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The Lounge => General => Topic started by: Rainberry on 2020-04-14 21:08:14

Title: Nostalgia Topic!
Post by: Rainberry on 2020-04-14 21:08:14: If you have a sudden moment of nostalgia and wish to share it with others, feel free to do so!
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Post by: Rainberry on 2020-04-14 21:08:43: Okay, so I was stumbling around and was all of a sudden remembered of this. WHO REMEMBERS this theme song? So much nostalgia! 'Wishbone' the dog was a tv series and a direct to video series.
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Post by: Blurr on 2020-04-14 21:57:38: HOLY CRAP! WISHBONE! I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THAT!!!!!
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Post by: timmelon on 2020-04-14 22:42:58: I think this tune sounds great even now:
And back then, for me it was the best way to say «Congratulations! You got your own PC!».
When XP was common, everybody had their own computers already, so XP's startup sound doesn't had this effect of awesomeness.

And of course, some people can feel nostalgia for dial-up sound, but for me it was a thing which I tried to forget ASAP.
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Post by: Wolfwood on 2020-04-14 22:59:19: I totally forgot about Wishbone, Raine! What a stellar memory. That song is pretty catchy still. The 80s and 90s had many catchy jingles and songs. Today our music isn't either.

Since we are that computer kick, I remember a long long time ago playing this as a kid.

I haven't thought about this until just now. I had to have been like a tiny tot. 'The Living Books' games also did games for Arthurt and there Bear-instein bears (spelling).
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Post by: LovesSneezingApparently on 2020-04-15 08:39:28: @timmelon Oh my gosh, did you ever have this screensaver? :D
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Post by: timmelon on 2020-04-15 09:32:27: ^I didn't found a fun in them. 3D objects, 3D maze, 3D pipes — they bored me before I became a computer owner.
My favorite screensaver (for almost 20 years, i.e. always) is the monitor sleep ;D.

As for sounds — these epic chords (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bFCe6FbbZ0&t=68) return me to times, when «you need to cut down trees to harvest wood» was a pinnacle of realism. ;D
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Post by: Silverwing on 2020-04-15 16:33:51: I had this screensaver back on my old old Mac. The classic flying toasters... This had to have been the early 90s?
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Post by: Blurr on 2020-04-15 17:27:28: If we're throwing up nostalgic screensavers, allow me to throw this classic into the pot.
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Post by: Kiwi on 2020-04-15 17:44:56: Wishbone, the screensavers, story time computer books! I remember this all.
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Post by: LocoLover3 on 2020-04-27 09:36:47: I know that screensaver! I used to just sit and stare at it.
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Post by: Tüsszent on 2020-04-27 13:58:17: I remember on my iMac (the colorful ones) there was a screensaver of a fish aquarium that was ultra realistic.
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Post by: timmelon on 2020-04-27 21:21:32: Quote from: Tüsszent on 2020-04-27 13:58:17
my iMac (the colorful ones)
Uhm... Like this one?
(https://www.pngitem.com/pimgs/m/157-1579099_imac-g3-steve-jobs-hd-png-download.png) (https://www.pngitem.com/pimgs/m/157-1579099_imac-g3-steve-jobs-hd-png-download.png)

I always liked its look: weird, bulky, but attractive.
Today it's very easy to forget that some times ago Apple was not strongly associated only with iPods and iPhones.
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Post by: FoxTail on 2020-07-13 22:03:19: ^ I REMEMBER THOSE Computers! They were so pretty in all the colors they came in. Now Apple's are all white and silvery! All sleek and void of emotion, lol.
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Post by: Rainberry on 2020-08-31 23:43:12: Oh my gosh.... REMEMBER FRUIT ROLL UPS and FRUIT BY THE FOOT? Do they even still make those? I remember some fruit rolls had shapes and designs you could punch out and eat too. Fruit by the Foot was an actual foot long and came in many flavors and colors and the wrapper had jokes or trivia the entire length! Anyone else remember those?
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Post by: Blurr on 2020-08-31 23:44:03: Quote from: Rainberry on 2020-08-31 23:43:12
Oh my gosh.... REMEMBER FRUIT ROLL UPS and FRUIT BY THE FOOT? Do they even still make those? I remember some fruit rolls had shapes and designs you could punch out and eat too. Fruit by the Foot was an actual foot long and came in many flavors and colors and the wrapper had jokes or trivia the entire length! Anyone else remember those?

