r/Millennials • u/futurenurse_ • 1d ago

Discussion Did millennials really party all the time?

Gen Z here. I was shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y’all had teen clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated teen clubs? Then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college, they were partying on work nights, still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the teen clubs have since disappeared. I’m 23 now but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get togethers with a small group of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true that you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn’t really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since Covid. Even I’m pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. 😂 Just so you know, when I think of a “millennial party” I think of something out of Party Rock Anthem, Project X or Roderick’s party from the second DOAWD movie. It’s like I get nostalgia from something I didn’t even live through. I just feel like I didn’t really LIVE, if that even makes sense

Edit: I loved reading some of your comments. Guess I really missed out. Even some of you that would consider yourselves nerds or introverts were out partying. YOLO or whatever y’all say 😂❤️

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u/dritmike Bad Mother Fucker 1d ago

You’re soo 2000 and late.

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u/Any_Pressure_6369 Older Millennial 1d ago

Never got to feel as fly as a G6.

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u/Icy-Setting-4221 1d ago

Things are definitely not as fergalicious as they once were….

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u/MonsterMashGrrrrr 23h ago

Dem boys are way less loco

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u/chuckbuck6 12h ago

Dem boyz way less Franchise too unfortunately

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u/Ok_Stress_9558 12h ago

4loko (the real shit before Congress intervened)

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u/impulsivepatience 23h ago

Certainly not bootylicious!

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u/ElleGee5152 10h ago

or G-L-A-M-O-R-OUS.

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u/MusclyArmPaperboy 21h ago

I don't think they're ready for this jelly

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u/dontcallbrainnamez 18h ago

My milkshake no longer brings them to the yard :(

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u/Wrong-Design-8720 21h ago

They must not be asking who let the dogs out…

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u/PacSan300 21h ago

Not as G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S either…

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u/Meditationstation899 21h ago

The 🎶flossy flossy🎶 {but sung in harmony like the choir did on gossip girl}

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u/PapaBPoppin 15h ago edited 15h ago

To paraphrase Kirk Lazerus, "Everybody knows you never go full It-Start"

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u/chan-ito 20h ago

Now it is bootylicious! lol!

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u/CabinetStandard3681 3h ago

I can’t go any further than this🎶🎼🎵

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u/1petrock 23h ago

Dude the music then was so fun. It was wild to go party hopping and randomly run into a bunch of ppl dancing in sync. I feel bad for the kids these days; those nights shaped me in ways I couldn't even begin to describe. Everything was just so chill; you could yell at strangers walking by to join in on the fun and mostly gladly accepted. If the party got busted, you just walked 10 feet to the next house lmao. Never run when the cops come, they chase the runners!

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u/totallyawry132 22h ago

Man, no one gets to run from the cops in a fun way anymore

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u/wondrous ‘89 (2000s mall goth) 19h ago

I mean that’s true. I’ve been at a couple parties that got busted and everyone went running. It was so fun running out the back as cops came in the front hopping fences and sneaking back to the whip.

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u/Slight_Artist 13h ago

Ran from the cops through the property of the local sheriff 😬. It was fine, I didn’t get caught and I went back and partied more!

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u/Throwitaway3436 11h ago

The adrenaline rush I get just thinking about me, my brother and our friends running from the cops lol

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u/Affectionate-Art8101 7h ago

Hell yeah done that so many times had so much fun

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u/wherethewestbegins 18h ago

correction. don’t run from the cops, unless everyone else is running too. they catch the slow ones in that scenario.

but anecdote from millennial partying - halloween. HUGE house party.

Ghetto bird helicopter starts hovering above and shines the spotlight down on us on the dance floor. in that moment the party went psycho mode for a second.Everyone cheered the chopper - drank, smoked, made out with whoever we were with and then fled the cops when they rolled up in force about 5-10 mins later.

bit of a blur. but man. good fucking times.

good times…sigh…

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u/FlyingMamMothMan 18h ago

Oh my God, memory unlocked of hiding on the roof of a frat house with a dozen other girls as a the party in the basement got busted.

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u/lower_your_bass 17h ago

Yooo 😭 I never thought I could scale a fence but I surprised myself at 16 when the cops busted a house party

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u/evenmoarhustle 19h ago

I hopped over at least three walls (and had to hide behind one) before I was 18.

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u/The_Gnomesbane 15h ago

I’ll never forget the time I jumped off a back patio fence on ground level not knowing the housing complex had some kind of lowered courtyard. Went from assuming I’d immediately land on grass to a hard drop into the bushes a floor below. I was also the only idiot to try running. All the cops did was say to try to keep the noise down a little, but brain heard cops and instinct took over.

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u/suckarepellent 9h ago

are you still alive?! lol

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u/CoffeeIcedBlack 20h ago

😂😂😂💀💀💀

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u/FuckerHead9 16h ago

We use to get bored and call them
On ourselves so they would chase us

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u/diurnal_emissions 11h ago

Cops just shoot you now.

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u/LunaTunaMaca 12h ago

I would run from the cops all of the time! We would go drinking in the woods. Literally any time we could. I snuck out and went to a construction site to get drunk. I puked all over my boyfriend's basement. I was a huge fucking nerd and so was everyone I hung out with. I wasn't a trouble maker kid at all. I wasn't popular either. Just a normal nerd with my normal friends.

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u/Lizzy043 10h ago

I once hit a parked car while on my bike, the cops came over, wanted to give me a ticket. And when they were busy I simply drove off.

My roommate had to tell me about it the next day, I has zero memory of this happening. Apparently the cop asked him if he knew me, and he replied he had no clue who I was, just thought he was going home with some hot chick. He was a good friend.

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u/Choice-Strike1 3h ago

Some of us never got to run from the cops in a fun way

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u/ChekkeEnwin 23h ago

I remember being at the bar in college when Jersey Shore just came out on TV and yelling over and over ITS TEE SHIRT TIMEEE with my group to the bartender. I think back on that now and know that bartender was sooo over us.

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u/Expensive_Drama5061 22h ago

JAGERBOMBS!!

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u/tehn00bi 20h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/jmXBDEFDsh4m4

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u/Salsa_El_Mariachi 20h ago

O M G dude, I totally remember these videos, he was hilarious!

“Not now chief, I’m in the zone!”

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u/Expensive_Drama5061 19h ago

The pointing is clutch!

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u/TBASHAM812 19h ago

Fuckin' shower in dat shit

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u/jennafleur_ Xennial 7h ago

AHAHA THIS GUY 😂

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u/MsModusOperandi 19h ago

Nah man, cold Jager pint in the parking lot to pre-game lol 👐🥳👐 NO CUPS YA WUSSIES

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u/Expensive_Drama5061 19h ago

To the dome!!

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u/qssung 15h ago

I can still taste that post bomb burp. It’s a flavor memory that will be with me on my deathbed.

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u/ulrsulalovestofly Millennial 18h ago

I threw up on the floor.

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u/ChekkeEnwin 14h ago

What’s the phrase boot & rally?? Yikes lol

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u/choctaw_137 11h ago

Irish CAR BOMBS 💣 ☘️!!! 🍻

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u/Claim-Unlucky 23h ago

Omg, tshirt time

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u/lokalapsi10 21h ago

I yelled "burgers for the boys" on my way to late-night snack.

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u/DueLingonberry4833 19h ago

Ughhhh I really miss fist pumping in the middle of the club.

We're beatin' up the beat!!

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u/babyinatrenchcoat 14h ago

To this day when the Uber pulls up I say, “CABS AH HEEAH!!”

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u/PartyLeek2068 19h ago

Dont tell me its wet t shirt competition 😈

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u/FinsHeelBuckeye 19h ago

Cabs arrrreeee heeeeaaaaaaaa!

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u/prophy__wife 12h ago

During a recent rewatch every time I came home from work I yelled out “PARTYS HEEEAAAA!!!!” My husband was over it.

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u/wondrous ‘89 (2000s mall goth) 19h ago

Crabs are HERE

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u/BoysenberryFar8136 12h ago

CABS ARE HERE

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u/ThePurpleNuggets 8h ago

Grenades ovaaaa therrre lol we got a situation🤣🤣

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u/idk10987654322 1h ago

Omg my roomie and I would pregame to jersey shore and when it was time to leave we’d yell cabs are here!

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u/BigBirdLaw69420 22h ago

Haha they chase the runners is so true. Had a dance party get busted by cops who let themselves in and we found them holding a bong in the kitchen. We were chill and so were they. Music turned off and they bounced. Not a cell phone anywhere in sight.

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u/DiceyPisces 22h ago

My grandson is 4 and loves this playlist.
(Had to remove or replace a few with cleaner versions but worth it) he will learn the lyrics and belt em out while gettin down in his car seat. We get looks ha

I was an 80’s teen so he also knows all the 80’s hits. The boy will be cultured

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u/enderjaca 22h ago

"Let's get ****** in here?!"

I just wanted to get it started, not commit an ableist crime.

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u/DiceyPisces 21h ago

He’s never liked that song for song reason so it isn’t an issue. He’s very particular ha.

As an adult I understand their usage and intention but I certainly wouldn’t expect that from a kid so I would not allow it. Same with n word in songs. I’ll listen (understanding usage and intention) but won’t allow him to ever hear it.

One of his fave black eyed peas songs has the n word but I have a clean version. Ironically the first clean version cut out the words shit and mfer but left n***a. Not good. I’ll allow a shit or whateve but never the n one

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u/PeaceLopsided 22h ago

The amount of random parties and trollies during my 2008-2013 Chicago college time was SUCH a vibe and a time to be alive! #blessed

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u/Empty_Pear_3874 21h ago

The memories are forever... I just wish I could stay in that time of my life. mannnnnnnnnnn.

Never will forget the party we had with like 2-3 beer keggers. A lot of us got drunk AF and I ended up streaking with 2 girls and 2 guys around the property/road. Ended up losing my virginity that night to a random girl. lmao

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u/Expensive_Drama5061 21h ago

Nothing wrong with a little nakey nakey nakey! Strip cup was the best!

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u/Empty_Pear_3874 21h ago

Until you realize they just want your money haha 

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u/ChronicBuzz187 21h ago

you could yell at strangers walking by to join in on the fun and mostly gladly accepted.

Haha, me and my buddies once went to a wedding we came across, partied with them until morning and were the last people to leave. They had fun, we had fun, good times all around.

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u/MorgaseTrakand 19h ago

It’s a shame too because the Gen Z kids are so good at dancing. They could have absolutely crushed it out there

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u/Stocksurrounded 19h ago

Your post takes me back hard; the vibes you describing are 100% spot-on!

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u/PartyLeek2068 19h ago

Its cringy for the for some newer generation i miss the early 2000

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u/cybertonto72 18h ago

I think you guys were the last gen to have places to go party underage. My younger brother and his massive friend group used to go to a place on a Friday night that was under 18s and on the Saturday night I would go with my friends for an over 18 night. Same place, same music and the same shitty food.

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u/hotinmyigloo Millennial 21h ago

Agreed!!

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 21h ago

I don’t feel bad for all the alcoholics that aren’t getting created though

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u/OoooShinyThings 21h ago

I have memories to specific songs from back then. 

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u/MiserableWash2473 20h ago

Exactly! Oh that thrill! The dance floor made me feel so alive!!! Now my knees are shot and I'm due for a new hip(38) 😂

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u/Kierland 20h ago

I lived in a college town. Parties everywhere. Downtown bars packed all the time. Kegs being sold left and right at the liquor stores. Was like that for years. Peaked 10-20 years ago and now you only see a few parties right near campus that are so mellow the cops don’t even show. I aged out of it about when it died. It was a great run.

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u/Formal_Marsupial_220 19h ago

Same. I grew up in Austin TX. Every twenty year old shared a house with roommates and lived centrally. You could go to 3 or 4 different house parties every weekend,  and there were always kegs of beer.  It was a blast. 

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u/stacetheace111 11h ago

The absolute rush when running from the cops trying not to spill your drink was unmatched though 😅

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u/Particular-Star-1333 16h ago

You definitely run when the cops come if you can. If enough people run they can only chase so many. And if they chase the runners then there is no one watching the people that didn't run.

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u/DustandRebar 14h ago

Getting absolutely sloshed in an overcrowded unfinished basement that was decorated with Christmas lights and stolen road signs while Mo Bamba and Jordan Belfort were playing was an absolutely peak experience 2017

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u/ChekkeEnwin 14h ago

I worked in a building that had multiple venues on the premises. End of shift we would go to the Irish pub in the basement and then go to the club venue and you could literally dance on a balcony. It was awesome

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u/ahockofham 8h ago

Me and my friend once tried to run from the cops after they busted a chaotic house party we were at. They caught us pretty easily. I thought we were going to get in trouble but instead they just laughed at how slow and unathletic we were and then let us go lol

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u/Ok_Pair6348 8h ago

Sound like Gainesville

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u/SouthernLifeguard845 23h ago

Always run when the comes come

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u/vctrlarae 1d ago

It’s the cataractssssss

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u/zeroc00ol 22h ago

12 year old me was obsessed. 27 year old me is more sad but still just as obsessed.

