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No. 1568760

I had an idea for a thread I hope it’s ok.
Post your random childhood memories. This could get really sad really quickly, I know; there’s room for that but try to keep it light or at least weird.

No. 1568761

I’ll go first:
I was playing Superman with my brother and we convinced ourselves we could fly if we tried. He went first because he was older. When he started to jump out the window he realized it wouldn’t work and grabbed the curtain but it gave way and he fell ass first from the second floor. He was fine but there was a dent in the lawn until we moved. I did not jump.

No. 1568778

When I was in maybe preschool or kindergarten I realized my parents were much older than me and would die before me and I got really sad so I carved a heart with "I LUV U" inside of it on our brand new home bar and my mom got so pissed at me KEK

No. 1568782

I posted this somewhere once but I dunno where: I was with my dad in the first train car and I asked him if trains drive themselves and he said "no, someone has to drive them" but didn't elaborate. When the train stopped the driver cabin opened and there it was this woman with blond puffy hair smiling and waving at me. I wanted to be a train driver for some time after that, no idea girls could do that, it was really cool.

No. 1568786

my mother told me a story that her brother carved his name in something and blamed his siblings for it because "why would I carve my own name in something if i knew I'd get in trouble"
so i took blue nail polish and painted my name inside my closet and tried to do the same, blame my siblings kek
didnt work though

No. 1568789

When i was 9, 10 years old i would go on AIM chatrooms pretending to be 18 and talk with people. i remember there was one guy that messaged me and then shortly after seemed uninterested in talking anymore, but he had matching background and icon for red hot chili peppers, so i asked him about it and said "i love RHCP!”
i did not, in fact, love RHCP
perhaps this is for the confession thread

No. 1568810

At swim class we were instructed to yell out the name of a fruit before jumping off the diving board (to make it fun and distract from jumping in the deep end). Yelled out “pepper!”, got scolded by the teacher for that not being a fruit. Turned into a full on argument and parents had to be called there in person. and they also knew a pepper is a fruit but they told me to apologize for arguing but I was RIGHT reeee I will never forget lol

No. 1568811

>>1568782
I would love to be a train driver. Knew a lady who worked for Amtrak and the pay is great but the shifts are like 24 hours and sounds like you need connections to get the job…
I wanted to be a long haul trucker when I was a little girl lol I kind of still do

No. 1568812

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i remember being having my friend hacking my facebook ( i actually had given her my password ) and messing with my account, talking to people irl and instigating a fight with a girl a disliked. i literally cried my eyes out but not at the betrayal just the immense embarrassment it caused me, like she sent hearts to grown men that knew me irl which was so scandalous to me in primary school it literally made me sick. like i cried my eyes out and having a panic attack, had my entire family huddled over the 'puter trying to help me meanwhile my older brother was like i TOLD you guys not to make her a facebook this young this is what happens. she only tried persuading me into giving her the password again like a year later but i didn't give into the pressure. some years following that she lied and said that it was "her cousin" that did it but she admitted to lying in middle or highschool. we're still friends to this day kek.
also related to this i used to go on my brother's account and spam people with hundreds of msn winks or facebook emoticons/stickers(? i think they were called something else). or stupid shit like 123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz and other letter spams. i wasn't even trying to be annoying i had no clue what i was doing, to me i was just seeing things on the screen. i was such a little shit kek. i wish i could go back

No. 1568815

>>1568812
15 years ago I loved to guess passwords and break into account but I never did anything. I got into some model’s deviantart account because the password was her birthday but all I did was read her messages… fond memories of being a weirdo I guess.

No. 1568816

>>1568810
I was in English class (as a foreign language) once in middle school and the same shit happened to me, I said that tomatoes were fruits and not vegetables and people called me an idiot and said that I was wrong for once, but after debating for a long time the teacher conceded that I was right but she was salty about it.

No. 1568818

>>1568816
Same, my teacher was so damn salty about it! But I didn’t even get the satisfaction of winning the argument I got railroaded

No. 1568819

When I was little kid maybe 5 or 6, I got lost in the mall because I was jumping over every other floor tile and not paying attention. A bunch of old men in cowboy hats circled me and kept asking me where I last saw my mom while I cried and cried. The neon lights from the food court signs reflected on their faces and the black and white tiles of the food court, which makes me think it was just a nightmare, but according to my mom, it really did happen. She found me crying with a bunch of cowboys.

No. 1568822

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>>1568812
Reminded me.
I have a password journal and, one day, my friend/neighbor and another girl that went to our after school program came over because they were hanging out together. so i invited them in, and they went upstairs in my room. my friend saw my journal and yanked it open and started reading what i wrote in there, page by page. nothing scandalous, just about my pets and family and a few mentions of my crushes over the last few years, but having anyone know ive ever had a crush was embarrassing enough. she refused to give it to me so i ran into my mom's room and hid under her bed, crying. they came in and tried to get me out but i wouldn't, so eventually they left. i felt so betrayed, and that was one of two things at that time that made me cut her off and stop talking to her.

coincidentally, in the password journal was me talking about this boy i had a crush on 3 years earlier from another school they read out his name (along with the other crushes) while I was under the bed, teasing me. fast-forward to when i was 17 and everyone was moving from myspace to facebook, i added him, along with everyone else i went to school at from several different schools. i ended up talking with him for a while but he ghosted me when he found out i was vegan kek. then several years later, i saw on his facebook that he was in a relationship with the other girl from afterschool program, and now they have like two kids.
funny how that worked out

No. 1568823

>>1568816
>>1568810
I remember being about 6 or 7 years old and telling this to people tomatoes were fruit and they get so mad. Same with cashews! Cashews is a fun one to bring up

No. 1568835

I used to wet the bed as a child so I felt like it controlled me. One day my dad came home from work, I was maybe 8 or 9, and he brought home bubble tea for us. He bought one for everyone, mom and two sisters, except me. He told me it was because if I had any before bed I would just ruin the sheets. I remember my siblings laughing at me, drinking their boba with the family at the dinner table and running up to my room crying in the dark wishing I wasn't made this way. My youngest sister tormented me with my "secret" my whole childhood. Always getting what she wanted out of me since she could tell everyone my problem.

Sucks to be her now though because she's like the size of Shayna if not bigger and most people hate her. Fucking cow.

No. 1568840

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Don't remember exactly how it happened, but I was coming out of grocery store with my mom and somehow I've instantly lost her and started following another woman, totally convinced it was my mom because she had the same hair and probably a similar jacket or something. The weird thing was that I tried to take her hand and she would just keep taking it away. Then I looked up in confusion, and she was just looking down at me silently. I realized it wasn't my mom and I heard her calling me the same moment and ran to her like hell lol, the whole thing was probably 2 minutes max but I still find it odd and funny that the woman was so nonchalant about a strange child clinging to her. It's like I was a bug or something.

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>>1568835
i hate your sister too. fuck her.

No. 1568849

>>1568761
that reminds me of the time I jumped off this concrete ledge onto some garbage bags, fully expecting to trampoline jump and not slam the back of my head onto the ledge

thankfully there were no witnesses. I think if that happened today, I'd be on at least 5 Ring cameras lmao

No. 1568850

>>1568835
>she's like the size of Shayna if not bigger
Lmaooo

No. 1568851

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They (technically) brought this fucked up ride BACK?!

No. 1568858

I grew up in rural vermont and the landlord kept cows in the field next to us. If you walked into the field and the cows saw you they would charge at you expecting to be fed but it just seemed scary to us as kids so we were always sneaking around them, army-crawling through the grass to avoid being seen. Several times we were spotted and had to race through trees or slide under electrified fenced to avoid (???) being eaten by the cows or whatever we thought would happen lol. One time we climbed an apple tree but the cows wouldn’t leave us alone and a gigantic bull stood underneath us staring up and waiting until we yelled at the top of our lungs for help and our dad came out with a literal trident thinking we were being actually harassed by the cows because of our screaming but then he walked up and just pet it on the nose and chewed us out for scaring him lmao. I was so scared of that one bull

No. 1568968

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Being terrified of the animatronic Ben Franklin

No. 1568990

Did anyone's school make you stack cups in PE for elementary? I don't know if this is a whole US thing or just my state but they wanted us to have this be a genuine sport

No. 1568998

One time when I was about 7 or 8 my dad took me and my little sister grocery shopping. The song “YMCA” was playing and he asked me if I knew what it was about. I said it was about how it’s fun to go to the YMCA, probably because there’s a pool and a gym. He said no, and then said it was about cruising. I didn’t know what cruising was, and he proceeded to explain it.
As an adult I mentioned this story to my mom who was like baffled that he decided he needed to explain cruising to little girls.

No. 1569002

>>1568990
YES and I was so fucking good at it.

No. 1569006

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>>1568998
Somebody say Cruising?

No. 1569019

>>1568990
dude yes, and they shilled them to us desperately, and tried so hard to get us to sell them too
weird times

No. 1569021

>>1568990
dude yes, and they shilled them to us desperately, and tried so hard to get us to sell them too
weird times

No. 1569026

>>1569019
Today I realized it was a marketing scheme the entire time

No. 1569030

>>1569006
Kek what movie is that

No. 1569055

Quotev. It feels like just yesterday I was on there taking quizzes such as "which creepypasta are you?" and reading yandere prince/ghost/demon/whatever x reader stories, kek.

No. 1569075

Yall remember your first real fight where you whooped the ass of some kid that was really on your nerves? Universal experiences

No. 1569078

i remember that i had the most fun playing loz ocarina of time when i first discovered emulators. i felt like the hottest shit ever for doing so. i was 14 and had no friends
>>1569055
i did the same shit as a kid. tried to revisit for good ol times and i got bored in less than a minute. quotev is unbrowsable after you hit a certain age < 18 sadly. rip my laughing jack x reader sexy cringe time

No. 1569098

>>1569075
i only physically fought with my brother, never another kid from school or anything

No. 1569100

>>1569075
Idk even know how it happened, in 6th grade my friend and I were joking around and then next thing I remember is we were on the floor of our classroom scrapping it out. She was a lot bigger than me so she was pulled off of me by other kids almost immediately. I'm 30 now and still friends with her, I think I'm gonna ask her what she remembers about it kek

No. 1569101

>>1569075
A guy in middle school was being an asshole to me so I kicked him and punched him with my tard strength. He deserved more, but I was tired. Thinking about it, I used to get involved in lots of fights as a kid, being autistic sucks ass.

No. 1569107

My favorite childhood memory is how I used to build “caves”.
I really loved putting a pad between a dresser and my grandma’s bed, we used to spend a lot of time at my grandma’s house, then grabbing pillows and making walls with them, and then I would use different colorful blankets to make a ceiling, grass, a tiny pond and bushes, napping in the cave always felt fantastic to me, like I was in a really cool secret base that was just magical.
I used to bring to the cave my favorite pillows, my dolls and stuffed toys too, I would just lay there and daydream until I fell asleep.