Yes they still make both of them. I actually just finished off a box the other day. I buy them for lunch snacks. XD
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Post by: RainySunshine on 2020-09-01 17:59:15: I do remember them! I'm gonna have to look for Fruit By the Foot. Are they still actually a foot long?
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Post by: Blurr on 2020-09-01 18:26:19: More like 3 feet
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Post by: Silverwing on 2020-09-01 18:33:05: I haven't thought of those fruit snacks since... wow.... maybe elementary school? Wow.
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Post by: Silverwing on 2020-09-14 15:17:10: WOW. I was just reminded of this product from when I was growing up. Looking at it, it is so nineties and such a dumb idea! I never owned one but I remember even as a kid wondering why anyone would get one?

HitClips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitClips)

It was a device that you bought music for via cartridges. It had all the "top" pop songs of the 90s and early 2000s. But here's the extra dumb part, it only played a minute "the chorus" of the songs. It played the "cool stuff" and got rid of the stuff you didn't have time for. It was supposed to be cool. Maybe this ad will rejig your memory of them too.

And here is an example of a cartridge being played on the HitClip Mini Boombox.
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Post by: Blurr on 2020-09-15 16:14:09: The odd thing is I do remember these commercials. I just don’t know out of everything my brain remembers, why this?
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Post by: Silverwing on 2020-09-15 18:30:13: ! lol! ^ Same with me! The only reason I brought it up because I was just working and for some reason my brain remembered these. Out of the blue. It took me awhile to find out what the name was. But it was so random. I never even used them or cared.
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Post by: Anyponedrawn on 2020-09-15 18:30:59: That is so random, Silverwing. I remember these, but I don't know anyone who owned one. I never owned one and thought they were worthless. Why not just buy a CD with the songs you liked on it back then? What is a 1 minute clip gonna do?
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Post by: Blurr on 2020-09-15 19:32:33: While we're on the subject of nostalgic boy bands, let me throw another old commercial at you for this one called "Dream Street". I don't know if anyone else remembers this one but I swear to god, every time I turned on Cartoon Network back in the late 90's to 2000, this commercial came on ALL THE TIME.

Sadly though....the reason I went looking for it was because I heard some sad news. One of the members of that old boy band died earlier this year from COVID. The remaining four all got together online to sing a small tribute to him with their best known song.
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Post by: Wolfwood on 2020-09-15 21:44:01: I gosh... I remember that ad. OH GOSH.

AND I REMEMBER HITCLIPS. OH GOSH.

Those cassettes are pretty spendy. Also seeing that ad, I could have sworn they were much older than that when I was a kid.
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Post by: FoxTail on 2021-10-20 21:34:50: Nostalgia for the green-PSF layout anyone? ;D Anyone happen to have any random images of it?
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Post by: Soda on 2021-10-20 23:31:42: Quote from: FoxTail on 2021-10-20 21:34:50
Nostalgia for the green-PSF layout anyone? ;D Anyone happen to have any random images of it?

I'm feeling that. ;D
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Post by: Blurr on 2021-10-26 16:57:55: haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ha ha ha
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Post by: MasterXtreme on 2021-10-26 16:58:57: This one hits hard. ;D
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Post by: RainySunshine on 2021-11-10 16:26:00: So when will people start feeling nostalgic for the 2000s or 2010s?
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Post by: Graymist on 2022-05-07 20:37:41: Quote from: RainySunshine on 2021-11-10 16:26:00
So when will people start feeling nostalgic for the 2000s or 2010s?

Already have. Been nostalgic for music from the early 2000s as well as video games.
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Post by: Wolfwood on 2023-01-22 22:58:48: Gosh, I miss it when literally every ad had such catchy songs. That Radio Shack song is a real hit. It hits ALL the right notes to be catchy. This stuff wasn't THAT long ago, but it's getting further and further each day. It was such a simpler and dare I say, better time.

Radio Shack

Kmart
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Post by: Sniffles on 2023-01-23 16:32:55: ^ Those songs are too catchy for their own good.

