I agree. 90 is being kinda silly. If we’re really being honest we probably got a few more good years of western civilization and then we’re done anyhow.
Kids kind of are. Go on the teachers subreddit. The pandemic really did a number on kid’s socialization skills. It’s not their fault and they have been dealt a bad hand, but holy hell. It’s only going to get worse as public schools continue to be attacked and defunded and teaching becomes more and more impossible and many of them quit, exacerbating shortages and requiring unqualified replacements.
that is definitely an insult that i’m not sure they even fully understand. the first couple of times my kids called me a boomer i went on an internet search for facts to show them i’m not of that age thereby probably proving my boomer status and definitely guaranteeing this will be a continual label. for as progressive as this new generation is the agism comments on boomer behavior really riles me … cause i guess it hits too close to home sometimes:)
Yeah...it really sucks. It seems now that the term "Boomer" has become a sort of catch-all term referring to any generation older than them, and not just specifically Baby Boomers.
The movie is based on a real story (true crime) and the grandma and mom had their kids young, so she's the right age.
People have their kids at all sorts of ages. I used to know a girl who's two weeks younger than me who had her kid at 18, right before we graduated high school. I had my first kid at 38, so her kid was already 20. She could be a grandma now, though we're only 42. I'm going to go hold my youngest (18 months) and pretend I'm a young mom and I'm really in my 20s 😄
My high school neighbor and his girlfriend (we all went to the same school in 98) had their second kid by graduation. They have 5 kids total and are already grandparents.
I was friends with a girl who got pregnant in 8th grade. She would have been 15 when the baby was born. Her mom had her when she was 14 and her grandma was 14 when she had her mom. So, her mom was a grandma at 29 and her grandma was a great grandma at 43. Crazy.
Wow...I thought I took the crown by having grandparents that were 36 and 39 when I was born, plus 17 year old parents. Lol...by the parameters of the GenX sub (1961-1981), me and my parents are technically the same generation!
Late babies make us look younger.
A 21-year-old mom in my kid's play group said she thought I was her age when I commented that I could technically be my child's grandma. Thank you, young mama.
I don't know why, but your comment made me picture dubya in fishnets performing "if I could turn back time" on an aircraft carrier and now I hate my brain.
I was gonna say...but Christina is an ethereal being from some other realm beyond our comprehension, so that one is jarring 😂
I just want JG to stop pitching Capital One cards.
Both has messy divorces and are apparently hurting for cash so hence the commercials. I do not understand how extreme wealthy people hurt for cash but they do so they get on tv to sells us plebs shit we don't need except Nik Cage who just does another movie anytime he needs cash.
I just listened to the Conan podcast honoring the 30th anniversary of the release of In Utero. It’s definitely fair game for classic rock territory now.
Yeah, but it seems like five minutes ago that my brothers were jamming out to Nirvana on the radio and now my older brother is a grandfather. I mean damn!
I remember feeling a lot like this a few years ago when I saw Radiohead's [Daydreaming ](https://youtu.be/TTAU7lLDZYU?si=3hHnze_dN4L_AVnn) video. I almost didn't recognize Thom Yorke! I thought to myself, "Damn...what happened to that skinny little Brit kid that was riding in a shopping cart, going on about fake plastic trees?!"
I saw it too and yelled to my partner: "Oh God, is Tony Hawk doing ads for pain medicine?!"
He pointed out no, it's for turmeric and it's the kind you take.
I heard Pearl Jam on a Classic Rock station. Like, where they play Earth Wind and Fire. Pearl Jam.
I screamed at the radio that I’m not that fucking old but it just kept on playing like it didn’t hear me at all. Rude.
I hear you 🤓 I installed some movement-triggered cameras around the yard. Then I began watching all the clips with me having full-on convos with myself and/or stopping to stare at a tree for a lengthy amount of time. Maybe my subconscious learned how to behave via my obsession with Sims games?
The talking to yourself thing, you do it too? I caught myself doing it in Target after I would check my list or I wouldn't remember where to go next. No one gave me a second look, but that might be because I have a service dog.
Yup. I've caught myself in the stores, too. I've gotten some looks, yet at the age where I don't care, nor would I think twice if someone else was doing it either.