No. 1569113

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I remember the "gifted" program at my elementary school where we'd go to the temporary buildings and do logic puzzles like picrel, I always thought it was fun

No. 1569115

I have so many fond memories of my childhood. Biking to the lake, picking berries, exploring the area around us, sneaking out to the visit the neighbor kids who lived "two fields" away. I lived out in the middle of nowhere, like 30min drive from the nearest store/gas station and the nearest house being a 20min walk. We had a lot of dogs so we always felt safe if they were with us. I miss this part of my childhood so much.

No. 1569118

>>1569075
only time I hit a friend was when she was relentlessly shit talking me and my bf (who abused me) I turned around and smacked her and she ran and kicked me lol

No. 1569119

>>1569075
Moid classmate in seventh grade wouldn’t stop touching my hair despite me saying no, slapped him so hard in the middle of the class that everyone turned around to look. he sat covering his face in his seat for the rest of the day

No. 1569121

>>1568778
Kek this is so cute.

My one is that when I became literate I found out about the whale lolita from a geocities website. When I was at my mums friends hair salon I took all of her business cards and wrote the url out for people to sign a petition for lolita. I was 8 and thought I was really doing something literring those cards all over the town centre

No. 1569143

Apologize in advance for Reddit spacing. I got a couple.

One of my first memories was of getting my picture taken with my baby cousin. I was 3 and he was 1. I remember the woman who took our picture had frizzy wavy brown hair that went down to her waist and she was wearing a dark blue hoodie.

I have another memory a few years later involving that same cousin when I was about 5. We are playing with the flying fairy Barbie spinner toys at the top of my staircase. I had the fleeting thought to just push him down the stairs while his back was turned towards me. I remember seeing him roll down the stairs crying.

I have another memory involving him when I was 8. My parents were too horny for their own good during this time and I became aware of it. We all slept in the same bed. I've woken up to my parents making out under the covers, I've woken up to them leaving the bed to mess around downstairs. I used to throw blankets at the staircase to let them know someone noticed and also try to get them to slip and fall. One day, my cousin spent the night and it was him, me, my mom, and my younger sister in the bed. I remember feeling a leg thinking it was my mom's, and I just decided to let some anger out and scratch at it. I started soft and scratched increasingly deeper, broken skin was getting under my fingernails. There was a hand periodically swatting at me, but I kept going for a while. Then, I heard my cousin starting to cry saying his ankle hurts. My mom woke up to turn on the light and I had to confess it was me doing it in my sleep.

I remember waking up one time my dad kept trying to fondle my mom early in the morning and my mom asked me if we wanted to switch spots because he was annoying her. My dad ended up trying to fondle her again and he quickly realized it was me. Throughout the morning, he kept asking me to make sure he didn't touch my privates.

I have an earlier memory of my dad waking up in the middle of the night to spank me because he dreamed I ran across the parking lot at Walmart.

I have some messed up memories involving my sister. When she was a newborn so I was about 6, I remember hearing babies bones are like jelly and they have more of them. My mom went to the kitchen for a bit and I decided to roll on top of my sister to see how strong she was. I remember hearing a slight crackling in her ribs and I thought I crushed her. I put her back in the place she was laying at like nothing had happened.

I remember a few months later, my older cousin, she was about 9, showed me how to suck on nipples, so we took turns sucking my sister's nipples as she was sleeping.
I remember once shitting in a small garbage can in my uncle's room at my grandparents house because the bathroom was occupied. I got shit smeared on the wall.

I remember dropping a full plate of spaghetti on the ground because I felt rebellious. My uncle yelled at me. While he was cleaning it up, I flung my shoe towards the TV and knocked over a vase filled with water and flowers. The TV had the Beetlejuice cartoon on and it turned itself off from water damage. I have a vivid memory of my grandma throwing floral scented baking powder on the spill.

I have a memory of my grandma taking care of my cousin's bird and I would keep pulling out his feathers. The bird liked hiding in my hair and it once pooped on my shoulder.

No. 1569160

>>1569055
same except quizilla (rip)

No. 1569182

>>1569075
This made me think about people that deserved good beating but didn't get it, sigh.
Anyway, there was a few of extremely annoying boys in my primary school that would constantly bother me. My classmates. They would follow me everywhere, try to touch me, raise my skirt, say obscenities to me. We were literally little kids, but they sexualized and harassed me constantly, until three of them changed schools–the remaining one wasn't as persistent and would only try to raise my skirt from time to time. I don't know what was the appeal though because I always had thick tights or leggings underneath. At first I would just try to run away from them, but a bit later I started to slap them hard and kick them in the nuts, I also beat them on the head with a thick book (which didn't make them stop though). My brother and I would also playfully bend each other's arms back then so I started doing it to them, and once I did it to an annoying girl that scratched my back with her claws, and she cried, saying I almost broke her arm. None of that I consider a real fight, I wish I had it with certain people, but…

No. 1569187

>>1569107
My caves were a lot simpler than yours but it's one of my favorite memories, too. It was so nice to hide in such a cave, or even simply under the table or in the closet.

In the 4th grade, a few boys from my class would take chalk and draw constantly on the block paving near the school building when we went for a 30-40m walk either before or after dinner, can't remember. But they didn't draw pictures, they just moved chalk to and fro with force to create chalk powder that they collected in jars and stored in their lockers. One time, I was coming back home from school and one boy that lived near tagged along and bothered me with some stupid talks, and then he remembered that he forgot his chalk powder jar and ran back even though we were already half way home. It was a complete mystery why they needed it, but I must say all of them were quite weird and probably autistic.

No. 1569251

One that always make me smile is one of the many times my stepdad took me camping. He's a huge nature nerd and a keen photographer. We would spend most of our time staking out animals to get the best photos. Obviously in our camo gear we looked like hunters, though. We were stopped at this little roadside store one time when these two men, also in camo, approached us like "hey, you're going hunting too! we've got these new rifles and we can't wait to try them out!" my stepdad lied and said we were hunters too and told the guy he was starting me early, I didn't catch on at first and was like, wtf? When the men went in the store he told me to get my Swiss army knife out while he got his. "you do the wheels on the left side, I've got the right" he said with this huge grin on his face. We punctured all their wheels and drove off laughing our heads off. Nearly twenty years later and we're still laughing about it. I love that man so much.

No. 1569255

>>1569251
kek I love this nona

No. 1569267

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Pictured is my pirate ship.
The seat was the upper deck, the area below it was the lower deck. The floor was the sea, the couch and sofas were land and islands. The rocking motion was sailing on the waves. Many adventures were had and riches plundered.
I still have the rocking chair, I had it restored.

No. 1569270

>>1569267
We had the same chair

No. 1569300

>>1569270
I love it, it doesn't really fit with the rest of my apartment which is in a modern style, but it's a favourite for guests: "ooh, a rocking chair!" they plant their ass with a huge smile forgetting to wait to be offered a seat.

No. 1569353

When I was in kindergarten, it was winter and we waiting to go for a walk. I was waiting near the door. The freaking NURSE walks in, closes the door and i feel a searing pain in my hand, yelping "OWOWOWOWOW". The teacher asks the door to be opened and inspected my gloved hand, it had blood all over my pinky finger, i think she muttered something like "oh fucking shit" and takes off my glove. Only then my puny little toddler brain realised My pinky finger got squeezed in the narrow part with the hinges when the nurse closed the door.
My finger looked like a fucked-up hamburger for several months after that, but now it just looks like a normal pinky with a barely visible scar. I think that dumb injury might be why im so cautious not to hurt myself kek.
Anynonnie have more stories of their dumb injuries?

No. 1569400

This was my stupid little nerd fantasy:
I was about 12 or 13 and I had just read a couple of books about astronomy. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, so I had this idea for the next science fair that I could gather all the elements, pop them into a container, and try to recreate the big bang on a smaller scale. Never ended up going through with it or actually seriously planning it out, thankfully. That could’ve been incredibly dangerous and quite literally explosive. Definitely not something for an ambitious middle schooler to try in her living room. God, was I naive.

No. 1569410

>>1569400
How exactly were you going to gather all the elements? lmao

but what if that's how the universe was made?

No. 1569416

>>1569353
In elementary school I went to drink from the water fountain and slipped busting my lip on the faucet and bled all over it.
For the rest of my time there I could see the mark it left inside the fountain and always thought everyone else who used it was drinking my blood water

No. 1569614

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>>1569353
my parents were arguing about something and I stepped backwards to get out of their way but i accidentally stepped on our shitty cellar door (like picrel) and it gave way so I went down with it on my ass all the way to the bottom of the steps. I held the side of the door on instinct while it was moving. I walked up the steps and told everyone I was totally ok, don't worry, it was like riding a sled! everyone was relieved until my dad saw my hand. when I looked down it was absolutely covered in blood, like dripping wet. I was sliced all the way across my fingers (at the level where you would wear a ring). I was convinced my fingered were basically chopped off and I started screaming lmao (and had many nightmares later about it) but I guess it wasn't that bad because I didn't get stitches. I just wore bandages for a couple months, I don't even have a scar.

No. 1569641

Every summer we went to pick blueberries deep into the forest on the other side of the country for 2 days. One time i thought i was old enough to walk around the forest searching for mushrooms while my family picked the berries and i went too far. I got lost but i also got stuck in a swamp and i couldn't pull my feet out. Luckily my dad heard me screaming but i was quite far indeed.

No. 1569657

I'm not a weeb and I hate anime but I did grow up on cutesy east asian gyaru type things and I have such nostalgia for that 2000s vibe. Unapologetic pinks, ribbons, and patterns, rilakuma everywhere, blinged out flip phones with cute charms, maplestory, egg magazine. You know the vibes.

No. 1569709

This is buggie
Buggie say hi
Yay for buggie
Buggie die

I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee
Oww! It stung me

No. 1569745

>>1569353
When I was 8, I got frostbite on my feet. It was a snow day and I was only outside for 30 minutes. I figure how I got frostbitten was because at the time I was unaware of having raynaud's, I thought it was a normal phenomenon that everyone had, and snow got in my boots. My feet went painfully numb, I trudged back home, and announced at the bottom of the stairs to my mom that I couldn't feel my feet. Thankfully still have all my toes but my feet look like shit. I had to stay in for recess for the rest of the winter but I didn't mind because I got to draw or read books. I don't mind snow but don't ask me to do any activities in it.

No. 1569749

>>1569745
I've ran around in the snow barefoot without any issues but the amount of injuries trees game me makes me think I am a winter fairy and you are a spring fairy.

I climbed a lot and I've fallen but it's not to the ground it's branch branch branch branch branch. I've also gotten tons of splinters and managed to get an unblossomed flower bulb under my eyelid.

No. 1569758

As a child I would experience random laughing fits. I would just burst into laughter over nothing. It felt just like uncontrollable laughter over something really funny but it was over nothing at all.

