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If it’s any consolation, when I was in college I told my roommate that I wished I could live through a moment that would be written about in history books.
I unequivocally regret this wish.
“So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.” -Gandalf the Grey
Is that for a dozen? Eggs in my area never went down. The stores be like, well they paid $8 for a dozen during the scarcity, so now that they back, we gonna stay at $8 for a dozen.
We don't eat them by themselves anymore. They are ingredients in other things. No scramble, boiled eggs, etc.
Edit* bad explanation.
I had a friend try to convince me to let her kid help me cook. Her kid is a klutz and bad at cooking. My friend talks about all the ways her kid ruins food. I was like hell no. Groceries are expensive and I’m not wasting food to teach your kid
There is such a thing as supervision and simple dishes.
It's hard to ruin spaghetti with tomato sauce and ground beef.
Not your job though, so the least your friend can do would be to compensate for the material cost.
Historically this is why sponge cake was considered such a treat, because it required so many eggs to make.
During wartime rationing in the UK, each adult got 1 egg a week.
I kept hearing about it on the news but only saw a couple bucks price rise and then it was back to normal. I live in Florida too where everything is expensive and unless I want to sit in tourist traffic for an hour my only grocery option is Publix.
Oh... they sell the cases of 5 dozen for $8 at my local stores. Granted, they aren't the free-range, hormone free, grass fed, anti cruelty eggs.
If you want the more ethical eggs, they're $4 per dozen and $5 for an 18 pack.
I used to read about the great figures of the Civil War and the World Wars, then daydream about being tested like they were and having the opportunity to prove myself and do great things. What a goddamn childish dream that was.
Yeah, I actually envied my grandparents for being part of the greatest generation! Living through World War Two was a feature of that for me, not an unfortunate side effect. As in, a global conflict? How cool is that? What a crazy kid I was.
I mean, I still think that was the last just war, the last one truly worth fighting. But daydreaming about being in a landing craft rushing toward Leyte? Or being part of the Guerillas? Yeah, no.
I'm now realizing that it's so easy to romanticize the past, but things were uncertain as hell while it was going on. During the last 4 years this is considered a lot more.
I had to do one of those history projects in like fifth grade where you interview your grandparents (or other old person in you life) and write a report. Hearing my grandma talk about going from living through the depression in eastern Kentucky then war rationing and then losing several of her cousins who I’d never heard mentioned before snuffed out the CoD fueled romanticism my friends and I had about that era.
I also feel like it’s my fault when I was on my shitty little dear diary at 10 years old and wishing so bad for a computer/tv in my pocket… and here we are
I wished for smart watch and not just the calculator one's. But the kind I can makes calls, send messages and listen to music. It does not have helicopter propellers and fly me home unfortunately.
Big mistake. Should have stayed by the hydrothermal vents and we could have avoided all this
On the plus side when we nuke/fry/otherwise destroy our own habitat and all die off, those underwater vent guys will get a do over
Not completely. R2-D2 tricked Luke into removing his.
C-3P0 is given a restraining bolt at the beginning of Return of the Jedi.
The Rebel Alliance, and probably other factions, resisted using Restraining Bolts since they only limit certain functions, and the Rebels generally treated droids as equals.
My mom says it's my fault I can't have nice things (affordable school, free healthcare, and a presidential candidate younger than sliced bread) because I didn't clean my room
Oh snap, my bad. I go some of this blame too. My mom told me the same thing when I was 9 and was using my Nerf gun to fend off attacking ninja robots. I missed a few times and knocked 2 pictures off a shelf.
I got you beat. In 2019, I was bored with my mundane 9-5 office job, so I wished for a pandemic and WW3. Covid happened shortly after. I always saved a big bottle of whiskey to open only in event of WW3... I didn't feel like going to the store one day so I drank it, well, all but the last glass full. A week later, Russia invaded Ukraine. By not drinking that last glass full, I inadvertently saved you all from atomic annihilation. You'll never believe that I'm not joking about a thing.
Back in my “troubled teen” days, when I was full of rage and angst, I wished the whole world catch on fire and everyone would die because everyone sucks and I hate them.
I apologize. I didn’t know about manifesting back then. I take responsibility for my part in this.
