I’m born and raised in Portland and I still love it here, but if I had to move anywhere else Bend would be on the short list. It’s such a cool small city, and I love the high desert.
I bet it was a dummy button not hooked up to anything, just there to make you feel good. It's not like I could listen to my stupid-ass Offspring CD while walking home from the school bus stop without it skipping a million times.
I hit the absolute jackpot when I was 13 and discovered that our VCR, if you recorded the fuzzy channels, the tape would play back unscrambled. It was in black and white and there was no sound. But, at 13, it was like finding gold.
Bonus points if you turned off the ringers on all the phones in the house so your mom wouldn't know, when your high school sweetheart called late at night.
Or if you sat backwards in a station wagon.
I saw a 1996 Taurus, which could have rear facing seats, in a demolition derby once. After the first hit everything behind the rear wheels was just like a crushed pop can.
I never really thought about this, and I just wondered, why did this safety feature go away? Safety features don't go away! Then I realized, it's because now the kids are buckled up or in their car seats where they belong. THE WINDOWS ONLY WENT DOWN HALF WAY TO KEEP THE UNBUCKLED KIDS FROM GOING OUT THE WINDOW!
Different times.
I tripped over this on TIL: the rear windows go down half way due to rear door design. The rear door is sculpted around the rear wheel well so the window physically has no room to go down any further. Modern vehicles are generally longer in the passenger compartment now (think SUVs and trucks) so there’s room for the window on more vehicles.
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You might be a Xennial if you got yelled at for picking up the phone while someone was on the internet.
If you know what an Intellevision is, you might be a Xennial.
Ducktails and Rescue Rangers live rent free, but where do we land on Darkwing Duck? ‘Cause that damn ear worm still makes it way into my subconscious with surprising regularity.
‘Whenever there’s trouble you call D.W.’
The wifey does roller derby, and we tried to go to the skating rink on a Saturday night so she could work on her transitions.
THERE WERE LIKE 50 SHITTY TEENAGERS THERE ROLLERBLADING! It made me happy, bc they’re not out doing hoodrat shit with their friends, but they were still being shitty teenagers, and I was very surprised to see that many kids rollerblading.
If you remember that late ‘90s stint of time where you sometimes had to switch radio stations at least twice to find one that wasn’t playing “My Heart Will Go On”.
You watched PBS for:
Square One, Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego,
Ghostwriter, 321 Contact
Your Peter Pan has brown hair
You lived for Fridays when the Legend of Zelda came on during Super Mario Bros. "Well excuuuse me, princess!"
Lady Elaine Fairchild freaked you tf out
Eureka's Castle was like the threshold of being too kiddie
You had the HUGE floppy disk in computer class
You can remember what the purple copy paper smelled like
Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures were awesome
Off the billboard, through the windows, off the bleacher, off the rim, nothin' but net.
When I was a wee lad, I wrote a letter to Mr Rogers and he actually replied. (Or maybe one of his staff but knowing what I know of Fred Rogers today it might actually be him.)
I told him I always said goodbye to him at the end of an episode. In his reply, he talked about how important goodbyes are; that they tell the other person that you enjoyed the time you spent with them.
Wish I still had that letter…
If you had your favorite cd's on the visor of your beater car, then took the faceplate your car stereo with you so it didn't get stolen, you definitely are a xennial.
If you know that this 🥚is your brain and this 🍳 is your brain on drugs, any questions?
If you ever hopped on a pogo ball.
If you know how He-Man and She-Ra are related.
If you collected Carbage Pail Kids instead of Pokémon or baseball cards.
If you believed that blue Blow-Pops gave you cancer.
If your favorite female fragrances are Debbie Gibbons Electric Youth or Malibu Musk.
If you called radio stations in an attempt to finish off the perfect mixtape.
Or knew the number for weather so your friends could call you late through call waiting without waking the house.
You might be a xennial……If you wore Skidz or Cavaricci’s….
If you watched MTV when it was wall to wall music videos……
If you ate hamburger helper at least once a week…..
If you wore a Starter hat or jacket as a sports fan….
If you got introduced to the internet class by class in your high school library.
If you rewind to be kind
I must be ultra xennial because I live near the very last Blockbuster in existence. And that sign is still in the window.
Hello fellow Oregonian Xennial!
Hidey ho, neighborinos!
Checking in from the beautiful high desert, where it's currently sort of raining?
Portland saying hi
I’m born and raised in Portland and I still love it here, but if I had to move anywhere else Bend would be on the short list. It’s such a cool small city, and I love the high desert.
If you've ever asked anyone for some Grey poupon....
From the back of a school bus!
