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In Which I Realize I Am Getting Old, And You Do Too.
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Also a 5 year reunion? Why? What has anyone done in five years worth draggin everyone back together for?
I'd agree with you, but my town has a total area of one square mile, and the K-8 school three blocks away from my house services that area alone. Roughly 600 kids attend that school. You'd think with 600 kids contained to a square mile of land, I'd have seen at least a couple children playing outside.
Also, most of the kids in this town are spoiled brats who would have every single electronic distraction known to man at their fingertips. The kids I used to baby-sit got a full-sized bouncy castle for Christmas one year. And every St. Patrick's Day, the "leprechaun" would visit them at night and give each of the girls $50 in gold dollar coins. They weren't even Irish.
Nor have I gone to any
Well that is a lie as I did go to someone else's and felt like a 5th wheel or arm candy
I knew none of those people who they were any relationships they had and such
I only knew T and it was ever so awkward.
Whoops. Fixed.
I too let it slip when I someone was playing Daft Punk songs on their phone at work but only off one album
So I asked what else did they listen to in that genre. They looked confused for a second and said don't you mean EDM? I said music really has a hard time being in one category over time.
But then I showed him Grimes and he ignored the conversation going on around him while he watched the video.
At least I have a good job. I really dodged a bullet by graduating the year that I did.
I graduated in May of 2004. No one I knew had Myspaces, that wasn't a huge thing. Facebook wasn't even really a thing that existed yet. Smartphones didn't exist. Twitter was a few years away.
So when I see now just how entrenched social media has become to the high school experience, it feels like some weird generational gap formed completely overnight and that I just missed out on that generation, and that makes me feel pretty old
yes, except replace "old" with "lucky"
well I have no idea, I didn't go to find out
Also, my friends made me get Snap Chat. I've had it for months, and still can't figure out how to use it.
The shit people can do to each other now online is kinda crazy.
I'm glad that wasn't a thing when I was in high school.
Not that social media ever really made much of a dent in my life anyway.
Not fucking going anywhere NEAR those reunions until I have my shit together
e: Eh. Not even then.
When's the last time anyone here had a roll of film developed?
Now you can store thousands of photos on your phone so it's no big deal.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
If anyone asks what I've done since high school, I can now say "I have a car"
I'm old enough to remember when MySpace was pretty much only used by teenage anime fans.
And when Youtube was all AMVs and full-length movies and no one said anything about it.
Wait so
they stopped giving him medication that was helping him because they don't have a classification for whatever the fuck he does have?
That's completely fucked, man. I'm sorry he has to go through that. And sorry you guys have to see it happen.
I was there when @Druhim came into being
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I've used a typewriter to write an essay because my parent's didn't have a computer.
The first computer I ever used was an old IBM thing with a green screen, no mouse, and dials to adjust brightness.
I used a dial phone fairly regularly as a child.
The house I grew up in had push-button lights, not the flip and toggle switches that are standard today.
I feel much, much older than twenty three.
And then, on move-in day at my dorm at the beginning of my sophomore year in college, my roommate turned to me and said, "So there's this new thing called Facebook."
Well, full-length movies broken into 12 parts because videos couldn't be longer than 10 minutes.
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It's not just the reunions. They would start inundating me with pictures of their supposedly oh so cute grandbabies. I am not old; I am not quite 30. That is disgusting and they are disgusting people. I would get a momentary kick out of telling them they should take their fourteen year olds to get abortions, but then it would be nothing but JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS JAYSUS JAYSUS LORD KEEE-RYST! and getting spammed with religious texts and chain emails and people harassing my mom.
I hope to age like my mom, who was still mistaken for someone in her mid-30s well into her 50s.
Satans..... hints.....
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Having grandchildren at 30ish does raise some uncomfortable questions
not here surprisingly
I would get asked why I was not married nor had children when I first moved here. I was a little confused at first.
Social media is for people who aren't me
It's one of these things where it's so pervasive that all you're doing by preventing them access is making them an outcast among their peers
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
I kind of want to because I deleted my Facebook and have the mot intense curiosity as to what happened to everyone.
At the same time, hell no, I do not really want to see everyone again.
I like Facebook when it is pictures of family vacations, new pets, or videos of a kid's first steps (pets being my favorite). Political crap, messages about religion or any other stuff like that pretty much drives me nuts.
I think that's my age though - like someone else said, the older you get the more you want to cram into your limited time. I like my social media time to focus on the actual meaningful events or news in my friends' lives, not that people think we need more Jesus in the classroom or that Obamacare is going to allow the government to kill people.
In other aging news, my son started 5th grade today and will be 10 in a few weeks (shares a birthday with the Dreamcast). That makes me feel a bit on the old side of things much more than my 37 years.
I think I'll just stick with acquiring all of the doggies and kitties instead.
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I ran away from Cheyenne as far as I could get at the time and tried not to look back.
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I thought they had that stuff already because Conan used it as a joke for sometime