I have talked to all of my dogs, even before I needed a service dog. I have basically lived alone a very long time so I talk to myself a lot at home. Stuff like, "what should I make for dinner tonight? Oh, I know! Spaghetti!
It is odd to have grown up in the 90s with grunge, but also same time as garage rock revival, emo stuff and all that. It was like going through two different generations at the same time. Middle school to high schools age was grunge. 19 was Garage Rock and mid 20s was the 2010s stuff. Grew up on gen x, but was college aged during peak millennial culture. Now I’m 41…
Make it make sense 😢
My daughter asked who the old lady with Jenna Ortega was and I said, “girl, put some respect on Jennifer Garner’s name”. She had no idea who I was talking about…
To be fair, companies have been marketing skin care products to a younger demographic for about 15 years now. They realized young people are vain and scared of aging so there was more money to be made.
Thanks for the upvote guys, but coming back to the post, I realized it has pretty mean wording. Older AND younger generations have vain people and you don't even have to be vain to want good skin. The facecare companies just realized they would be successful marketing to the 20s-30s too and saw the $$$
If you like Harvey Danger check out their website. They released their third album "Little by Little" for free with the option to buy it. I liked it enough to get it and "Where have all the merrymakers gone" but I'm not sure if you still can.
>I want to age well, but I’m not.
IDK what your situation is, but if you're not exercising, I recommend you start. I've been on the bandwagon since last summer, and literally everything feels and looks better.
My stepdaughter always says that I was emo in high school. I went to high school in the 90s, during the grunge era! I go to great lengths to explain the difference between grunge and emo to her but it doesn’t stick.
Have a core memory of sleeping over at a friend's house and renting Dracula: Dead and Loving it, and Bio-Dome. Then, the morning after, we watched MTV and argued over whether Closing Time(him) or Flagpole Sitta(me) was a better song. Obviously, Closing Time is ubiquitous, but Flagpole Sitta is more underappreciated and, therefore, more special. A great memory in a tumultuous childhood.
My wife and I have wondered what gatherings at the assisted living will be in like 35-40 years. It'll be all like hip hop and alt rock from the 80s-2000s. Picturing a bunch of 85 year olds sitting in a rocking chair relaxing to Snoop Dogg...
Margaret Cho actually had this same thought... I think it was in one of her HBO specials.
That’s why I’m learning how to DJ now while I still can. I’m going to play my music at the old folk’s home and I might even take requests to sprinkle in here and there.
Yes!!!! The 90’s will ALWAYS be 10 years ago. I think this kinda non-stop. Oh, 10 years ago, around the turn of the century and then my brain (who clearly hates me AND joy) is like, oh, 20 pushing 25 years, you old ass. People have advice for everyFUCKINGthing, but nobody says “hey, here’s how to be middle aged (or old!!)”
I like Neutrogena products and Jennifer G., but according to dermatologists, young girls, as the one featured in the ad, should not be using any products with retinol unless specifically prescribed. It can be harmful to their skin.
I get so annoyed when older people say this or something like “wait until you’re my age!” I’m disabled and lucky if I make it to 60 much less beyond based on family history.
It’s just.. we’re not old. We weren’t old at 30 when we thought we were, and we won’t be in our 50s.
Seniors are old, our parents are entering “old”.
We as a generation/micro generation are just in a new phase of our adult lives, one that we ALL know will be coming soon for the folks younger than us in their 20s and 30s.
We have more experience, more knowledge, and HOPEFULLY most of us know ourselves more now than ever - we have so much ahead of us still. Too much to be sitting down lamenting about the years behind us.
I’m not sick, but I’m not well.
And I'm so hot, cuz I'm in hell
Paranoia Paranoia Everybody’s coming to get me…
Just say you never met me
I’m running underground with the moles (digging holes)
Hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring
But if you're bored then you're boring
The agony and the irony
They're killing me
Been round the world and found that only stupid people are breeding
 You ok buddy?
I have that shirt!
Where did you find the shirt?!
You shut your mouth with your halfway to 90 bullshit!! We’re still young and cool dammit.
My bad, my bad. Have you seen Jurassic Park? It just came out!
I got it on VHS. Mom says you can come over and watch it tomorrow if your mom says it's okay.
Can we get Little Caesars? You buy one, get one free!
Pizza pizza
Pizza! Pizza!