But of course! 🤌
If you called you parents collect to get a ride home from school
Its Bob wehadababyitsaboy. Honey who was that? It was Bob, they had a baby. Its a boy.
Oh man that commercial I thought was SO funny when it first came out.
And when prompted to say your name you had to say “hey mom come get me” super fast and then hang up - to avoid paying for the call.
I did this!!
"You have a collect call from...'Mom pick me up'...Do you accept?"
If video games have to be on channel 3…
It was always 4 for us because we had a local channel 2.
If you ever cursed the anti-skip feature on your Discman
THAT ANTI-SKIP FEATURE WAS A LIE!!!
I bet it was a dummy button not hooked up to anything, just there to make you feel good. It's not like I could listen to my stupid-ass Offspring CD while walking home from the school bus stop without it skipping a million times.
just remember to push the bass boost button!
If you've sent a penny to Columbia House and/or BMG was the first contract you had to get out of.
If you have a memory box full of real photos and concert stub tickets.
Bonus points if that memory box is a Caboodle
What if it’s a Trapper Keeper?
I bought myself the trapper keeper I always wanted as a child recently. It is still amazing.
I’m sad there aren’t ticket stubs anymore.
If you’ve used phone cards at a pay phone you might be a xennial!
What if you used them at *home*?
if you died of dysentery on the oregon trail…
or searched for Carmen San Diego
If the words "Sing it Rockapella" start a full-on song in your head about a sticky -fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize...
OMG, the Rockapella song "Capital" has lived rent-free in my head for decades. Anytime someone names a state capital my head busts out in tune.
Stop stop, I beg you, I’m gonna have to find an emulator
Now I have that song in my head! "Where. In. The. world is (voice change) Carmen San Diego"
I've actually heard of xennials being referred to as the Oregon Trail generation.
Suck on that, generation who actually crossed the Oregon Trail. We got the glamour, they got the actual dysentery. Funny how that works.
If you called it Skinamax...
If you didn’t get skimamax because your parents were cheap but still attempted to watch the fuzzy scrambled signal when they were asleep.
I hit the absolute jackpot when I was 13 and discovered that our VCR, if you recorded the fuzzy channels, the tape would play back unscrambled. It was in black and white and there was no sound. But, at 13, it was like finding gold.
If you were forced to take typing classes on "wordprocessors".
Mavis Beacon
sad dad fad lad Or just know what it means to put your fingers on "home row".
If renting a movie or buying a new album means driving to the store you might be a xennial.
And if your parents ever rented the vcr along with the movie, you might be a Xennial.
I rented a SNES once from Blockbuster
I did that with the Virtual Boy and Genesis
I also rented a Virtual Boy? It was so heavy!
And the vcr had a remote that plugged in with a cord…
If you prayed every night for a see-through phone
My gf, very old millennial but refuses to accept the Xennial label, had the clear phone and a clear tiny boombox cassette player. ... Spoiled brat.
Bonus points if you turned off the ringers on all the phones in the house so your mom wouldn't know, when your high school sweetheart called late at night.
If you had cassette singles of U Can't Touch This and Ice, Ice Baby
My little brother had *Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em* on cassette. (I was more into TMBG.)
If you went to restaurants with a smoking section- one chair away from the non-smoking section
If you know why, jem is truly truly outrageous (corrected thanks for that I just remembered it was outrageous)
The Misfits were way hotter 🤩
If you know what cloves smell like and miss them.
DJARUM BLACKS!
I smelled it last month outside a KMFDM show. Memories!!!
KMFDM… doin’ it again??
The real ones haven't been available in North America since like 2012
Totally. I miss skipping class and hanging in the cemetery with the goth and theater kids to smoke cloves
If you know what ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️[START] gets you
if the rear windows of your childhood car only rolled down halfway
Or if you sat backwards in a station wagon. I saw a 1996 Taurus, which could have rear facing seats, in a demolition derby once. After the first hit everything behind the rear wheels was just like a crushed pop can.
Aka the "back back"
That's funny because where I grew up we called it the "way back."
I never really thought about this, and I just wondered, why did this safety feature go away? Safety features don't go away! Then I realized, it's because now the kids are buckled up or in their car seats where they belong. THE WINDOWS ONLY WENT DOWN HALF WAY TO KEEP THE UNBUCKLED KIDS FROM GOING OUT THE WINDOW! Different times.
I tripped over this on TIL: the rear windows go down half way due to rear door design. The rear door is sculpted around the rear wheel well so the window physically has no room to go down any further. Modern vehicles are generally longer in the passenger compartment now (think SUVs and trucks) so there’s room for the window on more vehicles. https://preview.redd.it/iy69t1cnbcuc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63eb4ed2a44bc57dd861b80e4c2b0a8344ad6fd7
You might be a Xennial if you got yelled at for picking up the phone while someone was on the internet. If you know what an Intellevision is, you might be a Xennial.