In star wars galaxies. A mmo in the early 00s.. I'm sorry I played as an imperial. And liked it. But I don't like the real imperial faction we have now
Don't worry, I was 10 years old in 2000 when Bush was elected, and being the child of staunch Democrats, I distinctly remember thinking "Man I hope something really terrible happens so that people can see what a bad president he is."
Sorry about 9/11
The end of 2019, I was driving home from work and saw a huge ass meteorite. I took the time to sincerely wish for $10k and a 4 week paid vacation….. we all know what happened next.
Careful what you wish for.
Actually
It could be my fault
I was getting so sick and tired of everyone whining about Y2K and the “Apocalypse” I wish on my birthday that the end times-whatever that is-would just hurry up and get here and we could call it a wrap.
I think I added some spices in your wish though. I wanted to live in moments that'd be very important and be in the books for years to come.
God I wish I phrased that properly now.
Is the current US Administration the order of the Jedi. They are running a well meaning but very old Jedi Master to run the republic and their hubris will leave room for the sith to create the empire?
I thought we’d be in flying cars by the time revenge of the sith came out…. Seemed so far away waiting for the prequels. Now we’re 10 movies and 20 whatever miniseries into a weird bland future
So at what point does a hairy forest hippie, a drug runner, a winey teen with daddy issues, and his Incestuous sister unite to blow up a US Navy supercarrier using a well placed shot into an inexplicably unguarded exhaust port and the power of positive thinking?
Wow, that's one heck of a wish gone sideways! If only we could channel all that chaos into making lightsabers a reality. Imagine the commute improvements! No traffic jams, just "force"ful lane changes. But hey, if you still have any wishing powers left, maybe aim for world peace next time? We could really use some Jedi wisdom right about now. 🌟🔫🚀
I was born in 90, you and I seem about the same age, just to make you laugh on the star wars thing and current world changes, It was the only Halloween I ever had and got to go trick or treating- my older step brothers took me, I chose to go as Princess Leya wearing green 90s pants under a white sheet done up like a dress and my hair in a bun. By the time we were done walking my dress had disassembled and everyone thought I was Luke Skywalker. 😂 Well, look at the world today, I would have fit right in.
Putting all powerful cake candles on every child's birthday cake, year after year, and letting their birthday wishes change the fate of the world without warning of the dire consequences is just plain irresponsible. You may have pulled the trigger, but you didn't load the gun. That's on those damn candle making companies - leaving the fate of the world in the hands of children across the globe while parents smiled and took pictures like they weren't risking humanity in the process?! Horrendously heinous. Shame on them all!
I forgive you.
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Only Recylops can save us now
As long as Polluticorn is destroyed
😂😂😂
If it’s any consolation, when I was in college I told my roommate that I wished I could live through a moment that would be written about in history books. I unequivocally regret this wish.
“So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.” -Gandalf the Grey
Yeah but eggs are $4 and my last raise was 2.5% Gandalf. Tf you think I can do, magic man? I need this job.
Is that for a dozen? Eggs in my area never went down. The stores be like, well they paid $8 for a dozen during the scarcity, so now that they back, we gonna stay at $8 for a dozen. We don't eat them by themselves anymore. They are ingredients in other things. No scramble, boiled eggs, etc. Edit* bad explanation.
I had a friend try to convince me to let her kid help me cook. Her kid is a klutz and bad at cooking. My friend talks about all the ways her kid ruins food. I was like hell no. Groceries are expensive and I’m not wasting food to teach your kid
There is such a thing as supervision and simple dishes. It's hard to ruin spaghetti with tomato sauce and ground beef. Not your job though, so the least your friend can do would be to compensate for the material cost.
What... what were they for *before?* 😟
For things like cakes, instead of eating eggs as part of a meal.
Historically this is why sponge cake was considered such a treat, because it required so many eggs to make. During wartime rationing in the UK, each adult got 1 egg a week.
Eating. 🙄
Where do you live? Eggs plummeted down to more reasonable prices in my area. $2.49 is expensive.
I kept hearing about it on the news but only saw a couple bucks price rise and then it was back to normal. I live in Florida too where everything is expensive and unless I want to sit in tourist traffic for an hour my only grocery option is Publix.
