It's another thread about growing up. Prompted, in part, by dang's Jimbo video-clip, Benway's mention of poppers and Thorn's Tarantantrum.
What are things that you used to think were soooo kewl, that you'd rather now forget about? Did you think necking Malibu was the very heighth of sophistication, yet now raise a Mooreish eyebrow at your companions if you overhear someone ordering said liqueur at the bar? Seeing the Doors' frontman as a puppy-fatted teen reminded me of the fascination he and his band held for me in my late adolescence. I couldn't imagine anyone or anything cooler. Now, I haven't listened to a Doors album in years and find Jim and the boys a bit of a tragicomic trainwreck. So.
Over to you...
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Alcohol.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Oddly, I can't think of anything that falls into this category. Perhaps it stems from an unwillingness to admit that I could have been wrong about anything, ever, but it's also partly to do with a total shamelessness about anything I like. I mean - when I was 17 I was utterly embarrassed about ever having owned a Meat Loaf album, but when I listened to Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell again over Christmas I actually found myself laughing and enjoying it. I don't know whether it's having seen Meat Loaf in real life (not a concert, but presenting an award), and maybe 'getting' his self-spoofing style, but the record's actually quite witty and bold and certainly fucks Franz Ferdinand in the ass in terms of self-concious irony.
So, yeah. Usually there's a reason I liked something once, and it doesn't take me much to find that reason when re-visiting something, especially music. I don't think anything I've listened to has ever been considered 'cool', by anyone, ever, so it's never a case of going back to it and thinking "fuck - this isn't cool at all".
O wait - here's a thing. Books. There's definitely a lot to be genuinely ashamed of in my past reading habits. ben would probably argue that there's a lot to be ashamed of in my current reading habits, but to be honest I'm minded to chuck him on the pile of things I used to think were cool but am now ashamed of.
So - yeah. In the box of books I sent down to Scope a couple of years ago there were about nine or ten Terry Pratchett books, and three Ben Elton "novels". I'm utterly apalled at my 13 year old self for having liked these titans of excrementitious literature, though at least it has given me a solid grounding for slating them, seeing as most consumers of this tripe tend to fall back on "have you even read any of this stuff?" as their core argument. Anyway, as I say. I sent all those to Scope, so they're back in the hands of the kind of spastics that wrote them in the first place.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Martini and Lemonade. Silk Cut Ultra's. Three-somes.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Cannabis! Spent 6 years smoking the loco hash weed, but probably only about six months of that was pleasurable. The rest was just sitting there in various states of confusion and paranoia, unable to move without thinking that everybody would think I was a weirdo; unable to get up and go for a piss because I knew that I couldn't walk. Hot knives - ???. Collapsing on floors, crawling to bed, head buzzing with every regret and failure that I'd ever committed or imagined. Lungs and lips blazing from blowbacks and bongs, every day spent in a lumbering dream, trying to grasp at converstaions as they flowed passed me.
Zion Train, Eat Static, Ozric Tentacles. The same thing all the time, the same people wandering around saying the same things as you. Laughter suddenly ending in a roomful of terror. Sitting in the lounge, ears burning with embarrasment for no reason at all, and the TV pumping out fuel for the fire of awkwardness. Also - people becoming idiots. Watching in dismay as the girl that you've had a crush on becomes obssesed with saying the same word over an over again. White outs, freak outs, pass outs. Having to be friendly to dealers who you can't stand, stay for a smoke? Nice one mate, got any blues? Got any roach material? As the night wears on, you can't even remember what you said five seconds ago, spliffs fall apart, clothes are ruined. Have one when you come back from the pub and vomit.
Saying that, on a warm summer day, with an ice cold beer, there isn't much that couldn't beat a good spliff. But when you're standing on your back porch in the middle of the night, smashing your playstation with a hammer, the rose fades to a grey-green horror.
