I feel like there should be a picture of Gir in between the hair dye and the Pick of Destiny.
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IF YOU’RE SO SMART, EXPLAIN THIS CLARISSA! POW!
I do love me some MSI.
I'm something of a man of culture myself.

I'm having a hard time finding a good picture, but I had a whole wall of Frankenstein Girls lyrics written in silver sharpie.
Clearly, DICKS ARE FOR YOUR FRIENDS, WISHING TO COME TO YOUR HOUSE!
I think that bottom picture gets the message across juuuust fine.
Me too. This was their best album, IMO. I genuinely love half the tracks, and listen to many of them regularly.
They’ve been my favorite band for a long time, and I’ve even got a picture somewhere of me kissing Jimmy. But it is sad what has become of them, with the legations against Jimmy and all that.
As another big fan, I don't think there's a single surprising allegation against Jimmy. When people tell you, repeatedly, who they are you gotta believe them.
I get that he’s always been quite the deviant, but I didn’t think that extended to underage girls… but I guess I should’ve known since the pic I have of kissing him i was 16, and while I’m a guy, I know that Jimmy doesn’t seem to care either way.
I feel like every touring musician with a mostly youth audience at least up into the 2010s was taking advantage of their underage fans. It just wasn't as big of a deal, culturally. I graduated in 2009 and had plenty of friends and classmates dating older people, and I do think it's creepy now as an adult but the adults in our lives at the time certainly didn't seem that bothered. The fact that some artists have been crucified over relatively benign behavior while others are still revered despite their repeated flagrant abuse of minors I think speaks more to the fan bases of those musicians than anything else. MSI and Brand New fans are more the types to hold people accountable for their actions than RHCP fans, for example.
Ooh! Ooh! Are we doing JTHM again? That means I get to post this picture one more time:

That you?
Indeed, holding the pair of scissors from this column.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go tend to this wall in my basement. You know how it is.
I have that image of Foamy as a tattoo
Oh dang. I had forgotten all about that flash cartoon. What was it called again?
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Oh yeah. Neurotically Yours. Looks like they're still making videos.
Is that the cartoon squirrel? I remember the squirrel from back in the day but I can’t remember the name of the show… or the squirrel..
Wish I could find some Bawls today.
I was just reminded of that the other day. They have a store locator.
They're just another HFCS drink now, I don't think the bottles are even glass anymore.
I'd like to guess solely on the specific images in the meme that you are exactly 31.
A 31 didn't become a teenager until the late 00s
Mindless Self Indulgence. Good times.
The Shut Me Up music video was great. It was all over my high school for quite a while.
yessss, JTHM! That shit was so cool to me
Also I introduced my friend group to Donnie Darko and American History X and it gave me remarkable street cred lol All of a sudden I was "the movie guy"
It's time for you to wake up, and take me, to the baggle shop, for a baggle with cream cheese, that creamy creamy cheese, OR FACE MY SQUIRRELY RATH!
I do have squirrely wrath you know. It's one of those, hidden nature things.
I haven't been in a while, but a couple years ago, you could still find Bawls at Microcenter of all places.
Yeah they still carry it. I pick one up for nostalgia purposes every now and then if I’m there
Never watched donny darko, but it was referenced in a song I used to listen to :3
It’s a movie about a man who has the mental illness that 2000’s people thought schizophrenia was. Today, we’d call it Edgelord’s Disease.
Watched it on our university's planetarium dome when my friend worked there. Awesome way to watch!

Bawls isn't using real sugar anymore fyi
I guess you'll just have to put unsweetened bawls in your mouth then.
So they still use real bawls?
I'll give you Bawls and Pixie Sticks as for wannabe edgy kids, but DDR was mostly otaku and otaku adjacent.
Oh sure, you all had Happy Tree Friends, but some of us were on next-level shit with R-slur Animal Babies
JTHM was great; it actually mercilessly mocked the darklings who were its nominal following, unlike a lot of more pandering goth comics that mixed the gentlest digs at pretentiousness/formulaic music/ridiculous dance moves/wretched poetry with stock tropes (vampires, New Orleans, beauty-in-darkness). Vasquez was the kind of cranky bastard who could really write.
Donnie Darko was, IMHO, hugely overrated. It felt like a student filmmaker trying to do a David Lynch impression, overseasoning it with Hot Topic angst, missing, and somehow getting lucky. Given how his subsequent film, Southland Tales, fell flat, that’s probably not inaccurate.
Just a little after my teen years, but HTF and Bawls (grabbed while in the checkout line at Fry's Electronics) bring up some memories. And... is that Pixie Stix? If so, the 60s through the 90s would like a word.
Hey you leave Bawlz out of this, I still enjoy Blue Bawlz till this very day.
There are still days that I really want a Kevorkian scarf.
Excuse me, but where is the town car?
I mean, if you are going to come for me like this, it might as well be classy
i was a different person on the DDR machine. i was great. now i have morton’s neroma, and fear having to put titanium arches in the ball’s of my feet, or getting nerve scrapings to be able to walk without feeling like that exposed nerve meme. i miss the dancing though
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