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Alexandier
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Have you ever been stabbed in the back?
Deceived into an action you abhor?
I was. In 1988.
My first grade class was notified that a news crew from Australia was coming to record some Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtle fans to see how American kids were into the franchise.
Wow! Cool! We could show people across the world why we loved something and why we thought it was so cool!
There was a date set, at one of the kid's houses that was across the street from the school. The Australian and some local reporters showed up, interviewed some of us and shot a bunch of footage. We ran around doing fake fights, one kid( the action not shown in the video but the kid IS in the video) climbed up an apple tree in the back yard yelling 'IM THE TECHNODROME EYE!!! BZZZT YOURE DEAD BZZT YOURE DEAD!'.
We brought all our favorite toys(I brought Genghis Frog to show I was not just a casual aficionado, honestly it was a tossup between that and Usagi Yojimbo).
A couple years pass.
In third grade we get sent back the video we were a part of! Wow we cant wait!
...
We get served a fucking hit piece.
These fuckers used us for half a minute to show how feral and violent the Americans were from being inundated with TMNT media.
I cannot describe how as a nine year old I felt so dirty and used. I didn't want to make any of the points asserted by this bullshit hit piece. But my words and deeds were used to harm something I loved.
This was a core memory and taught me to never trust anyone as a goddamn nine year old.
It did not help that this third grade teacher also on another day asserted that Mario Bros was too violent and I stood up and said(in child language) I was never in my life compelled to jump on a trutle or collect coins despite playing Mario Bros nearly daily.
She kept me inside with my head down from recess the rest of the week for that.
Have you been betrayed? How have you been shaped by such an event?
Have you betrayed someone? Was it justified or does the guilt rot at your soul like the goofball who equated an ooze trap for Raphael to a sadistic torture device that has contributed to my long and storied career of sadism and nunchaku violence.
Deceived into an action you abhor?
I was. In 1988.
My first grade class was notified that a news crew from Australia was coming to record some Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtle fans to see how American kids were into the franchise.
Wow! Cool! We could show people across the world why we loved something and why we thought it was so cool!
There was a date set, at one of the kid's houses that was across the street from the school. The Australian and some local reporters showed up, interviewed some of us and shot a bunch of footage. We ran around doing fake fights, one kid( the action not shown in the video but the kid IS in the video) climbed up an apple tree in the back yard yelling 'IM THE TECHNODROME EYE!!! BZZZT YOURE DEAD BZZT YOURE DEAD!'.
We brought all our favorite toys(I brought Genghis Frog to show I was not just a casual aficionado, honestly it was a tossup between that and Usagi Yojimbo).
A couple years pass.
In third grade we get sent back the video we were a part of! Wow we cant wait!
...
We get served a fucking hit piece.
https://youtu.be/Y-Cs0rPk2aE?si=_0DOc26eeussLY68These fuckers used us for half a minute to show how feral and violent the Americans were from being inundated with TMNT media.
I cannot describe how as a nine year old I felt so dirty and used. I didn't want to make any of the points asserted by this bullshit hit piece. But my words and deeds were used to harm something I loved.
It likely will not imbed but timestamp 3:12 if the thumbnail doesn't automatically voice the line in your head form having played this 30 times.
https://youtu.be/SgOu001ZPQs?t=192
https://youtu.be/SgOu001ZPQs?t=192This was a core memory and taught me to never trust anyone as a goddamn nine year old.
It did not help that this third grade teacher also on another day asserted that Mario Bros was too violent and I stood up and said(in child language) I was never in my life compelled to jump on a trutle or collect coins despite playing Mario Bros nearly daily.
She kept me inside with my head down from recess the rest of the week for that.
Have you been betrayed? How have you been shaped by such an event?
Have you betrayed someone? Was it justified or does the guilt rot at your soul like the goofball who equated an ooze trap for Raphael to a sadistic torture device that has contributed to my long and storied career of sadism and nunchaku violence.
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Heh. What a bunch of suckers.
Did he also eat your birthday cake?
>.>
Personally, a friend I don't keep in touch with anymore never returned my book I loaned them, which is why I don't loan things anymore.
Australian 60m is a meanace.
Also a friend of mine borrowed my FFVII copy and never returned it and I am now left with a greatest hits copy with a black and white instruction manual which is clearly ground for a blood feud.
sometimes we blep at the same time and are both disgusted by what just occurred, and also at the audacity of the other one to dare to try to betray during this, the moment of my perfect betrayal
she absconded with them
will never forgive or forget
Of course, they think the only real betrayal was the part where I left and never spoke to any of them again. So it goes
Also :brofist: that situation sounds like a real bad time.
It seems my latest betrayal was being betrayed by box wine.
I loaned a very precious Fritz Lieber paperback to a friend in the Army. He took it to the field and trashed it before returning it. I usually try to keep my books as pristine as possible. It did lead to me rebuying the hardback versions for all 4 of that collection. Its one of my prized possessions. But I never loan books any more. Especially because I loaned the Fellowship of the Ring to my girlfriend's sister in college and she did the same. Funny how they both thought I was an idiot for caring about my books coming back to me falling apart.
In high school my parents made me get a job so that I could have some spending money. They then confiscated every paycheck because bills needed to be paid and they spent all of the money they made on booze.
There's more, so many more betrayals, but I think that's good for now.
Had a longtime coworker who would befriend everyone, get that promotion they wanted, and then report to the higher ups anything her manager had done wrong.
My kid once got into the mother's day chocolate she 'bought' for me.
WoW
Dear Satan.....
Lately here in MA, there have been masonry/contractor scams where guys with deep Irish accents (this is near Boston after all) would solicit people for work on their property and keep finding more and more problems that need to be fixed in order to pressure people, mostly elderly like my mom, into forking over thousands of dollars which they would take and split town
Looking back, there were some alarm bells going off, but my house is in dire need of fixing, but more importantly, I'm a fucking idiot who doesn't know shit about construction or buildings or whatever - all I know is I've let the place fall to shit and I'm deeply ashamed of the state of the house so I guess I'm just in a very vulnerable position now
Luckily, I have very intelligent and supportive brothers who are much more keen to this type of bullshit than I am. It's just that the guys were very, very pushy about how all of this needs to be addressed right away and we need a deposit right away and he doesn't want to have to send a report to the town because they may actually have the place condemned so they were just trying to look out for me and so on
All I could think about was how much of a fuck up I am and how could I let this happen to my mother's house, and now I'm just really angry and discouraged by how easily I'm pushed around and what a sucker I am
The big issue now is that they pulled a bunch of shit off the house and left a big mess in my front yard
I really, really DO NOT NEED THIS BULLSHIT RIGHT NOW!!
Scammers deserve one of the least pleasant circles of hell
Oh, you need to keep paying. If you don’t pay $X more every month, you’ll have to tell your kids how you got scammed out of $Y already. They’ll be so disappointed. Just keep paying us and they’ll never know how much trouble you’ve been.
reminded me of a time, as a kid, riding in the car with my parents. We were about 15 minutes from home, and I asked if we could change the music to something I wanted. My mom said “ok, we’ll listen to this song and then change it.”
I didn’t know at the time, but that song was Peter Frampton’s Do You Feel Like We Do.
Which has a playtime of about 14 minutes. We pulled in to the driveway at home as the song ended.
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