In the same age range (barely too young for pre-K) I would have these strange dreams (?) wherein I would awaken in my bed, walk out of my room to the staircase leading downstairs, grab the cap of the post at the top of the staircase and swing my whole body down the stairs. Before I ever made contact with the ground I would always wake up in the downstairs living room couch, every single time.

No. 1569760

When I was in first grade I didn’t want to go outside for recess (I can’t remember why, I think I was avoiding someone) so I forged a note from my mom to the teacher and for some fucking reason I thought the most adult thing I could do to trick the teacher into believing my mom wrote it was make the note rhyme, because rhyming was like an adult skill to me or something lmao. So I wrote “Stay inside, Play inside.” I think I might have signed it “mom” too lol

No. 1569764

>>1569353
Spent 4 weeks at home healing a facial injury from a bottle rocket accident because my parents didn’t want the school to think they were beating me (it was a fantastic fucked up black eye, they said I was “sick” and I had to lie which was so shady lol) BUT the very first day I went back to school I slipped on an icy slope and severely skinned up my face. It took just as long to heal. I was pissed and of course I had to go to school with that one

No. 1569767

I would ask my grandma to make me and my best friend a 'fiesta' for lunch which was just basically a baby's first charcuterie board (ham & cheese cubes) and we would eat it in a makeshift fort in the garage

No. 1569769

>>1569764
And the first thing the teacher said when she saw me was “haha oh no your parents are gonna think we’re beating you!” which is kind of an adult joke to make to a first grader. I was not amused.

No. 1569771

>>1569760
Sooo cute

No. 1569774

My sister was 4, I was 6. We were at a summer day camp at the rec center and every day there would be a swimming time. My sister turned to me at about 10 AM and pulled down her pants, told me that she had forgotten her swimsuit bottoms and asked if she could borrow mine. I told her no because then I would have no swimsuit bottoms! It ended up working out in the end because another girl packed an extra swimsuit.

No. 1569816

I remember in elementary school we had to watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (this was in like 2002 probably). They turned the lights off and made us sit on the floor, which was painful after a while. There was a girl drinking pure lime juice from one of those lime-shaped bottles, and it smelled really strongly.

No. 1569844

At one halloween party we were all expected to bring in food while wearing costumes and watching spooky movies. Someones mom brought in a fake cat litter cake. No one would eat it except 3 of us because it grossed them out. It was really good so I had two or three slices.

No. 1569858

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Watching movies and associating meals with them. If you have siblings know yall had family movies you had to rewatch tons and in the breakfast scenes they'd be clacking orange juice against the table and pretending to eat scrambled eggs or whatever. I never actually ate any of the food they would eat but I would think about it and pretend I was lol. My bologna sandwich contained multitudes. You can't tell me the grubs in the lion king didn't look delicious. If you can read this ancient scribe then you know.

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>>1569858
Seeing this picture unlocked a lost joy i will never understand again

No. 1569867

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I remember my sister and I being obsessed with poptropica. It was mind blowing when we found out we could find tutorials for islands and epicgamehax online.

No. 1569873

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I want picrel back so bad. saw it one time at a walmart years ago but haven't been able to find it again. Fav childhood snack.

No. 1569881

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>>1569873
These were perfect for kids I'm mad they're gone. BRING BACK THE MINI CHIPS IN CUP!

No. 1569882

>>1569873
When I was a kid I pretended they were the candies they threw at the soot balls in spirited away and chomped them

No. 1569930

>>1569881
i remember i would eat the mini "3D" Doritos out of those containers like a little rat man. unlocked deep memories just now… so many cheesy, nauseating car rides in a mini van

No. 1570017

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I loved these books. I would usually get them for Christmas or New Year in primary school, had only a few of them: Wizards and Witches, Dragons, Fairies and Elves, and Dwarfs. The way they were designed was amazing–so magical, they were full of illustrations, lots of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and it was really interesting to read them, too.

Only I was so scared of Dwarfs I hid this book in the old grandma's clothes in the wardrobe, completely forgot about it and found it by accident 3 years later. Some pictures and stories legit scared me, there was something so sinister about these little chaotic creatures. I knew that magical world WASN'T SAFE. Looking back, probably the majority of stories were about stupid disrespectful people that had it coming, but some dwarfs were just too fucking sensitive and vengeful or totally unhinged.
I remember one story about two farmers and a babushka gnome (that was almost a splitting image of my babushka) that left her broken spatula or something outside of her little… burrow, for people to notice and repair. One of the farmers noticed it, repaired it and left it where he found it, saying loud that he wouldn't mind some freshly baked buns in return for his favor, and later he noticed two buns wrapped in cloth. He instantly ate one and offered the remaining one to the second farmer, but he said he was going to keep it as a souvenir because he wasn't sure what was the contents of the bread (he thought it could've been made out of some earth, mold, and magic), and later the latter farmer was so happy he wasn't as naive as the former one he laughed and wheezed and jumped. His joy didn't last long because later he started feeling really bad, he suffered from severe stomach ache whole night and started violently convulsing and foaming at the mouth by morning. Then he died. He was TOO UNGRATEFUL. He definitely could've been more respectful tho.
I've just looked up some pictures that used to disturb me, and I realize I was quite impressionable. I was sure the angry house gnome had the scary greedy Bilbo face but it's so tame in comparison. A bit disappointing.

No. 1570023

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>>1570017
I have similar books, collections of folklore, mine are Dwarves, Fairies, and Giants. They are much bigger than the ones in your pic. They also have great illustrations, made by the same guy that did concept art for the movie Labyrinth. Pic related.
I also read a lot of fairy tales, the classic Grimm ones, local ones like Baš Čelik, Russian fairy tales (it's always winter in those stories), Iranian fairy tales (old Persian tales of jinns and sultans), and many more.

No. 1570038

>>1568782
>>1568811
Wut really. Where I am (not wherever Amtrak is) they're basically begging for people to sign up to become train driver because of nation wide shortages, the pay is shit from what I've heard and there's basically no opportunities for growth.

No. 1570072

>>1570023
These series look great! I wish I had these too.
Yeah, I had a lot of these too (although I probably didn't read about Baš Čelik but I could just forget), and I distinctly remember Tales of the Peoples of the North that included fairy tales of Far East and Siberia. These stories were pretty repetitive: a monster kidnaps a young woman and three brothers go one after another to save her–one of them is clever, another one is strong, and the youngest is a fool (loser, weakling, etc). Nevertheless, intelligence and strength don't help the brothers at all, they usually have to jump over the fire iirc and, inalterably, they turn into firebrands. In Russian, it was головешка (goloveshka), seeing the root of this word I though it had to do with a head (golova) and I imagined them turning into little blackened shrunken heads. The fool managed to defeat the monster either by deceiving him or out of sheer luck and married the girl of course. I find it interesting that useless/lazy fools are often winners in the Russian fairy tales. Female characters are often victims of domestic abuse that encounter magic creatures or Baba Yaga or whoever and get rewarded for their work and humbleness.

No. 1570084

EDIBLE GLASS nonnas. The best food i've ever eaten and it was never seen again. It wasn't like your ordinary edible glass though, when i tried to make it at home from a recipe on the internet, it didn't taste anything like it. We got like 10cm squares and circless of the glass when i was like 4 or 5 years old on a holiday we have before christmas along with edible paper, edible rocks and edible grass. These glasses were sparkling slighty holographic and tasted like pure heaven. It was the most perfect sweet and slightly fruity but i've never eaten anythign like that ever again. The edible rocks were nice too, but they weren't chocolate inside like they make them nowadays, i wonder what they were made of.

>>1569758
oh i miss laughing fits! They always made me feel so good, it was a crazy shift from being a kid that laughs at everything all the time to depressed teenager.

No. 1570097

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>>1570072
You might like Iranian fairy tales, the smart girl/boy always gets the sultan/sultans daughter.
Intelligence/wit/education is highly valued. However, those tales do teach you that fate/luck trumps all. And they're not wrong.

No. 1570116

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One of the few joys i can remember from that time, brushing my teeth was genuinely one of the best parts of the day

No. 1570121

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>>1570116
Also Barney, I loved Barney, specially this song, it brought me so much joy, sometimes i randomly think about it, it would be so cool if it rained gum and lemon drops, while the sun shines bright on an sleepy afternoon

Sniff

No. 1570124

>>1570116
I always pretended to wash my teeth by letting the water run and instead just ate the toothpaste.

No. 1570129

>>1570116
i can taste this pic

No. 1570131

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Couldn't nobody tell me shit when I was wearing these, i felt like the prettiest, pinkiest, most glittery princess in the area, my every step was infused with sparkly magic, or at least that how it felt kek

No. 1570139

>>1570124
you just reminded me of the time I was at camp and we all had to brush our teeth but the bathrooms were busy so I decided to squirt toothpaste right into my mouth instead of going to brush my teeth. I felt so fucking sick after that.

No. 1570157

>>1570116
I bought this toothpaste recently while high specifically because I wanted to relive this but it made my teeth so sensitive. I need my sensodyne I guess.

No. 1570160

>>1570116
I used to put some in my noseholes and see how long through the schoolday I could go before I had to go to the bathroom and shoot the hardened toothpaste nubs out with a rapid exhale

No. 1570164

>>1570124
I didn't know for years you weren't supposed to swallow toothpaste so I did until I was 6 or 7. Maybe that's why I am the way I am today

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No. 1570171

>>1570121
Standing outside with my mouth open wide
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

No. 1570192

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>>1570171
Drink and be refreshed nonnie

No. 1570195

>>1570171
that reminded me of one time i stood under the edge of the roof where the rain water was coming off and let it go into my ear and fill up. i got a horrible ear infection right after and i knew it was my own fault.

No. 1570393

we got a computer when i was maybe 7 or 8, i think i used to play games on it for a while before i knew the internet existed. then i remember my uncle showing me the internet one day, he googled the word 'salt' and i remember saying to my parents "they even have a wikipedia page for salt!"
i just couldn't believe there was a whole page dedicated to salt.

No. 1570451

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One time I was watching Chihiro in the living room while my mom was ironing some clothes next to me. Gifrel came up, and I asked my mom if the rice balls had onions in them and if that's why Chihiro was crying, as I found onions too spicy at that age, and always started crying when I ate them, too. My mom looked up, thought for a bit, told me, yeah, and went back to ironing stuff.

No. 1570460

>>1570451
LMFAO this is so cute nona

No. 1570534

>>1569075
Yeah, I ended up snapping and kicking my best friend because she was annoying me on purpose by pretending I liked some guy and making fun of me, she didn't deserve it and I still regret it. After that though I started to hit, bite and scratch my bullies and they started to leave me alone, although they still talked shit about me.
Also in middle school I had a moid classmate next to me so he would "behave", I asked to change seats for months so he would stop annoying me, one day I eventually had enough of it so I punched his nuts in front of the whole class, he called me a pervert and said that girls should slap boys and not punch and called me a pervert for years. All the girls covered for me so I never got in trouble for it although the teachers still knew I probably did it they really hated the guy too, after that we "mysteriously" changed seats 1 week later though.

