Take a big shit since I can’t shitpost
Yes, this is what people did back then
Submitted 9 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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countrypunk@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Since I am an absolute idiot who doesn’t know what happened back then in order to rake in money off of things like betting ( either legal or illegally ), probably just ( assuming I have 'em ) listen to CDs on my CD player and hop on computer and hope I have any good games.
cmeu@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Log on to BBS, play LORD and post to forums with local users, maybe chat a bit. Fire up sirdoom, waste a few bozos with a BFG. Drive to my buddies house maybe smoke some weed…
Samsy@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Calling friends and talk to them for hours.
Agent641@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Noo I’m using the dialup!
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
jerk it
Mickey7@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Agreed. That’s always a fall back to fill some time
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Pee lol
TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Jork it
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
With… Magazines? Shudder
jj4211@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Specifically, the magazines in the back of your older cousins closet they think they hid.
But you can get fancy, you visit your cousin overnight, who doesn’t have a spare bedroom so you just have to sleep on his couch in front of the TV that has just all of the channels on satellite… Especially those channels
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Party like it’s 1999!
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Gather as much money as possible and bet on the Chicago bulls to win 3 championships in a row.
jonesey71@lemmus.org 9 months ago
Now that is a parlay.
Mio@feddit.nu 9 months ago
I would make sure the family car accident don’t happen that year in October. Next thing would be to grow up and actually try to fix the climate problem so we reach the goal of 0 degree higher temperature on average. Imagine having 30 extra years to spare for this task. Telling how much damage it already have done and we have enough evidence that it is critical to start doing it now.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Am I stupid or is this sentence unparseable?
katkit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
[Imagine] you wake up in 1995. [There’s] no wifi [and] no cell phones. [What’s] the first thing you do?
jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
you’ve omitted “just.” If “just” were not in the sentence I would have instinctively filled it in with the missing words you’ve suggested. But I can’t reconcile “just” with any parse.
essell@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Does it have to be one or the other?
jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I didn’t say xor.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I buy relevant stocks to make me rich and revel in the fact that there is no internet again. I am 68 and have been there and done that already.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Yeah, anyone who answers with anything besides “invest in the tech companies you know will get huge, then get into bitcoin early and ride it all the way to $100k each” is going to fail to thrive.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 9 months ago
TV was shit, but online porn already existed. Only thing you’d be missing is doom scrolling memes and shit YouTube videos.
jj4211@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah yes, spend 30 minutes to download an image and print it out on your dot matrix printer to hide for use when you can’t access the computer.
aeroplayne@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’m just arguing here - but dot matrix was mostly irrelevant at that point. Inkjet, bubblejet, and laser jet existed.
saimen@feddit.org 9 months ago
Buy bitcoin
Samsy@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Too early
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ahh sweet freedom
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There were cell phones in 1995. Though vastly different from today still widely used.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Also, wireless internet connected devices existed, though the wifi standard was still two years off and they definitely weren’t widely used.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I really miss summers without wildfire smoke.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Am I a grown adult that wakes up in a foster care home and the child that was there previously is gone?
Do I have to spend the rest of my life without an identity, or clinging to the “delusion” that I was this child that mysteriously disappeared?Am I a child with 40 years of life experience?
Not long after, When I was 14, my first consensual sexual experience involved an 18-year-old. We got caught, and folks widely regard/regarded her as being inappropriate/in the wrong. Huh. First girlfriend, high school dances/romances. College. Jesus - every relationship basically forever.
If I proceed down the same path, does that mean I’m the creep now?Mickey7@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Envious of your first experience with an 18 year old
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
It was weird times. I mean, great. But weird and great to my half-cooked, traumatized, and hormone-addled teenage brain.
She was my sister’s best friend at the time and, well, physically she was like the girl who’d molested me as a child, which definitely had (and still has) an impact on my physical preferences.
I don’t exactly know what her deal was, but I think it was that any male attention just short-circuited her. I recall her telling me she loved me after a few weekends of sneaking around, and after about a month, spinning a yarn as pretext to try to move in with us.It’s probably a good thing we got caught a day or so after she moved in. Stupid football game. It pushed some TV show back, and my mom/sisters stayed up late to watch it. My sister (her best friend) came downstairs to check in on her and caught us in bed.
As for the how - I don’t know. I was an awkward gangly teenager, and she was honestly a pretty attractive girl. She had some self-confidence issues, I think.
It was like the first day she’d come over for a sleepover. I had never met her - my sister befriended her when we were in foster care, so this was not unusual - and I was instantly into her. I have no idea if she picked up on that or not. We were watching movies (me, 2 of my sisters, and her). The couches were occupied, and so I had a pallet on the floor. So did she. Our feet were under the big couch, hidden by the little skirt that all couches had back then, heads pointing toward the TV. I thought I felt her foot touch mine (but it was probably wishful thinking). I edged my foot over, discovering the distance between us was way too far for her to have accidentally touched me, and sort of bonked her foot with mine while awkwardly exploring. I pulled back just slightly and she immediately pressed her foot against mine. Footsie lead some sneaky suggestive glances, then surreptitiously bridging our blankets together and doing our best to conceal our roving hands. At one point during a bathroom break everyone had left the room, she told me her intentions, and I was very okay with them. We made a plan - I was going to go to bed, and she was going to find me after everyone was asleep. (She was sleeping in a guest room that was conveniently located - my bedroom was in the basement.) And that was that.She used to page me with “143” (code for I love you - which I don’t think either of us could know what that actually meant) and I used to page her back with same. We were so dumb and teenager-y. It was fun, but unhealthy. I didn’t get enough positive attention, and this sort of reinforced a belief that I could only be of service to someone sexually. If I wasn’t serving someone sexually, I wasn’t of value emotionally - another formative belief that was maybe not the best and is still hard to shake.
underscores@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
As a guitarist: get the biggest headstart possible learning music
PaulBunyan@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Take my routine morning shit. But instead of my phone I’m reading the label on the back of any bottle I can reach from the throne.
