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NoiseAnnoys posted:lol everyone here is 40+ I'm closer to 40 than being a child, but I have time left in me yet.
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Yay! A cartoon about rabbits! Bunnies are so cute! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzirfrSn_KQ 
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that childhood innocence deserved to die, good riddance
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Imagine not being 40+. You do not want to be around for the fall of capitalism. The fun mad max part of society will take years to kick in.
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I worked extremely hard to repress those memories, and shall not be unearthing them today
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I think the real answer for me though is two fold: Pornography and Politics. The former is great. The latter sucks. There was a time when I thought: "Bill O Riley is the funny loud mans on TV" and around the time I recognized him as an rear end in a top hat, that was the end of innocence.
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Guys! Guys, I just got mine back! Everything is lovely again, and nothing could possibly kill it!
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My sister was told by a classmate that Santa Claus was not real. She asked our mom if that was true. Mom reluctantly replied that Santa was make-believe. My sister was sad for a moment and then perked up, "At least we still have the Easter Bunny!" and trotted off happy.
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The Simpsons episode where they go to florida on spring break. It's when I realised it was never going to be good again. That was 23 years ago.
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Dec 4, 2023 20:39
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florida was never good though
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Bad Purchase posted:florida was never good though the sequence where Bugs Bunny saws Florida off the continental US was animated in 1949 lmao
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I feel like my childhood had multiple innocences that gradually faded away and weren't necessarily ripped out from under me, but one that comes close was learning that Santa Claus wasn't real, and therefore that the one person who I was raised to trust 100% of the time -- my mother -- would lie to my face for multiple years without batting an eye. That really hosed me up. Then there was the time my grandmother's neighbor answered the door wearing nothing but low-slung grey sweatpants.  Nyan Bread posted:When I was able to open a stuck jar of pickles without an adult's help. Oh man, when I was singing along with "No Leaf Clover" (Metallica) and finally hit the lowest note in the song, I was like, "poo poo...I've officially pubertied." (despite the fact that I had breasts and a period and knew what getting horny was already)
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YeahTubaMike posted:and therefore that the one person who I was raised to trust 100% of the time -- my mother -- would lie to my face for multiple years without batting an eye. That really hosed me up. Yeah there should be some kind of platinum achievement award for adult caretakers with unsolved parental issues of their own that never end up batting for their kid's team.
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Nyan Bread posted:Yeah there should be some kind of platinum achievement award for adult caretakers with unsolved parental issues of their own that never end up batting for their kid's team. Of course I agree with you, but it has turned out that I can trust her with literally everything else (we were never an Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy family), so far anyway.
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Probably happytreefriends or finding porn online, hell maybe itchy and scratchy
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Hotel Kpro posted:Probably happytreefriends or finding porn online, hell maybe itchy and scratchy poochy, even
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They love, and give and love and love and give
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But honestly the Simpsons did expose me to a lot of mature jokes that I didn't undestand at the time.
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Realtalk my dad had a VHS of creepy and weird punk/violent stuff that he would play at strange times and one of them (alongside The Misadventures of Shitman) was this creepy rear end stop motion called The Sandman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhU Yeah the image of eyeless children is burned into my brain Now that I'm an adult I find stop motion fascinating and love Lee Hardcastle and GWAR so frankly he probably doomed me
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when I was about ten years old, my father conceived an infatuation with a teenage grocery worker near his workplace. the sheer eagerness with which he raced to destroy everything I knew for a chance to get balls deep inside a college freshman taught me a lot about him, and about relationships generally. when my mother made clear that she wasn't relinquishing custody of me without a fight, which he was unlikely to win, the subsequent several years he spent making us both miserable taught me even more. part of me mourns, yes; but some lessons are better learned early
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Probably when I came to the following realizationwesleywillis posted:Here's some hosed up sex poo poo:
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SatansOnion posted:when I was about ten years old, my father conceived an infatuation with a teenage grocery worker near his workplace. the sheer eagerness with which he raced to destroy everything I knew for a chance to get balls deep inside a college freshman taught me a lot about him, and about relationships generally. when my mother made clear that she wasn't relinquishing custody of me without a fight, which he was unlikely to win, the subsequent several years he spent making us both miserable taught me even more. part of me mourns, yes; but some lessons are better learned early Did he achieve is balls deep dream?
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i didn't lose it i gave it away willingly
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:Did he achieve is balls deep dream? gently caress no. he doesn't post here but if anything he's even more of a goon than I am
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Honestly, I think 9/11 was a loss of childhood innocence and my political awakening. It wasn't the event itself but the reaction to it. I was 17 and gently caress sakes was it an education to watch the country go bugfuck insane overnight: the Patriot Act, "you're either with us or the terrorists", color-coded terror warnings, stupid loving half rear end horseshit justifications for Iraq.... it was nuts.
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Boo hoo I’m a baby
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Right, we know, but how do you mourn the loss of your childhood innocence?
