I miss all those cartoons I'd wake up to see at 6am on Saturday mornings…
I miss being able to wake up freely before 11:30am
I miss Halloween
I miss the first time I saw Vegeta tell someone he was going to send them to the next dimension and when Goku first became a Super Saiyan
I miss recess
I miss getting detention for sleeping in class, and then going to detention and sleeping some more
I miss free education, and not having to sign my life away to student loans
I miss getting Lollipops at the doctor's office
I miss my creativity... damn those were some good times
I miss when there were only 151 pokemon, and I could name them all. Now theres like a billion and all I remember is a handful from Gen 1
I miss throwing pokemon/yugioh cards across the field and watching little kids fight for them
I miss gym class
I miss winter; it used to snow so much when I was a kid, but ever since 2000ish there's been shitty snow
I miss playing starcraft and counter-strike during computer class in elementary school
I miss…. *insert childhood memory*
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I miss when Eisenhower was in office…
Honestly, I find it kind of hard to miss things like TV shows and games from my childhood when all I have to do is double click the Mozilla Firefox icon on my Desktop to re-engage them.
Here's an example: when I moved in the middle of high school, it felt like a big deal, like a shift was taking place in my life. But with Facebook, for example, it's like I never left at all. It just makes all of those "goodbyes" seem really hollow. Imagine what it must be like to part with someone, to have no contact with them for years, and then to one day stumble upon them.
Our information-age culture is so hungry for nostalgia that it sort of destroys what nostalgia is all about. The idea that someone in their late teens can be nostalgic about anything sort of blows my mind. "I can remember back in 2003...Oh, those were the days..." How can you miss something when it was never really gone?
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Shit, man, I just went on a search for those the other day to no avail. I loved those things.
Are you some black bizarro version of me?
You know… I've thought about that before.
I think I am.
NO.
I KNOW I am.
@Cyan:
I remember how we used to deal those like cocaine back in third grade.
Dude… my neighbor bought me a GIGANTIC container full of Warheads for Christmas back in the day.
That was the first time I ever went Super Saiyan.
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I miss when Eisenhower was in office…
Honestly, I find it kind of hard to miss things like TV shows and games from my childhood when all I have to do is double click the Mozilla Firefox icon on my Desktop to re-engage them.
Here's an example: when I moved in the middle of high school, it felt like a big deal, like a shift was taking place in my life. But with Facebook, for example, it's like I never left at all. It just makes all of those "goodbyes" seem really hollow. Imagine what it must be like to part with someone, to have no contact with them for years, and then to one day stumble upon them.
Our information-age culture is so hungry for nostalgia that it sort of destroys what nostalgia is all about. The idea that someone in their late teens can be nostalgic about anything sort of blows my mind. "I can remember back in 2003...Oh, those were the days..." How can you miss something when it was never really gone?
I salute you for saying what I've always thought when people get into their whole nostalgic moments.
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I agree with the idea that the media is becoming increasingly aware of marketing nostalgia and therefore destroying it; All these movies about 70s-80's cartoon icons is an example. I remember being nostalgic about older songs when I was no more than 8 - songs only a couple of years old (time moves so slow at that age) and I didn't even know what nostalgia was yet. It's silly to think about that, but it was almost a natural response.
But honestly, just googling an old show or song doesn't mean you "relive" the old memories. You might for just a moment, but I am nostalgic for those things more because of the can never really live in again. I don't WANT to go back and watch them memories of childhood that go along with them and a time of life that I very much to preserve that, because that nostalgic feeling can be erased from too much re-exposure. We look back at a lot of things with rose colored glasses, sometimes looking back too closely reveals something we'd rather not acknowledge (wow that show actually sucked).
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While that's true about nostalgia, it's still a great feeling to watch old cartoons and find that they're even better than you remembered.
God I love Rocko and Real Monsters.
Those weren't just cartoons, it was also something like the animators were having a little fun as well. -
I miss playing Pokemon Red and Blue with my best friends, battling and raising those Digimon tamagatchi/nano pet-like things, playing pogs, playing Crazy Bones (ANYBODY?), and playing Subspace/Continuum online, along with all the amazing friends from all over the world I made playing that game that I wish I had kept in contact with. I basically grew up from 3rd-7th grade talking to all those people, and I remember so many of them and the conversations we had very vividly as if it was yesterday. That was so long ago.
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I miss those small chocolate stars , I believe it was Nestlé . I last ate them at like six and then they dissapeared completely .
I also miss Cartoon Network not sucking , so I could watch Cartoon movies and stil find them good .
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i miss the time that i didn't need a computer nor a gameconsol :(
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I miss when Steven Speilberg could make awesome films consistently.
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I am missing Dexter TV Show which have been starting in September…
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I miss my nintendogs game =( It just disapeared.
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I miss being able to walk to my Dad's store when I was young and get some Malt (non alcoholic k?).
I miss waking up and seeing the ocean.
I miss going to the rainforest behind my house and camp out with friends while eating cans of Chef Boyardee Spaghetti :V
I miss coming to High School and meeting my friends there… only to talk about RANDOM shit for like 30 mins before the first class, if we had it :V
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Anyone else miss the more obscure cartoons of the 80's?
coughTHE HEADcough
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I miss my cats.
I miss my dog.
I miss my brother.
I miss my friends.