Rubbish.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
I'm right with you on The Doors. I guess they're the ultimate adolescence band really. That said, I put on their first album the other day and it is still cutting edge I tell yer. Soul Kitchen gave me a severe nostalgia hit as I used to listen to it when I lived in Paris when I was 18 and used to ride home on my little moped at 2a.m. after finishing work and I'd stop at a take-away wagon which sold roast chickens in fresh baguettes and I really thought I was... there:
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen Warm my mind near your gentle stove Turn me out and I'll wander baby Stumbling in the neon groves
Well, your fingers weave quick minarets Speak in secret alphabets I light another cigarette Learn to forget, learn to forget Learn to forget, learn to forget
I guess you kind of grow out of lyrics like that and become terribly self-conscious about it all, but they are perfection when you're first exploring the world.
Yesterday someone sent me mp3s of all The Pogues' albums and related recordings. I'm sitting here listening to songs like A Rainy Night In Soho and Thousands Are Sailing and Sally MacLennane and getting a similar effect from that. I suppose The Pogues are outside of any kewl/uncool classification though.
I guess the other thing I've completely grown out of is beer and whiskey and vodka guzzling. Even a year ago I was still getting beers every lunchtime and necking whatever we had at home in the evening. Now I only seem to have a few tins when I'm watching England getting beaten at rugby. OK, still quite often then, but nothing like I used to.
Terrifyingly, I'm off to Hamburg on Friday for a weekend of beer swilling with a couple of mates, supposedly to celebrate my fast approaching 40 years in the business of being alive. I was planning to get in some training, starting at Christmas, but I've drunk less than a 13-year-old raiding his mum's drinks cabinet while she's down the shops. I'll just tell them I'm on antibiotics and can't drink, that's always a good excuse for lightweights isn't it? No one thinks badly of you for being on antibiotics, do they. Oh bugger.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Heh. If I take a pinch of benway's post and a dab of dang's and mash them together it produces a wonderful cringey memory of an 18 year old me, two weeks after moving out of home to live with my much older boyfriend. He had gone out to work in the paint factory and I was newly unemployed. We had turned our "attic" into a UV-hideaway by painting the walls white and putting postcards from record shops and club flyers all over the ceiling, and installing our UV up there, a single mattress and loads of duvets. We ignored the fact that the water tank leaked and it was freezing as fuck and decided we had the best chill out room ever.
So on this particular day I managed to get the tape recorder up the rickety stairs, made myself a joint and switched on The Doors tape. I think it was Waiting for the Sun but I couldn't swear to it, but I remember lying down on the cold, damp, mattress, lighting that spliff and thinking how amazing it was that Jim Morrison was alive when he recorded this! It was like he was singing just to me.
Man I thought I was so cooool right at that moment!
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Iron Maiden So cool that none of my friends were into them. I used to think they were cool because they charted high with zero radio play. Because people like me, who read Kerrang, were buying them into the chart without the help of Radio 1. Power to the Metallerz!!!
When living in Italy, the bizarre and inexplicable continuing popularity of "Eye-ron Maiden" amongst spotty wop teenboys made me repent of my wrongness. Well, not 100% repentence. I think I'd stll love Fear of the Dark in the right mood.
Kerrang! Letters Page There was a time when the insultive rantings of people signing themselves "Lord War Eagle" berating other readers for liking Bon Jovi were my favourite bit of the magazine. People who spoke like this were cool, obviously!
Haven't seen a copy of it in years.
The Chart Show God, once I had a record of every number one single, carefully recorded each Sunday in my diary. I rarely liked any of the songs that charted, but I felt it was important to know what was happening in the chart. Bruno Brookes/Mark Goodier used to get so breathlessly excited when a record went straight to number one (once a rare and special event), that I felt I should be excited too.
I have been out of touch with popular music for the last four years or so.
Edit: Sorry the Mask, bu I drink Malibu, because I have a sweet tooth. As a teen, all alcohol was cool. 20/20, whiskey, wine, local scrumpy, gin, liqueur, we would drink anything in any combination.
[ 01.03.2005, 06:37: Message edited by: Vogon Poetess ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Perhaps it stems from an unwillingness to admit that I could have been wrong about anything, ever,
Awww, c'mere ya big...
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
My Italian Knitwear Hell!!!
