Share some things that make you smile!
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My favorite such moment: myself, a few friends and my cousin Max were playing basketball at my friend Donnie's house. Max was the youngest and smallest, and during a particularly aggressive play on the ball, Donnie charged Max and busted his nose. Donnie's mom took Max inside and did the typical "mom" stuff to staunch the bleeding before we headed back to my house while some of the other kids continued to play. Back at home, me and a couple of buddies convinced Max it'd be a good idea to ride his bike past Donnie's house exclaiming "charging ol' Donnie, charging ol' Donnie!" He agreed. As we stood at the top of the street to witness this public humiliation, Max was too busy yelling to notice the parked car he was veering towards, and WHAM!! Flipped up on the hood of the car suffering multiple injuries, much more damage than a bloody nose. Donnie's mom came out again and nursed the now crying Max back to sustainable health while we came down to retrieve him.
To this day, all I have to say to Max is "charging ol' Donnie" to get a rise and laugh out of him. We were dumb.
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Yeah, another example that comes to mind was me on my bike, going through a wooded path that was a shortcut between two areas of my neighborhood. One side was the residential side, the other was the water park we lived at during the summer, because there was nothing else to do. My friends had gone ahead of me, and decided to play a prank. They hid off the side of the road, and as I pedaled furiously to catch up, one of them stuck out a stick to catch in my front spoke, which instantly stopped my bike, which proceeded to buck me and send me flying. I remember that one really hurting because I was completely not prepared for it. Nothing in my senses indicated I was in immediate danger, so I didn't brace, or prepare to try and tumble. Just, one second I'm going full speed, clear path, next I'm airborne and not sure why. WHAM. Face first into the ground. You know that weak muscle feeling you get from shock, when you take a hard tumble? That. Oh man it sucked.
Another time was I was riding double with a friend, and we were trying a new arrangement, instead of one of us sitting on the handle bars. Instead we tried this sort of pommel horse, balancing act, where one of us would sit on the bike seat, kind of dangling our legs behind us for balance, and using your hands on the seat to further stay in position. The person pedaling, would simply stand up the whole time, and thus have full view of the road, and not have this massive weight on the front of the bike. Brilliant! But....I slipped, and fell straight down...onto my knees....onto gravely pavement...and slid for a bit. That....fucking....hurt. Probably the most painful skinned knees I've ever had in my life. And it was both of them at once. So walking was fucking torture. I was NOT a happy kid that day. Crying and sobbing because I had to hobble home on those injured knees, and have mom fix them for me.
So many stupid things. It's why I kind of laugh at people who try and give kid's today shit for doing stupid stuff online. All I think is "Yeah but like...that's just something embarrassing? I'm lucky I literally SURVIVED a myriad of really fucking dangerous, and often CRIMINAL activities, me and my idiot friends tried, just for the lulz. Not to mention get out of them all without ever being arrested or imprisoned, including one time actually being in handcuffs and having a car searched, WHILE I was carrying weed on me that the cops missed."
I have a healthy appreciation for how fucking dumb we ALL are at that age, as we are all still literally growing our brains, and learning and trying stuff out. We are by design, really dumb at that stage in our lives, on so many levels. And I am definitely no different. So I try and give kids a huge benefit of the doubt, because they're kids. We all were, at least those of us that survived it.
I like to remind old people about how "kids those days" did dumb shit like crowd into phone booths or sit on flagpoles just for attention. They just didn't have the Internet to spread their antics around.
For me it was things like "smuggle weed in through customs from Jamaica" "climb a sheer cliff that multiple kids had died falling from....while I was high...at NIGHT, with no safety equipment" or "decide to just climb every public school in my hometown, because fuck it I'm good at climbing, and what could go wrong?' "Helping my friend steal money out of vending machines, using a dollar bill and a special trick that let you snatch it back, but it would register the "purchase" and then we'd get change back (and free snacks/drinks), "hanging out in really fucking dangerous drug houses because I wanted pot, and they were the only source I could find it from that night, even though I was really not happy being there, as they dealt in a lot of other really illegal shit that I wanted nothing to do with."
And a plethora of other shit that I can't really articulate without taking 20 pages, but just...yeah, LOTS of really stupid shit. So some kid making a dumb video on tiktok or whatever, clearly indicating they are a kid, and thus kind of dumb....well, frankly I see that as an improvement. They're just being publicly silly (mostly), nobody is in risk of injury/death/arrest. Not even a 2 on my Richter scale.
Just saw a guy with his family, which included 3 little kids around 3-5 years old, spouse and dog. The mom took the 2 eldest kids, clearly dressed for little kid's karate, and turned into the building in front of me as they stood on the sidewalk. Both kids, started to head up, and then both turned around to give the doggo a hug around the neck as they went to their lesson. The doggo, being a good doggo, happily wagged it's tail and licked them as they walked off, then proceeded to keep walking with the dad.
As one of those people who is starting to fall into the "old people" category, I would point out an incident that occurred a few years ago with my niece. She was 13 at the time and I was visiting my brother's household for Thanksgiving. My niece and I were sitting in the kitchen of my brother's house at the time. Her mother and my brother were in the back bedroom getting ready for the family gathering which was imminent. Her younger sister and brother (ages 8 and 6 respectively) were in the garage, screaming at each other over something. My niece and I were listening to this and she turned to me and said. "Let me guess, when you were my age, you and dad NEVER acted like that?" I listened for a few seconds more to the bru-ha-ha in the garage and then told my niece, "Actually, I was just thinking that when your father and I were that age we were EXACTLY like that." This response took my niece completely off guard. I mean an adult had actually told the truth! What the hell?
Yeah, it's why I find it so funny when my generation, and older ones, give the youth shit for their fashion choices. I mean, come on you fuckers, you KNOW we dressed horribly too. Hipster fashion isn't YOUR jam, fine, I get it. But don't act like your 80's hair, and denim jacket, and your 90's grunge looks were ANY better by comparison. Because I know how shitty we looked in them, 'cause I wore them too. Get over yourselves.
I did, in fact, once own a pair of parachute pants. I don't think I have room to criticize today's fashion. (Although those parachute pants had room for two or three other people.)
It's nigh past tme to update America's national anthem to something far more appropriate, out with the old, in with the new... star Shpongled spanner can it its bloody heart out!
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My Kill La Kill box set finally came in! The correct one this time!
Of course it's not enuff dakka.
At the point in time when bullets can pass through the interdimensional walls, when firepower takes up the entirety and eternity of space and time, all being stuck in a never ending life and death cycle as bullets recover and destroy their bodies in quick succession, no one able to think about anything but the sheer force of the bullets rapidly flying literally everywhere in the materium, turning the Warp itself into nothing but a sea of semi-automatic weaponry. Then there will be enuff dakka.
Or at least almost
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