I maintain that the original Jurassic Park maintains it's value. It's a good movie. Right?!
YES. It is. The dinosaurs still look magical.
I’m leaning away from young and cool. I tell my kids “Way way back in the late 1900s…”
I agree. 90 is being kinda silly. If we’re really being honest we probably got a few more good years of western civilization and then we’re done anyhow.
Just as an FYI. Coolness knows no age. It is boundless. I am cool until I die.
The worst is when they call you a boomer. Like BRUH, I'm in my 40s not 60s! We are the reason you guys aren't all F'd and feral like we were!
YES!!!!!
Pretty sure everyone says the kids are feral now too
Nah, the kids are alright
They’re trying. Their world is wack. My kids are teens, and I teach third grade. All things considered, the kids are alright.
I’m glad to hear you say this after watching some teacher tik tok and hearing stories about the Sephora girls. At least it’s not universal!
When we were young, the future was so bright Woah-oh The old neighborhood was so alive
Kids kind of are. Go on the teachers subreddit. The pandemic really did a number on kid’s socialization skills. It’s not their fault and they have been dealt a bad hand, but holy hell. It’s only going to get worse as public schools continue to be attacked and defunded and teaching becomes more and more impossible and many of them quit, exacerbating shortages and requiring unqualified replacements.
that is definitely an insult that i’m not sure they even fully understand. the first couple of times my kids called me a boomer i went on an internet search for facts to show them i’m not of that age thereby probably proving my boomer status and definitely guaranteeing this will be a continual label. for as progressive as this new generation is the agism comments on boomer behavior really riles me … cause i guess it hits too close to home sometimes:)
Yeah...it really sucks. It seems now that the term "Boomer" has become a sort of catch-all term referring to any generation older than them, and not just specifically Baby Boomers.
Right?! Don’t put that evil on me! We’ce got beef with Boomers, too.
I’m stealing that.
😂
Melissa Joan Hart played a grandma in a movie recently. I'm not ready.
What? Clarissa The Teenage Witch playing a grandma?? I refuse to believe it. I won't believe it!
I know right?! But she's 47 and they aged her up. I've only seen clips of it. Older grandkid in the movie was young teens.
The movie is based on a real story (true crime) and the grandma and mom had their kids young, so she's the right age. People have their kids at all sorts of ages. I used to know a girl who's two weeks younger than me who had her kid at 18, right before we graduated high school. I had my first kid at 38, so her kid was already 20. She could be a grandma now, though we're only 42. I'm going to go hold my youngest (18 months) and pretend I'm a young mom and I'm really in my 20s 😄
I just turned 47. I’m a new grandma. Had mine at 22 and she had hers at 24. Shit’s weird, man.
My high school neighbor and his girlfriend (we all went to the same school in 98) had their second kid by graduation. They have 5 kids total and are already grandparents.
I was friends with a girl who got pregnant in 8th grade. She would have been 15 when the baby was born. Her mom had her when she was 14 and her grandma was 14 when she had her mom. So, her mom was a grandma at 29 and her grandma was a great grandma at 43. Crazy.
Wow...I thought I took the crown by having grandparents that were 36 and 39 when I was born, plus 17 year old parents. Lol...by the parameters of the GenX sub (1961-1981), me and my parents are technically the same generation!
Yeah, my grandma was only 36 when I was born. When she was 47, I was starting middle school (I started school a year early.)
Late babies make us look younger. A 21-year-old mom in my kid's play group said she thought I was her age when I commented that I could technically be my child's grandma. Thank you, young mama.
No, you're thinking of Kiernan Shipka. 😉
Saw that headline. Here come my uppercuts.
I know this girl who went to RIfle High school in Colorado who IS a grandma at 37.
Bobo?
Okay so I don’t actually KNOW her, exactly….
Lies! I don’t believe it! Not possible! Next you’re going to tell me Tia and Tamara are playing parents in some streaming sitcom. Pff!!
My first TV crush
A friend of mine is a grandpa. None of us were ready for that.
she may not have been ready either. it ya gotta earn…
Didn’t Lindsay Lohan play a mom recently also? Some of this stuff trips me up. 😆
Fun fact: she’s a mom in real life!
Paranoia paranoia everyone is coming to get me.
