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).
“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!
Magic The Gathering cards were the NFTs of our generation
still better than beanie babies
Nice! This is just silly. But if it were magic the gathering cards, I would understand.
Which was STILL better than the beanie babies of 1930, which were childhood illnesses, bankruptcies, and foreclosures.
Do you think your mom will get us a Bigfoot from Pizza Hut tonight?
I hope so, and with the 2L Mt Dew!
jncos will come back one day. i just hope i’m not around to see it
they did. last year. I’m not joking. old JNCOs were (maybe still are) selling for ungodly amounts of money to the point I called my mom up to ask her if she still kept some of my old high school clothes in the attic, specifically my JNCOs. she laughed at me “those huge raggy old pants that looked like they had tails at the bottom? no I tossed those when you moved out” I could have been rich.
Anyone else remember Kikwear? They were somehow even baggier than Jnco
One of my friends still wears JNCO jeans
That already happened.
oh good. i just wasn’t paying attention. good riddance. again.
My daughter is eleven and wears baggy trousers every day. It’s happening, man!
that’s gonna change in her teens, bank on it
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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 have good news! They won’t see 30 years.
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.
I won’t lie, I was a teenager from a privileged background in 2012 and the only thing that I was scared of was the Mayan calendar. It was also the last good year for YouTube before it started to really go downhill.
“And that was Smashmouth! Now, give it up for Limp Bizkit!”
Did I look like that? Dear god, my parents were right…
I’m still sad they discontinued Choco Tacos; that was my go-to at ice cream trucks
It’s truly a stroke of brilliance, and possibly still the best ice cream conveyance method.
I used to beat my kids to the trucks when they appeared, not since those greedy bastards took away my Choco Taco tho 😔
I’m going to take a wild guess and say Ozzfest 1999.
I wanna go back!!
Look up local retro gatherings, you can kinda go back in that sense, at least
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…
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
Where’s Bonzai Buddy when you need him?
Also, 25 browser bookmark bars!I miss when the spyware told funny jokes :(
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.
