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[The Hardest R]

It was only recently I needed a trimmer not to have hair coming out of every hole in my head and werewolf eyebrows.

I have to trim daily because if not, a random one-inch hair emerges from my ear or nose. Like how the fuck does hair grow that fast?

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

I have to trim daily because if not, a random one-inch hair emerges from my ear or nose. Like how the fuck does hair grow that fast?

I don't trim nose hairs out of vanity. If I let them go, they tickle and make me sneeze. This is intolerable and I hope to get medically suicided.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't trim nose hairs out of vanity. If I let them go, they tickle and make me sneeze. This is intolerable and I hope to get medically suicided.

I'm also really fucking sick of the tiny little hairs that don't grow close to your lips but literally ON your lips. Good luck shaving those without actually cutting your lip itself from time to time, which bleeds like a bitch.

I'm really fixing to REEEEEE!

 

[Cheesegirl78]

I'm also really fucking sick of the tiny little hairs that don't grow close to your lips but literally ON your lips. Good luck shaving those without actually cutting your lip itself from time to time, which bleeds like a bitch.

I'm really fixing to REEEEEE!

You can try one of the mini-shavers.
I've noticed more peach fuzz on my face as I've gotten older, and they work perfect for my needs.

 

[Phoenix Connexion]

It was year 1999

 

[Jade Philosophies]

I check on old video game franchises I use to enjoy every once in awhile. It's been 24 years since there's been a new Darkstalkers game.

In 2 months it will have been 30 years since the first truly successful 3D consoles, the Saturn and PlayStation, were released. (The Saturn first in November 1994 then the PlayStation in December.)

 

[God's drunkest driver]

I check on old video game franchises I use to enjoy every once in awhile. It's been 24 years since there's been a new Darkstalkers game.

Could be worse, you could be an old mechwarrior/battletech player. Though it seems the newest mechwarrior games aren't horrible it's just gay what has happened to battletech.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I still don't see the '90s as being too far from now, yet the '90s are as far away as the '60s were from the '90s. Not just in time but also in ways and overall mentality.

 

[Jade Philosophies]

I still don't see the '90s as being too far from now, yet the '90s are as far away as the '60s were from the '90s. Not just in time but also in ways and overall mentality.

I'll re-post something I posted in another thread a few weeks ago:

Other than technologically and politically, things haven't changed in well over 20 years. I've posted the 2004 video before but this time I'll post it with comparisons from the same channel. So first off here are what the channel says were the "top songs" of 2023 (they don't have a 2024 video yet):

Now here are that channel's "top songs" of 2004, 20 years ago:

Finally, here are that channel's top songs of 1984, another 20 years before the previous one and 40 years ago from now:

Do you notice the stark difference between comparing the 2023 and 2004 videos and comparing both of those to the 1984 videos? Do I need to find the top songs of 1964 and 1944 to make the point even more? 1944 is 40 years away from 1984 like 1984 is 40 years away from 2024, but children and young adults today are still listening to and loving music from 1984 (and the 80s in general) yet in 1984 there wasn't a lot from 1944 that children and young adults wanted to listen to. And even songs they might want to, like Swinging On A Star, they probably listened to a newer version of.

Here is a video of a 10 year old boy at some modern band's concert. He wanted to play guitar with them so they bring him onstage. He didn't want to play one of their songs with them though, he wanted to play Sweet Child O' Mine by his favorite band Guns 'N Roses. Sweet Child O' Mine was released in 1987, which is 37 years ago. Can you imagine a 10 year old boy being brought onstage at a Guns 'N Roses concert in 1987 and him asking to play a song from 1950 by his favourite 50s band?

The fact is, other than technologically, society peaked in the 80s.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Other than technologically and politically, things haven't changed in well over 20 years.

With tech, I don't think there's been that much change since the late 20th century aside from electronics.

If I were to somehow magically teleport through time from America in the '90s or '00s to America now, then at first I may have no idea it's the future. The first sign that I traveled in time could be seeing people using "smartphones", noticing the now ubiquitous LED lighting (had I arrived at night), and maybe that the cars* are in a little different style, but that may not be for awhile. The freakish fashions "Millennials" and "Zoomers" like -- especially the former -- wouldn't necessarily convince me I'm in the future at first, as I may think it's just freakish new fashion trends of the present I came from. I could also be curious why so many "normies" suddenly have tattoos.

Space travel is still the same: risky rockets to orbit that almost no one goes in, and robot probes beyond. Still no flying cars, no cities in the sky, and not even the widespread use of futuristic architecture or fashion either. '90s/'00s me would be disappointed.

(reminds me of the December 30, 1989 Calvin and Hobbes lol)

* There were electric cars on the streets in the '00s and maybe the '90s though far rarer, so seeing electric cars would not necessarily be a sign of being in the future.

 

[Samhain]

I feel old when people in their late teens / early 20s ask me what life was like as a teenager in the 90s. I realized a while back why old folks would always refer to JFK's assassination as a sort of turning point, not just in their own lives, but from a societal viewpoint, because that's how I am about 9/11 now. There's a separation between pre-9/11 and post-9/11, not just in my life, but in American society in general.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

There's a separation between pre-9/11 and post-9/11, not just in my life, but in American society in general.

I still think 9/11 was the moment when the transition to Current Year Clown World began.

After 9/11, everything started becoming a pathetic broken parody of what things used to be.

 

[Mister Uno]

My oldest niece is about to be of drinking age and in college. I still remember holding her as a kid when she was born. Makes me feel ancient despite the fact I'm still young.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

I still think 9/11 was the moment when the transition to Current Year Clown World began.

And it came to a head during the Obama years.
I've never seen this country so divided and intolerant as now.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I've never seen this country so divided and intolerant as now.

Somewhat divided in 1861 too. But in the 20th and the 21st century so far, I think the division is unprecedented. And last time wasn't wannabe commies trying to take over.

 

[seri0us]

When an old photo of yourself becomes @The Last Stand 's profile picture..

 

[Phoenix Connexion]

I am today's year old when I learned that Novalogic's Delta Force 2 SOCCOMS .45 pistol is Colt M1911 pistol using the .45 ACP cartridge, the very one Agent 47's Silverballers are based on. Before Hitman, retro 90's Delta Force 1 & 2 games used both silenced and unsilenced.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Everything is new and exciting when you're a little kid.

When you're old, it can go "been there, done that" feel.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

When you can tell it's going to storm because your body hurts from the low air pressure.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

When you can tell it's going to storm because your body hurts from the low air pressure.

There's a Far Side comic (by Gary Larson) that pokes fun at that.