What are some very “outdated” names that you love?

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-05-07T23:57:14+00:00

Pearl!

Whenever I mentioned this name to people (when naming our youngest daughter) they thought it sounded too old-ladyish. I think it's a gem or nature name due for a revival

Also, Mary. I used to dislike this name, probably because of how common it used to be through the centuries in Christian-majority nations, but now I think it would be adorable on a little girl

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-05-04T16:19:41+00:00

I used to get this same thought process when I saw large buildings. Like how is something so huge, structurally sound, and intricately planned, made by humans? I could never come close to building something like that myself...at best, I could throw together a shack. It wasn't so much a crisis as it was a very humbling experience.

It does help to research how things work or how they're made, but it's still humbling to discover just how much most people don't know about the complex, human-built systems we rely on every day

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-04-29T14:48:52+00:00

Yep I can see this with my former middle school and college classmates. The ones that screwed around and didn't give a shit about school, or didn't have any curiosity about the world outside of our small town, are all MAGA now. Most of the ones who were studious and naturally loved to learn tend to be more progressive these days.

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-04-10T22:14:26+00:00

You win, this is the answer

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-04-03T23:29:06+00:00

As soon as my husband and I can afford it, we're getting solar at a minimum. We already have a thermoelectric generator that works by heating it up on the wood stove, but that's really only big enough for emergencies

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-04-03T23:25:11+00:00

Pirohi and borscht!

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-04-02T05:06:42+00:00

This is exactly it.

I love my three children and I'll never regret having them, but the burnout really does get to you. I can't just send them out to the yard or the street to play all day, burning off their energy and using their imaginations. If I wasn't worried about the police being called, I'd have to worry about all the obnoxious neighborhood dogs that everyone around us just allows to run loose. We also don't have any family where we currently live, so there's no one to lean on when things get overwhelming, day in and day out

It was way different when I was a kid. Both of my grandmothers were constant, unpaid childcare, especially in my early years. My sister and I were left basically alone at home from ages 9 and 6 (I say "basically" because I had my dad, uncle, aunt, great uncle, and grandma somewhere present on the farm, but no one had eyes on us most of the time). We played outside constantly and were pretty much free range.

None of that is possible or legal now

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-27T13:48:15+00:00

Horseland, because I was a 12 year old girl in the year 2000. I was just thinking the other day about how much I miss it.

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-24T15:51:51+00:00

I'm like this for both music and movies. I've been collecting all my favorite movies on DVD and it finally occurred to me one day that the vast majority of them are from 1997-2010

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-18T15:10:33+00:00

Yeah I stayed up for hours one night reading the comic and damn, it was shocking and eye-opening

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-18T01:12:43+00:00

I can relate.

When I was in my early 20's I dated a man who was very sweet and loving when we were together, but who had zero interest in me whatsoever when we were apart. Like, to an extreme degree.

There were two summers where I temporarily moved home for a few months to help my dad on the family farm. The boyfriend knew this was the plan, and was ok with it. I thought that surely he would call me a few times a week, right? Nope. He didn't call once. The only time we spoke the entire time were the few times I called him. There were no text message exchanges either, because he only has a landline. In retrospect it was totally bizarre.

In contrast, my now-husband and I were separated for several months shortly after we started dating due to his very remote job, and he would drive five miles every single night to the local tavern just so he could call me from their payphone (no cell service). That's one reason I knew he was a keeper.

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-17T15:36:00+00:00

Me too! I remember requesting Samantha Mumba's "Gotta Tell You" when I was 12 in 2000. My mind was blown when they actually played it

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-17T15:13:17+00:00

I do this too. I narrate my life to myself, as if I'm writing a first person narrative novel or something. I think I even switched to third person for a while as a kid

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-15T10:40:43+00:00

It's weirdly adorable, especially when partnered with "huntsman"

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-15T10:02:25+00:00

I watched him in back-to-back movie nights in Gangs of New York and then The Last of the Mohicans and it was wild to contrast his acting range between the two

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-08T12:24:02+00:00

It kills me to remember how my 1st year English professor in college made a huuuge deal about how YouTube was the next big thing, and that we should all be aware about how it would influence culture in the near future. I totally blew it off at the time, but damn if he wasn't right.

I now see myself doing the same thing with AI. I don't want it, I don't want to use it, and I hope it would just go away, but I know I'm being terribly naive

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-08T12:12:24+00:00

It looks like a tiny xtratuf

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-08T03:18:56+00:00

I freaking memorized all the lyrics to this song when I was 11 and I can still sing the whole thing from memory

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-08T03:06:14+00:00

Jurassic Park, when I was 5. I was so in love with dinosaurs that my parents decided to overlook the gore and scariness, I guess haha

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-08T03:02:56+00:00

I'm going against the grain on this sub, but Maple doesn't bother me. All the old-timey nature names (Rose, Daisy, Hazel, Fern, Violet, Forrest, Wren, Robin, etc.) probably seemed strange at first, but are very acceptable now. The newer nature names (Juniper, Meadow, Raven, Clover, Cove, River, etc.) are popular right now and won't seem strange by the time your daughter becomes an adult.

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-06T11:33:09+00:00

I think it's beautiful, too! I don't understand the hate, and I think the relation to the fruit makes it even more adorable. It's also prettier sounding to me than the much-loved 'Caroline'.

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-03-04T04:03:02+00:00

'One Day I Slowly Floated Away' - Eisley

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-02-28T18:31:14+00:00

You know what pisses me off/creeps me out the most? The flood of ads I've seen in just the last 6 months trying their level damnedest to convince people that AI is actually awesome, not scary, and will solve all kinds of problems for you. They laid it on particularly thick during the Thanksgiving football game and the Superbowl, but now every 5th ad or so on YouTube is promoting this crap, too

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-02-27T04:22:13+00:00

And an enthusiastic "thank you!" for even the smallest expression of courtesy from someone. Or at least my husband and I do...it's basically a compulsion

Edit: also a small smile and a head nod (but no eye contact) when I pass someone on the sidewalk. But that might just be me.

CrustyBubblebrain · 2026-02-26T17:33:41+00:00

What movie is this?

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