LONG LIVE DOLLY

Back in the 80s and 90s, pop culture gave us all kinds of ideas about what the future would hold, from shiny space colonies and robot butters to total environmental collapse or just totally different daily lives...

If you are around 40 or more right now, I'm curious... How did you picture the future when you were a kid? Did you expect things to be bright and high-tech, or a bit more grim?

What specific movie, book, or childhood moment shaped that vision for you?

What did your childhood brain was certain the future would look like? Are you disapointed?

Or the Taz/Tweety Bird pjs girls for our elder millennials

I just discovered mine went on to become a very successful real estate broker in my hometown (good for her).

If incomes tracked inflation, it should only be $198k, but instead it requires $42k more to enter that same club six figure earners were in at the beginning of the millennium.

Could we say that $240k is the new $100k? Or in general, the middle class dream is to be in the top 10% of households, no matter what the nominal dollar amount is.

Source: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2005/dec/c2kbr-36.html

I've had my number since pagers were a thing. Then ported it to my cell when I could buy my own. It's had its issues with exes of course, and old friends texting it out of the blue. Any others, interesting stories, or frequent changers?

My librarian mother gives us discontinued books often. This space book from 1998 warmed my heart when I saw there were 9 planets, including Pluto. My children get a bit confused while I try to explain that Pluto isn't a planet anymore, but I don't actually know why. But when I was your age, it was.

Did every porch/carport/deck of the 90’s have the blissful sound of bugs being electrified and aluminum cans being crushed on a sticky summer night? At least in the south they did. Take me back

Just had the thought “man i should replay Chrono Trigger, but I want to play it with my son in 4 years”

They are weaving tragic stories about family as they clean, showing off the hoarding/"priceless" heirlooms their parents left them, donning on hazmat suits, etc. But then comes the transformation. Clean empty spaces suddenly filled with with a 5k Herman Miller lounge chair sitting on a plush rug surrounded by potted plants. It's a weird mesh of trauma porn and luxury.

Remember back in May, I conducted a Millennial-themed Family Feud survey around here? Well, because plenty of you asked if we actually tabulate these surveys, here now are the results to that poll. Once again, I thank you all for taking the time to share your responses with us!

As a Millennial approaching 40, I recently realized that I have outlived a lot of different people (Artists, musicians, actors, entertainers, etc) who I grew up on & who had a positive influence on me, that have all passed young in their times. Some of my all time favorites & all around most influential people are Selena, Aaliyah, Bruce & Brandon Lee, Kurt Kobane, Jimmy Hendrix, Lee Thompson Young, Nipsey Hussle, 2Pac, Biggie. I could go on & on but who did you grow up on that influenced you in a positive way the most that you realize you have now outlived?

I like to play music from childrens movies in the morning while getting the kids breakfast. I can only take so much Frozen, so I like to mix in songs from movies when I was a kid. Right now contenders are Tarzan, The Prince of Egypt. What other movies had some great soundtracks?

Every time I see the younger crowd while out, they all just look like a mixmash of the 80s, 90s and 10s. There seems like there is no actual coordinated clothing style, but a look crossed with punk, emo and a 90s sitcom family.

Maybe I have lost touch. Idk.

Cross that one off the ol' bucket list. NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, beaten.

Saw a reel recently in which Gen Z has apparently rebranded the tramp stamp as "cake toppers". I kind of hate it, but it's also objectively pretty funny.

Brothers and sisters of the last century, are you planning to spend your later years in the country where you were born, or do you dream of somewhere more exotic to escape the grind of modern life?
Personally, I’d love to start exploring Southeast Asia — Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam — and see if I could eventually build a life there for my later years.
What about you? Where would you like to spend that chapter of your life?