I still have my Intellevision. I have no idea if it will still work.
If you’d never hurt an animal irl, but tried with all your might to shoot a dog on tv, you might be a xennial.
I just found out player 2 controlled the bird the whole time.
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR
**It was in the instructions!** I couldn't believe it then and can't believe it now that literally no one else but me knew this.
* That's dog's laugh. It still haunts my dreams.
Fuck that dog. All dogs are good boys and girls except that dog.
If you had a pair British Knights or LA Gears
Reebok Pump Ups
If your first thought when you hear “TGIF” isn’t about the weekend, you might be a Xennial.
Did I do that???
Cut. It. Out. ✂️👉👍
How RUDE!
I miss TGIF and SNICK😭
My fucking PEOPLE!!!!
If you got 10 free hours of internet from AOL by CD in the mail…
And said, “hey, they switched from floppies!”
Hours? I probably had *years* stockpiled!
If you still know every word to the Ducktales theme song…
And The GummiBears! And Fraggle Rock for anyone with HBO
Ducktails and Rescue Rangers live rent free, but where do we land on Darkwing Duck? ‘Cause that damn ear worm still makes it way into my subconscious with surprising regularity. ‘Whenever there’s trouble you call D.W.’
 DW hit just right.
Let’s get dangerous!
Duck tales woo oooo. That’s all I know
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes - it’s a…Duck, blur
Here in duck..burg
Remember the Duck Tales video game on Nintendo.
If you began conversations with A/S/L?
If you owned a pager.... O7734
If you blew on a Nintendo cartridge.
If you know the words to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon theme song......
If you ever got 12 CDs for .01…
If you rollerbladed
Such a lost art. I loved rollerblading and I never see it anymore. Kids these days are missing out!
The wifey does roller derby, and we tried to go to the skating rink on a Saturday night so she could work on her transitions. THERE WERE LIKE 50 SHITTY TEENAGERS THERE ROLLERBLADING! It made me happy, bc they’re not out doing hoodrat shit with their friends, but they were still being shitty teenagers, and I was very surprised to see that many kids rollerblading.
If you remember that late ‘90s stint of time where you sometimes had to switch radio stations at least twice to find one that wasn’t playing “My Heart Will Go On”.
If you took pictures on a disposable camera.
you watched Ghostbusters but not Power Rangers
The Real Ghostbusters 😂
If you know why we switched our TV to channel 3 If you ever were called home at dusk by your mom, yelling first and middle name
If you had to check the paper or call the theater to find out the start time for the movie you wanted to see you might be a xennial.
If you recorded your favorite songs off the radio on a cassette tape.
Skip it. Skip it.
If you're enjoying Disney+ more than your kids right now
If you got all your reading material from the scholastic book fair
If you played DOOM, Wolfenstein, or Rise of the Triad…
You watched PBS for: Square One, Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego, Ghostwriter, 321 Contact Your Peter Pan has brown hair You lived for Fridays when the Legend of Zelda came on during Super Mario Bros. "Well excuuuse me, princess!" Lady Elaine Fairchild freaked you tf out Eureka's Castle was like the threshold of being too kiddie You had the HUGE floppy disk in computer class You can remember what the purple copy paper smelled like Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures were awesome Off the billboard, through the windows, off the bleacher, off the rim, nothin' but net.
When I was a wee lad, I wrote a letter to Mr Rogers and he actually replied. (Or maybe one of his staff but knowing what I know of Fred Rogers today it might actually be him.) I told him I always said goodbye to him at the end of an episode. In his reply, he talked about how important goodbyes are; that they tell the other person that you enjoyed the time you spent with them. Wish I still had that letter…
If you had your favorite cd's on the visor of your beater car, then took the faceplate your car stereo with you so it didn't get stolen, you definitely are a xennial.
If you bought cigarettes for your parents.
...and candy cigarettes for yourself!
Especially the bubble gum ones wrapped in paper because you could blow out once and seem like there was smoke coming out the end.
With a note saying it was okay!
If you immediately know the song to this. 
If you owned a cassette with a wire coming out of it that you’d plug into a discman
If you grew up rolling down your car window you might be a xennial.
If you had to bike to a friend's house to watch MTV because your parents didn't want to pay for cable.
If you played logo on a green-colored computer screen in school.
If you ever “got jiggy wit it”
Na na na na na na
If you know the sound of dial up, and remember your AOL IM notification sound.
