Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[prabe]

“Spot the post-breakup story” is a hardy perennial topic in various fandoms.

Also "Spot the post-breakup song." (Though, to be fair, sometimes that's a vein the songwriter just hasn't played out yet.)

 

[CleverNickName]

I cannot imagine deciding, at my age, to learn all about 20something TikTok influencers so I could hold up my end of a conversation about youth culture.

My spouse is 10 years younger than me, and we seem to get along just fine. But even with that decade-wide age gap, there are a lot of these moments around our house:

"What do you mean you've never seen The Godfather?! It won three Oscars! It defined an entire genre!"
"Sorry, I was too busy watching The Goonies."
"It's not an either-or situation!"

"What do you mean you never listened to Wilco?! Their Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album was the soundtrack to the 2000s! It defined a whole genre!"
"Sorry, I was too busy listening to Pearl Jam."
"It's not an either-or situation!"

 

[Ryujin]

"don't try to be a great man. just be a man, and let history make its own judgments?"

Star Trek quote of the day.

 

[trappedslider]

Lunch is on me, so order up.

 

[Ryujin]

I cannot imagine deciding, at my age, to learn all about 20something TikTok influencers so I could hold up my end of a conversation about youth culture.

This was around Y2K so the massive changes in the online world hadn't even really hit their stride yet.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

All this talk about knowing the true nature of others glosses over how few people know themselves well.

I’ve known me for 57+ years, and I’m still learning things about myself. Some of them surprise me. And I there’s things about myself I’m well aware of that I don’t understand at all.

 

[overgeeked]

My spouse is 10 years younger than me, and we seem to get along just fine. But even with that decade-wide age gap, there are a lot of these moments around our house:

"What do you mean you've never seen The Godfather?! It won three Oscars! It defined an entire genre!"
"Sorry, I was too busy watching The Goonies."
"It's not an either-or situation!"

"What do you mean you never listened to Wilco?! Their Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album was the soundtrack to the 2000s! It defined a whole genre!"
"Sorry, I was too busy listening to Pearl Jam."
"It's not an either-or situation!"

You find similar things in couples of the same age. My wife and I are about 6 months apart in age but we have conversations like this.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Lunch is on me, so order up.

I’ma have some French fried potatoes and either the Lamb Stew or the Beef Goulash.*



* if they’re serving people like me, of course.

 

[Gradine]

Lunch is on me, so order up.

 

[Velderan]

You find similar things in couples of the same age. My wife and I are about 6 months apart in age but we have conversations like this.

My wife grew up in northern Italy and I grew up in Minnesota, so I relate quite a bit to this post.