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Henry Lee Mucus posted:I remember a time when Hulk Hogan was my hero. I said my prayers, ate my vitamins, all that poo poo. So what if my rancid alcoholic father mocked me mercilessly for watching huge muscly men rub themselves on each other, grunting and emoting under the hot stage lights. So what if he held me down and smeared my mother’s makeup on my face and make me wear a dress when I watched the Hulkster? Didn’t bother me a bit. I like Tatanka.
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I made this thread to shitpost but everyone is being so open and honest ( ) I guess I’ll give my non shitpost answer. When I was 9-10 me and my buddy were first on the scene of a car that had careened out of control and smashed into a pole. The woman had come through the windshield and gone face first into the pole, and her head was kind of deflated. She had blonde hair that had already chunked up with black blood and bits of god knows what. That was fun.
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I never believed Santa Claus was real, but I did believe Sooty was real. “Sooty is just a puppet,” my mother told me, when she was five. How stupid! “He has legs!” I cried. “You see them when he goes outside!” “It’s just a trick,” said my mother, as if she knew. She might know all about the horrifying diseases on the covers of the magazines lying around our house, but this was my area of expertise now. It wasn’t a trick, I thought. Of course Sooty stood on his legs
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Lol I just keep playing video games. Owned.
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still have mine . stronger than ever. tyvm.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:When I was ten - 1994, the year of the fabled Republican Revolution (tm, all rights reserved) - a friend of mine wanted to pretend that we were "Republican superheroes". I had no idea who a 'Republican' was and had to ask if our family were Republicans (we were not). this. i remember when i was little i just liked clinton because his last name reminded my brain of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt_Clinton_(locomotive) that. I became a republican because of my "cool" uncle. switched around obama. but yeah i miss being young and innocent, but at the same time, i am glad i learned various hard truths and hosed up poo poo because ignorence sucks.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Right, we know, but how do you mourn the loss of your childhood innocence? I just collect weird poo poo now that i have an ok disposible income, not married and pay rent to live with folks so yeah gently caress it.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:this. i remember when i was little i just liked clinton because his last name reminded my brain of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt_Clinton_(locomotive) that. I became a republican because of my "cool" uncle. switched around obama. but yeah i miss being young and innocent, but at the same time, i am glad i learned various hard truths and hosed up poo poo because ignorence sucks. Definitely agree. The last seven years or so alone have been even more of an education about certain things for me than the post 9/11 era. It's made me a lot more cynical but there's a lot to be cynical about these days.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Definitely agree. The last seven years or so alone have been even more of an education about certain things for me than the post 9/11 era. It's made me a lot more cynical but there's a lot to be cynical about these days. I am weirdly opitomistic about some poo poo and not about others but thats for other threads. My thing is more just i miss their being magic to the world. i dont mean hope or politics or etc, i just mean like a sense of wonder of things older then ourselves like gods or mythical creatures or santa or super heroes or unicorns or dragons. like yeah their is plenty of beauty in nature and peaople and etc but gently caress id love to just go outside and see like magical creature or some poo poo. like magic being real and its not just weird dumb bullshit for emo girls.
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Have you tried weaving in reading e-books as a side activity into your daily schedule to help divert attention from the issues that are causing you distress in RL? Your local library prob has a bunch of well and poorly written fantasy novels and knee-biting science fiction for rent that can give you a temporary sense of wonder if you let them.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:When I was ten - 1994, the year of the fabled Republican Revolution (tm, all rights reserved) - a friend of mine wanted to pretend that we were "Republican superheroes". I had no idea who a 'Republican' was and had to ask if our family were Republicans (we were not). Actually, the first culture war was pretty weird because it was zero shhh! The innocent children can not know such things! Literally no one complained about Mrs. Doubtfire, it was all AIDS all the time, The Birdcage was like, not particularly controversial and you couldn't turn on a TV to mainstream broadcasts with your children in the room without some graphic description of some Mapplethorpe exhibit and how the NEA was funding Piss Christ. Honestly, growing up as a gay child in the 80s I constantly feel whiplash about how we are doing the exact same culture war but the outrage is so much more palpable over like some random drag queen like just existing and there were like exhibits of hardcore homoerotic pornographic art and the mainstream was like, well, I'm not saying I like it, but this rear end in a top hat on TV needs to calm the gently caress down about it while parents casually explained what a blowjob it to their 8 year olds.
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Nyan Bread posted:Have you tried weaving in reading e-books as a side activity into your daily schedule to help divert attention from the issues that are causing you distress in RL? Your local library prob has a bunch of well and poorly written fantasy novels and knee-biting science fiction for rent that can give you a temporary sense of wonder if you let them. Oh yeah i do that all the time. it helps alot, i have hobbies and interests beyond GBS and politics and i left some of the more intense discords/groups and feel ok. Job and such are doing fine too. its just, you know.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:its just, you know. Yeah - Malaise of Modernity
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