The new 'upbeat' national news
Ok, I've been hearing from things like Bowling from Columbine etc etc that the violent nature of some countries news (*cough*America*cough*) kinda scares the crapola out of people, making more people have guns etc etc
In New Zealand, this is not so. On 3News tonight (judged best (national) news) we see just how crusey and weird we kiwis really are.
This vidio apeared in snippits several times during the end of our comparitivly 'upbeat' news.
lol i love that thing. its funny cuz my bfs cat lies down like that kitty and its so cute ^_^
that made my brain hurt.now this is up-beat news
Naw - but biologically, this is pretty amazingeven though, this thread makes no sense...
what the fuck is this shit ?"...because she was petite, at 5-foot-3 and barely 100 pounds, while the bookshelf was heavy and about 10 centimetres taller."It is NOT OK to mix metric with standard, pick one or the other when writing a story.
lmaoThat had bothered me too. I'd almost gone as far as sending them an email about it.
....not funny
metenglish! You know, they were trying to switch us over in school. But they waited until we were in Jr High, it got quite confusing. Maybe the writer was one of my fellow students....and they wonder what is wrong with us generation Xers..
That is just sick...not funny at all. Throw a cat in there, now that is funny..Don't laugh at a babies death, or your gonna get a bunch of people flaming you!!
I hate you Gen Xers. But only cause I wish I was a part of your generation. My Gen sucks balls! We're called Gen Y, a load of preppy ass-kissers who do good deeds and always present their homework on time and suck eachothers balls! Oh how I wish I was a teen at the birth of Grunge, it would have been so cool to hear Nirvana for the first time as a teenager!
So do I.
It's still funny - I never thought of a microwave that way... like... never! A cat would be weird - I can't even picture it lol.
There are so many great things about growing up in the 70s, 80s and 90s. To experience MTV as a music channel and not just Pimped Cribs with plastic surgery and spoilt 16 year olds. The only things that weren't music were Beavis & Butthead, Daria and the brilliant little MTV logo bits. John Hughes at the height of his career: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!!! The Karate Kid!!! Empire Records! The original Star Wars Trilogy!! The Terminator! Back To The Future!! Clerks! When I first saw these things I was way too young to appreciate them and it was all just wasted on me at the time. The classic arcade games, Pac-Man, Frogger and Space Invaders! The music! Michael Jackson at his best! Madonna before she got old and semi-English! Queen!! Van Halen! Guns N' Roses!! Aerosmith!! Prince!!! Pixies! Sonic Youth!!! Metallica!!!The fucking Rubix Cube!! AIDS!!!!!!I just hate popular culture today so much, I just wish that I was born in the 70s.
I am sorry your jelous..lol. There were some cool things that came out of the 70's! Like ME But we're still messed up!!!
Its good to be associated with a time when star wars didnt suck, and hearing nirvana as a teen, and totally understanding it was fucking great.but being born in the 70s had downsides too.Fucking plaid bell bottom pants, and we wont even get into the shit I wore in 1976. We all feared Russia and nuclear war. Of course Saturday Night Live didnt suck then either. Johnny Carson was king of late night, I carried a fucking AM radio with shitty mono speaker blaring deep purple and Kiss the entire summer wearing cut off levis and tank tops, and a bad ass black felt, indian beaded Billy fucking Jack hat. I wish I had that hat, Id still wear the fucker.. Bruce Lee movies were still big fun, and I got my first pair of chucks back then. Cartoons were my church starting about 5 am on Saturday mornings, back when it was good to get up early to see the new episodes. I spent alot of evenings in the basment listening to Johnny cash talking to my dad while he lifted weights, and stayed out till dark every night jumping garbage cans on my bike.The 70s sucked, atleast the clothes, and that disco shit. The 80s brought me to david letterman and smoking pot, and I dressed better.and babies microwaved was sickening then ( I had one of the first big ass ugly microwaves, mom got it from dad on a mothersday and it was your basic expensive coffee reheater that took up a whole cabinet) and its fucking disgusting now.To laugh at an infants death ? that would make you one sick mother fucker, deserving of having a small hole cut in your stomache, and starting with a small piece of intenstine, slowley pulled out wound round and round a wheel, begging to have a sword driven into your heart and end your misery. Or maybe hung upside down to keep blood on the brain for long and a larg hand saw ripped from your asshole to just about the middle of your rib cage before the blood loss kills you, I understand its an interesting way to die.
Being 16 - I speak, you're right!I would've loved that old school shit! The classic music and the rebellion years. Hell, I could've punched those racists black and the stupid abyss Feminists in the mouth - make the world quieter! Freedom of Expression was way better back then.There were downsides though - like the not so good medicine, some laws that infringed rights... You know.I'd kill to go back to that era. Getting blazed! Today's stuff sucks - it's all fem. dom., everything that goes around is usually racist, and the music scene is filled with sell outs! Just plain sell outs!
I assume when you say "way too funny" you actually mean sick and tragic.
Don't forget Alice in Chains and when hip-hop was keeping it real.
for a brief time, people in my generation were refered to as "generation why" beeing a couple years older that the Xs we didn't quite fit the profile. We thought the Seatle grung thing was amusing but we were fans of their influences first.I hit all the Lolapaluzas. Loved the Crow (only part one)but frankly, most of my contemporaries were a couple years yonger than me during the 90s.
In reply to:We're called Gen Y, a load of preppy ass-kissers who do good deeds and always present their homework on time and suck eachothers balls!I haven't noticed this at all. I do notice, though, that young people now are much less confident, more uncertain, more dependent, less socially adept and I think more unhappy than young people were a generation ago. I attribute it to them getting less respect and less freedom than happened in the 1970s.
