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Cercadelmar posted:I knew what this would link to before I opened it. He's just Riddikulus.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:52 |
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zoux posted:I didn't know what it was about, I just liked it. I used to sit on the floor in front of my stereo listening to the radio with my finger on the record button so I could tape the songs I liked. That's what the world looked like before the internet kiddies. Somewhere I've still got one or two mix tapes I made more or less in that manner. I don't think I've got anything handy that could even play them at this point, and anyway would prefer to leave whatever questionable things I included on them lost to the fog of time. Though to be honest, I still wonder how I never got any speeding tickets when I had NIN's The Perfect Drug and Offspring's Gone Away back to back on one of those tapes.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:54 |
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Pope Guilty posted:DID SOMEBODY SAY DC TALK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqCccV6Y31s He wouldn't masturbate except when he broke down every six months or so and he was a bodybuilder. He was a nice guy but pretty pent up and every once in awhile I wondered if he was going to snap and start strangling Catholics. One time I was up late doing homework and he was talking to himself in a dream. He said in a stage whisper "LET US TAKE TO THE FIELD AND FIGHT FOR THE LORD <crowd cheering noise>". It cracked me up.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:57 |
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My mom pulled me out of a car once because I was alone in it with a bunch of girls from school. Never forget
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:03 |
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My mom went to some seminar and saw some video about how Masters of the Universe was actually secret satanism and when I came home from school she had thrown out all my Hemans Years later I mentioned it in a thread somewhere and turns out it was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVCEQ-543ak
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:06 |
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When I was in high school, there was a church across the street from the high school that had this giant billboard that they would put fundamentalist messages on to try to "educate" the high schoolers, since you gotta get church into school somehow. Everyone made fun of how incredibly out-of-touch and backwards the messages tended to be, though. My favorite that still sticks with me is "God does all the work, Doctors get all the credit." loving moochers, doctors.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:10 |
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XyloJW posted:My favorite that still sticks with me is "God does all the work, Doctors get all the credit." loving moochers, doctors. Mister Bates posted:Oh look, it's the thread's old friend Literally The Opposite Of Reality! I sure did miss him! I love those sites where you can make fake church signs.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:15 |
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If you wish to understand the mind of the modern evangelical Christian read This Present Darkness.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:17 |
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zoux posted:If you wish to understand the mind of the modern evangelical Christian read This Present Darkness. The church I went to was Pentecostal and I was really into it. I think I understand all too well.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:19 |
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I remember this super annoying evangelical kid from my high school who wouldn't shut up about why we should support prop 8.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:19 |
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kelvron posted:He's just Riddikulus. I'm gonna eat Toby Keith's family
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:19 |
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XyloJW posted:When I was in high school, there was a church across the street from the high school that had this giant billboard that they would put fundamentalist messages on to try to "educate" the high schoolers, since you gotta get church into school somehow. Everyone made fun of how incredibly out-of-touch and backwards the messages tended to be, though. I should mention that Hurricane Katrina blew the church away and left the high school relatively untouched.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:22 |
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XyloJW posted:I should mention that Hurricane Katrina blew the church away and left the high school relatively untouched. I'll take that as proof that God exists.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:23 |
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I thought this was sort of amazing. No pressure to behave a certain way at BYU.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:24 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I remember this super annoying evangelical kid from my high school who wouldn't shut up about why we should support prop 8. It was me Actually, my conversion began when I was 17 and I was arguing with my token liberal friend about why Reagan was a great president and I suddenly realized I didn't really buy my own argument. Thus began a long philosophical trek to agnostism and socialism. I literally high fived my friend when the Republicans took control of the House in 1994.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:25 |
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moller posted:
Peer Pressure only occurs for drugs, there are no other recorded instances of people being pressured into doing something.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:27 |
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zoux posted:It was me You and at least one friend, before the age of 17, high fived over the House of Representatives? Jesus, man.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:27 |
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XyloJW posted:You and at least one friend, before the age of 17, high fived over the House of Representatives? Jesus, man. I was 14 years old 9:O)
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:28 |
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moller posted:
In fairness, it does specify peer pressure to drink and do drugs. And I assume we all know why you don't take just one Mormon fishing with you?
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:28 |
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XyloJW posted:You and at least one friend, before the age of 17, high fived over the House of Representatives? Jesus, man. Exactly.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:28 |
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zoux posted:It was me
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:28 |
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XyloJW posted:You and at least one friend, before the age of 17, high fived over the House of Representatives? Jesus, man. I was much younger than that when I was rooting for Ross Perot in the 1992 elections. Is that or ?
