On 12/16/2020 at 11:36 PM, zkom said:

TBH, 90s was a pretty good time to be young. No social media, lots of freedom, good music. Cold war had just ended and 9/11 and war on terror were still in the future.

I can remember thinking at some point back in the '90s, that the '90s are so bland. there's nothing remarkable about this decade, as opposed to the '60s, '70s, '80s, which all have clear mental associations and pop culture references attached with each. I was also a wallowing teenager back then, not at all realizing that we were soon going to be entering the blandest series of years of them all - the 2000's. the rise of internet culture essentially made the past 20 years all blend into one big globalized and unremarkable clump...mentally I can't really set apart stuff from 2008 to 2018. the fashion trends, popular music, etc. are all just so similar.

so yeah, compared to 2000 - 2020, the '90s were a great time to be young.

  On 12/17/2020 at 4:53 PM, zero said:

I can remember thinking at some point back in the '90s, that the '90s are so bland. there's nothing remarkable about this decade, as opposed to the '60s, '70s, '80s, which all have clear mental associations and pop culture references attached with each. I was also a wallowing teenager back then, not at all realizing that we were soon going to be entering the blandest series of years of them all - the 2000's. the rise of internet culture essentially made the past 20 years all blend into one big globalized and unremarkable clump...mentally I can't really set apart stuff from 2008 to 2018. the fashion trends, popular music, etc. are all just so similar.

so yeah, compared to 2000 - 2020, the '90s were a great time to be young.

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Also things like personal freedom for youngsters, like it was in the 90s, is pretty much gone now. I can't even imagine what's it like to be a teenager now. Your parents can contact you 24/7 by cellphones, monitor your internet usage and check the social media for your friends and contacts. Back in the 90s I could be gone for days being somewhere in an "off the grid" cabin with my friends and because there was no landline we were basically unreachable. Sometimes I would just leave a note in the kitchen that I'm gone for the day or night if I was expecting to be coming back in 24h.

but...

  On 12/17/2020 at 8:51 PM, zkom said:

Also things like personal freedom for youngsters, like it was in the 90s, is pretty much gone now. I can't even imagine what's it like to be a teenager now. Your parents can contact you 24/7 by cellphones, monitor your internet usage and check the social media for your friends and contacts. Back in the 90s I could be gone for days being somewhere in an "off the grid" cabin with my friends and because there was no landline we were basically unreachable. Sometimes I would just leave a note in the kitchen that I'm gone for the day or night if I was expecting to be coming back in 24h.

for real man i was born feb '01 and i hate it

I AM BEER

  On 12/19/2020 at 6:20 PM, dcom said:

I AM BEER

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My first name is Nuutti, it's rather rare so it's weird to see a beer with my name on it. I don't drink beer, though.

 

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It's a pretty decent beer. I've had it a couple of times. Rest of the Hiisi Brewery beers also have names based on the more obscure beings, things and concepts in Finnish mythology and traditions, like Iku-Turso, Kipinätär and Itse. I guess in this case "Nuutti" is a reference to Nuuttipukki or Nuutinpäivä and not really the first name.

  On 12/19/2020 at 6:55 PM, zkom said:

I guess in this case "Nuutti" is a reference to Nuuttipukki or Nuutinpäivä and not really the first name.

After 46-odd years of living with the name I'm rather well versed in the meaning and traditional practices in regards to it (there ïs almost four pages on the subject in Kustaa Vilkunan Vuotuinen Ajantieto) - just to give the non-Finns some perspective on the subject, there is an old Finnish proverb "good Tuomas (Thomas) brings Christmas, evil Nuutti takes it away"; this is based on Finnish namedays, where Christmastime starts on December 21st (Tuomas' nameday) and ends on January 13th (Nuutti's nameday); see St. Knut's Day for details - I rather like the idea of being a Finnish Krampus.

Anyway, I was trying to be humorous (see also I AM GROOT), this is your pointless thoughts and observations - not teach WATMM about weird Finnish traditions and customs.

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Ah fuck, don't know what happened. Elves at work?

  On 12/19/2020 at 7:18 PM, dcom said:

Anyway, I was trying to be humorous (see also I AM GROOT), this is your pointless thoughts and observations - not teach WATMM about weird Finnish traditions and customs.

I just get easily tempted to go on about this stuff now that I've been reading on Finnish necromantic practices, spirits of the graveyards, and other weird stuff lately while in isolation. So I end up talking about them so much that my friends and family are starting to get weirded out. And I add fuel to the fire by joking that I see "invisible little people" that tell me things. All in good fun until I get sent to a psychiatrist and I need to try to explain myself out of this situation. Hopefully the medication is at least nice.

  On 12/19/2020 at 6:20 PM, dcom said:

I AM BEER

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My first name is Nuutti, it's rather rare so it's weird to see a beer with my name on it. I don't drink beer, though.

 

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I took one of those political spectrum tests for the first time in a while. Got pretty deep in the leftist authoritarian quadrant (moreso on the authoritarianism than the leftism), but also far to the "conservative" end of their progressive/conservative meter. I dunno what that means

  On 12/18/2020 at 6:10 AM, ignatius said:

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 couldn't stop laughing watching that.

and that's not a joke huh? hard to believe someone could seriously think that premise would be taken seriously.

turns out "Mark Fell" isn't actually the dude's name, it's a response to Alexisonfire intended to show that everyone's goin thru some shit rn

The worst news I received this year was that the Bulgrarian people are not actually related to the Volga Bugars.  Completely ruined Slavic history for me.

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the wife was pestering me the other day while we were driving somewhere -"your nose hairs are sooo long. you look like some sort of animal." my reply was that everywhere I go in public I'm wearing a mask, so no one else can see this. her reply was "well..." and then the discussion ended.

it's the small victories that count, gents. small victories.

ever since the masks became mandatory i pretty much just brush my teeth if someone's likely to be getting a good look at my mouth that day

If I'm happy then why are all those literal death wish memes so fucking funny to me?

Sexes:

chan, thaan, zhen and shen

  On 12/28/2020 at 3:36 PM, zero said:

the wife was pestering me the other day while we were driving somewhere -"your nose hairs are sooo long. you look like some sort of animal." my reply was that everywhere I go in public I'm wearing a mask, so no one else can see this. her reply was "well..." and then the discussion ended.

it's the small victories that count, gents. small victories.

i find that im trimming my nose hairs like once every 2 weeks.

is this normal

  On 12/29/2020 at 4:22 PM, mister miller said:

is this normal

mine never get quite long enough (so far) for easy trimming. but they do get long enough that i'm tempted to pluck them, which would be extremely painful

unrelated: having an inner child is one of those things that feels less like a metaphor the older i get. my emotional core never seems to change from how i remember it being when i was 2 years old. if anything, it seems even more naive by comparison, as the rest of my being continuously becomes more complex in nature. the older i get the more it feels like part of my consciousness is literally a small child, and the rest of my consciousness is his dad who needs to tell him when to go inside, when he can play, when he should do his homework etc

  On 12/29/2020 at 4:22 PM, mister miller said:

i find that im trimming my nose hairs like once every 2 weeks.

is this normal

I'm sure there is a scientific study out there somewhere correlating mask wearing and the growth rate of nose hairs, which would confirm the hairs are growing faster than ever thanks to the masks

covid is just a conspiracy by Big Nostril to sell more nose hair trimmers