my favorite Millennial Thing™ is when a group of us are standing around and talking and someone asks a question that no one knows the answer to and suddenly it’s a race to get out your phone and google it and be the first to know, and then someone starts reading the Wikipedia article about the thing aloud to everyone else, and what started as a casual conversation is now A Learning Opportunity and we all walk away a little more knowledgeable about a random topic
Like, Boomers hate when we do that, but I think it’s one of the best things about us.
So long as we have internet or a cell signal, all of the world’s collective knowledge is at our fingertips, and damned if we aren’t going to use it.
My dad always get mad when I do this. He’s always like “We didn’t need to know.” That makes no sense to me. Why would that make me ignore my ability to learn something? I don’t always *need* to know but that doesn’t mean I’m going to pass up an opportunity to learn something new.
Why carry a supercomputer around in your pocket if you’re not gonna use it?
For the record, the guy actually invented this with the intent of it being used to crack down on human trafficking. Traffickers often cover their victims in heavy/unusual makeup before posting pics of them online, to make them harder to detect using normal software.
Who am I? I am a girl who loves my island. I’m the girl who loves the sea It calls me. I am the daughter of the village chief. We are descended from voyagers. Who found their way across the world. They call me. I’ve delivered us to where we are. I have journeyed farther. I am everything I’ve learned and more. Still it calls me.
One of the most iconic movie kisses from the first Spider-Man film in which Mary-Jane pulls down Spider-Man’s mask to kiss him upside down
This whole scene is reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings, with the forging of the ring. It also mirrors Frodo catching the One Ring on his finger in the Prancing Pony in The Fellowship of the Ring
The whole scene parodies Axel Foley’s arrival in California in the film Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy who voices Donkey also played the title character Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop
The singer, model and actress Angelyne is well-known for her copious amounts of Billboards and the Fairy Godmother’s carriage even parodies Angelyne’s trademark pink Corvette
Remember the scene from Rocky Horror where they all get confused and say each others name?
In The Seven Year Itch Marylin Monroe’s white dress is blown by a train while she tries to hold it down
Birth of the Xenomorph anyone?
Masked vigilante Zorro has a habit of carving his ‘Z’ initial on his enemies. Antonio Banderas who voices Puss in Boots also played Zorro in the films The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro
Maybe it’s a thing among ginger tomcats to hate Mondays?
A song from the late 50’s where a man takes a love potion and falls in love with everything he sees
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