Oh my gosh, WISHBONE! I never really watched it, but I remember the theme song. Reminds me of things like Clifford, Kipper, or those Beethoven the dog movies.
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Post by: TheBeesSneeze on 2023-02-06 23:15:10: Those are way better then they have any right to be.
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Post by: Silverwing on 2023-02-09 23:30:59: I'm rocking out to a Kmart ad from before I was born... lol.
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Post by: MasterXtreme on 2023-02-16 00:00:21: Remember party stores like Party City? Well soon you will be only remembering them. Party City just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It might not be long. Those aisles full of costumes, various colored balloons and party supplies, Silly plastic toys, all that might be disappearing. So go get some nostalgia at them before they are gone for good.
Title: Re: Nostalgia Topic!
Post by: flemishcap on 2023-02-16 14:52:34: Quote from: MasterXtreme on 2023-02-16 00:00:21
Remember party stores like Party City? Well soon you will be only remembering them. Party City just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It might not be long. Those aisles full of costumes, various colored balloons and party supplies, Silly plastic toys, all that might be disappearing. So go get some nostalgia at them before they are gone for good.

I liked it when the color coordinated certain sections of the stores with colored items of said color.
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Post by: Anyponedrawn on 2023-02-17 00:10:43: I remember the massive bulk candy section too, mostly all the candy's you'd never wanna buy. ;D Hard candies and gummy stuff. lol. Gimme the chocolate!

If their restricting works out, they can still exist as a company, but I feel they would need to cut a massive footprint with so many stores. Cut many, and downsize the stores themselves.
Title: It's a Party In Here
Post by: Wolfwood on 2023-02-17 21:33:40: I don't get why people would buy stuff from those stores when all these party supplies could be bought at the dollar store for literally a dollar. Plus Walmart and Target have party supplies cheaper. Party City never made sense to me.
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Post by: Soda on 2026-05-30 00:29:52: Nostalgia me!
Title: The Duchess of The Bronies
Post by: NostradamusTheSeer on 2026-05-30 02:18:16: So I was chatting with Google Gemini (after I just made one of my famous Saturday morning cartoon
blog (https://www.deviantart.com/haggismccrablice/art/The-Stuff-of-Heroes-1309235659) posts (https://www.deviantart.com/haggismccrablice/art/The-Smoking-Cat-Productions-offices-2-1265716000), and the subject of Paulina Gillis (http://Paulina Gillis), a.k.a. Tabitha St. Germain, came up. Whenever a nostalgia nut like myself speaks of most any cartoon of the eighties and ninteties, chances are she, Tara Charendoff (later Strong) or Alyson Court played a part in it--The Three Divas of Canadian animation, I've dubbed them.

Note whenever Rarity gets overtired or really upset, her posh accent slips a touch and she whines just like Kootie Pie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wK6-jYyCu4) or ALF's baby sister (https://youtu.be/cyX8BfZ25Xc?t=389). The poor dear's development is more arrested than [here the author of this post makes a rather ethnically-insensitive comment that might have been fine back in 1994 but most certainly is not acceptable in 2026; he is sent to a sensitivity camp=slash-reeducation center for six months, whereupon he returns to finish this post]

Quote from: Graymist on 2022-05-07 20:37:41
So when will people start feeling nostalgic for the 2000s or 2010s?
Ugh, it'll take a while for me. Not the most stellar time for me, what with a mountain of rejection letters from publishers, a string of lousy jobs, failed relationships, high (for the day--1.50/gal) gas prices, and the ascension/election of Barack Obama. And let me tell you something else, me buckos-- [here the author of this post is whisked away and returned to the reeducation center to learn more sensitivity skills]
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Post by: Rainberry on 2026-05-30 16:06:27: Better yet, what will people of the 2020s even be nostalgic for? Pandemics and Skibbity toilet? Yikes.
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Post by: FoxTail on 2026-05-30 17:38:04: Quote from: Soda on 2026-05-30 00:29:52
Nostalgia me!

The smell of a can of Play Doh or the scent of Elmer's glue from arts and crafts!
Title: No, not "Highway to Hell"--the other one
Post by: NostradamusTheSeer on 2026-05-30 20:26:17: Quote from: Rainberry on 2026-05-30 16:06:27
Better yet, what will people of the 2020s even be nostalgic for?
Well, I'm hoping Donald Trump will be hailed as the Teddy Roosevelt of our generation, or at least a Calvin Coolidge (though decidedly lacking his famous taciturness). But, yeah: Covid-19, C.H.O.P. zones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest), cancel culture, men playing women's sports, the 2004 election seeing that dried-up old turd Biden supplanted by Kamala (https://www.amazon.com/107-Days-Kamala-Harris/dp/1668211653) the 100-day queen (https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=5f6e2b14e736ad95&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&sxsrf=ANbL-n4IsruwSZ6NrW4vvPFvbzQ3WLi3gQ%3A1780197705928&q=lady+jane+grey&oq=lady+jane+grey&aqs=heirloom-srp..0l5), Charlie Kirk's assassination--the first quarter of the twenty-first century reads like a Billy Joel song in Hell.