No. 1570541

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I was thinking about this lately, I really miss the comfy nights in the 90s/early 2000s when I'd watch movies on TV. Watching reruns of American blockbusters and Home Alone every Xmas was fun and I didn't know I'd miss it so much.
I miss when I'd watch telenovelas with my grandma before bed time. The Clone and Terra Nostra , Salome, Muneca Brava and Thalia songs spark so much nostalgia inside me.
I miss those times so much and I miss my grandma.
Don't get me started on 90s Cartoon Network, the world was so different back then.

No. 1570544

>>1570541
So true. Have you seen the nostalgia thread on /m/? Such a trip! >>>/m/194636

No. 1570556

>>1570541
the other day i was listening to the tv through my neighbours windows and it gave me such a nostalgia trip. We stopped having cable a year ago in my house. I honestly miss tv, i dont like most current shows and binge watching a full season in a day feels so soulless.

No. 1570576

Was biking home from the lake with my brothers but our dumbasses forgot to bring water so we were all very thirsty after being out for a few hours. We stopped at one of the few houses on our route home to ask if we could get some water since we knew the people who lived there. No one answered but my brother turned the knob anyway and it was open. No one seemed to be home so I went in, filled up a 2 litre bottle from their recycling and we left. I still feel bad for entering their home but damn we were thirsty.

No. 1570613

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were any other anons into animal jam? It was super popular at my school. It was the only thing kids would play when we had free time. I didn’t own a computer so I would walk to the public library and play it there after school. There was this whole fiasco at one point where a bunch of people got hacked because almost everyone used their school IDs as their password. not me though Then when we entered middle school everybody immediately stopped playing it.

No. 1570627

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If you ever played this game and ESPECIALLY if you ever used cafe, i'm so sorry.

No. 1570637

>>1570627
this game is so good, its a shame its filled by tard children otherwise it would be a really good game

No. 1570645

>>1570627
oh my god i used to play this back when i was 11. i was obsessed with the cafe, unfortunately.

No. 1570722

>>1570627
So many weird people roleplaying sex in cafe for some reason kek. I did really like the little rat designs in game tho, i think they were cute

No. 1571102

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I really wanted a Furby but we couldn't afford it, so I would just watch my cousins playing with theirs and sigh. And then these things came. Surely they weren't like original ones at all: you couldn't interact with them, they weren't fuzzy, their eyes just stared soullesly kek. If I remember correctly, you actually had to have two of them so they could say something (repeat one "phrase" monotonously a few times), because they had these buttons and other thingies on their paws and they activated each other, something like that. But I still really wanted one!
I don't remember exactly why my mom and I went for them exactly that day, maybe we were returning from somewhere, but it was autumn, and it was raining, and it was getting dark pretty early in the day. And we couldn't find furbies anywhere! They were sold out or something. And there weren't as many McDonald's…es as now in my city, probably less than 10. We traveled by metro between them and ended up on a station quite distant from our house. It was one of the stations that gave this characteristic metro smell that I've always loved. That's where we eventually found a furby, bought me a happy meal, and then went home. It was probably the fourth McDonald's, and we got a pink Furby. I actually don't remember if I got second one later or the same day: maybe we were looking for the second furby to make them work? But the second one was yellow Shelby. This memory makes me very sentimental now when I think that my mom was so determined to get me this silly Furby she traveled through whole city in that dreary weather, and she wasn't annoyed and didn't make me feel guilty about it at all. That's so sweet.

No. 1571120

>>1570645
There's a high chance we knew each other or even fought before kek, i'd share my username but idk how much i'd out.

>>1570722
Cafe in general was weird lmao, it was like super weenie hut jr /b/

No. 1571154

>>1571102
you sure you wanted one? because many people me included experienced them being possessed, turning on in the closet without any batteries.

No. 1571172

>>1571102
Your mom sounds like such a good mom.

No. 1571175

>>1571102
that's such a sweet memory, nonna.

No. 1575814

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When I was little there was a radio station specifically meant for early 2000's hits that would play Toxic by Britney Spears a lot, and I was always sort of creeped out by it. I remember it coming on while my older sister and I were waiting in the car for our mom and my sister scaring me by telling me that the song was about Britney being forced into relationship with some grotesque zombie and that she was calling him toxic because it was literally eating away at her like acid. She claimed the high pitched violins and that part with the ominous singing was the zombie singing which freaked me the fuck out and I've been deathly terrified of the song for a while after. Now I always associate Toxic with zombies whenever I hear it. She'd also often show me the music video to that Beyonce Lady Gaga telephone song which I would have vivid nightmares about. Then there was also that zombie parody of you belong with me.

No. 1575819

>>1575814
Why your family hate you like that

No. 1575850

>>1570613
YES, I played it into 5th grade. I remember my login info but I think they wiped accounts that had been inactive for 3+ years. Monday rares were the best, I remember when fox hats were sold and I purposefully didn't buy any because I thought they were ugly. Same with worns, but I loved my spike collars. Falling phantoms, trying to break the ice, all the mini games, god animal jam was the best. It's still around! I sent them an email trying to see what happened to my account a few weeks ago, I forgot to check in with my mom to see if she got a response (I had it sent to her email that my account was under). I downloaded the old version at the site but I refuse to play it until I find out if my account's still around

Also shout out to the poptropica nona upthread, I actually remembered it a few years ago 2018/2019ish, it's still advertising diary of a wimpy kid and yes I still had to look at tutorials then.

No. 1575906

>>1575814
I love this lmao

No. 1576118

one time when i was 13 i was lounging in a bathrobe on the coach after a shower, and i farted, but it wasn't a fart. And I also had not put on underwear yet. The couch was white/grey and my parents lost their minds at me kek. It was so unexpected for me though that when they started yelling and insulting me I just started laughing uncontrollably at the situation, which made them madder. To this day i've never heard such vitriol from them as the evening their 8th grader shat on the couch.

No. 1576150

>>1575814
For once something on this shitty website makes me laugh.

No. 1581342

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I really liked b horror movies as a kid and it was a highlight of spending time with my dad and uncle. For my birthday they would rent me all kinds of ridiculous older movies, one of them that scared me shitless was the Creepshow tape. There was a segment called The Raft where a group of friends were swimming and this sentient blob floating on the water would kill them and burn their flesh off. When I tell you I was like scared any time we were in the creek indefinitely. I would never swim away from people or go in water alone because my child brain deduced that the creature would get them first and I could swim to shore. I watched Pirhana and would not even take a bubble bath because I would swear them shits would come to get me. I also maintain that being afraid of water I couldn't see clear through was normal and instinctual because why the hell would I just look at a body of water and say okay ill just jump in here

No. 1581367

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>>1568760
i remember coming home from middle/high school to play this game and then playing it for hours during summer/winter break while watching the adult swim kek rip ragnarok online

I've been hardcore reminiscing my childhood lately,
i swear the 90s was the sweet spot to be a child; right before technology was big… and then a teen in the early 2000s for tech and internet, which was the wild wild west back then.
Now people just shove an ipad into a toddlers hands as soon as they can, people can't concentrate on anything, tv/anime lost its charm and quality, and everyone is depressed with a list of mental illnesses. Send me back in time please.

No. 1581379

>>1569873
oh FUK yea. i loved the chocolate chip cookie ones, little tiny half spheres of choccy chip. the cheez it ones didnt taste as good as the actual cheez its imo.

when i was in elementary school my best friend and i went to the bathroom by ourselves. she told me it'd be funny to lock all the stalls from the inside and i went along with it cos why not. we do that, and go back to the classroom. minutes later another teacher walks in and is like "omg who locked all the stalls in the girls bathroom" and teacher lines us all up and wanted the perp(s) to confess and i break down crying and said "iT wAs MeEe". my friend NEVER confessed and i was brought to the principal's office and the ladies who talked to me about why what i did was wrong were super nice and i COULD NOT stop sobbing because i felt so fucking bad, i hated getting in trouble. they were even telling me that i did not need to be so hard on myself about it, just don't do it again. i don't think i even ratted out my friend at all. i never held it against her or brought it up again as far as i remember, but i'm kinda fuckin salty she never had to come out about doing that. and i remember she was the one who brought it up in the first place. but it's nbd.

No. 1581456

>>1581367
right there with you nona, i think of this a lot lately

No. 1581590

>>1581367
i'm 24 and started using the computer regularly around 2006. hate to sound like such a zoomer but i'd love to be a bit older just so i could have experienced earlier internet.

No. 1581607

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this shit tasted so fuckin good. i dont even care. i always hid them from my friends when they came over because they were FOR ME and i never wore this shit i straight up ate it like candy. this is probably what gave me the tism.

No. 1581714

>>1570645
>>1571120
you're either julia, anna or yaku because those are the only cafefags i can imagine would go on here tbh. or maybe just some random newbag cafer kek

No. 1581770

>>1581607
Lmao nooo
I did the same thing with crest kids sparkle toothpaste. Put a little on my toothbrush then real quick put a little straight in my mouth as a treat before brushing and you better believe I didn’t spit it out when I was done

No. 1582103

>>1581607
Wait a fucking minute did they have a cupcake flavor? If so then thats the lipgloss I stole because I wasn't supposed to have any and it was so delicious I was obsessed

No. 1582118

A new Sideways Stories from Wayside School book came out in 2020

No. 1582814

this music video that played at the end of The Swan Princess on VHS

No. 1582839

Ok got a mildly sad one sorry but I’m remembering growing up in a cat hoarder home. Just started with one cat but another cat came along and then there was a litter of kittens and then those cats started breeding which completely shocked me as a child because I didn’t know inbreeding could happen (that was her son wtf was my thinking). Eventually there were so many cats. Over 100 at peak population, at least 40 cats constantly. I learned so much about inbreeding side effects (in cats) and heat cycles. My parents didn’t believe in spaying or neutering, it was against god. We had cold winters and constructed elaborate mazes of straw bales under tarps for the cats to live in. We called it Kitty City. If anyone I’m related to sees this they will instantly know what I’m talking about lol but it doesn’t matter

No. 1582884

Aside from this being one of the greatest cartoon movies of all time no contest, I know I can't be the only one who used to find a big stick in the woods and sing this by the creek when they were like 4.

No. 1582889

>>1582884
I also liked pips from ferngully a lot which my mom hated lol… where are my old bitches at

No. 1583094

>>1582889
I still own and love fern gully

No. 1587500

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the skinny man v. big man infight in unpopular opinions >>>/ot/1586730 made me recall a weird memory.
when I was 14 or so I drew a skinny bishi-style shirtless man and my dad saw it. I was too focussed on getting the muscles right to even consider being embarrassed he was shirtless or think of it in a horny way but I guess it bothered my dad and he started asking me if I preferred thin effeminate guys. he immediately had some weird theory about it which I can't remember except I thought it was interesting or funny. somehow it came to asking me if Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt was more attractive. I said Johnny Depp immediately (it was like 2004 I didn't know ok). Somehow this really bothered my dad and he got really worked up about that being the wrong choice and Brad Pitt's body being objectively better until he honestly started to get upset with me and I just lied and agreed with him to get him off my back. Such a strange conversation…. in 2004 who would you have picked, nonies?