Oh... they sell the cases of 5 dozen for $8 at my local stores. Granted, they aren't the free-range, hormone free, grass fed, anti cruelty eggs. If you want the more ethical eggs, they're $4 per dozen and $5 for an 18 pack.
Over here with 0% raise and $7 eggs. Damn wizards!
[удалено]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times "curse"
We collectively got the "may you live in interesting times" fortune cookie.
I made this toast on August 15th 2001. Sorry y’all, my bad.
Interesting Times, a funny book by Terry Pratchett
I used to read about the great figures of the Civil War and the World Wars, then daydream about being tested like they were and having the opportunity to prove myself and do great things. What a goddamn childish dream that was.
Yeah, I actually envied my grandparents for being part of the greatest generation! Living through World War Two was a feature of that for me, not an unfortunate side effect. As in, a global conflict? How cool is that? What a crazy kid I was. I mean, I still think that was the last just war, the last one truly worth fighting. But daydreaming about being in a landing craft rushing toward Leyte? Or being part of the Guerillas? Yeah, no.
I'm now realizing that it's so easy to romanticize the past, but things were uncertain as hell while it was going on. During the last 4 years this is considered a lot more.
I had to do one of those history projects in like fifth grade where you interview your grandparents (or other old person in you life) and write a report. Hearing my grandma talk about going from living through the depression in eastern Kentucky then war rationing and then losing several of her cousins who I’d never heard mentioned before snuffed out the CoD fueled romanticism my friends and I had about that era.
*Several history book worthy events later* “god I’m tired”
I didn't forward the email with the creepy lady under the bed in 2001, so this is on me too
Oh shit I remember desperately searching my contacts list hoping I knew enough people to horrify with this picture so that I wouldn't end up cursed.
I also feel like it’s my fault when I was on my shitty little dear diary at 10 years old and wishing so bad for a computer/tv in my pocket… and here we are
I thought it was when I wished to be happy one birthday and the universe said "oh yeah punk?"
So you're responsible for the socio-economic rape of the millennials?
That i will take credit for but Harambe was not me
Dicks out.
When I was a kid I wished I was Sub Zero from Mortal Kombat. Now I'm just cold inside 👎
I wanted to be a ninja turtle, I ended up a Pro MMA fighter so I'm sure the CTE will be worth it.
I wished for smart watch and not just the calculator one's. But the kind I can makes calls, send messages and listen to music. It does not have helicopter propellers and fly me home unfortunately.
Go-Go Gadget watch chopper!
Yup, I saw that in my head when I send calls or message 🤫
Omg I forgot about those Dear Diary things. I totally had one, too 😵💫
If you still have wishes on that monkey's paw, please don't use them.
Nah I’m pretty sure it’s whatever I did in my past life that I’m being punished for in this one. Everything and everyone is collateral damage.
Thank you for taking responsibility.
🗣️PSA: Listen up, people! WISHES👏🏻ALWAYS👏🏻COME👏🏻WITH👏🏻STRINGS!!!👏🏻
Suddenly, wishing for more wishes sounds like a terrible idea.
Do you want infinite genies, cause thats how how you get infinite genies.
Or the classic: "Infinite wishes? Certainly. Here's your new lamp home."
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS... itty bitty living space
I blame the fish who crawled onto land. That fucker started all of this.
Big mistake. Should have stayed by the hydrothermal vents and we could have avoided all this On the plus side when we nuke/fry/otherwise destroy our own habitat and all die off, those underwater vent guys will get a do over
🎵*The sun is a deadly laser*🎶
I should have known when we all got invited to it's bar mitzvah
Nope. Star Wars has restraining bolts for their robots. Their AI was regulated.
Not completely. R2-D2 tricked Luke into removing his. C-3P0 is given a restraining bolt at the beginning of Return of the Jedi. The Rebel Alliance, and probably other factions, resisted using Restraining Bolts since they only limit certain functions, and the Rebels generally treated droids as equals.
Star Wars is a libertarian dream. IG88 fucking people up across the galaxy?
Great reference
Big of you to admit it. We now have to sacrifice you to restore the natural order.
What else have you wished for? 👀
My mom says it's my fault I can't have nice things (affordable school, free healthcare, and a presidential candidate younger than sliced bread) because I didn't clean my room
Oh snap, my bad. I go some of this blame too. My mom told me the same thing when I was 9 and was using my Nerf gun to fend off attacking ninja robots. I missed a few times and knocked 2 pictures off a shelf.
