As a Gen Xer, how many times have you started typing a reply to a post, gotten halfway through, and then realized you just don’t care enough to finish it?
If you weren't there you don't know how big these Taster's Choice commercials were in the early 90s. It was so exciting when another 30/45 second episode would drop. RIP Anthony Head. 💔
For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.
This might seem petty to some but to me its a deal breaker. Took the family to a "dine in" Pizza Hut last night. The waitress brings the menus and I notice it has no prices on it. I asked her for one that has the prices as that helps me decide what to order. She said that I could scan the QR code on my phone to get the prices. Great, but I have a rule at the supper table and its no cell phones, not even mine. So that wasn't an option unless I went back out to the car and get my cell phone. So I did go back out to my car along with my whole family and went to another pizza restaurant that had prices on the menu. Later on I checked on line and found out that it wasn't just this Pizza Hut but many of them lack menu prices because corporate frequently adjusts costs. Sorry corporate but, I think this is wrong. I want a menu with prices on it or I may think your are being deceptive.
Woody was not included in the first draft of ‘TOY STORY 5’.
“I do admit that I didn't know how to bring him back at first, and so… I just wrote the first [draft] without him just to see if I missed him.”
(Source: @CinemaBlend)
This happened to me once. You know what I didn’t do? Respond with sarcasm (even tho I’m fluent). I was polite like a regular human. And you know what happened? We had a nice 2 min exchange and went our separate ways. (No ticket as he believed me.) Attitude is everything.
Dear Gen X,
I’ve been watching 80s movies and I just need to know…WHERE WERE YOUR PARENTS??
Every child was just wandering the earth unsupervised like a raccoon with house keys. Riding bikes across town at midnight, fighting ghosts, investigating murders, befriending cryptids, hacking government computers for funsies…
And the parents were ALWAYS “out of town” or “working late” while the only adult-adjacent supervision was some random 16-year-old who got dragged into the chaos.
No cell phones. No helmets. No adult supervision. Just vibes, life lessons, and several near-death experiences.
You all weren’t “raised.” You were lightly monitored feral creatures with a bike and unresolved trauma.
I’m genuinely shocked there are enough of you left to populate an entire generation.
The beauty of network tv pre-internet. You can’t pull stuff like this off anymore. And even if you could, you’re not getting 30m people watching it at the same time, which was a very cool thing. So glad I’m an 80s kid.
If Pizza Hut can return, then we can resurrect Blockbuster.
And we should.
While Netflix made things more “convenient” we lost something irreplaceable:
The ritual of going to a place with your family or friends to choose a story together.
That experience was special.