Once, many years ago and at a job I don't work anymore, I was having an afternoon chat with 3 coworkers as we did some mindless tasks, and through that chat realized that every one of us had a mother named Barbara. Our age spread was something like 24 to 55, so it wasn't even a generational thing.

Interesting point that is fully unrelated to the discussion at hand.

Floridians using their climate as an excuse is so funny to me in this context, as though Puerto Rico wasn't hot or humid.

Oh no the pobrecitos in the first rows at the Superbowl, truly the most victimized people in America today 😢 major thoughts and prayers

this is who runs this account

A friend sent me this a couple of days ago, and instead of the laugh (I assume) they wanted, I gushed at length about This Guy Sucked and shared some good starter episodes. Hoping it threw a small feather on the correct side of the scale.

They feel like quilt blocks to me!

I forgot to share this for a few days, we're not as behind as the photo would imply

If you're bringing more than one bag to Fantasy Fest, you're wearing too many clothes for Key West.

Iconic

So far my plan extends to basically feeling despair at yet another enshittification event. Open to better options but not seeing them materializing just yet.

In December Christmas is All Around Us from Love Actually gets in there in a bad way. As far as real songs go, I can't call it "good" in any sense, but if we're grading on the steep curve of holiday music, it probably beats Do They Know It's Christmas

Scotty Doesn't Know might be the only within-a-film song to get stuck in my head more than That Thing You Do

Well she seems...fun.

You are astonishingly bad at reading.

Some of us are seeing the price, sighing and continuing ruglessly, then being reminded of the price a year later and repeating the cycle again. Not every person who can't afford something is participating in capricious overconsumption.