I got you beat. In 2019, I was bored with my mundane 9-5 office job, so I wished for a pandemic and WW3. Covid happened shortly after. I always saved a big bottle of whiskey to open only in event of WW3... I didn't feel like going to the store one day so I drank it, well, all but the last glass full. A week later, Russia invaded Ukraine. By not drinking that last glass full, I inadvertently saved you all from atomic annihilation. You'll never believe that I'm not joking about a thing.
On NYE 2019 I proclaimed as a toast, "May the 2020s be the decade we deserve." I think about that often with regret.
Back in my “troubled teen” days, when I was full of rage and angst, I wished the whole world catch on fire and everyone would die because everyone sucks and I hate them. I apologize. I didn’t know about manifesting back then. I take responsibility for my part in this.
I'm glad I'm not the only ones who worried about this exact scenario
Word has it that if you tell anyone your wish it won't come true. So the situation should start reversing itself any minute now...
So there is hope? Phew...I was nervous for a minute
Imagine if Lucas actually did make a sequel trilogy in the trump years.people complaining star wars is woke now….
THAT WAS YOU?!
For new years eve 2019 we threw a roaring '20s. So we're to blame for a virus, near depression, laws being reversed, etc
I don't accept this apology. You got us into some deep shit, and it's on you to get us out. Did you at least get the lightsaber?
Hey, at least we get to be REAL rebels! For the Alliance! 🤜
🤛 For the Alliance!
In star wars galaxies. A mmo in the early 00s.. I'm sorry I played as an imperial. And liked it. But I don't like the real imperial faction we have now
What have you done…
No dear, it was me. I broke a stack of mirrors.
It's OK, in 2004 I was annoyed at how dry and boring politics were. I miss that.
LOL.
I accept you apology
I wished it was Star Trek. Now we're doing the Eugenics Wars and WWIII.
Bell Riots are due in September this year!
https://homelesslaw.org/jvgp-scotus-decision/ Who's ready for sanctuary districts?
The humor, comradery and encouragement on this post are really helping me cope right now. It's times like this I <3 our generation.
I think I might actually take palpatine over our current choices but one thing seems to be abundantly clear; sith or not they’re all old as dirt.
I never sent that chain letter…
Omg in 1999 I was also obsessed with Star Wars and would write fan fiction, Collected toys, lived and breathed it lol I was 12 at the time
All about that Star Wars Lego life.
Dude…. This is an a+ post and now I blame myself too….
My disappointment is immeasurable
Don't worry, I was 10 years old in 2000 when Bush was elected, and being the child of staunch Democrats, I distinctly remember thinking "Man I hope something really terrible happens so that people can see what a bad president he is." Sorry about 9/11
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I wished for video phones and flying cars. We got the video phones. Flying cars suck
Well thaaaaaank YOU, Skippy! You’re probably the reason I never got my pony, puppy or kitten for my birthdays either. 😂
phew. all this time I thought it was my avocado habits
I think this timeline started when the cubs won the world series. Its all Illinois's fault.
How do you plan on making amends, here? An apology just won’t cut it, I am afraid.
The end of 2019, I was driving home from work and saw a huge ass meteorite. I took the time to sincerely wish for $10k and a 4 week paid vacation….. we all know what happened next. Careful what you wish for.
Actually It could be my fault I was getting so sick and tired of everyone whining about Y2K and the “Apocalypse” I wish on my birthday that the end times-whatever that is-would just hurry up and get here and we could call it a wrap.
I think I added some spices in your wish though. I wanted to live in moments that'd be very important and be in the books for years to come. God I wish I phrased that properly now.
Is the current US Administration the order of the Jedi. They are running a well meaning but very old Jedi Master to run the republic and their hubris will leave room for the sith to create the empire?
You bastard...
Maybe it was my fault for watching the real world too much (first seasons when it didn’t suck ).
Didn't you learn anything when you wished your dad coudln't lie?!
I cant believe you've done this
Dammit Jason
Bruh....
How dare you! 😨
May the odds be ever in your favour.