When I was about 15/16 I was a casual. Casual was cool. Up until that point I dressed in army surplus gear and was convinced that Stiff artists were best. I was a scruffy little fucker. I don't know what happened to me. Hormones and peer pressure, I suppose. Anyway, I went for the casual thing, whole hog. I have curly hair, so a wedge was out. I used Sta-Sof-Fro Curl & Shine, which made my head smell of coconuts and gave me world-class dandruff. Yellow, jumbo Lois cords with ankle vents. Adidas Trimm Trab. Pierre Cardin snakeskin belt. Ellesse polo shirt, in peach. And a shiny burgundy Gabicci cardigan with suede pockets and little gold chains on it. Typical outfit for an ordinary school day. I'd make more of an effort if I was going out. I looked a right **** . Didn't last long. The sportswear disappeared and the Italian knitwear mutated into a grubby, bo-ho, 'Tom Waits' look. You can only stay clean for so long.
Posted by Good Fairy (Member # 479) on :
Stock Atkin & Waterman. going crazy to Divine, Bananarama, Sinnita and Maria Videl's "Body Rock" bootleg mix in the Pink Coconut on a Sunday evening in Brighton. Sunday was it's gay night, run by the club legends "Bolts"
Watching the village People in a PA there to promote, "Sex over the phone" the American answer to safe sex in the AIDS=Death hysteria.
Music so loud your ears would ring until weds.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Like Thorn I am struggling to think of anything much I have fully abandoned, I clearly had excellent taste from a young age. I mean there is stuff I dont listen to/wear/whatever very much these days, but not much that I am fully ashamed of. Maybe some of my pre-teen clothes, but that is at least partially my mothers fault, AND in the 80's so I dont think it counts.
Canabis is a definite though, I am so over canabis.
And PVC...mostly.
My god, I havent evolved AT ALL.
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
gabba, mainly. and casual sex. newcastle brown ale. casual group sex involving lesbians ive found to be highly over-rated, and yes, the disappointment was keen like condiments on chafeing. it has been discarded from my personal pantheon of things that Cannot Possibly Not Be Cool. stripey tights im over, although stripey knee-high socks i still have a vestigial- nay, of what do i speak, significant- yen for.
oh yeah, and lets not forget quentin tarantino. which reminds me, whodathunk black mask was a curly top casual. now every time i picture black mask i will be picturing a 1985 intellectual hoolie; the bass player from the farm before acid house. this cognitive dissonance is up there with the group lesbian sex disappointment, to be honest.
[ 01.03.2005, 09:08: Message edited by: discodamage ]
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
i look back on all my years with shame. the indie sad kid from school, the geek about information. but in reality honda mopeds were never cool as much as i may have wanted one. musically i look back on thousand yard stare as a huge mistake. those crippling moments of being shamed by your circle of mates, i do without that now.
er. oh and red dwarf. fuck me. what was i thinking?
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: casual group sex involving lesbians ive found to be highly over-rated,
I have to LOL at that. And quite possibly agree with you.
Other than that, my random over-rated things would be leather trousers, drucks (read that in a high pitched scouse voice please, for those of you who remember Brookie, specifically Jackie Corkhill's voice ), and somewhat controversially, being able to throw a house party. I'm still quite fond of a good house party, but the excitement at being able to invite people over to my dive to drink all my alcohol, steal each others' fags, be sick in my bedroom and then refuse to leave has waned somewhat.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Oh I got one! Big earings! Not gold-chav-bling, but those hippy dangly ones, and beaded dangly ones, and even ones that look like a fish skelleton.
Oh, which leads me onto big eyebrows. Yep, my pre-plucking eyebrows were a sight to behold.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
er bad haircuts. really bad haircuts. though i do miss my skinhead from 93-95.
i miss being able to study as well, now when ever i read anything work related i instantly think it sounds like the voice from "analyst" by arpanet.
[ 01.03.2005, 10:17: Message edited by: doc d ]
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Oh, which leads me onto big eyebrows. Yep, my pre-plucking eyebrows were a sight to behold.
