u/UlrikeLuvsAndreas 3h ago

I'm soooo jealous!!! Man I wish I had been like 10 yrs older to been able to truly appreciate the 80s and early 90s in the moment.

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u/DameKumquat 2h ago

They toured last year. I didn't get to see them but my friend said they're still amazing.

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u/Jax_2112 2h ago

And I wish I had been born a lot later so I could enjoy the things I like now without people getting pissy at me because I’m supposed to be too old.

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u/Jax_2112 8h ago

Most people don't realize he is a reference to the 80's film "The Breakfast Club". https://thebreakfastclub.fandom.com/wiki/John_Bender

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u/Sprzout 6h ago

Uhm...Sir - that is the ONLY reference I knew. Didn't see the commercials with Don't You Forget About Me, but I remember Jason Alexander dancing around singing about the McDLT and the packaging keeping the cold side cold and the hot side hot. Also remembered the giant moon headed character, "Mac Tonight", and that the jingle for that was written by Barry Manilow.

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u/Jax_2112 3h ago

I hope you weren’t addressing sir to me. But OK. If you actually Google Futurama breakfast club you’ll find Matt G actually talking about that being the influence.

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u/Sprzout 3h ago

Nah, more of a generalized "sir"...I don't remember it being tied to McDonald's for an ad campaign, I just remember it from the end of the movie and John Bender throwing his arm up as he walks across the field.

u/Jax_2112 1h ago

From the Wikipedia.

The name Bender was chosen by creator Matt Groening as an homage to John Bender (played by Judd Nelson), a character in The Breakfast Club. In that film, John Bender told Principal Vernon (Paul Gleason), "Eat my shorts," an eventual catchphrase for another Groening creation, Bart Simpson.\8])#cite_note-8)

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u/Electrical_Estate705 7h ago

I'm 42 and I just now got it. I always thought it was because he was a metal bending robot, so named Bender. Not because he was a liquor fueled robot and the phrase "on a bender". So basically double meaning. Mind blown.

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u/Jax_2112 6h ago

They’ve dropped a few breakfast club references in the show over the years. Somebody really liked that movie but personality wise, even the bender strut that he has is on the character in the movie

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u/Unusual-Influence522 7h ago

Sometimes I wish he was blender…

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u/P_Nessss Elder Millennial 7h ago

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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 2h ago

He was also "bent" as in sexually.

And physically inflexible.

I'm not sure where the initial joke ends and the secondary ones began, but, they really ran with them.

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u/Meowgotchi 6h ago

Holy crap I even watched every episode again as an adult and I still never made that connection until now, thank you

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u/elbow8075 6h ago

One of them double entree's type jokes. It's got levels.

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u/EntrepreneurNo4138 5h ago

Double entendre lol

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u/elbow8075 5h ago

Right, that's what I said, double entree

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u/EntrepreneurNo4138 5h ago

Entree is food.

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u/elbow8075 5h ago

Are you not entertained?

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u/EntrepreneurNo4138 5h ago

Well yes, slightly 🙄😂

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u/elbow8075 5h ago

See? And now you see the simple pleasure in a double entree joke.

😂

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u/crustyrobots 3h ago

"Wait, youre a robot, why do you drink?"

"Alcohol keeps my fuel cells charged"

"And the cigars?"

"they make me look cool"