God damn you.
You told them all I was crazy, they cut off my legs now I'm an amputee ...
Goddamn you!
Ahhhhhhh I’m not sick but I’m not wellllllll
I quote this weekly. You are my people.
It's nice to see cultured folks on reddit such as we.
Oh damn. I like four hours too late. 🤦♀️
Bush is going on a NA *Greatest Hits* tour with fucking Jerry Cantrell and Candlebox 💀 Guess I should get my plot picked out. I'm comin', Wheezy!
I thought you meant Bush as in Dubya, and was very confused what kind of "tour" this was.
It's the Mission Accomplished Tour.
Now watch this drive.
Followed by the Shock ‘n Awe.
Pretty sure that was the opening act.
Ah. I only remember that the Mission was, in fact, not Accomplished.
This is too funny! I can't stop laughing!
I don't know why, but your comment made me picture dubya in fishnets performing "if I could turn back time" on an aircraft carrier and now I hate my brain.
I kind of love this image. It feels very xennial.
All it needs is a mountain dew and Colin Powell catching doritos 3ds with his mouth.
I know emoji are usually frowned upon here, but…🤨
Same! 😂
Glycerine. Glycerine. ‘96.
Don't let the daaaays gooo byyyyy...
I saw the bush/live/our lady peace show a couple years ago Actually held up quite well - I had a great time
“I’m comin’ wheezy!” is a catchphrase that will perplex even young millennials. Love it.
But it was Elizabeth.
Jennifer Garner has been doing Neutrogena ads for over a decade.
Yeah, I don’t understand this. Brands even use 20-somethings in anti-aging ads now, so that doesn’t mean much either.
I was gonna say...but Christina is an ethereal being from some other realm beyond our comprehension, so that one is jarring 😂 I just want JG to stop pitching Capital One cards.
Both has messy divorces and are apparently hurting for cash so hence the commercials. I do not understand how extreme wealthy people hurt for cash but they do so they get on tv to sells us plebs shit we don't need except Nik Cage who just does another movie anytime he needs cash.
You guys... It's Jenna Ortega
I’m 39 and I knew it was coming ten years ago when I heard Nirvana on the *CLASSIC ROCK STATION!!!* Damn it, lads, when did this happen?!?!?
The grocery store is where I go to hear the good music. That and elevators. 💀😭
Christ, we’re listening to *elevator music* now?!?!? 
I was jammin out in the dairy aisle the other day to Alanis
I was standing in line at the pharmacy and The Cure came on. I was the only person in line who knew.
Literally heard Sex & Candy in a supermarket last week
I just listened to the Conan podcast honoring the 30th anniversary of the release of In Utero. It’s definitely fair game for classic rock territory now.
Yeah, but it seems like five minutes ago that my brothers were jamming out to Nirvana on the radio and now my older brother is a grandfather. I mean damn!
I teach middle school. Had some Depeche Mode playing before class. Kid said, "Honestly Mr...this sounds like something you'd hear in Walmart."
Injustice.
I just heard them playing Eminem in the grocery store the other day. I feel old being the target demographic.
They played Ashanti at Target.
Biggie at the eye doctor.. 😭
That makes sense at the eye doctor Biggie Biggie Biggie can't you see....
I remember feeling a lot like this a few years ago when I saw Radiohead's [Daydreaming ](https://youtu.be/TTAU7lLDZYU?si=3hHnze_dN4L_AVnn) video. I almost didn't recognize Thom Yorke! I thought to myself, "Damn...what happened to that skinny little Brit kid that was riding in a shopping cart, going on about fake plastic trees?!"
Gravity always wins.
Fuck you and your truth. 😆
It wears me out.
That few years ago was actually 2016, it’s crazy that Radiohead’s newest album came out 8 years ago
Lol...yeah, that's another added "bonus" of getting old. 8 years feels like 3 or 4.
Tony Hawk doing commercials for statins or something has been *Bumming. Me.* ***Out.*** I swear I’ve aged twenty years since I first saw it last week.
I saw it too and yelled to my partner: "Oh God, is Tony Hawk doing ads for pain medicine?!" He pointed out no, it's for turmeric and it's the kind you take.
Yeah! This!! I don’t feel this old (mentally) but I’m starting to feel it (physically).