No. 1587505

>>1587500
I don’t know why but boomers LOVE Brad Pitt

No. 1587514

>>1587505
He was so passionate it was ridiculous. Like damn, Dad, why don't you marry him then lol

No. 1587607

>>1587500
They all look so nice here but was it really necessary for Hollywood to keep shilling them as attractive two decades later?

No. 1587615

>>1587500
Men can't cope with 'effeminate' men being considered attractive because it goes against all the he-man evopsych bullshit they've been fed their whole lives. Also it sounds like you dad has a thing for Brad Pitt.

No. 1587620

>>1587500
You had a husbando fight with your dad

No. 1587633

i remember hanging out with a bunch of kids from church at my grandmas house. one of the kids found an iron and starting spraying people with the water from it. i was really annoyed so i was like that's poisonous, you have to stop. another kid was like no that's just water. and i was like no my mom told me it's poison. kek.

No. 1587681

>>1587620
I bet he was just bantering with her as dads do and being theatrical as a bit and she processed it as super serious agitation in leniency to Brad pitt

No. 1588458

>>1587500
In 2004 I would've said Tom Cruise.
But I've never seriously followed celebs and none of those guys were in movies I would have wanted to watch around that time period.

No. 1588471

>>1587681
I thought it was casual conversation until he got worked up (in the spirit of keeping the thread light I did not explain he was the explosive rage type and that’s really why I lied to placate him). He didn’t care about Brad Pitt until Troy came out and then he loved him, maybe it was a long hair solidarity thing (like my dad loved Samson from the bible and wouldn’t cut his hair and was hungry for long hair macho representation because usually it just gets boys and men clocked as effeminate)

No. 1588997

Being on my sisters old windows XP computer and looking up how to draw anime tutorials and printing them out and stapling them together to bring to school to show my friends. My binder was also full of printed out anime pics.
I also distinctly remember finding this exact video and listening it for hours.
>the video turns 17 this year
God, I am so fucking old

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>>1587500
Lol anon that's hilarious. I know men can be weird about masculinity so there's no point in seeking logic here but why Johnny vs Pitt exactly? I mean, yeah, Brad is kinda bigger, but Johnny wasn't that feminine-looking imo. I'd say he just had more balanced/symmetrical features. I would've picked him and Keanu, they had this more… intelligent kind of beauty I'd say, while Brad is too "physical" for my taste, like some surfer that's hyperaware he's sexy. He also had this really pouty face that was kinda annoying to me, but he surely was objectively attractive.
At least your dad didn't say women are supposed to consider someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger attractive lol, like my ex e-boyfriend did when I was also ~14.

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>>1589380
Ugh younger Keanu does something for me. He was so cute! sorry to derail kek

No. 1589392

>>1589380
>>1589385
Christ, men really should die at age 32, its a tragedy seeing them grow old.

No. 1589694

>>1589380
Johnny Depp was handsome to me when I was a little kid, but promptly after puberty this look was not remotely attractive to me. He was kind of hot in The Secret Window though. Honestly I'd be more attracted to him as Bon Bon than this effeminate sexless look.

>>1589385
Keanu has always been charming and cute. I think its just him as a person, you can just tell.

No. 1595562

Memory unlocked: father crying over Conan story he’s retelling. Literally one of two times he cried that I saw my whole life. Why do dads love Conan and Raptor Red? Millennials understand

No. 1595565

My dad taught me to solve problems by punching people in the face. This came in handy when I got harassed at age 12 after I told a group of boys I was a lesbian after rejecting them. They never fucked with me again. Thanks, dad!

No. 1595606

>>1589380
>women are supposed to consider someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger attractive
Arnie is underrated imo, he's not pretty but still handsome and even cute in something like Kindergarten Cop. Body builder physiques can be pretty yuck so I can't blame girls who aren't into that, but even by body builder standards he looks way better than the rest. Like, not as dried out and misshapen.

No. 1595837

>>1595606
Seriously? In his prime he looked like he was molded from wet clay by a fingerless blind person. Absolutely hideous

No. 1604125

>>1595606
Didn’t check the thread in a while and missed this. Honestly if my dad had suggested Arnold was better instead of Brad Pitt in Troy I would’ve sincerely considered his argument. I liked Conan Arnold a lot. Grace Jones seriously improved my opinion of the Conan films though (I wanted to be Grace lol)

No. 1604127

I used to bike to the gas stations mile from my house and buy candy. All my siblings did too. We would sit in the old grenada station wagon and eat the candy, then hide the wrappers under a panel in the back. We were not allowed to eat candy. One day my dad found it but we all saw him walk over there and look under the panel (big yard, clear view very far away). He exploded and we scattered like rats because we knew we’d get our asses beat; we were gone and in hiding by the time he got back to true house and we didn’t crawl out of hiding until several hours later. Just acted like nothing had happened and for some reason he did the same… just knowing looks between us and then we sat down to chicken dinner

No. 1604175

WEird one but I remember I really did not want to go to pre-school when I was 4 because I had no friends and the teacher lady was mean to me, then for some reason as an act of defiance I decided to put the little cloth hat from my favorite doll inside my panties and take the doll to school.
No idea why I felt the need to store things in my outer vag as a toddler

No. 1604263

When I was 4 sometimes I’d watch my mom get ready for work and put her deodorant on. I thought it was so cool for some reason and I’d ask if I could use it and she’d say when I’m older I’ll get my own, but every now and then she’d put the inner cap back on the deodorant and rub the plastic on my armpits pretending she put it on me for real and it made me so happy

No. 1604268

When my dad left for his job early in the morning he used to kiss me and my sisters goodbye while we slept. When it was really cold he would tuck the blanket tightly around us an turn us into a burrito. I loved the feeling of being a burrito blanket kek
>>1604263
This is so fucking adorable, but I am also laughing so hard at how you were amazed by deodorant.

No. 1604281

one of the only fond memories with my dad.
i used to lay in his lap, make a face and squeak, thinking i look like a cute otter going ":3". I can still remember what I thought i was doing. one time i actually looked in the mirror to see what i was doing and got so embarassed, i never squeaked at my dad ever again. the face i was making wasn't actually cute, i just acted retarded for no reason….

No. 1604370

Before my dad moved out when I was 10 he would rarely be home and last night I woke up in my bed and was so disorientated I thought I was in my childhood bed and got the urge to creep to my window to peek out to see if my dad's car was pulling up. I haven't saw him in years, guess I miss him.

No. 1605862

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>>1604281
This made me laugh so hard. It reminded me of that video on AFV way back when of the toddler who thought she was learning to jump, but was sqenching her face and shivering for a second over and over kek

I used to eat raw white and purple cabbage as a toddler, my parents would give me a leaf or two to carry around and munch. They also always said that cabbage gives you gas. So I started keeping my snack cabbage in the back of my little toy riding thing like picrel in a little compartment it had because I thought I was giving my car gas and id go faster

No. 1605877

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I remember finding my mom's pads and thinking they were cool stickers. I put one on my barbie doll's bed to make it soft kek

No. 1605878

When I was in kindergarten, school got called off for some reason I don’t remember. Everyone gathered in the gym and we just watched old Warner Bros cartoons while waiting for our parents to pick us up. Walking to the car with my mom, it felt like the snow came up to my knees.

And one stupid memory. My brother called albondigas (Mexican meat balls) chicken balls and I never wanted to eat them because I thought they were literally chicken testicles.

No. 1605926

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Oooh shit, I have some specific memories but when I think about my early childhood (4-7 years) I like to think about small things that happened many times and also certain objects rather than specific situations
Like the weird feeling when you fell asleep somewhere else and then you woke up in your bed because some adult carried you there
The feeling of my mom's wet hand caressing my cheek after she did the dishes
The days being SOOOOO LONG, it seemed like they wouldn't end
playing gameboy color for the first time when a boy next door borrowed it to me, there was some Lion King game that I will never fucking find kek, also some pokemon
watching pokemon after coming back from kindergarden, discovering digimon and telling other kids they're better than pokemon and they were like noooo wayy what is thaaat
morning cartoons before school and cartoons after school, it was really old shit, like looney tunes and old disney cartoons, but also stuff like batman beyond or action man, it was before we got access to channels like cartoon network, fox kids or minimax (later zigzap), but when we got those channels when I was like 7, it was like an entire new world fuckkk
my older cousin had a pc and access to the internet and when I was like 5 he showed me some weird fucking shit, like the oldest animations you could find on the internet and I vaguely remember them, like French Erotic film with Colin Mochrie vs Jesus H. Christ. Does anyone remember that shit???? I still remember that song. Then after like 4 years I got my first pc and then I discovered YouTube and I only watched Balto amvs with Green Days songs. Also Lion King OC autism, Lion Kind flash animations, deviantArt…
the smell of an overheated VCR player. cassetteeessss. It was crazy they were so expensive back in the day, but I remember the day when shops wanted to get rid of them and sell only DVDs and suddenly all cassetess became so extremely cheap, like I could buy 4 disney movies for an old price of one disney movie. It was absolutely insane. I also bought like 5 Land Before Time sequels and a bunch of other shit with just my pocket money kek
3rd gen my little pony, the best gen of ponnies
Also I have to post my old post in picrel because it perfectly describes my childhood around 11-12, Naruto and Lion King autism and baby homo feelings. I don't know how I survived this

No. 1605941

>>1605862
Nonna, that. is ADORABLE. bless child-you, I would've died of cuteness.

No. 1605943

When I was approx 14-17 I bought roughly $2000 worth of doujins over the years from LJ friends and JPqueen. I lived in the middle of fucking nowhere and always bought the expedited shipping option so it would only take a few weeks instead of three months, but with that option they would not deliver to my family’s P.O. Box, it had to be delivered to a home address. I had no idea what my address was so I guessed and checked the tracking religiously until the day it arrived. The delivery guy was mad the address didn’t exist but he kept delivering them because I had approcimatedbit close enough we were the only house there. I would always intercept before my parents saw him since they were gay porn basically and my parents would have probably burned them and beat me if they knew … I miss that. It taught me about egregious markup pricing on ebay and other websites. Something that sold for $5 at a comiket would go for $50 on ebay. Grifters preying on homeschool weebs, for shame lol

No. 1605966

>>1605943
Where the fuck did you get 2000 at 14

No. 1605987

>>1605966
Nta but it was over 3 years so probably just a job or parents giving her money.

