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That's low-class shit, get a tenga
‘‘weird ways to die,’’ some involving children or persons with disabilities. Ann often
commented on these articles from Jim in her own letters under the heading ‘‘the death and
dying department.’’ Ann repeatedly uses the words ‘‘weird’’ and ‘‘strange’’ in her letters to
Jim. Diachronic analysis revealed that Ann was initially receptive and validating of this dark
humor, even saying he ‘‘should have a bizarre deaths column,’’ and sent some related articles
and cartoons herself. She stated that her ‘‘mind mostly works on the doom and gloom side.’’
After about a year of correspondence, Ann begins to use some softer affective descriptors
about these articles and discloses feeling sad about some of the specific stories. After 2 years
of correspondence, Ann asserts a boundary and asks Jim to stop sending the death articles,
explaining they are ‘‘not humorous anymore’’ and ‘‘too depressing.’’ She gives some ground
in the next letter, indicating it is ok to send death articles if they are ‘‘not too gory’’ and if they
are ‘‘funny in a sad way.’’ She goes on to comment that she had read Camus’ The Stranger ‘‘a
few times and found it depressing.’’ Ann’s letters indicate that Jim continued to send such
articles, but her responses became more cursory over time. Ann’s boundary assertion about
the death articles also could be interpreted as representing an action of self-care given a lack
of shared perspective about the emotional impact of the stories.
Suicide also repeatedly emerged as an explicit topic of communication between Ann and
Jim and was coded in 14% of Ann’s letters to Jim. Again, the discourse about suicide
typically mixes humor and seriousness. At one point Ann says:
Ann posted:When I saw the picture of your prison I cried. I felt awful just seeing the visitor
facilities, but to see where you spend the most part of your term is too depressing. It’s
no wonder at all why men kill themselves in jail … I think I’d be so depressed that
I’d just vegetate and wait to die …
lets not vegetate here folks
They should keep their eyes open for Justin Bieber or Dakota Fanning at freshman orientation.
They have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of “electronic narcotics.”
The Biblical sources of terms such as “Forbidden Fruit,” “The writing on the wall,” “Good Samaritan,” and “The Promised Land” are unknown to most of them.
Michael Jackson’s family, not the Kennedys, constitutes “American Royalty.”
If they miss The Daily Show, they can always get their news on YouTube.
Their lives have been measured in the fundamental particles of life: bits, bytes, and bauds.
Robert De Niro is thought of as Greg Focker's long-suffering father-in-law, not as Vito Corleone or Jimmy Conway.
Bill Clinton is a senior statesman of whose presidency they have little knowledge.
They have never seen an airplane “ticket.”
On TV and in films, the ditzy dumb blonde female generally has been replaced by a couple of Dumb and Dumber males.
The paradox "too big to fail" has been, for their generation, what "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" was for their grandparents'.
For most of their lives, maintaining relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world has been a woman’s job in the State Department.
They can’t picture people actually carrying luggage through airports rather than rolling it.
There has always been football in Jacksonville but never in Los Angeles.
Having grown up with MP3s and iPods, they never listen to music on the car radio and really have no use for radio at all.
Since they've been born, the United States has measured progress by a 2 percent jump in unemployment and a 16 cent rise in the price of a first class postage stamp.
Benjamin Braddock, having given up both a career in plastics and a relationship with Mrs. Robinson, could be their grandfather.
Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf.
The Green Bay Packers have always celebrated with the Lambeau Leap.
Exposed bra straps have always been a fashion statement, not a wardrobe malfunction to be corrected quietly by well-meaning friends.
A significant percentage of them will enter college already displaying some hearing loss.
The Real World has always stopped being polite and started getting real on MTV.
Women have always piloted war planes and space shuttles.
White House security has never felt it necessary to wear rubber gloves when gay groups have visited.
They have lived in an era of instant stardom and self-proclaimed celebrities, famous for being famous.
Having made the acquaintance of Furby at an early age, they have expected their toy friends to do ever more unpredictable things.
Outdated icons with images of floppy discs for “save,” a telephone for “phone,” and a snail mail envelope for “mail” have oddly decorated their tablets and smart phone screens.
Star Wars has always been just a film, not a defense strategy.
They have had to incessantly remind their parents not to refer to their CDs and DVDs as “tapes.”
There have always been blue M&Ms, but no tan ones.’
Along with online viewbooks, parents have always been able to check the crime stats for the colleges their kids have selected.
Newt Gingrich has always been a key figure in politics, trying to change the way America thinks about everything.
They have come to political consciousness during a time of increasing doubts about America’s future.
Billy Graham is as familiar to them as Otto Graham was to their parents.
Probably the most tribal generation in history, they despise being separated from contact with their similar-aged friends.