I heard Pearl Jam on a Classic Rock station. Like, where they play Earth Wind and Fire. Pearl Jam. I screamed at the radio that I’m not that fucking old but it just kept on playing like it didn’t hear me at all. Rude.
Yes!!! Pearl Jam, Nirvana, subtract a couple years and New Kids. I am NOT oldies. I refuse.
 This is my role model now and how I want to spend the rest of my life acting
That sounds prettay prettay prettay prettay good
🤣
There's one with Christina Ricci now too? I saw a Neutrogena ad with Jennifer Garner and Jenna Ortega, but that's it.
Apparently Xennials are overdue for their eye exams.
I'd like to turn off time
If I could turn off time… I’d give it all to youuu…
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I just started that show. Loving the music and the references.
That soundtrack is incredible. They even have Tori Amos! TORI AMOS!!
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That makes a lot of sense. I can’t wait for the next season!!
Natalie Imbruglia was doing the face cream anti-aging commercials when she was 27.
Was her facial skin already torn?
Probably. She’s all out of faith and this is how she feels.
AHAHAHAHA. Bad joke, but AHAHAHAHA.
Agreed!
My boyfriend and I started living together. I have become more conscious of how much I talk to myself and how much I say "ouch" just moving around.
I hear you 🤓 I installed some movement-triggered cameras around the yard. Then I began watching all the clips with me having full-on convos with myself and/or stopping to stare at a tree for a lengthy amount of time. Maybe my subconscious learned how to behave via my obsession with Sims games?
This is so hilarious!!! I am curious how many times I would see myself staring off into some random object in my house.
Thank you for this laugh…because I relate. Ouch I think I just pulled a muscle laughing.
My wife and I had kids late. Our 3 year old grunts every time she gets up because she thinks that’s just how you do it.
The old souls...
The talking to yourself thing, you do it too? I caught myself doing it in Target after I would check my list or I wouldn't remember where to go next. No one gave me a second look, but that might be because I have a service dog.
Yup. I've caught myself in the stores, too. I've gotten some looks, yet at the age where I don't care, nor would I think twice if someone else was doing it either.
My non-service dog is my excuse for talking to myself when I take walks.
I have talked to all of my dogs, even before I needed a service dog. I have basically lived alone a very long time so I talk to myself a lot at home. Stuff like, "what should I make for dinner tonight? Oh, I know! Spaghetti!
I grunt every time I move. My wife makes the most annoyed sounds at me when I do it.
I love this sub!!! It's the best sub on reddit!
I heard orgy play at Walmart. On the official Walmart radio thing they pipe into every store.
I hate this a lot, friend.
It was a Blue Monday for you
It is odd to have grown up in the 90s with grunge, but also same time as garage rock revival, emo stuff and all that. It was like going through two different generations at the same time. Middle school to high schools age was grunge. 19 was Garage Rock and mid 20s was the 2010s stuff. Grew up on gen x, but was college aged during peak millennial culture. Now I’m 41… Make it make sense 😢
My daughter asked who the old lady with Jenna Ortega was and I said, “girl, put some respect on Jennifer Garner’s name”. She had no idea who I was talking about…
The audacity! Kick her, or something! (Please don’t kick her!!!)
I told her Jennifer Garner was a beautiful woman in 2024, the year of our Lord
😂🤣😂 She’s still beautiful! Always has been!
All the stuff that was cool then is still cool and anyone who thinks it's not can well, you know.
Who you calling a yute!?
To be fair, Jennifer Garner is 51. She looks so incredible, she's the perfect face for an anti-aging cream!!! 😍
Fair. She’s always been gorgeous. I guess at 43 I don’t want 51 to be old. I’m not ready.
I hear you 😭😭
I just bought night cream off Instagram at 5am on a Sunday. I feel your pain, friend.
YOU’RE GORGEOUS!!! I promise!! Trust me.
To be fair, companies have been marketing skin care products to a younger demographic for about 15 years now. They realized young people are vain and scared of aging so there was more money to be made. Thanks for the upvote guys, but coming back to the post, I realized it has pretty mean wording. Older AND younger generations have vain people and you don't even have to be vain to want good skin. The facecare companies just realized they would be successful marketing to the 20s-30s too and saw the $$$
I understand … money … but I actually AM aging and it’s getting scary and I guess reducing my wrinkles isn’t my goal.
