SulfurMonoxideCute posted:

A burnt out former gifted child with chronic depression and anxiety.

Cartoon Man posted:

SulfurMonoxideCute posted:

A burnt out former gifted child with chronic depression and anxiety.

I have actually done some pretty cool stuff with my life, I used to think traveling to places like Borneo, Australia, and Belize was impossible for a poverty-stricken abused nobody stuck in a small town trailer park, but I've been to those places now, and many more! I'm even going to go watch a total solar eclipse in 2 months in Mexico. Never would have thought that was remotely possible back then.

I honestly wish I could go back in time and let 13 year old me know that some of my impossible dreams do eventually come true

root beer posted:

That poo poo needs to die; I’m making sure my daughter, who may also fit into the “gifted” category, isn’t pulled into it. It does way more harm than good.

tango alpha delta posted:

1994 was pretty much a blur for me.

Earwicker posted:

i was in a "gifted" program in elementary school for several years but it mostly seemed to involve doing a lot of logic matrix puzzles and it didn't really impact my later life in any way better or worse. i guess i got slightly better at that one specific type of puzzle.

also the only reason i was considered "gifted" is because i was good at piano and started reading early, i sucked at most regular school subjects other than english or history (in which i was no prodigy, just competent) and continued to suck at them all the way through high school and college so it was probably some kind of mistake since some of the other kids in that group were taking advanced math and poo poo

but i suspect similar groups these days involve a lot more high pressure bullshit about planning out the rest of your life which would really suck

Powered Descent posted:

it feels like a lot of goons would qualify.

root beer posted:

Ugh

That poo poo needs to die; I’m making sure my daughter, who may also fit into the “gifted” category, isn’t pulled into it. It does way more harm than good.

‘Grats on getting through life in the aftermath of all that

From the ‘90s thread in PYF:

Bulgaroctonus posted:

Holy poo poo, is that show where they did like £35,000 of damage to the venue then the singer just straight up disappeared afterward?

Sentinel Red posted:

Close enough, he was the lyricist/"rhythm guitarist" (he could play about as well I can, ie hardly at all) but yeah. Last time as the OG four piece, they smashed up a bunch of their gear (*not* the cheapo versions) and the stage, then a month later he did his disappearing act forever more right on the eve of a US promo trip, and so began the Man at C&A period.

Sentinel Red posted:

I had a clear out years back so most of my pre '00s gig tickets are long gone but there is one I held onto:



Legendary, both for good and ill but hey, at least the dude went out with a bang (the bang coming from the drum kit when he launched himself at it like a guided missile).

Kevyn posted:

I remember the VHS release of ET being a huge deal when it finally came out because the movie was like six years old by that point. I think that might’ve been the first official VHS movie we owned instead of poo poo recorded off tv.

Confusedslight posted:

It was awful because I wasn't yet alive but thankfuly the year after it got slightly less so and now everything is great.

Sentinel Red posted:

Close enough, he was the lyricist/"rhythm guitarist" (he could play about as well I can, ie hardly at all) but yeah. Last time as the OG four piece, they smashed up a bunch of their gear (*not* the cheapo versions) and the stage, then a month later he did his disappearing act forever more right on the eve of a US promo trip, and so began the Man at C&A period.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

Anyway, I checked, it was actually Flab Quarv Six that was obliterated. An easy mistake to make.

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I think Santeria came out in 1994. That was a pretty good song

Powered Descent posted:

And the singer didn't even practice!

Confusedslight posted:

https://x.com/EmmaTolkin/status/1756044069619499130?s=20
I take back everything I said about 1994.

dee eight posted:

i was p much ignoring this thread until i realized i have a 1994 calendar that i used as a sort of journal at work in the sawmill. i can tell you about 1994 from my perspective. i drew a little cartoon in each square on days i worked and made comments about my idiot co-workers and also some of the poo poo that was happening in the world. i do note that on january 4th i sketched a millworker saying "kiss me, i'm gay. what are ya waitin' for?" and on the 21st, uncle buckle the safety buffalo is quoted as saying "if you have an osha recordable accident, i will kill you."

January birthdays noted are somebody named walt on the 5th, wolfie mozart on the 27th. actor claude akins took his final bow in january 94


February 1994:

5th - a picture of a duck farting with the overwrought title DUCK FART!
6th - a portrait of capt. hazelwood of exxon valdez fame with the caption 'designated driver'
12th - rest in peace neil bonnet
13th - pouring one out for actor hal smith best known for his iconic role as otis campbell
21st - it appears that lake speed finished second at the daytona 500

March 1994:

2nd - last shift in reman, goin back to the sander
4th - flag at half staff for john candy, lean mean fightin' machine
11th - a man wearing a t-shirt printed with "I my tapeworm" says "A day without Miller* is like a day without intestinal parasites."
20th - a rather wretched looking rabbit celebrates the equinox with a poem: spring has sprung, the grass has rizz, now i gotta take a wizz
27th - an unflattering portrait of marge schott who states, "who'd a thunk it! anarchists in the big leagues!"
29th - a weeping rhino informs us of the passing of eugene ionesco
30th - ed zern exits, laughing

*Dogshit Miller was a vile, smelly, rancid, sub-literate, racist goat farmer that worked at the mill. any day he wasn't there was a better day.

April 1994:

7th - the patron saint of weekends/days off, st. clarence, says "lay down thy burden, and take off the shoes from they feet, for the blessed weekend is upon us"
22nd - we don't have dick nixon to kick around any more
29th - karl endures another session of primal fart therapy

May 1994:

1st- intercourse al fresco commences today
5th - ayrton senna
30th - al unser jr. wins the indy 500

June 1994:

5th - i did a stupid thing and crashed my beloved dirtmobile into a rr crossing sign. it still ran so i drove it for another 10 years or so
6th - snoopy, charging up omaha beach in his army helmet, carrying an m1 garand is shot through the neck and head. captioned 'lest we forget'
17th - oj simpson holding a six shooter to his head and quoting a cleavon little line from blazing saddles
25th - my son tripped over a phone cord and dislocated his elbow
26th - we ask the question, 'where do agoraphobics go for vacation?'

I'll do the second half later or maybe not i dunno

dee eight posted:

May 1994
5th - ayrton senna

~Coxy posted:

I didn't have much interest in sports or school elections.

dee eight posted:

August
27th - an African gentleman sings for us, "We don't smoke marijuana in Nairobi. We don't take our trips on LSD"

dee eight posted:

17th - oj simpson holding a six shooter to his head and quoting a cleavon little line from blazing saddles

Szyznyk posted:

You’re about to get cancelled for something you doodled 30 years ago.

Pasketti posted:

excuse me posting my own baby picture but I wanted to show some nice 1994 living room furniture.

I like how you can see my dad's clock radio on the end table next to the couch and this weird blue cow pillow pillow, visual evidence that my parents stopped sharing the same bed immediately after my birth