Stephen Breyer has always been an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Martin Lawrence has always been banned from hosting Saturday Night Live.
Slavery has always been unconstitutional in Mississippi, and Southern Baptists have always been apologizing for supporting it in the first place.
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York has always translated operas on seatback screens.
A bit of the late Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, has always existed in space.
Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers.
Gene therapy has always been an available treatment.
They were too young to enjoy the 1994 World Series, but then no one else got to enjoy it either.
The folks have always been able to grab an Aleve when the kids started giving them a migraine.
While the iconic TV series for their older siblings was the sci-fi show Lost, for them it’s Breaking Bad, a gritty crime story motivated by desperate economic circumstances.
Simba has always had trouble waiting to be King.
Before they purchase an assigned textbook, they will investigate whether it is available for rent or purchase as an e-book.
They grew up, somehow, without the benefits of Romper Room.
There has always been a World Trade Organization.
L.L. Bean hunting shoes have always been known as just plain Bean Boots.
They have always been able to see Starz on Direct TV.
Ice skating competitions have always been jumping matches.
There has always been a Santa Clause.
NBC has never shown A Wonderful Life more than twice during the holidays.
Mr. Burns has replaced J.R.Ewing as the most shot-at man on American television.
They have always enjoyed school and summer camp memories with a digital yearbook.
Herr Schindler has always had a List; Mr. Spielberg has always had an Oscar.
Selena's fans have always been in mourning.
They know many established film stars by their voices on computer-animated blockbusters.
History has always had its own channel.
Thousands have always been gathering for “million-man” demonstrations in Washington, D.C.
Television and film dramas have always risked being pulled because the story line was too close to the headlines from which they were ”ripped.”
TheTwilight Zone involves vampires, not Rod Serling.
Robert Osborne has always been introducing Hollywood history on TCM.
Little Caesar has always been proclaiming “Pizza Pizza.”
They have no recollection of when Arianna Huffington was a conservative.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has always been officially recognized with clinical guidelines.
They watch television everywhere but on a television.
Pulp Fiction’s meal of a "Royale with Cheese" and an “Amos and Andy milkshake” has little or no resonance with them.
Point-and-shoot cameras are soooooo last millennium.
Despite being preferred urban gathering places, two-thirds of the independent bookstores in the United States have closed for good during their lifetimes.
Astronauts have always spent well over a year in a single space flight.
Lou Gehrig's record for most consecutive baseball games played has never stood in their lifetimes.
Genomes of living things have always been sequenced.
The Sistine Chapel ceiling has always been brighter and cleaner.
I like the way CDs are already obsolete haha
reggaelolita posted:im a young american and its weird growing up during a falling empire. really weird. wish i could hold a seance and ask some late roman teens how they dealt
there are these things called books
babyfinland posted:reggaelolita posted:im a young american and its weird growing up during a falling empire. really weird. wish i could hold a seance and ask some late roman teens how they dealt
there are these things called books
welp
babyfinland posted:reggaelolita posted:im a young american and its weird growing up during a falling empire. really weird. wish i could hold a seance and ask some late roman teens how they dealt
there are these things called books
not everyone owns a fireplace, or access to bonfires, tom.
AmericanNazbro posted:babyfinland posted:reggaelolita posted:im a young american and its weird growing up during a falling empire. really weird. wish i could hold a seance and ask some late roman teens how they dealt
there are these things called books
not everyone owns a fireplace, or access to bonfires, tom.
*looks over clipboard* So can u sign for this ginormous amount of books about roman teens at the twilight of their empire?? I need these hujass trucks for hauling rubble or whatever
*motions to vast, whale man with a tiny curl of blonde, looking like a monstrously improbable baby* kyllä! poistaa jstk panokset!
- The Raiders were an OAKLAND football team rather than bands of marauding radioactive savages that raped your sister
you'll be waiting for the beat to kick in, but it never does
reggaelolita posted:im a young american and its weird growing up during a falling empire. really weird. wish i could hold a seance and ask some late roman teens how they dealt
i dont know if this is img-timeline or if anyone cares, but i thought this collection of preserved roman graffiti was pretty interesting...
Ancient Roman Graffiti
"To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy."
Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog wit the thing and the jello and da puddin' pops a zip zop zoobity bop
divineaugustus posted:reggaelolita posted:im a young american and its weird growing up during a falling empire. really weird. wish i could hold a seance and ask some late roman teens how they dealt
i dont know if this is img-timeline or if anyone cares, but i thought this collection of preserved roman graffiti was pretty interesting...
Ancient Roman Graffiti
"To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy."
ima scrawl this in the stall at work
V.5 (just outside the Vesuvius gate); 6641: Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place
Broken hearted
Came to shit
Only Spartæd
Chthonic_Goat_666 posted: