Have You Lived? A Trip Down Memory Lane...

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 12:11 pm

I guess I've lived

@Ysh : U forget to mention Tom & Jerry, Mickey & Donald show, The Mighty Mouse

@Foul : Cheer up, dude !

I once get a beating because I didn't study. Hey, it's not exam time yet

@Weasel : Weasel the Bandit, eh ? I recall my crazy days after I saw "BMX Bandits" movie

Witch King · Post by **Witch King** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 12:16 pm

Originally posted by KidD01
@Foul : Cheer up, dude ! I once get a beating because I didn't study. Hey, it's not exam time yet

Oh, I'm not at all depressed. I got over all of that **** years ago. It is now just an amazing memory -- Radishes!

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 12:41 pm

@Kid LOL! how could I?

Originally posted by Witch King

Oh, I'm not at all depressed. I got over all of that **** years ago. It is now just an amazing memory -- Radishes!

And I still have the habit of checking how full the bread bag is before daring to steal a piece

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 10:38 pm

I suppose I'm both old and have lived @Ysh

Originally posted by Witch King
You forgot to mention:

...getting dragged out of bed at midnight to empty the trash

...getting beaten for cutting the radishes for salad incorrectly

...getting beaten because your father is a drunken bastard

...hearing the screams of your parents arguement all the way upstairs

...having nightmares every night

...watching your brothers be abused

...watching your mother watch and do nothing

...having to do endless amounts of chores under penalty of beating

I'm sorry to hear that, WK

I had a very happy and stable childhood with extremely supportive and friendly parents. I was never beaten as a child, although my parents were certainly no hippies, rather they were quite strict. I used to be grounded a lot - well, there were always windows. Also, they disapproved of certain clothes I wanted to wear - so I hid them in the cellar, picked them up before I left home and went out the back door. When I came home, I put it back in the cellar, changed, and appeared before my parents as the nice girls they wanted me to be but I never was

The only physical violence I have experienced was
1. When a gang of 5-6 guys jumped me and a female friend when we were about 14 - we never understood why since we had never seen those guys before, but nothing serious happened, just a few bruises.
2. When a total stranger suddenly pushed me down a fling of stairs in the underground and then hunted me around the central station while screaming he would get me for "what I did to his friend". He must have confused me with somebody else.

Witch King · Post by **Witch King** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 10:11 am

Originally posted by C Elegans
I suppose I'm both old and have lived @Ysh

I'm sorry to hear that, WK
I had a very happy and stable childhood with extremely supportive and friendly parents. I was never beaten as a child, ...

The only physical violence I have experienced was
1. When a gang of 5-6 guys jumped me and a female friend when we were about 14 - we never understood why since we had never seen those guys before, but nothing serious happened, just a few bruises.
2. When a total stranger suddenly pushed me down a fling of stairs in the underground and then hunted me around the central station while screaming he would get me for "what I did to his friend". He must have confused me with somebody else.

I can not imagine that placid a life, it is beyond my comprehension. But stop the damn "

"s, I didn't post that for pity, I posted it because it needed to be posted--- the original post I thought was mind-numbingly self-indulgent yet amusing.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 11:33 am

self-indulgent

not self indulgent, my childhood really was just like that.

mind-numbing

another one for the catalogue of cliches

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 11:40 am

Originally posted by frogus
another one for the catalogue of cliches

To be fair, half the original post was another entry to said catalogue...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 11:53 am

Originally posted by Witch King

I can not imagine that placid a life, it is beyond my comprehension. But stop the damn " "s, I didn't post that for pity, I posted it because it needed to be posted--- the original post I thought was mind-numbingly self-indulgent yet amusing.

I did not intend to sound self indulgant. I am well aware that it does not summarise all that is childhood. I am also well aware of some of the darker sides of human nature but *shrugs* I had hoped that perhaps - just perhaps - it might have brought one or two fonder memories of some of the magic that can be childhood..

if that is mind numbing, I apologise.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:09 pm

@Yshania Even though you are a D' Flamer, (plus you did help me out of a bind) I will say, never, ever apologise to Foul!!

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:12 pm

Well i can't remember very much at all of my childhood, the only things i recall are from photo's that were taken at that time; they help me remember the experience or the feeling, not actual events. So this didn't exactly apply to myself anyway.....i say blame consumerism culture and the Idiot Box for my useless memory...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:21 pm

Originally posted by Weasel

@Yshania Even though you are a D' Flamer, (plus you did help me out of a bind) I will say, never, ever apologise to Foul!!

LOL!

despite all those things?

I did not want to be unnecessarily sympathetic, or mind numbing or self indulgant. Not in public anyway

I got you out of a fix? should we be discussing this in public?

Witch King · Post by **Witch King** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:04 pm

perhaps I was too harsh. tip-toeing through tulips and that other happy horse-****e makes me ill, but i know that i'm the odd one, and that most of you are into it

weasel is right though

never apologize to Foul- he is a bastard

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:10 pm

You'd rather tiptoe through the thorns i see

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:19 pm

Originally posted by Witch King

perhaps I was too harsh. tip-toeing through tulips and that other happy horse-****e makes me ill, but i know that i'm the odd one, and that most of you are into it

weasel is right though never apologize to Foul- he is a bastard

I won't ask why you believe you are odd, and neither will I apologise, then, for apologising

Originally post by T'

You'd rather tiptoe through the thorns i see

LOL!

the problem with tiptoeing through thorns, is they have a tendency to bite back. I would prescribe a sturdy pair of 16 hole DMs!

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:20 pm

I already have a pair

They were handy back in the mosh pit days

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:22 pm

Originally posted by T'lainya

I already have a pair They were handy back in the mosh pit days

What do you mean back in?

okay, okay...Mine have the leather scuffed from the steel toe caps

and I wear these scars with pride!!

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:24 pm

LOL I don't mosh much any more due to glasses and an omnipresent camera at small local shows

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:26 pm

Originally posted by T'lainya

LOL I don't mosh much any more due to glasses and an omnipresent camera at small local shows

Well since my eyes are now fixed, I need to find a good band and a willing partner to accompany

You should see the scars on the biking leather too!

I bounce well

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:29 pm

Originally posted by Witch King

I can not imagine that placid a life, it is beyond my comprehension. But stop the damn " "s, I didn't post that for pity, I posted it because it needed to be posted--- the original post I thought was mind-numbingly self-indulgent yet amusing.

I would "

" anyone who had an abusive childhood, regardless of whether the person feel anything about it themselves or not. So don't take it personal

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:33 pm

@ Ysh

Just say the word and we'll find the right band