Hey, speaking of nostalgia, remember the days before YouTube, when you were too broke to afford to buy an artist's whole album, so you had to pop a blank cassette tape into your deck and wait, finger pressed on the record button 'til it trembled and the nail went white, for songs like this to play on the stereo so's you could record it? :-[ f--- me, I'm so goddamn old.... :nervoussmile:
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Post by: MasterXtreme on 2026-05-31 00:09:13: Quote from: FoxTail on 2026-05-30 17:38:04
Quote from: Soda on 2026-05-30 00:29:52
Nostalgia me!

The smell of a can of Play Doh or the scent of Elmer's glue from arts and crafts!

Now that's a thought. One of those rare ones where nostalgia is gleamed from your sense of smell!
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Post by: timmelon on 2026-05-31 01:06:47: Quote from: MasterXtreme on 2026-05-31 00:09:13
One of those rare ones where nostalgia is gleamed from your sense of smell!
Oh, the smell of PVA-based glues is indeed one of the memories from the school years ;D.
However, I can say my sense of smell now is more dull than back then — I definitely remember how winter and spring were more fresh for me than today, and summer was more... flowery. Funny coincidence, but it started to change when I started making the day-long bicycle hikes. Luckily, the same food tastes roughly the same as before, and the grass is still green — at least, before it gets burned by the sun ;D.
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Post by: Anyponedrawn on 2026-05-31 17:52:04: To me a lot of the foods I liked as a kid were too sugary and I do not like them now. ;D
Title: Nostalg-ick
Post by: NostradamusTheSeer on 2026-05-31 19:26:01: I miss the treats I ate as a kid in 1992... and paying 1992 prices. A box of candy cigarettes for a dime. A package of Ramen for two bits. Paying for your sugary sweet booty (https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=9a0266635dee84b9&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&sxsrf=ANbL-n5G1pHYig710EmDkHwiTKgXwMaWhQ%3A1780280668167&q=booty+meaning+stolen+goods&oq=booty+meaning+stolen+goods&aqs=heirloom-srp..) with a carton of deposit bottles. Remember Ferrara Pan candies? Mr. Melons, Lemon Heads, Alexander The Grapes, and Cherry Sours, then called Cherry Clans, in the original packaging.
(https://www.candywrappermuseum.com/03_classics/CWM%20Cherry%20Clan%20Candy%20Ferrara%20Pan%20Say%20Nope%20To%20Dope%20Box%201.jpg)
[cue nervous murmurs and collar-tugging from all assembled]
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Post by: Soda on 2026-06-01 00:04:49: ^ I don't recall ever seeing those candies, but I did remember Lemon Heads. That's the only one I remember seeing.

Quote from: FoxTail on 2026-05-30 17:38:04
Quote from: Soda on 2026-05-30 00:29:52
Nostalgia me!

The smell of a can of Play Doh or the scent of Elmer's glue from arts and crafts!