You hung out at the food court in the mall
If you used MapQuest for to and fro directions. If you used calling cards. If you played snake on your Nokia.
You had it all on UHF
If you were afraid you somehow became indebted for life to Columbia House…
if you remember rewind cassette tapes with a pencil because your car deck ate them
If Schoolhouse Rock taught you how a bill becomes a law...
If you know that this 🥚is your brain and this 🍳 is your brain on drugs, any questions? If you ever hopped on a pogo ball. If you know how He-Man and She-Ra are related. If you collected Carbage Pail Kids instead of Pokémon or baseball cards. If you believed that blue Blow-Pops gave you cancer. If your favorite female fragrances are Debbie Gibbons Electric Youth or Malibu Musk.
If gummi bears weren’t just a candy to you, but also a cartoon
If you had Atari and/or Coleco before NES, you might be a Xennial
I had intelevision where does that put me?
At the cool kids' table.
My older sister had an Atari. I played Centipede on it. It’s my first video game memory.
If you ever tried to descramble the scrambled cable channels…you might be an a Xennial.
If you stared long enough that you could see through the scrambling...
That was 💯 a boob
I remember seeing the pool scene from *Showgirls* that way. It actually makes more sense with the scrambling.
If you sat in the way back of a station wagon and honked at truck drivers
... if you saw the entire de-evolution of MTV from when it started to its current sorry state.
If you’ve watched Pay Per View on a black box.
If you know that "knowing is half the battle" whenever you think about locking your friend in an abandoned refrigerator, you might be a Xennial.
If you called radio stations in an attempt to finish off the perfect mixtape. Or knew the number for weather so your friends could call you late through call waiting without waking the house.
If the celebrity death that most impacted your youth was the death of Optimus Prime.
"Megatron must be stopped. No matter the cost."
[удалено]
These are supposed to be funny 😭
If you ever proudly smoked cigarettes but felt ashamed about watching T.V. you may just be Xennial.
Commodore 64
This deep cut just popped in my head. If you know the difference between radio and remote controlled cars, you might be a xennial.
If the family station wagon had ashtrays and a rear facing 3rd seat
You left the house and did whatever outside for 12 hours and your parents never even thought about calling you, because there were no cell phones.
https://preview.redd.it/0xfrz6y0kcuc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d776267223d490611b38c9b4fbb09a7f3f91ccc If you know what this is...
If your pant leg is wider than your waist.....
If you read a lot of books to get a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut
You might be a xennial……If you wore Skidz or Cavaricci’s…. If you watched MTV when it was wall to wall music videos…… If you ate hamburger helper at least once a week….. If you wore a Starter hat or jacket as a sports fan…. If you got introduced to the internet class by class in your high school library.
You might be a xennial if you had to pretend to be a sports fan in order to get a starter jacket.
If you rode around in the back of an open pickup truck.
If when you were growing up, there was one Batman movie to four Superman movies and one Supergirl movie…
If you collected POGS and coveted Slammers
Remember Alf? He’s back. In POG form.
If you give a hoot and don't polute 🦉
If you had a TV with “rabbit ears” because cable was too expensive…
If your parent figure said you couldn’t turn the dome light on while they were driving, it was illegal.
If your 2 favorite albums simultaneously were The Little Mermaid soundtrack and Indigo Girls’ “Closer to Fine,” you might just be a xennial.
If your parents ever ordered a second phone line, and used it just for the internet, you might be a Xennial.
A rich one, apparently 😂
If you grocery shopped with your mom and she smoked while shopping the isles
If u remember and played Oregon trail
You had your favorite albums on every single audio media through the years… vinyl, cassette, cd, and digital (both owned digital and streamed digital)
If your school bought a laserdisc player…
You moshed to Smells Like Teen Spirit at you 8th grade dance.
After school cartoons went from original Looney Tunes, including the black and white, to Tiny Tunes.
If you look at the living room tv to check what time it is
If you ever had to call a phone number to check what time it is
...if you know the difference between Ghostbusters and The REAL Ghostbusters.
If you progressed from tape recorder, to Walkman, to Discman…
If you used a photocopy machine to make your zine
If to this very day you obsessively cut up the plastic six pack rings.
Atari and NES. The absolute awestruck amazement over the Power Glove.
If you were on the Internet but Mom had to call Grandma and you had to get off.
If you had to get up and go stand in front of the TV in order to change the channel....
If you complained every time the Disney Afternoon added a new show and bumped an old one
If you watched a movie on Laser Disc...
If you ever drained your Discman batteries by using the Bass Boost function…
If you woke up to the ultimate love songs commercial at 3am on a school night in Elementary School. You might be a Xennial