No. 1606023

>>1605966
It was what I spent all my money on at the time. Like >>1605987 said, spread out over a few years. I had a job that my sister got me where she worked doing basic office work, sorting invoices for a snowboard/ski equipment and outerwear supplier. I actually became a real scrooge mcduck after that and never spent my money frivolously again unless I absolutely had a surplus and even then I didn’t like to spend it. I would look at my doujins and although I didn’t hate them and still have them 15 years later there was a 5 year period where 2000 would have made a big difference so it made me think before I spent.

No. 1606397

>>1605943
>I had no idea what my address was
How

No. 1607810

>>1606397
She said it was the only house around so her parents probably didn't bother putting a house number on the mailbox and she made one up.
t. also from the middle of nowhere.

No. 1608391

>>1606397
I lived on a dirt road way out in nowhereville and we didn’t have a mailbox even though we could have because my dad was paranoid, my parents didn’t order things to the house because it was before that was a thing everyone did and I didn’t think to look at a utility bill (which were mailed to our PO Box anyway but maybe our real address was somewhere on the bills) and also generally I was just a very un-worldly homeschool child. At least nature around us was pretty and the delivery guy (DHL I think) got my “books for homeschool” to me every time lol

No. 1612356

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I can't be the only one

No. 1612365

Baby's first existential crisis! I remember when I was 5 years old I was at Build-a-Bear and all of a sudden started asking my mom "Where are we? Like what is this?" My mom was confused I guess said something like "uh we're at the mall at build-a-bear workshop" and I was like "no I mean life like what is this how did we get here" and all that shit. I'm pretty sure she said something about God cuz I grew up pretty Catholic but seriously idk what came over me and why I had to be so aware at such a young age because my existentialism only got worse and more distressing especially during my teen years.

No. 1612499

>>1612356
I loved this site

No. 1614964

Quite grim, but I remember there was a (justified) pedo panic in our district when I was in elementary school. We weren't allowed to go outside during breaks, even though we'd have to go out no matter the weather or temperatures normally. Same with the kids in the kindergarten right next to my school not being allowed out. I understand why they did that but I'm wondering if this is the normal course of action.

No. 1614979

>>1614964
Whoa. What caused the panic?

No. 1614984

In 1st grade there was a boy in my class who was weirdly obsessed with me. He would make fun of me and pick on me, but I would also make fun of and pick on him. Other kids generally thought he was weird.
During one class, we had to fill out some emergency form and write our home phone numbers down. I then showed my paper to my good friend because I wanted her to call me. The boy saw it and memorized it.
Then he would call me randomly. I would talk to him, IDK why, because he was weird as fuck.
Well, one day he wasn't at school and on that day I was told by teachers to stay inside during recess.
Apparently he had called my house during the day and asked my mom if I was at school. She said yes, I assume she didn't think anything was off because it was a little boy calling. He then apparently said to someone next to him, "I told you she was at school". My mom gets weirded out and contacts the school saying that she felt something was off and to not let me go out during recess.
Apparently the boy and his dad pulled up to school and they were looking for me and asked the teachers on recess duty where I was???

Tl;dr, some weird kid and his dad pulled up to school during our recess to ask where I was at. I honestly don't even know what they were trying to accomplish, it was a weird as fuck situation. The boy came back to school and didn't mention it to me at all and we continued to pick on each other. Maybe he just wanted to say hi, IDFK.

No. 1615061

When I was 12 we had to sing a song at school in music class and my 2 friends ditched me to do it together, so I decided to sing an Amy Winehouse song because I sounded like a little boy back then (deep voice, it's gone now) and I got the highest grade from everyone. Even classmates I didn't really know came up to me and said I sounded really good, I felt so talented kek. Too bad I stopped singing, I wish I'd taken vocal lessons or something because I don't have much of a vocal range nowadays. Still love singing and I do it all the time it's just not that pleasant to others kek. Also my music teacher wasn't that good at connecting with the students but looking back she was a sweetheart.

No. 1615078

>>1614964
I don’t know, I feel like it makes sense. In my case, gymnastics and ballet were ruined by pedos because they would molest their students. I wanted to be a gymnast because I have always been flexible, specially as a toddler, it was literally the perfect age for me to begin a career as a gymnast.
But my mom talked to other moms, and they all told her that the issue was that most teachers were pedophiles and not everyone would send their children to the only two academies that were in my country back then.
I’m still bitter because I could’ve been into a sporty hobby as a child and it got ruined because of pedophiles.
But it’s better to keep the children away from the threat, it also kind of sends a message I guess, that the community is doing something to protect them.

No. 1615856

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I am from the 90s and here to finish the job.

Om nom nom.

No. 1615869

>>1568786
Lmao something similar but opposite happened to me. I carved my sister's name in my parent's car and she got the blame at first because who else would have done it? But I was super young and my sister's name was one of the few things I could spell so it was random and not malicious. I didn't mean to do any damage either, I just hadn't understood that cars are expensive or that it would be bad to carve in them loo

No. 1615875

>>1614964
I lived in a pretty rural area and for like 2 years we weren't allowed outside for breaks or allowed to walk to/from school because of issues with habituated wildlife. My school bordered the woods and grizzlies would come onto the playground looking for food.
Not as gross as pedos but your post reminded me of it.

No. 1615895

>>1605877
I picked one of my mom's used and rolled up pad from the trash and brought it to my parent's to ask it what it was. They firmly told me to put it back and gave me no explanation. Took some years until I finally learned about periods and had a hard cringe when I remembered what I did

No. 1617563

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Did you used to name your Pokémon? When I was a kid I would give them the name of cute things like “lazo”, “rosado”, “dorado”, “plateado”, “rubí”, “zafiro”, “plata”, “oro” And such, my favorite was always whichever I named bow or gold, kek, because I remember always keeping it as my first Pokémon, it was usually a pikachu or a butterfly.
And I remember that the first Pokémon game I played was the blue version, then I got to experience playing with the yellow version when I was like 5 or 6 years old, gosh, I really loved having pikachu walking behind me, I would spend the whole day just walking around and imagining myself talking to my pikachu like “I will grab some flowers, come with me” and pikachu would be like “pika pika”. Good times. Right! I also used to have pic related, it was my favorite plushie, I would carry him around everywhere, to the point I lost him and then my parents got me some bootleg ones that would vibrate, I would pull the cord and imagine it was attacking my brother and my cousins when they would bully me for being a child carrying a toy around.
Now I kind of want to buy a pikachu like this one again, it would be so nice to have these special things somewhere safe, like a box.

No. 1617606

>>1615895
My mom would never fucking flush the toilet for some reason so when I went in bathroom, there was a bunch of blood in the toilet. She would tell me that it was ketchup and wouldn’t tell me why there was ketchup in the toilet when I would ask. For years I thought she was squirting ketchup into the toilet for absolutely no reason. I truly do not understand her.

No. 1617614

>>1617606
Oh she did not give a fuck at all lol

No. 1925831

In elementary school, they had us stand for a different patriotic song every day if the week and in kindergarten I was terrified of the song Proud to be an American (something with the lyric about “the man who died”) One day they played it and I started crying as I heard the opening notes, and my teacher got fed up not being able to get me to stop, so she locked me in the bathroom in the dark for the entire rest of the song

No. 1926107

When i was kindergarten we were doing a play for parents every Christmas.
I was supposed to sing about bringing animal skins to baby Jesus an when we were practicing the play the teacher gave me this actual disgusting oldass smelling and dusty animal skin. I think it was from a boar. I could see the amounts of dust just flying around it but i was too shy to complain about it. Couple of days practicing this song i got very sick and i just know it was because of the skin! I couldn't get well for a long time and my lifelong allergy started around that time. I belive the teacher caused my allergy by giving me this dirty piece of shit. What was she thinking?!

No. 1926218

I had a pair of clackers on the playground in like 3rd grade and a giant crowd of kids mobbed me entranced by them I was so popular that recess. My school also fell prey to the extreme yoyoer scammers we were buying $60 yoyos from the school

No. 1926236

when i was 11 i went on a camping field trip for the weekend with my class. while we were lined up and getting introduced to the camp counselors i farted really loud and long, and then blamed it on the kid sitting next to me kek

No. 1926246

When I was 8 or 9 my parents gave me permission to have an email, I was a huge fan of this boyband so of course I made my email
>fandomname@gmail.countrycode
>The password was just the band name
I used it all the time, sending random shit to my friends, mailing magazines and signed up for random online games. I never really checked my inbox much though because it was full of spam. Then one day
>Visiting best friend
>Anon I got an email from your address but what are you on about?
>Wut
>She gets the email
>'I don't know who you are but I think someone hacked me, I don't know what's happening but I'm so scared'
>Wut
>Get home
>Look through my emails
>There's a bunch of emails with group pictures attached of girls that were max. 2 years older than me
>I don't recognize any of them
>Don't recognize the names either
So either I or the other girl 'made an account' but just logged into an already existing one. This was around the time there was a bunch of things on the news about computer hacking and online safety and all of that, I felt so guilty but it's kind of funny looking back. I wonder if she remembers, I never tried to contact her just made a new email and she probably did the same. Still feel a little bad for accidentally freaking her out but at least I never choose a tard tier password again.

No. 1926266

>>1926246
More riveting than Muholland Drive

No. 1926297

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I can't find one that looks like the one I had but I remember being on my playset in the backyard and suddenly realizing I was alive and a person.

I also remember my next door neighbor had a really cool one with better swings. I would go over and play on it all the time with her. One day she wasn't home and I wanted to use it. I climbed over the wall in my backyard and just used the swings for a bit. My dad got so mad when he found out, he kept saying the family could have thought I was a burglar and shot me. Speaking of that neighbor, I saw her in her karate uniform once and thought that was the coolest thing. She also had a lot of Bratz dolls in her room on a shelf that were still in the box. Her mom would buy them for her but wouldn't let her open them, I didn't understand that and still don't.

No. 1926300

>>1926297
I owned one that looked exactly like this thanks for triggering the memory nonnie

No. 1926473

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I have so many posts I could make itt about the friendship my sister and I had with a girl who lived a couple doors down from us when we were kids
>go over to play at her house because it's crappy outside
>go up to her room upstairs to hang out
>pick out a cool CD to listen to while we play
>it's picrel
>we're all hyped and acting retarded because at the time crazy frog was like the funniest thing ever to us
>friend gets up on her bed and starts jumping
>tells us both to come up too
>we all start jumping on her bed in time with the song
>CRACK
>the bed frame collapses
>we all fall onto the ground
>friend starts crying when she sees her ruined bed
>hear her dad come stomping up the stairs
>"what the hell was that?"
>opens the door to see us on the ground along with the broken bed
>he starts yelling at us asking what we were thinking and that we have to leave
>all this going on while the crazy frog cd was still playing in the background
KEK good times, me and my sister still laugh about this

No. 1926486

When I was young I was convinced being old was a contagious disease. At some point I even convinced myself my auntie was an alien and the more time I spent around her the more she would turn me into an old alien too. So i avoided kisses and contact with her as much as possible

No. 1926492

>>1926473
Awe anon this made me smile and laugh.. Your poor friend though, hope she wasn't in too much trouble kek.