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:29 |
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zoux posted:If you wish to understand the mind of the modern evangelical Christian read This Present Darkness. Frank Peretti formed the backbone of the fiction section in the church "library," and I read all of them. This Present/Piercing the Darkness are basically crystallized evangelical craziness. I also collected Redemption cards in junior high because MtG was verboten. Gameplay is basically the plot of This Present Darkness, but with angels drawn in '90s Image Comics style. It's really embarrassing in retrospect.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:29 |
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Thanatosian posted:In fairness, it does specify peer pressure to drink and do drugs. Is it the same reason Baptists don't have sex standing up? Malmesbury Monster posted:Frank Peretti formed the backbone of the fiction section in the church "library," and I read all of them. This Present/Piercing the Darkness are basically crystallized evangelical craziness. So you know what I'm talking about. The idea that literally every decision you make every day is extremely high stakes poo poo with literal armies of invisible angels and demons having metal as gently caress swordfights for your soul and if you say a swear word then a thousand angels are going to get torn apart by demonic hordes.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:30 |
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I get that people seem to be done posting ska, but I have not yet begun to post. It was pretty easy to run into mindless ska-pop in the 90's, but over time a pretty significant number of socially conscious bands have cropped up and released some good tracks. A small sampling of good music that didn't push the social message too hard: The Slackers: International War Criminal Tim Armstrong: Poets Life The misguided (but well meaning) RX Bandits Second and Third Albums. They got progressively less ska and more political and prog rock-y as time went on (and bad, I guess). The epitome of pop-ska, Reel Big Fish: Sell Out, which I think deserves mention as it's about upbeat nihilism in the face of the corporatization of youth culture. Bonus: Buford O'Sullivan's Decade Revival Song, for no other reason than it's probably my favorite.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:30 |
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I remember my 8th grade history teacher getting booed by the class when he told us he voted for Bush twice. Dude also spent most of the year fellating the Founding Fathers.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I'll take that as proof that God exists. Typical. God does all the work, but Katrina gets all the credit
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:31 |
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zoux posted:Behold! Radio in 1998! I wish americans had left ska the gently caress alone. If your not rocking a london or Jamaican accent and its not some date before about 1983 its not loving ska or two tone. duck monster fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Malmesbury Monster posted:Frank Peretti formed the backbone of the fiction section in the church "library," and I read all of them. This Present/Piercing the Darkness are basically crystallized evangelical craziness. Oh god, Redemption, I had a few decks of those and the strategy guide to the first couple of sets. Apprently it's still going- I remember around 2004 digging out my old cards and giving them to a college classmate to give to her kids who played the game. Got a very cute little crayon and printer paper thank you card for it.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:33 |
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One Mormon will drink all your beer. Two or more will spend the afternoon judging you for drinking beer while fishing. Solution: don't take the Mormons fishing with you.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:33 |
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DemeaninDemon posted:One Mormon will drink all your beer. Two or more will spend the afternoon judging you for drinking beer while fishing. No wonder the missionaries travel in packs.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:34 |
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It's like how the guards at the Berlin Wall always operated in pairs, or the North Korean guards at Panmunjom's Joint Security Area are always facing toward each other.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:36 |
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This is me irl now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puwllq0fBLs
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:37 |
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zoux posted:Is it the same reason Baptists don't have sex standing up? I still think the funniest thing is the idea that New Agers were part of an insidious Satanic conspiracy and that meditation was going to possess your children. That brand of Christian has a stronger belief in magic than actual practitioners.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:38 |
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I think swing revival was a separate and distinct genre from 3rd wave ska or ska-punk. Although it's possible that the only reason those bands could get work was because suits were hiring anyone with a horn section.zoux posted:This is me irl now. This is one of the best things on youtube.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:39 |
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We were strongly cautioned against ever using a Ouija Board because that was a surefire way to get possessed by a demon.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:40 |
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Speaking of people who should not be doing Ska, Israeli Madness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQ3WBi_n68
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zoux posted:We were strongly cautioned against ever using a Ouija Board because that was a surefire way to get possessed by a demon. I dunno, if you earnestly believe in demons and magic and crap this kind of makes sense. Ouija boards are supposed to a means to receive messages from supernatural spirits; that's what it says on the tin
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zoux posted:We were strongly cautioned against ever using a Ouija Board because that was a surefire way to get possessed by a demon. My dad hated those things. He's normally a rational dude too. Weird how that works.
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# ? Jul 14, 2014 19:45 |
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zoux posted:We were strongly cautioned against ever using a Ouija Board because that was a surefire way to get possessed by a demon. I was told the same about Yugioh cards. Not by my parents though.
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