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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When I was like 7, I put a bunch of legos in one of these and they melted. I was able to put them into the top because the lamp was next to the stairs.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember? I still have it!

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Surprised how many people still do. If it ain't broke don't fix it I suppose.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Occasionally a bug or a Nerf dart would end up in ours and you'd smell a gross burnt aroma 😅

[–] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Older gen Z here, I remember these really strongly.
People always forget gen Z was alive for these kind of things and I'm starting to think nobody realizes how old we actually are. Most people you think of as gen Z are only really on the younger end of gen Z. Some of us are in our late 20s now and also struggling to understand kids these days.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're not in your late twenties if you're Gen Z. Gen Z is like 2001 onwards.

[–] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gen Z is 1997-2012. The oldest of us are 27.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's dumb. Surely millennials have to include people born in 2000

Also I am a Gen Z. You aren't.

[–] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The generations are determined by what the biggest common experience they all have is (at least, that's how it's supposed to be.)
Millennials are millennials because they all remember the turn of the millennium. anyone born 1997 or later wouldn't remember it, which is why the generation line was drawn where it was.
There are people who find that weird and prefer to call anybody born after 2000 gen Z because they were born after the turn of the millennium, so there's a sizable amount of people who've taken to calling anybody born 1996-2000 a "zillennial" as a compromise. I use the term sometimes, but only when I need to demonstrate to somebody that there's no clear difference between a young millennial and an older gen Z.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doubles as fly killer. Remember hearing a couple zap on that fucking food service light

[–] Mystry@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Ah, the smell of freshly burnt bugs. We once had a giant moth catch on fire which shot several inches above the top of the lamp and set off the smoke detector. The apartment reeked for days.

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I saw one of the bulbs burn out once, four inch flames straight out of the top.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah we never had one (poor} but I remember hearing that they caused their share of house fires

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I had two of them!

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I still have one

[–] tory@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I almost burned a neighbors house down by forgetting about a piece of cloth I put on that badboy for mood lighting.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Mood lighting lol.

[–] chimpo_the_chimp@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

I used to put my socks on these as a kid cause it'd warm them up. I ended up forgetting them one day and there was a fucking roaring fire coming out of the top of the bowl within minutes.

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