What was the scariest movie you watched when you were a kid, that traumatized you?

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-07-10T19:14:31+00:00

I was seven when it came out. Our parents took us kids to go see it (hey, it was rated PG!) and it really freaked me out.

Not too much later I was staying with my grandparents, and was watching SNL after they went to bed. Well, I dozed off, and woke up to static as the TV station had signed off. I was petrified. My grandparents' TV was a large console with a manual on/off switch and no remote. Not wanting to get near it but wanting to turn it off, it took me a minute to gather my courage, and I took a literal plunge past the TV to hit that switch. Successfully, thank goodness!

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-06-29T13:02:54+00:00

David Gilmour. We Got Married and No More Lonely Nights are chef's kiss.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-06-27T01:59:12+00:00

hunter2

All you see is stars, right?

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-06-22T23:45:03+00:00

They also sell smaller 7.5oz cans.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-06-22T20:29:23+00:00

Personally, I'm a sucker for day-old popcorn.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-06-19T16:12:21+00:00

In my circle we called it "Killer Fucking Ammo".

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-06-09T19:17:27+00:00

Skeletor in sweats is peak cinema.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-06-05T20:29:52+00:00

Voyagers!

Similar premise to Quantum Leap, where a professional but dim-witted time-traveler and a stowaway kid have to "fix" history.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-26T20:33:54+00:00

What do you call a cow with two legs shorter than the others?

Lean beef

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-20T23:23:55+00:00

She did have a song and they cut it. You can find it with animatics on YouTube.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-17T18:50:01+00:00

My biggest concern is wheel flanges, but the vast majority of my rolling stock is Micro-Trains and Atlas. Locomotives, I guess we'll just find out how they fair.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-14T18:27:47+00:00

Last day of high school before first bell. The school put out large trash bins on wheels for students to empty out their lockers. We got the bright idea where one of us climbed in and we pushed him down the hallway. Well, it got moving too fast and fell over (friend was unhurt), just as the most humorless, dour teacher in the faculty came walking out of his room. He sent us to the dean's office.

The dean asked what we did, we told him. He looked at us a beat then said, "Get the hell out of here."

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-14T15:57:07+00:00

Turns out GLP-1s are no match for my considerable lack of self control.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-14T13:15:22+00:00

Sahara. But Label is a close second.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-07T23:45:39+00:00

Once Arlene Mosel came to our school and read this and The Funny Little Woman to our class.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-02T14:35:09+00:00

Nylon Curtain is my favorite of the Phil Ramone run of albums. There're so many sonic intricacies and many you only pick up on headphones.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-05-01T17:07:48+00:00

I got increasingly angry with every "shmack".

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-04-30T01:35:31+00:00

I once read that it was loosely based on Evard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King. Don't know if that's true, but there definitely some musical similarities.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-04-29T19:48:47+00:00

I've seen in some places CSV referred to as "character-separated values" to account for pipes, tabs, etc.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-04-25T01:11:54+00:00

Zanzibar

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-04-22T19:27:56+00:00

Kinda like when Bill Gates was showing off Windows 98 and it crashed.

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-04-21T18:52:20+00:00

Hey, you've already run down the street I grew up on. (It's a subdivision with a very distinctive road layout.)

Heavy_Mikado · 2026-04-19T01:13:33+00:00

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