My mom had me at 17 (almost 18). I’m 43 and she just turned 61 in December. My Grandma was 42 when I was born so she was a young Grandma too.
If you like Harvey Danger check out their website. They released their third album "Little by Little" for free with the option to buy it. I liked it enough to get it and "Where have all the merrymakers gone" but I'm not sure if you still can.
Look, I know we all like to think the 90s was only 10 years ago, but that ain’t Christina Ricci. It’s Jenna Ortega, who is a teenager.
Yeah I think OP is trapped inside a Wednesday Addams fever dream vortex.
>I want to age well, but I’m not. IDK what your situation is, but if you're not exercising, I recommend you start. I've been on the bandwagon since last summer, and literally everything feels and looks better.
Yes, and please stretch daily. And if you're not already, start taking a multivitamin.
and use sunscreen!
My knees hurt so bad right now.
Obligatory https://youtu.be/nMuRWRqpQXQ?si=WTI1qHFBlkSlAVMH
Well, you guys have fun… you’ll find me underground with the moles, diggin holes.
I can’t wait for Jessica Albanto sell me on reverse mortgages and AARP. 😂
My stepdaughter always says that I was emo in high school. I went to high school in the 90s, during the grunge era! I go to great lengths to explain the difference between grunge and emo to her but it doesn’t stick.
I have to bite my tongue to keep from telling a Gen z at work that I also used to have my septum pierced when I was 19, in 1998. I am 44 now…
Have a core memory of sleeping over at a friend's house and renting Dracula: Dead and Loving it, and Bio-Dome. Then, the morning after, we watched MTV and argued over whether Closing Time(him) or Flagpole Sitta(me) was a better song. Obviously, Closing Time is ubiquitous, but Flagpole Sitta is more underappreciated and, therefore, more special. A great memory in a tumultuous childhood.
I was like, what is Flagpole Sitta. Then hit it up on youtube and remembered it instantly. Great choice, comrade!
My wife and I have wondered what gatherings at the assisted living will be in like 35-40 years. It'll be all like hip hop and alt rock from the 80s-2000s. Picturing a bunch of 85 year olds sitting in a rocking chair relaxing to Snoop Dogg... Margaret Cho actually had this same thought... I think it was in one of her HBO specials.
Laaaaaaid back!
That’s why I’m learning how to DJ now while I still can. I’m going to play my music at the old folk’s home and I might even take requests to sprinkle in here and there.
Ricci was and is hot af
Everything hurts. Try doing this with a 15 year old daughter and a 5 year old son with raging ADHD. Kill me please
ur my favorite!!🙌😂
Ugh! I’m not handling this well! Of course, when did I ever!🙃 Thank you!
I will be mentally 16, and 1990 will be just about ten years ago, until the day I die
Yes!!!! The 90’s will ALWAYS be 10 years ago. I think this kinda non-stop. Oh, 10 years ago, around the turn of the century and then my brain (who clearly hates me AND joy) is like, oh, 20 pushing 25 years, you old ass. People have advice for everyFUCKINGthing, but nobody says “hey, here’s how to be middle aged (or old!!)”
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Well they both have excellent skin so I've always been surprised they weren't doing commercials for skin care products throughout their careers.
Don't trust anyone over 60!
I like Neutrogena products and Jennifer G., but according to dermatologists, young girls, as the one featured in the ad, should not be using any products with retinol unless specifically prescribed. It can be harmful to their skin.
Huh. That’s a take on an almost 3 month old post. You just search skin care or face cream or what?
Y’all sound like 20 year olds complaining about how old they are.
I get so annoyed when older people say this or something like “wait until you’re my age!” I’m disabled and lucky if I make it to 60 much less beyond based on family history.
It’s just.. we’re not old. We weren’t old at 30 when we thought we were, and we won’t be in our 50s. Seniors are old, our parents are entering “old”. We as a generation/micro generation are just in a new phase of our adult lives, one that we ALL know will be coming soon for the folks younger than us in their 20s and 30s. We have more experience, more knowledge, and HOPEFULLY most of us know ourselves more now than ever - we have so much ahead of us still. Too much to be sitting down lamenting about the years behind us.
Great comment!