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[–] 51 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I feel like there should be a picture of Gir in between the hair dye and the Pick of Destiny.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's definitely missing Gir and the Blink-182 Self Titled album logo.

    Actually if we wanted to be pedantic, (and why else are we here?) we could argue this is too wide a spread and encompasses multiple mini-generations. For example I loved MSI and Foamy and Tenacious D, but I was already in high school when Pick of Destiny came out and likewise I hated Happy Tree Friends as I felt it was both awful and mostly for younger kids (who shouldn't have been watching it, but it beats rotten.com and some of the other early Internet stuff they missed the boat on, but I digress...) This covers a wide spread of the early and mid to late 2000s and that doesn't seem like much from an outside perspective but this was back when years felt a proper length.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    MSI... there's a name I've not heard in forever (beyond my laptop, that is). That was a fun group for a time. And Neurotically Yours I had all of.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    IF YOU’RE SO SMART, EXPLAIN THIS CLARISSA! POW!

    I do love me some MSI.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Clearly, DICKS ARE FOR YOUR FRIENDS, WISHING TO COME TO YOUR HOUSE!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Me too. This was their best album, IMO. I genuinely love half the tracks, and listen to many of them regularly.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Ooh! Ooh! Are we doing JTHM again? That means I get to post this picture one more time:

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I have that image of Foamy as a tattoo

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Oh dang. I had forgotten all about that flash cartoon. What was it called again?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Wish I could find some Bawls today.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I was just reminded of that the other day. They have a store locator.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Looks like the closest retailer is 45 minutes away from me. Not really worth a trip for, and I wouldn't trust mailing to my address (people steal packages around here.)

    But ah well, thank you anyway! Hopefully others can benefit from your link as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They're just another HFCS drink now, I don't think the bottles are even glass anymore.

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  • I partly want it for the drink, but I mostly want it for the nostalgia. I've got fond memories of sharing that drink with a high school friend that passed away. If I get ahold of a bottle, I'll be cheers-ing to him, even if it's plastic.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I'd like to guess solely on the specific images in the meme that you are exactly 31.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Mindless Self Indulgence. Good times.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Hmmm, I feel like an Mp3 player should be part of this collage.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    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"

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    I feel seen...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't been in a while, but a couple years ago, you could still find Bawls at Microcenter of all places.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Never watched donny darko, but it was referenced in a song I used to listen to :3

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Tbf given the donny darko line was next to lines about being a mental patient, and bonnie and clyde both the edgelordness and the subject matter to edge lord over were quite apparent in the song lol :3

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Watched it on our university's planetarium dome when my friend worked there. Awesome way to watch!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Don't be dissing on Foamie

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Bawls isn't using real sugar anymore fyi

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'll give you Bawls and Pixie Sticks as for wannabe edgy kids, but DDR was mostly otaku and otaku adjacent.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Fucking loved foamy the squirrel

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Oh sure, you all had Happy Tree Friends, but some of us were on next-level shit with R-slur Animal Babies

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Dance Dance Revolution - Get Ready

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Where are those belts with the fake spikes on them?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Hey you leave Bawlz out of this, I still enjoy Blue Bawlz till this very day.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There are still days that I really want a Kevorkian scarf.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    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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