Or perhaps “Back to the Future”?
Requested by KaiYves, who described it thus:
dedicated to our discoveries of older MB posts that take on a new meaning, comic, sad, or otherwise, in light of later events (Robert’s prediction that Michael Jackson would be president, me writing an essay similar to “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter†before it was published, etc.).
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This thread is so lonely.
Here are some good’uns I found of things my Silly Younger Self said:
– From the R&R thread, v. 2008.6:
“Dreads are okay, but if not properly maintained they can be…….well, dreadful. Pun fully intended.” (Which was in response to Mel saying that dreads are awesome on girls who can pull them off.)
Five years later I have dreads, and am always still surprised when Mel thinks my hair is cool, because as some of you may know, she is the Hair Goddess.
-Also on that thread was a monsterpost (though not actually that long in comparison with some of the other novellas I recall writing back then) about bisexuality, my views on the subject, and my experiences at that point with it.
Which is sadly prophetic, in a way. Again, 5 years later and much closer to what I would have considered an “adult” at the time, I’ve realized that my attraction to people regardless of gender isn’t just a weird thing that happens sometimes and to everyone, and am struggling with how to come out to my family.
Basically now looking back on that I can see how influenced I was by the prejudices of my mom (who has only very recently stopped claiming that sexuality is a choice), and how I was so sure that I was straight (despite even admitting that I’d been attracted to girls before) because being anything other than that simply wasn’t an option for me, so I chose to squash it out when it happened, or dismiss it as something that probably happened to everyone.
At the risk of sounding old-fashioned, I think students may have had more fun back when we didn’t tell our parents anything we did or discovered about ourselves in college. But that was a different era, of course.
Was that an option for you? Wow.
Not just an option; it was standard. I’m not sure when kids started being open and honest with their parents — probably sometime in the 1990s — but it seems unnatural to people like me.
It’s not entirely gone, though definitely not the norm.
For instance, I hardly tell my parents anything about my personal life if I can avoid it. Heck, I hardly tell them anything about my day-to-day life–realized the other day I hadn’t contacted them for about three weeks, oops. If i weren’t studying abroad, that’d even be normal–we talk once ever two or three weeks while I’m in school, sometimes more/less depending on if I’m busy or if I’m planning to travel home.
On the opposite side, my friend/roommate here talks to her mom every day, usually multiple times, and tells her almost everything about her life. Someone I used to be friends with was similar.
I just can’t do that. I’m not built that way. One of my biggest sources of stress in the summer (actually, no, scratch that, THE biggest by a lot) is having to deal with my parents all the time, and having them ask me questions and being angry that I don’t want to talk to them. I MUCH prefer being far away and them not having any reason to know about my personal life.
There’s a lot I don’t tell my parents about. I don’t tell them about my relationships, I don’t tell them much about my friends, I don’t tell them about how I spend the majority of my time. I don’t really talk about the fact that I don’t go to or have much desire to go to church anymore.
But I feel like something fairly basic like what gender(s) I’m likely to bring home is different than those things.
Also, my parents would rather I be more communicative with them. My mom in particular has always pried uncomfortably close into everything I do.
After I went looking through random things, I found one post that made me giggle a bunch–seems normal to us, but off MB it takes a weird twist.
By Enceladus (on Lady Bunniful Opines): “If I was starving, or the all the other food was cake, yeah, I’d eat a person.”
I think “cake” is one of my favorite things that has a weird-double meaning here, as normally you think of it as a generally tasty dessert, not a exclamation of disgust.
November 2008: When asked who I would chose to become for one day, I answer “either a Cirque du Soleil acrobat or an astronaut in orbit”, a few months before Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte visits the International Space Station as a space tourist.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1516
July 2009: I play the role of space station commander in a simulation at Space Camp and note that I am “the second-ever female commander†of the International Space Station. In November 2012, that real-life honor goes to Sunita Williams.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=3610
November 2009: Kind of a meta-example, I write about reading an article written just after the Spirit and Opportunity rovers landed that included the following quote from a scientist: “They’re made to last 90 days, but the wheels won’t necessarily fall off on the 91st day.†I comment on how weird that looked considering that both had been working for five years at that point. Now it’s nine years in Opportunity’s case and the quote looks even funnier.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=4788
December 2009: I write that I hop that in 2010, “a cure for cancer or a signal from ETI [Extra Terrestrial Intelligence]” would be discovered. Neither happened.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5294
August 2010: I believe that my compliments are fatal, whereupon POSOC suggests I compliment Kim Jong Il, so I do. https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=7855
December 2011: He dies– https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=10712
Sometime before June 2011, I don’t remember exactly when: I make a wrong prediction about how I will spend the summer of 2011.
Over a much shorter timeframe:
In February 2012, on the Bunny Apocalypse Rebooted thread, on the subject of diving to the bottom of the Marianas Trench:
“It’s the deepest point in the ocean, but people can definitely go there if the sub is properly designed. I mean, it’s only been done once before, but that was with 1950s technology, so it’s definitely not impossible.”
As noted later on in the thread, while that statement had been true for fifty-two years, it was made inaccurate by James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger dive just over a month later.
I thought of listing all of the discussions of “Maya Doomsday 2012” I came across, but there were too many.
Okay, here’s a purposeful prediction: If ESA is the first to send people to Mars, one of the astronauts will be a member of the Piccard family. Because family legacy of adventurers.
Here was the incorrect prediction of how I would spend Summer 2011, made in September 2008:
http://www . musefanpage . com/blog/?p=1486
(I just stumbled across it again while looking for my first “OMG Yves Rossy’s jetpack is awesome!” post, which I presumed would have been around the time of his English Channel flight but was evidently a bit later or earlier…)
How about May 14, 2011?
Woah, I was way off there…
Related to my observation on the Random Thread that Spy University covered the historical incident that inspired the film Argo ten years before the movie, in June 2009, I listed it as an example of “a little-known and fascinating” story from history:
http://www . musefanpage . com/blog/?p=1594
Now that the movie has come out, it is presumably less little-known, although no less fascinating.
The Onion has an article this week that’s really just an article-length version of Robert’s “meditate or die, infidel” joke from a while back.
I’m not sure which thread it was on, but I think our brief discussion of the 2009 debut of “The Hamilton Mixtapes” belongs here.
I guess the “We could blackmail Donald Trump into donating all of his money to SETI” joke from sometime in the lead-in to the 2012 election goes here now, too….
September 2010: The conversation in post 235 and its replies in this thread about “elements of the Pokemon world in the real world” and how strange it would feel to talk about someone being the gym leader of a real city, in light of Pokemon Go: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5118