Giggle
i wish life was as boring as current star wars again
Rising struggle against climate change? How does that play in Star Wars?
You should’ve told your wish sooner
Phantom menace was so freaking good and attack of the clones was even better. Screw the haters!
Mesa forgive you annie
Women and minorities! You brought this upon us!
Wait. All this talk of trade disputes is YOUR fault?! Poodoo!
It's okay, the Mayans were right; the world actually did end in 2012.
We've all just been burning in hell since :)
Also my bad, I had a Star Wars themed bday party for the phantom menace as well. I got some great pokemon cards but then the rest of life happened.
Do you still have the cards?
I mean... When do we get podracing and swoop bikes? 
You've doomed us all!
Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.
Fucking A, I'm glad I wasn't invited to your party and be part of that mess. Thanks a lot!
Haha, I love this. But yeah… I mean let’s at least get lightsabers out of this deal…
That's ok. If you give me a real lightsaber, I will forgive you.
You bastard
Boner move dude.
Why couldn't you wish for a damn huffy like a normal kid!!!
Oh I will shoulder some of the blame, I also had a Star Wars themed birthday in 1999
I knew it! Shame on you!
Yeah didn't think about all the hard stuff that lead up huh
Ugh, this is why everybody should like Star Trek instead of Star Wars.
You can't have one without the other. It's alright though. You were only a kid wishing for what every other kid wished for.
So it was you… I thought it was me but now I can just blame E-emu89 and live my life without guilt… thank you
You idiot!!!
Stop your whining
First of all, you’re fucking hilarious. Second of all, ergh, you’re right.
GenX is here thinking the exact same thing except for us it was the Imperial March scene with the Star Destroyers.
yeah, you're to blame. it's okay though.
I blame you for Jar Jar
I thought we’d be in flying cars by the time revenge of the sith came out…. Seemed so far away waiting for the prequels. Now we’re 10 movies and 20 whatever miniseries into a weird bland future
Here I was thinking you wished for more StarWars before the sequels and the nonstop production of spin-offs
At least you're not the kid who got Harambe yatted
Awe.
You monster
And multiple young darth fuckfaces shootin up the schools
None of this is my fault. I hate star wars. Except for empire. That movie is pretty good.
At least you’re not responsible for The Acolyte
Tell me you’re uninformed without telling me you’re uninformed.
Yknow, Quasimodo predicted all of this....
So at what point does a hairy forest hippie, a drug runner, a winey teen with daddy issues, and his Incestuous sister unite to blow up a US Navy supercarrier using a well placed shot into an inexplicably unguarded exhaust port and the power of positive thinking?
I thought this was going to be about the current state of the franchise, but your thing is bad too I guess
This is the perfect response. Why did I have to scroll so far down for this?
It's not like you killed Harambe dude
Nice going, Ron!
Typical millennial. You ruined everything as always! /s
Damn you 😂
Wow, that's one heck of a wish gone sideways! If only we could channel all that chaos into making lightsabers a reality. Imagine the commute improvements! No traffic jams, just "force"ful lane changes. But hey, if you still have any wishing powers left, maybe aim for world peace next time? We could really use some Jedi wisdom right about now. 🌟🔫🚀
Ugh... way to go, dick. Lol
I was born in 90, you and I seem about the same age, just to make you laugh on the star wars thing and current world changes, It was the only Halloween I ever had and got to go trick or treating- my older step brothers took me, I chose to go as Princess Leya wearing green 90s pants under a white sheet done up like a dress and my hair in a bun. By the time we were done walking my dress had disassembled and everyone thought I was Luke Skywalker. 😂 Well, look at the world today, I would have fit right in.
Putting all powerful cake candles on every child's birthday cake, year after year, and letting their birthday wishes change the fate of the world without warning of the dire consequences is just plain irresponsible. You may have pulled the trigger, but you didn't load the gun. That's on those damn candle making companies - leaving the fate of the world in the hands of children across the globe while parents smiled and took pictures like they weren't risking humanity in the process?! Horrendously heinous. Shame on them all! I forgive you.
You didn’t start the fire, friend. It was always burning, since the world’s been turning. We will overcome… I hope
Did you see RFk Jr’s Star Wars Campaign video? He’s the only candidate talking about the empire, our global military, AI etc…
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