“Left Napster running.”
JFC that’s a mind melt. I forgot that we used to “leave things on” to let them do stuff like download music. “On” was not the default. Now, everything is on all the time and I hadn’t realized until this moment how much I was attuned to that. I want to go back.
happy cake day!
Everyday I start my morning with coffee made from beans I grind and a stiff bonk to the head courtesy of a rake I leave out for the purpose of hopefully waking up on the middle school playground where I’m surrounded with concerned friends.
If I could go back, there would not be a lot for me back there, except I would be broken, know what is coming, and have even less of a way to stop it (because broken).
“And that was Smashmouth! Now, give it up for Limp Bizkit!”
I’m going to take a wild guess and say Ozzfest 1999.
No. I don’t want jeans that soak up water from puddles in the rain.
Then get the jean shorts instead dumdum
You are a wizard.
Are those soap shoes?
God I miss those! Strolling down the street, quickly stutter run up to that sweet ledge and bust a random 6 foot frontside, continue strolling down the street…
The more I think about the late 90s and mid 00s, the less I want to go back to it. What I want is to not know things, not know how horrible things are, because I know things in the 90s and 00s were horrid too, I was just too young to notice.
I’m sure there are some people out there that have nostalgia for 2012 because that’s when they were a child. I remember the massive push for Ron Paul 2012 and how insufferable everyone was.
not know how horrible things are, because I know things in the 90s and 00s were horrid too, I was just too young to notice.
That’s nostalgia for you. When we were kids, our parents had fond memories of their early days. In 30 years, kids today will pine for these times. It’s how that works. It’s not universal, but for most people, they remember fondly the time they were younger, healthier, had less responsibility and their whole lives ahead of them.
I mean yeah normally I’d agree with you but progress was still going in kind of the right direction, albiet slowly then.
We’ve spent some years backsliding now, and honestly I do miss the part where things felt like they where getting better, not worse.
Was it? Because I remember how things were in 2012, and that’s not how I remember it. Anita Sarkeesian started her Kickstarter in May of 2012, and thus Gamergate was unofficially born, and 2 years later it was officially born, followed by Brexit, followed by Trump. Technically Anita’s stuff wasn’t what kicked off Gamergate, but the backlash against her primed an audience ready to pounce when Gamergate actually started and took half the internet on the road to fascism.
2012 is the year everything started going downhill. While yes, some social progress was made, it was in 2012 that the seeds of today’s problems were planted, at least on the internet anyway. One could argue that 9/11 and the Patriot Act and massive expansion of executive power contributed heavily as well.
Either way, shit was bad in 2012 as well, we were all just too blind to see it. The only people who actually did see it were pariahs on the internet for years and weren’t listened to because they were 'SJW’s.
Maximum Derick.
Looking at this pic makes me conclude I made the right fashion choices (or lack thereof) along the way. Jeans and T-Shirt all the way, even during my black metal phase.
Although during that time I did dye my (long) hair Black No. 1. Which is kinda funny, as someone claimed back then that I looked like a younger Pete Steele (Of Type O Negative fame, who’s most famous song is Black No. 1, in case you didn’t know).
So what am I wearing now? Yeah, you guessed wrong. My jeans are in the washer, so I’m currently sporting t-shirt and half a track suit. My hair is getting pretty long again, but dying it is just too much hazzle.
Black, Black, Black, Black number wo-o-one! What a track.
Did I look like that? Dear god, my parents were right…
I wanna go back!!
Look up local retro gatherings, you can kinda go back in that sense, at least
I’m still sad they discontinued Choco Tacos; that was my go-to at ice cream trucks
I used to beat my kids to the trucks when they appeared, not since those greedy bastards took away my Choco Taco tho 😔
Must be 90’s, no one suggesting going to a doctor after a clearly heavy hit on the head.
…who could afford to? healthcare always been the realm of the rich in the land of the free
What’s the middle kid’s shirt? That’s the only one I’m drawing a blank on.
Cradle of Filth
Try track 4 — “Coffin Fodder”. It sounds horrible but it’s actually quite beautiful.
It sounds horrible but it’s actually quite beautiful.
Bobcat Goldthwait’s friends trying to set up a blind date
it was days like that that made me glad I had the Filth to come home to
Ok boomer
Boomer is a specific generation.
What we’re seeing here is the first generation to go from childhood to elders with internet access/fluency all the way.
It is more of a way of thinking than a generation. The phrase “ok boomer” doesn’t refer to just boomers
Ok boomer
Exactly
How young do you think boomers are?
boomer is a state of mind now
