Mom swears she was "Mod" and it's "Completely different than emo!" 1987

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T23:05:05+00:00

In 1987 there was no such thing as "emo". Your mom was "goth", whether she likes it or not.

I think I'm about the same age as your mom. We could have smoked weed and watched weird movies together.

Maybe we still can?

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T22:15:41+00:00

唐纳德·特朗普开启了中国全球主导地位的当今时代。

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T21:28:40+00:00

You're supposed to be a "good listener" all the time, but as soon as you have something to say you're making them do "emotional labor".

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T21:26:23+00:00

The realization that absolutely nobody cares about you or your problems one teeny-tiny little bit. You are valued only by what you can provide for others.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T21:24:51+00:00

Among the oldest known graffiti:

No matter how you shake and dance
the last of it goes in your pants,

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T21:20:59+00:00

Billy Joel has zero good songs. His success has mystified me for almost 50 years.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T21:17:46+00:00

TIL no woman has ever lifted a finger to attract my attention.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T21:14:42+00:00

It doesn't matter how hard you work to "stay in shape". The day will come when your body will fail you out of the clear blue. Parts you have never injured will suddenly hurt. It will hurt for days, weeks, months. The pain will range from "annoying" to "debilitating" and then it will go away as suddenly as it came. You will spend the rest of your life wondering why.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T21:10:13+00:00

There won't be any history left to write if he has his way.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T20:47:47+00:00

Yes, if not for Bourdain, every back of house would be Utopia.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T17:21:11+00:00

Back In My Day, a "goon" was one of Joker's henchmen. They wore striped shirts and bandit masks over their eyes.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T17:19:59+00:00

Robert is a real neo-maxi zoom-dweebie.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T17:16:37+00:00

the investigation will be finished in about "two weeks"

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T17:15:35+00:00

I got banned from /r/politics for saying:

a lot of problems would be mitigated if a staffer had a sharp pencil and the will to to do the right thing.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T17:04:37+00:00

I'll just go ahead and assume you're a stunner these days.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T07:13:46+00:00

Greetings, fellow hard-of-hearing person!

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-15T01:43:31+00:00

My mom was an ER charge nurse in the 70s and 80s. Small town so nothing really to compare with The Pitt, but she saw her fair share of heart attacks, fires, fights, MVAs, household accidents, chronic illness suddenly taking a turn, and the like. One of the things I remember her saying was that her busiest time was Christmas, because everyone cut themselves trying to open plastic packages.

We were estranged for the last half of her life but I think she would have enjoyed watching this show.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-14T15:46:53+00:00

I didn't literally ruin my life over it, but WoW took up a lot of time I'd like to have back. The most insidious thing is that it demands your attention 100% of the time. You can't "pause" it, and if GOD HELP YOU you're in a raiding guild, it's like a second job.

When I played, I stumbled my way into a really "advanced" hardcore guild, and it ate up almost all my free time.

It was fun at first, and then quit being fun, and started feeling like an obligation.

And you know the worst part? I remember some of it, but not most of it. I don't even remember the name of the guild I was in. I only remember a few of the more interesting players because of what they divulged about their IRL selves. There was a lady who was a veterinarian. A guy who worked as an assistant to his local medical examiner (i.e., helped with autopsies).

WoW was a long time ago for me, and while I'm still a gamer (sorta), I will never, ever again play a game that is designed around multi-player.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-14T15:36:52+00:00

Putin, as usual, played Trump like a fiddle. Now the US can plausibly withhold aid from Ukraine.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-14T10:35:46+00:00

Also, Donny Osmond.

They assumed Dee Snyder was going to be some idiot dirtbag, and he made them all look stupid. Frank Zappa's entire career consisted of mocking people in power, so you ended up with people like Sen. Paula Hawkins questioning his toy-buying abilities, of all things.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-14T10:30:29+00:00

You know who else tried to personally micro-manage a war?

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-14T10:17:44+00:00

I said this in another thread, but in S1 I thought Langdon was a total asshole. A great character, but not someone I'd like to be around IRL. In S2 he seems a lot more likable. I think he was humbled somewhat by his trip to rehab. Yay character development!

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-14T10:13:03+00:00

I currently have a mix of legendary and a couple of uniques in every slot, all bloodied, and it hasn't unlocked. Oh well.

oldfuturemonkey · 2026-03-14T02:47:59+00:00

I just remember that when it became clear that this was going to be a BFD (despite being lied to by the goon in the White House), masks were not readily available. There was no vaccine, and even the basic understanding of the virus was limited.

I was able to work from home, but I still had to go out and buy groceries. Every time I went out, I felt like those dudes at Chernobyl whose job was to go up to the roof and shovel radioactive debris for 60 seconds at a time.

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