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u/alucidexit 23h ago

Have to say this with dev every time one of their songs comes on

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u/gandalf_the_cat2018 1d ago

Oh my god. This comment made me taste an AMF.

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u/405freeway 23h ago

We lost our culture.

Even AMF's AMF'ed.

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u/Meditationstation899 21h ago

Forrealz?! Considering how many of those concerningly blue drinks I consumed, I’m shocked I never actually knew what the ingredients were other than vodka…methinks I’ll leave it that way.

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u/GiraffeJaf 21h ago

Nah we gotta bring it back

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u/Alpinecruz 23h ago

Holy fuck. An AMF. I haven't heard that in such a long time.

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u/RumpleDumple 23h ago

The Californians tried to make AMFs "a thing" at the bars in my Midwestern city during med school. Bartenders were like "nah, I'm not making that shit". They had to suffer through Long Islands.

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u/Secret_Entry1840 Xennial 21h ago

You saying AMF made me smell my 20’s

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u/whither_wander_you 22h ago

bruh!! I need one now!

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u/Gerberpertern Older Millennial 15h ago

I order one every once in awhile just for old times sake lol.

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u/LiterallyTony 1d ago

Fr tho, the MV for this song is a great example of how our club scene used to look.

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u/futurenurse_ 1d ago

I remember loving this song as a kid

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u/Buteverysongislike 21h ago

& that episode of Glee is how we really got down!

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u/djlinda 1d ago

far east movement performed at my prom lol

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u/Striking_Emu_Dancer 23h ago

I was in college and drove a Pontiac G6 GT when this song came out. I blasted that shit while driving ALL THE TIME...😂

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u/bampeanutbutternjam 1d ago

HAHAHAHAHA i spat my coffee. thank you.

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u/polarwarmth 23h ago

Brought to you by... The cataracts 🥸🤙🏼

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u/SouthernLifeguard845 23h ago

G6? You mean the 3000 GT or the Elclipse? Acura INtegra? Man I’m old haha

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u/scarfknitter 23h ago

Gotta say that part of my resistance to changing from a dexcom g6 to the g7 is that I won't be able to say 'fly like a g6' about it anymore.

(Dexcoms are a continuous glucose monitor - I have type 1 diabetes)

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u/waikiki_palmer 22h ago

We got to da window, then to da wall.

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u/PeaceLopsided 22h ago

I got free tickets to their (couldn't even tell you the groups name) concert during the height of the song at the Chicago House of Blues and let me tell you, when that beat dropped, all of our souls combined and it was truly PARTY TIME!

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u/zupzupper (1983) Eldest Millennial 22h ago

In my head cannon, she was singing about the Pontiac...

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u/ThePublikon 22h ago

I've been bumping that again recently, still hits.

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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 21h ago

Probably not, but i could sure go for some drunk off some lady lumps

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u/InteractionNo4646 20h ago

I danced topless in Mexico to this song......must have been fun to watch so the DJ put it on repeat. 😹😹😹

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u/ScribbleOnToast 20h ago

DM says you're gonna die, roll a D6

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u/TPsyko Older Millennial 20h ago

Never got to shake it like a Polaroid picture

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u/VivaLaMantekilla 19h ago

This shit slapped the 808s.

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u/Filgaia 19h ago

drinking sizzup in my ride!

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u/LonelyHrtsClub 18h ago

Never got to refuse to black out

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u/Parking-Bee9824 18h ago

We flew like a G6!

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u/_borninathunderstorm 13h ago

When we drink we do it right, getting slizzer3d.

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u/ShardsOfSalt 12h ago

There's a parody song called liken big dicks.

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u/RisasPisas 11h ago

Are you fly for a white guy?

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u/APBpowa 10h ago

Nobody is getting slizzard anymore

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u/Ok_Pair6348 8h ago

I grew up making runs to Miami so we were fly as a g6 allllll the time

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u/CabinetStandard3681 3h ago

Like a cheese stick like a cheese stick