<rant>I'm looking forward to the day they come back into fashion. I suppose I should be grateful I'm in such rude health that my hair grows so lusciously and so fast. But some days I get the feeling it'd be more acceptable to have a beard than to have fully functioning face furniture which keeps raindrops and other detrius from falling into my eyes. Grr. I also have long eyelashes and strangely enough women's magazines never seem to suggest that these are a sign of overly masculine hirsuteness gone wild. Grr and double Grr.</rant>
But seriously, if we all ceased to find new things kewl, take up new fashions, bands and habits with gusto and eventually reject them as sad.... wouldn't culture as we know it just grind to a halt? I see a vision of a world in beige. Like Ikea. We may be insulated against future shame, but then we may die of boredom well before getting old enough to know better....
[ 01.03.2005, 11:51: Message edited by: OJ ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: What are things that you used to think were soooo kewl, that you'd rather now forget about?
I used to really care about being cool. Now I think it's uncool to care about coolness. Enthusiasm, for whatever you damn well like, is the way to go. There's more than enough laid-back easy cynicism in life, but if you like Abba, get up and say so. If you love stripey socks with individual toes, go get em. If Marillion floats your boat...actually, there are limits.
But basically - whatever boils your spuds, go with it.
[ 01.03.2005, 12:14: Message edited by: Octavia ]
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
quote: "If you like it, do it. If you don't like it, try it, you might like it"
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
tmoposters: the people who find the following a surprising (or derisory) experience:
change
their natural development as human beings responding to their environment
and (goddess forbid) the acquisition of some personal insight into their own behaviour.
Just gotta love you guys.
As ever.
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
fuck off you twat.
Posted by Gail (Member # 21) on :
I was gonna say 'Yeah, what johnj said, but before you do, explain...'
But no, just what johnj said.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
Oh hell, it's just like you treat your lives as if they are somehow so different to the common herds - yet they aren't.
You grow and you progress and you make mistakes like everyone else, but a lot of you tmoers seem to feel the need to examine your own navels as if they are somehow different.
I don't mean to sound like a twat, but it's like - get real! Join the human race and stop acting like you really do, secretly, think that you are soooo special that even your angst has a different odour to the common mob.
Yeh?
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
ADDENDUM
......it's just like some of you on here APPEAR to treat your lives as if they are somehow so different to the common herds - yet they aren't.
.
I am aware that this board is artifact.
Posted by Good Fairy (Member # 479) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: Join the human race and stop acting like you really do, secretly, think that you are soooo special that even your angst has a different odour to the common mob.
I am absolutley sure mine has a different, maybe better odour. TMO rocks!
OOOH! That's another thing i regret, not being able to stop saying things "Rock". It's not even ironic these days, I do believe it..... *glumface*
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
Each to his own.
No-one is denying tmoers have something. Drunk or sober; cynical or optimistic, I at least keep coming back to a site where even rejection is better than exclusion....
This is a Board where everyone believes they have a role (Discuss).
Posted by Bailey (Member # 261) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: Oh hell, it's just like you treat your lives as if they are somehow so different to the common herds - yet they aren't.
You grow and you progress and you make mistakes like everyone else, but a lot of you tmoers seem to feel the need to examine your own navels as if they are somehow different.
I don't mean to sound like a twat, but it's like - get real! Join the human race and stop acting like you really do, secretly, think that you are soooo special that even your angst has a different odour to the common mob.
Yeh?
What on earth are you going on about? Who does this? Give examples!
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
quote:Originally posted by Good Fairy:
quote:qb]
I am absolutely sure mine has a different, maybe better odour. TMO rocks!
So pleased that you think that you are somehow more special than li'l ol' me. God (should s/he exist) would probably agree that s/he made some people more important or right than others.
It is important to be 'absolutely sure' that you are right that you are the 'better person!
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bailey:
quote:Yeh?
What on earth are you going on about? Who does this? Give examples! [/QB]
Are you reading the thread?
Posted by Bailey (Member # 261) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish:
quote:Originally posted by Bailey:
quote:Yeh?
What on earth are you going on about? Who does this? Give examples!
Are you reading the thread? [/QB]
Yes.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Remember, you always have options.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
Black Mask (whose identity has become a thing of either a) known fact or b) indifference - the only post you ever posted which actually hurt me was the one of Sean Connery in the thong on that 70s crap film.
Would you post it now for me so I could have it to file as a epiphanimous moment for me?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Kill yourself first, then we'll talk pictures.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
I have to tell you (and I know you won't appreciate this ) that I LIKE YOU.
