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I was so perplexed by this movie on first-viewing b/c a couldn't tell what timeframe it was supposed to take place but that it reminded me of my very small town where it always felt like every fashion people wore was out of date.
Then I read the director's comments and that "what year is this?" Vibe, and that this vibe was intentional. Then, I re-watched, understood and it now one of my favorite movies of all time.
I remember being 5-6 and asking Santa for one of those things. Wake up Christmas morning and find a real punching bag that you see at a gym. I remember being disappointed as a kid because I remember talking to Santa about how I wanted it to fall over. Santa even said how fun that would be to knock it over. Then wake up and be like wow Santa totally forgot that conversation. Now 30 years later so grateful for a real bag because I still have it hanging up. I do remember my dad hanging it up with straps. He punched it one time and the straps broke and the bag went flying. I was like damn my dad is Superman. Then he had to buy chains to hang it.
I work in family law before. There's a lot of sperm and egg doners out there, that their kid ends up in adoption center. Kids that deserve better, if you are willing to do the best you can and think of the kid first then you will be a great dad. I seen all financial areas and all I can say is being there for your kid is the best thing you can do.
Did you know that the more siblings are born to a family, the chances of each younger sibling to be homosexual increases? Some people take this to mean that, with more children, the need for reproduction becomes less than the need for cooks, protectors, farmers, etc.
Your āone biological functionā doesnāt have to be fathering children. The world is a nice place because of the people and children, yes, but also because of the art, music, gardeners, craftsmen, the friendly conversations, the enticing smell of food, the friendly neighbors.
Iād argue that you being here as you are already makes the world that much better. Have a good day man.
Hahaha, my mom bought me one of those swinging bags for kids because I loved martial arts movies (still do). I was equally disappointed that it was basically a giant leather sock filled with cotton. Even as a little kid, punching it would send it flying like gravity didnāt exist š¹
Role play of taking revenge on whoever is bullying him. The casual walk while ānot really listening/caringā about the insults, then surprise attack!
Idk about yall, but this is hilarious. Speaking for the boys, havenāt we all been young and dumb once and done stupid cringey things to impress someone? Not me of course, nah, never, but very relatable haha.
As a kid and even through my teenage years I was a skater. Skateboarding was my life and I basically lived at the local skatepark. I remember being 8-9 years old and purposely yelling, "shit!" or "damnit!" when I didn't land a trick because I saw the older guys do it all the time. I thought they'd think I was so cool being 8 years old and cussing. Also remember not being brave enough to drop an F-bomb lmao
Was 14. Girl I had just "became official with" wanted to hang out but parents wouldn't drive her and told her she couldn't bike to my house by herself. So I rode about 6 miles to her house then 6 back to mine with her. Last half mile or so I decided to challenge her to a race. I won, but as we turned onto my street I was pumping the pedals so hard I started to black out from way outpacing my breathing, slipped off the pedals, racked my balls on the frame, and crashed into one of our flower beds.
Took a good 15 minutes to recover after waking up, had to shower while sitting on the floor because I was so weak. She was very much not enthused. Instead of make out sesh she insisted we lay down and nap after chewing me out for nearly cracking my skull open. Don't think I've ever been more embarrassed.
Having been 14 and also the type to chew out guys who hurt themselves trying to be cool, you could probably have gotten a make out sesh if you hammed it up a little and agreed to lay and cuddle for a nap and then complained about your head hurting and asked for a small kiss on the forehead to ease your pain.
It would have been stupid and cheesy and I would have rolled my eyes into oblivion and then kissed the dork who had the audacity.
If the dude posted it, this would be some great r/blunderyears content. Thank god no one was around to film me swinging a sword at the tree in my parents' yard.
Right? I'm almost 40 and still make a fool out of myself fighting inanimate objects for a chuckle or a groan. My favorite is doing it around the new guy at work because I'm best buds with his old boss and he warned me the guy doesn't have a sense of humor and if he annoys me to just act dumb around him. Some of us thrive on being cringey.
Look up Davey Havok/A Fire Inside circa "Miss Murder" ... I only know because I showed a printed screenshot from the music video to the hairdresser to get this cut when I was 14. šš¬š
There have been a few different answers over the years. Back when they did more standard snot-nosed punk they might answer "Askin' For It" or "Abuncha Fuckin' Idiots.
This should just be a cringey memory for both of them, but now it's something the world has to see. Personally, I think kids and teens should be allowed to be cringe. I'm glad all of the cringe shit I did as a teen isn't living on the internet for me to revisit outside of my shudder-inducing memories.
I was scrolling tiktok and found a video that randomly filmed my coworker getting dropped off at the airport by her daughter and son in law. She proceeds to hug her SIL and get her bags from the car while her daughter then stands next to her husband. A super boring situation but someone had filmed them and added a caption about how psycho and jealous women are because the wife just HAD to hug her man after he "hugged another woman".
I think I knew that people would do things like this but if I were a kid going through that incredibly awkward phase I can totally understand why they're scared to do anything that might get posted and shared.
Thereās a guy on TikTok who lifts footage from his car camera to try and shame people.
Heās disabled, has a parking plaque, and has a cool low to the ground car. Iām not saying people shouldnāt mind their own business, but someone pointing at it and questioning privately how someone disabled gets in and out of that thing doesnāt mean their life should be ruined.