That is so specific but SO true! I totally know this smell.
Title: Lemon Heads
Post by: NostradamusTheSeer on 2026-06-01 11:37:24: I still see them (https://www.ferrara.com/us/en/lemonhead), too--but they're now a dollar a bag. Most of Ferrara Pan's catalog has been discontinued, renamed, or wickedly hit with inflation. It's the Mountain Dew Sangria (https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=163269b9f9bc3142&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&sxsrf=ANbL-n6UnTF8csWtAaUqyzLx1N0UBnCadA%3A1780338043734&q=mountain+dew+sangrita+blast&oq=Mountain+Dew+Sangrita&aqs=heirloom-srp.0.0l5) of candies--oh, hey, remember that? And Fish McBites (https://www.google.com/search?q=Fish+McBites&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)? Spending your junior high days observing the miracle of surface tension (https://www.google.com/search?q=surface+tension&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&oq=surface+tension&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l9.4600j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) by blowing glycerin bubbles and building small balsa wood pyramids to study the mythical power of the pharaohs (https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=163269b9f9bc3142&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&sxsrf=ANbL-n5XCcEPNW59Q6Mg8h881oY2YER6Jw%3A1780338569555&q=pyramid+power&oq=pyramid+power&aqs=heirloom-srp..0l5)? Dissecting cats in high-school bio lab? Picking up empty aluminum cans in the street all day, until you came home bone-tired and reeking of beer, and making thirty cents a pound recycling them? Eh, maybe that was just me. But, man, I had fun.
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Post by: Sniffles on 2026-06-01 12:07:38: I do not remember Fish McBites. I do remember McNuggets. We would occasionally get those when hanging out back in the day. But usually we had Fourth Meal and Taco Bell. We were PEAK teenagers. Always hung out with this group of friends and occasionally we'd meet other groups there. There was this one boy, "the bad boy" that we all had a crush on. ;D
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Post by: MasterXtreme on 2026-06-01 12:12:28: We were mostly a Taco Bell group as well. One of my friends always liked Wendy's, so we'd go there sometimes to humor him. Outside of chain restaurants, we also did our fair share of local restaurants, mom and pop locations.
Title: Ooh, "Pork-Man's Holiday"... great title for a porno film
Post by: NostradamusTheSeer on 2026-06-01 21:08:08: Ah, for us in high school, we were allowed to eat off-campus. So it was the doughnut shop, Burger Broil, the local pizza joint, and my fav, the bowling alley (this is where I spent much of my aforementioned can money, avoiding lousy cafeteria food). For lunch I would usu. get the double bacon burger and chili cheese fries, with a soda or nonalcoholic near-beer--all the salt and grease I could eat for under five bucks--and watch my pal Josh and this cute little piece he was seeing at the time shoot a quick game of pool in the back. Or, occasionally my mother would drop by school with a takeout order from the Chinese place up the road, and we'd sit in the car and split a double happy (http://double happy) in the parking lot... Or we'd go to this barbecue place we knew, which was both close by and cheap. Mom liked the food, but I found the meat so ropy you could re-string a tennis racket with it. Also, the place was closed on Mondays. Why is this? The local 'cue joint does the same thing. Is Monday universally unofficially recognized as the pork-man's holiday, or something? ??? :nervoussmile: Oh, and there was a video place across the street from the restaurant, so we'd stop and rent a few tapes for later that evening--both family fare and horror flicks, and usu. the ones that came in installments, like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street,Basket Case, and the original I Spit on Your Grave--not that remake/reboot crap. In the days before streaming, it was truly a big deal to be the first kid in your social circle to see the latest release just as soon as it hit the VHS place.

Quote from: Sniffles on 2026-06-01 12:07:38
We were PEAK teenagers. Always hung out with this group of friends and occasionally we'd meet other groups there. There was this one boy, "the bad boy" that we all had a crush on.
So did any of you cowgirls end up with that stallion, or is he the one that got away? Just hope none of you were one of those girls who got pregnant when she was fifteen... it's like, you see her in Spanish class, note how big she's gotten, and think "Cripes, hope her water doesn't break between the"antes de la clase" and "¿como te llamas?"
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Post by: RainySunshine on 2026-06-09 12:24:49: My school allowed kids to eat off campus, but by the time my class got into the high school, the school reversed that due to kids abusing the system.
Title: Your a-o.k. veejay
Post by: NostradamusTheSeer on 2026-07-23 19:01:49: Quote from: timmelon on 2026-05-31 01:06:47
Oh, the smell of PVA-based glues is indeed one of the memories from the school years ;D.
Did you ever try eating it? (https://youtu.be/_YfNK3Ypw7A?t=112) ^-^ ;)

...Boy, remember when MTV actually played music? The channel, not the G.L.O.W. Girl.

Then again, these mean minxes were a big part of my misbegotten youth as well. Looking back, I really learned to appreciate beauty at a very early age.
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Post by: MasterXtreme on 2026-07-24 00:13:42: I don't know how MTV plays nothing but trash reality tv now. With nostalgia being so popular, I would totally play music videos if I were them, especially from the 80s and 90s.
Title: Nostalgia Topic!
Post by: NostradamusTheSeer on 2026-07-28 14:35:09: It is nice to see millennials/Gen-X-ers rediscovering the shows we grew up on thanks to streaming services, though.
(https://external-preview.redd.it/__Rge2D5g5TMPGHM3l9gLQbdfSde_FTjqibzAG3bJ2k.gif?auto=webp&s=f4bfd33e258f885e15d55108ba521ad1d26d6674)

Although, for the kids' sake, we adults might be forgiven for glossing over the more adult jokes and seamy, embarrassing behind-the-scenes stuff.... :nervoussmile:
Title: Re: Nostalgia Topic!
Post by: Soda on 2026-07-29 12:16:50: Kids today really don't have anything to grasp onto. They grasp onto 80s and 90s culture.