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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 24, 2011 21:48:50 GMT 2
You will be. Thanks to Cracked, who have compiled a list of the most crushingly depressing photographs and images of characters and icons from our childhood. What could be depressing about that? Take a look. www.cracked.com/article_19001_17-images-that-will-ruin-your-childhood.htmlA couple of points. 1. No fucking WAY is that Axl Rose. Surely, it can't be. That HAS to be a joke. 2. I call bs on the Prince hip op thing. He drives around in a little mini-scooter thing because he's awesomely insane. I saw him play live 2 years ago and he had more energy than guys half MY age. 3. When I was a kid, I didn't want a Gizmo. Fuck him. I had a Stripe doll and it was fucking COOL. 4. Stupid sexy Greedo! |
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Post by trashcanman on Jan 25, 2011 4:45:49 GMT 2
Gizmo caca! Fucking Gremlins. My mother hid all evidence of horror from me for my childhood and then brought me to see that one on the big screen. I ran screaming out of the theater and then later saw a commercial for those life-size Gremlin dolls and had nightmares about them coming to life and killing me while I slept. Good times.
And good God, do I hate the idea of feathered dinosaurs. I don't know why, but it just pisses me off somehow. Science has to ruin everything, doesn't it? The Beastie geezers bum me out too. I remember they actually issued an apology for the offensive lyrics on their debut album. Whhhhhaaaa? Ironically, they supposedly wanted to title Licensed to Ill "Don't Be a Faggot". And with no disrespect to gay people, I'd like to challenge the Beasties to live up to that discarded title. It's not like those songs are exactly filled to the brim with hate. Novaselic was always a dope too. Wow to that Axl Rose pic. He didn't look that bad a few years ago. What the hell happened? Arnie shows us what happens when you stop taking the 'roids. Sad but true.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 27, 2011 12:06:57 GMT 2
Huh, now that IS interesting. You were pretty much seperated from horror for years, and Gremlins gave you nightmares. Yet look at you now. How'd that happen, then?
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Post by trashcanman on Jan 28, 2011 4:32:17 GMT 2
I did a lot of catching up. R-rated Horror and anything resembling it was banned from my house along with rock music during the Satanic Panic (my mother was a Sunday School teacher). I once tried to borrow a novelization of The Terminator from my cousin and my mother caught me reading it and took it away. I managed to get away with watching Universal classics on Saturday afternoon airings and borrowing books about folklore with vampires and werewolves and the like from the library, but for the most part, I was not allowed to watch real horror until I was nearly in my 20's and moved out. The only reason that I even saw Gremlins was that my mom thought it was a kids movie and ended up writing a complaint that it was too scary for a PG rating. She wasn't alone and due to massive complaints Gremlins was the movie that caused the PG-13 rating to be created as a buffer between the kid-friendly PG and the adult-oriented R. My childhood trauma created the lamest film rating ever. Boo.
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