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I’d probably shit the diaper and watch my parents fight
Draegur@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
1995…
I was 10 years old and in the 5th grade.
And I remember everything, huh? Hoo boy. Hoooo boyyyyy.
First thing I do is write this list while it’s still fresh in my mind:
- ADHD is real and it will ruin my potential if I don’t face it head on. The medication won’t work on me yet, though, so tell Mom and Dad I NEED to get back on medication when my brain is more developed in a couple years.
- Also, for future reference: it isn’t actually a deficit of ATTENTION at all–it’s really stupidly named by neurotypicals who don’t fucking get it–it’s TIME BLINDNESS and a deficit of IMPULSE CONTROL and EXECUTIVE FUNCTION.
- Sugar is going to make me extremely sick and all my weight and fitness issues come directly from carbohydrate overdose. STOP drinking soda, and avoid refined/homogenized starch!
- I’m about to enter the most painful and traumatizing stage of my formative years. The middle school I’ll be attending starting 6th grade will be hell on earth. I need to keep my FUCKING mouth shut and not talk to ANYONE unless they talk to me. I also need to practice the skill of mindful dissociation and compartmentalization. Stoicism will be my only shelter.
- Yes the adults around me are morons and don’t know what they’re talking about, but broken clocks can be right twice a day. In this case, they’re correct about homework and studying being important for the wrong reasons: It is NOT about satisfying the expectations of teachers, but rather it is entirely for practicing the skill of internalizing and recalling information. I will not regret time I spend on it.
- Mom and Dad are struggling financially right now. Dad’s racking up debt while Mom is the only reliable source of income. That’s why they would “hold onto” my birthday and xmas money “for safekeeping”. it is neither kept nor safe; it’s gone. All of it. HIDE ANY MONEY I RECEIVE… and tell grandpa to buy stock in Apple.
- Express early interest in nuclear energy and pursue it with everything I’ve got. Approach via Mechanical Engineering. I’ll enjoy Computer Aided Drafting in High School.
- Remember the major incidents to come: Columbine and zero tolerance policy in 1999, also dotcom bubble crash, Al Gore will lose in 2000, WTC will be destroyed by a terrorist attack 2001-09-11, Bush Jr administration will cause the housing market to crash as well by 2008, America succumbs to Fascism in 2016, and there will be a global plague in 2020.
- I’m a furry and I am not actually a boy despite being assigned male at birth. Embrace androgyny. Get online. Find my tribe. Draw a lot.
atlien51@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Middle school CANNOT be THAT traumatizing 😭😭
Draegur@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
[Exactly how traumatizing it was--Caution: NSFL]
I was sexually assaulted in the locker room by other students. No one believed me. I subsequently experienced a psychological breakdown. The traumagenic dissociation plunged me through egodeath and I stopped being a person for a year. I was literally not myself again until 2009. I am still slightly messed up to this day, but the two decades that followed immediately after the incident were especially rough.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 9 months ago
Do I wake up at 6 years old? Or as I am now, but in '95?
Doesn’t matter, I’m watching fuckin POWER RANGERS.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have tons of crazy sex, do piles of drugs, camp, see live music, dance, sex, drugs, repeat.
Same as now really
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Find a job doing almost anything and being able to afford all of this is the best time traveling gift.
Also get a little house on that salary, oh if only.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 9 months ago
As if. I went into crazy debt. I’m still paying for it. But yeah. Boo hoo
JackLSauce@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean, your mom was around back then…
DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 months ago
Turn on my computer and play some Command and Conquer or if it’s weekday, get up and prep for school.
bizzle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have you played Tempest Rising yet? It’s good 👍
DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 months ago
not yet, no budget remaining :D
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Go see Jeff Buckley and tell him to stay away from the Mississippi River.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What was I doing in 1995?
I would wake up, pour some Frosted Flakes and play Donkey Kong Country.
What would I do now?
Go outside and take a slow walk through my old neighborhood and probably cry.
graycube@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fire up my PC and hit the dial up to check my email and BBS’s.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
BBS’s
You can still do that, if you want.
- SDF (shameless plug) is still around
- Tildeverse, a loose association of pubnixes exists
- Gopher and Gemini (a protocol inspired by Gopher) have had some minor resurgence.
isgleas@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
ascii
nudesartuser224@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
:::spoiler NSFW
(.)(.)
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wabasso@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Will you use Turbo mode?
graycube@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Also go outside to grab my paper to read the comics first.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
I’d hug my mom. Then I’d go ask the pretty next door girl for a date; I lesrned later in life that she also had a crush on me at the time, but since I was plain looking and slightly overweight nerd I never thought I’d hsve any chance with her.
After getting that out of my system I’d do the obligatory investing.