Scary.
Only if I kill myself I won't get to appreciate the picture you send me, so I guess you willappreciatewhy I have to see the picture first.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
It's nice to be important but, it's more important to be nice.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
You don't have to be crazy to work here... but it helps!!! Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Please do not ask for credit as a smack in the mouth often offends.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
Now you are doing what my 'auld man' does - changing the rule of the game so I can't engage with you.
What the feck do the last 2 posts mean, you limp-willied protagonist?
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
Feck! You sneaked an extra post in there!
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Posted by Astromariner (Member # 446) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: the one of Sean Connery in the thong on that 70s crap film.
that was my desktop background for the longest time. Don't ask me why. I thought it was marvellous.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
Trouble is BM my old (and so-far clear winner) of the nasty-ness. I am a knackered 'auld' wifey who has to go to bed.
Bless my rolled-down nylon-stockings.
In the end you will always be able to take the piss out of me better than I of you...
....but as I toddle off to me auld bed, mayhaps you could still supply with me with that ghastly picture that made me cry? Of Sean Connery in a thong in that piss-poor film?
Maybe?... (soppy sob...)
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
quote:Originally posted by Astromariner:
quote:Originally posted by dervish: the one yof Sean Connery in the thong on that 70s crap film.
that was my desktop background for the longest time. Don't ask me why. I thought it was marvellous.
That's one of the reasons they thought you were me (though we share linguistic age-gendered markers)which resulted in them giving you such a hard time when you first joined.
I felt really crap about that because they were so unfair about you at first - and it was all my fault.
I clearly recall deciding not to join in and point out you were NOT me though - on the grounds the suspicious beggars would have taken it as proof you were me, after all!
What made them decide you were not was you having your pictures taken at your first meat.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
BM - Just admit you don't have the pic any more and stop pretending I am too thick to notice the pun in the pictures you DO chose to post in its place.
Have you lost your edge? Does being a parent change your perspective?
Bloody well hope so too.
Goddess help us all if we don't get 'it' after we have kids.
Which is so well off-topic, that even I know that! Anyone on this site manage lateral-thinking? [i]No? As you were then. That will make me the idiot-poster and you all the clever sods...[/i]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Chirst alive.
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
badgers. a window. bottle of chips. tits on a fish. flid with a hardon.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
she dint know how to milk iiiit.
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
I despair of you all.
But you go to bed assured that you know best. After all, was what I missed so important?
Each to his/her own and may you may feel warmed by the sense of superiority this interchange has engendered.
[ 01.03.2005, 19:45: Message edited by: dervish ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Was everyone horrible to the dreadful Astromariner when it first arrived? It's a while ago, I admit and, remember folks, I'm a Scotch soaked out-of-control alcoholic, but, as I recall, the mariner's first few posts on TMO were to defend handbag, because at the time TMO was generally ridiculing everything bag shaped. She argued her case and, if my poor pickled memory serves me correctly, received fair and reasonable responses - at least one of them from me. Clearly fascinated by the undeniable truth that everyone on this board is different to the common herds, she chose to hang around, contribute to the forum and, I'd venture, made a few friends along the way. I don't recollect anyone accusing her of being a paranoid ginwitch from the past.
I could be wrong about all of that, though.
[ 01.03.2005, 19:52: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by dervish (Member # 727) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Was everyone horrible to the dreadful Astromariner when it first arrived? It's a while ago, I admit and, remember folks, I'm a Scotch soaked out-of-control alcoholic, but, as I recall, Astromariner defended handbag when she first arrived because at the time TMO was generally ridiculing everything baggish. She argued her case and, I think, received fair and reasonable responses - at least one of them from me. Clearly fascinated by the undeniable truth that everyone on this board is different to the common herds, she chose to hang around, contribute to the forum and, I'd venture, made a few friends along the way. I don't recollect anyone accusing her of being a paranoid ginwitch from the past.
I could be wrong about all of that, though.
Oh fuck it you silly sod. It matters so much to you to prove you were right in spite of me?
Why are you calling her 'it'? Even now?