No. 1926503

>>1926486
KEK this reminds me I was scared to eat Gushers as a child cause I thought they’d turn my head into a fruit like in the ads

No. 1926547

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>be 11 year old having fun with biking around with friends
>spot tomato fruits
>it's in a garden of a rich family
>hungry
>"guess I'll eat those"
>me and friends sneak in to get them
>we are blind and didn't notice there was a guard post near it
>he notices us stealing them
>run
>slipper comes lose
>the guard starts shouting
>FUCK
>drop tomatos and slipper and run to get on friends bike
>safely escape
>friend is weak as shit and can't cycle fast with two people
>she ditches me and runs on foot
>I take the bike
>cycle as if my lifes on the line
>get home
>realize not only I lost the tomatoes but also my favourite slippers
Don't do crime

No. 1926561

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ok so due to being homeschooled for 12 years my childhood was a bit dark and weird, but without delving into that much, I ended up being friend with one of the richest kids in town, because we were both homeschooled and our parents had gone to the same Independent Baptist church since some time before I was born. her dad creeped me out though. he'd always say something like "anon, when are you gonna come live with us and be my little girl?" sometimes I'd go over to their big ass house after church on Sundays and we'd get up to all kinds of shit. she was 3 years older so I'd just go along with whatever she wanted us to do like a little minion. we'd go over to visit the old lady and her cat across the street and chat for a bit/water flowers then see if she'd let us borrow her gator to speed around on. (not a pet gator, but picrel, it's like a backwoods golf cart). efficient way to get around the acres of land her family owned if we wanted to play fairies in the stream then go on a quest to the pond. and what were we doing beside the pond? tbh I don't even know the whole plan, but we almost set the whole yard on fire. I remember that before leaving the house she climbed up on dryer in the laundry room to get some matches and a candle and asking her if she was sure we were allowed to use those. she told me it was ok and she does this all the time, and she was y'know' like, 10, so I completely trusted her judgement. anyways, while doing some sort of fairy ritual she lit a match to burn something and then the fire started spreading. "oh. there's a layer of dead grass surrounding us" she then observed.
we had a bucket and a plastic storage box/small sized tub to catch tadpoles from the pond on in back of the gator though, so following her directing I got the box and we filled those up with water from the pond in haste. I failed to realize the amount of water that container could hold was a bit much for my 7 year old self, and I vividly remember panicking as I could barely keep hold of it as the water sloshed over the sides. persevering going back and fourth from the flames to the pond, we put it all out. in the end, only a small square of land was scorched but that scared the shit out of me. it could have been so much worse.

No. 1926567

>>1926503
I was also scared of that!!! I was so stupid autistic naïve when I was a kid I remember crying because someone offered my gushers at like age 7 kek

No. 1926598

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when I was like 5 I was obsessed with this live action animal movie called Milo and Otis, and decided I would be a cat when I grew up kek. I wore my cat onesie pjs constantly and would practice jumping off high places and meowing. I remember my mom telling me I couldn't be a cat when I grew up and I tried to run away from home… surprisingly I didn't turn out to be a furry

No. 1927020

my sister told me that dead fetus were at the bottom of kombucha drinks and it terrified me seeing them at the grocery store. happy to say this is in-fact not true and i delight in kombucha drinking regularly!

No. 1927909

Me and my sibling were unsupervised homeschool redneck children and we roamed around with our dog all day not doing schoolwork. We liked to play on these piles of logs nearby a lot (landlord told timber from his land and there were always huge log piles around). One day we were playing and a worker came along and got in his big log-moving vehicle/machine so we hid behind the pile of logs just so he didn’t see us being naughty (weren’t supposed to play on the logs, obviously). Our dog freaked out for some reason and got up on top of the log pile and lost her shit barking at the guy until he got mad and got out of his vehicle to yell at her which is when he finally saw us. He was pissed, he said he was about to crush us with moving logs and he wouldn’t have known we were there unless the dog freaked out. He brought us home and told our parents and we got in trouble; the dog got praised for quite literally saving our lives. She was a good dog kek

No. 1927916

>>1926561
LOL a similar thing happened to my friend and I in middle school, except it was the night of the fourth of July (or maybe a few days after idk). We were chilling in the road in front of her house, which was way out in the country so we were surrounded by huge fields of dead dry grass in the middle of summer. I'm sure you can see where this is going… so we were playing with leftover fireworks, just setting them off in the road. One of them tipped over (I think it was my fault lol) and shot straight into one of the fields next to her house. At first we were just like "oh shit lol" and staring but then it started spreading, and we freaked out. Basically the same from there, we tried to stomp it out then we ran to and from her house with pots and pans filled with water. It was really scary and felt like forever, but we got it put out with minimal damage to the field, just like a 10 foot by 5 foot scorch mark lol. It was crazy. A fond memory looking back, I miss her often.

No. 1927930

I hid in my school gym for a night. It was very peaceful and solitary. I don't think anybody noticed I'd been there.

No. 1927979

>>1927930
That sounds pretty cool tbh, I liked to walk around the school whenever I could find some empty spot, it was hard during recess because teachers would lurk the whole place, but one day I found a nice spot near a laboratory with lots of plants and such, I loved that spot, but then the bullies noticed I was there and they told the teachers I sat there instead of the recess area.

No. 1928080

>>1926547
Kek anon this reminds me of the time I was maybe 5, saw a girls bike basket had a bunch of walnuts in them and for some reason thought it was public property so I started giving them to my classmates. Never heard from it again but I felt so guilty when I realized it a couple years later lol.

No. 1928082

I remember this old girly tech toy I used to love. It was purple and shaped like an egg, it opened and had a screen, no colours, and a stylus. I barely remember what I played on it. I miss it tho

No. 1928104

My dad was an alcoholic and he frequently pretended to kill himself and one time he did it while me and my sister were in the room, and the door was locked so we heard my mom screaming and crying on the other side while i didn’t dare more my head from the tv so I just looked at the cartoons on screen while my dad pretended to be choking and my mom was screaming.

No. 1931592

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I went to a book reading this evening and I got reminded of elastic jumping which we did as a kid at home, in the neighborhood and in school. I don't remember the exact order in which we did it but I know the ones standing on each side to keep the elastic stable had at the lowest level first at the ankles and you'd raise it higher and higher for the one skipping as they succeeded all the way up to the knee. Good times.

No. 1931605

>>1926598
I’m also surprised I didn’t turn out to be a furry. I demanded my mom draw whiskers and a cat nose on my face with makeup everyday for over a year. My dad once got upset and was like, can I please come home one day and not have my daughter with a cat face? And my mom just shrugged and was like I guess we’ll find out. Took a while but I eventually stopped demanding to be made up to look like a cat everyday.

No. 1931611

>>1927930
How were your parents not losing their mind? I’d have been reported missing

No. 1932938

One year my aunt put in some flowerbeds and my cousins and I planted carrots. We pulled them up in late summer and had a carrot feast. They were small and skinny but delicious. I still remember how they taste.

No. 1933158

>>1605926
I can't believe I read that entire image.

No. 1933593

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Anyone else remember scooting around on these little square boards with wheels on them during gym class? Also, crab soccer. Shit was fun.

No. 1934367

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When the Columbine shooting happened I was a little kid, and a movie later came out about it. I was too young to understand it, just that Columbine was like a scary word. The adults watched that movie with me there and the only part I remember scared me for years after word lol, like there's two students hiding in a bathroom stall and one of the shooters finds them and points the gun and says eenie meenie minie moe before picking one to shoot. I would always think about where I could try to hide and had nightmares about it. I wasn't traumatized or anything though, but then like a year later I was told to watch dancer in the dark because a relative had it on vhs and that shit traumatized me even though I had no idea what was going on. Drawing a freaking anime bjork crying and hanging herself in my little bratz journal. I joke about it all the time now like damn you guys couldn't just let me watch cartoons. A happier memory is the taste of these popsicles, I thought I made them up or something for a long time whenever I would remember the taste. I can't look at a dandelion without thinking of my best friend in like 1st grade I think and how he had yellow teeth because he would eat dandelions to make the teacher mad so he could try to go home. He hated her and she was a bitch I can't blame him. Idk

No. 1935657

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I only got access to internet when I was in HS in grade 10 so I'd have quite the active imagination when I was a kid.

taking all the dining room wooden chairs and lining them up in two rows to play bus driver or putting a blanket over it to make a house.

before my favorite cartoon, little bear, came on, I'd set up a "picnic" in front of the tv and set up a blanket and make pb and j sandwiches to eat during the cartoon. (Thinking back I honestly don't know why I would do this lol)

No. 1939445

someone mentioned Jennifer Garner and it reminded me of watching Alias when I was in HS. I thought she was so pretty and cool in that show.

No. 1939645

>>1935657
Aw nonnie, I used to love this show too!
I had such an obsession with the Little Bear toothpaste comercial that I would recite it completely whenever it came on. "Safe to swallow and flourife free…"
This was the first toothpaste that I have used too. One day, I actually ate nearly all of the tube in a sitting, thinking that was okay. I can't remember if my parents freaked out but they never got that brand again after.

No. 1939653

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>>1934367
I used to ask for these popsicles all the time even though the gummies always made me nauseous. I did the same with picrel even though they tasted bad because I loved the Powepuff Girls so much kek/

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>>1939445
Omg, Alias! You brought me back. And yes, I thought she was really pretty too. I wanted to have a buncha wigs like her.

No. 1939800

>>1933593
Someone would always roll their fingers. kek

No. 1939834

>>1933593
Yes we played mice vs snakes or something on it. One snake where you lay on your belly and if you get tagged you'd lay as well if you were a mouse you'd be sitting and trying to get away until we were all snakes

No. 1939869

>>1939798
I wanted to be a spy so badly but I knew I could never be a spy for any government, especially not my home country's. lol. It did make me get into Aikido, which I sucked at, but I started getting more into working out which was overall a good thing. Fuck, I still want to be a spy. But tbh I think the best spies irl don't stand out, and I have a face people tend to remember. I could change a lot but can't change that. Pity though since I ended up learning a lot of languages and I feel like I can quickly assimilate to situations.

ah I'm just bullshitting, sorry nona. Let's be spies in my made-up world. I liked all the security in their offices btw. Vaughn annoyed me, idk what to say about him. Occasionally he looked ok I guess. I really need to rewatch the show. I know Sydney was never supposed to be with Sark but I thought about fanfic where they got together. Wrote a little but got embarrassed and stopped.

No. 1940041

>>1939653
I loved these poptarts.

