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[dduane]

The best "online-ageism" rebuttal I think I've ever seen

Check this out.

...Gotta adapt this for myself to include CompuServe and Fidonet. :)

[doomhamster]

Reblogging for "I have usernames older than you".

[vaspider]

This username is older than a lot of people on Tumblr. I've been vaspider online since 1998.

My username can not only vote and drink, that bitch can rent a fucking car.

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

My main username has been able to legally drink for years.

[wanderrealms]

I have a hotmail account. I hung around forums and MySpace. I had a LiveJournal and a Blogger account.

The computer has been my natural environment since I was 5 years old.

[grokkensgrumblings]

I had a 5 digit ICQ ID, still have it somewhere.

I was playing MMOs in 1999. I've played MUDs.

I had MS messenger.

I had myspace, alt-net and BBs.

I came in as Grokken, I'll go out as Grokken.

I've used Yahoo chat before it got weird, though to be fair it didn't take long to get weird.

[citystompers1]

Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

[memebf]

man why didn’t they just have this guy fight him off. dude’s huge

[sigmaleph]

i wouldn't fight godzilla if i was this dude's size, for roughly the same reason i wouldn't fight a komodo dragon at the size i currently am

[squareallworthy]

Not even to save New York?

[sigmaleph]

what has new york ever done for me

[grokkensgrumblings]

Does anyone remember this little gem?

It came out in about 1990. I played it few times. It was very Monty Python.

[inthedarktrees]

Benita Bizarre’s henchmen, Woofer and Tweeter, kidnap Joy to steal her lovely singing voice.

Caroline Ellis as Joy in Sid & Marty Krofft’s The Bugaloos, 1970

[grokkensgrumblings]

I've got to tell, growing up in this era was trippy as fuck. You had this and Lidsville it was like an acid trip. And there were other weird shows. Sigmund and the Sea Monster, Puff the Magic Dragon which spawned Lidsville I think. The Banana Spilts, I have or had a cereal bowl with the band faces on it. The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show, it had fast paced quirky humor. The Bugaloos fit right in with that and made Saturday worth waking up for.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Wacky Packages stickers - Topps (1979 reissue)

[70sscifiart]

Wow, I hadn't heard of these!

"Known affectionately among collectors as Wacky Packs, the Topps stickers that parodied well-known consumer brands were a phenomenon in the 1970s―even outselling the Topps Company’s baseball cards for a while. But few know that the genius behind it all was none other than Art Spiegelman―the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novelist who created Maus." -this book

[grokkensgrumblings]

I got these as a kid, they were just so cool.

[thememedaddy]

[grokkensgrumblings]

Oh girl, I think you need to think about this.

[animentality]

[grokkensgrumblings]

Dad is showing that he is going to provide for his family.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Same

[allthefoolmine]

Reblog if you too do not want to share outside with them.

[grokkensgrumblings]

This is how life feuds start.

[exhausted-cryptid-deactivated20]

when it takes you a while to process what someone is saying and you realize they asked you a question

[doughfox]

I cannot fucking believe I am drunk, past midnight, and tumblr is throwing fucking saturated fatty-acids at me

[musicprincess655]

Listen here friendo I didn’t sit through a year of organic chemistry for you to come into my house and call a carboxylic acid a saturated fatty acid you respect that hexadecanoic acid

[bismuthcladbattleship]

And I didnt get a degree in biochemistry to hear you say that carboxylic acids with aliphatic chains arent fatty acids. That hexadecanoic acid IS a saturated fatty acid!

[mutttooth]

[groovysarity]

[caminholonge]

Apart from Cattywampus and Lollygag, yes I do! Discombobulated is one of my favourites!

[captainofthenx02]

literally all of these. I'm just very British.

[seventeen-bottle-street]

Not all of them, but flabbergasted, discombobulated, brouhaha, and especially shenanigans are important parts of my vocabulary!

[grokkensgrumblings]

The best words to start a kerfuffle at work is to talk about shenanigans and skedaddle before the bluenoses and wet blankets catch a clue.

[beemovieerotica]

[grokkensgrumblings]

The level of Rizz here put Leisure Suit Larry into a fetal position in the corner crying. Just damn. Girl got game, and dunked it.

As a straight guy, just damn; all props and respect. (mind you I wouldn't do that as it would be cringe, but yeah, she could pull that off and did.)

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

This ones for real folks

[grokkensgrumblings]

No really, it is a refurbished phone that may or may not have viruses and malware that is hardwired in so they can track you and hear any time you bad mouth the glorious leader. Trust him, it has none of these things.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[cb97s-babyygirl]

MAGAs are such snowflakes haha they cry and scream as soon as they have to taste their own medicine. Just a bunch of toddler in adult bodies.

[grokkensgrumblings]

Not true as stated. Merchandise did exist but was NOT official. That being said, no one spoke against it. So Official no, tolerated and quietly encouraged, yeah.

[classicalcanvas]

The Boat Studio (1876) by Claude Monet

[grokkensgrumblings]

As someone who was near-sighted for the great majority of my life, Monet gets it. This is what the world looks like for us the majority of the time.

[raygun631]

Starbucks cares more about Fair trade coffee than it's workers.

[grokkensgrumblings]

How do we know it's fair trade. By its OWN standards, of course. Look all I'm saying is if you are cheating your customers, your employees and your sources; I don't think your opinions are to be respected. If you are making that much profit, and you are paying your people who are MAKING that profit for YOU shit. You are shit.

If you can't treat the people who work for you fairly, you do not deserve the money you are making.

[jusjuiceboxbox]

Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

- knees

[grokkensgrumblings]

All of these. plus,

-Stretched

-didn't stretch

-stretched wrong

-didn't stretch wrong

-reaching that turned into a stretch that was wrong.

[prokopetz]

Having two branches of your family that are both "in agriculture" but in very different capacities is fun because every time there's a gathering you get to see people whose idea of The Big City is a community with a four-digit population attempt to find common ground with people who think anyplace whose population clocks in under six digits is a hamlet.

[grokkensgrumblings]

Where I grew up, and still live at the moment, the population for the entire area, town, suburbs and outlying locals; was about 1100 when I was a kid. It's close around 5k now, a large amount of growth for a farm community started in the 1840s and it is the county seat, center of local government. I work in the state capital, where the population is closer to 250k and I deal with people from all over the state on a daily basis. The culture shock for people who come from a town of 40 to 200 people visiting for business is HUGE. Massive differences in pace, points of view and just size. And I am not saying one side is right or wrong, it is just a very different point of view. If you are surviving off the land, your understanding of what the economy is compared to someone living in an apartment building with twice as many people as an entire town. Yeah, you aren't going to view the economy in the same way.