Yes, she proved she was OK by herself. She is a decent character on this board. But I watched how you paranoid sods accused her of being me. I also wondered how she would have survived otherwise.
I may be wrong, fair enough - but you lot were NOT initially fair to her.
But perhaps it is more important to prove me wrong.
Get a life.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote: I may be wrong, fair enough - but you lot were NOT initially fair to her.
Perhaps we weren't. I remember it differently but I don't want to argue about that. Believe it or not, I'm not motivated by a desire to prove you wrong, dervish - I'm simply responding to the accusations levelled by you in a previous post.
I'd say we were initially fair to you, though. I remember posting that I actually thought you were my favourite new poster when you first joined - something which came back to haunt me when you went on to litter the boards with unwanted and inaccurate analysis of its community.
Your reincarnations have all followed a similar pattern. You make relevant and worthwhile contributions to a handful of threads before wading in with your unhinged shrink routine and telling TMO what it is thinking, pointing out your perceived flaws in the people who post here and starting an argument. Understandably, people react, and you don't like it.
What I don't understand is this: if we're such a bunch of navel gazing ego-maniacs who clearly believe we're superior to every other person on the planet, why in the name of fucking fuck do you keep coming back here?
Unless of course you simply enjoy winding people up on an internet bulletin board.
[ 01.03.2005, 20:33: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Gail (Member # 21) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: ...but a lot of you tmoers seem to feel the need to examine your own navels...
lolorama
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: Get a life.
lol, this from a pointless old harridan who seemingly has nothing better to do with her time than post condescending bullshit, which on the few occasions when it makes much sense generally manages to miss the point by so wide a margin as to be in a different timezone.
I think Jonesy has hit the nail on the head, considering that you clearly view TMO in much the same way as a child looking at a colony of insects, always maintaining a slight feeling of superiority while consistently failing to have any real understanding of those you watch, why in the hell do you keep coming back?
You condemned this thread as being no more than navel gazing, you claim that we see ourselves as unique and different, when as far as I can see most of this thread (until you stuck your oar in) consisted of people happily admitting that to a large extent we've all changed in very similar ways, and simply being mildly nostalgic about their respective childhoods, it wasn't just about anlysing who we are now, but about considering how our, and possibly society's, tastes and attitudes have changed over the years. To condemn it as simple navel gazing misses the point and is frankly pretty stupid.
[ 01.03.2005, 20:31: Message edited by: Physic ]
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
oh for fucks sake. FISH GIVE IT A REST.
there i said it first. i must be right.
Posted by Astromariner (Member # 446) on :
This is all very confusing! Dervish, I think you've got me mixed up with someone else - my recollections of my TMO initiation are pretty similar to Jonesy's. Although wouldn't it be excellent if it turned out I didn't actually exist anywhere except in your head, like that film with John Cusack in.
Posted by The Truth (Member # 755) on :
quote:Originally posted by Astromariner: This is all very confusing! Dervish, I think you've got me mixed up with someone else - my recollections of my TMO initiation are pretty similar to Jonesy's. Although wouldn't it be excellent if it turned out I didn't actually exist anywhere except in your head, like that film with John Cusack in.
You really need to watch Con Air again, as that's not how i remember it at all.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: (goddess forbid)
This actually made my toes curl so hard I think they're crippled.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
O Astro, I'll be very disappointed if you turn out to be just a figment of dervish's imagination Posted by Bamba (Member # 330) on :
quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: O Astro, I'll be very disappointed if you turn out to be just a figment of dervish's imagination
I'd actually be more impressed with the strength of dervish's imagination in that case. It would mean she'd managed to conjure up an Astro, a husband, a flat, some cats and a shitty computer that needed fixing and all through sheer willpower alone which is some impressive shit.
[ 02.03.2005, 05:53: Message edited by: Bamba ]
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
shit - what if we're all just figments of dervish's imagination? Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
If we're in there, we're fucked. Simple as that.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Fuck. How will we know? What can we do? You gotta save us Jonesy! Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Or, you know, if we're all doomed do you fancy popping round to my place for a bit of jiggy-jiggy? I only live up the road... Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Attention!
Everybody wax up.
