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I had a strange dream, and I want to see if anyone else here has any thoughts on it. It happened about 1 month ago. I woke up around 5am, and for some reason I laid awake and scrolled on my phone for a bit. Then I tried to fall back to sleep. As I was in between wakefulness and sleep I saw in my mind a scene… I saw a row of lights in the sky. I couldn’t make out what they were, but the “impression” I got was that it was a number of aircraft flying together in unison. I then saw the word VESSUGRA. I had no idea what that meant or if it was even a word or just gibberish my brain made up. So I opened my eyes and grabbed my phone and googled that word. This is what Google said:

*“Ves-sugra” is

And by older I mean older than the average age of parents of the average Xennial. I wonder how much having older parents made our upbringing a bit more like that of the average Gen X than the average Millennial. Or is the difference relatively minor compared to that of the impact of the culture surrounding us during our early years. Would be interesting to hear stories or insights from Xennials with older parents and what childhood was like for them compared to their peers.

📆 Slang by Year (2024–1950)

2024 – NPC 2023 – Delulu 2022 – Rizz 2021 – It’s giving 2020 – Simp 2019 – OK boomer 2018 – Yeet 2017 – Lit 2016 – Fam 2015 – On fleek 2014 – Bae 2013 – Ratchet 2012 – YOLO 2011 – Swag 2010 – Troll 2009 – Fail 2008 – Cray 2007 – Fo shizzle 2006 – Bling 2005 – Holla 2004 – Fo real 2003 – Tight 2002 – Whassup? 2001 – Da bomb 2000 – Phat 1999 – All that and a bag of chips 1998 – As if! 1997 – Booyah! 1996 – Talk to the hand 1995 – Not! 1994 – Word 1993 – Homey 1992 – Psych! 1991 – Fresh 1990 – Dude 1989 – Gnarly 1988 – Tubular 1987 – No duh 1986 – Wicked 1985 – Gag me with a spoon 1984 – Rad 1983 – Totally 1982 – Bodacious 1981 – Like… 1980 – Hoser 1979 – Brick hou

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Why do we wince when we are in pain? Maybe it gave us an evolutionary advantage to automatically create that facial expression when hurt/injured as flashing our teeth and furrowed brows would potentially scare off whatever or whoever is injuring us. And so now it’s deeply wired into our nervous system. It also makes me wonder why we wince when we experience emotional pain. Is it because physical and emotional pain occur in the same areas of the brain, therefore they both stimulate the wince response?

Hoping some sharing and discussion might in a small way help us loosen the grip toxic masculinity has on us.

Dictionary.com defines toxic masculinity as “a cultural concept of manliness that glorifies stoicism, strength, virility, and dominance, and that is socially maladaptive or harmful to mental health”.

I feel like there could be a neat mash-up with these 2 songs, does anyone else hear it?

Shadow of a Man by Lady Gaga

Don’t Wanna Fall in Love by Jane Child

I’m an elder millennial and loved the Jagged Little Pill album when I was tween. I’m a bit high right now and watching the music video for the song Ironic. It’s bringing back so much nostalgia. I never thought this deeply about the music video before, in a long time anyway. The four personalities are really interesting. Did she ever explain what they represent to her? To me it looks like the driver is her super ego and her primary sense of self, the one who is usually in the “drivers seat” in Alanis’s life most of the time. The girl next to her in the passenger seat seems to me like the brave person she wishes she could be, the part of her that wants to live vivaciously, fully embracing all