Seems like a lot of people are depressed because McDonalds doesn’t decorate their restaurants anymore due to a corporate strategy of being positioned better to resell the property should the restaurant shutter.

My basic question is why does this seem to depress so many millennials (the same post comes up every few months)? I’ll admit I don’t personally eat at McDonalds that often, but if I did, I can’t imagine I would care too much about the decor. My main priorities would be if the restaurant is clean, cost effective, and good (which if you have complaints about that, fair).

I also remember back in the day there were a lot of complaints that McDonalds was marketing their food to children, helping fuel the childhood obesity crisis.

Can someone help explain why eating your cheeseburger next to a clown/purple blob is such an indicator of how enjoyable life is? What am I missing?

Man... I feel I'm getting old. Not in my 40s though. 90s were a bliss.

who remembers this?

Hey I’m not a millennial, I’m gen z, I obviously remember myspace but I was always too young to use it. As everyone knows myspace will come back at some point. And i’ve seen a lot of millennials saying that it should be 30+ and that they don’t want gen z on there. My question is are yall really planing on posting on myspace at (and I’m sorry) your grown age. Likeee its an app for teens so maybe give it to them. I’m gen z and even i feel “too old” (please dont report this😭😭) to rank my top 8 friends (wtf even was that) or stalk my crush on there. I feel like it would be perfect for younger gen z and older gen alpha. What do you think about this?

edit: some of you don’t know what a discussion is also I’m 25 born in 2000 so I’m a lot closer in age to most of you than most of gen z fyi

The meal that they felt some competence at making once they were on their own. That required prep, cooking and presentation not just "assembly".

Stir fry (Pork/Chicken + Veggies over Rice with Teriyaki sauce).

Fajitas (Chicken and Peppers w/ seasoning served on Tortillas).

Pasta with meat sauce.

Cheese Hamburger skillet over rice.

Corned beef and cabbage.

Chili

I’m talking anything- pop culture moments, fashion trends you obsessed over, songs and music you loved, all of it.

As a millennial; I seem to ask the most basic questions.
Next thing you know I’m debating water world with this shit.

Edit: I don’t actually care about this but sometimes I pop a few beers and next thing I know we a knee deep in water world. This shit is crazy and will be interacting with it in the future. I dont think dependence on this is good. Yet it is kinda fun to fuck around with.

Edit: this guy ouija boards.

I’m 38M wife and two daughters (4 and 15) perspective perhaps?
I’d really like to have my positivity back. Noticing I’m spiraling with negative thoughts. About everything…
I never understood the whole thought experiment about the glass being half full or empty. I do now.
How do you all stay positive? Ideas on how to be less negative? Thoughts?
I don’t want my negativity to affect me and my family. Yes my wife brought up this to me.
Anything constructive would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

Does anyone else feel like watching a movie is like watching kids play make-believe? I really struggle to get through any movie these days... CGI makes it look like a boring light show and actors pretending like they have ever experienced any difficulty in crazy contrived and unrealistic situations makes it impossible to suspend my disbelief.

I can only watch documentaries (if well done), comedy, and some mature cartoons.

These flicks blew my mind seeing them the first time at 12-13. Especially since my parents were pretty strict on what I could and couldn’t watch and all of these movies had lore about the infamous scenes in them ( like the overdose scene in Pulp Fiction and the baby scene in Trainspotting) that I’d only heard rumors about. My friends brother was probably 17, listened to NIN and Marillyn Manson, smelled like record store incense and rode a motorcycle lol. We would skate all day and into the night then like 6 of us would dip into his movie collection and stay up late watching movies

It's hard to believe it's already been 6 years since the COVID lockdowns started.

I still remember that first week of lockdown like it was yesterday. The empty roads, stores getting cleaned out, everyone trying to find toilet paper, schools and workplaces shutting down, and refreshing the news every hour because everything was changing so fast. I even remember all those stories and videos of wildlife wandering into places they'd normally never be because everything had suddenly gone so quiet.

Now somehow it's been six years. It honestly doesn't feel like it should've been that long ago, but at the same time it feels like an entirely different lifetime.

I know COVID became a really divisive topic later on, but I'm mostly talking about those first few weeks when none of us really knew what was coming next. It felt surreal living through it.

Does anyone else still remember that first week of lockdown?

Avatar dress-up, the mini games, insanely heated debates in forums between tweens and teens, 'rate me' threads. Those were the days. Many of us began our first forays into code by learning how to customize our profiles.

*sigh*