I miss school (and when I was one of the best but with every year I got worse).
I miss my ambition.
I miss my pink clothes.
I miss my Barbies :cwy:
I miss my Series.
I miss my "We love us" family.
I miss my 151 pokemon.
I miss my City, Berlin.
I miss my Days on the playground when I was all alone and just swinging and thought I could reach the sky if I would just give my best.
I miss my nursery nurses.
I miss my Sailor Moon Friends who I played sailor moon with all day.
I miss my all happy me.
I miss my pink bycicle.
I miss the times when I played together with my brother (Nintendo and PS1)
I miss the times where everything was paid for me.
I miss my first innocent love.
I miss the mother I once had. Caring and loving. And not crazy as shit, making trouble all the time and blame it on others(= mostly me).
I miss that everybody said to me "What a cute child. she's so lovely".
I miss… like.. everything, really.Well no, not everything. I have a lot of bad childhood memories to fill a whole book. But mostly, it was just awesome, even when I was alone.
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I miss not having to do sh*t and being a carefree and irresponsible idiot. I will miss it even more in a year.
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….........dexter's lab.............and when it was OKAY and EXPECTED and NORMAL to be obsessed with legos.
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The rabbit misses Otterpops. The real ones mind you, the ones without all the 10% real fruit juice.
Ahh…
Louie Blue Raspberry
It was like chemical love, in frozen form.
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I miss the freedom.
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I miss being dumb enough to follow my primary school friends' conversations.
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I don't miss nothing. My life is great now, and it will be even more if I work hard. Rejoice people!
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I miss having more than 3-4 hours of free time in a day.
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…the lack of responsibility, and heading to the park with my friends everyday after school. ='(
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I don't miss nothing. My life is great now, and it will be even more if I work hard. Rejoice people!
ditto! wait. sometimes i miss clean air. my city is DIRTY.
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I miss my perfect eyesight:sad:
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I miss having the energy to just run around for no reason.
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I miss the time when I only could be sad for a hour. Times without even knowing what is depression.
And my biggest worry was that I would lose in a play of those little plastic green soldiers at a sandbox. Burying the bodies was fun though.
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I miss a lot of things… most of all the friends and people who aren't part of my life anymore and even some of those who still are. And of course I miss my junior high school times, life was easy back then.
But let's just go straight ahead, I guess every day may turn out to be my life's best one.
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I miss having ten marks in my pocket and thinking I had a fortune because I could afford to buy a chocolate bar with it.
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Damn it. I miss Beyblade! Yeah I said it!
Hmm… I don't even remember what I used to do when I didn't have a computer... But whatever it is; I miss it! -
Shame?
Beyblade was fucking awesome.
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beyblade was cool in the beginning
but i remember that it became so weird and shit
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It was Digimon that was the shit one.
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digimon was always bad
but beyblade turned into shit after some seasons
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@metteminne:
beyblade was always bad
but digimon turned into shit after some seasons
mette for president
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lolz
pimp of ap is good enough
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Digimon? SHIT? SHUT UP!
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I miss elementary school… srsly
Edit: The first two seasons of Digimon (esp the 1st) were AWESOME!
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the only thing i liked about digimon is that it created this
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They should've ended Digimon with Sarah Palin shooting the monsters.
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…whut?
but i have to say , as kid i always looked at digimon as a copy of pokemon , so i hated it
and i looked back to digimon in the vacation and i didnt like it again
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Digimon (1 and 2) is much better than the Pokemon TV Show. Fact.
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Much better is like the understatement of the year.
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So you liked pokemon (anime) over Digimon (1-2)? Wow… I'm speechless.
Comparing pokemon and digimon is like comparing YGO and pokemon... completely different >.<Also the best thing that came out of beyblade was.... bakugan? :P
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Digimon is a rip-off born from the popularity of Pokemon.
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So you liked pokemon (anime) over Digimon (1-2)? Wow… I'm speechless.
Comparing pokemon and digimon is like comparing YGO and pokemon... completely different >.<Also the best thing that came out of beyblade was.... bakugan? :P
well yeah :p , too me it always looked to much like eachother
and the beyblade toys were the best thing that came out of it , damn i hurted so many friends with those
oh and only the beginning of pokemon , the newest seasons never appealed to me
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@metteminne:
digimon was always bad
but beyblade turned into shit after some seasons
Yeah why have an actual progressing plotline , instead let's repeat the exact same three plots for over 400 episodes , and have none of that silly character development and stuff :P
And the Bleach comparison is simply briliant.
Also as far as I know the digimon merchandise was around longer.
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@No:
Also as far as I know the digimon merchandise was around longer.
Pokémon Red & Blue came out February 27, 1996 but the 'Digimon virtual pet' came out June 26, 1997.
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When they first came out around here I liked both the first season of Pokémon and the first season of Digimon. I remember being wary of Digimon at first (I thought it would be a Pokémon rip-off, too) but quickly started to love it.
Granted, I was more of a Pokémon kid because of the games and whatnot (I was freakishly addicted to those), but I still enjoyed Digimon a lot. I even had some cassettes.I watched Beyblade as well. I loved Dranzer! That's like the only thing I remember from the show. That thing's name.
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Pokémon Red & Blue came out February 27, 1996 but the 'Digimon virtual pet' came out June 26, 1997.
I was talking about toys.