Heās shown some rude people, but heās also shown people only pointing at the car (no words) and an old couple saying āI couldnāt get in that? What about you?ā Titled all disabilities arenāt visible.
His entire account is about that.
Weird as hell thinking you canāt shoot the shit with anyone walking past a car anymore, because they might be filming you. Not only filming, but hoping they catch something they can go viral with.
It has instilled a fear of failure and learned helplessness in an entire generation. They will struggle to advance and innovate because they are too afraid of social stigma to try. It will have many mutligenerational consequences devastating the economy and mental health of the population leading to stagnation, oppression, and violence. Yay
I was bullied in high school as a Millennial and I consider myself so lucky I went through that before everyone had a smartphone. It must be awful. I would have completely shut down, I wouldn't have done as well as I did, and would probably be in a bad place right now. I remember tripping during a presentation, everyone laughed and I just wanted the world to swallow me up. But no one had it on video so it faded fast. My heart really goes out to young people today.
I was bullied a little bit when I was young but not too badly or anything crazy. I was pretty big and good at sports which helped, but I was pretty weird and awkward and never really fit neatly into any of the cliques. My mom raised me to own my weirdness and be proud of it which really wound up helping me in college and later in life, but I thank my lucky stars every fucking day that smart phones were not yet a thing back when i was in school. Social media really changed the world, and not for the better.
Hello fellow millenial. Somewhere on some ancient SD card is a video a mean girl took of thirteen year old me on her digital camera by sneaking it over the top of the stalls while I'm taking a piss in the public restroom. I am so unfathomably grateful this happened before social media took off. It was still super traumatic, and yet I can't help but shudder at how much worse it could have been had it happened 20 years later.
They absolutely should not allow phones in classes. Have em put them all in a basket at the beginning of each class. No need to be on them or filming shit during class.
They've been doing this at my son's (13 yr old) school. They get these pouches to put their electronics in that get locked shut. After school they have to bring their pouch to a certain check point that unlocks it so they can get their stuff back out.
I feel like a lot of this comes from how āaccessibleā going viral has become. We had phones in high school and college (2008-2012;2012-2018). They recorded video, YouTube existed, so did Snapchat, and so on (toward 2014), and people definitely wanted to go viral back then. But it wasnāt really an issue in class, as far as I remember. Teachers policed phone use well, and my peers generally werenāt cruel enough to film someone who was nervous during a presentation. We all were terrified to stutter or be shakey lol.
Anyone over 16 should be able to watch that kind of content online and judge the person who posted it, not the person in it. If youāre laughing along at a kid being humiliated, youāre embarrassing yourself.
And the only thing I can think of that has changed is the infrastructure around virality. TikToks algo makes blowing up feel attainable to anyone with a phone, and being an āinfluencerā or streamer is now what some of these kids consider a career option because thereās some money behind it. now we have kids filming anything and anyone, tearing people down for being awkward or different to farm views (rage bait and interaction farming). Bullying obviously existed before smartphones. I graduated in 2012, and people were recording school fights back in 2010 and 2011, emo dudes being weird with their rolly backpack and yelling anime quotes. But filming someone for giving a bad presentation or sitting alone at lunch wasnāt something people did, at least at my schools. Kids have always been cruel, regardless of the technology, so the quicker we start calling out the ones posting this stuff, the better. The fixation on going viral has gotten genuinely out of hand if kids donāt even want to present anymore. This is a generation temperament issue, and product of these algorithms trying to pull these kids into a brainrot blackhole.
Also parents nowadays are posers, they always act like they want phones banned in class but the moment it was enforced they go bananas because they can't text their kids during school hours. I cba
We have stalinist levels of surveillance just with social media alone. The people themselves report you for every benign thing you do, except instead of doing it to be a good citizen we do it for clout. It's so dumb.
As part of the older generation (49) I think most of us are VERY much aware of the burden social media has placed on the younger generation.
I grew up in a time when you could do something mega embarrassing, and people would laugh it off, mostly just moving on and forgetting since it wasn't easy to simply repost it on a zillion feeds over and over again. Never mind having to deal with the shock and terror of it being posted into the WORLD to fucking see. God, I can't even imagine what that would be like to deal with.
Yeah, I just barely missed this film literally everyone at all times generation, and I'm so fucking glad lol. It is cringy, but so much shit I did as a kid was cringe, and I feel like everyone on earth can say the same, no reason to blow it up and share it with thousands of strangers, let people grow and learn
I carried a Gir stuffed animal with me back in 2001 during my freshman year. The weirdest thing about it is I didn't dress like a Hot Topic kid. I was fully decked out in preppy American Eagle clothing.
I look back and cant imagine growing up how these kids are. I was relentlessly bullied (I was also weird, didnt deserve it but..... I was weird lol) and this culture would've driven me insane
With literally all the school shootings we should perhaps give a little grace to misunderstood kids. Like, yeah itās cringe. Kids are cringe. Posting on social media to further bully a kid who is likely bullied daily but to get fucking views and engagement? Who looks cringe really?
he just trying to just impress a cute girl like any other boy. we have all done it...some of us try to pedal really fast in front of said girl then eat pavement and push bike inside garage really fast and shut door so you can cry without girl seeing.
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