[ 02.03.2005, 15:03: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
I don't understand how this kind of thread can be condemned as "navel gazing" and presented as evidence that the contributors think they're superior.
For a start, without a group of people sharing experiences and stories you'd have a funny kind of discussion board. I'm not sure what would be left if people couldn't bring their own lives, histories and identities into what they post.
Secondly, most stories on TMO -- including those on this thread -- are self-deprecating and self-mocking, inviting others to recognise similar stupid moments they've been through. You don't have to look hard to find exactly that on here: it's there in Uber's first comment, and it even sparks the whole discussion off as Black Mask's opener is indebted to three other people.
As usual, Dervish's contributions seem to have been clumsily web-translated from some addled alien tongue; they could almost be spliced in from a totally different thread. But even if someone I could respect had made those initial comments, they wouldn't ring true.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: Or, you know, if we're all doomed do you fancy popping round to my place for a bit of jiggy-jiggy? I only live up the road...
I just can't do a jiggy in Housewife's head. That would be the rongest thing ever! Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: What are things that you used to think were soooo kewl, that you'd rather now forget about?
Me and the lads in the sunday league team I used to play in were well into spitroasting back in the day. We would pick up three or four of the teenage girls hanging round the park after a big game and take them to the function room of the Turk's Head which was usually vacant of a mid-afternoon, especially in winter.
We'd give them a right good going-through - it was pretty good fun, but looking back on it now it all seems a bit tacky, if I'm being honest about it. Posted by scrawny (Member # 113) on :
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Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: I just can't do a jiggy in Housewife's head. That would be the rongest thing ever!
Oh well, it was worth a shot :mehface:
Posted by Jessica Rabbit (Member # 776) on :
I'm not quite sure i understand the bulk of this thread, so I'm going to plough on with the original question.
Stuff I used to think was cool and now wince with embarrassment over include Five Star, Bros, A-Ha, The Reynolds Girls remember I'd rather Jack?, and Mel N Kim. I don't know if it counts as naval gazing to say that I think those things are shit and that I'm glad my tastes have matured, somewhat. I think that's true of most people, so I'm not saying I'm better than everyone else.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jessica Rabbit: Bros,
You should check out Blade II: that's got two lovely sequences of Luke Goss having the shit kicked out of him by Wesley Snipes. More boy band members should be assigned roles in films that involve Wesley Snipes beating the shit out of them.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Oh well done disco, I have an important meeting this afternoon, with important people, now Im going to have to do the whole thing with flid with a hardon....flid with a hardon....flid with a hardon.... running round my head.
[ 02.03.2005, 06:56: Message edited by: Abby ]
Posted by Good Fairy (Member # 479) on :
quote:Originally posted by dervish: Sean Connery in the thong on that 70s crap film.
ZARDOZ That is probably the best porn film I own.
Posted by Honey (Member # 182) on :
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Jessica Rabbit: Bros, -------------------------------------------------OOOOOOOOOOOH yehhhhhh, Bros, I'd forgotten all about them!!!!!!!! My selective memory must have wiped them out years ago!!!And t think that I seriously consideref joining their fanclub, and was pretty upset when dad refused to cough up the dosh for the membership fees, oh dear or dear... Anyways, we cringe thinking about bros and the likes now, but what will cringe about later on in life?
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
That post for one.
Gosh I feel like blackmask junior of late.
[ 02.03.2005, 16:32: Message edited by: jnhoj ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jessica Rabbit: Mel N Kim
Ha! You just reminded me of an old hardcore make-girls-cry-joke from the school playground.
Q. Whats black and lonely?
A. Kim.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You ain't never gonna be respectabLOL. Posted by Jessica Rabbit (Member # 776) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Q. Whats black and lonely?
A. Kim.
Oh my. You were naughty as a kid.
For a moment though, this joke was lost on me because I couldn't remember which one was dead and I got myself all tied up thinking about whether you'd chosen the wrong one.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
JR, I want you to take me on a camping holiday. I want you to do your doubled over pantie dance in a one man tent.
Then I'd like you to lie down and let me perform cunnilingus while you do a good impression of Mel.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay:
Then I'd like you to lie down and let me perform cunnilingus while you do a good impression of Mel.
With your WHOLE face?
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