No. 1940055

>>1617563
I remember my copy of Pokemon Yellow had ridiculous names. My name was AAAAAAAA, my rivals name was Goku. Pikachu was Pikachu (only normal one). Rattata was Chunkybutt. Pidgeotto was Trunks. Charmander was Lieutenant. Just overall mostly random references to shows id watch, like fucking Big Guy and Rusty, Digimon, Dragonball, and then the pee poo fart diarrhea names.

No. 1940065

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Everyone would pay me to make one for them. I was pretty good at it.

No. 1940070

>>1940065
The little flip flops omg

No. 1940076

>>1940065
Oh my god I forgot these existed, I had the ties but there were no instructions on it so I'd braid them into my hair kek

No. 1940136

>>1940065
These are so cool. Reminds me of when my friends in grade school used to make friendship bracelets

No. 1940338

>>1940065
I always loved the smell of them. I had my little basket full of these and when i took them out the plastic smell made me zen.

No. 1942024

>>1940065
Remind me what these were called? I remember struggling to make the ones that took like 6 or 8 strands, good times.

No. 1942045

>>1940065

Omg everyone in middle school including me used to make these and wear them on their backpacks or as keychains. Makes me wanna relearn and make them again (I'm 30 lol)

No. 1942050

>>1942024
Not sure where you're from but in Canada we called it gimp/gimp bracelets

No. 1948241

>>1942024
They’re called scoubidous. It’s in the file name.

No. 1948424

>>1942024
We always called these things lanyards.

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>>1942024
We called them lanyards

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>>1952046
smell so good

No. 1952078

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>>1942024
>>1948241

This is one of those things as a kid I probably never saw the written name for so I had no idea 'scoubidou' was the actual spelling for these, I always remembered them as 'scooby doos' lol

No. 1952103

>>1582103
ayrt, i don't remember a cupcake flavor. i only remember all those fruity ones and a vanilla one. the pink lemonade one was so tasty

No. 1952502

>walked past my brother peeing in the toilet once (don't know why he had the door open) and was like wtf boys pee standing??? so i tried it and boasted to him that i can pee standing too
>one time when my dad's truck got super dusty i proceeded to write my dad's full name, phone number, and address on the side of his truck. nobody noticed until maybe the next day, we met him somewhere after he went to work and we were driving home separately. on the highway my mom is next to him and notices and is like what the fuck.
>my younger cousin showing me crazy frog music videos and talking about crazy frog's wee wee
>seeing kids at snack time asking for seconds at preschool and looking at the clock wondering what they meant by being given seconds, i kept thinking of time seconds. i think my parents would ask if we wanted more food, not seconds. i would keep asking for seconds and the preschool workers would keep saying no and i didn't figure it out for a while
>went to the daddy daughter dance one time, the lights and people and loud music annoyed me so much. MJ's Thriller started to play and for some reason this sent me into a panic and i told my dad we needed to go outside and get away, that i was scared. he went outside with me and convinced me to try to go back inside after a few minutes. we did and i still hated it, we left early
>one time went to the mall with my dad and some retard's caretaker fucked off and let their moidtard wheel around in his wheelchair wailing, saw this frequently. always made me super uncomfortable and told my dad i wanted to leave. knew my dad would be upset if i said it was because i didn't want to be around a free range retard so i lied and said "i don't want people to think we're dating". i still reference this with my family today kek
>had a huge notebook i would tape/glue pictures i found online about w.i.t.c.h., magical doremi, and winx club. jammed the printer several times
>had a burner skype account i never used when creeps on runescape who knew i was underage asked for my skype, used a pic of really young ariana grande and never answered calls. one creep asked me if we could date and i said sure just so he would give me gp. i would remove him from my friends list and put my status on friends only when i played unless i needed gp
>>1617563
i had this exact plush too, it's still in my parents' basement. the tail fell off because i would spin him around with me by his tail

No. 1952660

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I had some fond memories playing with my little brother in making these crappy little primitive huts and other messy things for our toy figures in our old backyard. We used sticks, rocks, mud, grass, leaves, wood planks, pretty much whatever we could find. We don't know how to keep these huts stable so we wasted rolls of tape to hold the sticks and roof together but it would still sometimes fall apart. In them, we made leaf beds and placed flat rocks as furnitures for our toys to live in. Outside of the huts, we built a little mud oven and had way too much fun playing with fire by burning up sticks and paper with a lighter. Our backyard had a castor bean plant so we collected, mashed and cooked the beans pretending it was coconut paste. Luckily we didn't get poisoned. We also mashed up berries, grass and fallen fruits to a paste and pretended it was some herbal medicine. We also dug up a hole and filled it with water like it's a pool or pond for our toys to swim in and attempted in making a mini tree house on our lime tree that was climbable. Whenever it rains we would run outside and build an elevated hut over some puddles with wood planks and placed some of our toys in there. It's simple and unstable but the idea of a house over water is super cool and cozy like it's at a swamp. We left them overnight to see if they could survive but sadly they didn't. Of course, our mother and auntie would get mad and disapprove of us playing with dirt and mud but overall we had fun with our wild imagination.

No. 1952668

>>1952660
Anon Google cranógs! Also this was one of the sweetest things I've read probably ever

No. 1964219

I'd get on the computer with my dad and we'd watch a bunch of this guy's videos. It was pre-youtube too and they were hosted on the blender company's site.

No. 1969104

When I was 12 or 13 me and my classmate made up a 'secret alphabet' to be able to write notes to each other in class. We were probably too old for that shit but it still makes me reee that I didn't think of using the greek or cyrillic alphabet.

No. 1969115

>>1942045
i admit i still love to do cute things like this as an adult, i don’t care if it’s ‘childish’! me and a friend of mine have made friendship bracelets for each other, it’s a fun way to spend time.

No. 1969909

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The first memory I have of being in trouble was when I was about 4 years old and I loved the taste of picrel. I loved it so much that I’d brush my teeth 5 or more times a day just to taste it. My mom hid my toothbrush during the day cause she thought I was gonna hurt my teeth by over rushing. I couldn’t handle 4 hours without it so I started slurping it up from the tube, and I ate all of it. My mom caught me squeezing whatever was left into my mouth like a gogurt. I had a stomach ache but it was nontoxic so I didn’t get seriously sick. Ever since then, she made me brush my teeth using mint only.

No. 1969920

>>1969909
Kek you were addicted to that artificial bubblegum taste. I used to literally eat strawberry lip gloss. I had a roller ball one and I took the ball out and just drank from it one time

No. 1969927

>>1969909
omg same. I never slurped a whole tube but I would walk into the bathroom and sneak a dollop a few times per day. it was like candy.

No. 1969980

>>1969909
the shop near me has pokemon toothpaste and you make me want to buy it, i'm sure it'll taste better than my organic/ zero wastre one

No. 1971283

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>>1969920
I have 2 sisters, and each of us chose our favorite flavors of picrel. I had Dr Pepper, my sisters had Crush and Root Beer. I went through mine so fast because I applied it just to lick, eventually just taking bites out of it. When I ran out of my original, I started stealing the other ones until we were almost completely out. My mom only caught on when my sister ran out of hers, and she went to look for another tube to give her.

No. 1971326

>>1969909
I used to love eating toothpaste as a young child, I even remember knowing it was wrong and doing it anyways kek

No. 2006114

just had a flashback to being in preschool and getting extremely offended for being accused of theft during who stole the cookie from the cookie jar

No. 2017206

One time when I was like 12, I got suspended on Neopets, or whatever the word for temp ban is. It was for a dumb reason. Then after I was unbanned I made a post on the forum somewhere and passive aggressively complainined about my ban somewhere in the post. Then they banned me again and TNT left a ban message saying "Are you scared? You should be"
What kind of psychos ran that site kek, like it's funny in retrospect but who threatens a 12 year old like that

No. 2017214

>>2017206
You reminded me of the time I got banned on club penguin because I typed “who wants to cum to my house” and I was confused because I didn’t say a curse word. I just ignored it until I turned into a teenager, and I learned.

No. 2017245

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>>1971283
I had a couple of the ones shaped like soda cans, those were cute
>>2017206
neopets was actually owned by the church of scientology iirc.

No. 2018405

>>2017245
I thought the scientology stuff didn't come until later? This was like, 2004-2005 era fwiw. I've never watched those deep dive vids on neopets though so maybe I'm wrong
>>2017214
I think my ban was for something similar, some kind of typo or slang that was a naughty word. I used chatspeak like a mofo back then

No. 2018604

>>2017206
Yeah the moderators on those sites back then were extremely retarded and would give out bans for no reason. When i used to have a stardoll account back in the day i mostly just used it to play games and dress up my user but later i decided to join the forum chats and there alot of weird hostile people there and i remember like these 2-3 girls started bullying me and targeting me and then falsely reported me and that got my acccount taken down plus all that hard work i put into gaining all of the things in my inventory was gone and i had to make a new account and then reported those girls and explained what happened and they got also banned but i never got my original account back and didnt want to start over so i stopped using stardoll after that.

Sorry for the mini-vent, i just remember getting piszed of at the time because i remember how hard some of the items were to get and i was the one who got taken down.

No. 2018755

>>2017206
When I was 12 on Neopets someone was pretending to be Ashley Tisdale in the forums and I said something along the lines of she is lying and Ashley Tisdale wouldn't be on Neopets lying for attention, she fucking reported me and I got suspended for it. Bitch, what the fuck? The mod must have been hoping it really was her, absolute retardation.

No. 2018758

>>2018755
What do you expect from Scientologists? They'll always take the side of the frauds and liars.

No. 2018782

>>2017245
This is adorable

No. 2018789

>>2018758
KEK very true

No. 2018794

>>2018782
I can see why you'd find it cute but it gives me hyperconsumption-internalized-guilt ick

No. 2018821

>>2018782
Same. I want it. We dont have those funny flavour lipgloss here, only the ones that taste like nothing

No. 2108534

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I was like seven when I discovered wikipedia. I was googling how to draw animu tutorials and somehow ended up on the wikipedia page for Inuyasha. I was a lonely, sad weeb whose only conversation partners about Inuyasha, the absolute bestest show ever since the creation of the entire universe, were its parents, also weebs, and cousins living two hours away, so this was a goldmine. I spent the entire afternoon reading the wikipedia pages about Inuyasha, mikos and shinto, I was so delighted to find out there existed other Inuyasha fans out there, other than my family.

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Me and my 2 friends used to play pretend we were dogs. I was my dog's dad his name was Archie, A friend was his grandma's dachshund Brock and my other friend was her aunt's pug. pretty normal playing but we were doing that every day after school before our bus came and we were always in this wooded area with a tree root sticking out of the ground shaped like an elephant. We were worshiping the elephant, cleaning it, feeding it, talking about the elephant at school and everything. Picrel kinda similar.

No. 2212879

When I was like eleven I had an online friend that really struggled with coming to terms with being lesbian, so when she was sad about it I sent her pictures of women I found pretty. I'm not sure I can follow my thought process from back then but I guess I thought this would cheer her up.



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